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Does anyone remember a time before milli vanilli, before autotune, a time when rock bands were actually really talented musicians ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJLRVk6UJAs&ab_channel=MusicVideoVault ^

Posted on 08/09/2023 8:18:29 PM PDT by algore

There was a lot of really greatness in music before the 90s and I just give this as an example, but could easily give you a hundred more.

but I just don't see it today, and I don't know why.

Am I just missing all of today's talent somehow or has something changed?


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To: dfwgator

And before Prince, there was little Stevie Wonder, check him out rockin out on the drums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z57-f827e68


81 posted on 08/09/2023 9:36:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I’m sure you’ve seen Standing in the Shadows of Motown?
https://youtu.be/BL9fF4Jtovc


82 posted on 08/09/2023 9:37:51 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: dfwgator

What did he play. A half dozen different instruments???


83 posted on 08/09/2023 9:38:23 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: FLNittany

80’s pop, rock, hard rock and metal are my jam, baby!


84 posted on 08/09/2023 9:40:45 PM PDT by metalheaddoc
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To: dfwgator

Well, here we go…
https://www.instrumments.com/how-many-instruments-did-prince-play/


85 posted on 08/09/2023 9:42:12 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: metalheaddoc

I joke that it used to be that Heavy Metal music was the music you played to annoy your parents. Now parents play heavy metal to annoy their kids.


86 posted on 08/09/2023 9:42:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Link to The Wrecking Crew Movie

https://youtu.be/-ZgBexrZvM0

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87 posted on 08/09/2023 9:46:53 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: algore

Since someone brought up music you may want to consider an interesting observation. If you want to know what what mood or condition a country is in, all you have to do is listen to the music the general public is listening to and it pretty well tells you what goes on in most of their heads, and this is exactly reflected in the music we hear today. Dissonance, mayhem as well as garbage.


88 posted on 08/09/2023 9:47:30 PM PDT by Saintgermain
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To: P-Marlowe

And in the 80s Steve Lukather of Toto, was a one-man wrecking crew, it’s amazing how many songs he played on.


89 posted on 08/09/2023 9:48:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I still listen to Chicago about once a week. They have so many songs, that one will just pop in my head, and just I hit the play button on my iphone.

The stories about Jimi Hendrix discovering them are classic, and how he signed them as his opening act. You probably know, but he supposedly even told them “your guitar player is better than me” after a concert one night.


90 posted on 08/09/2023 9:49:14 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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To: algore

Augusta, Georgia had James Brown.
He was a singer, dancer, and his concerts were incredible.
Horn sections, singers, dancers...
They were more than just concerts...
They were a whole full production.

Official version of Living In America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58

Live version of Living In America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6_o03YOm18


91 posted on 08/09/2023 9:56:55 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: dfwgator

Here is Rick Beato’s interview with Steve Lukather.

https://youtu.be/4nBbzajS29o


92 posted on 08/09/2023 9:58:01 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Back in the 1960’s and 70’s lots really talented people who could do it all.


93 posted on 08/09/2023 9:58:53 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I have heard he could play 27 different instruments.


94 posted on 08/09/2023 9:59:39 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: algore
There are still new talented musicians, you just need to look for them in the right places. Check this out: Polyphia: Playing God.
95 posted on 08/09/2023 10:01:44 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: Rennes Templar

I pretty much stopped listening to “rock” after Dire Straits.

All downhill to grunge and whatever it is these days.


96 posted on 08/09/2023 10:02:33 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: PGR88
the Monkees actually wrote very accessible pop songs that were nonetheless interesting, original and sometimes quite complex. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" comes to mind.

That was written by Carole King. Most of their early songs were written by pros and mostly performed by session musicians, which is why people call them a fake band.

But it's their voices on the records. I look at it this way: while the rest of the Beach Boys were on tour Brian Wilson sat in a studio with a bunch of top musicians (many of the same guys who played for the Monkees) and developed the album Pet Sounds. the rest of the band came in at the end just to sing the parts.

So why aren't the Beach Boys called fakes? What about Motown, they didn't write the songs and they didn't play the instruents, they just sang (just like the monkees). Were they fake too?

The guys sang the songs, they were part of the product. They also began taking over the music playing later on too. for my nickel calling them the same as Milli Vanilli is absurd, those guys were male models who were hired to pose and lip sync to other peoples music and singing. Nowhere near the same thing.

97 posted on 08/09/2023 10:02:40 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: dfwgator

Dr. Demento is a name I have not heard in awhile. He was great.


98 posted on 08/09/2023 10:04:48 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: algore

I was recently listening to and reading the story about the 60’s and 70’s rock band Badfinger. What great music but a tragic story.


99 posted on 08/09/2023 10:12:40 PM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: algore

How would you auto-tone Janis Joplin?


100 posted on 08/09/2023 10:21:22 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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