Violinists

Mick · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:01 am

Who are some guys/girls who can really do wonderful things with this instrument? I normally don't like the violin, because a lot of it sounds kinda contrived, but hot diggety damn Warren Ellis is the one of the best violinists in rock music. Add and discuss...

Finch Platte · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:58 am

You might try the Dixie Dregs- they're a fusion of a lot of different styles: jazz, rock, bluegrass, country pickin', etc. A guy named Allan Sloan was playing fiddle with them for the first couple of discs, then later, Mark O'Connor joined ( http://www.markoconnor.com/ ).
Good stuff- they're great musicians. I made a compilation a while back of my favorite tunes, if you want to hear it, PM me.

AllMusic: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... i5jg74r~T1

fp

Slosh · **Joined:** Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:21 pm **Posts:** 51

Andrew Bird is the first name that comes to mind.

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

If anyone says Boyd Tinsley, I will skull fuck them.

Laurie Anderson - Big Science
Intriguing performance/conceptual art rock

Lisa Germano - Happiness or Geek the Girl
just good songwriting. Or check out her playing on Mellencamp's Lonesome Jubilee

Tracy Bonham is so-so, but she beats the snot out of Tinsley

Ashley MacIsaac - Hi How are You today?
Fucking AMAZING album. Traditional/Celtic/Funk/Fusion/Pop

Jazz and/or classical

Stephane Grappelli- Violins No End (Stephane with Stuff Smith)
Also, any Quintet of the Hot Club of France recordings you can get your hands feature him with Django Reinhardt. Not great quality recordings but it was before WWII, and the performances are quite extraordinary, especially when you consider that Reinhardt's fretting hand was disfigured in his youth (those gypsies and their fires...) and he only had the use of two fingers and a thumb. Guy did more with that then i can do with all ten, and I practice every day, I promise.

Nigel Kennedy- The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) = best recorded performance of this classical top 40 EVER. He takes wickedly fast tempos that pissed off alot of classical folks. Fuck them. This rocks. They're just pissed cause they can't play as fast and as clean as he can, and they can't make this dead horse of a piece sound 2% as alive as he does. He also plays jazz and rock, check out his album Plays Jazz, or his album East meets East that he put out with some Polish folk musicians. If more classical musicians had his kind of individualism, maybe the fucking concert halls wouldn't be empty, and maybe orchestras wouldn't be going under.

Kronos Quartet - where to start? Jeezus, these guys follow no rules at all. Just go to Barnes and Noble (they have that red dot system right?) and start listening to clips from any album you can get your hands on and within a half hour you'll have a good 3-4 discs you'll want to buy right there. This is the string quartet that did that fuzzed out Purple Haze that Apple used in an ad. They recorded that back in 85 I believe.

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:55 pm

epa Wrote:

If anyone says Boyd Tinsley, I will skull fuck them.

Is it me, or does this dude sound out of tune half the time he's playing?

Anyway, here's a track from violinist Jenny Scheinman's new album, 12 Songs: Moe Hawk
She's the violinist of choice for Bill Frisell the past few years, and he guests on this album as well.

Let's not forget about David Cross (uh, not Arrested Development's David Cross!) of the 1972-74 King Crimson: Exiles, live in Heidelberg, March 29, 1974 (from an official bootleg.)

tentoze · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:09 pm

Steve Wickham from Fisherman's Blues-era Waterboys
Fairport Convention's Ric Sanders

Vanlandingham · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:10 pm

Slosh Wrote:

Andrew Bird is the first name that comes to mind.

Just what I was thinking

Aural Fixation · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:22 pm

Owen Pallett, who tours with Arcade Fire, is pretty damn cool. He sometimes opens for them as "Final Fantasy".

daystar · **Joined:** Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:14 pm **Posts:** 3298

miri bin-ari
'the hip hop violinist'

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

Mot, no hoople Wrote:

epa Wrote:

If anyone says Boyd Tinsley, I will skull fuck them.

Is it me, or does this dude sound out of tune half the time he's playing?

If you're implying that he's in tune half of the time, you're being very kind to him.

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:20 pm

My personal favourite fiddle player is Natalie MacMaster. But she plays this stuff that sounds Celtic, yet is not (it's from up somewhere in Canada). If you like excellent musicianship, and do not mind this music, I would highly recommend.

Classical: Hilary Hahn.

The fact that both of these are hotties has nothing to do with anything.

Finch Platte · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:53 pm

Dusty Chalk Wrote:

My personal favourite fiddle player is Natalie MacMaster. But she plays this stuff that sounds Celtic, yet is not (it's from up somewhere in Canada). If you like excellent musicianship, and do not mind this music, I would highly recommend.

Classical: Hilary Hahn.

The fact that both of these are hotties has nothing to do with anything.

[img][403:500]http://www.nac-cna.ca/media/naco_0506/photos/hilary_hahn.jpg[/img]

God, no kidding. Nat's not bad, but Hilary- mmmmmm. :twisted:

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seafoam · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:57 pm

epa Wrote:

Jazz and/or classical

Nigel Kennedy- The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) = best recorded performance of this classical top 40 EVER. He takes wickedly fast tempos that pissed off alot of classical folks. Fuck them. This rocks. They're just pissed cause they can't play as fast and as clean as he can, and they can't make this dead horse of a piece sound 2% as alive as he does. He also plays jazz and rock, check out his album Plays Jazz, or his album East meets East that he put out with some Polish folk musicians. If more classical musicians had his kind of individualism, maybe the fucking concert halls wouldn't be empty, and maybe orchestras wouldn't be going under.

and that is why I bought this recording way back then, and my mother looked at me perplexed and pleased, and now, many years out of the house I still play it often

bluejayway · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:02 am

Mekons!

The answer to so many of lifes nagging questions.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

I'm surprised no one mentioned John Cale yet.

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

we were waiting for you!

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

oh yeah...

gentleman. May I present Lara St. John

tentoze · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:43 am

epa Wrote:

oh yeah...

gentleman. May I present Lara St. John

It's probably because I'm still half-asleep, but jeez, that looks close to kiddie-quorn.

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

She was in her early 20's on that shot.

www.larastjohn.com

have fun.

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

tentoze Wrote:

It's probably because I'm still half-asleep, but jeez, that looks close to kiddie-quorn.

is that like candy-quorn, or quorn on the cob?

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:48 pm

Dirty Three's Warren Ellis

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:01 pm

epa Wrote:

tentoze Wrote:

It's probably because I'm still half-asleep, but jeez, that looks close to kiddie-quorn.

is that like candy-quorn, or quorn on the cob?

No.

Quorn-nuts.

bluejayway · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:22 pm

billy g Wrote:

I'm surprised no one mentioned John Cale yet.

Does he ever ditch the viola for a violin? I always associate him with the more masculine tone of the viola.

<--- didn't mention john cale because she was being a pedantic pain in the arse

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