Posted on 01/01/2014 7:18:16 PM PST by hecht
Last night we watched ABC's Dick Clarks New Years Eve Show. When they began to show music performers, the first I saw was Billy Joel. You could tell that it was one of his bona fide live performance as he sounded different from the studio versions, some minor errors etc. In my genervation ( I'm in my 50s) the best albums were often live , where the performers would jam, experiment and ad lib. The Allmans Live at Fillmore East is an example , or the Live version of Led Zepellin's "Dazed and Confused" -filmed in San Francisco - where Robert Plant ad libbed" going to San Francisco" in the middle of the song. After Joel the show went to a series of Millenial performers who all had auto-tuned lip synched performances, where they basically just aerobic danced to songs written by someone else, don't play instruments and have a few clones dancing in synch behind them. I joked to my guests" imagine if the Beatles were part of the Millenial generation. John Lennon would be lip synching an aerobic dance with George , Ringo and Paul would dance in unison behind him. What gives Millenials? have you no sense ? don't you realize that these "performers" are manufactured pretty boys/girls ? they are live action "Archies" If your taste in music is so vacuous , is there any hope for them? Is there any hope to wan them from Obama?
Even the non song writing performers of our generation i.e..e Elvis could at least perform.
Oh, yeah. Rock isn’t dead. It’s just sort of back to smaller venues and talented people, with more recording capability in an iPad than the Beatles ever had at Apple. The big producers gave us Gaga and Beyonce. I don’t miss them.
With the exception of a couple AC/DC songs, those are exactly the bands I mean.
I like '50's metal:
Space Guitar--Young John Watson (1954)
And '50's rap:
Play it Cool--The Spaniels (1954)
These guys posted on Facebook a few months ago an appeal for help from listeners and downloaders of free stuff, saying they had to work day jobs and could barely afford to play music. Invisible to the MSM radio and people who only kvetch about some Rihannas and such crap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNwG2COrmx4
Well to each their own, but the musicians in those bands have hellacious skill, perform their own songs and have the industry/public/popular awards to back up their place in history.
Even if you don’t like the music, it’s hard to deny they are good at what they do. On the other hand, it’s the engineers/men behind the glass that make many modern acts what they are.
Yeah.
Link Ray. Dick Dale.
Hendrix is great.
You watch TV?
Radio stations when I started listening in the 70’s had more variety of styles. I was traveling in Minnesota several years ago and started driving north of Minneapolis for 200 miles and one thing I noticed as I went that the there was still a variety of music that I liked from oldies rock n roll and older country whereas in the city it was bland bland bland. I am near Los Angeles and I can pickup just 1 country station that is ah not much and the oldies station they have now plays 80’s tunes...
iHeartland and Tunein apps for your cellphone are great for getting the music you like. Youtube is great for getting music of all types and people post mix tapes as well to enjoy.
I’ve met Dick Dale. He used to occasionally perform around LA in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s.
Not the musicians. They know better.
Most of my millennial family members listen to either country or old stuff from my era or earlier. There’s a reason. My 20 something cousins wouldn’t be caught dead with a Miley Cyrus or Lady Gaga record.
The mega mergers in radio pretty much resulted in that.
Just to be clear, I do trawl Youtube and have found lots of good and great stuff. There are bands doing 80s synth stuff better than a lot of actual 80s synth bands did it back then. But my comments on this thread are in the context of what passes for mainstream ‘popular’ music.
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Bookmarked. Thank you for that. Turn it up.
Another superb band (note, I don’t judge music by music videos, which I seldom watch):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bODrsgHU4g
I first heard dick dale live in 1964 at the riverside armory
This was back in the 90s when there were jobs on LI that weren’t for local gov’t. They manufactured parts out in Ronkonkoma.
“The Allmans Live at Fillmore East is an example...”
One of the greatest albums of all time.
“California Sun” on the “Back to the Beach” soundtrack is classic! Features Dick Dale with Frankie Avalon and Connie Stevens.
Then you missed the fat trannie in one of them.
Seriezly.
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