Members myshkin Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 It's actually more difficult than I thought. Wilie Nelson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members offramp Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Eric Clapton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted February 17, 2006 Moderators Share Posted February 17, 2006 Yanni Chris Botti John Tesh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members myshkin Posted February 17, 2006 Author Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Originally posted by Tedster Me. Sorry Tedster but I'm with you. Although your humility means I'm starting to be partial to your musical possibilities. No, afraid you don't count either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members paulskirocks Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 everyone on mtv! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members myshkin Posted February 17, 2006 Author Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Originally posted by paulskirocks everyone on mtv! YOu don't have to fight the rising hate as it courses thru your body? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Originally posted by Tedster Me. I think Ted's right. Everybody in here could elicit a comment. I'll juts say that Willie rules! My momma said if I don't have anything nice to say...plus I already filled my quota today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 No offense to Ted. I haven't heard his stuff. I'm sure it's good. Whoops! I guess Ted's wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members myshkin Posted February 17, 2006 Author Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Originally posted by the stranger I think Ted's right. Everybody in here could elicit a comment. I'll juts say that Willie rules! My momma said if I don't have anything nice to say...plus I already filled my quota today. Ah but that's the point. Musicians you feel utterly neutral about. Maybe if I start listening to Willie I'd get into him but as yet.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rabid Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 I will second Eric Clapton. I know he is good, I just don't enjoy listening to him. Don't hate it, just a whole lot of other's out there that I will turn to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Precisely! One can be quite "good", and you feel neutral about them. You don't really like their music, but it doesn't send you scrambling for the john, either. I hear a good bit of stuff, even on the radio stations I like, that I'm neutral about. Not bad enough to be a dial turner, not good enough to be catchy. For me, usually, it's not about an artist, as much as it is about a given song. There are a lot of (since we're talking about Clapton) Clapton's songs that I really like. A few that I don't care for, and quite a few that they're just "okay"...(shrug). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Branwyn Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Phish. I realize I'm going against my entire generation of psuedo-hippie-we-were-born-20-years-too-late-to-be-Deadheads-so-we-followed-these-guys-around-instead peers, but I'm just so "eh" about them. To me, most of their writing kinda sounded like a bunch of theoretically good musicians got together and just kinda went "uuuuuuhhhhh?" for nine and a half minutes at a time. Which is pretty much my only feelings towards them. "Uuuuhhhh?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkZ Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Crosby, Stills and Nash (I'm more pro- Neil Young than neutral). OK, you guys certainly do harmonize well. So do a lot of groups. What else you got? Branwyn's choice made me think of this: The Grateful Dead. Yes, I saw them live (August 1980). I just never got it, whatever "it" was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 2manband Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 +1 on Phish - don't hate 'em, but don't see what all the fuss is about either. (and I'm one of your 20-something peers)I'll extend that to jam bands in general. It's not awful stuff on the whole, but just doesn't do it for me.Hmmmm....others....how 'bout Jonny Lang, Derek Trucks, Kenney Wayne Shepard, and company. I recognize that they're all very good, but I'm just not feeling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rabid Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Originally posted by MarkZ ... The Grateful Dead. Yes, I saw them live (August 1980). I just never got it, whatever "it" was. Same here, and I will add one that might get me into trouble. Bruce Springstein. Maybe it is because I never saw him live. The closest I ever got to seeing Bruce was the Grammies the other night. That did NOT improve my view of his music. He's OK. We played his songs. Just never got the craze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Originally posted by MarkZ The Grateful Dead. Yes, I saw them live (August 1980). I just never got it, whatever "it" was. Joke I heard once: Q: What did one Deadhead say to the other when they ran out of dope? A: Man, this music really sucks, dude... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkZ Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Which gig is worse, Grateful Dead keyboardist or Spinal Tap drummer? Discuss. When I heard that Bruce Hornsby (who I like a lot) was sitting in the keyboard chair for several Dead dates, I screamed "NOOOOOOO!!!!!" I was shocked that Vince Welnick got out of there alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Frantag Posted February 17, 2006 Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Richard Clayderman and Esteban and pretty much any 'musician' who has their own long play ad on TV. There have been times when Clapton, the Dead and Phish and some of the others have moved me. There are other times when the overall feeling is that they were making the record just to finish the contract. There was a time when the Cure and Depeche Mode first were putting out records. All my friends were way into them and I just kinda scratched my head. Still do. And Leonard Cohen should just go ahead and take the Prozac and teach English somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members myshkin Posted February 17, 2006 Author Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Originally posted by Tedster Joke I heard once:Q: What did one Deadhead say to the other when they ran out of dope?A: Man, this music really sucks, dude... Haven't really heard anything like enough to know if that's fair or not but LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members myshkin Posted February 17, 2006 Author Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Originally posted by Frantag Richard Clayderman and Esteban and pretty much any 'musician' who has their own long play ad on TV.There have been times when Clapton, the Dead and Phish and some of the others have moved me. There are other times when the overall feeling is that they were making the record just to finish the contract.There was a time when the Cure and Depeche Mode first were putting out records. All my friends were way into them and I just kinda scratched my head. Still do. And Leonard Cohen should just go ahead and take the Prozac and teach English somewhere. Not a Cure obsessive but some things like Plainsong off Disentigration are amongst the most moving great pieces of music I've heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members myshkin Posted February 17, 2006 Author Members Share Posted February 17, 2006 Originally posted by MarkZ Crosby, Stills and Nash (I'm more pro- Neil Young than neutral). OK, you guys certainly do harmonize well. So do a lot of groups. What else you got?Branwyn's choice made me think of this:The Grateful Dead. Yes, I saw them live (August 1980). I just never got it, whatever "it" was. I've heard some great CSNY material but feel a bit repelled by the kind of feeling we're sposed to get all emotional at the beautiful harmony stuff. Kind of like the Press the Heartwarming Beautiful button has triggered the desired audience response. I hate being dictated to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super 8 Posted February 18, 2006 Members Share Posted February 18, 2006 Put me down for Eric Clapton. I don't dislike any of his stuff, but it's rare that I'll go out of my way to hear it. His guitar playing is nothing special either. I don't see what the big deal is. Originally posted by MarkZ The Grateful Dead. Yes, I saw them live (August 1980). I just never got it, whatever "it" was. I hear ya on the Grateful Dead. People just get so into them, but I never 'got it' either. Two drummers, and they still can't hold down a solid beat? HOWEVER, I have the double CD set of the Jerry Garcia Band Live, and I think it is amazing. Jerry's rambling guitar playing works perfectly. He goes everywhere, and stumbles onto some really cool stuff. Drums and bass are solid. The drummer is quite good, in fact. Jerry's rough voice works great with the black female backup singers. The guy on the B3 will make a faithless man believe. Just incredible. Most evocative B3 I've ever heard. If you can't get into the Dead, but you want to experience that folky, rock, psychodelic jam band thing, check this out, I promise you won't be disappointed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted February 18, 2006 Members Share Posted February 18, 2006 Originally posted by myshkin I've heard some great CSNY material but feel a bit repelled by the kind of feeling we're sposed to get all emotional at the beautiful harmony stuff. Kind of like the Press the Heartwarming Beautiful button has triggered the desired audience response. I hate being dictated to. I think the same can be said about anything... Press the Heartwarming Beautiful buttonPress the {censored}kickin' Pickup Truck buttonPress the "Crah in yore beer" buttonPress the "Ain't Nobody's Gonna Beat My Car" buttonPress the My N!99@$ Gonna Bust a Cap in Yo Ass buttonPress the Cookie Monster Mosh buttonPress the Angry Socially Conscious Protest button Point being, music is about pushing people's buttons. That's what it's designed to do. Music is successful if it pushes buttons, in either a positive or negative way, if it achieves the effect desired of it's author... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Frantag Posted February 18, 2006 Members Share Posted February 18, 2006 Originally posted by myshkin Not a Cure obsessive but some things like Plainsong off Disentigration are amongst the most moving great pieces of music I've heard. I'm willing to give it another listen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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