Altec Horny Devils?Quote:
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Altec Horny Devils?Quote:
Originally Posted by gearfreak
"Altec Horney Devils". That reminds me that I like AC/DC with a few beers.
Let's Active was Mitch's 80's band and they are very 80's sounding (big surprise) but in spite of that I think they had a lot of great songs......Quote:
Originally Posted by gearfreak
Good guess---I've always considered Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain to be Pavement's best album but I have to admit, as I mentioned in my earlier post I've been listening to Brighten the Corners a lot lately and there is a certain consistency/dynamic to those songs that really gives Crooked Rain a run for it's money--not to mention it sounds great cranked up on the Altecs!
Hard pressed to argue, depending on how the winds blowing, mine as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by voice of the theater
Hah. Well I suppose it'd have to be now. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Guy
Maybe Altec Deville.
I confess; The Rolling Stones are my favourite band, songwriters, performers, et.al.
My paper-round(newspaper-route) money first went on '12x5', then 'The Rolling Stones' l.p. and I never stopped buying from then on. My first five albums are MONO and I later bought the stereo versions. I saw them in 1965 and 1972 before they became specks on the stage. I have pretty much all of their albums and DVDs and a few of the better bootlegs. I also have most of the Keith, Bill and Charlie independent releases but not the Mick stuff.
I have just purchased the 'Ladies And Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones' DVD(Australian Edition) and it has to be the BEST Stones DVD. Great performance, shows ALL the Stones working, working, working and enjoying the gig. Of course this was probably the Stones at their peak.
Cheers, Marshall.
Big fan of Bill's Rythm Kings here.Quote:
I also have most of the Keith, Bill and Charlie independent releases but not the Mick stuff.
Gotta love Frampton actually "playing" bass: YouTube - Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings - Stuff
I think Andrea Bocelli is the best all around perfomer in both classical and contemporary, He is surrounded by David Foster one of America's top producer.
The Italian Accent lends itself best for Opera and many conntemporary songs.
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I have great difficulty selecting items as representative of my tastes,because I love so much music just for what it is.
What moves me:
Bach Cantatas
Schwarzkopf doing 'Four Last Songs'
Live Hendrix
Nat King Cole
Joni
Monk
Miles
Led Zep
Beethoven
There's too many.It's not fair having to select one or the other.So much beautiful music.So many uplifting,powerful works
Was cranking up the Altecs and I noticed I've got an awful lot of music in my collection that is heavily 60's inspired/influenced. Thank God they didn't stop making 60's music in the 60's! Here's a couple of bands that carried that torch into the 90's and the new millennium.......
JELLYFISH--anyone ever heard of this 90's band? Their second album "Spilt Milk" in particular really stands out IMHO as a 60's "retro" classic from the 90's. Very unusual in that the front man/lead vocalist is the drummer who plays a "stand up" drum kit.....
YouTube - Jellyfish - The Ghost at Number One (Later)
Here's another 60's influenced band that a lot of people wrote off when they arrived on the scene in the 80's -- and yes, their 80's output sounds a little too 80's. Anyways, those who wrote them off back then missed their best (by far, IMHO) music by a couple of decades. My favorite Tears For Fears album (and probably their most 60's influenced) is their 2004 release "Everybody Loves a Happy Ending" (get your minds out of the gutters, folks!). Here's the title track.....
YouTube - Everybody Loves a Happy Ending- Tears for Fears
Anyone else out there like this kind of stuff?
We must've seen the same tour.
I think they were supporting the Elemental release, or it was just prior to that.
Jellyfish was a pleasant surprise as the opening act. The GF at the time was into them, and I by proxy. Not followed since. They certainly didn't get enough credit at the time though.
I went, expecting TFF (in a nutshell) to be everything synth-drums and samples that I didn't care for about the 80's. Curt Smith had departed, so knowledge of band-trauma further lowered expectations for the tunes I thought I'd wanted to hear.
In fact however, the stage/lighting was innovative and attractive, and the sound the best I'd heard to date (alas no recollection of the gear or company). Roland Orzabal was no squeaky guy behind a keyboard (that'd've been Smith anyway I think) , but instead a humbucking Tele (?) toting freight train of a tenor with unexpected vocal power and endurance. He actually hits the notes, did so well, and professionally.
It was much less compressed, and falsetto-ish, than you might expect having heard the earlier hits.
* In web-hindsight, it appears he has had a rep as a perfectionist - well, whatever it was, it worked.
Highlight: famous last words.