ITT we talk about Miles - Phish.net Forum

hillyp 12/01/12 9:33 pm

I'm listening to miles smiles right now, and I listened to Big Fun earlier, anybody love miles?

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hillyp 12/01/12 9:35 pm

if so what era? i really dig the sixties so called second great quintet with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, and Ron Carter

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mjrphishhead 12/01/12 9:41 pm

I'm a big fan of electric Miles. Tribute to Jack Johnson is unreal as is In a Silent Way.

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TheEmperorJoker 12/01/12 9:43 pm

kilometers doesnt have crap on him

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gratefuldaddy 12/01/12 9:45 pm

Miles In The Sky is my favorite.

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careful_w_that_axe_Miller 12/01/12 9:46 pm

How bout some examples, imbedded up in here?

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hillyp 12/01/12 10:05 pm

I'm big in to miles in the sky as well

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deBebbler 12/01/12 10:06 pm

I love everything from the Plugged Nickel in '65 through his death.

He was brilliance personified.

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hillyp 12/01/12 11:28 pm

I really like this too

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hillyp 12/01/12 11:31 pm

This is some amazing music here

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hillyp 12/01/12 11:32 pm

Airto is so gone during this performance

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careful_w_that_axe_Miller 12/02/12 12:25 am

@hillyp, excited to listen man; thanks for the sound

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careful_w_that_axe_Miller 12/02/12 2:04 am

That blew my mind. I've never heard "that" before, I prefer the Isle of Wight to the first song but both are pretty wild; dude makes the horn sing, hits it like a pipe

25:13 on Isle of Wight they really bring it in, enjoyed that quite a bit

Who is airto? Ha is he the percussionist playing whatever that thing is he's shaking? All those dudes are faced at IOW, they are straight feeling it. First one everybody looks pissed, could just be drugs, I always look pissed and its just that I'm hammered; but those dudes weren't movin or nothin

I know why we won the revolution and war of 1812; not one of those Limey bastards was up movin, I would brought the house down shaking to that shit.

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hillyp 12/02/12 10:13 am

This is the 50"s era better for a sunday morning

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hillyp 12/02/12 10:17 am

this is the era I love the best Tony Williams is a beast of a drummer

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MiguelSanchez 12/02/12 10:25 am

Love miles...

Miles smiles and miles in the sky are both great. I prefer a couple years past those. I love jack Johnson, bitches brew, live evil, on the corner, and water babies.

I am a fan of all of the miles/trane stuff, but I think trane was much better on his own.

Also, not miles but awesome, I was rocking Freddie hubbard's straight life this morning. If you like miles, grab this album.

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strikly_commerical 12/02/12 10:48 am

Anything up until the mid 70s, but especially In A Silent Way through Get Up With It. Big Fun is amazing.

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Sprachtor 12/02/12 10:59 am

Yeah, everyone knows all the Miles classics but no one ever talks about the link between Miles and the Dead. They were both huge fans of each other and many jams the Dead played were heavily Miles influenced.

Most importantly about Miles was his scouting ability. If you were a top musician, he played with you. The musicians he surrounded himself with were top of class.

Steve Grossman, who played Sax on many classics including A Tribute to Jack Johnson gave my father Saxophone lessons in NYC during the 70's.

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Sprachtor 12/02/12 11:04 am

http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2010/01/dead-and-jazz.html

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spacecoyote 12/02/12 11:07 am

Love Miles.

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hillyp 12/02/12 11:30 am

Dude can you imagine being at the Fillmore in April 1970 when Miles bitches brew band opened for the Dead! Tebowie I found out about miles through the Dead, I heard the Spanish Jam was based on a Miles theme I went and bought sketches of Spain and that wad that I became an addict

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Sprachtor 12/02/12 11:46 am

@hillyp said:

Dude can you imagine being at the Fillmore in April 1970 when Miles bitches brew band opened for the Dead! Tebowie I found out about miles through the Dead, I heard the Spanish Jam was based on a Miles theme I went and bought sketches of Spain and that wad that I became an addict

No I couldn't imagine it. The options back then were insane. I always felt like I was born in the wrong era.

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strikly_commerical 12/02/12 11:47 am

@hillyp said:

this is the era I love the best Tony Williams is a beast of a drummer
http://youtu.be/cmDhrP54HXs

Tony W is the man. Check out Four and More, opening with "So What," after the band found out Miles had donated that night's wages to charity, without asking the band members. They sound pissed off, and on fire.

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MiguelSanchez 12/02/12 12:01 pm

@Sprachtor said:

Most importantly about Miles was his scouting ability. If you were a top musician, he played with you. The musicians he surrounded himself with were top of class.

Just like trey assembling ppl for tab, right?

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hillyp 12/02/12 12:11 pm

@strictlycommercial I love that four and more album I have it on vinyl

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Sprachtor 12/02/12 12:14 pm

@MiguelSanchez said:

@Sprachtor said:

Most importantly about Miles was his scouting ability. If you were a top musician, he played with you. The musicians he surrounded himself with were top of class.

Just like trey assembling ppl for tab, right?

Um....no.

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careful_w_that_axe_Miller 12/02/12 12:19 pm

Stopped at 0:32 in to that, holy buckets.

Check out his eyes, his demeanor, this is a "different" musician. Thank you @hillyp,

::yep I'm a noob::

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strikly_commerical 12/02/12 12:26 pm

@hillyp said:

@strictlycommercial I love that four and more album I have it on vinyl

That album rocks. I look back, and it composed pretty much half my November Miles playlist, along with Miles In The Sky ( a shout to George Benson on guitar ).

And for those unaware, check out the GD Hampton 1988, where they tuned up with "So What." Just a tease.

And during some heavy Phish jams (the dates elude me), I definitely hear shades of B Brew, Jack Johnson, and the wild electric funk Miles period.

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johnnyd

12/02/12 12:27 pm

You guys see ever see his blindfolded listening tests?
Some entertaining reading. I can't help but think of it like an earlier, more sophisticated version of the Playa Hater's Ball.

3rd edition
4th edition

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careful_w_that_axe_Miller 12/02/12 12:30 pm

@hillyp said:

This is the 50"s era better for a sunday morning
http://youtu.be/V1hT2u1jwcs

Loved it, shits amazing; liked this much better than first two. Not the music for me to work out to, I'm crooning at the gym, thank you for the music bro

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strikly_commerical 12/02/12 12:37 pm

@johnnyd said:

You guys see ever see his blindfolded listening tests?
Some entertaining reading. I can't help but think of it like an earlier, more sophisticated version of the Playa Hater's Ball.

3rd edition
4th edition

I can handle Madonna, but I hate on a lot of Daughta Don't Sing

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johnnyd

12/02/12 12:43 pm

In fairness, he does rave about a couple albums in different editions.

Nice. @strikly_commerical.
Was that in the skit or did you just lay that out there?

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strikly_commerical 12/02/12 1:05 pm

I just lay it down, in hopes that everyone listens to more Miles and watches more Chappelle

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hillyp 12/02/12 4:24 pm

went record shopping today, found a 60's pressing of Sketches of Spain

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geogaddi 12/02/12 4:27 pm

damn everybody ignored my miles thread lol

anyways its all about "LIVE EVIL"

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hillyp 12/02/12 4:44 pm

Live Evil is awesome, John McGloughlin is awesome on that, they have a box set Live from the Cellar Door in DC thats where that Album is from,

A big part of the fusion Miles to me is Teo Macero's productiion work splicing together In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew, guy was a genius

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geogaddi 12/02/12 4:55 pm

hell yeah mcgloughlin is sick. dejohnette and airto are an AMAZING combo. the whole lineup is ridiculous man

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MiguelSanchez 12/02/12 6:02 pm

@Sprachtor said:

@MiguelSanchez said:
@Sprachtor said:

Most importantly about Miles was his scouting ability. If you were a top musician, he played with you. The musicians he surrounded himself with were top of class.

Just like trey assembling ppl for tab, right?
Um....no.

Haha... I was hoping that would get you more gassed up

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strikly_commerical 12/02/12 7:05 pm

@geogaddi said:

hell yeah mcgloughlin is sick. dejohnette and airto are an AMAZING combo. the whole lineup is ridiculous man

The array of talent from 1969-74 is wild. Look at the list of percussion talent. On some tracks Billy Cobham is credited with "triangle." And Corea, Zawinul, Hancock and Keith Jarrett filled in on keyboards.

He really was miles ahead.

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Sprachtor 12/02/12 7:14 pm

@MiguelSanchez said:

@Sprachtor said:
@MiguelSanchez said:
@Sprachtor said:

Most importantly about Miles was his scouting ability. If you were a top musician, he played with you. The musicians he surrounded himself with were top of class.

Just like trey assembling ppl for tab, right?
Um....no.
Haha... I was hoping that would get you more gassed up

Stop trying to troll me

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MiguelSanchez 12/02/12 7:15 pm

@Sprachtor said: "@MiguelSanchez said: "@Sprachtor said: "@MiguelSanchez said: "@Sprachtor said: "

Most importantly about Miles was his scouting ability. If you were a top musician, he played with you. The musicians he surrounded himself with were top of class.

"

Just like trey assembling ppl for tab, right?"

Um....no."

Haha... I was hoping that would get you more gassed up"

Stop trying to troll me"

i suppose it was a fairly transparent attempt.

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careful_w_that_axe_Miller 12/02/12 9:49 pm

Great sound & good info on this thread bump

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cactoid 12/02/12 10:15 pm

right click, copy location, new tab, paste for higher res

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careful_w_that_axe_Miller 12/02/12 10:52 pm

@cactoid, where did you get that?

Ha ha "please advise"

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cactoid 12/04/12 1:37 am

Hey - I had just seen it floating around on imgur a few weeks ago, and googled it.

Pretty funny stuff, we've come a long way with censorship believe it or not.

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careful_w_that_axe_Miller 12/04/12 3:08 am

@cactoid said:

we've come a long way with censorship believe it or not.

I know it bro; read refurbished text of books and stuff, wasn't always that you could say whatever you want in the United States, even now in other countries people's voices are silenced.

That's a really cool pic though, says to me "revolutionary"

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Jerrytheband 12/04/12 9:45 am

My favorite

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lawsuit 12/04/12 11:15 am

Here is a cool documentary:

http://vimeo.com/13967790

It has nice highlights from most eras of his music.

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lawsuit 12/04/12 11:21 am

Miles was born here in St. Louis, on the east side. Check out the house he lived in and the condition it's in today.As with many 'true artists', nobody knows and nobody cares.

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lawsuit 12/04/12 11:22 am

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