Music Thread (post a song)

[Mr._Graybeard]

A 70-something friend referred me to this video. I think the guy is gaining traction.

 

[Huggy]

Been on a "Wings"-era McCartney binge lately. Those songs are a bit thin in the lyrics department, but had some absolutely killer bass lines. Especially this one:

Not exactly Let It Be but a fine record:

 

[Huggy]

Been on a "Wings"-era McCartney binge lately. Those songs are a bit thin in the lyrics department, but had some absolutely killer bass lines. Especially this one:

I always heard this as Paul's attempt at punk:

 

[Twirling Time]

Post-Beatles McCartney has been criminally underrated for years. Main problem is you can't get played on the radio if you're old and can't crank the codpiece to 11.

 

[Twirling Time]

I always heard this as Paul's attempt at punk:

Maybe in terms of tempo. I don't know if I would even classify this as new wave. I would attribute it more to the skiffle that Paul was undoubtedly influenced by in Britain in the 1950s.

 

[DanOregon]

So Bad Company's "Feel Like Making Love" came up in my Spotify mix today and I wondered, how has some country artist not covered that song? Lay in some fiddle here and there. Well, it was done about 30 years ago or so by a guy names Phillip Claypool. How they whiffed on the power chord to launch the chorus is a mystery. They laid in the fiddle ok - I just think about someone with a powerful voice doing it.

 

[justgladtobehere]

I always heard this as Paul's attempt at punk:

He had the Joe Strummer look down.

 

[Neutral Corner]

With His Final Album, Kinky Friedman Rides Off into the Sunset

The late singer-songwriter / novelist / Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman was a complicated man, an individual with more depth than many could initially perceive. He was certainly a purveyor of schtick, delivering lines like, “May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect...

www.houstonpress.com

 

[Neutral Corner]

Regarding the previous Genesis/Peter Gabriel discussion, one of my most precious concert memories is seeing Genesis with Gabriel on the "Selling England by the Pound" tour. They played the Fox Theater in Atlanta, a marvelous old 30's movie palace with great acoustics which seats 3,700. Not a bad seat in the place and I was about row15 on the floor.

I got the whole shooting match. When the show started Gabriel was in the full "Watcher of the Skies" regalia, the head gear, eye makeup glowing under a black light, black cape with multicolored dayglow striped lining revealed when he dramatically popped it open under the black lights. I really had not expected that to still be in their show, but it was the opener, then they played most of SEBTP.

Songs I'm sure got played:

Watcher of the Skies
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
The Cinema Show
I Know What I Like
Firth of Fifth
Supper's Ready
The Musical Box

and more, but this was 51 years ago, and I've killed several brain cells since then.

One of the best concerts I ever saw, still Top Five for me.

I was extremely lucky in that in 1973 or so Southern Bell tried to buy the Fox Theater with plans to level it and build a corporate high rise. The city of Atlanta threw a collective shirtfit and blocked this, then raised enough money to buy the place and preserve it. Since it's on Peachtree spang in the middle of downtown, this was no small undertaking. One of the measures used to fund it was that every concert held there raised a few dollars per ticket, and a whole string of bands played there as part of the effort to save the place. I caught a number of these, including James Taylor, Mountain, Little Feat w/ Bonnie Raitt, Ronstadt, Paul Simon. I also had (and still bleed over) tickets for Mott the Hoople opening for Queen, but I did something and my parents grounded me and I missed it.

Anyhow, it was a whale of a show.

"Watcher" from that time, only I was 12 or 15 rows back.

 

[I Should Coco]

As a big fan of the Gabriel-era Genesis albums, I am extremely jealous, NC!

That incarnation of Genesis was absolutely at the top of its game for the tour you saw. Glad you still have a few brain cells that remember and could share the story ...

 

[Neutral Corner]

SEBTP is still my favorite Genesis record, as well. I'm certain that some of that is sentiment but the record really speaks to me. It's a sort of very English music I greatly enjoy in the same way that I do Traffic's "John Barleycorn Must Die", that sort of Anglo/Celtic folk rooted music. I was very lucky in the shows I got a chance to see in 74 and 75. My first Grateful Dead show fell in this window, and I caught them touring with the Wall of Sound.

 

[DanOregon]

Time machine me would love to slip back to the Bay Area (1975-1980) and see all the greats rolling through town, hit a couple Days on the Green, see groups on the cusp of hitting it big playing on a Tuesday night at the Warfield or Fillmore. My FB feed sometimes shows old Bill Graham Presents ads and the opening acts alone are incredible. Ticket prices? $8-15.