Music

[Jett129]

@popvulture When I was playing in bands and making records, we had to be really tight,and know exactly what we were doing,or going to be doing in the studio because it was expensive and ultimately it came out of our pockets. We would work with producers doing as much pre production as possible. Also the sooner it was done the sooner we could be back out there playing.

[popvulture]

@Jett129 I absolutely get that!

[popvulture]

@SKT I agree so much with this! I often get a little gate-keepery about what we had to go through when we were younger to even find music. Know a cooler, older person, have access to cool magazines, know a record store that stocked more esoteric stuff, etc. Chuck Klosterman said an interesting thing about buying a record back then being an investment. You didn’t have the ability to just try whatever you wanted because you likely just had a little bit of money, so often buying music meant committing a bit to a genre, digging into a culture. That said, I would’ve absolutely killed for Spotify back then. Is it better or worse? I don’t know. I think it’s neither, just different. Pluses and minuses on all sides. Anyway, I guess it all relates to our general tendency to think “my way is better than yours,” which as we know causes endless problems.

Re: Sky Blue Sky, man… that record is a big time fave of theirs for me. He uses that higher, forceful voice a lot, and it just has such a nice energy to it. Might have to pop that on the turntable…

[Jett129]

@SKT I think that you are talking about John Bonham’s interpretation of the legendary Purdie Shuffle done by Bernard “Pretty”Purdie. A version of that drum beat is also used on Rosanna by Toto.

[GraemeE]

@Jett129 same with Steely Dan's Home at Last off Aja

[SKT]

@Jett129 I was just referring to the Beato video where he plays a Bonham drum bit, then plays the same piece after it had been “corrected” by the drum software. Obviously the corrected piece had zero soul or swing.

[Jett129]

@SKT The only thing that saved us drummers,because we have been known to be difficult,is that you can’t program soul and or swing.

[Jett129]

@GraemeE I’ve been fortunate enough to have met and spoken to Bernard Purdie on two occasions and both times he couldn’t have been nicer,more personable and happy that someone would want to meet him. After the first time he shook my hand I didn’t want to wash it for a week.

[SKT]

@Jett129 amen to that

And by “that” I mean the soul and swing…not the being difficult part

[popvulture]

I've always loved the stories of how he's set up the signs when he'd get hired for a session gig. YOU DONE IT! YOU HIRED THE HITMAKER! Boss move.

[endo]

@GraemeE said in Music:

This world would be boring if we all liked the exact same things

exactly, and that's why I'm enjoying this forum so much, it test our tastes and expands our ranges

thank you all

[goosehd]

Talking about soul…this one hits me every time I hear it.

[goosehd]

…and this:

[WhiskeySandwich]

Been moody vibin' to On Dark Horses today

[tody]

@sabergirl Seems appropriate.

[ARNC]

Just discovered Complete Mountain Almanac and have already listened twice through the whole thing. Possibly I’m a bit slow on the uptake but definitely worth a listen!

[mclaincausey]

To quote RL Burnside, well well well…

[CosmoSix5]

https://open.spotify.com/album/4xO0ueq7RpynpuRGx9of54?si=36muHe1CTDqvIBW4f62zyA

I sing , Take a Look Around, Less than 3, Alternative Hypothesis, Amber Morning Sun and Matter of Survival. My friends band and he asked me to sing. It was fun recording them but I can sing them all so much better now lol

[jordanscollected]

Pony Bradshaw deserves to have so many more ears enjoying his music.

[popvulture]

@jordanscollected ah, nice!!! New record?