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pc0000001
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 Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 4:38 am Post subject: Aussies you've worked with... |
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Hey Brett, magnificent show at Spensers the other week, musta been hard in the cold room - I'm spewing I missed the 2nd show! Tell me, what was it like working with David Hirschfelder? Fantastic I'd imagine he's such an accomplished musician. I'd love to hear an album featuring you, he, Virgil Donati, and whichever great bassist you please!
Cheers for your inspiring playing, Pete |
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bretto212
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Hirschy really is a genius in every sense of the word and was also the first truly accomplished musician I'd ever met, in the sense that he was classically trained, an amazing improviser and completely open-minded about all forms of music.
My favorite memory is seeing him sitting in the back of a tour bus in the middle of Germany without a keyboard scoring the entire John Farnham set for the 110 piece Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for an upcoming tour. All he had was a huge book of blank orchestral score paper, a pencil and a brain the size of Einstein's. I shrugged my shoulders in disbelief and went back to listening to Megadeth...(not kidding!) |
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pc0000001
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Big Kev
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Location: Melbourne
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| bretto212 wrote: | Hirschy really is a genius in every sense of the word and was also the first truly accomplished musician I'd ever met, in the sense that he was classically trained, an amazing improviser and completely open-minded about all forms of music.
My favorite memory is seeing him sitting in the back of a tour bus in the middle of Germany without a keyboard scoring the entire John Farnham set for the 110 piece Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for an upcoming tour. All he had was a huge book of blank orchestral score paper, a pencil and a brain the size of Einstein's. I shrugged my shoulders in disbelief and went back to listening to Megadeth...(not kidding!) |
Sounds almost Zappa-esque! Mozart even.
Kev |
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Melodic Dreamer
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I'm curious which Megadeth album. lol
Rust in Peace featured some great solos by Marty Friedman. Have you ever got to play with Marty? |
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bretto212
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It was "Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?". I bought it while we were on tour as I'd never heard Megadeth before and I thought (and still think) that is one of the greatest album titles I've ever heard. Album opened with a very cool instrumental and then pretty much lost my interest although I do like some Megadeth stuff.
I've never met Marty Friedman. Great player though. |
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David
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Location: Alcalá de Henares, Madrid
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Hangar 18 and Tornado of Souls feature some of my favourite solos ever ... Friedman's style is pretty unique and that RiP album was really paradigmatic.
And I always feel some kind of sympathetic pain in my wrist when watching him picking! |
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