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Post by sirrastus on Feb 12, 2022 5:33:32 GMT
My high school years were defined by Top 40 chart makers, and dominated by Beatles, Stones, Searchers, DC5, Jerry/Pacemakers, Beach Boys, Four Seasons, Gene Pitney and others too numerous to mention. As a high school guitar player, it was Ventures, Surfaris, Chantays, and Link Wray. I have to admit complete ignorance on Link Wray. The only Linc I knew was on Mod Squad. Anyways pretty cool. Saw Link open for Blondie about a week before Parallel LInes came out.Link was a lot of fun my friend thought he was too loud so he walked to the stage and yelled "Link turn it down".Haha.We sat in back of Debbie's parents I spoke with her dad who told me she was adopted and that they still lived in Cooperstown N.Y.Heckuva nice guy.Her step sister was there as was Chris Stein's mom.
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Post by sirrastus on Feb 12, 2022 5:38:44 GMT
It's not so surprising, since today streaming is basically all there is to the music "market", when people access the streaming services, they generally listen to music they already know. It's the reason why hit music has become an attractive investment vehicle. For me the great thing about streaming is finding things adjacent to my old favorites. I've been a Parliment/Funkadelic fan for decades, but I just learned about Brides of Funkenstein. A few minutes on spotify and I found all the various acts swirling around Funkadelic. Can't imagine trying to find all that in record stores For me The Parliaments greatest song is I Wanna Testify before the funkadelic.My friend Tommy a singer in local accapella group The Sheps is George Clintons cousin he still lives in Plainfield N.J where the original group started in the 50's..
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 13, 2022 3:57:00 GMT
Yes, I find some virtue in the streaming services' curation functions. That's how I got into the J. Geils Band. I had never given them a chance outside of what I heard on the radio but the "you might also like" list kept showing me their albums. I put on one of their live ones on and enjoyed the hell out of it.
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Post by sirrastus on Feb 16, 2022 18:08:32 GMT
Yes, I find some virtue in the streaming services' curation functions. That's how I got into the J. Geils Band. I had never given them a chance outside of what I heard on the radio but the "you might also like" list kept showing me their albums. I put on one of their live ones on and enjoyed the hell out of it. I saw J Geils and BOC at Commack Arena,L.I. in 1976.Some band in high heels opened...they were named Styx.
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Post by luxexterior on Feb 17, 2022 13:23:55 GMT
I saw the J Geils Band supporting The Stones at Wembley 1982. J Geils blew the Strolling Bones off stage & were the high point of the day.
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Post by joe on Mar 12, 2022 2:30:14 GMT
A little off topic, but ties in with the old vs new. The wife was at one of our grocery stores yesterday wearing her "On Tour Forever" shirt. The boy that was loading her groceries got excited when he saw another BOC fan around here. He was only about 20 years old, said he owned every BOC album that he knew of, and was a member of some (probably garage?) band. So he probably had been a fan since his early teens (assumption), so his high school formative years were probably BOC and similar groups - the "older" rock/hard rock, not the new stuff. My wife asked him why he liked BOC music so much. His answer was:
"Their music is poetry."
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Post by eastmark on Mar 12, 2022 11:25:56 GMT
Smart kid. ;-)
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Post by javan on Mar 13, 2022 21:16:47 GMT
Maybe, maybe not. It's certainly enabling new music makers to access old music and create beautiful arrangements of classic songs, you know, as Buck would say, bring something new to it and knock it out of the park. Sort of like this cover of Reaper by Greek band "Keep Shelly in Athens" (from some movie titled "Unhinged")
Wow. The vocals really do it (and Buck) justice.
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Post by joe on Mar 16, 2022 1:50:12 GMT
Yep. Although there is certainly a place for "new" music, it makes me feel really good to see some of the younger generation embracing "old" music - that helps keep it ALIVE. Good rock has been around for awhile and I think it still has a good future.
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Post by beanguy on Mar 20, 2022 2:25:33 GMT
Yes, I find some virtue in the streaming services' curation functions. That's how I got into the J. Geils Band. I had never given them a chance outside of what I heard on the radio but the "you might also like" list kept showing me their albums. I put on one of their live ones on and enjoyed the hell out of it. It is almost as if they were two different bands. The 1980 and on version was much poppier. I saw them in Bridgeport w/ BOC and a list of others for the Great American Rock Show(1978). The highlight was Astronomy outside with the lasers pointed to the sky. I just looked it up, Michael Bolton was there? Yikes.
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Post by agent on Mar 20, 2022 14:37:37 GMT
I saw J. Geils headline with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes at Shea’s Buffalo. It was a Magic Dick kinda night. It was before Freeze Frame
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Post by sirrastus on Mar 20, 2022 14:44:12 GMT
I saw Southside Johnny open for Roy Orbison in '89 at The Pier in Manhattan.I loved that place-I was running my friends wheatgrass plant in Brooklyn and my friends would get there early on line and when the doors opened you'd run in and get great seats.They'd et the spot on line and I'd run in LOL.Always got great seats.
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Post by marty on Mar 20, 2022 15:01:14 GMT
Love J. Geils Band Live Full House and Bloodshot. Kinda lost interest after that.
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Post by marty on Mar 20, 2022 15:09:24 GMT
Very proud to say that my high school years were Tyranny and Mvtation to Agents of Fortune. Mine were Hey Jude,Sugar Sugar,Let It Be '68-'70 Truthfully I don't listen to what I listened to in my teenage years as much as other periods(tho I still love it) I mostly listen to stuff from my 20's on and stuff from the 50's-60's Group harmony/R&B vocal groups and everything thru the early 60's. Although I love music from the 40’s through the 90’s, if I had to pick a period that defined top 40 popular music, I’d choose 65-69, British Invasion, Bubble Gum, Psychedelic, Motown. I was in grade school, but my oldest brother was your age, so that era really resonated, with me…Rascals, CCR, Doors, Steppenwolf, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Monkees, Sly and the Family Stone, on and ion.
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