Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 2, 2012 Moderators Share Posted March 2, 2012 What boils yer broth? Toasts yer muffins and seasons yer stew? What music has hit you in the past as an "in-the-way kid in the kitchen" or as recently as this morning when you were trying to cook something up on your own as a big boy or girl? Post 'em cause we want to know. I've been consuming some awesome 1958 Count Basie big band stuff (Chairman of the Board), I've been playing the latest NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC!! # 42 maybe, thinking of writing and producing a pop tune, as in Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, and all those names I've never heard of, with my 15 year old daughter. She's very pretty, can sing, and has a music freak as dad. Where have I been? This could be fun. And then there's stuff that has held me captive since it was first released decades ago. '88 in this case. Amazingly timeless for something from the mighty silly Eighties. Mixing human frailty with its own self destructive drive and passion for love, or is that evil? Tie it up with some sort of aboriginal earth spirit religion stuff that totally mystifies and intrigues me. (Paul Hestor, CH's drummer/artist, gave in to it in 2005 when he killed himself. Or is it he gave up giving into it? The suicidal court jester. Who knew?) Marching Into Temptation... [video=youtube;xaB-c7Cxi7A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaB-c7Cxi7A You opened up your doorI couldn't believe my luckYou in your new blue dressTaking away my breathThe cradle is soft and warmCouldn't do me no harmYou're showing me how to give... Into temptationKnowing full well the earth will rebelInto temptation In a muddle of nervous wordsCould never amount to betrayalThe sentence is all my ownThe price is to watch it failAs I turn to goYou looked at me for half a secondAn open invitation for me to go... Into temptationKnowing full well the earth will rebelInto temptationSafe in the wide open arms of hell We can go sailing inClimb downLose yourself when you linger longInto temptationRight where you belong The guilty get no sleepIn the last slow hours of morningExperience is cheapI should've listened to the warningBut the cradle is soft and warm... Into temptationKnowing full well the earth will rebelInto your wide open armsNo way to break the spellDon't tell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 2, 2012 Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 The 1960s. Spanky and Our Gang. A jazz-inflected, New York Mamas and Papas? The Swingle Singers meet The Byrds? [video=youtube;YUi-2QC3c2Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUi-2QC3c2Q [video=youtube;SUUdhwcRE5o] [video=youtube;0zx4i_cNJmU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zx4i_cNJmU LCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 2, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted March 2, 2012 That arrangement on And She's Mine is just great. Tight little rhythmic figures on the group vocals, warm horns, glock and elec organ playing flurries of punctuation. Too cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bee3 Posted March 2, 2012 Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 Crowded House has held up amazingly well... I love that band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 2, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted March 2, 2012 Crowded House has held up amazingly well... I love that band. I know. I'll tell ya... that 2nd album kinda went under the radar at the time. Temple of Low Men. Into Temptation is off that one. And at the time I remember thinking how uneighties it felt. How off to the side lines and full of non-distracted focus the album felt. And it's true. Another from that same album... sounds like sleep deprivation. [video=youtube;JlRobLl4pGA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlRobLl4pGA She said I could never do thatBut I know you can, you are in my dreamWe are one person not two of a kindWhat was mine is now in your possession I could feel you underneath my skinAs the wind rushed in sent the kitchen table crashingShe said nobody moveOr I'll bring the house down I hardly knowWhich way is up or which way downPeople are strange God only knowsI feel possessed when you come around It was one of those timesWished I had a camera on meSix foot, now off the groundI know how that sounds Look above you and beyond me tooThat kind of view don't need an explanationI'm not lying, not asking for anythingI just want to be there when it happens again I hardly knowWhich way is up or which way downPeople are strange God only knowsI feel possessed when you come around Whenever you invade my homeEverything I know flies out the windowIt's above you and beyond me too, I don't want an explanationBut I'll be there when you bring the house down I hardly knowWhich way is up or which way downPeople are strange God only knowsI feel possessed when you come aroundPeople are strangeAnd I feel possessed when you come around I feel possessedI feel possessedI feel possessed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bee3 Posted March 2, 2012 Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 In 1995, my senior year of college, my best music buddy and I somehow managed to join a band with some older guys from the area. Him on guitar, me on keys. I think my buddy was working at the local 7-11 and somehow struck up a conversation with one of his regular customers... turned out they had music in common. So we joined his band... and met the rest of the guys. The bass player was John Wallace. Big John Wallace. Harry Chapin's bass player through his entire career. John, my buddy and I got to be pretty close... he started working on our original material with us. We'd go to his house every Friday night, work on music, drink beers, shoot the {censored}... He'd tell us stories from his days on the road with Harry. He invited Harry's brother Tom down to listen to the original music we'd written. Very cool experience for a young, inexperienced musician like myself. I really dug into Harry Chapin's catalog back then... [video=youtube;c5dwksSbD34] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 2, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted March 2, 2012 You met Tom Chapin! I loved his kid's show in the early 70's. [video=youtube;oz9cQOX4X3w] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted March 2, 2012 Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 He's a regular ole HC forumite, but I've been chasing his capabilities for a long time now. He does the big things well (vocals, lead guitar, slick production) but I'm starting to understand that it is the little things (backing vocals, drum fills) and the attention to detail that pushes him over the top. He blew me out of the water again in this month's Coverfest - this time with a studio slick little piece of 80's power pop. Utopia - Crybaby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 2, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted March 2, 2012 Wow, pretty impressive. ^^^ That's a Todd song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted March 2, 2012 Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 I was quite taken by this lyric sheet from my 3DW pal, Steve Krolikowski... He says it was taken from a dream ("Except for the 'Last Of The Gofreakins' on the bottom right.") Note his use of solf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Oswlek Posted March 2, 2012 Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 Micwalt is very impressive, I follow his channel over on youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Oswlek Posted March 2, 2012 Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 Like most songwriters, I'm a big Neil Finn fan. Amazingly enough, though, I wasn't really aware of who he was until being bowled over by this song. Only after hearing this did I dig deeper into his catalog and realize how long he'd been around (and how many of his songs I'd already known). [video=youtube;cHfU48ARFmE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHfU48ARFmE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 2, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted March 2, 2012 That is impressive^ And it is interesting to see solfege used like that. I took a class in college and it was a personal milestone in my understanding of music. We'd be asked to sing a simple melody played on piano for us, right back, all in in Do Re Mi's. It really helps you "get it". Clever idea for notation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 2, 2012 Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 Like most songwriters, I'm a big Neil Finn fan. Amazingly enough, though, I wasn't really aware of who he was until being bowled over by this song. Only after hearing this did I dig deeper into his catalog and realize how long he'd been around (and how many of his songs I'd already known). Not familiar, but it's really nice stuff. LCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members animalwithin Posted March 2, 2012 Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 My biggest song writing influence of all time, even though I'm still a newb at songwriting lol: [video=youtube;RE-3BjwuU4w] Much of his music, mostly his Pride and Glory and Book of Shadows work, can reflect so many emotions and situations I have been in in life, its crazy. Its my dream to meet Zakk Wylde one day and tell him how much of an impact his music has made on my life and as a guitarist. Sadly, a lot of people dont like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Oswlek Posted March 2, 2012 Members Share Posted March 2, 2012 Nice stuff, AW. Certainly listenable and probably something I really absorbed in my younger days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted March 3, 2012 Members Share Posted March 3, 2012 Wow, pretty impressive. ^^^ That's a Todd song? I think so. I'm not familiar with the original but he posted it as Utopia and it certainly sounds like something Todd would have written. He also writes originals. They're pretty good to start with and then they get the benefit of his impeccable performance and production skills. I think he wrote the songs for a children's musical that had a run off-Broadway last year. Last I heard he was living somewhere in San Diego and gigging fronting a Journey tribute band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 3, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted March 3, 2012 Hey wait! I live in San Diego! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 3, 2012 Members Share Posted March 3, 2012 Hey wait! I live in San Diego! That's not what I heard. I heard you live in Encinitas; you don't like people thinking you're a San Diegan. LCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted March 3, 2012 Members Share Posted March 3, 2012 Kurt Weill's "Alabama Song," performed by The Doors. [video=youtube;tKpOWdA1h9Y] My favorite Doors song. It sounds like it was influenced by Weill too. [video=youtube;i4mXSacbl9E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4mXSacbl9E LCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted March 3, 2012 Members Share Posted March 3, 2012 LCK Those two are emblematic of why I liked the early Doors. In fact, while I'd heard "Light My Fire" around, I was still in my rock-boycott phase. But a pal who knew me since grade school and knew my path through doo wop, the twist craze, and then surf rock instrumentals -- and then out of rock when 'surf' vocals came in -- suggested that interesting things were going on. He liked Cream, the Airplane, and especially the Doors. He loaned me the Doors albums and later the first two Cream albums. (I bought the Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow" on my own. That knocked me out, too.) When I heard the Weill song, which I knew from Dave Van Ronk's version [who didn't change the 'sex' of the song -- a practice I was more familiar with because of the folk I listened to -- I was at once a little reproachful at their cowardice (which looks more like reasonable prudence in hindsight ) and impressed that they'd at least crossed paths with Weill. For me, that was the highlight of the album and when I taped a copy on my mono 5" lo fi recorder [statute of limitations is out on that one, RIAA], I left off the lugubrious "Baby, Light My Fire." Strange Days, though, was what really sealed the deal. I loved "People Are Strange," "You're Lost Little Girl," "Strange Days," "Unhappy Girl," "My Eyes Have Seen You," and, of course "I Can't See Your Face in My Mind." Basically anything at the intersection of weird, spooky, and pop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 Any fans of Stevie Ray Vaughan here? Which is to say fans of the most energetic and intense blues guitar ever recorded. Last night, after holding my newest grand child Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members animalwithin Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 If you like your Blues played as it should be played -- on a Stevie Ray signature Fender Strat with the heaviest gauge strings ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 I know, "AnimalWithin" -- what kind of hand/wrist strength does that take!? Since it's midway between Fridays and there's no one here but us guitarists . . . It's been 50 years since The Beatles entered the lives of teenagers of the Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 Those two guys are both monster players (as is Lenny Breau). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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