You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians - Cavalcade of Comments: Noodle Edition

Episode Date: April 27, 2021

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Hey Peter. Stop noodling, Peter. Oh, Peter. What's up? What's up? We're about to start the episode. Okay. Here we go.

I'm just going to play. He's got a noodle. I'm going to go through. I love noodles. Too much noodling? A lot of noodles. Oh, really? Where do we get to the comments?

Then you're going to hear some too much noodling. Oh my gosh. I'm Alan Manris. That's Pierre Marquez. I'm Reddit. I'm Reddit. Netram. This is the You'll Hear a podcast.

Thanks everybody for tuning in. This is our bonus, Jonas. Our bonus episode where we like to go through some very funny comments and reviews of our own podcast and hit some we like to hit our fans up we have to hit our fans up as we take part in a horse load of haterade as we call it a horse load a haterade this is a cavalcade of comments a cavalcade of comments a bucket of bile whatever you want to call it this is our off episode this is this is the B side as we call it I love these episodes though it is fun to see whatever to say so I'll dive right in and this is exciting too because

this is going to come out I won't dive right in go ahead and So, no, I got to let the people know. Like, if they're listening to it, this when it drops, they're actually listening to it before it even finishes coming out of our mouths. We are that fast with uploading this podcast. It will go up in minutes. A number of minutes. Yeah, if you're listening to this on like Monday evening, chances are it just went up.

That's kind of cool that we get to do this in real time. You're listening to this as we are still questioning whether or not we should have uploaded it or half. I mean, Peter's been one foot out the door for like the last hour anyway. That's not true. That's not true. We'll see. Not at all. So last week we did an episode, the main.

episode last week with seven iconic bass lines. That was fun. That was fun and there's a lot of exciting things happening around that. But we've heard from a couple of folks, including Julian here that says, as a bass player, this video is triggering me to be seeing the transcriptions written down in octave. Now listen,

I did write the transcriptions where they sound, Julian. It's where they are in music, in the Hertz, on the piano. I wrote them as a pianist where they are. And yes, the bass is written up an octave from where it sounds. I realize this and I probably should have

probably should have considered that Julian I do apologize for bass players who were having to read so many ledger lines but welcome to our world. That's right. Pianists are reading ledger lines in the top clef. That's right. That's right. And you really focused in on that one which is interesting. So I wanted, there was

another comment on this episode that I I'm so ashamed about. I don't know how I screwed this up. That's Harvey May. This is from Hans Held. Oh. That's Harvey Mason playing drums on Camillion. And I think I said Mike Clark.

Is that possible? You probably did, yeah. Yeah, and I apologize. That's an honest mistake, though. They were kind of interchangeable in that era. Yeah, but that's a classic Harvey Mason there. Not interchangeable in the fact that they were very much different musicians, but they were around the same time. Yeah.

Okay, so there you go. I like this one from Paul, and this is kind of a reference to our intro. Peter Martin, noodles around so much that I had difficulty hearing the recording. His energy reminds me of a hyperactive high school drummer who lacks the self-control to remain silent. Can I tell you something, Peter? Yeah. I in, it was Mrs. Smith's English class, seventh grade.

I had to, she had paragraphs. And if you misbehaved, you had to write these paragraphs. She had seven. Little Adam was a misbehaving. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead. I like your noodling here, by the way. But I used to, we also, we were a Jefferson County school in that.

Jefferson County, Missouri. Didn't necessarily have... Not Missouri. Didn't necessarily have the latest equipment. They didn't have the latest, but they had the greatest. Well... Not the greatest, neither. No.

So we had these very old desks, right, from the 50s or 60s. You know what I mean? That's the 1950s or 1960s. So in these desks, they had big, hollow, metal boxes right underneath them where you put your books. I don't know what he's talking about Jefferson County I mean you went to a nice school I did not

but I used to just bang on these desks all day long just like He was banging on the desk Like a drummer in the middle school I mean I must have wrote

So many paragraphs So your noodling problem I'm with you buddy I'm a noodler myself Yeah you're comparing me at age 50 To you at what age 13 I mean, it's fair. Just like the comment was.

I love the hyperactive drum. I mean, it's a lot of negativity put all into one persona. I'll take it. Why not? We're having fun here. We're having fun. So now, oh, now I lost it. So there was that anti, hold on a second.

There was a pro-nealing comment. Did you know that? Well, I am very pro-neudling. I like it when you noodle around. No, I'm saying there was a, Now I've got to find it. Now I've got to find it. Well, I have one here from.

So I did this episode on Stevie Wonder's Clean Slash Chords. You know all about these kinds of like slash chords that happen and you are the sunshine of my life. Right. And we had a comment that all that fuss and excitement about dot, dot, dot, passing chords. Genius, Stevie, yes, but for other reasons. Not for these passing chords. He didn't invent them. He didn't even make them popular.

They are all over all genres of music starting from classical down to pop rock and jazz. And you know what I say to that? Yeah, maybe. But they're a pretty interesting thing to talk about, right? Yeah. You know what I mean? You got to be so... No, you agree with this guy?

No, I wasn't really listening because I'm still looking for the pro-noodling. Sorry. I like how mindful you are. I like how attentive you are to your friends. Hey, man, I'm trying to concentrate on one thing at a time here, man. I really got, you know... I will say, though, last Saturday...

Whatever you said, you're right. Last Saturday, we did a premiere of a great concert by Gillian Margot, a wonderful vocalist called... Oh, now that's... That did not get any negative. No, it called Powerflower, and we've just had so many great responses for that. And congrats to Gillian on the wonderful performance. Ed says, thank you, wonderful voice, top-notch band.

Glad that your band camp generated message informed me and kudos for the support of the Lewis Armstrong Foundation. All good stuff. Yep. Yeah. And then we got another comment from the seven iconic bass lines. Yes. From Donya. Did you see this one?

No, but I found the other one. So you hit that one and then I'm going to hit the one from Josh. This is another reason to know other instrument parts and how their approach is it. So you don't sound like a clueless dumbass when you need to discuss the arrangement with your bandmates. It's a great point. Why didn't we just say it like that? Yeah, that's the whole video just there. So Josh Kelner on the same seven iconic bass lines said, and I quote, I am pro Peter noodling.

That's it. That's all he said. I am pro Peter noodling. I just want to make sure I understand here. You went on a 10 minute search. for that comment? Yes, because that's the only, yeah, that's the only positive noodling comment

after all the cavalcade of negativity on that. This was a nice one from Eves. Pino-Paladino, Lady and Red. That's a classic baseline for it. That's a great one. That's a great one. Yeah. Yeah.

We got a, we've got to get a couple comments on this video from a long time ago called 17 tunes. You've got to know. Now, this is so fun when we, get the comments on stuff that we've, we feel like is ancient history because, believe it or not, we don't sit around here,

glorying in our past, wonderful episodes. We leave that to our adoring fans to do that. So we kind of forget some of this stuff, but I digress. Go ahead. No, Simon says, I think so one of the tunes we mentioned is giant steps.

And Simon says, who on earth would want to listen to blooming giant steps? Thanks, Simon, for that feedback. And is that the, wait, is that the 7th? tunes you gotta know. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's one. We had another one this week, too, from that one. Which is so funny when they come back like two years later. Here's another old video for Bebop hacks that will blow your mind. You remember that one? Oh, man. We were, yeah. I don't.

We were clickbait 101 on that one. But Ken says, why do they have to play these examples at 300 beats per minute? Because we can. I think he meant we're playing the actual audio. I mean, we were playing them? Oh, nice. Yeah. Okay.

How about this one? Did you say this one I zoned out? Perhaps you did. but my apologies in advance. Seven step syllabus to becoming a functional jazz musician. Do you remember that? What were we doing? What is this like university here?

See, here's one of our YouTube channel. We were doing five episodes a week. It was just, we were just outputting. We were going that deep every day. Seven steps syllabus to become a functional jazz musician. Are you kidding me? It was about as deep as you ever go to a hipster restaurant and there's a really, there's a sink that it's like four feet wide,

but it's about two inches deep. That's about what we're going on. Well, El, El, mission or el missione says number one rule work a gig as soon as you can even if you don't know shit oh yeah you will learn soon enough number two rule don't take shit from other musicians who you know are trying to bust your chops for no other reason than to be mean protect yourself your music and your integrity now was was those part of our seven steps they could have been i don't know maybe he extrapolated those two rules it might be from that uh arthur who's a regular listener

says this might be incredibly dumb but are you guys in different studios am i already am i already supposed to know that or it's done i love it thank you arthur and thanks for all the great what episode was that from that's from the seven iconic baselines and so no we do this now we have a giant piece of uh plexiglass between us yes uh so we're still in our pod suite here but we are quite a quite a ways away from each other yeah sometimes peter's in a whole different room in his mind that's right but we have done the it's been a while of course but we've done the podcast from other countries when we weren't even in the same country uh that's why i think it could work with your uh your kawai idea. I'm just saying. Man, can I read you one? So we did this. We just recorded a new episode about

the real book, but we still are getting comments loads. By far the most commented video we're still getting is how bad is the real book actually? Yeah. And we just got one from, I'm not even, I can't even really read, but it says, these are great, man. And this is kind of, this is, I love the angry comments here. So this is the real book. Is there any better expression of the deadness that is white Berkeley-esque jazz culture, or maybe this whole discussion. Whatever is left breathing of quote-unquote jazz, don't give A-F about those tunes, those changes,

those rules, that vibe, that bro-y sports mentality all over, like a bad smell. Jazz was great, was. And no player or writer worth giving a crap about, ever cared about some effing pile of lounge fodder. Jesus. That's pretty good.

That's really good. That's poetry, man. That's pretty poetic. Yeah. I would refer this gentleman or gentle lady to our, one of our much beloved early episodes, pre-pod suite, pre-pod cave. Why people hate, what was it? Why everybody hates, we're hating on jazz. Yeah, seven reasons why people hate jazz.

I would refer to you because you'll find fodder in that. It's so, so good. Okay, how about this? So, do you remember this episode, advanced use of the altered scale? Kind of a breakthrough episode for us. I do remember this one, yeah. This was very beloved and much, much discussed and a little controversial, perhaps. But Phil Wilkerson music says, please have a banana lick alert at 9.15.

What is a banana alert? I don't know what a banana lick is. Oh, it's that. That's a banana. Is that called the banana lick? Like you're slipping on the banana peel? What are we talking about? I don't know.

Is that a thing? I don't even know that was a thing. Yeah. Wow. I'm looking at this episode. Folks might want to go back and look at this. Adam, you are wearing a sports coat. I am dressed casually as I often am.

You are wearing a button shirt. Yeah. And a tweed. You look very professorial. You know, there was a moment there where I was really trying to make an effort. You were not in a hoodie in that episode. No, and the pandemic really made me hoodie it up. But there was a moment pre-pandemic where I was like, you know what?

I'm going to wear a jacket to the office. Was that the day you made me call you sir? Yeah, I made you, I would make you call me sir. I expected jorgon. to have my espresso waiting when I got in. Remember I bought those penny loafers? It was great. It was a good time for me.

That's right. Cool. Let's see. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Why do they play these examples like it? Oh, yeah, you said that one already. Sorry. Cool.

All right. Well, we got any other ones you want to hit? I think that was pretty good, right? I love this one. On our, how bad is the real book actually? This can be our last one. On our, how bad is the real book actually? Kenneth O'Brien says,

sorry, I'm not a jazz musician. What is the real book? Kenneth, you win. Yeah, exactly. Well done. Have you ever gone over? If you really want to be, if you're scared by those comments at them,

if you go, I don't know where you're looking at this on YouTube, but if you go to channel comments, those are published, go to Held for review. That's like the, here's where the porn is. We have a problem with people leaving.

I don't think it's just at us. It's just not us. But why do they think our audience is into that? That's not what they're coming for. I feel like they wouldn't do it if people weren't clicking it. So you guys are lucky. Sometimes they slip through,

but the YouTube, I think, blocks it, and then our team is also actively going in and deleting these comments. But they're sending you to places you don't want to go. There are places you don't want to know about. You really don't.

And your computer doesn't want you to click those. I'll tell you what. You're talking about a virus. You get a physical virus and a computer virus that's right. That's right. That's right. Cool.

Well, join us next week on Monday, a week from today for another on, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, cavalcade comments. Adam likes the noodle too. Is someone going to comment on my noodling on a cavalcade of comments. Tune in all Monday to find out. Now we're going to go up to the deep.

You'll hear it.