The off-season music & tennis/sports photo thread...

[lydian]

Ok, there's not much tennis going on, so...it's time for something completely different to quote MP'sFC.

This is my new music squeeze, such a wonderful vibe & what a singer (best new rock singer in a long long time!)
...check 'em out - RIVAL SONS - now this is proper X Factor stuff!






Fave tennis pic of the moment - lest we forget the beauty of his movement & SHBH, stunning photo.
Will we ever see a better tennis photo?



Any music or tennis/sport pic links to post...? Come on....somebody liven the place up!   

[HM Murdock]

I'm listening to this:


I love the Federer picture you posted but I also love these:

[lydian]

Love both those guys...Myles Kennedy has a fab voice, loved him in The Mayfield Four & Alter Bridge ("Blackbird"...wow). He's actually a very good guitar player too...including the first solo on Blackbird track. I have the exact same guitar Slash is playing there...Sunburst Les Paul. First saw him in 1990 at Monsters of Rock when GnR were new and he's done little wrong since. Love the solo project between Slash/Kennedy.

Great pics...you can now buy a customised Head Radical Graphene Djokovic racquet...$400 though...
http://www.tennis.com/gear/2013/12/shaping-speed-head-launches-custom-made/49934/

HMM, my son is a massive Djokovic fan and see saw him play at O2. His fave bit was when we watched him warming up in an empty O2 from 15ft away...his movement and ball striking is unreal. Here's a pic for proof!

[HM Murdock]

Lydian, in teaming up with Kennedy, Slash has got another vocalist in a similar register to Axl Rose. It's strange how a higher vocal seems to suit his music! I don't think Kennedy quite has Rose's knack for a chorus but he's a talented guy. I'm not familiar with Alter Bridge but I'll check 'Blackbird' out. The main riff on the song I put up, 'Anastasia', has been keeping me busy for a while now!

As for your Novak pic, wow, what a view! Has getting that view and watching that closely changed your opinion of him at all? And what session were you at?

[hawkeye]

lydian. Love, love the Fed pic. Beautiful! What match was it from? I had a similar pic of a Federer backhand taken at RG a few years ago as a sceen saver.

HM Murdoch. I like the first pic you posted of Djokovic (it shows he has potential) not so much the second one (it shows he still has a lot to learn)  

[HM Murdock]

HE, I thought the second picture was a model of dignity and decorum! No clothing has been ripped, no wigs have been donned, no ball kids recruited for a dance routine... 

[lydian]

Here's 'Blackbird' HMM - amazing song/lyrics & singing (its solo is voted best ever by Guitarist magazine - 1st part is by Myles, 2nd by Mark Tremonti who is fantastic guitar player - loved him from Creed days).



Guitarist poll:



HMM - yes I'm a Djokovic fan, always have been a mild one but I have warmed to the guy more this year...and having seen him live his talent is undeniable.

HE - it's from RG2006 and its vs. Alejandro Falla. What a tennis photo...everything in the photo is amazing, the red sunlight clay foreground, the dark skies behind and the extension on Federer's follow through is unreal. Staggering photo.

[lydian]

Actually for me, best pic of 2013 is:



Given the all-clear and in practice for his first event back @ Brisbane 2014 with Fleming (with protected ranking of 29 for 12 events).

  

[HM Murdock]

Thanks Lydian, that really is a nice solo. I see Eruption still gets the near the top I these polls! That must be for influence because I don't think it's even the best Van Halen solo! (I'd say 'Right Now' is my favourite of his).

[lydian]

Yeah, it's just a lot of finger tapping (and he learnt a lot of that from a guy called George Lynch).

My fave Eddie solo (and I'm a massive VH fan) is without doubt 'House of Pain' last track on 1984...its essentially 2 mins long, going from 1:25 to end of song....there's loads of different bits to it and the screaming pinch harmonics are to die for....!!! That light-dimmer derived guitar tone is so unique, there's only one Eddie!

[HM Murdock]

This one starts with playing a double guitar cross-armed... and gets progressively more crazy! Once we get to 4:15 I don't even know what's going on anymore.

[lydian]

Haha....it's almost a comedy sketch except I know Batio is capable of that stuff...unbelievable picking techniques although a little clinical for me. Do you know this guy...I think he's an awesome guitarist...Guthrie Govan, and British too. Amazing legato.




Speaking of funk, always loved this ridiculous ability from a 16 year old Korean girl...wouldn't you want to be able to play like this...?

[HM Murdock]

I saw Guthrie Govan playing in a pub about 15 years ago! He lives/lived about 10 miles away from me (he's an Essex-ite!). Sickeningly talented.

[lydian]

Double cool!

Agree about the talent, maybe the most talented guitarist I've actually seen due to the sheer range of styles he's mastered to a virtuoso level. The video where he impersonates the great guitarists one after the other is ridiculous.

[Holymiky]

Hi all,

So i was wondering as it's the off season at the moment, what Grand Slams and Tournaments you are all looking forward to the most in 2014 and who you think will win them?

[lags72]

HE - it's from RG2006 and its vs. Alejandro Falla. What a tennis photo...everything in the photo is amazing, the red sunlight clay foreground, the dark skies behind and the extension on Federer's follow through is unreal. Staggering photo.

Couldn't agree more as to just how staggeringly good this Federer photo is.

So good that it prompted me to post for the first time in several weeks.

The guy who never seems to be caught looking awkward on a tennis court somehow contrives to appear perfectly balanced even when he has both feet off the ground .......    

Not just the best tennis photo I have seen but perhaps one of the best of ANY sport.

[JuliusHMarx]

I always remember this picture from a book I read about 40 years ago



http://www.habseyesontheprize.com/2012/4/8/2932519/recalling-the-rockets-greatest-goal

[lydian]

Lags   

Completely agree, it's THE perfect sporting picture.

There is an effortless and energy to the shotmaking and the brooding skies above add to the atmosphere perfectly.

They could try to capture another like this for 50 years and still fail...

For all my Nadal support I will truly miss Federer when he's gone.

[laverfan]

For all my Nadal support I will truly miss Federer when he's gone.

Quite agree, Lydian. They have provided a contradictory, yet complimentary yin-yang of Tennis. Many such personalities over the years have adorned the pages of Tennis History. We are grateful for being part of and witness to such history.

[lydian]

It's always good to see such great players at the top of their game. Even the guy down at #126 has pumped a lifetime of dedication into the sport. We tend to focus on ~5 players but lest we forget there can be no tour without the other 995 or so. Which leads to another potential thread but I'll list here - what would you like to see different on 606 Tennis?

1. More discussion around players outside the top 10!

Pls add to the list....

[laverfan]

I would love to see a Challengers Circuit discussion. WTA would also be good. And despite McEnroe's dislike for current Doubles, at least an annual Doubles thread (with less derision and scorn poured on the size of derrieres).

Merry XMas.

[lydian]

Challengers circuit is a good discussion - and for starters the prize money is woeful.

[kingraf]

Federer tweeted a day ago that he is becoming a baby Daddy, again. Quite happy for him. Not quite in line with the above posts, but with the quiet state of the board, it simply couldn't have its own thread.

[lydian]

Good news for Fed, and not unwise considering presumably he's going to have more and more time to spend with Baby Fed's in future (no, not Dimitrov).

[Jahu]

Lets hope its a boy!

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