Of course, if this were a western orchestra playing arrangements of Classical Rawk you'd think it was shitty.
But what if it were a western orchestra playing arrangements of Magical Power Mako, or Les Rallizes Denudes, or the Far East Family Band or something?
Also, this orchestra did include Western instruments.
But what if it were a western orchestra playing arrangements of Magical Power Mako, or Les Rallizes Denudes, or the Far East Family Band or something?
That would be shit, too.
2: Because it would be shitty. But this was indeed awesome. It would have be awesomer still without the western orchestra. Purity, you know; it's a big deal in Japan.
The Wikipedia Page for this song says,
The song is honored in Montreux by a sculpture along the lake shore (right next to Freddie Mercury's statue) with the band's name, the song title, and the riff in musical notes.
And,
In 1994, in Vancouver, Canada, 1,322 guitarists gathered to play the world-famous riff all at the same time for a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. On Sunday June 3rd, 2007, Kansas City radio station, 99.7 KY beat the previous record with 1,683 guitarists.
What's the problem, man? They're playing a quaint American folk song.
5 Purity, you know
What is an arrangement without a flare gun?
This was indeed awesome, up until the singing. Then it was not.
9: C'mon. Didn't it make you want to hear that song as done in the style of Tibetan throat-singing?
Seriously, the singing rocked. I love how the only person whose body language remotely indicated that they were rocking out was the conductor.
9 gets it almost right. Although even before the singing, I did sort of have moments of, man, this would be so cool if they were *marching* while playing...
The singing irretrievably mars the performance.
re: 7
American? Is that a deliberate piece of trolling?
It's a pretty traditional joke, btw, for guitarists to try to play that riff on just about any stringed instrument they're presented with.
the singing was great in their kabuki voices
and it could be even greater without the western orchestra, yes
i recalled our national instrumental ensemble featuring Saint-Saëns
or the Alexandrov choir singing 'Sweet home Alabama'
or the Alexandrov choir singing 'Sweet home Alabama'
Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
In Soviet Russia home comes to you
Thank you, Gonerill. I actually had a mental image of them singing "Play It All Night Long", because I'd forgotten how the original went.
The singing irretrievably mars the performance.
Don't you mean "irreparably"?
Yat Kha's Tuvan throat-singing version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is probably my favourite cover of that song.
2: Because it would be shitty.
Not a hypothetical. And see the "Customers who bought this item also bought" selections.
On an almost-unrelated note, I was in the car today (second time, annoyed, harried), and "When the Levee Breaks" came on. Jesus is that a good song. I wanted to just sit in the car with the radio turned up way loud - or drive around the block a few times - but Responsible Adulthood intruded. I had to get inside with the groceries.
Youth wept.
JRoth, if you are not driving around in the car with a constant option of playing Zeppelin, at length and loudly if desired, you are not paying attention! To your needs and desires!
2: Because it would be shitty.
Here be the boys old guys themselves rockin' out with the Symph at Royal Albert.
And a potentially more honorable mix of Deep Purple and Orchestra from back in the day. (Although from the Wikipedia article I see that there has been a revival of sorts in recent years.) I... uh ... once knew a guy who owned this, but I don't think he remembered one blessed thing about it as far as I recall.
Speaking of that time period, pretty cool if this is in fact D B Cooper's parachute that was found. Looking for his money is an obsession for some, rivaling the Bigfoot searchers (some of whom focus in the same area) in intensity.
re: 26
Gillan's voice doesn't sound too bad on that considering he's getting on a bit. Mind you, Dio is old enough to be Methuselah's grandfather [and sounds exactly like Jack Black taking the piss].
The best recent orchestral take on 'rock' music is the Joby Talbot arrangement of White Stripes music for the Royal Ballet last year. Which is genuinely great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2_4T4EAO54
[some of the music is on the background to this interview]
Talbot has some sarcastic things to say about classical arrangements of Deep Purple, too.