Yes indeedi Carl. I'm a Stevie Salas fan. Loved the colorcode stuff. Managed to catch em live over here in th Uk. He also features on one of Sass Jordans cd's.
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Yes indeedi Carl. I'm a Stevie Salas fan. Loved the colorcode stuff. Managed to catch em live over here in th Uk. He also features on one of Sass Jordans cd's.
The CD with 'Harder They Come..' is good. I haven't
heard anything else.
D.
Daz
They released another cd as Colorcode called Back from the Living. The Harder they come is off the first one - good album that first one.
erk...arghh...
*whew*
It's back. [img]wink.gif[/img]
That period 1990 - 94, when it seemed funk-rock
was the only true rock alternative to grunge's
grubby shenanigans, was ultimately, I think,
disappointing. Nobody in the biz really took those
bands seriously. Dan Reed Network were criminally
under-promoted.
D.
Lenny Kravitz was both part of what you are discussing, and part of the early '90s neo-glam as well.
I think the main problem was that the media was so intent on not having, to them, a rerun of the early 1970s and/or early 1980s. That is why they promoted Nirvana so heavily, because it looked and sounded like shit.
I think the media has fully divided music into two factions: One, the likes of Spears and the rest of the pre-fab pop princesses, plus the fully neutered, fabulously gay likes of 'N*Stync and related. On the other hand, you have the emo/grunge-descended/neo-riot grrl/nu-metal-hiphop loving "keepin' it real" types with their "bohemianism" that the media loves. Anything else falls into the shitter.
I was just listening to one of my fave CDs, "Donde estan los Ladrones" by Shakira. That was released in 1998, meaning it is seven years old. Not a bad track on it. Okay, it has programming and to be honest, in places it is essentially techno with Latin instrumentation on top, but I still like it a lot. They ruined the so-called Latina-wave by trying to turn them all into versions of Spears, a real no-talent. Better they should have combined the pan-Latinisms with some Maggie Bell-type vocals and some well produced guitar.
Shakira seems to be going along quite cheerfully
with the way she's being packaged a'la Spears, et
al.
D.
<font color="#FF0000" size="1">[ April 19, 2005 01:29 PM: Message edited by: Deviant D ]</font>
I know, sort of. She has a weird image now, kind of a cross between 77 punk and 67 hippie.
I did like some of Laundry Service, mainly the Spanish-lyriced songs. The fairly recent dvd/cd package seems to show her treading in the waters of "classic rock".
I'd say she is not being as much Spears-ised as she is trying to appeal to both her latin fans and the audience she has settled for in the USA.
This country is so insular that outsiders often find insularity where there is none.
<font size="4" face="Arial">Have just been to her Sony site to verify this.Quote:
Originally posted by JayForSure:
I know, sort of. She has a weird image now, kind of a cross between 77 punk and 67 hippie.
You're quite right. She looked scary as hell, though,
in those earlier shots with all the pseudo-cultural
tassles hanging off everything she wore.
D.
I quite liked her previous image, the low-slung leather trews, the highheeled boots, the kinda scalloped navel-baring tops along with the long, curly/frizzy suicide blonde hair.
Kinda early 1980s Dee Sniderish, wouldn't you say? [img]wink.gif[/img]