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| gnome44 |
Posted - 02/23/2009 : 7:27:16 PM
I'm not sure I really buy this, even as I write, but I'm going to continue.
I was listening to Leo Kottke's album "Great Big Boy". The song "Pepe Hush" for some reason reminded me A LOT of Tim's song "Coco in the Wild".
I hope that it isn't some totally subconcious thing because both songs are about dogs... Or maybe there's something going on in the chord progressions or something that I can only capture on some emotional level. Or maybe I'm so totally zonked at work right now that my brain is barely working.
It was just one of those things that hit me at the moment...so I thought I'd share. I'm listening to them back-and-forth right now...and I'm not getting that feeling.
Regardless, they're both great songs!  |
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| Ranting Thespian |
Posted - 02/24/2009 : 01:11:15 AM
Tim does like Michael Hedges. He has said so.
I think that Leo Kottke might learn a thing or two from Tim as well as Tim learning from Leo. |
| gnome44 |
Posted - 02/24/2009 : 12:01:24 AM
I just listened to them (The Wayfarer and The Fisherman) back-to-back a few times, and I'm not picking up on anything similar.
I guess that's the magic of music. Sometimes it just hits you a very particular way at a particular time and VOILA! there's something there! I don't really hear what I heard (felt?) before with Coco/Pepe. Oh well...it was cool at the time.
I'm somewhat surprised that Tim was never into Kottke (or at least aware of him and his music)...but I guess Tim's musical interest (from what I've heard/read) never got particularly close to the realm in which Kottke existed. It's a shame though...I'd like to hear Tim get that really heavy/groovy right hand going!
What about Tim and Michael Hedges? They were a little closer in age and playing styles...to some degree. Kottke is very "folky" but Tim and Hedges are/were all over the place...folky/jazzy/rocky/bluesy/trippy... I suppose Leo's got a mix of all of that too...but there's some quality that I can't verbalize at this point that Tim and Hedges have that put them in a different category from Kottke.
As amazing as Leo is on a 12-string guitar...I literally had my mouth hanging open for 2.5 hours the first time I saw Tim (1999). What he did with a 12-string seemed (and still seems) nearly impossible.
I wish Tim and Leo would have a child together. I bet that kid would be able to do some amazing stuff on a 12-string guitar. |
| Hopeful Rolling Waves |
Posted - 02/23/2009 : 9:30:34 PM
It's funny, I've talked to Tim bout Leo being a possible influence on his work, but he's vaguely familiar with it at best, as it turns out. Just proves you don't have to listen to every great guitarist to be one.
EDIT: You know Eric, I posted quite a while ago that The Wayfarer and The Fisherman had a congruent quality, and I wasn't sure if it was because they were titled after sea-going individuals, or it was some epehermal moment; but everyone chimed in and said 'No, they don't.' AHAHA
Double EDIT: http://www.timreynolds.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5465 |
