my next cd. 
Joke? 
Just another New Age “Celtic” group making elevator music.
djm
No, djm. This is a “genre-busting Celtic boy band.” Says so. 
hey, just because they use a base guitar doesn’t make their music bad. 
I agree. Its the synths that turn my stomach. 
djm
yeah, and an evil fiddle, and a vile bouzouki… 
Ach, yez are bit hard on the poor fella, aren’t yez? Sure it could be a lot worse:
Poor amar 
! It seems like these guys can play their instruments and at least there’s no guitar player whanging away wildly at chords. At this point I’ll take bass, if I have to have either, having just recently witnessed a particularly enthusiastic guitarist who was positively raving at some points.
I think I am just one who doesn’t like my genres mixed, let alone busted—it’s the same way I eat, I finish one thing on my plate before eating the next. I don’t plan it that way, it just happens. On that Eilidh’s Reel, for example, the way it started out (I guess that is funk), well that music is fine, I like it, but when it changed into a reel (or whatever happened there) it actually made me feel sick—no offense to the band, really—it’s like it physically upset my whole body. It was kind like mixing my peas with my spaghetti if you see what I mean.
It doesn’t seem like that reviewer that called them a “boy band” was doing them any favors though.
You know when you get dizzy from turning one way too long, you spin the other way to get your balance back?
Well, here you go: BuĂon Cheoil Learphoil
Is it me, or does the fiddle player on the left seem uncomfortable with that tune. Or is it his suit that makes him look uncomfortable?
It’s the orchestra of ladies in full ballgowns that makes me drift into a fixed gaze…
I think it’s ballsy to play the Irish Washerwoman. And the guy on the left probably is enough of a musician to realize that he sounds like a doofus trying to play Irish. But then again, Yehudi Menuhin didn’t seem to notice, so there’s no telling. Oh, and he wanted to come in at the wrong time, too.
The bearded one is John Sheahan of the Dubliners.
A very accomplished fiddle and whistle player when he puts his mind to it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whN8iQ9PzGc
The video is a bit out of synch but you’ll get the idea.
Slan,
D.
I noticed that too.
I couldn’t listen to Amar’s post because myspace is blocked.
My tastes have been called dubious, but I’m with amar. I love fusion
and genre-bending. I even like Scissor Sisters, for Pete’s sake.
A band in a similar vein is The Prodigals. Their bassist is incredible;
he slaps out the melody of the Open Reel on his bass guitar. It’s
crazy. No one who has responded to this thread should probably
even think about listening. But amar might enjoy it.
Sheahan’s own The Impish Hornpipe sounded great on Danú’s DVD. I wouldn’t trust André Rioux to interpret a dinner menu.
Thankfully, YouTube can also be depended on for a touch of sanity, and even from time to time, divinity: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6J8X5TlKpx8
djm
I fixed the link, djm.
Wow. Youtube is great. I hope Google doesn’t neuter it!
Someone call a doctor, I just stabbed my eyes out with my coffee mug
whoa…well…not bad, but not quite my cup of whisky.
And… the piccolo sounded out of tune to me. Was it just bad audio?