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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Oct 13, 2019 12:44:19 GMT
This one slipped under the radar - Eric Clapton's 5th Crossroads Guitar Festival. A lot of legends there. With his recent health problems, it's nice to see Peter Frampton still performing, though he does look a little frail. Looking forward to seeing the video.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Oct 14, 2019 0:00:00 GMT
This is very upsetting news:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Oct 14, 2019 1:59:24 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 14, 2019 12:24:54 GMT
Sad to hear. May go a long way in explaining why there wasn’t more done for major anniversary reissues, tours, etc recently.
His pick-in-the-mouth theory seems to minimize the more obvious and likely cause of smoking. It would be like a habitual sunbather hypothesizing that the fabric of her shirt or her lotion caused her melanoma.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 15, 2019 13:05:01 GMT
KDS’s favorite institution, the RnR HOF, announced the 2020 nominees:
Pat Benatar* Dave Matthews Band* Depeche Mode The Doobie Brothers* Whitney Houston* Judas Priest Kraftwerk MC5 Motörhead* Nine Inch Nails The Notorious B.I.G.* Rufus featuring Chaka Khan Todd Rundgren Soundgarden* T.Rex* Thin Lizzy*
*1st time nominees
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Post by kds on Oct 15, 2019 13:32:11 GMT
A pretty typical nomination list which of course includes several artists not even in the genre. Still no Jethro Tull, but at least the Doobie Brothers finally got a nod.
I've voted for Benatar, Priest, Motorhead, Thin Lizzy, and The Doobies.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Oct 15, 2019 18:46:07 GMT
KDS’s favorite institution, the RnR HOF, announced the 2020 nominees: Pat Benatar* Dave Matthews Band* Depeche Mode The Doobie Brothers* Whitney Houston* Judas Priest Kraftwerk MC5 Motörhead* Nine Inch Nails The Notorious B.I.G.* Rufus featuring Chaka Khan Todd Rundgren Soundgarden* T.Rex* Thin Lizzy* *1st time nominees I'll just list the artists from that group who I DON'T think deserve to be in:
- Kraftwerk - The Notorious B.I.G. - Rufus featuring Chaka Khan - T. Rex
But you know what? Someday they will ALL be in. Eventually there will be a "veterans' committee" like they have in the sports' hall of fames, and they will make sure that nobody is snubbed, even some who aren't deserving. I can remember when my personal list of artists who weren't in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame was very large, and eventually, one-by-one, most got in.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 2, 2019 0:39:19 GMT
Echo in the Canyon, the Jakob Dylan-driven documentary about the Laurel Canyon scene of the mid '60s, is now on Netflix.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 2, 2019 1:01:14 GMT
There’s a nice section discussing The Beach Boys: Clapton, Crosby, John Sebastian, Michelle Phillips, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty. I liked Crosby saying something like “they were so establishment, so square...but they were good. They had Brian.”
As usual, people get details wrong, Phillips saying Pet Sounds was written in the sandbox, for example. But it really is enjoyable.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 2, 2019 22:31:01 GMT
I didn't finish the doc last night, but just returned to it and was pleased to find that Roger McGuinn tells of the genesis of "Ding Dang!" (Spoiler alert: it's speed.)
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Post by bellbottoms on Nov 4, 2019 19:11:24 GMT
Echo in the Canyon was indeed an enjoyable watch. I’m not a huge fan of Jakob Dylan, but he got the job done well, even if I thought his cover of I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times was atrocious. The Brian segment was a treat. Nothing new there, but it’s always a joy to see him happy and enthusiastic.
Anyway, it’s definitely a nice celebration of the music of the mid-sixties (even if the live tribute sections did ever so faintly and occasionally take on a whiff of “let’s make this about us”).
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 7, 2019 14:13:52 GMT
Not really news, but a quote I love from classical composer John Cage, best known as a minimalist. I’m not fond of his music, actually. But I loved this. “I’ve done football commercials; I’ve done everything...commercial and noncommercial: my attitude has been they’re both the same. Why is it better to get a check every week from a university than to get royalties? Of course I’m a sellout. What else would I be?” Amen! May those words ring from the rooftops. www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/arts/music/philip-glass-akhnaten-met-opera.html
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Post by kds on Nov 7, 2019 15:25:14 GMT
The overuse of the word "sellout" by music fans could be its own thread.
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Post by B.E. on Nov 7, 2019 15:59:35 GMT
The overuse of the word "sellout" by music fans could be its own thread. Or at least a worthy addition to 'Pet Peeve' threads the internet over.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 7, 2019 16:29:52 GMT
It is definitely one of my biggest frustrations related to music (or the arts generally). I absolutely get that commercial pressures can get in the way of a person’s own artistic sensibilities. But let’s also keep in mind what those things are: commercial pressures are often—but not entirely—decent representations of what most people actually want or enjoy. And a person’s own artistic sensibilities are often—but not entirely—so idiosyncratic as to not be especially relatable to the broader public. It almost always makes sense for people to navigate some compromise between the two. Artists of course should be free to dig as deeply into their own innermost selves to create that way … and then audiences are free to not relate to, much less buy, that work. Speaking of those audiences, they need to unlearn the habit of getting their (musical) art for free. Or at least shutting the hell up when their favorite musicians, whom they have not been financially supporting, stop making music. What, precisely, is supposed to pay those musicians’ rents or mortgages? Put food on their tables? Send their kids to college? At the bottom of so many arguments for pirated or otherwise free music is the inevitable, “but I would rather have it for free.” If you want those artists to keep doing what you want, they need to make money somehow. Maybe it’s by a “one for you, one for me” idea, rotating “real” art with commercial product. One story I’ve told before is an indie band I’ve liked for years, Of Montreal, providing music for an Outback Steakhouse commercial in the late ‘00s. The fan backlash was predictable and intense. But the songwriter, Kevin Barnes, was unapologetic. “How do you think we fund these elaborate stage shows on tour?” he said (though I’m paraphrasing). And that’s exactly right. If you fear artists “selling out,” buy the work you like that you think isn’t selling out. If enough people have your taste in common, congrats, you have become the sellouts to the minority opinion. If not, oh well, at least you get to whine about it.
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