Topic: Slow it down guys.

[Happy B]

I quite like the Pussycat Dolls Bottoms

 

hahahaha !!!


 

[Lou]

What about that lovely bluesy Sarah Connor track that John Eastman plays - Turn Out The Light... that's a bit nice....

Can't find a sample of that Lou. But I did find a song of that title by Don Williams - I just know you would love it !!

I'll have to dig it out! 

Still love the Sarah Connor one, though. (Although it's actually called Turn OFF the Lights.... Silly me. If you've got iTunes, there's a sample here...

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=17868382&selectedItemId=17868424

[Whitebeard]

What about that lovely bluesy Sarah Connor track that John Eastman plays - Turn Out The Light... that's a bit nice....

Can't find a sample of that Lou. But I did find a song of that title by Don Williams - I just know you would love it

!!I'll have to dig it out!  Still love the Sarah Connor one, though. (Although it's actually called Turn OFF the Lights.... Silly me. If you've got iTunes, there's a sample here...

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=17868382&selectedItemId=17868424

Right, I've found it now. Quite nice an' lazy. How about, next time we meet, we try a bit of that slinky sexy bluesy sorta stuff. It's a while since I encountered a wicked Bristol lady.

[jivedave]

I s'pose it counts as bluesy stuff (not sure how 'sexy') but without resurrecting the Yatton Tea Dance topic prematurely, i guess this is the place to say a bit more about 'sunshine of your love'. With the single pass of the cover by Ella Fitzgerald i heard pre 06:00 (hazy) i think it struck me how she managed to sort of stretch lyrics to fit the music (without wishing to expose my frail knowledge of the subject). This idea sort of correlates with what one or two people have told me (if i recall) about dancing to slow music and slowing down moves (maybe breaking a move into smaller increments?) - does that make any sense, i wonder? 0r perhaps it's obvious?

[andrew_w]

I s'pose it counts as bluesy stuff (not sure how 'sexy') but without resurrecting the Yatton Tea Dance topic prematurely, i guess this is the place to say a bit more about 'sunshine of your love'. With the single pass of the cover by Ella Fitzgerald i heard pre 06:00 (hazy) i think it struck me how she managed to sort of stretch lyrics to fit the music (without wishing to expose my frail knowledge of the subject). This idea sort of correlates with what one or two people have told me (if i recall) about dancing to slow music and slowing down moves (maybe breaking a move into smaller increments?) - does that make any sense, i wonder? 0r perhaps it's obvious?

It's not a bad analogy - What you're talking about is Jazz. The song Ella is singing has a structure that she must stick to (otherwise she wouldn't sing the correct verses and would end at a different time than the band), but she plays around within that structure, streching or shrinking lyrics to fit the feel or even not using the words at all. And so it can be with dance - you are allowed to use all sorts of devices to change how your moves fit the music (but please remember that like Ella you have to work with the structure - so for instance dancing on the beat is a good idea). Stretch it, shrink it, rearrange it, make something new up it's all part of dancing. Blues dance has more of a reputation for this type of approach than standard MJ but really there is no reason for this. I suppose slower music just gives you more time to think.

Of course if you want the ultimate Jazz dance, that goes with Ella, you have to learn how to dance Lindy 

[Nick M]

This idea sort of correlates with what one or two people have told me (if i recall) about dancing to slow music and slowing down moves (maybe breaking a move into smaller increments?) - does that make any sense, i wonder? 0r perhaps it's obvious?

just doing the moves slower, makes you look like you are dancing in slow motion. It's a bit more complex than that.

[jivedave]

Nick - I wasn't just thinking of just 'slow motion' (more 'delaying tactics'/embellishments akin, i believe, to AW's comments) but i've visions of 'the bionic man' (or woman - better not forget the ladies) now The main problem at the moment is having the energy evenings to get out and practise - hence the reason for interest in Sunday afternoons!

[Sugarfoot]

    It?s a sad fact that most dancers stick to the comfort zones of what they firsts started with at their local venues. We travel all over the country teaching and DJing. Each venue is dictated to by what the owner starts out with. Once established it is hard for them to change as they are then dictated to by their members. It takes a brave owner to make changes against the mass opinion. Hopefully, the increase in weekenders and greater exposure to blues/chill out rooms will see more demand for a greater range of tempo at local events. 

[Elaine]

   It?s a sad fact that most dancers stick to the comfort zones of what they firsts started with at their local venues. We travel all over the country teaching and DJing. Each venue is dictated to by what the owner starts out with. Once established it is hard for them to change as they are then dictated to by their members. It takes a brave owner to make changes against the mass opinion. Hopefully, the increase in weekenders and greater exposure to blues/chill out rooms will see more demand for a greater range of tempo at local events. 

So true!

Utopia in Evesham plays some good stuff, but I understand that they can't slow it down too much, as the 'average' punter finds it difficult.  They do however slot some in every now and then, which keeps some of us happy  and gives the 'average' dancer the chance to give it a go.

We went to see a blues singer last night in a local pub.  He sang a very moody version of fever and much to my delight, we had a space of about 2feet by 4 feet to play about in.

For me, the slower songs or those songs that allow the dancer to interpret will win every time. 

Elaine

[jivedave]

.....
We went to see a blues singer last night in a local pub.  He sang a very moody version of fever and much to my delight, we had a space of about 2feet by 4 feet to play about in.

For me, the slower songs or those songs that allow the dancer to interpret will win every time. 

Elaine

2 by 4 - i'll see you and raise you - or is it the other way round?
Anyhow, as i'm hoping to try some different music, i have my little lean-to with a 7 by 9 or was it 9 by 7 with some squash court canadian maple that i'd like to try out.

an ac/dc track , is this slow enough?
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsDpwb3ILxM
- bit melancholic but they have great 'raw' sound, imho (much prefer Bon Scott). I've said it before but can't understand why hairy rockers are out, whereas, eg: clean-cut mafia frank is ok.

- mission control, thread deviating from trajectory !!!! - i think this is a scream ! :

[jivedave]

looks like a 'slow' news day (off-loaded the kids  - i s'pose ma and pa have their uses  - they are only too happy! and i can get to Filton ) so here's one of me fav. artists (but Tom looks a bit like the preacher guy from one of those scary US films) : - wish i'd had a landlady like that  :'(

there's a faster track on the album i'd really like to try (not on youtube) - though i'd like the odd v. slow track (as above).

velly interesting, last night, as the dances seemed to flow pretty well with most ladies but one of the more experienced ones said that i was off beat (i think), probably right. Trying to 'step around' is not even a conscious activity - the music plays and i just move but normally there is a lot more content in a track than the the thump, thump, stuff. That's one of the nice things about dancing, apart from selecting moves not having to think ((i don't suppose anybody is thinking about the implications of having a £7,800,000,000 deficit ** - perhaps this isn't the day to talk of finance)) too much about moving.

** even the Chinese are more concerned     : http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200711/20071110/article_337585.htm
- the article implies that the bank of england should cut interest rates but that would increase inflation. I think the damage has been done by frothing up the economy with profligate spending and companies focussed purely on the 'bottom line' and we are headed inexorably towards the '70s senario of stagflation. It took Mrs T. to correct that, painfully. Not an economist but if the foreign banks decide to dump their huge holdings of sterling (as the Chinese are/might do with the $) our currency will plummet. Was it really wise to shut down factories to build houses and sell off the rest? - after all Mrs T. had made them a better investment bet by weakening the trade unions.

- i take it off later as i don't want people thinking i've got my priorities wrong