Posted on 09/04/2019 8:20:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thanks for that link - never saw that video.
“I was born at an early age”
Also the “Pre-Muslim” Cat Stevens
Back in the 70’s, when I sold Hi-Fi, a music reviewer in one of the hi-fi magazines talked about a college room mate coming into his dorm room with this new album by a group called “The Who”. His room mate said something like, “Check out this band! Lead bass!”
Disagree with both of you. Geddy Lee of Rush is the best bassist, for my money.
I collected a ton of that stuff from estate sales before I left seattle for my home in Kentucky. If you just sit down and listen to that stuff, it’s quite amazing. There is a lot of stuff going on in those recordings. And many of them are done really well.
I think, though there is a lot of good music today, the number of really virtuoso musicians being recorded hasn’t grown all that much, really. Sure, there are plenty of “pretty good” musicians, but there is no “Wrecking crew” today that I am aware of.
“The idea that many young people today still love fifty year old music - and it’s cool to do so, would have been foreign to my generation in the 60-s through 80-s.”
Not too long ago a 13 year old girl showed me her little listening device that held her songs and I went over the titles. Most were the songs that were popular when I was 13.
Heh. I really tried to get into Rush, but I just couldn’t do it. But he is a good bassist.
However, I don’t really judge them on chops. I judge them on style and feel. My favorite guitar solo is from “Comfortably Numb”, but it’s definitely not the most technically challenging.
BTW, I have a DVD documentary called Rising Low that was done by the bass player from Physh.
It is a documentary about a Government Mule album done in memory of Allen Woody. Every song has a different bass player and he interviews each one and gives a sample of their playing as well as inside the recording sessions. Lots of greats there, including the late Entwistle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Low
You can throw country music into the discard bin. It is horrendous now.
I was talking to a niece’s boyfriend; he is about 22. He told me that he did not like country music. I thought for a second, and decided that if I were his age, I would not like it either.
Exactly.
For every Beatles and Zep, there were hundreds of brilliant artists who never got the break.
It’s just pathetic to hear people bemoan the lack of good music when it’s just that they are too lazy to FIND it.
As you noted, there is also more BAD music out there than ever, too, but there are the tools to find the good stuff.
Anyone bitching has only themselves to blame. I wouldn’t trade Spotify or Pandora for ANY ten radio stations of the 1950’s-1990’s.
I’ve found more good, new stuff (or at least new to me) in the last year than I ever did in my youth rabidly listening to everything I could.
I have that DVD, too. Great stuff.
Put myself through college playing bass and still gig when I choose to.
I find it easier to discover bands from the 70s that I never knew much about.
For example, I recently discovered Van Der Graaf Generator on YouTube, and have been playing a lot of their stuff.
My theory is that 50 years from now, people will be into bands that weren’t very popular when they were alive, kind of like how Van Gogh only got famous after he died.
Hated Country Music as a kid, but I’ve gained a huge respect for the old-school Country as I’ve gotten older.
I like jazz more as a niche.
People that are into it will consume everything, not just the big mainstream acts.
From a business standpoint, the major record labels have a lot in common with the old movie studios. Consider the time & capital spent developing talent. How many "made it big" vs. how many were "one hit wonders" -- or never made it at all? The monopolies are largely gone as production costs have dropped. Oh yeah, there are still blockbuster movies, but then you get groundbreaking stuff being created on Youtube that gets picked up by the streaming services. It's chaos out there.
I agere the bands you mentioned all seem to be their OWN genre each very very unique in their own right
Frank Zappa observed that in the 60s, it was the old guys with the cigars who decided which bands got signed, “Who knows? Let’s give it a chance, and see what happens.”
Then in the 70s, the young guys took over, and they were more conservative than the old guys with the cigars were, because they were young, and they thought they knew what young people wanted to listen to.
1950’s: The golden age of jazz, Elvis, and Link Wray who started guitarmageddon with “Rumble” in 1958.
Thanks to Pandora I discovered “Of Monsters and Men”, Lorde, and even a girl in Texas that is absolutely awesome, though I doubt in this world she will ever “make it big”, even though I think her stuff is really, really good. I’d love to see her stuff on vinyl.
Kelsey Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPBQuDZGYZp2htTbNU1rwMg
Back in the day, there is no way those of us outside her geographical location would have heard of her.
Saw The Stones on their just concluded tour and they kicked ass!
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