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Friday Influences!!! 11-21-14


Lee Knight

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What do you mean it's dead around here???? (closes eyes, puts fingers in ears and sings "la-la-la-la...")

 

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My love for The Grass Roots lives on!!!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRUYKd4AySQ

 

 

They got better quickly - Things I Should Have Said was 67 and Midnight Confession was 68 and a lot tighter all around, compositionally, the arrangement, the playing...or maybe they just got a better producer and took more time in the studio....more Motown and far less Byrdsy folk-rock with this one, too -

 

[video=youtube_share;5nZnqtDdsws]

 

 

nat whilk ii

 

 

 

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We had all these 60s gems in the big stack of 45s next to the little record player (not stereo) on top of my brother's dresser - some were actually purchased, but most were acquired via the winter-coat "shopping cart" -

 

[video=youtube_share;4JLNnXgQeqU]http://youtu.be/4JLNnXgQeqU

 

 

[video=youtube_share;fBTT3VPriV8]

 

 

[video=youtube_share;PjKx-yLOGEY]

 

 

[video=youtube_share;jJR_KGZO4U0]

 

 

nat whilk ii

 

 

 

 

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Yeah, Time Won't Let Me was covered pretty well by The Smithereens.....

[video=youtube_share;zx5UZGoqv3c]

 

 

more 60s singles goodness - all '64....more 45s from the stack - we didn't worry about genres much back then...

 

the media worked up this "big debate" as to which band was better and would last, The Dave Clark Five or The Beatles...

[video=youtube_share;CtTO1j-ucVs]

 

ahh Dusty, I Love You....the YT says 1967 but trust me, the song came out in '64. Maybe the TV clip with Bacharach was '67...dunno..

[video=youtube_share;BpgXGIXen8Q]http://youtu.be/BpgXGIXen8Q

 

the girl groups were still at a peak before soul started changing things up

[video=youtube_share;B4KN6TFhy2I]

 

Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying - Gerry and the Pacemakers

this has been covered a lot deservedly....a George Martin production...I wonder if he came up with that signature oboe part that is so effective

[video=youtube_share;LKta_gRc2gA]

 

Needles and Pins - The Searchers, co-written by Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono

[video=youtube_share;S0oP8e02dpk]

 

 

all this old material is as much a part of me as all the Pop Tarts I ate that were coincidentally introduced also in 1964 by Kellogg...

 

 

nat whilk ii

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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the YT says 1967 but trust me, the song came out in '64. Maybe the TV clip with Bacharach was '67...dunno..

 

nat whilk ii

 

 

Yeah, you can't rely on Youtube or some of these other sites for the right info.

 

My favorite Dusty/David/Bacharach tune?

 

I love how Burt does a nice, workman-like no-frills version at the piano, then Dusty appears and the room fills up with magic.

 

Oh, and nice work on the lyric too, Hal. Very nice.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F4wutgqYLQ

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Still not to the 60's yet.

 

Kanye West - I Wonder

 

A big influence on my 808 playing. It's hard to imagine on an acoustic drumset (I suppose you could hire ?uestlove) but on the keyboard the beats makes more sense. The parts/limbs work independently - you don't have the whole body kick-snare thing happening. No four-on-the-floor thump - the kick drum can wander all over the place, accountable only to itself. Play both the beginning and the end of the hi-hat in time.

 

A big influence on my sampling and arranging as well. His samples come with a backstory - he doesn't hide the fact that the sample had a previous life on another record, he emphasizes that fact, and the curatorial aspect of his selection becomes part of the new song.

 

Even though it is your song, someone CAN take it away.

 

 

 

 

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Excellent show last night. This guy's lyrics and delivery... so good. And the musicianship in the band is really stellar. Every single one of them.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fRKCAJ5pmY

 

i'm alone again and i'm thinking about

what i shouldn't think about again

i'm trapped i'm dizzy

spinning and spiralling down

 

now i'm in love again

and it feels so good

it feels like nothing ever felt before

its a song i wrote it about you

i love you

see i told you i was good

 

but this is nothing like i thought it would be

i'm scared all the time

i'm afraid i'm gonna hurt you

i've gotta pay somehow

but it couldn't happen to me now

runaway with, my lover, runaway with me

i wanna let the world go

 

i wanna buy you a ring

maybe i'll make it myself

do you like rubies and diamonds and emeralds and gold and silver

i wanna build you a mansion

maybe we'll live in a castle with servants and a pool

 

what a sorry song

what a stupid idea

i write the songs that make the

whole world think about absolutely nothing

i believe, i dont believe, i dont think believe

its strong enough, its bandwagon jargon

its hip, just do it, but dont do it half way

if you put down your loaded gun

put down your bow and arrow too

 

and i wanna be in 5th grade again

i wanna worry about poison ivy

i wanna worry about getting beat up after school

i wanna send you a note

 

i wanna buy you a ring

maybe i'll make it myself

do you like rubies and diamonds and emeralds and gold and silver

i wanna build you a mansion

maybe we'll live in a castle with servants and a pool

 

and we wont have to think about dying

cuz dying wont exist anymore

and we'll be able to fly

and we wont let anyone use the pool

 

i wanna buy you a ring

 

maybe i'll make it myself

 

i wanna build you a mansion

maybe we'll live in a castle with servants and a pool

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A band I'm sure you've never heard of, but as high school musicians... we followed these guys around Philadelphia whenever they played an all ages show. They also went to my high school... probably about 7 - 10 years before I was there... They were SO good.

 

 

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