Friday Influences! 11-14-14

[Lee Knight]

Speak up!

 

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A few things I've found inspirational over the last year.

 

 

Father john Misty - Nancy From Now On

[video=youtube;iS84BMFszW0]

 

Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

[video=youtube;wycjnCCgUes]

al

 

alt-J - Tessellate

[video=youtube;Qg6BwvDcANg]

 

Daughter - Youth

[video=youtube;VEpMj-tqixs]

 

Foals - Inhaler

[video=youtube;qJ_PMvjmC6M]

 

[rsadasiv]

Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

 

[video=youtube;rEZH0t5Yozw]

 

Thinking of playing this. Plenty of modal noodling in C Dorian, then make the turn and lift up into the chorus in D Major. Might try the sax part on distorted guitar.

[rsadasiv]

Bruno Mars does Prince.....

 

[video=youtube;7Ya2U8XN_Zw]

[Lee Knight]

Bruno Mars does Prince.....

 

[video=youtube;7Ya2U8XN_Zw]

 

That is a seriously cool sounding track. All the best bits of "modern pop" but mostly none of the gag inducers. I first heard this last week via Facebook and have been digging it.

[rsadasiv]

 

That is a seriously cool sounding track. All the best bits of "modern pop" but mostly none of the gag inducers. I first heard this last week via Facebook and have been digging it.

 

Mark Ronson is very talented.

[Lee Knight]

This track is cool. For me... it still holds up very well and really points out some sad omissions in music today. How they crafted a journey of sorts. That instrumental section? It's fantastic. It totally holds your interest. As does the silly yet totally engaging mysterioso getting laid story line. The piano intro sounding like a guitarist experimenting at the lobby's piano in Em to nab chicks. That's pretty! "Yes... It's in Em... the most feline of all the keys. It purrs, doesn't it? Come with me, I want to show you something else that purrs."

 

And that's Alan Parsons (Beatles/Pink Floyd) engineering/producing. The 70's rhythm section of gnat's a$$ tight kick and bass guitar gently grabbing your attention by the crotch. It's a seriously potent feel undulating underneath.

 

Al in all a very cool, silly, mesmerizing bit of not so throw away after all pop.

 

 

[video=youtube;cqZc7ZQURMs]

 

 

On a morning from a Bogart movie

In a country where they turn back time

You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre

Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running

Like a watercolor in the rain

Don't bother asking for explanations

She'll just tell you that she came

In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions

As she locks up your arm in hers

And you follow till your sense of which direction

Completely disappears

By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls

There's a hidden door she leads you to

These days, she says, "I feel my life

Just like a river running through"

The year of the cat

Why she looks at you so coolly?

And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea

She comes in incense and patchouli

So you take her, to find what's waiting inside

The year of the cat

Well morning comes and you're still with her

And the bus and the tourists are gone

And you've thrown away your choice you've lost your ticket

So you have to stay on

But the drumbeat strains of the night remain

In the rhythm of the new-born day

You know sometime you're bound to leave her

But for now you're going to stay

In the year of the cat

Year of the cat

 

 

 

 

 

Read more: Al Stewart - The Year Of The Cat Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[rsadasiv]

Alan Parsons is also very talented.

 

[video=youtube;-1IXQ1pKl_Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1IXQ1pKl_Q

[Lee Knight]

Winehouse's Rehab and Back To Black were enough to make me aware of that. Ronson's great.

[Foose31]

[video=youtube;uewrSagO-r4]

Well, I loved a girl

She lived out in Pecos, and pretty as she could be

And I worked the rigs on out in Odessa

To give her whatever she needs

 

But that girl, she run with an oil company bum

'Cause the diamond was not on her hand

And he left her soon 'neath the big loving moon

To go out and X-ray the land

 

Now I sit in my car at the New Rainbow Bar downtown

And the frost on the windshield shines toward the sky

Like a thousand tiny diamonds in the lights of loving county

 

Well, l walked in that bar and I drank myself crazy

Thinking about her and that man

When in walked a woman, looking richer than sin

And ten years worth of work on her hand

 

Well, I followed her home and when she was alone

Well, I put my gun to her head

And I don't recall what happened next at all

But now that rich woman, she is dead

 

Now I drive down the highway

Ten miles from my sweet baby's arms

And the moon is so bright it don't look like night

And the diamond how it sparkles in the lights of loving county

 

But she opened that door and I knelt on the floor

And I put that ring in her hand

Then she said, "I do" and she'd leave with me soon

To the rigs out in South Alabama

 

Well, I told her to hide that ring there inside

And wait 'til the timing was good

And I drove back home and I was alone

'Cause I thought that she understood

 

The next night an old friend just called me to wish us both well

He said, he'd seen her downtown, sashaying around

And her diamond how it sparkled in the lights of loving county

 

Well that sheriff, he found me out wandering

All around El Paso the very next day

You see, I'd lost my mind on that broken white line

Before I even reached Balmorhea

 

Well, now she's in Fort Worth and she's just giving birth

To the son of that oil company man

And they buried that poor old sheriff's dead wife

With the ring that I stole on her hand

 

And sometimes they let me look up at that East Texas sky

And the rain on the pines, oh Lord, how it shines

Like my darling's little diamond in the lights of loving county

Songwriters: ROBISON, CHARLIE FITZGERALD

Loving County lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

 

 

 

[Foose31]

[video=youtube;9z_Azr_eHLo]

Well, I got a picture

It's glued in a book

Of most of my family

That somebody took

Well, grandpa died early

Before I could know

The man that they tell me

I take after so

Well, I don't remember

It still makes me laugh

When I see us together

In a photograph

Well, mama and daddy

Burned hot like a flame

But it all turned to ashes

With no one to blame

And I can still see them

But not in my mind

And it's been so long

All my memories lie

Well, I can't remember

It still makes me laugh

When I see us together

In a photograph

Well, it happened last winter

We had a son

They took a picture

Of family, round one

It's there to remind you

When you can't recall

What your daddy looked like

When you were so small

Though you won't remember

It'll still make you laugh

When you see us together

In a photograph

No, you won't remember

It'll still make you laugh

When you see us together

In a photograph

 

Songwriters

RAY GILBERT, ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM

Published by

Lyrics © CORCOVADO MUSIC CORPORATION, LEN FREEDMAN MUSIC INC.

 

 

Read more: Charlie Robison - Photograph Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[tbry]

T

Al in all a very cool, silly, mesmerizing bit of not so throw away after all pop.

 

 

[video=youtube;cqZc7ZQURMs]

 

 

On a morning from a Bogart movie

In a country where they turn back time

You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre

Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running

Like a watercolor in the rain

Don't bother asking for explanations

She'll just tell you that she came

In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions

As she locks up your arm in hers

And you follow till your sense of which direction

Completely disappears

By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls

There's a hidden door she leads you to

These days, she says, "I feel my life

Just like a river running through"

The year of the cat

Why she looks at you so coolly?

And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea

She comes in incense and patchouli

So you take her, to find what's waiting inside

The year of the cat

Well morning comes and you're still with her

And the bus and the tourists are gone

And you've thrown away your choice you've lost your ticket

So you have to stay on

But the drumbeat strains of the night remain

In the rhythm of the new-born day

You know sometime you're bound to leave her

But for now you're going to stay

In the year of the cat

Year of the cat

 

 

 

 

 

Read more: Al Stewart - The Year Of The Cat Lyrics | MetroLyrics

 

Great lyric in my opinion....

 

[LCK]

Songwriters

RAY GILBERT, ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM

Published by

Lyrics © CORCOVADO MUSIC CORPORATION, LEN FREEDMAN MUSIC INC.

 

Read more: Charlie Robison - Photograph Lyrics | MetroLyrics

 

This is a nice little tune ^ but it was NOT written by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

 

Here's a real Jobim tune.

 

[video=youtube;MMsTbI1chdI]

 

There's a lot of crap information on sites like MetroLyrics.

[LCK]

Here's another great Jobim tune, "The Wave."

 

[video=youtube;DqulmSFyd2w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqulmSFyd2w

[oldgitplayer]

Ah yes - Alan Parsons.

Just in case there are any youngsters here who might have missed this back in 1980.

 

Turn of a friendly card

 

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[tbry]

In keeping with the Traffic theme posted by rsadasiv, Steve Windwood is one of my all time favorite musicians...this following clip shows how much better he is than most of us... all he is using is his vocal and an acoustic guitar...and some great sound mics and knowledge of how to use them. He posted this several years ago and put out a contest for amatures to record their version of this awesome song...i didn't come close to winning but I did learn how to play it ....a girl won with her version and she was very good.

[bee3]

^No link?

 

I saw Steve Winwood a few months ago open for Tom Petty. He was awesome as usual. A friend of mine used to tour with him on sax/keys.

 

Tonight... Ryan Adams concert!

 

[video=youtube;zp_7-OW_YuU]

[tbry]

How come twice now I posted the Steve Windwood vid and when I come back it is gone...B3 just mentioned it but now its gone...whats up with that?

[bee3]

Oh yeah, I've seen that before. He's so awesome. His voice has held up remarkably too.

[tbry]

I am jealous you got to see him...great lineup with Tom Petty AND Steve Windwood...

[LCK]

Leon Redbone (aka Dickran Gobalian), "I Want to Be Seduced."

 

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[bee3]

^No link?

 

I saw Steve Winwood a few months ago open for Tom Petty. He was awesome as usual. A friend of mine used to tour with him on sax/keys.

 

Tonight... Ryan Adams concert!

 

[video=youtube;zp_7-OW_YuU]

 

So the Ryan Adams show was great. His band was so tight... and his organist... my God... I have a new hero. So tasteful and everything he played was just so perfect.

 

Pulled this from a recent show... a real Hammond just can't be replicated. It's churns and is woody... organic. Ryan's sound engineer captured it perfectly last night. Hamond organ heaven for me.

 

[video=youtube;wwNDId25Wu4]

[tbry]

Beautiful^^^An older woman I know has a B3 in her front room and while I was there asked if she still played it. She sat down and knocked it out...a daughter in law was there and said she never knew she could play...sad, but I enjoyed it.

 

Here is "Something" tribute to George from Paul...

 

[bee3]

Beautiful^^^An older woman I know has a B3 in her front room and while I was there asked if she still played it. She sat down and knocked it out...a daughter in law was there and said she never knew she could play...sad, but I enjoyed it.

 

Here is "Something" tribute to George from Paul...

 

I'd suggest befriending the woman as best you can and start dropping hints about her will.

[tbry]

Dang it...it happened again...every time I put in a vid it disappears!!!

[bee3]

They're clearly out to get you.