Best Singer in Trek

[Nate the Great]

I see that the holograms are neck-to-neck. Vic/Doc would've made an awesome crossover, wouldn't it? You know, bounce a signal through the wormhole and off the Gamma Quadrant array (which is closer to Delta, remember?), and let them bond? Think of the duets!

Wouldn't the First Contact album have that?

[AKAArzosah]

You'd think so, but apparently not.

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

I see that the holograms are neck-to-neck. Vic/Doc would've made an awesome crossover, wouldn't it? You know, bounce a signal through the wormhole and off the Gamma Quadrant array (which is closer to Delta, remember?), and let them bond? Think of the duets!

Vic could hang, but have you ever heard a Classical musician attempt jazz? It's usually not pretty. (There's an expression: "He wouldn't swing if you hung him and gave him a push.")

Wouldn't the First Contact album have that?

I already stated above that it does not. Now you can see for yourself.

[Nate the Great]

Hey, there are lots of things that would allow their musical styles to mesh! "Let's Get Together" comes to mind.

A freaky thought just struck me. What if Doc could replicate his mobile emitter, and he gave one to Vic? What would Vic do in the real world? Go on a music tour of Risa and Wrigley's Pleasure Planet?

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Hey, there are lots of things that would allow their musical styles to mesh!

And nearly all of them involve dragging Vic down to some lame, amateur level. Pass.

"Let's Get Together" comes to mind.

There are several songs by that title, and I'm not sure any of them are a good idea.

The sort of thing you're proposing might sound like a great idea to non-musicians; hearing it, they might even convince themselves that they liked it. Frankly, just the thought of it makes me cringe.

[Nate the Great]

"Let's Get Together" as written by the Sherman Brothers and as sung by Hayley Mills. You know, Doc's tickling the ivories and Vic shows up with a sax. "Do you mind, I'm giving a concert!" Plus having Doc say "Hey al-li-gah-tah" would be great.

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Doc's tickling the ivories...

Urgh. I hate that expression. It makes me retch.

...and Vic shows up with a sax.

And he would do this... why, exactly?

Plus having Doc say "Hey al-li-gah-tah" would be great.

Nate, you are a very strange person.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability

Wouldn't the First Contact album have that?

Don't get me started on the First Contact album. How did a movie with such a great score bungle the soundtrack album so badly? (sigh)

Shark, tread carefully. Yours truly is a classical and jazz clarinetist who most certainly can swing.

[mudshark]

^ All you got to do is sing.

Originally Posted by Zeke

Shark, tread carefully. Yours truly is a classical and jazz clarinetist who most certainly can swing.

I haven't forgotten (I also do both, though not on that particular instrument) and I did say...

It's usually not pretty.

Usually. Not always. Stolzman pulls it off pretty well; Edgar Meyer can play damn near anything and sound great, and check out a German cellist named Wolfram Huschke some time. There are others, but I really don't think I need to remind you just how awkward and painfully square the overwhelming majority of classically-trained musicians are when they decide to "let their hair down" and play jazz, that poor, black-sheep relative of "serious" music.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

I did, oh, call it seven years of concert band before I switched to stage band. Now I can't play straight eights notes anymore.

[mudshark]

I'll bet it would still be a lot easier for you to get straight eighths down again than it would be for those "dotted-triplet figure = jazz " guys to go the other way. They've had rigid and exact subdivision drummed into their heads for so long that most of them wouldn't be able to get the feel of anything as abstract as swing if their very lives depended on it.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Somebody's bitter...

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by mudshark

^ All you got to do is sing.

It makes no difference if its sweet or hot.

[Nate the Great]

Sheesh, is it "mutate a thread as quickly as possible" week?

I also gotta ask why you guys don't create your own threads more often.

[mudshark]

Now, where would be the fun in that?

[Nate the Great]

The fun would be having more topics to post in.