Subject: old music
Date: Thu Jan 29 14:45:56 2015
User: TNmountainman
Message:Followed by, the Rolling Stones. To me, this is a rather intense performance, and rather amazing to see how fully-formed they seem to be already in 1964. Supposedly, they were very sorry to have to follow Brown, and also supposedly, Brown inspired Mick's dancing antics, kicks, style, etc. Not hard to see that here. Also, some nice early lead solos by Richards. It's not hard to believe that these guys just completely found their calling early on.
Link: They had to follow the Godfather this night
Date: Thu Jan 29 14:49:48 2015
User: BuzzClik
Message:>>>TN: "Snowguy's main influence?"?
Yes, but I'm thinking of the later years...
Link: "Ow! Too hot!"
Date: Thu Jan 29 15:11:48 2015
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ok, here's the whole thing. Ever seen Chuck Berry morph into Gerry & The Pacemakers? And back? And then back again?
Did they borrow the dancers from "Shindig!"?
I haven't watched the entire movie, but a lot of it. Some really great stuff. What a time capsule from 50 years ago. Amazing to realize that only 3 years later, just up the coast, was the Monterrey Pop Festival, a 'big bang' of great import.
By the way, I saw Jan & Dean (the hosts of this) at an outdoor show in Toronto in '84, and they were extremely impressive.
Enjoy.
Link: T.A.M.I. - the movie/concert
Date: Fri Feb 20 04:04:52 2015
User: TNmountainman
Message:Another performance from Live Aid (1985), this one from Philly. Apparently not available on the DVD. Too bad the sound and video aren't a little bit better. I offer it more as an historical pairing - although it does still rock....
Link: "that Bo Diddley beat"
Date: Fri Feb 20 11:47:32 2015
User: wildcard
Message:Super awesome 60s performance here. (link below) Wonder why the audience appears to be 100% white girls. (don't answer that)
And here is a write-up of Bo Diddley's super awesome funeral
Hundreds flock to Bo Diddley's funeral
Jerry Lee Lewis and Tom Petty were among those paying tribute to the rock'n'roll pioneer
Monday 9 June 2008 06.20 EDT
Hundreds flocked to the funeral of music legend Bo Diddley on Saturday, paying tribute with tears and songs to one of the founders of rock'n'roll. A gospel band struck up his namesake tune as family members passed the casket - and a crowd of several hundred joined in for the chorus, singing "Hey, Bo Diddley!"
read the rest here
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/jun/09/news.seanmichaels1
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeZHB3ozglQ
Date: Tue Feb 24 09:46:08 2015
User: BuzzClik
Message:err.. what?
Link: Led Zep
Date: Thu Oct 1 13:17:33 2015
User: BuzzClik
Message:Been a lot of covers of this song recently. Worth another listen...
Link: New Order, "Ceremony"
Date: Sat Oct 3 18:43:39 2015
User: Klepp
Message:I loved them as a teen as they busked the streets of Milwaukee's River East.
Damn near incomparable, IMO...
Link: Violent Femmes
Date: Sun Oct 4 11:17:47 2015
User: BuzzClik
Message:Yeppers. Violent Femmes' music has been in at least two commercials: HP laptop and Wendy's.
Violent Femmes still can get a crowd going -- even a young crowd, if it's the right crowd: A warehouse concert venue full of late teens and early twenty somethings listening to some grunge knockoff band. The bassist hits the opening riff of Blister in the Sun, and the crowd perfectly responds with the required hand claps.
On the other hand, Penn Jillette gives the same tease before one of his shows in Las Vegas, and the audience sits frozen with the exception of my son, who does response alone, and later receives a Tweet of gratitude.
Date: Wed Oct 7 01:12:20 2015
User: Kaos
Message:Bo Diddley had better marketing, better background, and better fans. But not better guitar than this guy
Link: Old guy getting it done
Date: Sun Oct 11 11:09:17 2015
User: BuzzClik
Message:One of Firenze's favorite books brought to mind this favorite tune of the local "head station" back in the day. Zane Grey would be proud to have been such an inspiration:
Link: New Riders of the Purple Sage
Date: Mon Jan 11 03:46:04 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:Wasn't sure where to put this, but decided here instead of "Is 70 the new 50?", since he just barely made it to 69.
David Bowie is gone, 2 days after releasing his new album. I happened to hear a cut from it two days ago, and thought it was quite good.
Link: Bowie goes back to space?
Date: Mon Jan 11 03:57:42 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:I'll re-post this since the original link I posted on page 2 of this thread is no longer valid.
Play it loud....
Link: mixed with Queen
Date: Mon Jan 11 04:00:00 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:With Thomas Dolby, 30.5 years ago, in (of course) much better health.
Life is short folks; make it count.
Link: (We could be) "Heroes"
Date: Mon Jan 11 09:20:36 2016
User: BuzzClik
Message:Watched "Martian" last night featuring his Starman.
sigh
Date: Mon Jan 11 12:46:50 2016
User: hotnurse
Message:TN, thanks. Great video.
Interesting bio of Thomas Dolby...never knew.
Date: Mon Jan 11 13:13:49 2016
User: ix
Message:
Date: Mon Jan 11 15:25:19 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:Re: "in (of course) much better health"....
I struggled with how to word that. That concert had been discussed on this board previously, especially the Queen set, and Bowie seemed so vibrant in that "Heroes" clip, I was trying to point out the contrast, without being maudlin, pseudo-snarky, or anything along either of those lines. And that's where the "Life is short....." came in, too. Although I was never the world's biggest fan, I always admired his creativity and lack of fear in his art.
We're losing so many of those artists we grew up with, as each one leaves us, it seems (for me at least) to somehow help pave that pathway to the other side, and so this, along with far too many funerals in my personal life the last couple of years, put me in sort of a nostalgic mood.
I certainly wasn't "playing" it, or trying to be clever. (Although I was aware that the way I phrased that was awkward, or quirky, or whatever. None of those things were my intent, but I didn't want to belabor each word at 3 AM.) (And I'm in no way the slightest bit offended by your observation/characterization.)
Date: Wed Jan 13 06:42:41 2016
User: malr
Message:Interesting to see TED mentioned again - there's a word for when you see something and then you see it again and it looks like it's all over the place.
Can't remember the word (phrase?) though.
Helen
Date: Wed Jan 13 11:17:34 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:You're probably thinking of the Badder-Meinhof Phenomenon, and it's been discussed hereon several times:
http://www.freecell.net/f/c/discsearchresults.html?dsearchterm=Baader&dsearchtype=dbody
Perhaps most accessibly, ix's thread of that title, linked below.
However, seems to me that TED is not all that uncommon these days (although far from ubiquitous), so maybe that's not what you're referring to.
Link: Badder-Meinhof earlier on this board
Date: Wed Jan 13 11:19:42 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:And another thread involving Baader-Meinhof (sorry I misspelled it above), that you yourself started, Helen:
Link: fungible?
Date: Wed Jan 13 12:34:47 2016
User: ix
Message:
Date: Mon Jun 13 09:00:11 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:I don't *think* I've posted this before. Apologies if I have. Yes, a true one-hit wonder, and pretty pathetic lyrics in spots, but I've always liked the groove of the chorus. As a bonus, try to pick out hotnurse in some of the scenes.
Link: "I think it's so groovy now...."
Date: Mon Jun 13 11:41:45 2016
User: hotnurse
Message:Lol, that's so funny now but back then I loved that song. And if you are referring to the pic of the girl on the cover of the lp at the end, why yes, that was me in my prime. Plus, there are several of the flower-girl dancers that could be mistaken for me.
Date: Wed Oct 19 14:41:39 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well, it's been awhile since we've delved into some serious blues....
Somebody named "RochestersEarl" has been posting some exceedingly excellent long (as in whole show), high-quality videos of many of the masters on gootube. I could post a dozen or more, but I'll limit it, at least for the moment, to 3 giants, John Lee, Wolf, and Lightnin'. There's much, much more relatively recent stuff from them, so follow your noses if you're so inclined.
I'll start with this. Although ain't nuthin' wrong with Memphis boy Furry Lewis, I post this mostly for the stark, spartan, unadulterated setting and style of John Lee here. 1978. Powerful stuff. John Lee would be 99 right now.
Link: Hooker playing it clean and simple
Date: Wed Oct 19 14:50:51 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:Although he's not playing guitar here, his stage presence is just mesmerizing. Approximately equal in interest is the searing licks of Hubert Sumlin (with Sunnyland Slim on piano). I know most of you won't have the patience to watch and listen to the whole thing, but spend some time moving ahead through the whole thing just to see some of his antics. He talks about how he developed the "howlin'" (from Jimmie Rogers yodeling! Who knew?!) This is from 1970. Wolf would be 106 now. Since his heyday was before my time, I never got the experience of seeing him in person, sadly.
Link: Wolf howls a little
Date: Wed Oct 19 14:58:56 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:Oh, you want to see him hit some licks?
(Skip ahead to 4:05 and watch 'til the end of it if you don't have the patience for all of it (even tho it's only 5:37 long).)
1966.
From the same session, blowing harp instead of laying down licks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpKB6OZ_B4c
Link: Wolf's innovative guitar style
Date: Wed Oct 19 15:06:47 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ok, this is just over an hour from various shows, and it's all good, but again, if you're impatient, or time-constrained, skip ahead to 40:05 to see him masterfully lay out his electric stuff. Wowser.
Link: Lightnin' shows all kinds of tricks
Date: Thu Nov 24 23:34:07 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:Back on page 2 of this thread (Fri Jul 4 05:17:50 2014), I posted a version of this song filmed in Boston.
So here now is another really, really good version of the same song, with similarly high sound quality, but on a considerably(?) earlier tour. And considerably different - which is interesting and worthy of "discuss amongst yourselves". I once again hesitate to put this into an "old music" thread, but it's shockingly 29 years since this performance. The Edge and Mullen could hardly sound better together in such a booming yet tight groove. This is what rock 'n' roll is supposed to be.
Recommend on full screen. And don't spare the volume.
Link: "With or Without You", from 1987
Date: Sun Nov 27 12:56:17 2016
User: hotnurse
Message:Ahm great clip. Back in the day of Joshua Tree...that is another CD that I played, I'm sure, a hundred or more times in a short period of time. Nothing bad on the entire cd.
I also remember that cd during a time of transition in my life from being married to being single with two kids...both of whom loved my music as much as me. Good memories, sad memories. That song was especially meaningful.
Tx, TN for a great clip.
Date: Wed Nov 30 22:48:33 2016
User: TNmountainman
Message:Speaking of OLD music............the wondrous sounds of Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, et al......
(Consider this a companion piece to the gootube I posted on page 2 of this thread (Sept. 10, 2014).
Link: "Matty Groves" - a tale from the distant past
Date: Thu Dec 1 11:12:09 2016
User: hotnurse
Message:Btw, in my post above I have no idea what Ahm referred to other than to address TN but the stroke keys aren't even close. My typing (with 4-5 fingers) sucks and I do't check my script before hitting enter.
Good clip above, TN.
Date: Tue Dec 6 08:45:41 2016
User: wildcard
Message:Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 1964. Did she get buried by the Beatles, etc? Or was she just too sophisticated for us back then. Been pondering.
Link: https://youtu.be/SR2gR6SZC2M
Date: Wed Mar 1 08:54:26 2017
User: BuzzClik
Message:This song doesn't fit any of the current music threads, and I am not starting another (when this might be the only post in that thread).
This song fits the not-so-broad genre of "what would it be like if a guy resembling Randy Newman decided to make a tribute song to Bruce Springsteen about living in Minnesota?" This isn't exactly a cover; it's more of an homage. And it isn't new, because it came out 11 years ago.
Anyway, The Hold Steady is a Brooklyn-based indie band that has been putting out music for a decade or so. This song crawled through the airwaves last night, and I stopped everything to give it a good listen. I decided that it kinda fits the structure and sorta fits the sound of a couple of Bruce's more upbeat rock songs (e.g., Rosalita), but it's more muted. And the lyrics are fascinating.
I'll put these guys on my list of bands to see if they happen to be playing in the area.
Link: The Hold Steady, "Stuck Between Stations"
Date: Sat Mar 18 22:53:19 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:One of the greatest, Mr. Chuck Berry, has now left us, at 90, earlier today.
Date: Mon Mar 20 22:12:48 2017
User: Klepp
Message:I recall seeing a home video of Chuck Berry's in which he urinated upon a woman in an act of utter disrespect. It was contained in a collection of other videos that would surely humiliate the average person were it ever to become public.
Date: Tue Mar 21 08:53:13 2017
User: outskirts
Message:GEE THANKS FOR THAT
Date: Mon Mar 27 09:16:55 2017
User: FilthyMcNasty
Message:Fetishes come in all flavors. Some people like feet, some people like dressing up.
And some people like watching videos of other people's fetishes.
Live and let live.
Date: Sat Apr 15 13:27:02 2017
User: hotnurse
Message:Well, we have to face the fact that most of our icons of music are starting to drop off at an alarming rate...as are we and our friends and siblings. Very sad. Great memories too but that's the circle of life...which brings up the fact that their is new, wonderful music for me...as precious new granddaughter. Adelyn Grace, 4-11-17, 7 lb 12 oz and a bundle of love for me. Life goes on......
(I hated to start a new thread about AG so I sneeked her in here. ;)
Date: Tue May 2 12:25:21 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:Dammit. One I *almost* got to see about 3-4 times. Legendary live shows.....
Probably some here don't know much about him, but his influence FAR exceeds his commercial success or mainstream impact.
I guess if you're going to check out, this is *the* way to do it.
Link: Col. Bruce, *ON* his 70th
Date: Thu May 4 12:46:30 2017
User: Ellie2
Message:Thanks, Mike! I liked it and posted it to FaceBook...
Date: Sat May 27 19:39:52 2017
User: TNmountainman
Message:Greg Allman joins the others. RIP.
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