bill muncie, alice stuart, jerry murray, lorenzo milam, robert garfias, steve lalor, tony visconti, lenny breau, john lennon, elizabeth cotten, lawrence elam, john surman, keith keller, dick bean, cliff carl, john ussery, barry melton, chris chandler, futureman, steven stills, barry hall, roy orbison, carter renner.
Here is a shot of Flip and me as "young people" with our exhaulted house-guest, Libba Cotten, at our parents' house when Libba was staying there, back in about 1974
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when things are going right, it sounds like people falling in love. when things don't go right, it kinda sounds like a trainwreck unfolding. Which is actually kinda fun, too. Basic rule: When skating on thin ice, speed is EVERYTHING - Ralph Waldo Emerson
This clip is from the DVD The Four Seasons of Western Washington which was a really fun David Michael & Randy Mead soundtrack project for Brian Noblet that I played on last winter, one that you can read about on David's site, www.purnimaproductions.com and buy on www.filmbaby.com
Here's an example of Sibling Revelry what happens in the living room at family gatherings: Joe Breskin & Flip Breskin duets. It's what I do with my sister, Flip.
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My favorite ensembles (at least to PLAY in) are guitar- piano duets
These 3 clips of me playing with Emanuel Sass at the Upstage in Port Townsend were recorded by our local access TV station on really nice video cameras and mixed live as the show unfolded.
You can hear us playing the first thing we ever played together - 'Opener' - on the free player at the top of this MySpace page, but it's audio-only.
This is the first tune of the set. Most of it was spent getting the sound and cameras to work together (mixing live mics and live cameras while shooting at a public event) and the tape was simply black for the first half and the guitar was way too harsh for the first 2/3 of the tune. So it goes. It is a wonder that it got captured at all. Thank you PTTV.
This series of clips is a double rarity: a well recorded performance of a well played totally off the top of our heads duet. This clip is one of my standard chord sequences that I play to create space to play into. You can hear a different slice through it on the free audio player, in a duet with John Nelson on second guitar.
The last of the three songs that we played for PTTV at the Upstage. This one, short and simple as it is, gets clear to the heart of the matter. One of the core components of the 'sympatico' that I either have or do not have with other musicians is my tendency to create music that is phrased like syllables - the pulsing patterns that occur in human speech.
Emanuel speaks German and I speak English. At the time this was recorded we had spent very little time talking - just some time playing, all of it in front of live audiences. And our one language option was the common thread of late 20th Century 'pop music' - actually one of the very few languages that is truly approaching universality around the world - the one language in which we are each fluent.
I can argue passionately about the tragedy of the loss of indigenous musics and the homogenization/mongrelization of cultures that has occurred in the past 50 years, but this is a clear demonstration of one of the blessings.
So, obviously, I love to play music. But most of the time, sadly, there is no band, or even anyone for me to play with at all.
Instead, there are only these fleeting momentary couplings, that happen on stages or in studios or on street corners or living-rooms.
At least that way it never gets a chance to get stale or boring ...
Here's an example of the same idea, from a totally different direction:
This is what Ray Prestegard and I do at the Ajax Cafe' on the third Saturday of every month - captured in my livingroom, cuz there is simply no way to set up a camera in a busy restaurant. Otherwise, we never play together EXCEPT ontage ... to keep it feeling "fresh and dangerous"
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Joe good to hear from you. Glad to hear the music is going well. Let me know what you think of the new tunes. Check out the guitar part on 13 Butterfly. Cheers L.C.
this is a doublepronged yes to Deb, and a thanks for the book ... the introduction is truly priceless. And re "across the pond" check this out: at Nyitott Muhely, a cafe' in Budapest: my little guitar, dancing the dancers. http://www.breskin.com/writing/images/nyitott1.jpg
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