I was going to post this on my ?dancing boy? thread, but then I figured nobody would read it, so I started yet another thread, because my inquiring mind has to know the answers to these important questions.
OK, I?m now about 12 CDs into my latest musical addiction and haven?t OD?d yet so I?m going to continue to collect for awhile. The song I can?t stop playing over and over is Tu Vas A Volar by Rubby Perez. That?s right, it?s Rubby, not Ruby for you newcomers, like me. It's on a compilation CD. Should I get some more of his stuff? Man, I like that song. I also got Grupo Man?a and La Makina because they were cheap. That?s all good stuff. I can?t find anything by Carlos Alberti. I see Carlos Alberto. Is that the guy I should be looking for or do I have to dig deeper to find se?or Alberti? I really want to find some old school stuff. Like, I already have a huge ska collection. I like the ska-core rock ?n roll from the nineties, but I also love that genuine early Jamaican stuff from the sixties. When I get hooked on something, I really get hooked.
Most merengue tunes have what sounds like a trumpet line playing in the vocal pauses and it?s fairly common to hear a saxophone-like sound playing a contra-melody. Now, when groups like Grupo Man?a have only four dudes, I assume that all those brass and reed sounds are coming out of an electronic keyboard of some kind. Is that right? Or is there an anonymous group of trumpeters and saxophonists willing to perform, uncredited, on album after album.
OK, so if my assumption about the electronic sounds is correct, how far back do you have to go to find real trumpet and sax instruments on the recordings and who would some of those artists be? Or did they do it all on some kind of accordion or wind organ before the electronics were available?
Thanks. Your help and suggestions are always appreciated.
st louis mike
never too busy to ask a question, or two, or twenty
OK, I?m now about 12 CDs into my latest musical addiction and haven?t OD?d yet so I?m going to continue to collect for awhile. The song I can?t stop playing over and over is Tu Vas A Volar by Rubby Perez. That?s right, it?s Rubby, not Ruby for you newcomers, like me. It's on a compilation CD. Should I get some more of his stuff? Man, I like that song. I also got Grupo Man?a and La Makina because they were cheap. That?s all good stuff. I can?t find anything by Carlos Alberti. I see Carlos Alberto. Is that the guy I should be looking for or do I have to dig deeper to find se?or Alberti? I really want to find some old school stuff. Like, I already have a huge ska collection. I like the ska-core rock ?n roll from the nineties, but I also love that genuine early Jamaican stuff from the sixties. When I get hooked on something, I really get hooked.
Most merengue tunes have what sounds like a trumpet line playing in the vocal pauses and it?s fairly common to hear a saxophone-like sound playing a contra-melody. Now, when groups like Grupo Man?a have only four dudes, I assume that all those brass and reed sounds are coming out of an electronic keyboard of some kind. Is that right? Or is there an anonymous group of trumpeters and saxophonists willing to perform, uncredited, on album after album.
OK, so if my assumption about the electronic sounds is correct, how far back do you have to go to find real trumpet and sax instruments on the recordings and who would some of those artists be? Or did they do it all on some kind of accordion or wind organ before the electronics were available?
Thanks. Your help and suggestions are always appreciated.
st louis mike
never too busy to ask a question, or two, or twenty
