[Six String Stu]

I seen Sting on the Xmas at Rockefeller Plaza show playing a song from the
1,600's.
Gee ya really gotta go way back to find royalty free songs to play nowadays.
:-)

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[DC]

Six String Stu wrote:
I seen Sting on the Xmas at Rockefeller Plaza show playing a song from the
1,600's.
Gee ya really gotta go way back to find royalty free songs to play nowadays.


He was on "Studio 60" a few weeks ago doing that lute thing.

Nutty Sting.

[Federico]

I seen Sting on the Xmas at Rockefeller Plaza show playing a song from the
1,600's.


Yes, he wrote it when he was young... :-)
F.

[Jay Kadis]

In article ,
DC wrote:

Six String Stu wrote:
I seen Sting on the Xmas at Rockefeller Plaza show playing a song from the
1,600's.
Gee ya really gotta go way back to find royalty free songs to play
nowadays.


He was on "Studio 60" a few weeks ago doing that lute thing.

Nutty Sting.

He's not exactly breaking new ground.

From what I hear the early music lute crowd is split on this. I
expected unanimous condemnation.

-Jay

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[Don Pearce]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:36:53 -0800, Jay Kadis
wrote:

In article ,
DC wrote:

Six String Stu wrote:
I seen Sting on the Xmas at Rockefeller Plaza show playing a song from the
1,600's.
Gee ya really gotta go way back to find royalty free songs to play
nowadays.


He was on "Studio 60" a few weeks ago doing that lute thing.

Nutty Sting.

He's not exactly breaking new ground.

From what I hear the early music lute crowd is split on this. I
expected unanimous condemnation.

I suspect you are encountering the "any publicity is good publicity"
phenomenon. Many times I have been to the Wigmore Hall to hear Emma
Kirkby accompanied by Anthony Rooley on lute, and it sounded nothing
like Sting and his crooning (thank goodness).

d

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[Jay Kadis]

In article ,
(Don Pearce) wrote:

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:36:53 -0800, Jay Kadis
wrote:

In article ,
DC wrote:

Six String Stu wrote:
I seen Sting on the Xmas at Rockefeller Plaza show playing a song from
the
1,600's.
Gee ya really gotta go way back to find royalty free songs to play
nowadays.


He was on "Studio 60" a few weeks ago doing that lute thing.

Nutty Sting.

He's not exactly breaking new ground.

From what I hear the early music lute crowd is split on this. I
expected unanimous condemnation.

I suspect you are encountering the "any publicity is good publicity"
phenomenon. Many times I have been to the Wigmore Hall to hear Emma
Kirkby accompanied by Anthony Rooley on lute, and it sounded nothing
like Sting and his crooning (thank goodness).

d

I'm sure that's it exactly. It wouldn't be a bad thing if it sparked
interest in other lute music and early music in general.

(Why am I suddenly reminded of the old adage, "be careful what you wish
for...")

-Jay

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[Scott Dorsey]

Jay Kadis wrote:
He's not exactly breaking new ground.

From what I hear the early music lute crowd is split on this. I
expected unanimous condemnation.

I haven't heard him. Is he playing it well?

I'm still waiting for the electric theorbos.
--scott


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[Anahata]

Don Pearce wrote:
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:36:53 -0800, Jay Kadis
wrote:
From what I hear the early music lute crowd is split on this. I
expected unanimous condemnation.


I suspect you are encountering the "any publicity is good publicity"
phenomenon. Many times I have been to the Wigmore Hall to hear Emma
Kirkby accompanied by Anthony Rooley on lute, and it sounded nothing
like Sting and his crooning (thank goodness).

Part of the alternative view is that nobody really knows how people sang
John Dowland's music in his own time, and that it may not have been the
preserve of trained professional "art" singers.

But I agree Sting is no competition for Emma Kirkby's "artfully artless"
singing style, for sheer listening pleasure.

Anahata

[Jay Kadis]

In article ,
(Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Jay Kadis wrote:
He's not exactly breaking new ground.

From what I hear the early music lute crowd is split on this. I
expected unanimous condemnation.

I haven't heard him. Is he playing it well?

I'm still waiting for the electric theorbos.
--scott

The lutenist is Edin Karamazov. (Even Sting has some limits.)

I doubt there will ever be an electric theorbo. Of course I would have
doubted Sting would ever record an album of Dowland.

-Jay

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[Don Pearce]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:17:03 -0800, Jay Kadis
wrote:

In article ,
(Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Jay Kadis wrote:
He's not exactly breaking new ground.

From what I hear the early music lute crowd is split on this. I
expected unanimous condemnation.

I haven't heard him. Is he playing it well?

I'm still waiting for the electric theorbos.
--scott

The lutenist is Edin Karamazov. (Even Sting has some limits.)

I doubt there will ever be an electric theorbo. Of course I would have
doubted Sting would ever record an album of Dowland.

-Jay

Think of it as tantric metal.

d

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[Scott Dorsey]

Jay Kadis wrote:

The lutenist is Edin Karamazov. (Even Sting has some limits.)

Ahh, and Sting is just singing.

I doubt there will ever be an electric theorbo. Of course I would have
doubted Sting would ever record an album of Dowland.

There is indeed an electric solid-bodied theorbo. I saw one being used
by a skiffle band at the Washington Folk Festival. They also had saws,
washboards, a guitarron and a bassoon too. They weren't.... normal...
--scott

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[Don Pearce]

On 30 Nov 2006 12:33:03 -0500, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Jay Kadis wrote:

The lutenist is Edin Karamazov. (Even Sting has some limits.)

Ahh, and Sting is just singing.

I doubt there will ever be an electric theorbo. Of course I would have
doubted Sting would ever record an album of Dowland.

There is indeed an electric solid-bodied theorbo. I saw one being used
by a skiffle band at the Washington Folk Festival. They also had saws,
washboards, a guitarron and a bassoon too. They weren't.... normal...
--scott

But was it in fact an electric lute, modified into an electric theorbo
a century or so after its original construction? There are an awful
lot of those about.

d

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[anahata]

Jay Kadis wrote:

The lutenist is Edin Karamazov. (Even Sting has some limits.)

Yes mostly, but Sting has been learning the lute and does play it
occasionally too.

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[Ray Thomas]

a mono-sodium lutenist ? Wonder if he's using gut strings, or would that
run counter to his animal rights credo....or have I got him mixed up with
Chrissie Hynde ?
Ray
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Jay Kadis wrote:

The lutenist is Edin Karamazov. (Even Sting has some limits.)

Yes mostly, but Sting has been learning the lute and does play it
occasionally too.

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