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George Winston — Cast Your Fate to the Wind
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Helchat
(150 miles southwest of Paradise)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 10:31
 
I must say, I love the album cover! {#Sunny}

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 10:31
 
 gatorade wrote:
George Winston is not my favorite, but I love this song. Why not just play Vince's tunes?
 
I agree... Every time I hear this song, it makes me want to hear "Linus and Lucy" right after it!


Lakeview
(Great White North)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 10:30
 
 triviagal wrote:
"Any way the wind blows" - the last line from Bohemian Rhapsody & now "Cast Your Fate to the Wind".  Pretty cool!
 
Ya, you have to appreciate RP's (I'm assuming Bill's) sense of timing, connection, and humour. Sometimes it's a game we play around the office to determine what the ties are.

Ahnyer_Keester
(Chicago Il)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 10:30
 
 unclehud wrote:

Maybe George is plucking his guitar strings.  Don't know.  While I like Vince's trademark sound a LOT, this is best done by the James Gang.  Guess you had to be there.

 
I saw George live. He actually reaches inside the piano and plucks the strings. Wild.


Dave_Mack
(Kicking out the jams)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 10:27
 
 unclehud wrote:

Maybe George is plucking his guitar strings.  Don't know.  While I like Vince's trademark sound a LOT, this is best done by the James Gang.  Guess you had to be there.

 
That IS a great version.


Ahnyer_Keester
(Chicago Il)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 10:27
 
a) Did not see this segue coming! (Bohemian Rhapsody to Cast your Fate)
b) Like Winston but prefer the original on this one.

triviagal
(Just Outside Washington DC)
Posted: Mar 17, 2011 - 10:27
 
"Any way the wind blows" - the last line from Bohemian Rhapsody & now "Cast Your Fate to the Wind".  Pretty cool!

gatorade
(Ocean Park, WA)
Posted: Jan 13, 2011 - 19:17
 
George Winston is not my favorite, but I love this song. Why not just play Vince's tunes?

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Dec 13, 2010 - 08:33
 
 idahoTux wrote:
At the end of this tune, where is that string sound coming from? Is Winston plucking the piano's strings by hand ?? 
 
Maybe George is plucking his guitar strings.  Don't know.  While I like Vince's trademark sound a LOT, this is best done by the James Gang.  Guess you had to be there.


Beez
Posted: Dec 13, 2010 - 08:27
 
End already....gah!

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Dec 13, 2010 - 08:24
 

Happy Holidays, everybody!


idahoTux
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 - 13:00
 
At the end of this tune, where is that string sound coming from? Is Winston plucking the piano's strings by hand ?? 

ronniegirl
(Middle of New Jersey)
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 - 12:57
 
 Papernapkin wrote:
Love Vince. Like George.
 

Love Vince, but I like this version better.  Vince Jazzes it up too much for me. 

favrood
(Somewhere between here and there)
Posted: Nov 11, 2010 - 12:53
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:
I dunno. I liked his December album all those years ago, but since then it's sounding more and more like generic lounge music (and if I wanna listen to Vince Guaraldi I'll listen to Vince Guaraldi, not a "new age" cover).
 
Seriously...this version is painfully stuffy and cramped sounding.

On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: Aug 08, 2010 - 01:18
 
I dunno. I liked his December album all those years ago, but since then it's sounding more and more like generic lounge music (and if I wanna listen to Vince Guaraldi I'll listen to Vince Guaraldi, not a "new age" cover).


unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: May 04, 2010 - 15:01
 
Bill:  James Gang version, please!  Joe Walsh could play ...  well, he could play a lot LOUDER than George Winston.  And passionately, back then, too.


Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 07:53
 
 abulaabula wrote:
am lovin this one, makes me want to run through an open field with grass and flowers that come up to my waist. It is a sunny day, full of life. As a friendly fox goes frolicking by, I stop to gaze at the distance mountains, only to see a hovering rain cloud looming
 
Then I shoot the fox.

abulaabula
Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 07:47
 
am lovin this one, makes me want to run through an open field with grass and flowers that come up to my waist. It is a sunny day, full of life. As a friendly fox goes frolicking by, I stop to gaze at the distance mountains, only to see a hovering rain cloud looming

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 07:44
 
Though I love a lot of George Winstons music I like Vince Guaraldi's 1962 original virgin of Cast Your Fart To The Wind better.





Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 07:44
 
Playing lots of notes. . . but not necessarily in the right order. 

This might have been around a while but is it any good?

No.

2

Mute 

Darlington
(Columbia, South Carolina)
Posted: Mar 02, 2010 - 07:40
 
 snowcat wrote:
I used to stare out at a winter moon listening to 'December' when I was 18.  Don't have the CD anymore but it sure had an impact on me, even though I'm a heavy alternative music fan.
 

December is one of my all time favorite Holiday/Christmas CD's. It stays in heavy rotation at my house from Thanksgiving through the New Years. Wonderful, wonderful album...

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Dec 29, 2009 - 09:53
 
 ThePoose wrote:


Not odd at all: The last line of Bohemian Rhapsody is ''Any way the wind blows'' and this song is entitled ''Cast your fate to the wind.''

Next up: (Everyone knows it's) Windy
 
How about "Break Like the Wind?"


snowcat
(Cold, Frozen Minnesota)
Posted: Dec 29, 2009 - 09:53
 
I used to stare out at a winter moon listening to 'December' when I was 18.  Don't have the CD anymore but it sure had an impact on me, even though I'm a heavy alternative music fan.

kurtkniffel
Posted: Nov 28, 2009 - 00:45
 

from: "anywhere the wind blows" to "cast your fate to the wind". better stop thinking about recording technology and piano sounds and listen to the message behind...



nate917
(2,815 miles from home)
Posted: Oct 27, 2009 - 15:09
 
 dmax wrote:

Sounds like it was step-entered in MIDI

 
The point is well-taken.  If you've played the piano a long time, you can hear differences between a Steinway, a Baldwin, etc., and this has that Yamaha grand sound that, in the day, we described as canned and lifeless (Yamaha has improved greatly since then).  But I'm guessing that production values, rather than the piano itself, explains what some of us are complaining about.


AvoidingWork
(Home of Big Boy #4004)
Posted: Oct 27, 2009 - 15:06
 
Through headphones he seems to be playing with hammers.  It kinda hurts.

(former member)
(Infinity and Beyond)
Posted: Oct 27, 2009 - 15:01
 
 BlueHeronDruid wrote:
He manages to suck the life out of this wonderful piece.
 
Sounds like it was step-entered in MIDI


Fredrikson
(Stockholm)
Posted: Sep 26, 2009 - 01:23
 
this sounds like The Sims music. but that's not really a bad thing {#Cheesygrin}

peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS)
Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 13:27
 
 Droidac wrote:
Mmmmm, I could go for a big merlot right now. Song = kinda bland, but merlot = yummy!
 
Agreed, I'm sipping a good shiraz right now. A big merlot is yummy, but any big wine is good. I wouldn't compare this version of the tune to a big wine, I'd compare it to a so-so wine. Anyway, enough of my whining, cheers {#Cheers} 


Droidac
(4066 kms east of Paradise)
Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 13:19
 
 inindian wrote:


Like a big merlot....bland
 
Mmmmm, I could go for a big merlot right now. Song = kinda bland, but merlot = yummy!


MortimerS
Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 13:19
 
If you've ever listened to a good musician playing around with interpretation there is the line between it and irrelevance. Er, um. Someone should have told him.

mnmrosen
(Wisconsin)
Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 13:18
 
Wow. For about the first ten seconds of this song, I was 8 years old again. They used the beginning for the intro to some TV show when I was a kid in the 60s-70s. Million Dollar Movie or something. I haven't heard it in 30 years. Gave me major goosebumps! Bill, you keep freaking me out with the stuff you dredge up from my childhood!

TernaryBit
(O-town)
Posted: Aug 25, 2009 - 13:13
 
good, but there is much better stuff from George Winston...may I suggest nearly anything off the December album?

inindian
(Sea of joy)
Posted: Jul 24, 2009 - 23:30
 
 slowhand wrote:
Like a big chardonnay....nice
 

Like a big merlot....bland

TheKing2
(outside the USofA)
Posted: May 22, 2009 - 11:20
 
Time to play some Dollar Brand

paraclete
(Citrus Heights, CA)
Posted: May 22, 2009 - 11:16
 
from 9 to 10

slowhand
(NC)
Posted: Apr 20, 2009 - 19:41
 
Like a big chardonnay....nice

toterola
(Further)
Posted: Mar 20, 2009 - 07:19
 
I was listening to this, and the next thing I knew I was passed out on my key board! Wayyy toooo mellowww! {#Sleep}

BlueHeronDruid
(petewa)
Posted: Feb 16, 2009 - 18:33
 
He manages to suck the life out of this wonderful piece.

Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Feb 16, 2009 - 18:29
 
Love Vince. Like George.

jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Dec 15, 2008 - 10:50
 
 hobiejoe wrote:
I'll be sticking with Vince, I think.
 
Yep. Although this is nice, Vince totally owns it. Covers aren't necessary.


Limpopoking
(Limpopo)
Posted: Dec 15, 2008 - 10:50
 

Criticism is not my usual post, but I've always found George Winston (along with many of the Windham Hill signings) bland... a bit lame really. It's nice, but nice is... well... only nice!



bugleboy624
(Bluefield, WV)
Posted: Dec 15, 2008 - 10:47
 
How does a beautiful, haunting, masterpiece of a song like this get a 6.5? This is such a 10 in my book.

velocette
Posted: Nov 13, 2008 - 21:29
 
Charlie Brown meets Montovani. Or is it Satie? God, I'm confused.

gjeeg
(Syracuse, New York)
Posted: Sep 11, 2008 - 15:27
 
George! Economy! Concsion! Conclusion! Bring it in!

hobiejoe
(French Onion Soup, Yes, there are onions. Deal with it.)
Posted: Sep 11, 2008 - 15:26
 
I'll be sticking with Vince, I think.

MacP
(Seattle)
Posted: Sep 11, 2008 - 15:22
 
Whoa — this is definitely not what Wayne and Garth had in mind as a followup.
Dude, my Gremlin just ran outa gas.{#Beat}

Excelsior
Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 09:56
 
That plunking at the end is horrid and drops the overall quality of the song quite a bit.
reason06
(Kansas City MO)
Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 09:54
 
The song is excellent, but I can't quite love this arrangement
Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet waiting for the ticket home)
Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 09:53
 
Especially not after Bohemian Rhapsody!