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Post by kds on Jul 7, 2022 15:04:48 GMT
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. I've noticed in recent years, especially post COVID, a lot of bands / artists, have leaned into the YouTube skid, and starting posting more archival content on their official channels. I guess they figure it's more than likely to be posted anyway, they might as well get the views on their channels that they can sell ads on.
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Post by jk on Sept 30, 2022 10:45:42 GMT
I have this routine where once a week I clean one of my many bookshelves, which means each cycle lasts something like nine months!! Yesterday's shelf included a mass of old magazines from The Joe Meek Society, which I belonged to for a while a decade or so ago. It inspired me to look out a number of tracks produced by Joe in the 1960s, including these two gems by The Tornados. "Love And Fury" was their debut 45, which regrettably went nowhere. Check out the guitar sound -- this was 1962! "Ridin' The Wind" (1963, US and Canada only) looks ahead to the film scores of Ennio Morricone and possesses elements of surf music (e.g., those cymbal smashes): In-between those two, the band released the iconic "Telstar" (1962), the one track of theirs that is still heard today. (Its immediate but since forgotten follow-up, "Globetrotter", reached the UK top five in early 1963.) Needless to say, the input by producer extraordinaire Joe Meek was seminal to the sound of everything they recorded for him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tornados
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Post by jk on Nov 17, 2022 22:55:16 GMT
Here's one I hadn't heard in fifty years! It's the wondrous "Groovin' With Mr. Bloe" performed by (you guessed it!) Mr. Bloe:
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Post by jk on Jan 11, 2023 11:20:16 GMT
"Hit And Miss" (1960) was the second theme tune featured in the UK TV show Juke Box Jury and remained the title music from 1960 to 1967. It's performed by the John Barry Seven Plus Four, to give them their full name on this occasion (the "Four" presumably being the strings, four violins if I'm not mistaken). Note ace session player Vic Flick on guitar. Click on his name for details of his long and illustrious career:
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 3, 2023 13:18:05 GMT
There are a handful of threads this could fit into, but since this one doesn't get a lot of love and instrumental approach is what makes it newsworthy, here is where it goes. Spectacular guitarist Paul Gilbert is releasing an all-instrumental tribute album to the late metal legend Ronnie James Dio. The album includes material spanning Dio's time in Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and Dio. Gilbert performs all instruments except drums. While the technical achievement is worth noting, and the labor of love is admirable, I'm not sure mimicking a singer (as opposed to a jazz approach of playing the "head" once and then improvising from then on) makes sense, as quite frankly it gets boring much quicker to play vocal melodies without the added context of lyrics. That said, make up your own mind! Gilbert, from outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was an acclaimed local performer and even was featured in Guitar Player magazine by the time he was 15, around 1980-81. By the time he was 19, he had been brought to California and was an instructor at the Guitar Institute of Technology. That is when he formed Racer X, though, a few years later, he joined the massively successful Mr. Big (known for its hit acoustic ballad "To Be With You," but with prog-shredder virtuosos on every instrument). He has been an active musician through the present day in the aforementioned bands as well as innumerable other projects.
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Post by kds on Feb 8, 2023 14:10:04 GMT
Mr. Big is another band, kind of like Tesla and Extreme, whose biggest hit happened to be an acoustic song, so a lot of music fans just assumed they were a ballad band. Which is pretty hilarious when you consider the sheer talent that was in Mr. Big.
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Post by jk on Feb 15, 2023 20:15:26 GMT
It's a little unsettling when out of nowhere you think of a tune that came out in, say, 1963 for the first time since that year. Which is exactly what happened to me today with The Zephyrs' "What’s All That About", a record I hadn't heard or even thought about in sixty years!
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Post by jk on Feb 16, 2023 18:33:35 GMT
And here’s another gem from the same year. It's a naggingly familiar tune I was asked to identify this afternoon. The theme from The Human Jungle was composed by Bernard Ebbinghouse, and arranged and recorded by John Barry and his Orchestra:
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Post by jk on Feb 18, 2023 10:31:43 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 18, 2023 12:13:52 GMT
That's the first Jeff Beck album I ever bought, and probably the first instrumental album I ever bought. That tune was and is my favorite from it. It made some early '90s mix tape of instrumental favorites that might still sit in a box in the basement, unplayable for lack of a cassette deck these past 25 years or more...
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 25, 2023 17:48:59 GMT
I have probably posted his 1990 classic "Cliffs of Dover" in this thread or somewhere else here--and if not, I should, because it's literally brilliant--but here is a somewhat new (2022) song from guitarist and songwriter Eric Johnson. "Soundtrack Life" has his typically fabulous tones, shimmering clean tones and round, full overdriven ones; real melodic sense; absolute mastery of the fretboard as he smoothly manages even the most challenging lines; and most of all, real taste and class.
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Post by jk on Aug 28, 2023 21:38:08 GMT
Prompted by the Dave "Baby" Cortez track in the US #1's thread, I lifted this from elsewhere at BBT: I'd always fooled around on my brother's guitar (upside down -- I'm left-handed) and got into Shadows and Duane Eddy stuff, but it was when I resumed interest in the piano, after a two-year hiatus brought on by a well-meaning but not particularly inspiring teacher, that I started getting into playing pop stuff with a driving left-hand rhythm that didn't require the presence of other instruments. My first effort was "Red River Rock" by Johnny & The Hurricanes with its slightly tricky left hand riff (four C's in the bass, first with two GG's, then one A and then a third G) and those thrilling triplets: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_and_the_Hurricanes
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 7, 2023 20:07:51 GMT
The inimitable--I mean that almost literally: not many guitarists could even try this--Stanley Jordan, performing an instrumental version of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" at the 1986 Newport Jazz Festival.
Unbelievable technique. And an interesting aside, he uses what I think is his own alternate tuning of perfect 4ths across the guitar: E-A-D-G-C-F, rather than E-A-D-G-B-E, as he considers it more logical.
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Post by jk on Mar 3, 2024 11:35:51 GMT
I was long familiar with The Shadows' version of "Apache" but this one is pretty cool too. The Incredible Bongo Band's rendition, from their 1973 album Bongo Rock and later released as a B-side, includes a long percussion break, largely courtesy of genius drummer Jim Gordon (hopefully at peace now), that ranks among the most sampled breaks in history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_Bongo_Band
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Post by jk on Mar 7, 2024 11:40:59 GMT
Heard Herb Alpert's sprightly rendition of the theme tune from Casino Royale (1967) yesterday on Dutch classical radio, where they're doing a film music Top 200. Love that high trumpet line and the fuzz notes at the end: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_Like...
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