What are you listening to today?

[AKsuited]

Good stuff, thanks Harry!

Thank you.

 

[61996]

A little 60's funk

 

[mikegalbicka]

Great sound. One of the few bands I really liked and never got to see in person.

 

[kbasa]

Y'all know they kept making new music after 1970, right?

The new Miley Cyrus album is pretty solid. She's got a voice for just about anything between straight up rock and pop confection.

 

[kbasa]

Here's something more in line with the tastes that seem to align here:

Miley doing Black Dog by Led Zeppelin.

 

[88bmwjeff]

Kbasa,
I like new music as well, but I'm also trying to remember the good music of days past. That being said, here's Pink performing White Rabbit several years ago.

 

[kbasa]

Kbasa,
I like new music as well, but I'm also trying to remember the good music of days past. That being said, here's Pink performing White Rabbit several years ago.

This is me clicking the Like button on your post.

 

[robsryder]

Just got back from the BMW Motorrad 100 Celebration at the Barber Vintage Festival. The whole way there and back I had the earbuds (S-plugs) in and the SiriusXM station on 60s Gold. Good Stuff!!

 

[61996]

Make the comparison and judge for yourself:

 

[kbasa]

Make the comparison and judge for yourself:

Like trying to decide which ice cream is "best", eh? They're both pretty terrific.

I think if you want to hear it just like you've always heard it, well, go with Grace. She had a kind of ethereal vocalization style that's very unique. But if you want to hear something different out of the same song, it can be entertaining to listen to someone else.

The "country" version of Fast Car, Traci Chapman's old hit from 20 years ago, gives that song an entirely new spin and perspective for me would be an example.

I'm 65. I feel like a lot of the bands from the 60s and 70s that are venerated now were OK, but haven't held up over terribly well over the last 50 years. Art is often contemporaneous and is best understood in the context of its time. Out of that time and perspective, it can feel awkward and dated. Big Band music. Ragtime. Miles Davis' experimental phase.

While I like a lot of the old stuff, I have to be in a nostalgic kind of mood to listen to most of it. It's the evolution of things that excites me. New forms of music. New technology to solve problems. But they're only exciting because of what came before, for me, at least.

I'll hear something new and try to understand what influences the artist used to come up with the piece, as well as what innovation they've added to enrich existing work.

Artists all stand on each others' shoulders and that progression is what's interesting to me.

 

[elementist]

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Artists all stand on each others' shoulders and that progression is what's interesting to me.

Well said.

What's popular changes with time, but there are still many "retro" bands with much smaller followings keeping some classic sounds alive in modern times. It can be hard to find them, but some of the most enjoyable shows I've been to have been small local groups with sounds in the tradition of 90s punk, 80s hair metal bands, 70s experimentalists and 60s croners.

I enjoy listening to new bands and picking out the sounds and styles they were inspired by and mapping to the bands I grew up with, and where they got it from.

And once in a rare while a cover or adaptation even becomes the reference version of a song (Hurt, The sound of silence) or a performance of it (While my guitar gently weeps, w/ prince).

 

[kbasa]

Well said.

What's popular changes with time, but there are still many "retro" bands with much smaller followings keeping some classic sounds alive in modern times. It can be hard to find them, but some of the most enjoyable shows I've been to have been small local groups with sounds in the tradition of 90s punk, 80s hair metal bands, 70s experimentalists and 60s croners.

I enjoy listening to new bands and picking out the sounds and styles they were inspired by and mapping to the bands I grew up with, and where they got it from.

And once in a rare while a cover or adaptation even becomes the reference version of a song (Hurt, The sound of silence) or a performance of it (While my guitar gently weeps, w/ prince).

*A guy in Sonoma County is clicking the Like button on your post*

 

[88bmwjeff]

Make the comparison and judge for yourself:

While I typically think the original version of songs are better, that doesn't mean the remakes are terrible. I think Pink's version is a good version of the song and so does Grace Slick. Here's what Grace Slick had to say.

“It’s good. Pink has the vocal power, which is all I care about,” Slick told the Wall Street Journal. “Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of versions of the song where singers don’t have the attitude or vocal force you need on it. Pink knows how to sing.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/grace-slick-praises-pinks-straight-attack-on-white-rabbit-cover-30031/

On a side note, I think there are many good songs just collecting dust on the shelves and we should be praising those current musicians who choose to perform them rather than complaining that they are not like the original.

 

[kbasa]

While I typically think the original version of songs are better, that doesn't mean the remakes are terrible. I think Pink's version is a good version of the song and so does Grace Slick. Here's what Grace Slick had to say.

“It’s good. Pink has the vocal power, which is all I care about,” Slick told the Wall Street Journal. “Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of versions of the song where singers don’t have the attitude or vocal force you need on it. Pink knows how to sing.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/grace-slick-praises-pinks-straight-attack-on-white-rabbit-cover-30031/

On a side note, I think there are many good songs just collecting dust on the shelves and we should be praising those current musicians who choose to perform them rather than complaining that they are not like the original.

I always think it's interesting when I hear the original version of a song that became a hit as a remake. When I was young and first exposed to the Beatles, I found it fascinating that they'd covered Chuck Berry and Little Richard songs before they got famous writing their own. Very different, very good, but a completely different take on the exact same piece. When I was in music conservatory in high school, we had a bunch of sessions about how "style" affects our response to songs and that "style" can be the secret sauce that really makes a song work.

Similarly, and this is often a point of contention with some folks, I like to hear where the samples in rap songs came from. It's always amazing to see that another artist has reworked something and fashioned a beat or a chord progression into something entirely new.

But I like that kind of "how'd we get here" exploration of music.

 

[61996]

You can thank me later...

 

[skibum69]

 

[61996]

 

[omega man]

An amazing collection of talent in STEREO!

I so miss stereo......real stereo that can be an amazing part of the music experience.

OM

 

[mikegalbicka]

Do You Feel Like We Do (Live In The United States/1976)
Peter Frampton

A great 14 minute live jam

From Wikipedia:

"Do You Feel Like We Do" became the closing number of his set and one of the highlights of his show. His concert version was considerably longer, with the version recorded on Frampton Comes Alive! alone exceeding 14 minutes, 4 of which are spent in the rock intro, 4 in the loud rock subito fortissimo outro, and 6 in the long, quiet bridge, featuring several instrumental solos utilizing Bob Mayo's electric piano and Frampton's guitar and talk box skills. Most famously of these were the aforementioned talk box solos, which were performed using an effects pedal that redirects a guitar's sound through a tube coming from the performer's mouth, allowing the guitar to mimic human speech, similarly to a vocoder. Inspiration for the talk box came from Frampton listening to the call letters of Radio Luxembourg. Following the success of the talk box solos, Frampton subsequently marketed such talk boxes under his own "Framptone" brand.


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[omega man]

^^^^A Classic!^^^^

You needed a really cool radio station to hear that back in the day. Around here the station that set the tone for most of the burgeoning FM radio stations was WBCN.

OM