SwingDJs

On my work computer (read cheapest sound card available) and crap work issued headphones I can hear 17 but not 18. Do get the wierd sensation at 18 though. Get nothing from anything higher.

Teachers: Most people don't take the useless lessons offered at the beginning of most dances anyway... so trying to pawn this off on the teachers is going to do any good. DJs: You have the ability to call people out on this. It's called that microphone that sits there in front of your face all night...

Eyeball wrote: How would you describe the Teddy Powell band?

If there was ever a band that I would describe as playing "Balboa music" it would be Teddy Powell's

That's how I would describe it, haha.

The only down side is - what happens if your HD fries? Do you lose thousands of tunes? Without a back up, you die, right? That's always a possibility, but with how cheap data storage is it's easily avoidable. For example, I have four copies of my music: 1. The original CD. 2. The MP3 on my laptop. ...

Thx. I misunderstood. I thought that people were listening to iPods only with headphones and listening to their pc just using the speakers that come with it. So then - the hard drives in these units are just really being used for music storage. For more advanced listening, they need to be connected...

So is it 'fairly fair' to see that most people in their current teens and 20s do not have the once traditional 'stereo systems' and listen to their music on iPods and their PCs? I think it's always been typical that most people play their music on what most of us here would define as crappy equipme...

Here is to the 92nd year of jazz's golden age! Weird... he mentions the REAL reason Jazz isn't more popular, yet it's not even in his list. haha What list? I like the article, all you need to do to know that Mr. Yanow knows his Jass is to nerd out on allmusic.com and read his reviews of the many CD...

Gong-Oh wrote:Last night somebody asked me to play something by Emmet Ray, "a great guitarist from the 1930's".

The question is... were they trying to be funny... or did they think they were making a real request?

are they typically surefire bal songs that everyone(except me)should know, if the floor clears? Jamaica Jam is it a sin to actually play lindy songs to break up the pace etc? How would it break the pace? what bpm would be the lowest & the fastest?(my crowd will be a beginner/intermediate level) ...

I still don't know a single step of the Shim Sham... and still don't care to learn.

I've performed "A String of Pearls" in a few movies.

The version I have by Waller has his big band in 1935 (pretty sure) and features a piano duel between Waller and his protegee, Hank Duncan. "Show 'em how to swing, Hankie!". It so fast that when Waller goes to sing his chorus, he has to sing it in cut time b/c the tempo is too fast to get...

what's the fastest song you know of? There are supposedly songs in the 1000's of BPMs... but they are completely irrelavent. Keep in mind that dancing to a song thats 240bpm requires you to perform a complete Lindy or Balboa basic in 2 second flat. At 360bpm you need to do it in 1.5 seconds. (Corre...

CafeSavoy wrote:You sure you want to resurrect that jive junction thread.

Which one... all of them? haha

falty411 wrote:

lipi wrote: Paul Tillotson Love Trio
Lindy Hop Heaven: Live at Jelly Roll

If that is "Lindy Hop Heaven", please make sure i'll go straight to hell

The Dream Team
Lindy Hop Hell: Live at the Lindy Binge