This is a significant one for me.....................Phil Lesh now gone..........
Phil Lesh, Bassist Who Anchored the Grateful Dead, Dies at 84 - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
For those who can't jailbreak that one, this is basically the same thing, but not all - and minus some neat pics:
Phil Lesh, founding member of Grateful Dead, has died at 84 | AP News
Quincy Jones gone at 91:
Quincy Jones, musical titan and entertainment icon, dead at 91 | CNN
Best guitarist list:...Dimebag Darrell follows Joe Walsh at 130...(I was searching for Dimebag, but yeah, right on, I've always been a huge Joe Walsh fan...
Fabulous music was coming out of Motown last time the Lions were NFL champs.
Happy 72nd birthday to Suzi Quatro (aka Leather Tuscadero).
See this thread, Dec. 15, 2022, and then my follow-up Jan. 2, 2023.
But 72? Wowser.
This comes with a prelude but I like it and this extended version. Anyone who can carry off a plaid suit is badass.
Good stuff there. Also makes me miss Jack Ramsay, Wimp Sanderson, Al McGuire, et al, courtside.
Never got to see Smokey, Sam Cooke, or Marvin G., but I was fortunate to experience Al at one of the Jazzfests ('80s) I attended. As some of the commenters of that video state, the recordings don't do justice. Not hardly. While I had always appreciated his talent, I was surprised at the degree to which he could generate emotion from the crowd - and seemingly within himself. And the degree to which the highest high notes were mere putty in his hands. Borderline mesmerizing. I came away much more a fan, and realizing I had just heard one of "the" voices. And.........thankfully.........the memory of said voice, live, I still carry in my memory banks.
I saw Al Green perform in 1984 as a warmup for Ray Charles. At that time, he was calling himself Reverend Al Green and told the audience that his songs would be declaring the glory of God. So, it was all gospel -- sung by Al Green, so it was fantastic. He did sing "Let's Stay Together", saying that God would like that. We certainly did.
This stuff is pretty darn cool...like some old surfer tunes in there too.
Never ceases to amaze me what some here call "old music". And yeah, I know, it's *somewhat* dependent on age - but not *that* much. But whatever. I'm here to show you all how ARETHA brings it - or *brought* it back in the day:
Aretha Franklin - Don't Play That Song (LIVE)
Hard to beat that talent.
I played "Time" and "Money" later in the evening.
I tried to keep it per like stuff that's in "Rolling Stones' best 500 rock songs of All Time"...
So to play hard stuff later for a different crowd I put on Slayer's "South of Heaven" and Metallica's "Harvester of Sorrow"...measure the crowd...
I may visit, but I'll never reside in SoCal.
I'll not post another millennials' tune here again.
Cool enough? I deign to elders (generally).
That Ke$ha tune (though) propels my otherwise lazily idle azz to dance dance dance--as much I can *now* vis-à-vis waaaay back in the day at 108th st.'s "Attic West"...
I suspect a number greater than zero who peruse here have similar sentiment (but sadly, a count likely single digits)...
(Thought about posting something else but figured, nah--better not to pizz people off).
Man, I'm not the music police here. You and I just have *very* different tastes in music, and apparently *very* different reference points for what's "old". But that's ok. Post whatever you want. Clearly you're a music lover, too. I'm just pointing out some things.... For example, altho I think Beck is a very inventive and talented 'composer'(?), I don't like that particular selection. Just too much electronica (like much of his stuff, ultimately). Not to mention..........15 years old is still "new music" for most of us here. It's from the last 25% of the "rock era", after all.
And in the Keisha cut, that electronica is an even larger problem (for me - and for those of us who like our music "authentic"). I tried - I watched it twice - but just don't see/hear anything there of redeeming musical or cultural value. Just more LA synth pop, which to me is worthless. But all that's just me.
But for real, post whatever you want. You don't need to "deign to elders" in this stuff (altho I appreciate the thought). Your opinion is just as valuable as mine - depth and breadth of musical experiences at least noted, however. Just sayin' - but that kind of thing could be in the "new music" thread, altho Buzz might not be too keen on that; don't know. In that "new music" thread, he's brought LOTS of stuff I'd otherwise never hear. A good bit of it I don't fancy; but some I do. But for him, I believe "new music" is (mostly) within the last 15 minutes. ;) Maybe start a "Millennials pop dance music", or similar. But don't mind me, as I'm mostly just trying to keep these kids off my lawn. Peace.....
[Your choices in music bring to mind Denny's theory about how peeps get 'stuck' in whatever era they were in musically, in high school (or young adulthood). I personally disagree with that theory - or at least call it a very gross generalization - but in your case it may be true. And that is NOT a knock; just an observation. And it's actually kinda interesting for me to contemplate.]
Ok.....if we're being honest..........there's really *virtually* no such thing as "good" hip-hop/(c)rap. There just isn't. Some sort of mass hallucination swept our dear land to account for that belief. In the future, scientists and music historians will marvel at, and try to unravel, that currently unfathomable mystery. 🙄
But yes, in general, historically, and certainly per capita, the Brits have been a vanguard. *However*...........a lot of their inspiration (to put it mildly) came from the American blues. With tidbits of jazz thrown in. So..........name your chicken 🐔, and name your egg🥚.
Good rap/hip-hop:
Quintessentially American: Clifford and Max.
[Responding to Grandmaster Flash......]
Naw. The dancing is fun, and certainly to be appreciated - but the 'music' is just more artificial/synth electronica (and truly boring, throwaway lyrics). Nuthin' there. We'll just have to agree to disagree, methinks.
I hear groans from the philistines at the public house when I put stuff like Clifford on the juke box.
Some old school rap from Queen
https://youtu.be/YkGY5EzA-h4?si=lOahFoIjUrO8G_iD
I will say there *may* be one exception - and that is what started it all (depending on one's definition), Sugar Hill Gang's classic - in which the word "grandmaster" was used. But I personally think that's closer to disco - and what they were going for then - but one could make the case, I guess. Maybe it was sorta a transition phase? I won't link it here, 'cause we've already done that, and everybody knows it anyway.
Recently posted...excellent quality...(how lucky am I it coming unexpectedly in YouTube rotation?)...
David Gray is an artist I discovered about 25 years ago. His song, "Babylon", gripped me instantly. One of those special songs: "turn up the volume" and just let it wash over me.
Shortly after he released the song, I heard an interview in which he said that Frank Sinatra was one of his inspirations. I sent links for the interview and his music to my mom, who was one of those swooning young girls in Sinatra's audience way back when. She liked Gray's music and added it to her list of favorites on Rhapsody (yes, this was a long time ago).
She has since passed, and I have attempted to see Gray in concert a number of times. My first attempt was shut down by Covid, and other concerts just didn't mesh with my availability. He's touring again, and I have a ticket for next month. This one's for you, mom.
https://youtu.be/Ycj-bQXWRrQ?si=yAMVoOO4YNBPy9iL
12 obscure pyych-rock songs...(I plan at least to sample those with which I'm unfamiliar).
Garth Hudson, the last of them, gone at 87:
Garth Hudson, master instrumentalist and last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87 | AP News