"That's 'Fahza'"
Posted on 10/03/2022 6:09:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
Listening to a few Rick Beato features like the link above - Episode 91 with Joni Mitchell.
Whether it's the top 20 guitar solos or it's this piece discussing Joni Mitchell it becomes obvious that from folk to metal to rock to county we have some brilliant musicians. They understand theory, phrasing, poetry, art.
Every aspiring musician that grabs a guitar and starts playing has to realize the complexity of music and the genius of some of these musicians from Larry Carlton to John Bonham.
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“Black Betty” was good. So was “Radar Love” and so many other seventies song.
Admittedly I’m biased.
Both my sons are into classic rock bands like Boston, Journey, Rush and Steely Dan. All their music came out before they were even born.
I cannot say that I ever listened to the music of my parents like they listen to mine.
"That's 'Fahza'"
Honesty is the best policy
Thanks for your input.
There have been one or two things by “rap artists” that are somewhat entertaining. The first one that comes to my mind is “Empire State of Mind” by Jay Z.
Eh, I like some of it. It’s a very different structure and if you’re used to radio rock it’s hard to understand. But originally it was really just black punk. Heck the 2 big areas hip hop got invented weren’t terribly far from the big punk neighborhoods. Originally it was music for pissed off people, built off funk beats instead of hard rock. I still like that very punk style stuff. Later it expanded into a world basically parallel to rock with a million sub-genres. Like anything else, some is good, some isn’t. Snoop Dogg lays down killer grooves.
I enjoy the big bands, Sinatra, and who doesn't like Herb Alert and the Tijuana Brass.
Been saying that for decades.
I’m embarrassed. I only know the name of one of those. I wise it was none.
A lot of adolescent boys developed a sudden appreciation of Herb Alpert when the Whipped Cream and Other Delights album came out.
There’s nothing worse than hearing a song that sounds pretty good, then there’s a “rap” in the middle of it. WHY?!?!?!
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Maybe they were trying to set an example for the rap industry to help them crawl out of the gutter and quit poisoning the minds of the WORLD.
I like lots of genres of music
( not rap )
But Rush is probably my favorite band.
Yeah I can See that
I can think of maybe 3 to 4 so-called hip-hop songs that I can tolerate because they have a melody or a decent singer like Jay Z and the mulatto girl with the New York song ….Alicia Keys and that Tupac Dr. Dre song California I don’t mind those two I actually listen to them a few times in my life my wife on the other hand likes to do yoga to that Eminem movie soundtrack stretching about the beat to that song where he talks about stage fright and getting up there and doing it she likes that I don’t but she does and my wife is no wiglet
I lost my kid over it!! I lost it one day and spilled it out about what kinda bullshit no talent garbage rap is and continued on about it’s origin and the garbage it attracts... A year and a half later he hasn’t talked to me... Living in his mother’s boyfriend’s basement smokin weed and rarely works... Kinda like the garbage that listens to rapusic...
It hurts, but I will not give into that crap in the least...
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Prayers sent.
Heartbreaking.
It’s even invaded so-called Country.
HA!
love it!
I am going to steal that!
A good ways back the “rap” was Leadbelly singing “Pick a Bale of Cotton” , that is to say what are called “call and response” field shouting/work songs (railroad songs lining track by hand, etc.).
This has morphed into truly disgusting mix of non-english ebonic crap rap with little to no melody, lot of boom and stupid (very anti- female and traditional values) murder posturing. And there are lots of whites (as Sen. Byrd observed and described them) who go for this— even in “country” rap with “clap and fingersnap” bass line boom beats. It really stinks, and appeals to the dumbest out of control doper of any stripe.
For balance here is a classic from The Atlanta Rhythm Section describing the phenomena at real crap hole club they played long ago in Jax,FL (The Rainbow Grill). The real pros of the studio and concert scene in the 70’s (yes- a long while back as the battle began. One cannot argue taste— but...one SHOULD nevertheless in defense of musicianship alone!). Thanks for the post 1Oldpro, from another FReepro-you gave morning hope for a revival of serious players and writers without backing tracks and unintelligible ramblings between crack pipe sessions.
Boogie Smoogie: keep with it— at 3:22 comes the great lyrics and uptime all recorded on maybe a 16 track analog tape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GLivgLz1Bg
Rules!
The lady just passed in recent weeks
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