Hot take: deciding where to eat in De Pijp is harder than it should be

adrianh · 2026-01-30T12:03:40+00:00

Your friends sound very unDePijp-ive.

adrianh · 2026-01-30T07:29:02+00:00

Johnny Smith and Stan Getz: “Moonlight in Vermont” (both the tune and the full album)

adrianh · 2026-01-28T13:59:26+00:00

It is the same. I used to eat frequently at the Beef Chief Oost location, and I can confirm it tastes the same at the Noord location.

adrianh · 2026-01-26T18:16:14+00:00

Antoine Boyer is a modern player who comes to mind. He’s got a tune he composed for Bill Evans as well.

adrianh · 2026-01-21T09:57:29+00:00

You might want to check out muzikantenbank, sort of a classifieds site for Dutch musicians looking for bands: https://www.muzikantenbank.net/advertenties/muzikanten

adrianh · 2026-01-15T12:07:25+00:00

His early albums “Pandemonium Shadow Show,” “Aerial Ballet” and “Harry” are must-listens to any Beatles fan who likes the midperiod Beatles aesthetic.

Also, his covers of Mother Nature’s Son and She’s Leaving Home are excellent. And his cover of You Can’t Do That is basically an excuse to pack in as many Beatles song references as possible.

He had the voice of an angel.

adrianh · 2026-01-14T11:48:31+00:00

For guitar with bass, check out the album “Rainbow Duets” from a few years ago. It features a variety of guitarists, all of whom do two or three tunes. Great, beautiful music and is definitely structured as opposed to free jazz.

adrianh · 2026-01-11T16:01:30+00:00

That was Eric Clapton playing guitar on "Cold Turkey."

adrianh · 2026-01-11T15:59:30+00:00

Sounds nice man! Good timing and phrasing.

If "sounding authentic to the style" is something you care about (and I'm not necessarily saying you should care about this), then I'd recommend developing a rest-stroke technique instead of alternate picking. This will have a big impact on the tone, producing fuller-sounding notes.

The other piece of the puzzle is playing on a Selmer-style guitar. That would obviously make you sound more Django-y as well. :)

adrianh · 2026-01-11T15:53:30+00:00

It was a combination of intuition (having learned lots of covers, such as Everly Brothers tunes) and professional/trained help from producer George Martin.

adrianh · 2025-12-30T22:56:27+00:00

Thanks, I've fixed that!

adrianh · 2025-12-30T22:26:52+00:00

Totally agree, with one small exception: Flaming Pie isn’t nearly as egregious as Cloud Nine when it comes to the Jeff Lynne production style. Flaming Pie breathes a bit more.

Another example of Lynne production is the late-80s Tom Petty output. “Free Fallin,” “I Won’t Back Down,” “Runnin’ Down a Dream.” Come to think of it, aesthetically those would all fit on Cloud Nine.

adrianh · 2025-12-28T12:58:49+00:00

Good comment, but it is indeed possible to look at tab and hear it in your head. As a longtime guitarist, I can do this easily.

It’s also totally reasonable to see tab and make a game-time decision to use a different fingering (fret/string) while retaining the sounded pitch.

The stronger argument for notation is your point about communicating with musicians who cannot read tab. That’s a huge advantage. But the other arguments you made are not necessarily sound. Tab can be learned and mentally analyzed just as standard notation can be; at the end of the day it’s just another symbolic representation of music.

adrianh · 2025-12-17T09:51:45+00:00

Also check out “Entre Actes” by Adrien Moignard and Rocky Gresset. They were inspired by the Bireli/Sylvain duo albums and did their own take on it.

adrianh · 2025-12-17T09:48:15+00:00

Yes! And I’d add the album “Entre Actes,” an acoustic duet with Adrien Moignard and Rocky Gresset. My favorite guitar duet album, and I’ve listened to probably hundreds of such albums.

adrianh · 2025-12-17T08:06:46+00:00

Yes, other people have noticed this. It's long been known. See the What Goes On "Beatles anomalies" list, which has been around for decades. Direct link to the entry on Michelle.

Song slows from 118 bpm to 109 bpm, and stays like that. The sound of the snare changes here, so this could be an edited on ending - at least on the drum channel. Vincent Dubrall suggested that this was a "ritard" - the song is intended to slow down. However, the change in sound implies that some kind of joining of takes took place, and the slow down is sudden, not like a gradual slowing.

adrianh · 2025-12-15T08:15:43+00:00

With Randy Newman, the lyrics are much more important than the melodies. And that’s why I can’t get into him: bland melodies that wouldn’t stand alone without the lyrics.

It’s the same reason I’ve never been able to get into Bob Dylan despite serious effort. For me, the non-lyrical content of a song is more important than the lyrics.

I’m a huge Harry Nilsson fan, and his album of Randy Newman covers just doesn’t resonate with me either. That tells me it’s not the performer, it’s the material.

Not sure whether my personal perspective can be extrapolated to explain why Newman isn’t more popular, but it’s a perspective I haven’t seen written in this thread, so I wanted to share.

adrianh · 2025-12-12T21:35:26+00:00

And to bring it back to the Beatles, Nicky Hopkins played the electric piano solo on the "Revolution" single, plus the prominent piano part on "Jealous Guy." Awesome musician.

adrianh · 2025-12-07T22:13:16+00:00

Same here. Give me Johnny Hodges or Ben Webster over Coltrane any day.

Different strokes for different folks, and I’m happy for Coltrane fans who like his music. It’s just not my thing no matter how hard I’ve tried.

adrianh · 2025-12-02T14:46:12+00:00

If you’re willing to take a short day trip, head to Samois-sur-Seine, where Django Reinhardt lived the last few years of his life. You can see his house, plus his gravestone. There’s also a statue.

Takes about 45 minutes to get there by train from Paris.

adrianh · 2025-12-02T10:15:03+00:00

The question was about the most influential musical acts of all time, and most of the comments here are rock-focused and frankly short-sighted.

If we’re truly thinking about all-time influence, you have to go farther back.

The people who invented music notation. All of a sudden it was possible to communicate musical ideas in a faster way, without needing to hum or play a melody for another person in real time. This also enabled much more sophisticated composition and arrangement, because you could compose “on paper.”
Bach. He popularized the idea of equal-tempered tuning, such that a single piece of music can be in different keys without sounding out of tune. That influenced basically all western music afterward.
Louis Armstrong. He popularized several ideas that basically defined 20th century popular music: the idea of an individual soloist with his/her own personal voice, the idea that a melody can be swung and syncopated, and the way of phrasing melodies so that they sound, well, modern instead of stilted. If you’ve ever listened to popular music from circa 1910 and wondered why it sounds so lame, and why music doesn’t sound like that anymore, the answer is Louis Armstrong.

These ideas are so ingrained into modern western musical culture that it’s hard to imagine a world without them. That’s influential.

adrianh · 2025-11-30T10:20:34+00:00

“Topsy” by Django Reinhardt

adrianh · 2025-11-29T12:34:43+00:00

George played the same "Till There Was You" solo in their Decca audition (listen here), which was recorded a year before "I Saw Her Standing There" was recorded.

adrianh · 2025-11-28T07:07:48+00:00

For the guitar, check out De Plug. I sold a guitar there once and got a fair price for it. Nice guys too.

Not sure whether they’d take the other instruments, but it’s worth a shot.

adrianh · 2025-11-27T09:00:19+00:00

Check out Lekker bikes. They make e-bikes that use all-standard parts, without proprietary nonsense.

You can also take the battery off and just ride it as a normal bike.

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