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What Music are you listining to right now

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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167

    Easily in my Top 20 of all time. I had read that Paul wanted to sing this, and there was some fighting before LV were recorded by Art; this wasn't mentioned in this video.
     

    https://youtu.be/8uZgcz_WlAA


    And, oddly, BOTW is NOT a stellar recording, at the end there's a lot of what sounds like overloaded preamps in the signal chain, especially the strings at the very end. And the old-timey reverbs didn't help. One song I'd love to hear re-done with modern tech, if they only could transfer the stellar vocals in a convincing way.  
    Still, if this record doesn't make the hair on your arms stand up, well...

    The original recording:

    https://youtu.be/4G-YQA_bsOU

    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    Effin' Brilliant!  
     
    https://youtu.be/BBJks0OgU2U

    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    Huey & band released another song, later, that should've been a huge hit (imnsho) but went nowhere. I LOVE this record!

      https://youtu.be/mF-sKv244_4
     

    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    Jacob Collier, Live at the Hollywood Bowl!
    Okay, he was the only one there, but it WAS live at the HB.
    I rank this kid up there with Stevie, Joni, Mark O’Connor, and Prince.  Here it’s just him singing with an acoustic guitar (not his usual dense vox/multi-instrumental video) but it’s stunning nonetheless.  Enjoy!  
     
    https://youtu.be/39RBH-2hogk
    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    ^^^ City to City  was such a monster album, I'd always wondered whatever happened to him.  Read up his bio on Wikipedia, pretty sad story overall.  
    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • Gulfcoastguy
    Gulfcoastguy Posts: 6,687
    The Best of Boingo currently. Deadman’s Party was what I used to crank to max when leaving work on Friday afternoon.
  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    This song.
    This *%^&$#!!! song!
    I loved it when I first heard it.  And back in those days, I would've danced half the night while it played.
     
    But I can't play it.  The tempo doesn't change, but the time/metering is all over the place.  Seeing Elfman's band do this, live, gave me a huge respect for them, they're in Zappa/Crimson/Dream Theater territory, and they're nailing it live!
    If you're a musician (and there's a few of us here) try this: crank the volume on the above video, notice that it sounds like a 4/4 rock beat, and then clap along, singing "1 2 3 4!" at the same time.  You may catch the first  couple bars of 6/4, but when the 7/4 and 3/8-beat slide thru, you'll be totally confused (and if you're not, you're a much better musician than I, not a very high bar  ;) ).  This song is WEIRD!  
    When this song came out I was in a 5-piece band called "Up in the Night"; guitar, bass, drums, female lead singer and me on keys.  They wanted to do a few more advanced tunes, including this one, and as the keyboardist/geek it fell on me to sequence the more dense tunes (filling in the extra keyboard, brass and string parts, and synth stabs).  It was a lot of work, but I came up with pretty good "half-charts" for many of the songs we did (including Superstition, and Bananarama's "Venus").  I put maybe 50 hours into mapping out "Dead Man's Party", but after 3 weeks I threw in the towel.  Couple band members got mad, but I cued it up the CD and said, "Okay, play along with this!"  They tried, and failed.  I cued it up again, said "Do it again!"  Failure.  After the fifth time they said, "Okay Botch, we get it."  I was so pissed by then I told them rehearsal was done for that night (in my basement), Go Home.  
     
    I love that tune.  And I absolutely HATE that tune.   :|  
    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    https://youtu.be/TOx_KGyD8Uc
     
    I wasn't a big fan of this song/video when it hit (and wow did it HIT), but it was very impressive to have that many big names in one room, on one song.  The "Professor of Rock" interviewed a few of the folks in the session, with some interesting background info (for me, anyway).  When I read the video thumbnail, I immediately thought WATW, but the pic featured Steve Perry, and until now I didn't realize he was even ON the song (he didn't get a featured half-verse).  One of the characters in Doonesbury (an older, washed-up rock musician) was given a part on the song, he got to sing "the"; I actually stumped Siri on this, "Doonesbury/Doonesberry musician on WATW" and She couldn't find anything!  (I'll remember his name eventually).  PoR promises 3 or 4 more follow-up videos, I'll post them here if/when I see them.  

    Oh, and when John Oates kicks the bucket, anyone venture a guess, at his estate sale, what the sheet music for the track, signed by every single participant, might sell for?   :o 

    Just for reference (for me, it has been a long time), the original video: 

    https://youtu.be/s3wNuru4U0I
    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    EDIT to the above post, but I cooked some dinner first and missed the window.
     
    Steve Perry DID do have a half-verse, I didn't remember it (Killed that brain cell of mine earlier, I guess).  Springsteen and Dylan got too much mic time, as did (imnsho) Ray Charles.  And Willie N. should've not tried to harmonize at all, what a punch-bowl turd.  
     
    Other than that, Quincy did a pretty good job.  Gimme a call first next time, Q; you have my number.   ;)
    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    EW&F/KISS mashup, with an added bonus "cherry" on top!  I love these things.
     
    https://youtu.be/qMZIg0btqMU
    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 32,337
    I have really been enjoying Jason Isbell's latest album.  It gets better with each additional listen.  

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOPJVLzASdI
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
  • YEMTrey
    YEMTrey Posts: 6,832
    Steve 
    XL, Mini Max, and a 22" Blackstone in Cincinnati, Ohio

  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    What a treat!  
    Steely Dan had a track they had been working on for months, was just about finished and to be included on Gaucho, and a jr engineer accidently erased the whole thing.  There's a bit of legend about it.
    Roger Nichols' daughter found a digital, near-completed copy a couple years ago, and it's been released (link to the actual tune is about halfway thru the article).  
    I can't help but think the guitar solo at 2:15 is just a "placeholder", but that's okay; just hearing this at this late date is so cool.
     
    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/26/the-most-important-cassette-on-the-planet-how-steely-dan-fans-uncovered-their-holy-grail?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0mmRGkJhaNjdTZBUpav3gN3loSzTJJd3vTjMnWwQBRZSpLxnvWxctWPhE
     

    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • Ike
    Ike Posts: 333
    I grew up in the sixties and now I know and run this through my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJt4v3agH0M
    Owensboro, KY.  First Eggin' 4/12/08.  Large, small, 22" Blackstone and lotsa goodies.
  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    Excerpts from the Water Concerto:
     
    https://youtu.be/cXUXQSJCEso
    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    edited July 2023
    Oh Yeah!  This little nugget just appeared on my EweTube feed.  I was so into Chick Corea's Electrik Band in the late '80's, pretty much memorized all their albums.  John Pattitucci isn't here with them (don't recognize their guest bassist) but they're still smokin'!!  
     
    https://youtu.be/17Gxuft6v8A
     
    I only got to see them once live, in Santa Fe.  I had already bought a ticket when I was informed of a TDY in Boulder CO the next day, had to fight to let the org give me a company car and drive to SF for the show (about an hour from Albuquerque) and then drive to Boulder after the show (instead of flying).  Once I got into my hotel I only had time for maybe two hours of sleep before I had to get up for my meeting (anyone here know what "Belgian Block testing" is, without googling it?)  I didn't sleep a wink, was too hyped from the show (small club, I actually got a 2nd-row seat, right in front of Chick!)  
     
    Actually did okay for the morning's meetings, was still bouncing.  Made the mistake of ordering my usual-sized lunch, instead of maybe 3 cokes and nothing else.  I started crashing, badly, during the afternoon meetings.  Had to stand up against the back wall, and almost nodded off while standing (I think Lockheed Martin had some chuckles at my expense).  Memories.  
     
    EDIT:  This show was during Chick's "ring modulator" phase (no pun intended).  IMNSHO a ring modulator has no legitimate "musical" use, other than a one-bar interlude between sections to wake up/shock an audience.  Hate the things.  
    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,171
    Purchased a good copy of The Stray Cats first album. Joy was found. 
    Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax

    Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life,
    Run me out in the cold rain and snow
  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    edited July 2023
    Was reading something somewhere when I ran across the name "William Orbit".  He first came onto my radar as a techno artist whose fourth album featured some chick vocalist called "Madonna".  
    Back in the early 90's the pair kinda introduced techno/EDM to the clubs, and I absolutely flipped for this track.  At that time I was in a 5-piece bar band that did a lot of sequences, programmed between myself and the guitarist.  I did this one, and it was a lot of fun.  The guitar intro comes in, but the sequenced part comes in about a half-beat early, and slightly quicker, which really propels the track.  As the keyboardist, this was a lot of fun, with all those slow filter sweeps, most of the time letting the sequence do all the boring mechanical 1/8th notes, I just had to hold down a key and slowly sweep the knobs.  Whee!!  
    A lot of folks diss Madonna, and yeah she pulls some pretty stupid **** in her old age.  BUT, this track is not auto-tuned whatsoever, that's her singing live and she even goes just a bit sharp at the climax/high note.  I first noticed her musicianship at the "Live Aid/Concert for Africa" way back when, most of the groups that played the live show sounded pretty bad, but she absolutely nailed her vox, while dancing the choreography live.  Props!  
     
    https://youtu.be/x3ov9USxVxY
    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,167
    edited July 2023
    Had forgotten how beautiful this was.  Headphones, or speakers, if you can.
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH-g6HU15KY
    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang