[atlantaprog] Re: Mannheim Steamroller

Wow...I'd love to see these guys live! It must be pretty intense!?!  Where'd you
see them at Hal?  Do they get to Atl. much?  

PEACE
Beth

> 
> From: Simon Jester <dreamchaos@xxxxxxxxx>

> I have listened to them years and have all of their Fresh Aire CD's.
> Have also seen them live, the tribute to Di Vinci is great, would love to
> see them again.
> Hal
> 
> On 12/18/05, Wheat Williams <wheat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The New York Times has a long article about Mannheim Steamroller and their
> > leader Chip Davis.
> > "Lutes + Synthesizers +Rock Beats = America's Most Popular Christmas
> > Music?"
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/magazine/18christmas.html?8hpib
> >
> > In addition to being a perennial arena-filling concert act (6-member band
> > and 22-piece backing orchestra), Davis has sold 37 million albums on his own
> > indie label.
> >
> > "He is one of the most successful recording artists in the history of
> > American music. Mannheim Steamroller has sold more than 27 million albums,
> > more than Frank Sinatra, the Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, R.E.M. or Eminem,
> > according to the Recording Industry Association of America."
> > "This year, more than 160 radio stations around the country have switched
> > to an all-Christmas music format during the holiday season... Mannheim
> > Steamroller dominates those radio playlists, with as many as 15 songs in
> > regular rotation on some stations."
> >
> > "The music is strange: a hodgepodge of rock rhythms, blipping
> > synthesizers, Renaissance instrumentation and orchestral extravagance - a
> > big, bright and, even by Christmas standards, fearlessly schlocky sound that
> > Davis has called "18th-century classical rock." In Davis's reworked carols,
> > the showy time-signature changes and keyboard passages of 70's progressive
> > rock rub up against lutes, cornemuses and other 15th-century instruments;
> > classical piano filigrees and gusty Muzak strings rise over a thudding
> > backbeat."
> >
> > Love it or hate it, Mannheim Steamroller has been hugely influential and
> > lucrative. And prog.

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