[atlantaprog] Re: Mannheim Steamroller

I saw them at Phillips arena a few years ago for their Xmas show, it was
great. Keep your eye out they may pass through.
Hal

On 12/18/05, princesssalmacis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <princesssalmacis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> 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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