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Gimme Some of that Ol' Atonal Music (Original Post)
trusty elf
Feb 2019
OP
Shit. I can make my guitar music like that. I didn't know there was a name for that style.
3Hotdogs
Feb 2019
#5
Out of gratitude for your NOT posting this in the DU Music Appreciation Thread
rocktivity
Feb 2019
#8
I have never cringed at the sound of a banjo before and now I regret watching that...
DRoseDARs
Feb 2019
#9
LearnedHand
(3,387 posts)1. It's PDQ Bach for bluegrass!
Very clever
billpolonsky
(270 posts)2. Brilliant
Thanks!
klook
(12,154 posts)3. Hilarious!
I happen to like some o the aighaid stuff myself, but this is a scream... thanks!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,377 posts)4. Now, THAT's Grammy material.
Perspective: Who wouldve thought a bluegrass spoof of atonal music would take off on YouTube?
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Music Perspective
Who wouldve thought a bluegrass spoof of atonal music would take off on YouTube?
By Anne Midgette
Classical music critic
February 8
Gimme some of that ol atonal music. It lingers in my ears!
Schoenberg and Alban Berg were the genres pioneers.
Keep your Bach and Chopin, theyre melodic and passe.
Gimme some of that ol atonal music, like Daddy used to play.
If youre a musician, chances are several people have already sent you a YouTube link to a bluegrass video this week. ... (Gimme some of that) Ol Atonal Music, by the singer Merle Hazard, details in sunny and endearing tones a love of atonality, while explaining to newbies what that is (music that isnt in one clear key), and includes the best atonal banjo solo youve ever heard (probably the only atonal banjo solo youve ever heard). That the solo, and the production values, are so good, is no surprise: The soloist and the recordings producer is Alison Brown, one of the leading five-string banjo players in the country. Combine that with a crack backup band, Hazards sweetly earnest delivery and a John Cage spoof thats actually funny, and you have a lot of people laughing at their desks.
Hazard is the nom de guerre of Jon Shayne, a financial manager in Nashville, who, as Hazard, has pioneered a form of comic bluegrass economics on selected videos and Paul Solmans economics segments on the PBS NewsHour. ... Shaynes career as Merle Hazard began in 2007 when he was talking with a friend about the looming economic crisis. Hedge funds crumbled because their real estate assets were crumbling, Shayne said in an interview. We said, This is awful. This is going to be a slow-motion train wreck. This is going to be a festival of moral hazard an economic term meaning that the risks taken by one party (in this case, banks) are borne by another party (in this case, the unfortunate borrowers).
One of us said, That sounds like a country singer, Merle Hazard, Shayne said. I thought, Merle Hazard needs to exist. ... Within three days, he had written H-E-D-G-E, to the tune of D-I-V-O-R-C-E by Tammy Wynette. He recorded and uploaded the song that weekend. By Wednesday or Thursday of the next week, the New York Times had covered it, and it took off, Shayne said. Fun beginners luck.
In the years since, Hazard has become a veritable persona, issuing a track every year or so, including such YouTube hits as Inflation or Deflation and How Long (will interest rates stay low)? H-E-D-G-E is no longer available online; having scrupulously licensed rights to the tune, Shayne eventually got tired of paying the licensing fee every year. His subsequent songs, he says, have been either original material, tunes in the public domain, or legal parody. PBS, however, did license the familiar Never on Sunday, which is the basis for Shaynes The Greek Debt Song, recorded with bouzouki and videotaped in and around, where else, Nashvilles scale model of the Parthenon.
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Anne Midgette came to The Washington Post in 2008, when she consolidated her various cultural interests under the single title of chief classical music critic. She can be found online as The Classical Beat. Follow https://twitter.com/classicalbeat
Who wouldve thought a bluegrass spoof of atonal music would take off on YouTube?
By Anne Midgette
Classical music critic
February 8
Gimme some of that ol atonal music. It lingers in my ears!
Schoenberg and Alban Berg were the genres pioneers.
Keep your Bach and Chopin, theyre melodic and passe.
Gimme some of that ol atonal music, like Daddy used to play.
If youre a musician, chances are several people have already sent you a YouTube link to a bluegrass video this week. ... (Gimme some of that) Ol Atonal Music, by the singer Merle Hazard, details in sunny and endearing tones a love of atonality, while explaining to newbies what that is (music that isnt in one clear key), and includes the best atonal banjo solo youve ever heard (probably the only atonal banjo solo youve ever heard). That the solo, and the production values, are so good, is no surprise: The soloist and the recordings producer is Alison Brown, one of the leading five-string banjo players in the country. Combine that with a crack backup band, Hazards sweetly earnest delivery and a John Cage spoof thats actually funny, and you have a lot of people laughing at their desks.
Hazard is the nom de guerre of Jon Shayne, a financial manager in Nashville, who, as Hazard, has pioneered a form of comic bluegrass economics on selected videos and Paul Solmans economics segments on the PBS NewsHour. ... Shaynes career as Merle Hazard began in 2007 when he was talking with a friend about the looming economic crisis. Hedge funds crumbled because their real estate assets were crumbling, Shayne said in an interview. We said, This is awful. This is going to be a slow-motion train wreck. This is going to be a festival of moral hazard an economic term meaning that the risks taken by one party (in this case, banks) are borne by another party (in this case, the unfortunate borrowers).
One of us said, That sounds like a country singer, Merle Hazard, Shayne said. I thought, Merle Hazard needs to exist. ... Within three days, he had written H-E-D-G-E, to the tune of D-I-V-O-R-C-E by Tammy Wynette. He recorded and uploaded the song that weekend. By Wednesday or Thursday of the next week, the New York Times had covered it, and it took off, Shayne said. Fun beginners luck.
In the years since, Hazard has become a veritable persona, issuing a track every year or so, including such YouTube hits as Inflation or Deflation and How Long (will interest rates stay low)? H-E-D-G-E is no longer available online; having scrupulously licensed rights to the tune, Shayne eventually got tired of paying the licensing fee every year. His subsequent songs, he says, have been either original material, tunes in the public domain, or legal parody. PBS, however, did license the familiar Never on Sunday, which is the basis for Shaynes The Greek Debt Song, recorded with bouzouki and videotaped in and around, where else, Nashvilles scale model of the Parthenon.
....
Anne Midgette came to The Washington Post in 2008, when she consolidated her various cultural interests under the single title of chief classical music critic. She can be found online as The Classical Beat. Follow https://twitter.com/classicalbeat
http://www.merlehazard.com/index.html
3Hotdogs
(12,365 posts)5. Shit. I can make my guitar music like that. I didn't know there was a name for that style.
Last edited Mon Feb 11, 2019, 12:51 AM - Edit history (1)
Do ya think I can make some money off of it?
Response to trusty elf (Original post)
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hatrack
(59,583 posts)7. I think I just wet myself . . .
Thank you!!!!!
rocktivity
(44,573 posts)8. Out of gratitude for your NOT posting this in the DU Music Appreciation Thread
I'm giving you a DU Heart!
rocktivity
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)9. I have never cringed at the sound of a banjo before and now I regret watching that...
Atonal has opened "A Whole New World" of music to me... I'm pushing Aladdin off the flying carpet and then burning it.