Today I decided to listen to two of my favorite rock guitar heros and one great vocalist. Guitarist' Robin Trower, Ronnie Montrose and vocalist Davey Pattison.
I listened to Trower songs: Bridge of sighs, Stitch in time, The fool and me, my personal favorite- Too rolling stoned and others.....
Then I pulled out "Gamma". I listened to: Razor King, Wish I was and Skin and bone and others.....
Davey Pattison hooked has also up with Michael Shenker also. I really enjoyed my day so far. Anybody else heard anything good?
n80 - "The bottom line is that I have to preview a lot of music before I find something I want to buy and own."
FWIW, I'm in the same situation. The ratio of albums screened to "must-buy-keepers" is large and getting larger; 25:1? 50:1?? more than that??? A SWAG with emphasis on guess.
Some of it is a function of getting older and, with enough mileage on the odometer now, finding many "new" things sound derivative and better done way earlier by someone else.
The browse/discover function of Spotify and the Similar Albums listings on the All Music Guide do help make the prospecting more productive.
Tonight listening to The Best of INXS on CD. Man that band put out a bunch of hits and even though a couple of them are dated the rest have held up pretty well. This CD also sounds quite good.
A true shame about Michael Hutchence. So many of these bright creative folks just can't seem to stay on the planet. Makes me think about Cobain and Shannon Hoon too.
Walk Through Walls by Brian Capps, the coolest album I have heard in a long, long time! Brian was in the Roots Rock band The Domino Kings, and after leaving that band formed The True Liars, the other members all coming from the legendary Springfield Missouri combo The Morells (like NRBQ, a favorite of Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, and every hip musician I know).
The songs are cool, the playing very cool (bassist Lou Whitney makes his Fender P-Bass sound like an upright; guitarist D. Clinton Thompson, one of my favorites, has worked with Steve Forbert, Jonathan Richman, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, The Del-Lords, Andy Shernoff of The Dicatators, many others---he’s brilliant!; drummer Bobby Lloyd Hicks---one of two drummers the band has had---has been in and out of Dave Alvin’s band for years), and the production---by Whitney---outstanding.
As an example of what’s so great about the music, many guitarists in Rock music (most, imo), when it comes time for their solo, play "riffs"---many merely blues scales they have learned over the years. The solo is not actually very much related to the song itself, but is more played out of the guitarist’s knowledge of the Blues lexicon than from any musical consideration. D. Clinton approaches guitar playing from a completely different point of view. His guitar parts, including his solos, are musical parts of the song itself, played to enhance the song, not his own stature as a guitarist. Think George Harrison, Robbie Robertson (The Band of course), and Al Anderson (NRBQ), not Clapton, Hendrix, Page, Beck, Van Halen, or any of the other "normal", blues-based players. MUCH more musically interesting, to me at least. The whole True Liars band plays that way, and it’s SO refreshing!
Unfortunately, the album is out-of-print (actually, Hightone Records is out of business), and I got the last new copy available on Amazon (fulfilled by Waterloo Records in Austin. Sorry Bill ;-), for under three bucks. But used copies are available, for cheap. Do yourself a huge favor and buy the album!
Hypnotic Eye ... Tom Petty .. Again, lol. BluRay Audio. Bought a new to me Modwright OPPO bdp80. Then after getting excited , realised I only intend to use as a transport and all the Modwright mods are in the analog output stage... Doh! 😔😔
I'm listening to the 2nd CD from the Beatles album listed above. Funny thing I haven't kept up with them since I was a kid. Listened to them so much (& had all their major albums) that kind of got burnt out. This is an interesting set though as it's demo's and rehearsals. Just picked it up today & really enjoying it.
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