Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

Happy Friday all

 

Anyone not taping their feet after the is a lost cause

 

Wish we were going out tonight.

 

St Jabbo

I have never heard of any of these groups. It is fascinating to hear what was happening in NO in the 1960s. Although NO is associated with jazz, there is something of a pop music scene running alongside and in parallel. You keep on hearing names of musicians like George Porter and bands like The Meters which have a massive amount of traction with jazz musicians yet you rarely hear this stuff n the radio. I saw Dr John at Basingstoke Anvil many years ago and was a little disappointed as the band was a bit too rock-orientated for my tastes. However, I have heard quite a bit of his music in a more jazz-orientated context and loved what he was doing.

It is really interesting to explore music that is right outside of the mainstream. I am always staggered by what you can manage to turn up.

 

Happy you enjoyed Ian. Dancefloor favourites from my soul music DJ days 60s/70s. Robert Parker's barefootin' album one of my all time favourites.

 

Found this and loved it... need to go a long way in (7 mins or so) for the stones to join in

 

FLT

My favourite music is jazz and , over the years, I have seen some terrific concerts. Since 2001 I have been going to the jazz festival in Vienne each year where I have seen some incredible concerts. Given the fact that there are gigs throughout the lunchtime, afternoon, evening and early hours of the morning, the musicians / groups I have seen must be up in the mid 100s and it is a shame that the festival has been cancelled this year. It would have been my 20th visit and I was looking forward to meeting up with my friend again.

Of all these gigs the one concert which I think was the best show was B.B. King. I have never seen anything with quite the same level of showmanship. The backing band did a few numbers first and they were really tight. B.B King then walked on stage and sat down in a chair before his guitar "Lucille" was presented to him. There are some artists in jazz who can build up a rapport with an audience. I am thinking of singers such as Dianne Reeves or the pianist Chick Corea who is not only personable but quite funny too . Others tend to be less communicative and let the music do the talking. B.B. King fed off the audience and the intention was to ensure everyone had a good time. The quality of music was good ( I really enjoy the Blues too) and he quickly had the audience in his hands. I have always felt that the Blues is more than the music. No other style has the kind of baggage that comes with the Blues and the whole point of the music is to get the people up and moving. King was exceptional and I was bowled over by the way it was pure theatre as well a music. Buddy Guy is great to hear live too yet B.B. King put on a show that is better than anything else I have seen. A great musician and a terrific character too.

 

(Vinyl nerd mode on)

I bought a Garrard AT60 Mk2 deck off ebay some months ago, despite my careful advice on packing it arrived in several bits. I did get my £ back and the buyer said dump the remains. Then this little Autoslim changer chassis came up for £6. I used the plinth from the broken deck to house it and after the usual clean of fossilized grease I squeezed an old pickering cartridge in there. Sound pretty good actually, great fun to use an autochanger again, that ruddy arm moves with real determination and speed when changing 45s!



Encouraged me to play a few neglected singles here's a couple which are currently rotating at Green Towers.

The Nice - America (may include knives).

John Kongos - Tokoloshe Man (later used by the Happy Mondays).

 

Been practising this tune on my piano this morning. The album from which this tune comes from is excellent although playing Andrew Hill's tunes is a bit of a challenge. This one if actually not too difficult. Fun just playing around the D minor and G minor total centres which make up the piece. What you realise is that his music really relies on the drums "pushing" the music whilst he can go off and play in a pretty abstract fashion. One of my jazz heroes.

 

Schad Listens To Weird Music, Part 81: Los Bitchos, all-female acoustic surf rock:

 

Extending that vinyl nerd mode just for a while, I felt the twinge of pain when I read your description of the Garrard AT60 Mk2 postage disaster. But that little Garrard Autoslim is a cutie. Makes me want to go off and look for a Garrard 4HF turntable [the biscuit tin player] again. But I'll never devote enough funds for a decent one, as their value has gone through the roof.

My interest in 1950s, 60s, 70s hi-fi has just taken a major upswing. A dear old friend of mine is in a nursing home at present, and sadly is unlikely to make it. A few years ago he bequeathed me his late 1960's Celestion Ditton 44 Mk1 speakers, after he'd obtained them from a charity shop and thought they were ok to keep. He really had no idea what they were or how respected they still are in hifi circles, but I was able to clue him in. I recently brought them home to look after for him, as otherwise they would have been in a mouldy old shed, as he has given up his home. They are in remarkble condition considering, but I have yet to test them as I have been short of a spare amplifier. So I bought a fully functioning old [1973] Leak 2000 receiver off ebay the other day, and with my Goldring GL75 sitting doing nothing at present, I'm going to clear a room to get them all going. Vintage kit can be such fun, and I bet the sound quality is going to be really good.

 

The GL75 is a nice TT. A good example of an affordable Idler table which can still shame many hi-fi efforts from today.

I find shouting at people a lot, on a regular basis, clears a room.

 

I'll try that on the amount of junk I have in that room.

 

So I've bought the Live Lounge Allstars version of the Foo Fighters hit Times Like These which they performed on the Big Night In on Thursday. I don't know the original, but I liked it so I thought I'd buy it especially as the money (100% of it!) goes to charity and it's kinda mellow (and mellow is always good) but also one day, in 5, 10 years time I can listen to hear it think back of that time when the world ground to a halt (for the most part), sport vanished, people gathered together to applaud the NHS every Thursday, and I personally went 18 days and counting without leaving my house (except for one 5 minute walk 9 days ago as I needed to clear my head) and remember those who were lost. And hopefully, when I listen to this song in 5 years times after this I'll still be able to look upon the mundane banalities of every day life with a newfound appreciation gained while normal life disappeared, just being able to go to the cinema, having a meal at a restaurant, walking in crowds of people without worrying about whether they're 2 metres from you or not. Heck, even the local pub which I've been to many times and is kinda dingy I'll have a new found appreciation for after this.

Anyhow, in case you missed the song, here it is here:

 

Quite pleasant, but a complete absence of balls, even with Dave Grohl himself present. Here’s the original, which is in my opinion superior in every way.

 

Very 'Foo Fighters'. Not bad, although my favourite Foo song remains Learn to Fly.

Though on the subject of covers, I'll often find the version I heard first is the version I prefer whether it's a cover or not. For example, Landslide by Dagny (which is a cover of a Fleetwood Mac song), I absolutely love. It's so mellow, so ethereal even

The original is pretty good, but I feel like this cover really makes it its own and gives it a completely different feel.

 

Nothing touches Stevie's sense of vunerability in the original which is the crux of the song (which is beautiful and one of my all time favourites).
That version appears soulless in comparison IMO..

 

Yes, I get what you mean by the vulnerability, which I guess is brought into focus by the stripped down/acoustic nature of the song which is in contrast to the less stripped down version by Dagny. I suppose the nature of covers is that when the song is originally written, it may be written for a purpose or there may be a message or feeling behind it. When something is covered, that original message or meaning is unlikely to be there (unless whoever is covering it just happens to be in the same kind of situation as when the originally writer wrote it) and I guess they just cover a song because they like it. Though I knew, and listened to and liked the Dagny song for a while before I heard the Fleetwood Mac version, in fact I didn't even realise it was a cover for a while, so maybe that's why I prefer it. Blame Spotify, it randomly played it one day. Though I do like it when Spotify does that sometimes, I've discovered some good songs that way, songs which I guess are a bit more obscure maybe.


One such example that I really like is,

I like the fact that it's so upbeat, particularly the chorus and it just feels like an anthem for everyone who's ever felt heartbreak or loneliness or experience tough nights and tough times but like, not in a mopey way but in a kind of "Hey you, you're a tough ass mofo who survived all these things! Go you!" Like a celebration of resilience or something. And celebrating that these things helped to make you who you are, it's not just the good things that make you who you are, but the bad things too. Character building, I believe they call it.

Also apparently they covered Landslide in Glee. I don't remember that, but I look forward to re-experiencing it again when me and my gf finally get around to that episode.

 

Agree 100% SA. Unless you understand the background to the Rumours album which contextualise the heartbreaking nature of songs like Stevie’s Landslide, Lindsey’s Go Your Own Way, and Christine’s Songbird, you can’t grasp what those songs are about.

Pretty tunes just aren’t enough.

 

You know they did a whole episode of Glee dedicated to the album Rumours. See, if that isn't a reason to watch Glee, I don't know what is.