Re: What song are you listening to right now?

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CowboyT wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 10:56 pm Recently I remembered this one from the '80's. Always liked it because of the chord changes. It's now on my playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf_Lwe6p-Cg
Okay, we used to make fun of these guys in my punk rock days... but my tastes have gotten much more eclectic. Listening to it now, hell, you're right. The way the verse gets to the chorus DOES have some really cool changes, plus:

* Really unpredictable, but natural-sounding vocal phrasing.
* Love the fake-out to the bridge... sound like it's going to the chorus, but doesn't.
* Outstanding stagecraft-- they are doing those spins with no spotting, no idea how you do that without getting dizzy and falling over! Even in musical theater with a partner, and spotting, and spinning slower, two is really tough.

Sik, being more of a punk and hard rock guy, my favorite Queen album is definitely Sheer Heart Attack -- Tenement Funster, Now I'm Here, and several others.

HST all that, T&G, my taste in country is really schizoid. Played a Hank Williams and Early Montgomery song at our show in September, freaked everyone out because it's so far out of my wheelhouse, and scary, too, because I'm a C-list guy playing w/ B-list country and bluesmen, was happy to hold my own w/o screwing up.

And my bluegrass - American buddies have turned me onto Molly Tuttle and a lot of the neo-traditional stuff, which I like, too.

But I do have a taste for some more modern country with gimmicky lyrics like...

* Lone Star (No News, Paradise Knife and Gun Club)

* "Fuzzy" by the Randy Rogers Band. Truly demented, low-brow, great doggerel/lyrics, and even a tasty guitar hook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NreVs1e4GM

Re: What song are you listening to right now?

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And speaking of eclectic mixes....

Been also listening to some Maynard Ferguson, specifically his up-tempo stuff. This was one of my (many) practice songs as a teenager learning to play jazz. It, and others, helped...and it's just plain fun to play!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4KP2j3dnCg
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Re: What song are you listening to right now?

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CowboyT wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 10:32 am And speaking of eclectic mixes....

Been also listening to some Maynard Ferguson, specifically his up-tempo stuff. This was one of my (many) practice songs as a teenager learning to play jazz. It, and others, helped...and it's just plain fun to play!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4KP2j3dnCg
Cool! I played the trumpet in my youth. Sometimes wish I’d continued. Had all the typical trumpet players on my “idol” list. Unfortunately didn’t have internet in those days and not much access to vinyl either.
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Re: What song are you listening to right now?

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That's where I was pretty fortunate. Not only was Dad a professional musician, and thus stocked to the gills with vinyl, the local library also had a lot of records that I borrowed and listened to back in high school. Maynard, Basie, Oscar Peterson, George Benson, Chet Baker, and a whole host of others were my study material.

It's never too late to pick it back up. Just keep that in mind.
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Re: What song are you listening to right now?

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sikacz wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:33 am
CowboyT wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 10:32 am And speaking of eclectic mixes....

Been also listening to some Maynard Ferguson, specifically his up-tempo stuff. This was one of my (many) practice songs as a teenager learning to play jazz. It, and others, helped...and it's just plain fun to play!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4KP2j3dnCg
Cool! I played the trumpet in my youth. Sometimes wish I’d continued. Had all the typical trumpet players on my “idol” list. Unfortunately didn’t have internet in those days and not much access to vinyl either.
Family lore had it that even before I was born, I was digging on Glenn Miller, so I naturally enjoy big band music to this day. Maynard was popular with one or two of my social circles (I played trombone through high school, and was in the "stage band" that played jazz my last two years because it was available to me).

I tried to play my trombone (I still have it) a dozen years or so ago, and it didn't take me long to figure out that getting back to where I had been (or where I imagined myself to have been) forty-five years ago was going to require a LOT of work that involved daily eight-hour practice sessions with at least a month or two of not being able to tolerate hearing myself play. I'd do about as well to start over with a Saxophone...
Eventually I'll figure out this signature thing and decide what I want to put here.

Re: What song are you listening to right now?

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BearPaws wrote: Sun Apr 16, 2023 8:43 pm For some reason, I've replayed this one several times over the last few days.

"You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" as done by Patty Loveless.

It really is a beautiful melody. I've visited parts of Appalachia, and hope to visit more of the area in the coming years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9eBc4ozJHQ
Back in the late 1950 and early 1960s I used to made road trips through western Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina. Also along the coast visiting the many small fishing and Gullah communities. Spent quite a few weekends on Dafuskie when it was still isolated. Even before that, before the Bay Bridge was built in the early 50s my family would take us across on the ferry and we'd get to explore.
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Re: What song are you listening to right now?

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My family tells me that the day after surgery, after the god-forsaken ventilator tubes were out of my throat, I was singing "Lydia, The Tattooed Lady".
What they didn't get was that I was thinking of the line "Up the hill comes Andrew Jackson!" after getting a glimpse of my chest, which looks like a Civil War battlefield, complete with picket line.
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Re: What song are you listening to right now?

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Presently I'm studying this piece. It's the Phil Collins Big Band doing a jazzy, 20-minute version of AWB's "Pick Up the Pieces".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9eQkTJ ... Nlcw%3D%3D

The reason for the study is that Collins, while definitely not a flashy drummer, is right there "in the pocket". His driving of that big band is what I'm paying attention to here, and that's something that sometimes drummers can forget while doing the (admittedly fun) fancy moves. It's his studio-style discipline, while still groovin' hard, that caught my attention.

Of course, the band itself sounds wonderful doing this classic 1970's piece. It's sort of their love letter to the AWB.
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