Members songrytr Posted February 18, 2006 Members Share Posted February 18, 2006 Clapton, interestingly enough, is the one that first came to mind. I could build a pretty big list if I wanted to take the time. Of course, when you're the only keyboard player in a town of guitar-oriented teenaged males in the mid-'70s you get used to the looks of bewilderment when you admit that you're just not that into the Zep or the 'Smith or any number of other arena guitar type situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkZ Posted February 18, 2006 Members Share Posted February 18, 2006 Originally posted by songrytr Of course, when you're the only keyboard player in a town of guitar-oriented teenaged males in the mid-'70s you get used to the looks of bewilderment when you admit that you're just not that into the Zep or the 'Smith or any number of other arena guitar type situations. And I thought I was the only mid-late '70s keyboard player who wasn't into Led Zep (except for "JPJ on keyboard" tunes like "No Quarter"). I appreciate them more now than I did then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members myshkin Posted February 18, 2006 Author Members Share Posted February 18, 2006 Originally posted by Tedster 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 buttonPoint 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... My point, not very well made, is that it feels a very self-conscious kind of Press the Heartwarming Button thing, as opposed to your natural outpouring of whatever it is you have to put out there. It doesn't quite ring through for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted February 18, 2006 Members Share Posted February 18, 2006 No, I think I caught what you were getting at...and you've got a very valid point. Mine was that basically, everytime we turn on the radio (or TV) someone is aiming to push our buttons, to make us feel some sort of emotion, whether it's about the songwriter's state of mind when he/she wrote the song, or some emotion about your new car, fabric softener, car insurance, whatever. And we can choose to allow which buttons someone else can or can't push, for the most part. And, IMO, a very basic part of human nature is to acknowledge those buttons which we wish to have pushed and at what time. For example, a guy cruising the bars in his hot rod, looking for hot women, doesn't want his "cute puppies snuggling in sheets washed with Febreeze fabric softener" button to be pushed, and he'll fight that tooth and claw, but, if you want to push his "cruising the bars in my hot rod looking for hot women" button, well, that's cool. If it's an emotion we feel comfortable with, or one we wish to entertain at the time, we'll embrace that button...but if it's contrary to where we are at the time, we'll turn it off or make fun of it. And that's human nature, too...the guy cruising might well say "HAHA, yeah, we oughta use those damn fabric softener puppies for target practice"...not that he really wants to shoot puppies...the commercial just pushes a button he doesn't want to have pushed at the time. And, I guess, in the context of this thread...if something pushes your buttons one way or the other, it doesn't qualify here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members songrytr Posted February 18, 2006 Members Share Posted February 18, 2006 Originally posted by Tedster For example, a guy cruising the bars in his hot rod, looking for hot women, doesn't want his "cute puppies snuggling in sheets washed with Febreeze fabric softener" button, and he'll fight that tooth and claw, but, if you want to push his "cruising the bars in my hot rod looking for hot women" button, well, that's cool. For some reason this made me think of Foreigner. "I'm hot blooded...check it and see..." Funny thing is...I remember doing much better with the girls with the schmaltzy stuff on the 8-track. Billy Joel or Chicago trumped Robert Plant and Steve Tyler anytime in that regard. 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 songrytr For some reason this made me think of Foreigner. "I'm hot blooded...check it and see..." Funny thing is...I remember doing much better with the girls with the schmaltzy stuff on the 8-track. Billy Joel or Chicago trumped Robert Plant and Steve Tyler anytime in that regard. PERFECT example, Song... "Hot Blooded" would press the guy's (at least back in the early 80s) "Cruising looking for hot chicks" button. And, most guys, while looking for women, would have prefered to "bestudlify" themselves by having some macho music on...and then shifting to something a bit softer when the time was more appropriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carbon111 Posted February 19, 2006 Members Share Posted February 19, 2006 BT Radiohead Tangerine Dream Most other folks that come to mind, I have a definate opinion about... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted February 19, 2006 Members Share Posted February 19, 2006 Originally posted by myshkin YOu don't have to fight the rising hate as it courses thru your body? That's a trick question; Musicians are not featured on MTV anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members myshkin Posted February 19, 2006 Author Members Share Posted February 19, 2006 Originally posted by elsongs That's a trick question; Musicians are not featured on MTV anymore Ah but theres some lovely cars and houses to get excited about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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