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W5GA
05-08-2012, 07:33 AM
This group is amazing! I really like big band music, and this is some of the best I've heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=L7N6slVrQeY&vq=medium
kb2vxa
05-08-2012, 08:53 AM
DAYUM! It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing! That kid on piano looks like Paul McCartney... hmmm.
n4aud
05-08-2012, 08:58 AM
Great! Thanks for the link, they have a bunch of videos on there!
kb2vxa
05-08-2012, 09:06 PM
Only 4 and you won't get more, those clips are from the 2004 comedy film Swing Girls. They're not a real band, darn, but here's an interesting factoid; many couldn't play the instruments but they learned in only 5 months. How do you say Monkees in Japanese?
W5GA
05-08-2012, 09:28 PM
Only 4 and you won't get more, those clips are from the 2004 comedy film Swing Girls. They're not a real band, darn, but here's an interesting factoid; many couldn't play the instruments but they learned in only 5 months. How do you say Monkees in Japanese?
DAMN! And here I thought I stumbled on something really cool...
K7SGJ
05-08-2012, 09:31 PM
Bigband has always been a favorite.
KB3LAZ
05-10-2012, 03:14 PM
I dont like to swing but if that is your thing, have at it. Er...wrong forum, I think.
n2ize
05-11-2012, 01:08 AM
I like mostly classical music and be-bop and post-bop. But swing is awesome. I dig it. And genuine 1940's swing chicks were hot...
W1GUH
05-16-2012, 08:06 PM
Only 4 and you won't get more, those clips are from the 2004 comedy film Swing Girls. They're not a real band, darn, but here's an interesting factoid; many couldn't play the instruments but they learned in only 5 months. How do you say Monkees in Japanese?


"Leaned to play" or "Learned to look like they're playing?"

But I love that music & it'll get the audience up everytime. It's infectious.

That band gets marked down for a serious flaw, IMHO. SHOULDA had acoustic bass fiddles. Electric basses in a big band just don't cut it.
kb2vxa
05-17-2012, 03:10 PM
Matter of opinion, a stand up string bass gets lost in much louder sound. Then the electric guitar was invented in the '30s for that reason.
W1GUH
05-21-2012, 11:56 AM
Matter of opinion, a stand up string bass gets lost in much louder sound. Then the electric guitar was invented in the '30s for that reason.

Just spent some time over on youtube watching big band videos. All that I watched used one upright acoustic bass fiddle. Lost in the "much louder sound"? Nope...clear and distinct underneath it. Check out Glen Miller or Benny Goodman with ONE bass fiddle playing. And if it DOES get lost in the sound, amplify it, already.