Old Guy REACTS to SNARKY PUPPY LINGUS | Composers POV

hey how's it going all right i'm going to pull the emergency parachute going down the tool rabbit hole for a second slow it down i do have some great tool coming i've also got some ginger that i've been checking out and some great rock prague musicians from norway and poland and and everywhere so hang on um in the meantime i'm going to do a reaction in a style of music that i'm familiar with uh the band is called snarky puppy the song is called lingus this is this is going to be a fairly long reaction because the song itself is kind of long the reason why i'm really familiar with this style of music is as a kid i was brought up in the music industry as most of you know my uncle was a co-founder keyboardist and a writer for a latin jazz fusion band under capital records called caldera and so the roots of who i am even as a composer now stems from that those kind of poly rhythm unique changes and and powerful jazz fusion kind of arrangements has affected me in my life and doing what i do good better and different let me get my technical stuff together let's get this snarky puppy lingus going i will do the best i can to not stop so many times so we can get into the music and then you know and then i might leave a clump reaction but so that you guys have a good time to listening to the music while i'm doing what i'm doing doing so stand by uh here we go [Music] hey [Music] uh [Music] fun face look at that [Music] hey [Music] uh [Music] okay my first stop stand by here we go okay what a crazy funk mothership [Laughter] first thing is that everybody here seems to be having just an amazing time that is so obvious in the body movement the funk faces and all the uh stuff that we got going on here okay something that um i want to kind of marry in for those of us who don't come from my point of view as a composer or an engineer and we are treated like you folks a lot of you who just listen to music to enjoy it and love it to such a deep and rich sound as we're hearing here not often do we see three guitarists it looks like there's like four or five keyboardists um one bass player i hear the percussion and um i hear multiple arrangements and doubling of arrangements with the keys and stuff um i also hear doubling and i've seen you know you can see it that's what's really great about this so far it's like i'm doing a reaction video of a reaction video uh because of the people that are inside there who are reacting to it as well as they cut to but they're also cutting to the fact that when you hear the bass player do is you know you've got he cuts two you can see that the keyboard player is doing it sonically anybody who's tuned into it in your in the cans that are musicians or engineers you can hear you know the mini movies going with the bass um the horn section wow i mean that is really tight i'm sure we're in for a real treat as this moves forward as an engineer i want to let you know in my opinion it's always just my opinion but i have done uh direct to dvd and other projects before you know they record this live as is being done and then they will remix it later um i can't imagine trying to get this great of a sound on the first time fly recorded straight to dvd it's not impossible and if the engineers or people who have more information about this please chime in i do not know everything i love to learn things so i don't ever want to misstate something by saying i know but there's probably a good chance it was remixed which means that they have the ability to uh really position and level up that so you have a sonic presentation hence the song that's being performed um so i'm gonna move forward now try to do a nice big chunk without saying anything and uh and just enjoy this as much as you are the poly rhythms are really super cool uh if you're listening to this if you're still here listening to this and you're um you know one of my uh friends that dropped comments from the tool rabbit hole as we like to say in the tool army you guys really enjoy the poly rhythms as a matter of fact that's that's the tool game um so far it's good i think we're in for a treat um so let me just stop yappering and shouldn't be drinking so much coffee before i do this stuff okay here we go you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna bring it back a little bit standby i had a few comments that people are saying hey man if you're gonna make stops you should drop it back so we can pick up [Music] [Music] [Applause] hello [Music] there you go [Music] okay another stop stand by okay i know you saw me writing notes it's because i want to try to do these in bigger chunks instead of stopping all the time um okay first thing is oh i'm so glad they cut away uh to the percussionist it's probably everybody here is an equal in a band like this okay uh but the percussionist uh very rarely gets a lot of the spotlight i mean it's just the way it's been you know my dad did arrangements for percussionists back in the late 50s a guy named mazakote who was a percussionist it was about him and the percussions were out in front and ben was in supporting but in 99.8 percent of the time the percussionist is off next to the drummer off to the side and stuff and you know gets love occasionally with a solo please when you listen to the section of that section when it moves forward listen to how much is going on back there his support with the percussion support that's the key word that lent itself to um this rhythmic ceremonial ritual i like to say you guys have heard me say that that is uh so so important so tight percussionist i don't know who you are i i see you i hear you thank you horn second you saw me taking notes okay um the horns when they did their solo for those of you who don't know you say why did the saxophone or the trumpet sound that way um a lot of times horn players especially more pop culture progressive progressive jazz fusion kind of work they'll have a stunt pad or stomp pedals like guitar players they might kick in a phase or a flange or a delay i believe that's what they did it could have happened in post i don't know um so and the solos i just can't i can't say enough about brass solos me as a guitar player i like to study um brass reed musicians for solos there's a whole different reason for that but i have a very uh big sweet spot for brass and read musicians when they do their solos one guy i used to always listen to is a guy named steve travagolone which i'm sure most of you know who he is was a genius or is a genius alive and so anyhow i digress i'm sorry i'm just pumped for this i'm going to go back just a little bit we're going to restart it and i can see if i can get another big fat chunk without having to say anything so here we go stand by the drummer there we go okay let's try this [Music] i love that [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] um there's a low piano and a bass locked in with that kick [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] now we reacted the same way [Music] directing the same [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] okay i gotta stop in here yeah pretty much you can see in the background that's when you're applauding that's you know an incredible solo and a performance there's no toys about it that solo was just magical um what i loved about the solo technically you know if if if you are a musician into the level that you can understand what he's doing how he's doing it you know the the intensity um is undoubtedly phenomenal his skill what i loved about it is at the beginning of the solo the improv god was definitely coming through his soul and his presence the physical him playing was just as wonderful as the playing like he was really just out there looking he wasn't looking at his hands he wasn't being drilled down in tents about what he was about to start to perform or how he was making the moves um i know some people have an opinion about this i am you know the super fast playing and of all instruments you know is definitely a sign of many years of skill and training but the the arrangement riffing in between the things that that actually require um a polyrhythmic way of playing the solo to me is a lot more pulling to the soul because you know when you start doing all the fast runs and stuff like that you're subjugated to you know doing arpeggiations and stuff those are really nice in doses um but in this case i loved left right combo does this are you kidding me i i can barely play chopsticks with my left hand and watching this is just intense the reaction of everybody let me see i was writing some stuff down here the reaction of everybody is a telltale sign i'm sure you probably responded the same way i did and watching everybody just lose their mind there's a little section in there where you can see the guys in the control room losing their mind they're just out of their head and it looks like they're bouncing around and jumping because they're in the control room and their actions wouldn't be picked up by the live mics that you have going on here which is another thing that's so cool is to have all these people here um listening to it in real time uh so i'm gonna move on did i have anything else oh at the very beginning when i restarted that when the drummer was holding down those quarter notes what i love about that and that is kind of like a readjustment of all the polyrhythmic gears even though they're playing multiple uh rhythms and stuff and it brought let's just say the pop listener ear into 4 4 to kind of get it ready for something you know i've said this before on a tool video that dana carey did um danny kerry sorry and um to kind of retune kind of cleanse the rhythmical palette before the next you know adventure anyhow so i'm not going to say anything for the rest of this i'm sure most of you have already split anyhow but hey an okay here we go [Music] [Music] ah [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so cool look at these guys the trumpet players putting this kid you know this trumpet down he's gone this is a piece of work oh my goodness no wonder they're killing it 24 million views as of me doing this so there's a reason for that let me stop this oh yes celebrate him celebrating everybody percussionist you two just can't say enough about the everybody as a whole in this performance let me stop the video stand by [Applause] then let me just hit stop here on this thing really quick all right um incredible musicianship totally excited that 24 million views which means back in the days when my uncle's band was out or in the 70s or in the days of jazz fusion and or latin fusion or any kind of jazz fusion had a hard time breaking out because record labels were like yeah we have a department for that but we're really focusing on the trump big um pop market big sales you know there were some great you know king crimson weather report on and on and on and on and on and um but to see this what i love about this as an old decomposer is the fact that 24 million you that's what youtube and technology has done for music as much as it's destroyed the business model of music it has expanded the the the possibilities of people finding music and we don't want to get into a music business argument about that but the fact that the world is so much more willing wanting to be loaded with wonderful music this is a great example of it and so uh snarky puppy lingus um i'm learning a little bit about the band and their band name so the next time uh the members names and the next time i do this i can be a little more respectful instead of saying that guy this guy this guy that guy anyhow if you're still here i'm totally amazed nonetheless um snarky puppy lingus everybody in there is just epic keyboard player oh my god um that's it all right oh yeah oyster and the half lung sorry guys um got some more great stuff coming thanks for hanging out all right see ya

Channel: Key of Geebz

Views: 301,160

Keywords: snarky puppy reactions, snarly puppy lingus, Jazz, Funk, Jazz fusion, Pop music, Rock, World music, Michael League, Bill Laurance, Bobby Sparks II, Justin Stanton, Shaun Martin, Bob Lanzetti, Mark Lettieri, Chris McQueen, Mike Maz Maher, Jay Jennings, Chris Bullock, Nate Werth, Marcelo Woloski, Keita Ogawa, Larnell Lewis, Michael Harrison, Cory Henry, funk fusion music, funk rock band, reaction videos, composers reactions, caldera music, we like it here dvd

Id: EdJF0nttZc0

Length: 21min 57sec (1317 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 29 2020