Lunasa concert last Saturday evening

Whistle
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Chris, I forgot to give a nod towards your comment about James McNally’s CD. I was so disturbed by it that I started the “Is whistle a New Age Instrument” thread. I picked it up on ebay so my overall waiste of money was 6.00. I’m scared of him now. I think the 3rd Afro Celt cd is good but not great.

There is a way to do New Age right, at least I think so. Davy Spillane can walk that line and pull it off, at least I think so. Even then he can cross the border. For me a perfect “New Age” record is Michael Hedges “Taproot” which has a bit of whistle on it. I’m not sure New Age fans would consider this record “New Age” though. It’s the old label thing again.

Just wanted to add that in.

Cheers

Edited to add, So how does a great artist loose control in the studio? I can understand on stage, but he credits himself with the programming and writting so…granted I wasn’t there so I can’t say what happend but I think he still could have pulled it through better then he did.

[ This Message was edited by: jackorion on 2002-03-13 01:36 ]

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Man, I’d give away all my whistles to have Lunasa come over here just once…(sigh)

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On 2002-03-12 16:48, ChrisLaughlin wrote:
about a year ago Kevin decided to teach Donogh and Trevor how to really play the whistle.

Chris,

Unless you’ve got hard evidence on that, it sounds suspiciously like another one of Kevin’s wild stories. He’ll say anything to get a laugh.

At least, in the summer of 2000 I saw Donogh bring his whistle to a top-notch all-pro session, and he didn’t seem to have any trouble keeping up. And a couple of nights later he confirmed that he’d written Goodbye Miss Goodavich – not the easiest tune in the world – on whistle. He plays whistle a couple of times on the albums as well.

I think the only reason he doesn’t play whistle in concert is that he’s more needed on guitar.

Trevor, on the other hand… who knows?

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Colomon -
That’s great info. I stand happily corrected :slight_smile: You never quite know with Kevin do you? Anyways, the moral of the whole story is that they are all fantastic musicians and great guys.
Thanks for setting me straight.
Chris