I am sure most of this forum can appreciate this for whatb it is. It's not JUST doo-wop and bigband devotees here!
Thank you for recognizing that Diki ... I for one personally enjoyed listening to this and would listen to more, even if I had to PAY to hear it!!! ... what some people fail to - or refuse to - realize (and I'm NOT pointing fingers, chas) is that many of the players here had/have careers in music that cover MANY genres, but due to a myriad of different circumstances may now be primarily OMB performers who STILL love to listen to (if not play) various types of music ...
Marco Parisi apparently is an EXCELLENT player - above and beyond many (most???) of us here, and I agree with chas that hardly any of us would attempt to demonstrate this type of music here on S-Z - because it is just 'not our thing' ... but I strongly disagree with chas that we are
lost forever in a musical time warp ...
For those of you who DO play funk, why not give the rest of us a treat and let us hear your stuff? ...
I for one have heard some of chas' playing and would certainly LOVE to hear more ...
And, as I recently stated in another thread, while demos such as this show the capabilities of a KB, I would still like to hear more demos of the type of music that would be played in the 'mainstream' ... and by 'mainstream' I do NOT mean senior gigs/NH/etc. ...
For example, last Friday nite I played in the outdoor patio of an upscale restaurant in Providence, which I've worked many times before ... the crowd is usually a 'listen to' Sinatra/standards/bossas type crowd ... Friday from about 10PM on there was a group of mostly mid 30's to 50's male/female who wanted more lively/dance music ... for the last 1 1/2 to 2 hours I answered requests from 'doo-wop' to Motown to Barry White to Earth, Wind, and Fire ... Those are the types of music I would like to hear on KB demos ...
And yes, for SOME of those requests I used SMFs because not much else would have satisfied the audience or ME ...
BTW - I got some real good comments from the audience, the staff AND the owners ...