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best miles davis period:
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:08 pm
by bourbon_Archive
Kill whitey!
best miles davis period:
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:07 pm
by madlee_Archive
I chose electric, because it seems like the one where he was most dominant...
best miles davis period:
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:25 pm
by Steve V_Archive
Electric Miles because it gave us On the Corner AND Bitches Brew.
best miles davis period:
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:29 pm
by Christopher J McGarvey_Archive
Steve V. wrote:Electric Miles because it gave us On the Corner AND Bitches Brew.
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.
best miles davis period:
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:52 pm
by djimbe_Archive
gotta 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.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:52 pm
by robert thefamilyghost_Archive
electric, 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...
best miles davis period:
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:59 pm
by robert thefamilyghost_Archive
Christopher 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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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:14 pm
by Christopher J McGarvey_Archive
robert thefamilyghost wrote:blame the makers of the so much horrid music themselves, Miles certainly didn't make it...
...but his sidemen did
IN YR FACE, BIOTCH!
best miles davis period:
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:20 pm
by robert thefamilyghost_Archive
Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:IN YR FACE, BIOTCH!
in Chick Corea's face!
best miles davis period:
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:22 pm
by Christopher J McGarvey_Archive
robert thefamilyghost wrote:Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:IN YR FACE, BIOTCH!
in Chick Corea's face!
Dude had what, one or two good records before he hit the shit fan?