What do people think of modern "one man" bands?

[boozehound]

Anyone a fan of guys like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rACg0n1B7B0

[DeuceWallaces]

I rarely like them. Might be the music they're playing though. Usually folky, country, and other shit I don't like,

[HarryCallahan]

Heath Slater is pretty tight.

[Swaggin916]

I like that song... was funky. I think it's kinda cool to watch for a few songs or at some festival like this, or even a street performer.

[boozehound]

What happened to the gigantes post in here? I was going to ask him why he got so caught up in that one guys performance?

What about dudes like Reggie Watts or this guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2r_-biU4sc&list=TLczuWWGclsFRlsMcaBgmohL5DZjaEkG_m) or this chick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLKOgTG8RMs)

[gigantes]

What happened to the gigantes post in here? I was going to ask him why he got so caught up in that one guys performance?

What about dudes like Reggie Watts or this guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2r_-biU4sc&list=TLczuWWGclsFRlsMcaBgmohL5DZjaEkG_m) or this chick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLKOgTG8RMs)
i've been somewhat off my rocker, lately. i deleted the post due to the embarrassment factor.

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finally did my homework... listened to the two new songs, plus some reggie watts, plus the original, again.

okay... thinking about this more... there is a theme that runs through those three examples that i'm personally not a big fan of. namely that... i don't know what the right words are... but something like a hipster / modern rockabilly / vaguely zydeco / loosey - goosey type of vibe.

so it's not the electronica-aided OMB artform that bothers me (as i think i spazzed on originally)... it's just a difference in taste. personally i'm a big fan of making music with primitive instruments / found objects / classical strings & woodwinds. both as a group experience and in the one-man-band format.

but i do realise that time moves forward, boychick, and the 'instant multi-tracking' form of OMB should be appreciated for what it is. partly there is a jealousy aspect to that, since i used to jam with some swat (swarthmore college) guys who were ridiculously creative and without bounds. then when i see examples like the ones cited, i kind of roll my eyes and think "FFS, do you know what barnzy and crew could have accomplished with that kind of setup?" the band leader was a guy who assembled found metal and wooden objects in to a series of percussive and varient instruments that surrounded him like a cage, to go along with his weird crew who played more straightforward rock instruments, including a bit of brass.

anyway, what is my point here...? i think, that i have an initial resistance to the electronic-OMB factor, because of what i've just mentioned, and because i tend to like negative space in art and music. for example, the pauses and solitudinous nature of spanish guitar tends to kill... like segovia playing in a nice auditorium.

like, when i sketch stuff, real or in MSpaint, i can be at the very beginning of a sketch and fall in love with the blankness, and just feel something like "don't add more, asshole... forget about going to step two and just respect some aspect of art and nature that can't be named."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38097009@N05/3611722893/in/set-72157619422490947

but getting back to OMB's... i've definitely heard some nice ones on the net, like beat-boxing and chillout / electronica. but i would have to filter through several deep lists of tunes to pick them out and paste. but if you have particular interest in such choices, i can tie some ribbons around pinkies and such... paste them in slowly.

TBH, maybe i just haven't been slam-dunk converted yet on electronic-aided OMB's.

like... in a sense, people in their one-man studios are already doing that all the time now with modern songs, aided by their amazing multitasking apps and hardware. therefore, i'm not sure that the ones who front on stage are doing a whole lot more than just giving the appearance of spontaneity to audio routines that they've exhaustively perfected in private.

and nothing wrong with that, of course, but it also ties in to the perfected art of illusion that so many other performers and magicians employ for known quantities of bucks. it's the illusion of spontaneity and surprise that kills the crowd, hence earns bucks.

anyway, sorry if i'm being a dick. half of my career is in the arts, and i'm pretty-much an opinionated phallus in such matters.

current song i heard on the chillout mix that i'm liking on an AV level:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=51Bpx63wkbA