Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

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ChilcoSaint said:
Here’s 11 minutes of pure folk-rock perfection. Just listen to the way this builds, it just wouldn’t work if they’d made it any shorter!
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If I could give more than one like I'd do it for this. Played it to Mrs Game yesterday, she loves it too and she's a tough audience.
This is what makes this thread so good. I haven't listened to a lot of Fairport Convention and what I had I just didn't think it was for me. Now I'm searching for other stuff to listen to.
 
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Happy 59th Birthday to Singer/Songwriter Frontman of Alternative Rock bands Jane's Addiction and Porno For Pyros, Perry Farrell who was born Peretz Bernstein on this day in Queens, NYC in 1959...

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ChilcoSaint said:
Here’s 11 minutes of pure folk-rock perfection. Just listen to the way this builds, it just wouldn’t work if they’d made it any shorter!
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Just back from Cornwall, listened to Fairport/Sandy/Fotheringay all the way.

I remember playing Sailor's Life one evening after t'pub back in the 80s. My young student friend said "who the ***k is that playing heavy metal guitar solos on it". Funny how people see (hear) music.
 
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Saints_Alive said:
Canadian Singer/Songwriter, Terry Jacks is 74 today having been born in Winnipeg in 1944...

Here is his morbid classic #1 from 1974, it is one of the few singles to have ever sold more than 10 million copies globally...

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Love this song. Reminds me of being a 5 year old, with no worries in life... (I wasn't a Saints fan yet)
 
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ChilcoSaint said:
Well said! Like you I like all sorts and don’t discriminate according to genre. I think it goes back to growing up in the 60’s and 70’s when music wasn’t categorised the way it is today, so you either liked something or you didn’t.

I certainly never liked or disliked a piece of music purely in terms of how long it was, although John Cage’s 4’33” was a challenge!
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The point of Cage's work is philosophical. The intention was that by listening to musicians doing nothing, the audience would become attuned to other sounds and this would become the "composition." Really, it is just an idea. Never really been that impressed with Cage's music although some of the prepared piano pieces have their charm.

It is interesting to read the discussion centring abound the length of a piece of music. Art Blakey once made the statement about soloists quitting the stage once they have said everything in their solo. However, the idea of lengthy improvisation is quite interesting as the music. There are few soloists who can really sustain the interesting for the long haul. There is a terrific double album recorded live in a club where John Coltrane stretches out for 4o-plus minutes on a track called "One up, one down." The solo was recorded as a bootleg and a good proportion of the solo was missed at the beginning. It is hugely compelling, especially when the music evolves into a battle between 'Trane and drummer Elvin Jones. I have also heard Sonny Rollins perform live where he has done the same.

These days the master of lengthy improvisation is Keith Jarrett with solos recitals like "The Koln Concert" being best sellers. These days ,I think Jarrett does meander. He can be compelling but also a bit corny when playing solo. I have also felt Paul Bley has been far more succinct as a soloist.
 
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