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Post by jk on Oct 21, 2021 10:54:37 GMT
Wow, it's been 15 months since the previous post in this thread. Thanks be to Micha at EH for alerting me to this cool surf instrumental for the electronic age. "Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go!!!" is track 8 on Anders Trentemøller's 2010 album Into the Great Wide Yonder: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trentemøller
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Post by carllove on Oct 22, 2021 14:51:17 GMT
Surprised no one has mentioned this one! Very cool vibe and it was a #1 hit in 1962.
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Post by jk on Oct 22, 2021 21:18:53 GMT
Surprised no one has mentioned this one! Very cool vibe and it was a #1 hit in 1962. Yes indeed! Thank you, cl. My problem is that I heard "Telstar" far too often at the time. On one painful occasion (it was a TV awards show), The Tornados played it live. So often, records produced by studio geniuses like Joe Meek and Phil Spector get sold short when "reproduced" live. Other names of producers that come to mind in this respect are those of Shadow Morton and -- getting onto treacherously thin ice here -- Brian Wilson. Changing the subject rather quickly, here's a cool Joe Meek-produced B-side by The Packabeats. Johnny Douglas's "The Traitors" (1962) featured in a long-forgotten film of that name. Love the way the bass starts walking halfway through the melody: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Meek
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 22, 2021 21:25:30 GMT
Surprised no one has mentioned this one! Very cool vibe and it was a #1 hit in 1962. Never heard that one in my life! Funny, since while it's before my time, I'm not usually so clueless about early '60s music as to not know a #1.
Pretty cool song. The organ sound isn't my favorite. (A lot of organ sounds from the era aren't favorites, those thin, bright sounds often categorized as "surf organ" on modern synth patches.) But it's a good song to be sure.
Always funny seeing bass players from earlier days using their thumbs so often. B Wilson did it on occasion, and I know others did too. But it strikes me as an awful way to play. Pick, or fingers, but thumb? I don't get it.
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Post by jk on Oct 22, 2021 21:45:07 GMT
Surprised no one has mentioned this one! Very cool vibe and it was a #1 hit in 1962.
Pretty cool song. The organ sound isn't my favorite. (A lot of organ sounds from the era aren't favorites, those thin, bright sounds often categorized as "surf organ" on modern synth patches.) But it's a good song to be sure. According to the song's wiki page, the melody is played by Geoff Goddard on "either a clavioline or the similar Jennings Univox". I'd always assumed it was a clavioline (a monophonic keyboard I used to own) but there seems to be equally strong case for the Univox. Personally, I don't give a shit one way or the other -- whatever it is sounds great!
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Post by carllove on Oct 23, 2021 5:49:37 GMT
And my favorite instrumental ever - “Beck’s Bolero”. Just Genius! I loved him in The Yardbird’s and this made me even love Jeff Beck more!
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Post by jk on Oct 23, 2021 10:04:52 GMT
And my favorite instrumental ever - “Beck’s Bolero”. Just Genius! I loved him in The Yardbird’s and this made me even love Jeff Beck more! Now that brings back some memories. "Hi Ho Silver Lining" was the A-side but the dee jays often flipped it, bless them. Ye gods, what a lineup! I had no idea. Beck and Page (on flat top), J.P. Jones, Nicky Hopkins and Keith Moon! Great to hear it again. Thank you, thank you! This is the JB track I've been listening to the most over the past few years. This live version of "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" features the extraordinary Tal Wilkenfeld on bass. I love the rapport those two have on stage. (That's Vinnie Colaiuta on drums).
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Post by carllove on Oct 23, 2021 15:58:46 GMT
And my favorite instrumental ever - “Beck’s Bolero”. Just Genius! I loved him in The Yardbird’s and this made me even love Jeff Beck more! Now that brings back some memories. "Hi Ho Silver Lining" was the A-side but the dee jays often flipped it, bless them. Ye gods, what a lineup! I had no idea. Beck and Page (on flat top), J.P. Jones, Nicky Hopkins and Keith Moon! Great to hear it again. Thank you, thank you! This is the JB track I've been listening to the most over the past few years. This live version of "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" features the extraordinary Tal Wilkenfeld on bass. I love the rapport those two have on stage. (That's Vinnie Colaiuta on drums). Thanks jk! I love that one too! That whole Blow by Blow album is great!
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Post by jk on Oct 24, 2021 10:33:35 GMT
This is the JB track I've been listening to the most over the past few years. This live version of "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" features the extraordinary Tal Wilkenfeld on bass. I love the rapport those two have on stage. (That's Vinnie Colaiuta on drums). Thanks jk! I love that one too! That whole Blow by Blow album is great! My guitarist brother is a major Jeff Beck fan and has seen him in concert, lucky fellow. Oh, and now I understand why Jeff was in both your ideal supergroup lineups! This next instrumental, by the Dutch band Focus, was so short that they repeated part of the tape. It still sounds great. I saw them play this in London's Marquee Club in 1972 -- chills-down-the-spinesville: I reproduce the YouTube blurb verbatim: This song is from the 1971 album MOVING WAVES the 2nd album from the Dutch group. It is the sixth part of a 23 minute song called "Eruption" that spans the whole second side of that album. It is an adaptation of Jacopo Peri's opera "Euridice". This small section of the song was written by Tommy Barlage a sax player for a fellow Dutch band named Solution. Thijs Van Leer - Keyboards, Flute [not on this track], Vocals Jan Akkerman - Guitars Pierre Van Der Linden - Drums Cyril Havermans - Bass, Vocals
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Post by jk on Jan 19, 2022 13:23:56 GMT
Heard this Duane Eddy EP blasting out while browsing the record department of W.H. Smith in the very early '60s. And I knew I had to have it. I like the spelling of his name. Strangely, I read only today that "Douane" doesn't play on either "Ramrod" or "The Walker"! This is one he does play on (I hope) -- "Stalkin'":
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Post by jk on Feb 3, 2022 22:35:55 GMT
Like that evening walk in 1990 through the bustling streets of downtown Tokyo ( here), this much more recent evening walk along the Moskva River in Moscow has a fascinating soundtrack, one that splices together "Splash Zoom (Electronic Version)" and "Andromeda" from Geotronika's 2020 album Hypnosis of Happiness:
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Post by jk on Mar 22, 2022 16:34:15 GMT
Browsing Kasper Sloots' fabulous Zappa site, I discovered the origins of that snippet of surf music heard just before "Let's Make The Water Turn Black" on WOIIFTM. This is "Heavies" by The Rotations (see here):
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 7, 2022 13:04:19 GMT
The $1,000,000 question is, of course, when will this video of Wendy Carlos's stunning original version of the opening theme from A Clockwork Orange be taken down? Forgive my ignorance, jk, but why is that? Just for typical copyright infringement by the poster, or is there some other story here?
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Post by jk on Jul 7, 2022 13:12:09 GMT
The $1,000,000 question is, of course, when will this video of Wendy Carlos's stunning original version of the opening theme from A Clockwork Orange be taken down? Forgive my ignorance, jk , but why is that? Just for typical copyright infringement by the poster, or is there some other story here? I fear it's a copyright thing. There are pale imitations to be heard all over YouTube but nothing beats Wendy C's wonderfully ghoulish original!
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 7, 2022 13:27:36 GMT
Forgive my ignorance, jk , but why is that? Just for typical copyright infringement by the poster, or is there some other story here? I fear it's a copyright thing. There are pale imitations to be heard all over YouTube but nothing beats Wendy C's wonderfully ghoulish original! Gotcha. It's interesting how some copyright owners are so vigilant about removing their work (or quick to demonetize channels that post it, even for educational purposes), while others just roll with it.
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