Just had the thought, and realized it was a thoguht worthy of having its own topic on the fotum. Tim on Sitar...think about it...drool...and then write your thoughts in this thread.
Yeah it would be nice if some old recording of Tim playing on the sitar surfaced, but I've not heard of one. I remember discussing this in the past, but my memory on this subject has faded and I can't remember if Tim was even owned one these days.
quote:JS: I also read that you used to switch up instruments almost every gig at Millers.
TR: I literally learned to play the sitar in front of a crowd at Millers. As well as the violin and the log drums and shit like that. Even the cello, but the cello is one where I only got to a certain point and said, well this one that you have to drop the rest to really get. It's much more challenging then a violin. For me anyway.
JS: Did you ever get into effects with the sitar or anything like that?
TR: Not really, it's hard enough to get a sitar micked up to fill up a small room cause it's such a quiet instrument. It's like really quiet. Like the quietest instrument I've ever played, but it sounds amazing.
JS: I tried a sitar once for 10 minutes and it was insanely hard.
Tim plays a sitar on 3 of the tracks on Transmigration: "A distant Episode", "The Djinn Awakes", and "Dhama". Once again, I highly reccomend this disc:
Ya I almost bought a sitar back when I was way into listening to Indian music and it consisted of like most of my listening. Then I tried to play one. Damn they were hard to get much of a sound out of. They are really quiet. I still need to get transmigration too. Now that it's newly remastered I'm going to have to make room in the budget.
it would be amazing to here tim on any other instrument. I could only imagine that he would kick some ass on a bass. He has such a good rhythm with his right hand especially his thumb that it would only be natural for him to dominate the instrument!!
Tim on Sitar
Posted - 08/28/2005 : 8:46:00 PM
