Post swing band? Post Rock and Roll? Post pretentious, over the top progressive music? Hearing a description of a type of music wouldn't make me interested in hearing it, actually hearing it does. I remember a lad coming in to school in late 1964 after a visit to his aunt's in London and declaring "**** the Stones, **** the Beatles" carryingbsome Otis Redding stuff. No description of it as any genre, no stuff about being post r & b, post Mersey sound or anything else. Finding out the Stones had covered a number of Otis songs, and Solomon Burke ones and that If You Need Me, a Burke song was originally sung and written by some bloke called Wilson Pickett started me off in a different musical direction. No mention of genres were uttered in this process.
I've been in talks with Motown Records for the past two years and the office I'm talking to is in San Francisco. Though frankly, I might as well have been talking to myself...
There's nowt wrong with genres as a means of describing the kind of stuff you tend to like or dislike. When they get broken down into sub-genres and sub-sub-genres, it gets a bit mental.
I bought Clive James books of his collected TV reviews off Amazo few months ago. Still funny. Would be funny even if you didn't see the programmes or are too young to have been around then. His autobiographies are very amusing too. His definition of the difference between a sceptic and a cynic still holds good. " A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks others don't".
They are now part of the Capitol Group and based in the Capitol Tower Los Angeles apparently. Have had offices everywhere. A varied and history have Motown records. Always loved the tale of how some record company executive got an underling to sneak a peek at Motown's studio so he could replicate their studio to be able to achieve the same sound . The song which had inspired him was a Four Tops one, can't remember which one. Turned out the Four Tops had been on tour and had recorded the particular track in a borrowed studio elsewhere with the other studio's house band.
Good for you. Nobody said using genres to describe or discover music was the only valid way to do it.
