[Dixielandjazz] Cloddish MUSICIANS?

[Patrick Cooke]

Kash said:
>Don't fully understand the discussion about whether or not the use of mutes
is a good
thing or not.  Isn't that a rather personal thing?

    You bet it is!  If it makes a sound you like, use it!  No matter what
you do, there will always be one or two that will find fault with it.  To
thine own self be true.
   Pat Cooke
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Kashishian" <kash at ran.es>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:53 AM
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Cloddish MUSICIANS?


>
>
>
> As a bassist, with an amplifier, I need to speak up here.........
>
> So I say it is a matter of balance, cooperation, and leadership.
>
> D a v i d   M c C a r t n e y
>      A real standup fella
>
> ______________________________________________
>
> Have to agree with David.  If the keyboard is amplified (& it must to have
a
> sound), then the rest of the instruments have to rise to his level.  The
> only way for the bass to do that is to be amplified.  Even if a proper
piano
> is used, it will most likely be amplified at least a bit, and then so will
> the bass and the vocals.
>
> Horns & mics?  I like to have a mic so that we can "play" with it.  We are
a
> 2 man front line now that our reed retired (bone & trumpet), and Pepe and
I
> move around the mic (prefer one between us), using the distances on
purpose
> for different balances between the horns.
>
> I really like to go close, but play very softly, and get a very "personal"
> sound from the horn on some solos.  Hand under the bell & one finger
> touching half way inside the bell will "mute" the horn in a mellow sort of
> way.  All kinds of tricks that are fun and keep me interested and
> experimenting.
>
> Amplification can be done well & musically, but I prefer to have control
> rather than some guy whose never heard the band.
>
> Jim
>
> By the way, I always have my trusty plunger (not the rubber ones) with me,
> and also use a T. Dorsey mellowtone jobber (*) & a bucket mute.  Plunger
> gets used the most.  Bit of a trademark now, I guess.  Don't fully
> understand the discussion about whether or not the use of mutes is a good
> thing or not.  Isn't that a rather personal thing?
>
> (*) also great for singing through...
>
>
>
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