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Post by Fletcher on May 7, 2015 20:33:55 GMT
Big Neil Young fan, too, and a lot of his stuff has a country/folk element to it - well, "a lot" meaning when he's not working with Crazy Horse. Generally, I like that roots/blues/country intersection. Neil Young is probably my all-time favorite, but I always remain torn on whether I like him with or without Crazy Horse. A lot of the CH songs are near and dear to me, but when he's touring now, I've started to pray that it will be without CH. I want him to be mostly accoustic and unaccompanied these days. I can do without Billy Talbot and Poncho Sampedro jamming for 12 minutes on 5 different songs (although I could probably listen to long versions of Cortez and Cowgirl all day long)
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2015 20:54:42 GMT
I've always liked Walter Horton, but you're right - I don't have much in my collection; just some stuff on anthologies. I will follow up on these. No problem! I was a Big Walter fanatic, he played a lot in New England in the 70's, mostly with a guy named Johnny Nicholas who got Ronnie Earl (nee Ronnie Horvat) started before he moved to Texas to play in Asleep at the Wheel. Big Walter was known to the older musicians as being a huge BS artist, he would tell long and convoluted stories about his motel rooms being bugged with a roach clip; he used to have all these cats, one compilation that wasn't so great was "Mouth Harp Maestro." If you can find it, he did a great album with Ronnie Earl in the 70's "Live at the Knickerbocker." All of his Chess stuff was great, and I spent hours upon hours trying to learn "Easy" "Walter's Boogie" and his part of Jimmy Rogers "Walking By Myself." Big Walter is the King of Harmonica Tone, George "Harmonica" Smith is the King of the Chromatic and Little Walter might be the King of the Blues, period. He did this album with Carey Bell on Alligator, the second album that label ever did that's 5 stars.
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Post by bookboy007 on May 7, 2015 21:13:34 GMT
I've always liked Walter Horton, but you're right - I don't have much in my collection; just some stuff on anthologies. I will follow up on these. No problem! I was a Big Walter fanatic, he played a lot in New England in the 70's, mostly with a guy named Johnny Nicholas who got Ronnie Earl (nee Ronnie Horvat) started before he moved to Texas to play in Asleep at the Wheel. Big Walter was known to the older musicians as being a huge BS artist, he would tell long and convoluted stories about his motel rooms being bugged with a roach clip; he used to have all these cats, one compilation that wasn't so great was "Mouth Harp Maestro." If you can find it, he did a great album with Ronnie Earl in the 70's "Live at the Knickerbocker." All of his Chess stuff was great, and I spent hours upon hours trying to learn "Easy" "Walter's Boogie" and his part of Jimmy Rogers "Walking By Myself." Big Walter is the King of Harmonica Tone, George "Harmonica" Smith is the King of the Chromatic and Little Walter might be the King of the Blues, period. He did this album with Carey Bell on Alligator, the second album that label ever did that's 5 stars. I've spent more than a few hours working on Elmore James stuff on guitar. I stink at slide, but love his stuff so I keep trying. I also love the Hubert Sumlin work on Howlin' Wolf's records, and some of it is all feel and not technically complex, so I can do a mean "Evil" and "Killing Floor." I play an ES-335-style semi-hollow body made by a company best known for hand carved violins, cellos and basses or my new prize - a '66 Fender Mustang I bought in Nashville. Having two means I keep one in the D tuning James played more often than not. I take lessons from a guy who toured with a few blues acts and met a lot of the old guard when you could still do that - I guess Albert King was the biggest s.o.b. you'd never want to meet, both physically and metaphorically. One of the stories was of a tech who spent hours getting a 14 piece stage set up perfectly, and then just before the curtain went up on the show, King went out and unplugged all of the amps except his guitar because hey, everyone's here to hear Albert.
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Post by watchtower on May 7, 2015 23:45:37 GMT
Now that the nice weather is here, the music i listen to regularly has officially changed. Been listening to a lot of Joe Strummers solo stuff lately, lotta clash, the breeders, pixies and picked up a Wilco album on vinyl the other day which has gotten a good few plays. Anything good you guys have been listening to lately? Eric Burdon and the Animals "when I was young".
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Post by jmwalters on May 8, 2015 13:49:14 GMT
For me, stuck on NIN-the downward spiral....making me depressed.
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Post by 50belowzero on May 8, 2015 14:08:18 GMT
For me, stuck on NIN-the downward spiral.... making me depressed.Stay away from any "old" country music then,it'll finish you off!
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Post by MrHulot on May 8, 2015 14:10:40 GMT
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
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Post by jmwalters on May 8, 2015 14:11:40 GMT
For me, stuck on NIN-the downward spiral.... making me depressed.Stay away from any "old" country music then,it'll finish you off! But not the new stuff, of course, which are basically rock songs with a vocalist singing in a fake country accent. Man I hate that
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Post by 50belowzero on May 8, 2015 14:15:36 GMT
Stay away from any "old" country music then,it'll finish you off! But not the new stuff, of course, which are basically rock songs with a vocalist singing in a fake country accent. Man I hate that Exactly,they have no idea what hard times are! George Jones,Johnny Cash,Merle Haggard and the rest,they lived it!
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Post by jmwalters on May 8, 2015 14:57:18 GMT
But not the new stuff, of course, which are basically rock songs with a vocalist singing in a fake country accent. Man I hate that Exactly,they have no idea what hard times are! George Jones,Johnny Cash,Merle Haggard and the rest,they lived it! So true. A friend of mine dragged me to a Dallas Smith concert. He had originally been in a quasi-successful Canadian rock band that split up and decided to go solo as a country artist.....and suddenly he had a country twang to his singing voice and even sang some rock covers at the concert. No respect for him at all. Unfortunately this is all too common
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Post by 50belowzero on May 8, 2015 15:01:08 GMT
Exactly,they have no idea what hard times are! George Jones,Johnny Cash,Merle Haggard and the rest,they lived it! So true. A friend of mine dragged me to a Dallas Smith concert. He had originally been in a quasi-successful Canadian rock band that split up and decided to go solo as a country artist.....and suddenly he had a country twang to his singing voice and even sang some rock covers at the concert. No respect for him at all. Unfortunately this is all too common A Dallas Smith concert!? Is that what he's doing now? From Bobby Orr's partner,to rock and then a country star,wow!
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Post by jmwalters on May 8, 2015 15:03:25 GMT
So true. A friend of mine dragged me to a Dallas Smith concert. He had originally been in a quasi-successful Canadian rock band that split up and decided to go solo as a country artist.....and suddenly he had a country twang to his singing voice and even sang some rock covers at the concert. No respect for him at all. Unfortunately this is all too common A Dallas Smith concert!? Is that what he's doing now? From Bobby Orr's partner,to rock and then a country star,wow! haha!!! No, the singer for the former band Default. Had a hit and toured a bit before imploding. Never was a fan of them but Smith is 100x worse. I think he actually won a juno for best country artist....go figure
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 18:53:29 GMT
No problem! I was a Big Walter fanatic, he played a lot in New England in the 70's, mostly with a guy named Johnny Nicholas who got Ronnie Earl (nee Ronnie Horvat) started before he moved to Texas to play in Asleep at the Wheel. Big Walter was known to the older musicians as being a huge BS artist, he would tell long and convoluted stories about his motel rooms being bugged with a roach clip; he used to have all these cats, one compilation that wasn't so great was "Mouth Harp Maestro." If you can find it, he did a great album with Ronnie Earl in the 70's "Live at the Knickerbocker." All of his Chess stuff was great, and I spent hours upon hours trying to learn "Easy" "Walter's Boogie" and his part of Jimmy Rogers "Walking By Myself." Big Walter is the King of Harmonica Tone, George "Harmonica" Smith is the King of the Chromatic and Little Walter might be the King of the Blues, period. He did this album with Carey Bell on Alligator, the second album that label ever did that's 5 stars. I've spent more than a few hours working on Elmore James stuff on guitar. I stink at slide, but love his stuff so I keep trying. I also love the Hubert Sumlin work on Howlin' Wolf's records, and some of it is all feel and not technically complex, so I can do a mean "Evil" and "Killing Floor." I play an ES-335-style semi-hollow body made by a company best known for hand carved violins, cellos and basses or my new prize - a '66 Fender Mustang I bought in Nashville. Having two means I keep one in the D tuning James played more often than not. I take lessons from a guy who toured with a few blues acts and met a lot of the old guard when you could still do that - I guess Albert King was the biggest s.o.b. you'd never want to meet, both physically and metaphorically. One of the stories was of a tech who spent hours getting a 14 piece stage set up perfectly, and then just before the curtain went up on the show, King went out and unplugged all of the amps except his guitar because hey, everyone's here to hear Albert. I love the Fender Mustang designs, I think Sammy Lawhorn played one in Muddy Waters's band, or Pee Wee Madison, I always get those two mixed up. Albert King was a Sheriff's deputy somewhere and he used to carry an machine gun on the road, Ron Levy talks about it in his memoirs, I haven't read it yet. Those hollow bodied guitars are awesome for the jump blues sound. What always struck me about black music was it being the otherside of the coin. For many (even John Lennon) music started with Elvis and went forward, there's tons of stuff out there to find and research in root's music. If you're ever looking for a good Muddy Waters record, check out "Live!" commonly known as "Live at Mr Kelly's" James Cotton is playing harmonica on that, but he had a contract elsewhere and they called him "Joe Denim." I think you might be the first non-harmonica player I've heard mention Walter Horton, and definitely the first on a hockey board!
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Post by MrHulot on May 8, 2015 18:56:21 GMT
Dr. Feelgood - As It Happens
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 19:35:23 GMT
"I Am the Slime" might by my favorite Zappa song.
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Post by MrHulot on May 8, 2015 20:24:42 GMT
"I Am the Slime" might by my favorite Zappa song. Good song, from Overnite Sensation My favorite Zappa song? There are too many great ones to choose from, but one has a special meaning for me - "Broken hearts are for assholes" from the "Sheik Yerbouti" album. I put the "You're an asshole, you're an asshole, that's right! You're an asshole, you're an asshole, yes, yes!" part on an old compact cassette and waited for my drunken stepfather to come home - then I pressed my tape recorder against the intercom microphone so he could hear this "response" playing on the intercom of our apartment building when he rang the doorbell. Thank God the moron was too sloshed that night to administer his favorite form of punishment, and I still got into a lot of trouble over this, but it was well worth it.
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Post by NAS on May 8, 2015 21:40:57 GMT
Goddamn audiophiles. Vinyl sucks. Give me The Replacements, "Pleased To Meet Me", Costello's "Armed Forces" and U2 "Live Under A Blood Red Sky" and have a good day!
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Post by jmwalters on May 8, 2015 21:49:17 GMT
Goddamn audiophiles. Vinyl sucks. Give me The Replacements, "Pleased To Meet Me", Costello's "Armed Forces" and U2 "Live Under A Blood Red Sky" and have a good day! I think you forgot Bananarama's "True Confessions" in that list:
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Post by MrHulot on May 8, 2015 22:44:08 GMT
Goddamn audiophiles. Vinyl sucks. Give me The Replacements, "Pleased To Meet Me", Costello's "Armed Forces" and U2 "Live Under A Blood Red Sky" and have a good day! Great stuff! However, the CD versions of U2's "The Electric Co." are abysmal, you can easily detect the bad cut (even on the remastered edition, allegedly directed by The Edge himself) right after Edge's guitar solo. The old vinyl album still features Bono's improvisations ("America" & a modified version of "Send in the clowns"), this version of the song is more than five minutes long, and it's this version everyone who attended one of their shows in 1983 or watched the DVD/video tape of the concert at Red Rocks is familiar with. Why they had to leave out that part of the song on the CD's is beyond me.
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Post by RichHillOntario on May 9, 2015 2:46:23 GMT
Hendrix's Voodoo Child, 38 Special, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Nick Lowe's Rockpile, Dennis Brown, Jackie Mittoo, classic John Mellancamp, bit of Edgar Winter and Prince.
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Post by RichHillOntario on May 9, 2015 2:54:08 GMT
Texas Tornados first album, Jimmy Smith/Grant Green and Putamayo's collection CDs of Latin Jazz. I haven't listened to "White Music" in 10 years. Freddie King's singles on Modern/Kent and in the car I just listen to FL party music stations. Nice stuff, henry. I always like Freddie Fender. In my younger days, my buddies and I would use one of his songs as our anthem if we went out and didn't score chicks: "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights." Jimmy Smith and Grant Green were brilliant. Smith's playing the Hammond B3 on "Walk On The Wild Side," even though he only enters the song more than halfway through is the highlight. If you haven't already, please check him out on "Back At The Chicken Shack." As for guitarist Grant Green, it's tough to find a better groove than "Sookie Sookie." Well done.
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Post by NAS on May 9, 2015 3:32:41 GMT
Goddamn audiophiles. Vinyl sucks. Give me The Replacements, "Pleased To Meet Me", Costello's "Armed Forces" and U2 "Live Under A Blood Red Sky" and have a good day! Great stuff! However, the CD versions of U2's "The Electric Co." are abysmal, you can easily detect the bad cut (even on the remastered edition, allegedly directed by The Edge himself) right after Edge's guitar solo. The old vinyl album still features Bono's improvisations ("America" & a modified version of "Send in the clowns"), this version of the song is more than five minutes long, and it's this version everyone who attended one of their shows in 1983 or watched the DVD/video tape of the concert at Red Rocks is familiar with. Why they had to leave out that part of the song on the CD's is beyond me.They didn't want to pay the royalties, so they cut it. 2,3,4. 2,3,4,
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Post by MrHulot on May 9, 2015 15:11:19 GMT
Great stuff! However, the CD versions of U2's "The Electric Co." are abysmal, you can easily detect the bad cut (even on the remastered edition, allegedly directed by The Edge himself) right after Edge's guitar solo. The old vinyl album still features Bono's improvisations ("America" & a modified version of "Send in the clowns"), this version of the song is more than five minutes long, and it's this version everyone who attended one of their shows in 1983 or watched the DVD/video tape of the concert at Red Rocks is familiar with. Why they had to leave out that part of the song on the CD's is beyond me.They didn't want to pay the royalties, so they cut it. 2,3,4. 2,3,4, Of course you're right.
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Post by MrHulot on May 9, 2015 15:11:41 GMT
Editors - The Weight Of Your Love
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Post by badhabitude on May 9, 2015 15:37:39 GMT
Come on you old guys. Think young. Check this out, kind of, sort of brings back the 80's
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