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    This one's just because this is a killer guitar riff. The riff section was even used as an instrumental-only backdrop to the final battle between Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) and Kane (Mario Van Peebles) in Highlander III: The Sorcerer. It's an adrenaline pumper.

    I actually used to play this riff a bit differently because I had only ever heard the song once or twice before on MTV when I was trying to play it by memory. I also play it in standard tuning (E A D G B E, low to high), whereas — as I've only recently found out — the guitar was actually tuned down a whole step (D G C F A D, low to high) for the recording. I normally play everything in standard tuning, so it hadn't even occurred to me that this was actually played on a down-tuned guitar.

    Changing to a different tuning on a guitar with a Floyd Rose type whammy bar is a serious pain in the neck due to the interaction between different forces. A change in the tuning of one string in one direction affects the tuning of all other strings in the opposite direction, and dropping everything down a whole step also changes the bridge angle, and with it, the intonation of the bridge saddles and the action — i.e. the height of the strings above the frets and the pickups — which you then have to compensate for by adjusting the tension of the springs in the back of the guitar. Furthermore, in order to tune the guitar down a whole step, you have to loosen the locking clamps at the nut and tune the guitar by way of the tuning keys at the headstock, but fastening the clamps again in itself also already affects the tuning, which you then have to compensate for with the fine-tuners at the bridge.

    Like I said, it's a pain, and even though the riff itself doesn't require a Floyd Rose style bridge, the rest of the song does. You might be able to get away with it on a non-locking vibrato guitar — and retuning those isn't very easy either, albeit that it's less work — but I wouldn't advise it, given the nature of the song. So if you're going to be going down that road, then it's best to set up a separate guitar with the dropped tuning and use another guitar for the standard tuning stuff. If you like, then you can even choose a heavier gauge of strings for the drop-tuned guitar in order to have a similar tension feel to your other guitar.

    My version of the riff sounds slightly different — not necessarily better or worse, just different — and I always play it when I'm testing the balance between the low, mid and high frequencies with a heavy distortion sound. So if the EQ settings are incorrect, then playing (my version of) this riff will bring that out and then I can make the necessary adjustments either on the effects unit or on the amplifier itself. If all the frequencies come out right during the riff, then I know my setup will work for everything else as well.

    Anyway, crank up the volume, break out your best air guitar and start banging your head until your hair covers your eyes.


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    And the Dreamers awake....


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    What is the purpose of your presence?

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    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61invZG0OO8



    I can't forget you my little Mushanga
    I keep a place in my heart for you
    The days of waiting they keep getting longer
    And not a thing I can do

    I was a poet, a magazine writer
    Sent to report on political views
    It was by chance through a lens that I met you
    A Capetown girl with no shoes

    You were runnin' down the road
    I was going your way
    I stopped and turned around and lent you my hand
    You smiled though you were suffering
    I didn't understand

    You broke into my heart
    I saw your eyes and then I knew
    You broke into my heart
    Like the wind and rain that followed you
    You broke into my heart
    Had the Lord above forgotten you?
    You broke in from the start
    And all my tears belong to you

    Mushanga, oh, Mushanga, oh

    I sat and watched as she danced by the fires
    Through ancient songs did the tale unfold
    They sang of diamonds that came from their mountains
    And loss of lives mining white man's gold

    I had to leave and go back to Manhattan
    Where all my stories are bought and sold
    I know the city would surely be saddened
    If what I knew could be told

    You were runnin' down the road
    I was going your way
    I stopped and turned around and lent you my hand
    You smiled though you were suffering
    I didn't understand

    You broke into my heart
    I saw your eyes and then I knew
    You broke into my heart
    Like the wind and rain that followed you
    You broke into my heart
    Had the Lord above forgotten you?
    You broke in from the start
    And all my tears belong to you

    Mushanga, oh, Mushanga, oh

    It's been so long since I last heard your laughter
    So many letters and still no news
    I hope you find all the things that you're after
    You know my heart is with you

    You were runnin' down the road
    I was going your way
    I stopped and turned around and lent you my hand
    You smiled though you were suffering
    I didn't understand

    You broke into my heart
    I saw your eyes and then I knew
    You broke into my heart
    Like the wind and rain that followed you
    You broke into my heart
    Had the Lord above forgotten you?
    You broke into my heart
    I saw your eyes and then I knew

    You broke in from the start
    And all my tears belong to you

    Mushanga, oh, Mushanga, oh
    Mushanga, oh, Mushanga, oh
    Mushanga, oh, Mushanga, oh
    Mushanga, oh, Mushanga, oh
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    Love it

    Enigma - Return To Innocence


    No one person can ever change the truth, but the truth, once learned, can and will change the person

    You must be the change you wish to see in the world when you are through changing, you are through


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    Oh, is this the tread where I can post my poems and treatise.

    How long will such a treatise stay visible ?

    Three Milonga.

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    Quote Originally posted by scibuster View Post
    Oh, is this the tread where I can post my poems and treatise.

    How long will such a treatise stay visible ?

    Three Milonga.
    It's a lounge thread, so it's meant to be "off-topic". One can post music here, or one can post (or write about) other things here. It's all meant to be a relaxed atmosphere.
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    This I posted into an ufo forum:


    Hier bist Du nicht ganz verkehrt
    jeder reitet sein Steckenpferd.
    Ist die Theorie gegessen bist
    hinterher versessen
    dass du bald ein Ufo siehst
    Ist das Ufo nicht genug
    witterst du jetzt nur Betrug
    kommt sogleich ein Alien her
    nimmt dich schnell im Ufo mit
    jetzt bist du sofort verzückt
    doch du hörst die Warnung nicht
    du bist Aliens Leibgericht

    Manche Aliens sind perfide
    machen ganz perverse Spiele
    bohren mit den Instrumenten
    dir im Darm mit Gegenständen
    selbst der größte Masochist
    weiß jetzt nicht mehr wer er ist
    Auch die Aliens haben Feinde
    denn die Alien-Gemeinde ist nicht einig
    mit der Erde.
    Soll die Erde gut gedeien
    darfst du nicht nach Aliens schreien
    denn die Aliens sind gemein
    bohren nur ins Arschloch rein.

    Translated using google translate


    Here you're not entirely wrong
    each riding his hobbyhorse .
    Is the theory eaten are
    afterwards intently
    you soon see a UFO
    Is not that enough Ufo
    witterst you now just scams
    comes once an alien ago
    takes you quickly with the Ufo
    now you're immediately entranced
    but you do not hear the warning
    you're Aliens favorite dish

    Some aliens are perfidious
    make really weird games
    drill with the instruments
    you in the gut with objects
    even the biggest Masochist
    now do not know who he is
    The aliens have enemies
    because the alien community is not unanimous
    with the earth.
    If the earth well gedeien
    allowed to do not cry for Aliens
    because the aliens are common
    Drill only pure asshole

    But this is not the full joke.
    The full joke is completed
    when you read the answer of this
    post from another poster:
    it is answered by the following sentence:

    "Aha, Du bist an Proktorianer geraten."
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    This one's for those of you who like jazz/rock/funk fusion. It's a not very well-known instrumental song by Toto called "Jake To The Bone" — from their "Kingdom Of Desire" album — in which they really demonstrate their virtuosity. Pay special attention to Steve Lukather's guitar solo (starting at 03:20).

    I don't know about you guys, but I personally really like this kind of music.


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    Yes, I love guitar solos like that, Aragorn. Beautiful, indeed!

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    Quote Originally posted by Elen View Post
    Yes, I love guitar solos like that, Aragorn. Beautiful, indeed!
    Steve Lukather is probably the guitarist who has influenced me the most in the past 25 years, because his playing style, his sound and the kind of music he plays all come closest to my own musical taste. He always masterfully blends progressive rock and hard rock influences with funk and jazz, and then throws a little bit of Jimi Hendrix on top.

    He's got quite a musical career already too, mind you. Apart from Toto — where he took over as the band leader after drummer and co-founder Jeff Porcaro died, and where he also sings the lead vocal on a number of songs and backing vocals on most of the rest — he's also got a solo career, as well as that he plays in the jam session band Los Lobotomys, which features several past and present Toto members.

    In addition to all of that, he's also been working as a session guitarist for most of his life, having played on over 1000 albums by other artists, including (but not limited to) Olivia Newton John, Michael Jackson, Don Henley, Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, et al. He was also invited by Joe Satriani to join Satch and Steve Vai on their G3 tour, and he counts Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour, Slash and Eddie Van Halen among his personal friends.

    In other words, and for those who aren't fully awake yet, the guy knows how to play the guitar.
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    Sage mir welche Musik du hörst und ich sage dir wer du bist.
    (Tell me which Music you listen and I tell you who you are.)

    in a random order:

    Glenn Gould, Georg Ringsgwandl, Georg Kreisler, Quinteto-Cha, Boban Markovic,
    Maria Tanase, Taraf de Häidouks, Hilary Hahn, Fanfare Ciocarlia,
    Gerry Mulligan - Chet Baker, Compay Segundo, Fado, Buena Vista Social Club,
    Don Barreto, David Friesen - Acient Kings, Comedian Harmonists,
    Well Buam, Don Ellis, Xavier Cugat, Havana Cuban Boys,
    Finnischer Tango - Tule Tanssimaan, Milonga, Alfred Schnittke, Emir Kusturika,
    Edith Piaf, Carlos Gardel, Tom Waits, Zwiefacher, Ska, Oum Kaltsoum, Elvis, Canned Heat,
    Blur, The Rat Pack, Ibrahim Ferrer, Mariachi, Il canto di malavita, Tito Puente, Willie Colon,
    Connection Latina, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Rod Mason, Sidney Bechet, Schnuckenack Reinhardt,
    Django Reinhardt, King's Singers, Thomas de Hartmann, G.I.Gurdjieff Sacred Hymns,
    Paul Horn inside the Taj Mahal, Guillermo Buitrago,
    Klezmer, Billie Holiday, Ekseption, Kinski spricht Villon - Ich bin so wild nach deinem Erdbeermund,
    Magnificat, Geschwinde geschwinde ihr eilenden Winde - Wettstreit zwischen Phöbus und Pan,
    Bix Beiderbecke, Claudio Abbado dirigiert Brahms, ...

    "Mit Musik wird ausgedrückt was besser nicht gesagt worden wäre." Robert Schumann

    "With muisic is expressed what you better have not said." Robert Schumann

    http://rafa.xobor.de/t33f25-Musik-Th....html#msg19391
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    I adored this when it first came out.....still love it.


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    The Weird Al synth bass grabs deep.

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