Subject: old music
Date: Thu Jan 6 00:17:53 2022
User: redberet
Message:Sometimes you got to go the source to get your fix (SoulTrain). Any playlist of mine has to include some Stylistics, Spinners, Ojays, Harold Melvin.
Link: Dramatics-Whatcha see is whatcha get.
Date: Thu Jan 6 01:03:25 2022
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:Completely amazing how close they could make that sound to the original recording. Even the musicians just off-camera. Only the real pros can do that.
Date: Thu Jan 6 01:27:55 2022
User: redberet
Message:That is true. I'm also a fan of Brenton Wood. I personally like "I think you've got your fools mixed up". But when I listened to this, he sounds so much like Sam Cooke it's eerie.
Link: Brenton Wood-Sad Little Songs
Date: Thu Jan 6 07:21:33 2022
User: Klepp
Message:If you'd not told me who was singing there, I'd certainly have suspected Sam Cooke--and this is before I read you yourself supposed the same...
Date: Fri Jan 7 17:45:02 2022
User: Klepp
Message:I loved the bass line paired with the chorus' jauntiness, first time I heard it ca. '85...genre lost, sort of...
Link: Fairground Attraction - Perfect
Date: Fri Jan 7 20:33:00 2022
User: Klepp
Message:I'm amazed John still walks this Earth...[respect]...
Link: Master of Reality
Date: Sun Jan 9 02:34:51 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Michael Lang has passed away at 77. There may be a few here who don't know who he was, and what a big influence he had via Woodstock..............so this article will 'splain some of it.
Link: Michael Lang
Date: Mon Jan 10 05:27:18 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Sadly............I see that my earlier videos in this thread (page 3, from 2016) of both John Lee and The Wolf have been removed. I'm pretty positive this wasn't one I've ever posted, tho. John Lee in B&W, raw, but good quality. The master Willie Dixon slappin', Sunnyland Slim on the keys, Johnny Shines (who used to hang with Robert Johnson) on (other) guitar - total legends all.
Link: John Lee, sparse but strong and solid
Date: Mon Jan 10 05:41:00 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Twenty years later.................................finds him showing some youngsters how it's done. (Nice Charlie Watts action in the background.)
And you can see how the youngsters pay him almost obsequious tribute at the end - especially Ronnie. Good stuff. Strong medicine.
Link: John Lee dancin' and struttin'
Date: Thu Jan 20 00:15:27 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Some of Roger Waters' childhood was stolen from him due his father's premature death in wartime...he elucidates his loneliness, bitterness here...
I play this for myself now as I patiently await my own father's discharge from hospital due vascular difficulties...sadly, Dad's health fading, I pray to enjoy his presence on Earth here as long as Fate allows...
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx-bCPUItwI
Date: Thu Jan 20 03:00:59 2022
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:Well Klepp, I wish a prompt recovery for your father.
You have reminded me of a song I used to listen when my father was alive and it used to become unbearable for me when I came to the part of the lyrics in which he was talking about his father's death and that used to make me think about my dad's death and stop listening there. Now my father is long gone and I can go further and listen to the whole of it.
Link: Teoman's
Date: Thu Jan 20 03:14:33 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Here's an English translation of "Paramparca", Hop's link above. Probably a bit unwieldy, as translations can be, yet still carries profundity.
Link: "Paramparca" English translation
Date: Thu Jan 20 07:17:23 2022
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:Klepp, can't get your link to work on either of two devices.
Date: Thu Jan 20 10:22:54 2022
User: outskirts
Message:The Wall full album?
Date: Thu Jan 20 17:13:14 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Woohoo. I found a music video at youtube with only 610,231 views, 5.8 thousand likes, and ZERO dislikes!
Link: https://youtu.be/PTYDpMiirRQ
Date: Sun Jan 30 23:55:25 2022
User: Klepp
Message:I thank you Hop, for the nice words...and yes outskirts, I was enjoying Floyd's Wall, as I recall doing so very very regularly as a youngster (age 10) back in '80...(although Side 4 scared young Klepp)...but WOW! The xylophone jamming on Sabre Dance!
...and certainly, Teoman's voice is plaintive, moreso after reading his lyrics...
...I believe I initially returned to this post since I was listening to some old Ministry, but it's of no deep consequence to link what I jammed on in comparison to the heartfelt sentiments I read above...
...Dad's back home; we enjoyed today's football games together...and yeah, redberet and Buzz, why not the Bengals? That possibility to be pursued further on the accompanying thread...
(...even though it seems Stafford's time since dude cut his teeth so very long in DET...)
Date: Thu Feb 3 17:32:32 2022
User: outskirts
Message:By the way, I've noticed over at yutub they don't show dislikes on anything now.
Date: Tue Feb 15 13:16:50 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Of course I heard Cobain's remake of Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" then leading me to enjoy Bowie's original version...but how the f*** did it take me this long to listen to the album front to back? Wow. Particularly outstanding acoustics and (Nietzsche-referencing) lyrics here...as if this then spawned glam rock, and a decade later goth rock...
Link: The Man Who Sold the World (album '70)
Date: Tue Feb 15 23:45:56 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Hmmm. That link says it's a "private video", and I can't access it.
Date: Wed Feb 16 08:06:02 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Odd...may have something to do with Bowie's stuff now all corporate, disabled links...I think one can still access as I did...YouTube search david bowie the man who sold the world full album 1970...especially the second cut: "All the Madmen"
Date: Wed Feb 16 08:10:02 2022
User: Klepp
Message:It's kind of sad that now in my mind's eye I see Bowie as Tesla, instead of as The Man Who Fell to Earth...still deep respect to Christopher Nolan...
Date: Wed Feb 16 10:42:31 2022
User: Klepp
Message:I think I read Bowie said he was on around ten grams of cocaine/day when shooting the film...whacked out, looking ethereal...
Date: Thu Feb 17 13:45:28 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:All, or almost all of us in 'this demographic' are familiar with the Who's "Live at Leeds". It's one of the "essential" records from that time - and I hope most of us still have it. Well.................this is not that; or the video isn't. Nor is it a Japanese science fiction film where the audio and video are hilariously off. The show at Leeds wasn't filmed - or if it was, just tiny fragments by amateurs. However, this uploader has put the Leeds album version with what apparently is (mostly) the Isle of Wight 1970 festival. There's at least two sources here, however, if one looks closely. But that's not the point. Suspend that criticality just for about 7 and 1/2 minutes and enjoy this 'compilation' of the lads at, or near, their peak. Really a well-done meshing of the sources.
Date: Thu Feb 17 15:32:06 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:BTW.............or much more than "BTW"....................most, or all (at least 1 hour) of (The Who's 1970 Isle of Wight performance) is on gootube, which I link below. The audio is poor for the first few minutes, however. But VERY specifically, check out "Young Man Blues" beginning at 9:15. Lord have mercy. The Who would be legendary if only for the video and audio of that single song. All four of them showing their considerable prowess, but Townsend and Moon are just *being* the essence of R&R. Strong, strong, strong stuff. If there's a better, or more compelling version of "Young Man Blues", I'm unaware of it.
Lots and lots of good Moon footage throughout this concert. I won't belabor here with a full list, but "Shakin' All Over/Spoonful" also have some incendiary segments.
[And I just now realized I completely forgot to add the link to my post above. I'll follow up this one with what was supposed to be there. Sorry!]
Link: The Who, 1970 Isle of Wight Festival
Date: Thu Feb 24 15:55:19 2022
User: Klepp
Message:I note that Wiki says he still walks the Earth, but I do recall hearing of his passing a couple years ago...either way, I love your music, sir...
Date: Tue Mar 22 01:09:07 2022
User: cellmate
Message:
too old to be new... too new to be old... try to pick a thread, but yes there had to be one
Link: Tennessee Mountain Man
Date: Thu Mar 31 14:33:36 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Saw Buddy Guy in concert a week or so ago. Such an entertainer. He surrounds himself with talented musicians, which is great because his talents on the guitar have declined just a hair.
The link below is from 11 years ago, and you can see his wonderful stylings in the guitar. The two guys with him are still touring with him.
Link: Buddy Guy, "Damn Right"
Date: Fri Apr 1 19:03:40 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Glad you finally got to see him Buzz. I was a hard sell. He kept telling me, for years and years, that he had the blues. So I had to keep listening, and watching him, in person, to be convinced. Eventually, yeah, I had to agree with him that indeed, he must have the blues. One needs to be sure about these things; can't be too careful. ;)
He's a sharp guy, as you noticed. Doubt if anybody's pulled any wool over his eyes - at least in the last 60+ years or so. Too bad it took Chess so long to figure out what they had. Rumor has it that 'somewhere' there is old stuff from the '60s by him that's never been heard.
Date: Fri Apr 29 15:37:36 2022
User: Klepp
Message:When I was a kid (14 or so) I used to enjoy making "Best of" lists, even as an ignorant teen, and if I recall correctly my list of the best rock bands around, I singled out *five* particular groups that I felt stood head and shoulders above the rest, with *CCR* standing shoulder-to-shoulder in greatness with The Stones, Zeppelin, Floyd, and Lynnard Skynard...now, admittedly, my tastes have changed and evolved in my maturation, but how could there be much better than these guys if you just want to rock out in a seedy little bar, drinking good beer, and talking shop (cab driving for me, in Bucky's playground, back in the day)...?
Link: CCR
Date: Mon May 2 08:21:30 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:If you are unfamiliar with Daniel Johnston, the song below pretty much summarizes his unusual life. His artwork is remarkably popular and his songs have been covered over and over.
“Hi, how are you?”
Link: Daniel Johnston, “Story of an Artist”
Date: Mon May 2 12:11:38 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Wow - that's a revelation. Don't think I've ever heard of him, which is kinda surprising. Not sure I'd want to actually *own* any of his music, but certainly very interesting listening.
Date: Mon May 2 13:47:04 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:His style of performing is not exactly ear candy. But weaving together his music, story, and artwork is fascinating. (Kurt Cobain famously wore the ‘Hi, how are you?’ t-shirt to a huge awards show).
Bits and pieces of Daniel Johnston are scattered across the art universe, and his story finally came completely together for only this weekend. I heard his “Story of an Artist” in a setting that seared it into my brain without knowing what I was hearing. I have seen murals of his work in metropolitan areas, again without knowing what I was seeing. My son has a rare print of Johnston’s on a wall in his home; I asked him about that print, and we spent the next three areas looking at his art and listening to his music. (Johnston had no idea how to reproduce the cassettes on which he was recording, so he simply recorded several copies and sent them to his colleagues; they had no idea that these were the only copies in existence and that Johnston never thought to save a copy for himself)
Sorry for the long post, but it’s an inspirational yet very sad story.
Date: Fri May 13 23:54:58 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:(Very) old music; new rendition. I suspect most by now know Billy Strings, but I suspect there are some here not so hep in Americana as to know much about Michael Cleveland. Which is too bad as it's likely he's the best fiddler who's ever walked this earth. Which is saying something. And certainly debatable, but many who know whatof they speak claim that. But anyway...........this is pretty smokin'. Jump ahead to about 5:00 if you're impatient to see the hottest stuff. 🔥 (But it's all fine.)
Billy and the band have some small solos, too, but Michael really let's it loose.
Link: Mr. Flamekeeper burns some strings
Date: Sun May 29 19:19:58 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Joyous feelings flow through me as I absorb this...inexplicable...
Link: Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Date: Sun Jun 26 05:11:42 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:This is in Asheville last month, and these guys get together and jam every so often. In various conglomerations. Lot to unpack here. First of all...........don't bail on this - it's smokin' all thru 'til the end - except that after about 43:00, there's some distractions. Second of all, Woody Wood is yet another one of those "best guitarists you may never have heard of". He's done stuff with Trombone Shorty and other N.O. cats, among many others. I absolutely love his phrasing, and jazzy touch without being 'jazzy'. Really nice fills and takes some runs in unexpected and innovative directions. Altho he's also from NC, his flatpicking is not in Doc's style.
Two of those guys I know, and *may* be distantly related to one of them; we can't figure out whether we are or not. And no, that's not Bela on fiddle, altho he can play banjo, guitar and about 4 other instruments, too. Incredibly talented. Further..........the mando player is who recently left "my boy" Billy S. to hang around Asheville with his family. All-star jam by true All-Stars. Just a small part of the engine that makes Southern Appalachian music whir......
Almost put this in the "Folk Music" thread, but feared it might get overlooked there.
Speaking of Asheville, saw Abby the Spoon Lady a couple of days ago, busking (in TN, not Asheville), but didn't stop to talk to her.
Link: Just sittin' on the porch pickin' a little
Date: Mon Jun 27 04:51:49 2022
User: Klepp
Message:I pulled it up on my YouTube app on the Fire Stick, to get the much much better fidelity of my TV's audio vice the crappy infidelity of my computer's sound system...I can relax to this stuff...seems one might enjoy it more out on the porch relaxing with an alcoholic beverage...beer for me, though I suppose up there in Appalachia it's bourbon or nothing...good stuff, though I do contend a percussion instrument is necessary to complement this as a septet or sextet...little snare drum would be fine here, I think...
Date: Fri Jul 15 14:36:21 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Heard this on a public radio station a week or so ago. First time in a looong time. They did an extensive interview with him. Pretty interesting. Don't have a link for that. Wonder how different the lyrics would be if he wrote it today.
Link: "Kids These Days"
Date: Sun Jul 24 13:46:53 2022
User: outskirts
Message:timeless
wraps you in a time blanket
floats you on time clefs
if you close your eyes
you are a time machine
Link: https://youtu.be/nEFfzHiEKHY
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