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Favorite band or artist of all time?
1st of all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone at Audiogon!
I've Have been thinking about it(hundreds of choices)and lately just wondering, If you had to pick just one, what would be your favorite band or artist of all time???
Extremely hard decision!, but Mine would be Elton John.
(deeply rooted since I was 10 or 11) Old fart now😎
I've Have been thinking about it(hundreds of choices)and lately just wondering, If you had to pick just one, what would be your favorite band or artist of all time???
Extremely hard decision!, but Mine would be Elton John.
(deeply rooted since I was 10 or 11) Old fart now😎
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The Chambers Brothers - Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I4S61Do-Qs Mighty, Mighty, Friggin' Awesome! |
I am appalled by this blog's nearly total lack of jazz, blues, and classical artists listed, not to mention music from this century. Jeezus, I'm 72 ,but I'm not too old to appreciate current greatness. Do most of you just listen to Alternative Rock and Country stations with short playlists of old hits. Go to a thrift shop and risk 50 cents for some classical CD's. For the price, take chances. Go to a concert. |
Dang, your right onhwy61, I forgot about The Chambers Brothers. I saw them at The Fillmore, in '68 I guess. So the last Band Of Gypsys was Hendrix, Billy Cox on Bass, and Mitch? When I saw the original Experience lineup the second time (at Winterland in '68), I sensed Jimi was bored, and looking for somewhere else to go with his music. Band Of Gypsys was that place. I too moved on, but in a different direction. |
mcslipp… I don’t know where your located, but there is a Led Zeppelin cover band called Get The Led Out . We happen to have tickets to see them here in a month (in an old small theater, Midland Theater Newark Ohio) I was skeptical and was just being nice going to the first one. This will be our third and we are six rows back center stage. Tickets are tough to get as they sell out quickly. They are truly amazing. If their ever in your area....Go . Check them out on their website https://vimeo.com/145838291 |
Happy ? Sally Carr certainly made one boy very happy back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPPx55UxCUA Happy New Year |
THE subject at hand was not to tear down musicians and composers but to pay a (little) homage to an art form that touches your soul. I can mention names (even though my memory is not the greatest) of deserving people who have populated a planet with an abundance of mediocrity (I include myself). But I don't get the point in being cynical. Beethoven even wrote a few pieces even he would have admitted weren't that great. Bach wrote some easier pieces for his wife so she could practice. Someone wrote "Jingle Bells" which does not put me in the holiday mood yet I hear jazz renditions of it anyway. I would hope that we might all agree that some music makes some of us Really Truly Happy. |
Atlantic Records in-house producer Jerry Wexler was given Wilson Pickett as a project by the label's president Ahmet Ertegun. When Wexler told Pickett they were going down to Muscle Shoals, Alabama to record, he recoiled in horror. Wilson, like many southern blacks, had fled the south to escape it's brutal racism. Wexler prevailed, and Wilson says when he entered Fame studios his worst fears were realized. Sitting around the studio were a group of "crackers"---chubby white guys with stogies in their mouths, hats pushed back on their heads. You can picture them, right? Wilson's fear dissolved when the group of crackers commenced playing; he says it was the funkiest band he had ever heard in his life! Bob Dylan knew before anyone else what those southern players had to offer; he had been going there to record since early-'65. Many others have gone their since, including Eric Clapton, The Stones, and on and on. Speaking of Clapton and Ertegun, here's how the latter characterized the Disraeli Gears album tapes the former turned over to Atlantic: "Psychedelic horsesh*t". Sound like any other recently-mentioned guitarist? Clapton soon thereafter saw the wisdom of that statement when George Harrison played him the Music From Big Pink album. That was the end of Cream (thank God ;-) . |
You are SO right, boxer. That album was a desperately-needed relief from what everyone was listening to (Jimi, Cream, The Dead---another band with fierce defenders, Zeppelin of course---who ended up being perhaps the most influential band of all time, for reasons which escape me). I love it's home-made, unprocessed sound. Speaking of a song being finished, The Band were really good at coming up song beginnings and endings, a talent not shared by many other bands. One big reason the album is as good as it is, is the production and arranging of John Simon, whom I have called their sixth member. |
See bdp24, The Grateful Dead was good for something (LOL). On another note, I put the Band's cd on last night (The brown one with a picture of them on the cover) & it is an absolute masterpiece. Picked it up used, very good SQ as well. They really knew when a song was finished, which is something lacking with many musicians. |
Damn, I shoulda waited ’til I was more awake. Can’t be without Hank Williams (writing, singing), Buddy Miller (singing, guitar playing, producing, arranging), Ry Cooder (guitar, musicology), The Swampers (Fame Studios house band in Muscle Shoals), The Everly Brothers (everything), Felice & Boudleaux Bryant (songwriting), Rockpile (a super group that actually WAS super), and NRBQ and it’s fantastic bassist Joey Spaminato. I could go on for quite a while, much to the chagrin of some. One more comment on Saint Jimi: He had perhaps the worst guitar tone (aside from Erik Brann of Iron Butterfly; talk about corny!) I’ve ever heard. It sounded like barbed wire being played with a metal pick, and what it feels like to chew aluminum foil. Fans of Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, in particular, are very protective of them, moreso than any other artists I can think of. There was a period (the dreaded late-60’s/early-70’s hippie era) when I couldn’t get any musicians I knew to take The Beach Boys seriously, even after playing them the amazing Smiley Smile album. Until, that is, The Grateful Dead toured with them. Suddenly, instant and uncritical acceptance. It wasn’t them I liked so much, but rather of course Brian Wilson. He was still perceived as the Surf, Cars, and Girls guy. As if "Don’t Worry Baby" and "God Only Knows" weren’t masterpieces! "Foxy Lady" was intended as a joke. Of course a single song does not define one, but even "The Wind Cries Mary" rings hollow to me, just as does Jimi's music. Perhaps I'm just too shallow. |
