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Post by luxexterior on Oct 5, 2023 11:59:09 GMT
Thumbs up for Beth Hart & Lucinda Williams. Nina Nastasia has been on heavy rotation here for the past year or so. If you don't know her check her out,she's fabulous.
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Post by sirrastus on Oct 14, 2023 19:40:23 GMT
I've been listening to a lot of female singers lately. Beth Hart, Grace Potter, Lucinda Williams, Sass Jordan. How these women are not more widely known befuddles me. All of them are superb in their genre. Very true....Grace Potter is one of my faves for years now. Along those lines how many people were familiar with Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention back in the day.
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Post by mcamp on Oct 18, 2023 20:20:36 GMT
Just finished listening to the Super Deluxe Who's Next/ Lifehouse project.....available on Apple Music. The live show from San Fran 1971 is totally killer; can you imagine hearing Who's Next material live for the first time? After listening to that, can we just go back to the basic's on live rock performance....get rid of all the "bells & whistles" as part of the production, and just rock out.
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Post by joe on Oct 19, 2023 2:55:41 GMT
Just finished listening to the Super Deluxe Who's Next/ Lifehouse project.....available on Apple Music. The live show from San Fran 1971 is totally killer; can you imagine hearing Who's Next material live for the first time? After listening to that, can we just go back to the basic's on live rock performance....get rid of all the "bells & whistles" as part of the production, and just rock out. I've just listened to parts of the SF 1971 version. Listening to Behind Blue Eyes as I type this.
I would have LOVED to have seen this live! I see what you mean - this live version is played a little different than the studio version. We have the vinyl of Who's Next (album version). I haven't listened to the vinyl yet. Some of the songs are on a compilation CD set we bought years ago. And Roger didn't add in a f-bomb like he has a number of times. Sometimes they are really disguised. We watched their Live Aid "Won't get Fooled Again" version dozens of times over the last year. Didn't hear the f-bomb until I played it one night on my cheap computer speakers - about a year later! How could we have missed that so many times. Listening now, it's at the 8:43 mark on the YouTube version. One of their songs had the bomb really disguised and it played on the radio here in the US for a long time until some executive finally caught wind of it. Not sure what stations did about that.
When Netflix discontinued their DVD/Blu-ray mailed-disc operation they said everybody could just keep the last disc they had at the time. We dug and dug through all kinds of stuff. We ended up keeping their Kilburn 1977 show. It's great in its own way. A lot of it is NOT polished. Apparently they hadn't played together in some time, and mistakes were made! A lot of people hated this version, but we thought the mistakes and just generally having a good time parts were some of the best parts.
No drums exploded though.
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Post by joe on Oct 20, 2023 2:07:18 GMT
mcamp:
Not to turn this into a Who thread, but if you haven't seen it here is another performance worth watching: "The Concert for New York City" in 2001. This was a benefit concert, organized by Paul McCartney, to honor the first responders and their families and loved ones that were involved with the 9/11 rescue efforts. There were a lot of performances by A-list artists, but the general consensus everywhere you read says that The Who's performance hands down stole the show. If you've ever really known any police, fire, or EMS responders, well they can be a somewhat rowdy, party on, rock on bunch when they're off duty. So The Who was a really good fit for them.
I think the songs they picked really resonated with the crowd, and if you really think about it the lyrics were so appropriate for what people were probably thinking. I meant to post this on 9/11 but forgot. So now, here it is:
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Post by mcamp on Oct 22, 2023 12:47:41 GMT
mcamp:
Not to turn this into a Who thread, but if you haven't seen it here is another performance worth watching: "The Concert for New York City" in 2001.
No doubt....the version of Won't Get Fooled Again was certainly the theme. Miss John Entwistle....the band has never been the same live since he passed. RIP. Let me add....it's still hard to watch that show, and not get emotional. The energy is incredible. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by redhouserocker on Oct 22, 2023 14:40:59 GMT
mcamp:
Not to turn this into a Who thread, but if you haven't seen it here is another performance worth watching: "The Concert for New York City" in 2001.
No doubt....the version of Won't Get Fooled Again was certainly the theme. Miss John Entwistle....the band has never been the same live since he passed. RIP. Let me add....it's still hard to watch that show, and not get emotional. The energy is incredible. Thanks for sharing. Agree 1000%. John was an absolutely amazing bassist! The Who is just not The Who without him...
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Post by joe on Oct 23, 2023 2:39:36 GMT
mcamp:
Not to turn this into a Who thread, but if you haven't seen it here is another performance worth watching: "The Concert for New York City" in 2001.
No doubt....the version of Won't Get Fooled Again was certainly the theme. Miss John Entwistle....the band has never been the same live since he passed. RIP. Let me add....it's still hard to watch that show, and not get emotional. The energy is incredible. Thanks for sharing.
From an interview on Vulture.com Roger said: "The Concert for New York City was the most emotional show I’ve ever played in my life. It was very difficult. ...."
Don't know if it's true, but my wife said she read or heard that Roger almost "lost it" during Behind Blue Eyes during that performance because it was so emotional for him, but I didn't notice anything during his performance.
They did leave out the famous "Meet the New Boss - Same as the Old Boss" phrase at the end. My guess is that it could have been taken the wrong way politically, and maybe in other negative ways. The concert was on October 20, 2001. The presidency transitioned from Bill Clinton to George W Bush in January, 2001. And Clinton was at the concert - there are picts of him talking to Roger.
Ditto on missing "the Ox" Quite the player.
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Post by Espo on Oct 23, 2023 2:53:37 GMT
I saw them after Kieth and then I saw their performance of Quadrafinia with Billy Idol as a guest character and i believe it was Ringos son on drums with Pete's brother also playing guitar.. Both shows were awesome.
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Post by joe on Oct 24, 2023 2:40:50 GMT
Speaking of shows, I started getting interested into going to live shows WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY too late in life. So I've missed out on some of the best. A lot of great artists played right where I lived, but I was oblivious to the whole music scene. I just had too many interests going on in addition to traveling for work, working two jobs for awhile, working part time during college, and a million other lame excuses.
Right now there are only three bands/artists I would go see IF they played anywhere near me. (I really need to start monitoring who's playing around me - there are several venues not far away.)
1. BOC (of course) 2. The Who (I think we missed our last chance on them last year)
3. John Fogerty - he's touring again
I grew up on Creedence when I was in high school. Loved their tunes. John lost the rights to HIS OWN CCR songs around 50 years ago. After a long battle he got back the rights to the whole(?) CCR catalog in January 2023 - yea, this year.
So three guesses what songs he's singing in his new tour - CCR favorites. At some (most?) of the shows he has two other guitarists: his two sons. I think his daughter is on-stage for some of the shows.
He played a Rickenbacker at Woodstock, but gave it away in a moment of despair. Anyway at a show he tells the story of the Rickenbacker and then sings one of his signature songs. Voice is still good!
So here's one of the shows with the story. I found it very interesting. This is an informal show, some others are more polished. Some are sell outs. None around here though.
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Post by mcamp on Oct 24, 2023 18:04:23 GMT
but my wife said she read or heard that Roger almost "lost it" during Behind Blue Eyes during that performance because it was so emotional for him
Give it a listen again....you hear RG's voice crack a few times.
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Post by mcamp on Oct 24, 2023 18:33:44 GMT
Speaking of shows, I started getting interested into going to live shows WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY too late in life. So I've missed out on some of the best. A lot of great artists played right where I lived, but I was oblivious to the whole music scene.
Never too late to jump on the bus....Friday's Bacon Bros show was my 35th of the year. I obviously catch many free ones due to volunteering at the Blue Ocean. I did see The Who last year, and I feel that I've closed the book on them; seen them about a dozen times. That is what I've been doing with some acts; closing the book on them after seeing many 10 or more times. Now I seem to see a number of bands that are still touring, and playing at a high level which I continue to support: Adrian Belew, Los Lobos, BOC, Bill Frisell, Todd Rundgren, John McLaughlin, to name a few. The Who show last year was probably my last venture into an arena....the time before that was Roger Waters in 2017. I'm also done with RW, who I also have seen multiple times since his 1st solo tour in '84 (Pros and Cons).
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Post by lagtimeflag on Oct 27, 2023 4:42:26 GMT
Leaf blowers, seriously, I could turn the Magnavox 142 up. No, I just heard Patti Griffith, trying to play fresh air, where it just went to the live broadcast, while after she finished someone was talking about something which broke my concentration. But I was really concentrating today during my brief loudness. The chords are easier to remember than the name of the song, except for Harvester of Eyes, which I delight in playing the whole steps and then the nut-Cmaj barre form. It was even possible to play the dual lead. Maybe the other one was "Quicklime Girl" but it's truly enjoyable, as everybody here knows, to play "Stairway to the Stars," which I figgur is in A, but is possible in E, but not the other way. I really think "Before the Kiss, a Redcap" should be in G-flat, although seriously played one can leave the bass riff to somebody else. I guess not studying these instructionals I'd like to be able to find a Living Color CD.
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Post by Espo on Oct 27, 2023 6:30:19 GMT
Leaf blowers, seriously, I could turn the Magnavox 142 up. No, I just heard Patti Griffith, trying to play fresh air, where it just went to the live broadcast, while after she finished someone was talking about something which broke my concentration. But I was really concentrating today during my brief loudness. The chords are easier to remember than the name of the song, except for Harvester of Eyes, which I delight in playing the whole steps and then the nut-Cmaj barre form. It was even possible to play the dual lead. Maybe the other one was "Quicklime Girl" but it's truly enjoyable, as everybody here knows, to play "Stairway to the Stars," which I figgur is in A, but is possible in E, but not the other way. I really think "Before the Kiss, a Redcap" should be in G-flat, although seriously played one can leave the bass riff to somebody else. I guess not studying these instructionals I'd like to be able to find a Living Color CD. Umm...what???
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Post by lagtimeflag on Oct 27, 2023 19:07:27 GMT
I don't lack a couple Living Color CDs, they're just in a highly ordered subcategory of ingenious cases that either have inside the media the cover claims, or not. Not even really on the right thread, because maybe don't even have thread-starting priveleges, but this site seems to be tidied up enough that browsing allows location of something of interest. But I didn't find a "Before the Kiss, a Redcap" thread, and want to argue that it should be in F-sharp so the guitarist can do a couple open notes on that bass riff that precedes the Django Rheinhardt type section where I even have less a clue of what he's singing. I found this site by looking up the lyrics and thought it was sort of a pretty girl that gets you in trouble, but I've too long only listened to yet vocals as instrument and not imparting any syntactic meaning, even though this excludes me from appreciating some songs that are great. I don't aspire to play like Vernon Reid, nor metal guitarists, although I wouldn't argue that Dharma isn't on a par with the living color guitarist. Technically I was claiming to be listening to myself, although streaming college stations trumps LC and all my media which sits as opposed to being on the turntable incessantly, which is a nother reason playing BOC, helps me, or playing what's modified from exact measures to something satisfying, it's easier to remember stuff gone over incessantly. But it's small engine leaf blowers that allow me to adapt the acoustic model to amplified ax, no worry about someone hearing mistakes, getting through these ringing ears, say, an upward inversion of a descending chord. I have to work ondecorations now, and flump some de-oxit on the space key.
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