Lou Reed...As His Music Was Meant to Sound!
By Mr. Moderator on Aug 9, 2008
What becomes a sax solo most?
2 comments
Comment from: mac [Member] 
That saxaphone is passable. It works well enough with the jazzy lounge act feel to the song. And I think it follows closer to the early rock saxaphone sound, then later stuff. And its a tenor.
But I think the sax gets a pass too often as a standard rock instrument.
I hate the majority of saxaphone solos in songs from anything later then the early 60's. With a special hatred for alto (and I played alto up through most of college) and soprano sax solos, especially in the 80's. In a chorus of brass they're fine, but solos can destroy a song for me. Anyone that can incorporate alto and/or soprano solos in a rock song and not make it sound like schmaltzy Kenny G, has my props. Tenor and bass saxaphone are a bit different, and can fit in better.
I'm not saying that there aren't good exceptions, but they are few and far between for me.
There are bands that use saxaphone successfully. I have espoused the goodness of Morphine lately, but like the song above, they have that loungey jazz feel to their music.
But I think the sax gets a pass too often as a standard rock instrument.
I hate the majority of saxaphone solos in songs from anything later then the early 60's. With a special hatred for alto (and I played alto up through most of college) and soprano sax solos, especially in the 80's. In a chorus of brass they're fine, but solos can destroy a song for me. Anyone that can incorporate alto and/or soprano solos in a rock song and not make it sound like schmaltzy Kenny G, has my props. Tenor and bass saxaphone are a bit different, and can fit in better.
I'm not saying that there aren't good exceptions, but they are few and far between for me.
There are bands that use saxaphone successfully. I have espoused the goodness of Morphine lately, but like the song above, they have that loungey jazz feel to their music.
08/10/08 @ 10:36
The Oil Tasters were a threesome out of Milwaukee in the early '80s, bass, drums, saxophone...
Hard driving and crunchy, with the sax covering what would have been the guitar range...the most interesting was the way that they generated instrumental harmonies thru the use of high register on the bass, saxophone, and delayed saxophone...
you hardly notice the guitar was missing...great stuff...
Just saw, there's a new cd coming out...
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http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=138702418
Hard driving and crunchy, with the sax covering what would have been the guitar range...the most interesting was the way that they generated instrumental harmonies thru the use of high register on the bass, saxophone, and delayed saxophone...
you hardly notice the guitar was missing...great stuff...
Just saw, there's a new cd coming out...
myspace page with audio clips at:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=138702418
08/10/08 @ 11:41
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