jakub
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Post by jakub on Feb 19, 2005 8:16:56 GMT -5
AKUS finally updated their website from the "Live look." I think it looks better than the Rounder site. What do you all think?
Jen
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Post by Pessoa_Br on Feb 19, 2005 20:43:47 GMT -5
I think both are ok. I just thing AK´s should be a little better, you know... more often update, more fotos e stuff.
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Post by fiddler494 on Feb 20, 2005 14:10:09 GMT -5
The AKUS site has always looks good (I can't say it has always functioned well after my one-time-only bad experience but others have had no problem ordering from the webi site so it is not a frequent problem) it seems to me.
But I do like this look better. I just noticed the web site has been refreshed or given a new look. I think it looks great, personally.
One thing I did notice, some functions {request, listen, etc on lower right part of menu on right side of web site} are not yet fucntioning. Request. Request a song, performance, tour, ticket, autograph??
The other thing I noticed is the changes in bios. Alison's new bio does not even mention her early career and winning of fiddle contests beginnning at age 12, yet other band members still show the early years info. It seems to me as though she is trying to go totally professional and elliminate the past that got her where she is today. I recall one interview where she said she doesn't like some or many of her older songs. Again that is what got her where she is today, and that sound and those songs are what got me interested in AKUS in the first place, (songs, the sound, instrumentals, vocals, etc). IMHO.
I've noticed since being involved in music myself since 5th grade, that in later years I have noticed after listen years later to various musicians and singers, the instrumental playing usually gets better over time and mellows even if they were great in their early years. I've also noticed (I can't think of any exceptions at the moment to this rule) a rule of mellowing voice with age and experience. No matter what vocals I've listened to, most if not all the vocalists voiced have mellowed, become richer over time and sound better. Some, older age has then made that go the other way again, but those affected are far and few between.
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Post by cadesdad on Feb 20, 2005 15:13:03 GMT -5
I appreciated the comments on how musicians' styles change as they grow older. I know Paul Simon has expressed some embarrassment over some of the songs he wrote in the 1960's. I've read interviews with Phil Collins, in which he says he wishes he had been a less busy drummer in the early days of his career. Knowing that Alison is a perfectionist, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the early stuff makes her wince. I know she waited a long time to make a live CD because she wanted it to sound as good as it possibly could. Obviously, that paid off--the live AKUS CD may be the best live recording I've heard, and when you see them in concert, you realize that it wasn't because of studio tinkering or sweetening.
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Post by fiddler494 on Feb 20, 2005 17:12:21 GMT -5
I appreciated the comments on how musicians' styles change as they grow older. I know Paul Simon has expressed some embarrassment over some of the songs he wrote in the 1960's. I've read interviews with Phil Collins, in which he says he wishes he had been a less busy drummer in the early days of his career. Knowing that Alison is a perfectionist, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the early stuff makes her wince. I know she waited a long time to make a live CD because she wanted it to sound as good as it possibly could. Obviously, that paid off--the live AKUS CD may be the best live recording I've heard, and when you see them in concert, you realize that it wasn't because of studio tinkering or sweetening. Interesting you mention Phil Collins, another one of my all-time favorite musicians. I don't recall the "busy drummer." But I do recall seeing him perform from concert footage played when he was interviewed. My only (and hopefully not last - but it is up to AKUS - not me) experience with AKUS is the GHMT where I was there in person. I feel a bit of afinity with Phil Collins. He was on the "Board of Directors of the World Homeless Foundation or some organization while I worked as a 3rd shift supervisor in North Platte NE in 1994/1995 (and where I also got into bluegrass again , joined jam sessions, played in bars sitting in with bands, etc) at a homeless shelter (and have always like Phil Collins/Genesis). It is where I was first exposed to AKUS and their sound at that time. Personally I feel there is nothing to "apologize for or change as it was a moment in time". That sound is what made me buy (in the moment of time I did in the music and way my life was). Not that I want to go back to North Platte, but the 1995 Now That I found You was the first CD I bought and look how many they sold (double platinum! - a best seller for AKUS!). Compared to their new "attitude"(Cracker Barrel, BodyGuards, very cold policy, etc) and the sound on their latest CD (Loney Runs Both Ways), I don't like every or nearly every song as I have on past CDs. That could mean how much longer (being a fellow musician besides) I am a fan of AKUS and their music. I bought a Don Williams ablum years ago when he was real popular (when his songs were top of the chart, he was in Smokey & The bandit, etc). I went to a show years later and what I read about , he was. Too cold, to stop/start, too professional, too time/song limit. The minute that fans cheered and want an encore, and he remainted the ultra-professional who delivered a canned, cold , and right to the minute-and-second limit set list and would not come out for even one more song, was the day I no longer cared about him, his music, records, or supporting him, his too cold and impersonal sand-/hour glass limiting personality and damn what the fans want attitude. I haven't looked at, care about, would ever puchase, and won't even listen to his music, if a country station goes way back into the old country 1970s era I will turn his song off. I know it won't break AKUS either. But at least I know that due to their reaction, policy, etc, that at least MY MONEY won't flow into their bank accounts. With the newer sound, etc, time, songs, sound, policy, attitude, etc and ultimately AKUS are the ones who determine whether I will buy anything further from them or even if I ever go to an AKUS concert where they are the only act, not like GHMT. From many comments I've seen here of late, I don't know how things will go from here forward.
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Post by BlueGrassBreeze on Feb 23, 2005 13:03:04 GMT -5
Hey all! -Long time no see! The site looks really cool! Very orangeie!! -I like orange! Sorry I haven't been around 4 awhile-I HATE high school!! -EMily
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