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Re: All musicians unite! - The Musicians Chat Thread
« Reply #840 on: June 21, 2015, 02:12:42 PM »
Sometimes the gigs you aren't really looking forward to turn out to be the greatest fun.
Played a wedding of an old schoolmate of mine last night. We were classmates for a year, but I can't recall ever talking to him, not my kind of guy I guess. He found us, and thought it was a good move to book us for his wedding. Normally weddings are the worst gigs you can imagine, with all the family humor in between sets you totally don't get, and looking in the face of a bunch of grannies with their hands over their ears, but with young people marrying it can be a cool night, starting from the moment that the old folk leave.
Last night was way different, the old folk were dancing their asses off, the bride and groom were having the time of their life, and all the guests were only there to party. I can honestly say that I prefer last night, playing for a crowd of fifty people all enjoying every second of your show, over playing to a crowd of ten thousand people just waiting for another band to play after you.
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« Reply #841 on: June 21, 2015, 03:54:38 PM »
Singing two concerts on the weekend again. Looking forward to one of them, the other not so much.
Good luck with that. What music will you play?

I'm doing Bach's Hohe Messe here in Holland next Friday and Saturday. On the 2nd of July, we'll embark on a 10 day tour of Italy playing the Hohe Messe in Bologna, Spello, Rome and Verona. Really looking forward to that.

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« Reply #842 on: June 22, 2015, 12:06:45 AM »
Oh, I'll go into them with an open mind, and I'm sure it will be fun. It's just that it's a church service again, and this time our conductor picked a very monotonous program - sure, I like all the pieces themselves, but they are all very similar, and while the second concert includes all of them too, there's some variety in that one as well.

"Setlist":

Heinrich Schütz:
- Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes
- Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock
- Die mit Tränen säen
- Herr auf dich traue ich
- So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ

Johann Walter
- Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist

G.P. da Palestrina
- Sicut cervus
- Si tivit anima mea

Knut Nystedt
- Peace I Leave With You

So basically, a typical sacred program, with lots of German stuff that won't be of use to anyone except for maybe Onno, but oh well.
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« Reply #843 on: June 22, 2015, 04:53:19 AM »
I did German until a matter of weeks ago in school. I should be able to read that, but I can't. That's bad...
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« Reply #844 on: June 22, 2015, 06:33:58 AM »
It's on the coming weekend, and hang on, I'll translate.

Schütz:
- The heavens proclaim God's glory
- I am the one true vine
- Those who plant in sorrow
- Lord, I trust in thee
- So I go now to Jesus Christ

Walter:
- Now we pray to the Holy Spirit
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« Reply #845 on: June 22, 2015, 07:30:36 AM »
It's on the coming weekend, and hang on, I'll translate.

Schütz:
- The heavens proclaim God's glory
- I am the one true vine
- Those who plant in sorrow
- Lord, I trust in thee
- So I go now to Jesus Christ

Walter:
- Now we pray to the Holy Spirit
The only words I got were "Jesus Christ"... that says a lot

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« Reply #846 on: June 22, 2015, 08:14:34 AM »
Oh, I'll go into them with an open mind, and I'm sure it will be fun. It's just that it's a church service again, and this time our conductor picked a very monotonous program - sure, I like all the pieces themselves, but they are all very similar, and while the second concert includes all of them too, there's some variety in that one as well.

"Setlist":

Heinrich Schütz:
- Die Himmer erzählen die Ehre Gottes
- Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock
- Die mit Tränen säen
- Herr auf dich traue ich
- So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ

Johann Walter
- Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist

G.P. da Palestrina
- Sicut cervus
- Si tivit anima mea

Knut Nystedt
- Peace I Leave With You

So basically, a typical sacred program, with lots of German stuff that won't be of use to anyone except for maybe Onno, but oh well.
The Germans know how to party.

Right?
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« Reply #847 on: June 22, 2015, 08:45:23 AM »
Definitely. Headbanging throughout the service, and our conductor does some pulpitdiving at the end.
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« Reply #848 on: June 22, 2015, 10:16:23 AM »
Definitely. Headbanging throughout the service, and our conductor does some pulpitdiving at the end.
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« Reply #849 on: June 22, 2015, 10:30:36 AM »
Definitely. Headbanging throughout the service, and our conductor does some pulpitdiving at the end.
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« Reply #850 on: June 22, 2015, 11:40:03 AM »
Pupitdiving sounds like the world's most badass thing.  :metal

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« Reply #851 on: June 23, 2015, 06:56:13 AM »
that reminds me of the time my pastor asked me and the band to play Thunderstruck at the end of a service.

I don't even like AC/DC but I had a guitar and permission so what the fuck. 

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« Reply #852 on: June 23, 2015, 07:34:46 AM »
Are you serious?  That's awesome.  I'm assuming "Thunderstruck" fit in with the message of the day?

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« Reply #853 on: June 23, 2015, 09:35:39 AM »
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« Reply #854 on: June 23, 2015, 01:05:52 PM »
Imma get my church to let me play 6:00 on our christmas morning ceremony now...

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« Reply #855 on: June 23, 2015, 07:53:55 PM »
Are you serious?  That's awesome.  I'm assuming "Thunderstruck" fit in with the message of the day?

Yeah, apparently the term 'Thunder-struck' is used in The Message translation at some point?  I can't remember the passage but the message was on that so the pastor got me to start it up lol.  Good times.

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« Reply #856 on: June 23, 2015, 09:02:54 PM »
That's cool.  The closest I've come to playing secular music like that is one time we did "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and The News when the theme of the day was... The Power of Love.  This was when I first started doing the church rock thing, and we felt just a little bit outlaw doing the song.  I had a sweet patch on the synth.  We rocked it.  Not exactly AC/DC though.

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« Reply #857 on: June 24, 2015, 02:12:34 AM »
Someone dug out the Rock Band at my house and we've been playing that a lot, one of them has Power of Love on it.  It has some delicious casiotone synth.

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« Reply #858 on: June 24, 2015, 06:23:50 AM »
For the 80's, Huey & Co. had some good sounds.  I kept the essence of the patch, but beefed it up a bit.  You know how Tony Banks of Genesis has those thin, wimpy synth sounds on the albums, but on the live albums it sounds ten times fatter and ballsier?  That's what I was going for.  Man, I miss playing with that band.



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« Reply #859 on: June 24, 2015, 09:02:10 AM »
In August/September, my pastor will be giving a sermon series on rock songs that display various Christian themes.  I think we will be allowed to play one every week.

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« Reply #860 on: June 24, 2015, 09:36:22 AM »
There was a little contest on the website I post my music to, to make a piece of music out of only a hundred notes

so I did
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« Reply #861 on: June 24, 2015, 09:46:04 AM »
In August/September, my pastor will be giving a sermon series on rock songs that display various Christian themes.  I think we will be allowed to play one every week.

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That sounds sweet.  So far we've gotten away with "Spirit in the Sky", "My Sweet Lord", "Morning Has Broken", "Jesus is Just Alright" and "Put Your Hand in the Hand", but those are all pretty overt.  I'm curious to hear what others there are out there, especially the more subtle ones.

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« Reply #862 on: June 24, 2015, 10:43:25 AM »
There was a little contest on the website I post my music to, to make a piece of music out of only a hundred notes

so I did

That's easy. Only 12 notes exist :neverusethis:

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« Reply #863 on: June 24, 2015, 12:02:03 PM »
In August/September, my pastor will be giving a sermon series on rock songs that display various Christian themes.  I think we will be allowed to play one every week.

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That sounds sweet.  So far we've gotten away with "Spirit in the Sky", "My Sweet Lord", "Morning Has Broken", "Jesus is Just Alright" and "Put Your Hand in the Hand", but those are all pretty overt.  I'm curious to hear what others there are out there, especially the more subtle ones.
He's definitely going for subtle.  Here is something from a Facebook post he made earlier this month.

"I'm continuing to prepare for a sermon series currently scheduled for late this summer: "Jesus Rocks: Finding God in the Greatest Hits of Rock 'n' Roll." I'm looking to identify hits that give expression to four important themes: Power (songs that express exuberance, joy, fun, freedom and the sheer thrill of being alive); Captivity (songs that express the feeling of being trapped by limitations and bad decisions); Longing (songs that express a sense of yearning for something more); and Love (songs that express the ups, downs, challenges and questions that come from being and staying in love).
Here's my current list for "Songs of Power":
Rock and Roll All Night – KISS
Good Vibrations – Beach Boys
I Got You (I Feel Good) – James Brown
Born to Be Wild – Steppenwolf
Start Me Up – Rolling Stones
We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions – Queen
Jump – Van Halen
Dancing in the Street – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Rock & Roll Band – Boston
The Loco-Motion – Little Eva"
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« Reply #864 on: June 24, 2015, 12:59:27 PM »
im not into a band i just played/jam

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« Reply #865 on: June 24, 2015, 01:46:56 PM »
In August/September, my pastor will be giving a sermon series on rock songs that display various Christian themes.  I think we will be allowed to play one every week.

 :metal

That sounds sweet.  So far we've gotten away with "Spirit in the Sky", "My Sweet Lord", "Morning Has Broken", "Jesus is Just Alright" and "Put Your Hand in the Hand", but those are all pretty overt.  I'm curious to hear what others there are out there, especially the more subtle ones.
He's definitely going for subtle.  Here is something from a Facebook post he made earlier this month.

"I'm continuing to prepare for a sermon series currently scheduled for late this summer: "Jesus Rocks: Finding God in the Greatest Hits of Rock 'n' Roll." I'm looking to identify hits that give expression to four important themes: Power (songs that express exuberance, joy, fun, freedom and the sheer thrill of being alive); Captivity (songs that express the feeling of being trapped by limitations and bad decisions); Longing (songs that express a sense of yearning for something more); and Love (songs that express the ups, downs, challenges and questions that come from being and staying in love).
Here's my current list for "Songs of Power":
Rock and Roll All Night – KISS
Good Vibrations – Beach Boys
I Got You (I Feel Good) – James Brown
Born to Be Wild – Steppenwolf
Start Me Up – Rolling Stones
We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions – Queen
Jump – Van Halen
Dancing in the Street – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Rock & Roll Band – Boston
The Loco-Motion – Little Eva"

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« Reply #866 on: June 24, 2015, 02:05:48 PM »
lol
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« Reply #867 on: June 24, 2015, 03:25:09 PM »
Doesn't like every rock song that is not about gratuitous sex qualify for one of those four categories?
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« Reply #868 on: June 24, 2015, 03:40:07 PM »
Don't forget, Beach Boys songs are about surfing and cars, too.

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« Reply #869 on: June 25, 2015, 07:58:54 AM »
Doesn't like every rock song that is not about gratuitous sex qualify for one of those four categories?
Well, probably.
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« Reply #870 on: June 26, 2015, 06:40:46 AM »
In August/September, my pastor will be giving a sermon series on rock songs that display various Christian themes.  I think we will be allowed to play one every week.

 :metal

That sounds sweet.  So far we've gotten away with "Spirit in the Sky", "My Sweet Lord", "Morning Has Broken", "Jesus is Just Alright" and "Put Your Hand in the Hand", but those are all pretty overt.  I'm curious to hear what others there are out there, especially the more subtle ones.
He's definitely going for subtle.  Here is something from a Facebook post he made earlier this month.

"I'm continuing to prepare for a sermon series currently scheduled for late this summer: "Jesus Rocks: Finding God in the Greatest Hits of Rock 'n' Roll." I'm looking to identify hits that give expression to four important themes: Power (songs that express exuberance, joy, fun, freedom and the sheer thrill of being alive); Captivity (songs that express the feeling of being trapped by limitations and bad decisions); Longing (songs that express a sense of yearning for something more); and Love (songs that express the ups, downs, challenges and questions that come from being and staying in love).
Here's my current list for "Songs of Power":
Rock and Roll All Night – KISS
Good Vibrations – Beach Boys
I Got You (I Feel Good) – James Brown
Born to Be Wild – Steppenwolf
Start Me Up – Rolling Stones
We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions – Queen
Jump – Van Halen
Dancing in the Street – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Rock & Roll Band – Boston
The Loco-Motion – Little Eva"

That sounds super interesting.  I'd love to hear it, if your church is the podcast/upload message to soundcloud type church. 

I love putting in snippets of songs that not many people would get, but we don't usually do whole, secular songs.  There are a couple Bob Marley songs that we've done in the past, that's about it.

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« Reply #871 on: June 26, 2015, 08:22:28 AM »
That sounds super interesting.  I'd love to hear it, if your church is the podcast/upload message to soundcloud type church. 
Not normally, but we do record every service.  I'll see what I can do.
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« Reply #872 on: June 26, 2015, 08:44:18 PM »
Awesome! :tup

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« Reply #873 on: June 29, 2015, 09:45:10 PM »
So I wrote some minimalism/ambient music. I think it's pretty cool sounding.
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« Reply #874 on: June 30, 2015, 07:49:25 AM »
That's beautiful Lucien, I dig it.  Thanks for sharing.