Comments on: Girls who rock: Rachel Barton Pine

By: Lorinator

Lorinator — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:10:56 +0000

Thanks very much, Andres. I found the Hilary and Jackie film on Amazon — can’t wait to watch it. Will check out Maxim Vengerov too. Maxim. What a cool name, btw.

By: Lorinator

Lorinator — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:09:11 +0000

Juan, here is the chain of events that led me to blogging Rachel Barton Pine:
1) I watch the film The Red Violin, and the fantastic violin scenes totally light a fire under my butt, making me want to learn about two things: rare violins like Guarneri and Stradivari, and how concert violinists approach practicing;
2) I hit Google and YouTube, using appropriate keywords;
3) One of my searches leads me to the video of Rachel talking to a crowd about her Guarneri;
4) Her enthusiasm and down-to-earth attitude totally charms me, so I watch some more videos and read more about her;
5) I end up thinking she’s totally cool, and just can’t help spreading the word about her and what she does.

The cool thing about blogging is that as I pass on cool stuff that I find, I also learn a lot from readers’ comments — in this case, Chen’s tip about J. du Pre. I’d never heard about her, but she is another extremely interesting and inspiring woman.

By: Juan

Juan — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:54:36 +0000

Quite impressive indeed Lori. How did you find out about her?

And yes, I was totally blown away by that Jacqueline du Pre video! I never heard about her, but she’s a totall shredder!

I just get goosebumps by thinking of what might have happend if she ever got into metal

By: andres

andres — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:20:01 +0000

Awesome, is really great to read someone rave in such detai,and I really apreciate the time you took to do such an intensive resarch it is a great example for other bloggers and artists.
If you havent already give maxim vengerov a listen he is not really into rock or metal but he has a very “Rocking” attitude
Also there is a film about jackie du pre “hilary and jackie”.

Thanks again and rock on!

By: chen

chen — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:01:11 +0000

Thank you for posting Rachel Barton for us. Another violinist who I absolutely love is Hilary Hahn. I met her a couple of times and she’s a very nice person.

Here’s her playing Bach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFIstUK4cxc

Here’s a female guitarist I admire whole-heartedly:
http://www.lorilinstruth.com/

Give her Warbride CD a listen and you will see what I mean. Wait, do you know her?

By: Lorinator

Lorinator — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:51:32 +0000

Well you know, it’s never too late to turn it all around. Imagine how great you could be 5 years from now if you start practicing today. The 5 years are gonna pass anyway…

I understand about the downloading thing, btw.

By: Lorinator

Lorinator — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:48:58 +0000

No, I had never heard of her, but thanks so much for the tip. I got total goosebumps from the clip you posted, and then went on to watch some more videos. What an amazing person she was. So sad that she’s no longer with us.

By: Chen

Chen — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:27:03 +0000

Just curious, have you heard of Jacqueline du Pre? The best cellist of this century and “the finest musician England has had for 300 years.” She used to be my idol but I never heard of her when she was alive. She had ALS and lost all ability to play by the age of 28. (just like Jason Becker). But she reached the pinnacle of this instrument that no one dares to attempt in her mere 20 years of training. She passes away when she was 40ish in the 90s.

Here’s the fabulous Du Pre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=832sywNsWls

By: Dread

Dread — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:58:57 +0000

hey, it’s me again!
cases like this one make me in part feel bad for wasting so much time instead of practicing, but they also make me wanna pick up my guitar and skip school =P

about he Metra incident, i don’t know… everything happens for a reason, right?
i just don’t know why this kind of… extraordinary people always get that luck (Chopin, Mozart, Hendrix, Jason Becker, etc)… it’s a shame at some point, but i guess it also makes you appreciate what they do on a higher level.

unfortunately i can’t listen much of her music because most of this stuff never gets to Argentina, and the same thing with your stuff Lori.. so excuse me if i ever find and download one of your albums..

and excuse me for the extension of the comment too.. good luck with everything ^^

By: Joanne Keel

Joanne Keel — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:25:57 +0000

Thanks for sharing! I will definitely visit her website!! People with talent such as hers (and yours) are such musical inspirations! Now if only I can make “Chopsticks” rock a little more on my keyboard. Maybe playing with BOTH hands next time will help! ;-D