my summer HS graduation year (AWESOME SUMMER)....... "1972"
Posted on 06/13/2015 4:36:57 PM PDT by virgil283
"If you listen to enough modern rock and metal music, what with the shredding/blasting guitar sounds and distortion pedals and stomp-boxes and so on, it can be a real eye opener to re-listen to the surprisingly smooth and clean sounds of the earlier hits of the Rolling Stones, and to hear the extent to which they favored finesse and musicality over brawn....."
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Love that duet. She died way too young.
The music of Black America in that Era was wonderful. I have had the privilege of hanging out with some of the original Motown musicians...at REPUBLICAN political rallies.
Hey! What the . . .
I’ve never actually listened to the words before!
Did you read the interview with Camille Paglia at Reason (we’ve been served!?!?!?) Magazine?
She discusses this exact song and how much the feminists hated it. But you know, I have to give them credit for actually listening to the lyrics, so many people don’t do that.
Here is the link to the interview:
http://reason.com/archives/2015/05/30/everythings-awesome-and-camill
I tend to think 1968 - 1972 was the pinnacle for rock music and it's impact.
White Album. Beggars Banquet. Let it Bleed. Abbey Road. Sticky Fingers. Let it Be. Exile on Main Street. Paranoid. Master of Reality. Meddle. Electric Ladyland. Band of Gypsies.
Need I go on?
KSAN changed my life:)
On the other hand, there’s the Grateful Dead...
I saw the Stones twice in the mid ‘80s. I saw them last week in Dallas. Last week was better.
Not to mention the first four Led Zeppelin albums, Who’s Next, Cream’ s Wheels of Fire, Dark Side of the Moon, Machine Head,Dear Mr. Fantasy, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes, and the list goes on and on.
November/December 1969...BCT,Fort Knox,KY...I played Gimme Shelter (along with Don't It Make You Want to Go Home) repeatedly at the PX on Saturday night.Fort Knox changed my life!
That's kind of funny considering the first big hit with distorted guitar was "Satisfaction". Started the whole march to "...shredding/blasting guitar sounds and distortion pedals and stomp-boxes and so on..."
They have some great, classic country songs too:)
BM Stones
"... shredding/blasting guitar sounds and distortion pedals and stomp-boxes and so on, it can be a real eye opener to re-listen to the surprisingly smooth and clean sounds ... "I don't get your point. Bill Wyman is credited with Fuzz Bass on the track (each chorus and the playout). The Fuzz Face he used was a stomp box and it's nasty distortion - nothing clean about it.
It’s been quite a while since I listened to Hey Joe... I started out with my friend’s Rickenbacher bass learning the bass line... anyways... after just listening to that... what amazes me the most in that is... the drumming. I never noticed the tom rolls and just how the snare actually sounds like a gun.
That album is the first LP I ever bought.
“Hey Joe” was the first of Jimi’s recordings with the new Experience at De Lane Lea Studios in London on October 23, 1966, produced by Chas Chandler of the Animals. The band barely knew each other and completed it in just a few takes.
There’s a legendary story about Chas making Jimi turn down the volume on his twin Marshall stack (which was recorded from 15 feet away) during the recording of “Hey Joe”. According to Chandler, “it was so loud in the studio that we were picking up various rattles and noises”. Hendrix threatened to leave England, stating: “If I can’t play as loud as I want, I might as well go back to New York.” Chandler, who had Jimi’s immigration papers and passport in his back pocket, laid the documents on the mixing console and told Hendrix to “p*ss off”. Hendrix laughed and said: “All right, you called my bluff”, and they got back to work.
“Hey Joe” was his first UK release and became an instant hit record that remains fresh 39 years later. Most of the other songs on that first LP were recorded or redone at CBS or Olympic Studios (with Eddie Kramer engineering). Even “Purple Haze” was redone at Olympic keeping only the bass line from the De Lane Lea sessions, and featuring Jimi’s new toy, the Octavia (an octave-doubling effect pedal used on the solo). The sound was so extreme that when the master tapes for were sent to Reprise Records for remastering, they wrote on the tape box: “Deliberate distortion. Do not correct.”
Sad to say I Never saw Jimmy.
He was like a meteor that streaked across the sky.
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