Shawn Phillips
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Topic: Shawn Phillips
Posted By: Melos
Subject: Shawn Phillips
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 13:26
| Anyone knows his music? |
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 13:37
eh no ... give us a clue  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: margaret
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 13:38
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Space is dark it is so endless When you're lost it's so relentless It is so big, it is small |
horza wrote:Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 13:40
^ hairy guys on a farm - is shawn one ??  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Vingatondooda
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 13:46
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I own most of his albums. Some like "Faces" and "Collaboration" are brilliant and probably belong on this site. His music is somewhat singer-song-writerish, but the music is complex. Some of his pieces are very long and accompanied by some of the best fusion players around,like the members Herbie Hancock's Headhunters. ------------- if you are listening in the moon’s shadow is a rock glistening? Have your fields gone fallow? |
Posted By: margaret
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 13:54
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Space is dark it is so endless When you're lost it's so relentless It is so big, it is small |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 14:01
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^ i checked him out on google as your esoteria was unhelpful
excuse my ignorance of this musical behemoth of whom i have been blissfully unaware for 43 years ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: margaret
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 14:03
at least you've been unaware longer than I have  39. -------------
Space is dark it is so endless When you're lost it's so relentless It is so big, it is small |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 14:05
i know you women - we add 5 to that at LEAST ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: margaret
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 14:17
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Space is dark it is so endless When you're lost it's so relentless It is so big, it is small |
Posted By: Melos
Date Posted: October 12 2005 at 15:06
| I heard Collaboration and it seems very folk based... |
Posted By: ThisWas
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 02:43
| FINALLY SOME PEOPLE WHO KNOW OF MR PHILLIPS!! well im only 17 so bear with me please, i own Faces, Second Contribution, Contribution, Collaboration, Furthermore and Shawn Phillips greatest hits on vinyl, well the greatest hits is cd. shawn phillips, i would consider him Folk/Jazz/Rock with a few progressive elements thrown in, his Faces and Second Contribution albums should be on here. He seamlessly blends so many different musical styles into one conglomeration of music, which when you analyze it, to be quite frank, confuses you as to why it works. such as one song where he combines elements of country and blues and what appears to be hawaiin(sp) influences as well. i find his voice to be mesmerizing and absolutely gorgeous. the one downfall is his stuff is incredibly hard to find. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 08:18
| I thought he played for Chelsea! |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 13:48
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shawn phillips is right between harmonium and cat stevens. ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: MoodsWings
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 18:47
| I found Second Contribution at a record show last fall. I think I paid around $12 for it. I think it's a beautiful cd but I really have to be in the right mood to listen to it. |
Posted By: soundsweird
Date Posted: December 10 2005 at 02:17
| Shawn lived in Austin, TX for many years, so I got to talk to him a few times before he moved to South Africa a few years ago (his wife is from there, and wanted to return home). He received a LOT of airplay in the 70's, his albums were well-received critically, A & M Records promoted him well enough that his sales figures were respectable. The reason he has been discarded by today's radio programmers? He never had hit singles. He was always considered an "album artist", and in fact DJ's would usually play an entire side of, say, "Second Contribution", his most popular album. He always put on a great concert, whether he had a band with him or playing solo with a bunch of pre-programmed synths backing him. The last few years in Austin, he played the Cactus Cafe with noted guitarist Van Wilks sitting in on lead. Most of his albums have been reissued on Wounded Bird Records. Prog-Folk might describe his style, but he incorporated many diverse influences, such as jazz, country and even electronic music. He came from Ft. Worth, but most people assumed he was British because of the musicians he worked with and his lyrics. He played sitar on Donovan's early recordings, and taught George Harrison beginning lessons before George learned from Ravi Shankar. This is one guy who deserved much more attention than he ever got. He has a voice like no other, and is a fantastic acoustic and electric guitarist. I would recommend "Second Contribution", "Collaboration", "Faces" and "Furthermore" as his best albums. |