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Umphrey’s McGee webcast
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Posted by: Source Audio | Posted in: Artist / Heroes,
You have got to sign up for the latest Umphrey's McGee webcast -
and at $5 per show, how can you lose? And if you sign up for all 5 shows, you get a discount - you can see 'em all for $20. Talk about an economic stimulus package.
And read these qoutes from Umphrey's MySpace page on their release, Mantis:
"But isn't Umphrey's basically a jam band?" you ask. Not on this album. "We didn't want to overload the record with 80 minutes of music," Cinninger says. "We wanted to make it feel a certain way, so we trimmed away a lot of the fat." The result is a concise 54-minute tour de force, where the soulful guitar of Cinninger and intriguing lyrics of Bayliss blend with Cummins' jazz-funk pianistics, Myers' volcanic swing, Stasik's flowing bass, and Farag's bright percussive color – making Mantis a virtual roadmap of rock's outer limits.
Even Cinninger's usually predominant guitar lashings sound all the more remarkable for their tactical precision. "There were a few key guitar moments where I really opened up and wanted to make a statement," he says. "I wanted the solos to feel natural, like on old Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin records, when guitar solos were special moments that sounded very live and off the cuff."
Now this is one of those bands that I look forward to regardless of which direction they choose to take - you know it's going to be great.
And, these guys love and use our pedals - how can we not be thrilled?
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