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2I chose electric, because it seems like the one where he was most dominant...
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4On The Corner is the only Miles record I own or even want to own anymore, but I wanna say that this period of Miles' career is to blame for so much horrid music that it's actually more offensive than that shit from the 80s.Steve V. wrote:Electric Miles because it gave us On the Corner AND Bitches Brew.
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5gotta be one of the toughest choices I've seen here at the EA, Chicago Italia. Maybe I'm just too much of a fan boy from the past 28 or so years of listening to the guy.
I love the "Workin'/Cookin'/Steamin'/Relaxin'" stuff (Prestige years) for different reasons than the Gil Evans material where my favorite is probably "Miles Ahead". The 2nd quintet material is in another league on many levels...so hard to pick one era. I have less of the electric stuff because I gravitate much more towards the bop material since it's my history as a listener and performer.
If pressed I would pick the Prestige stuff, I guess. The performances, the other members of the band and what Miles was able to coax outa them, the quality of the Hackensack recordings...desert island stuff there.
I think the difficulty of the pick is the mark of the man's genius at composition, arrangement, and band leader.
I love the "Workin'/Cookin'/Steamin'/Relaxin'" stuff (Prestige years) for different reasons than the Gil Evans material where my favorite is probably "Miles Ahead". The 2nd quintet material is in another league on many levels...so hard to pick one era. I have less of the electric stuff because I gravitate much more towards the bop material since it's my history as a listener and performer.
If pressed I would pick the Prestige stuff, I guess. The performances, the other members of the band and what Miles was able to coax outa them, the quality of the Hackensack recordings...desert island stuff there.
I think the difficulty of the pick is the mark of the man's genius at composition, arrangement, and band leader.
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6electric, easily...i almost started to say i'd use the phrase "On the Corner" era but then there's Jack Johnson! fuck! all that shit's great anyway...
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7Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:On The Corner is the only Miles record I own or even want to own anymore, but I wanna say that this period of Miles' career is to blame for so much horrid music that it's actually more offensive than that shit from the 80s.
hey! it's fallacious to say something that's GREAT is to blame for the shit that followed...blame the makers of the so much horrid music themselves, Miles certainly didn't make it...
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8...but his sidemen didrobert thefamilyghost wrote:blame the makers of the so much horrid music themselves, Miles certainly didn't make it...
IN YR FACE, BIOTCH!
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9Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:IN YR FACE, BIOTCH!
in Chick Corea's face!
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10Dude had what, one or two good records before he hit the shit fan?robert thefamilyghost wrote:Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:IN YR FACE, BIOTCH!
in Chick Corea's face!
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