The SUBSIM Music Thread

[Rockstar]

Catch an afternoon buzz to this

[fumo30]

Gigliola Cinquetti - Una storia d'amore

[Commander Wallace]

[Jimbuna]

[Commander Wallace]

My apologies for the substandard video quality. The audio quality is decent though.

[Jimbuna]

[Rockstar]

Clutch

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

My apologies for the substandard video quality. The audio quality is decent though.

Why are you apologizing? You didn't post the video to YouTube...

I would like to say something about the videos posted to YouTube. Before YouTube, I used to watch those "Greatest Hits" commercials on TV where they would show a few seconds of some of the performances of those great musical acts and think "I don't really care about buying an album set, but if they'd just sell videos of the performances, I know I'd be very interested." We now have the ability to see, very often in live performances, some of the greatest artists of the past several decades on demand. Being able to see Muddy Waters, Wes Montgomery, Hendrix, the Motown and Stax artists, and the countless other performers in other musical styles is something you could only do if you spent hours in some public or private archive. We are indeed blessed...

As far as the quality is concerned, I am reminded of something I read long ago, I believe it was in the book Steppenwolf; the main character is having a dream sequence and he comes upon Mozart listening to a radio playing one of his compositions; the radio signal has a lot of static and the main character says to Mozart, " How can you stand to listen to that music with all that static?"; Mozart responds: "You may listen to the static; I prefer to listen to the music"...



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[Jimbuna]

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by vienna

Why are you apologizing? You didn't post the video to YouTube...

I would like to say something about the videos posted to YouTube. Before YouTube, I used to watch those "Greatest Hits" commercials on TV where they would show a few seconds of some of the performances of those great musical acts and think "I don't really care about buying an album set, but if they'd just sell videos of the performances, I know I'd be very interested." We now have the ability to see, very often in live performances, some of the greatest artists of the past several decades on demand. Being able to see Muddy Waters, Wes Montgomery, Hendrix, the Motown and Stax artists, and the countless other performers in other musical styles is something you could only do if you spent hours in some public or private archive. We are indeed blessed...

As far as the quality is concerned, I am reminded of something I read long ago, I believe it was in the book Steppenwolf; the main character is having a dream sequence and he comes upon Mozart listening to a radio playing one of his compositions; the radio signal has a lot of static and the main character says to Mozart, " How can you stand to listen to that music with all that static?"; Mozart responds: "You may listen to the static; I prefer to listen to the music"...



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Thanks for being so understanding. I prefer live performances as the raw energy of a song or the performers isn't " engineered " out. I agree with you regarding youtube and live performances. It's also great to see what everyone else is listening to as well. Here is a couple that include Jazz guitarist great George Benson who also uses the Octave style techniques pioneered by the great Wes Montgomery.

[vienna]

Just wanted to share a couple of articles, both interviews:

Keith Richards on the passing of Chuck Berry and Chuck's influence on music --

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...325-story.html

There are a couple of quotes by the interviewer that gave me pause to ponder:

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When was the last time you got together with him?

The last time I saw Chuck was in Boston [in 2012], he got the [PEN New England’s Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence] award. Apparently, it was the first time they sort of acknowledged that songwriting could possibly be called literature. [He laughs.] Chuck was the first recipient, and I was there for him for that, and that was the last time I saw him. But we passed a few notes since.

Wasn’t that the ceremony where they also honored Leonard Cohen, and Cohen said, “All of us are footnotes to the words of Chuck Berry”?

Yeah, that was it.

Bob Dylan once said, “People don’t always realize how powerful the innovators are. Take someone like Chuck Berry. When his records came out, they were dangerous. There was nothing like them on the radio, they were like a stampede. Now all these bands just play it louder and faster and don’t really add anything to it. And so Chuck Berry, the creator, sounds ‘quaint’ and ‘old-fashioned.’… [Those records] are important pieces of art, and art isn’t looked at as something old or new, it’s looked at as something that moves ya.”

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The reference by/to Dylan caused me to think about how some of Dylan's tunes could be very easily re-imagined as being sung by Chuck; for example, Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965) owes more than a little to Too Much Monkey Business (1956); the rapid fire lyric delivery combined with a sort of rising and falling lope to the lyrical rhythm is common to both...







John Lydon, "Johnny Rotten" of the Sex pistols, on his life in music and other observations --

https://www.yahoo.com/music/john-lyd...003028588.html






I once saw John Lydon at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go, just after the breakup of the Sex Pistols, ca. 1979, not as a performer, but as a patron. He had flown his mother over from the UK and he took her to spend the day at Disneyland (that must have been a sight to see); Lydon was sitting at a table with a number of music industry people and some of the local music scene; he kept referring to Disneyland as 'Dismal-Land' and wondered aloud how Disney had managed to enthrall so many people with a place built around a mouse (or as we wee young 'uns used to sing along with the TV, "M-O-U-S-E!")...



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[Catfish]

Great variation of "I love L.A.", lots of talent on stage




and with Mark Knopfler, "It's money that matters" (starts at 0:35), good quality:



Newman was/is such a great composer and writer, hated and completely underestimated. Seems some people have no sense for irony

[Gerald]

One of the best songs ever and probably one of the most underrated artists of the 20th century.

R I P Mr Palmer

[Rockstar]

Are you serious?

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Are you serious?

Why not?

Texas are one of the great Brit alternative rock bands of the past decade and one of very few coming out of Glasgow.