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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 17 Oct 2018 6:05 am    
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I’ve started arranging and recording demos for my next CD, which will be a tribute to the music of Horace Silver and a little more focused on my Soul, Blues and Jazz leanings.

This is Juicy Lucy. It’s a steel guitar party pretty much—since I’m playing all the tracks on the demos, why not? Anyway, they are just part of the process of me getting to know the tunes better and finding out what works and what doesn’t. I used the wah in the first two choruses to get a more vocal like quality, since I was pretending to be Marvin Gaye,

https://soundcloud.com/user-708420441/juicy-lucy-mike-neer-comp-h-silver

Ecaroh
https://soundcloud.com/user-708420441/ecaroh-mike-neer-comp-horace-silver
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Keith Glendinning


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Post  Posted 17 Oct 2018 7:57 am    
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That's tasty Mike, what tuning did you use.
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Post  Posted 17 Oct 2018 10:42 am    
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Sounds excellent, Mike! That wah is killer, and I can't wait to see what other Horace Silver tunes you have in store for us as well.
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Bill Hatcher

 

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Post  Posted 17 Oct 2018 11:37 am    
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nice playing on all the instruments!
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John Rosett


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Post  Posted 17 Oct 2018 6:13 pm    
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Very nice!
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Peter Funk


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Post  Posted 18 Oct 2018 12:19 am    
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Whoa! Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
Fantastic!
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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 18 Oct 2018 3:44 am    
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Whoa! Nice, Mike. Beyond "Song for my Father", I'm not all that familiar with Silver's music. Looking forward to hearing more.
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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 18 Oct 2018 4:53 am    
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Thanks for listening, everyone!

This is a really fun time for me, demoing tunes, sort of experimenting and trying to lay down tracks the way I'm hearing them in my head. Sometimes this all starts to come together before I really even have the tune under my fingers (or bar). This is one of those cases. It will surely change the more I sit with it.

I have a almost a complete list of tunes for my next CD--I have only been playing about three of them with my band, the rest I haven't completely charted or worked out. Song For My Father will not be one of them. Horace's amazing catalog is way too vast and I want to explore it deeper. I hope to get some new folks interested in his music and jazz compositions in general.

To answer Keith's question, I use C13 (Jules Ah See version).
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Gary Cosden


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Post  Posted 18 Oct 2018 5:01 am    
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Nice! Great playing. Nice touch!
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Keith Glendinning


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Post  Posted 18 Oct 2018 6:26 am    
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Thanks for the info Mike.
Keith.
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Bo Parker

 

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Post  Posted 18 Oct 2018 9:18 am     Re: A fun demo of Horace Silver’s Juicy Lucy
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Mike Neer wrote:
I’ve started arranging and recording demos for my next CD, which will be a tribute to the music of Horace Silver and a little more focused on my Soul, Blues and Jazz leanings.


Very nice!

Senor Blues is another good Horace tune. Also The Preacher.

-Bo Parker
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Andrea Tazzini


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Post  Posted 19 Oct 2018 8:03 am    
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great tune Mike, bravo!!!
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Nelson Checkoway

 

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Post  Posted 19 Oct 2018 8:50 am    
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Mike Neer wrote:
"I hope to get some new folks interested in his music and jazz compositions in general."


Great demo, Mike, and I gave it a shout out on a demo I posted on this forum of a down tempo version of "Yardbird Suite." Hope you check it out.

Like I said in that post, I see you as one of the few lap steel players working in the bop/post-bop idiom. My steel background is mostly E9 pedal steel with only a small bit of C6 playing. I got a lap steel for the first time this past summer and want to dig into more jazz from this era and it would be great to hear other players delving into this material too.

Thanks again for all the tracks, Mike. Looking forward to the Horace Silver CD -- for modified 12-bar stuff, are Filthy McNasty or The Jody Grind in the mix?
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David Weisenthal

 

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Post  Posted 20 Oct 2018 10:24 am    
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Very awesome Mike. Fun to listen to.
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Bob Stone


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Post  Posted 24 Oct 2018 8:07 am    
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Nicely done Mike. Keep 'em coming.

All the best,

Bob
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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 24 Oct 2018 8:21 am    
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If you insist, Bob. Very Happy

I’ll happily share a couple of demos that I’ve recorded as a way of testing the waters and seeing if I can live with the arrangements. They are also a great way of communicating with my musicians with regard to feel.

Here is one I dig called Ecaroh. I recorded this really quickly. Programming the drums on my ipad took more time than everything put together!
https://soundcloud.com/user-708420441/ecaroh-mike-neer-comp-horace-silver
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Bob Watson


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Post  Posted 24 Oct 2018 11:06 pm    
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I've never heard a steel player record Nica's Dream. Food for thought. Its great seeing you push the envelope Mike. Smile
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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 25 Oct 2018 4:15 am    
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Nica’s Dream is going to be my tour de force. It’s well in the pipeline.
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David Matzenik


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Post  Posted 25 Oct 2018 11:43 pm    
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Jucy Lucy! It certainly has a burlesque swing to it. I was waiting for the cat-calls. Great playing as always.
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