Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ah yes Jayanand. I have been listening to sitars and tablas since 1964 or 5. I purchased my first sitar LP from Rizzoli's bookstore in New York in 65; Ali Akbar Kahn if memories serves correctly. Attended a Ravi Shankar in Chicago in the early 70's. I continue to listen to sitar music at least a few times a month. The Rolling Stones used a sitar in "Paint it Black" in 66. Can't remember when the Beatles' George Harrison actually laid down a sitar track pretty sure it was mid to late 60's. But of course the Shankar/Menuhin collaboration truly preserved the very best of both classical Indian and Western musical traditions. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > I have never seen an electric sitar before, and that too one that is light > enough to be played standing up! In Indian classical music, where the sitar > has its roots, the only instrument that very very occasionally gets > amplified is the violin. Otherwise all the instruments used are accoustic. > Let me leave you with the first ever major collaboration of Indian/Western > fusion music that I know of, three titans of their respective instruments > in > the 1960s: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LweFmb8q2ZE&feature=related<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtzrbbJ6N2g> > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:20 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at > mac.com>wrote: > >> Including never before seen images >> of Kitami from the non-violin side >> especially for Kyle and Jayanand. >> >> <http://imagist.com/global_union_10/index.html>