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Stu McDoniel

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Re: So, Pat, how do you *really* feel?
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2012, 11:04:38 PM »

http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm
Kenny G is just plain "busy".   Take a breath and play one note and sustain it.
He cant do that.
To many notes, and not enough spaces.
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Re: So, Pat, how do you *really* feel?
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2012, 11:11:44 PM »

Did people throw coins into his open sax case??
Maybe they should have aimed for his sax's bell?
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Re: So, Pat, how do you *really* feel?
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2012, 11:53:44 PM »

Kenny G is just plain "busy".   Take a breath and play one note and sustain it.
He cant do that.
To many notes, and not enough spaces.

I keep waiting for him to finish tuning-up and play something!

I doubt he's even capable of playing "Lush Life" or "Body & Soul."  :(
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Re: So, Pat, how do you *really* feel?
« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2012, 12:19:59 AM »

There was a famous NYC gig 5 or so years ago. It was a Bat Mitzva party held at The Rainbow Room and Top of the Rock. It was about a $5MM party. The main entertainment in the not so big room was Aerosmith, who had to be flown in. There were a few other bands of that stature. Kenny G played in the lobby for people arriving. It was perfect.

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ps. there were no bands a 13 year old girl was interested in, but I guess her rich dad had a good time.

The corporate party band I worked for did a multi stage, multiple room, party for a big software company back during the "boom" years.

Kenny G. was in a room that held about 2000 people and we were in a different space that held about a thousand.  We were scheduled to play at about the same time.

When we started our set we had about 150 people in our room.   Ten or fifteen minutes later the place was packed.

I'd like to say it was because we were more fun and you could DANCE to us but I think it was because, by contract, the bars in the other room were forbidden to serve while "Mr. G" was performing.


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Re: So, Pat, how do you *really* feel?
« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2012, 01:18:29 AM »

Lee,
I would imagine that's to keep drunks from taking his sax and doing a better job. He has no soul, no feeling, just notes that he's taken from someone else.
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Re: So, Pat, how do you *really* feel?
« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2012, 03:32:46 AM »

Lee,
I would imagine that's to keep drunks from taking his sax and doing a better job. He has no soul, no feeling, just notes that he's taken from someone else.

Bob, there are only 12 notes in the Western musical scale... fess up, are you mad because Kenny took one of yours?  8)
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Re: So, Pat, how do you *really* feel?
« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2012, 03:46:38 AM »

I love how in the Pixar Cars movie, to lull Mack to sleep, the tuner cars put on Kenny G...
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Re: So, Pat, how do you *really* feel?
« Reply #17 on: December 03, 2012, 09:05:45 AM »

Kenny G is all about playing simplistic runs to someone elses music, or some poorly arranged song of his own. He doesn't even play jazz, but mostly riffs to standards, old rock songs and ballads. He's in Boston this month and I might just buy a ticket so I boo the shit out of him.

I'd say you'd have plenty of time to do so, as I suspect there's little security hired at one of his shows-except for personal protection...

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Re: So, Pat, how do you *really* feel?
« Reply #18 on: December 03, 2012, 09:07:19 AM »

Did people throw coins into his open sax case??

Why can't someone throw Kenny into his sax case?  Then lock it, and hide in that warehouse where the Ark of the Covenant was stored in the Indiana Jones movies...

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Re: So, Pat, how do you *really* feel?
« Reply #19 on: December 03, 2012, 01:33:28 PM »

Lee,
I would imagine that's to keep drunks from taking his sax and doing a better job. He has no soul, no feeling, just notes that he's taken from someone else.

My old Atari 400 came with several programs in a book you could type into the computer. One of them strung together random short sequences of notes in a pentatonic scale. It sounded a lot like Kenny G.

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Re: So, Pat, how do you *really* feel?
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