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Old 2009.07.20, 05:53 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by golem09 View Post
Originally Posted by Glathannus View Post
At least Moto has stage presence though.
And the music sound awesome, so I don't care what or how he does it
If he has to tire himself out to get a sound that's not natural for the instrument he is playing, he should be playing an instrument that naturally sounds more like what he has been unnaturally trying to achieve.

If tenor saxophone doesn't have the range+texture that Moto wants, then he needs a custom or non-standard saxophone. That would be cooler than what he's been doing, because then he wouldn't have to retire so quickly when he starts to get old.

Originally Posted by justriiingo View Post
It suddenly makes you think why the PIMP is even there in the first place. On recordings in MVs he doesn't really seem to do anything, but in live performances, he is DA MAN. He basically plays the audience, gets them excited, makes them anticipate stuff, make them sing stuff... he's like the spiritual leader of the band. Quite amazing really. I would really LOOOOVE to see them again!!
In some of the performances I've seen, the pimp sometimes contributes toward the actual melody rather than crowd control. If the main keyboardist picks up a keytar, the pimp is on backup keyboard. Sometimes the pimp generates electronic melody from a touchpad, too. I dunno if he has done any of that in Europe, or if it's Japan only.

Originally Posted by so_cold View Post
Yes... If anyone else gets a chance to see them live, you actually wish that saxophone and trumpet to sound as raw and as nasty as possible!
That's what baritone saxophones are for. I love their crunchy sound. Baritone saxophones have noticeably more RAWR factor than any of the particular horns in SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS are capable of from any amount of performer exhaustion.

Whenever you watch the Simpsons, you ever notice Lisa Simpson's awesome saxophone solos in the intro? That's totally a baritone sax in most of the Simpson intros - if not all of them. I have suspicions that occasionally they switch it up with a tenor (not every Simpsons intro has the same solo), but never ever has Lisa Simpson played an alto sax. I haven't looked this up anywhere on the web - I'm just saying that based on what my ears are telling me. You listen to some baritone saxophone solos in Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, and you'll say to yourself "Yep, that's definitely the Lisa Simpson saxophone". It's such a badass sound.
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