Not having a clue what we were doing, just giving it a go.'" At that particular gig, lanky, floppy-fringed Irishman Neff spent so long tuning his guitar that the audience started applauding.
The percussion, the seat of both men's music, is entirely different: some of the funkiest sections of Fela's long tunes like "Who're You" and "Fight to Finish" rely on combinations of Tony Allen's waxing-and-waning drum kit patterns and an array of shakers, congas and tapped wood and metal.
"Why should people vote if your vote is not going to count?" But while some said they kept track of every twist and turn in the electoral saga, with both radio and television sets on, others confessed to having long tuned off.
Least squares support vector regression (LSSVR) is an effective and competitive approach for crude oil price prediction, but its performance suffers from parameter sensitivity and long tuning time.
Viewers have long tuned in for the heaping of freestyle rap exchanges (better known as cyphers) showcasing veteran and rising emcees.
Check out the funky, retro Clavinet vibe of "Rosalee" (below), offering a distinctive diversion from the jam band tendrils on the album's seven long tunes, all of them seven-plus minutes.
"Rosalee" Chris Robinson's Brotherhood Big Moon Ritual (Red General) -- The funky, retro clavinet vibe of "Rosalee" offers a wonderful diversion from the jam band tendrils on the LP's seven long tunes, all of them seven-plus minutes.
But culturally, how is stifling individualism and forcing people to sing a sad, one-minute-long tune going to achieve that?
"I put the oud in a case around my back, and the stewardess will always tell me, 'What happened to your broken-neck guitar?'" A little bit later, he launched into a lamenting, nine-minute-long tune on the violin, which reminded me of the popular Egyptian songs of the fifties by the likes of Oum Kalsoum and Abdel Wahab.
