Quotebye bye johnny "It's going to be great. Once we've decided what tracks we're gonna use." at this point they're just takin the piss ...
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once again apologies if this has been discussed before BUT OMYGOD this is such a good book! Ian MacDonald -- Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties mini essays on the recording and significance -- musically and otherwise -- of every Beatles song from '62-'70. exhaustive, brilliant, fun, sometimes a bit too tech-y for me (as a non-musician), but what a de
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Quotefrankotero Just when you thought it was over Undercover fans, haha. VoodooLounge13 hit some serious notes in my opinion. It was a new day and I believe they felt they must change, no more classic Stones the way we knew them. Alas, Steel Wheels or maybe they would have become a washed up oldies band repeating themselves? All of this is debatable. Regardless, I'm happy with the outcome.
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Quotebob r This Christmas just spending some time looking at and listening to the fantastic re-released Beatles box sets of Sgt Pepper / The White Album and the new Abbey Road, and I am amazed at the care that went into these over the last couple years. The remixed albums sound incredible, the bonus unreleased tracks and alternate takes are truly a bonus, the books that are included are filled wi
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QuoteTopi Bond songs are commissioned / written for the movies, yes. EXACTLY. so it's not a case of picking an existing song and wondering whether it would work as a bond theme. it's more a matter of: could the stones -- as writers and performers - create something with the necessary bombast, drama, and tunefulness to function as the opening of a bond film? i for one have no idea ...
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QuoteWitness That means that I would not wish for George Martin to have iuntervened towards the freakiness of the album, making it in parts more "normal" or whatever. I find fascinating the pt of view that Martin "normalized" The Beatles, or that their output was somehow "pretty," esp in contrast to the more rough-around-the-edges sound of The Stones. What The B
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Andrew Norman -- SUSTAIN -- Dudamel/LA Phil Gorgeous performance of a haunting modern masterpiece.
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otoh who knows mebbe he woulda turned this into a #1 hit!
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On the question of influence: my guess would be NO. Eno's self-professed influences tended to fall into two categories: 1) American black music - gospel, r&b, jazz, soul, blues 2) Euro/American "art" music: Stockhausen, Cage, Reich, Terry Riley, Lamont Young, e.g. He covered songs by The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Velvet Underground, but never The Stones.
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Quotegeorgie48 Oh noooo. He would have clashed with the band instantly. The Beatles were "pressed" by the sixties cult development into a situation where they had to come up with something new all the time and strong minded George Martin fitted in there very well. The Beatles by then were sweet boys. The Stones could never have been able to have someone like Martin telling them what t
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if yer lookin for some new music ... One of my favorite year-end lists ever year is at Aquarium Drunkard. Chock full of goodness for every conceivable taste!
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Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society - MANDATORY REALITY AND Alice Coltrane - Live in Berkeley '72
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Quoteschillid Last weekend our temple held a farewell celebration honoring the career of our longtime cantor who was retiring. The accompaniment consisted of: piano, acoustic guitar, upright bass, sax/flute, percussion. After the performance, I walked over to the woodwinds player, a fellow congregant. "I really enjoyed tonight's music," I said, introducing myself. "And I am a
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Quoteexhpart What is Zimmy's triplicate please? )
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Quotetomcasagranda QuoteLazarusSmith Quotetomcasagranda I've got two: 1) Merry Christmas Baby - Elvis Presley. 2) Christmas Oratorio - J S Bach, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. you can't go wrong with gardiner on bach Agreed. Although I love Angela Hewitt's keyboard Bach.Keith Jarrett can be a bit annoying on Bach, as can Glenn Gould. Hewitt's wonderful. You mig
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It's just all so stupid so old fashioned so much the product of two old men at loggerheads w each other imagine if they had worked on two songs each time they had booked studio time over the past, what, nearly five years now ... and then just RELEASED those songs digitally as singles and moved on. We would have had a modest portrait of the band in their final years and it might have been
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Quotestone66However, some fans have taken exception at the author's digs at George Harrison, who frequently dismisses his guitar skills as "ham-fisted"; according to Geoff, there were several occasions where it appears George just wasn't up to the task of getting guitar parts right during sessions, and that many additional takes of a track would be required as a result. One ge
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Quotegrzegorz67 Quotematxil Quotejlowe The Stones and their contempories were very much rebelling against 50s and early 60s culture. The Class system, the 'weve never had it so good' mantra of the then Tory Government. Homosexuality was illegal, abortion difficult etc. Restaurants serving only 'traditional English cooking' Oh dear. I for one am not nostalgic about those tim
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this aint no foolin around
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I've been living with that interview for a few days now and have made my way through TRIPLICATE several times ... that record is really a remarkable achievement. Bob has reclaimed those torch songs as ... folk songs, songs of the people. Many of them -- having become standards -- are sort of associated with an upper class elite nightblubby kind of clientele ... but Bob has tapped into the
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Quotetomcasagranda I've got two: 1) Merry Christmas Baby - Elvis Presley. 2) Christmas Oratorio - J S Bach, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. you can't go wrong with gardiner on bach
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how bout sarah vaughan - misty - you can see how hard the girl workin at 1:33. or ella live in sweden
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depends on how you measure it stacked up against views, sales would probably lose but going up against the 37 individual discreet users who generated the vast majority of those views, my money's on sales!
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i make it a practice to only listen to xmas toons by people named james so here's my two faves: james white - christmas with satan james brown = santa claus go sstraight to the ghetto
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QuoteHairball But it seems some fans want experimental/artificial technologically advanced sterile sounding contemporary/state of the art mumbo jumbo. YES!!! that is exactly what we want mr hb -- thx for articulating it so clearly!
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QuoteIanBillen QuoteLazarusSmith Quotewonderboy Be interesting to see how they promote this new album. The Who have shown how to promote yourself in today's marketplace. Their tour was nowhere near as big as a Stones tour, but it was interesting and generated lots of press. Townshend and Daltrey did a ton of interviews. As usual, Pete writes the story for the reporter, but Daltrey has also
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Quotewonderboy Be interesting to see how they promote this new album. The Who have shown how to promote yourself in today's marketplace. Their tour was nowhere near as big as a Stones tour, but it was interesting and generated lots of press. Townshend and Daltrey did a ton of interviews. As usual, Pete writes the story for the reporter, but Daltrey has also been good this round. I saw them
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I'm sure this is old hat to most of you Bob-a-philes but I just came across it this morning and my god what a read! Q&A With Bill Flanagan (upon the release of Triplicate) I know it's an overused term but this dude Dylan is seriously a national treasure. He is both trickster and shaman and his nearly encyclopedic (though delivered in a typically psychedelic off-kilter manner)
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QuoteRollingFreak QuoteHairball After a first full listen from start to finish, I'd say it's quite pleasant. Not 100% fantastic or earth shattering, but quite pleasant and enjoyable, and you have to give them credit for going for it. The first track All This Music Must Fade is true kicker, as is Ball and Chain and I Don't Wanna Get Wise to a lesser degree, but have heard them a f
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i built all of these and they were just the bomb diggity!
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