Members rsadasiv Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 Hadn't watched this in a loooong time ... it's still great.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJJ9u4yrjvY But this is still my favorite Talking Heads live show: Although I went through a long phase with The Name Of This Band ... (Is Talking Heads):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yujPXIXtd0s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Oswlek Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 Hey! It's Shooter McGavin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 Talk about your dangerous breaks... Nice guitar. Too many damn surfers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 It's refreshing to see a crowded, on-shore, insides-of-a-washing machine break instead of those perfect, deserted, tow-in breaks you usually see in surfing vids. The music is killer too. Yeah. The Wedge is a place unto itself. (I think there are a couple of similar shore breaks in a couple of 'groins' as you go down the coast, but I'm not sure any is as violent -- or easily accessible -- as The Wedge. You must capitalize the T in The, it's like, iconic. ) I only body surfed it a couple times. But one of those times was during two legendary weeks of huge waves in August of 1969. (The original story I heard about the film, Big Wednesday, was that it was inspired by those two weeks of huge waves, although the film puts its 'Great Swell' in '74. Don't know the truth of that.) I ended up eating sand about 4 times in a row and that was all I needed. We went back up to 13th Street in Newport (the normal best break for body surfing around there was at 17th for most of that summer but 13th, as I recall, was happening during those two weeks -- and the ocean floor really shifted during that period). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Oswlek Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 I played this live with a band I was in for a very short period of time about 12 years ago. Can't say we ever got that kind of response. We didn't have a keyboard player, so I played those parts on a clean guitar in the verse and then distorted for the chorus. I've never been the greatest player, but it was surprisingly difficult keeping it tight with the vocals and instruments emphasizing different beats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted October 5, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted October 5, 2012 I actually like all the Fleet Foxes offshoots more the the original band. This is cool... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 Rickie Lee Jones. This tune -- "Lucky Guy" -- sounds a bit like Randy Newman meets Nilsson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv_Li9tzhbw&feature=BFa&list=AL94UKMTqg-9Aop1mBRocwtH623BQeRDlW "Woody & Dutch on the Slow Train to China" ... "Man, I didn't even know what city I was in!" "Company." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted October 6, 2012 Members Share Posted October 6, 2012 Love Rickie Lee Jones, especially Pirates. I think I lifted the chorus from "Lucky Guy" for a Germ a while back. Cool that these are on youtube now - I think when I looked then there were only live versions available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 Prediction: 100 years from now, people will be discovering for themselves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted October 7, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted October 7, 2012 What I dig about Bill Evans is his interpretation of the core melody. A lot of players liked and like to play to the changes. Evans did that too... but he tended to really work the melody. He was known for his re-harmonization skill, and rightfully so, but I think the reason he was good at that, was because he always dug the relationship of the harmony to the core melody. He was so good at reinventing that relationship the writer created in the first place. Pederson? I first heard him when I was a young jazz bassist myself (16 maybe?). Probably during his Joe Pass and George Shearing days. I do remember being stopped in my tracks. A showoff who didn't really showoff. And when supporting, was a very good, stand behind, supporting musician. But he sure could show off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Surrealistic Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 I saw them at around this time and they were just great. Yes, I know Peter looked silly, the music could justifiably be called pretentious and the lyrics (for the most part) even more so. Also in the debit column, the dissonance between the passionate playing and the fact that they look like they're sitting in the parlour enjoying high tea is, well, it's a little weird. But, but, BUT they had something really uplifting and exciting going on - especially to my 15-16 yr old ears. Odd thing is, watching it now, it still has that something. Thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Surrealistic Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 Early Genesis were definitely an influence but just to make absolutely sure no-one mistakes me for a prog-rock only type, here's another later but much more important influence on me. I'm sure it's probably been posted before but hey, it's worth it. (Apologies for the advertisment and the fact that whoever posted this on YouTube doesn't know the name of the song) XrkThaBWa5c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members peanutroad Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 Talk about your dangerous breaks... I was looking for some vid examples from the 2012 Rick Holmstrom album, Cruel Sunrise, and found this among many clips. Rick is a long time veteran of the blues tour scene and most recently was on the Mavis Staples/Jeff Tweedy tour, along with Jeff Turmes and Stephen Hodges on drums, who fill those roles on the Cruel Sunrise album as well.This isn't from that album but I couldn't resist it, since it focuses on one of the most fearsome surf breaks in all of SoCal. On the subject of the Wedge, Dick Dale's song of that name came out in '63. Here's a live version... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ShadowsofBirds Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 mmmmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 If you ask me, surf guitar (esp. Dick Dale) was the pre-cursor to psychedelic music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 I had a feeling this would make a good bluegrass song, so I went video mining and found this. and this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members peanutroad Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 If you ask me, surf guitar (esp. Dick Dale) was the pre-cursor to psychedelic music. Absolutely. A lot of the guys in psychedelic bands got their start playing surf. Even Jeff Beck was a Shadows fan, early on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Barry_Blink_a_lot Posted October 7, 2012 Members Share Posted October 7, 2012 Lots of great tastemanship in this thread but this one is particularly awesome. Never heard this high quality show and I'm gonna sit here and watch the whole thing. The sung intro to Dancing With the Moonlit Knight sounds incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted October 8, 2012 Members Share Posted October 8, 2012 Being part Scots I like the story behind this recording, part of an attempt to revive a dying language. "The Braes o' Balquuhidder," a traditional Scottish song, sung by the Tannahill Weavers. Being part Irish I also like the Irish derivation, "Wild Mountain Thyme." To me this is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l9uJO9yOaQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted October 8, 2012 Members Share Posted October 8, 2012 "Tecumseh Valley," sung by Nanci Griffith & Arlo Guthrie. Written by Townes Van Zandt, I think this song is very evocative of "Wild Mountain Thyme," but with a nod to Stephen Foster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted October 8, 2012 Members Share Posted October 8, 2012 Joan Osborne has balls to take on this song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldgitplayer Posted October 8, 2012 Members Share Posted October 8, 2012 I was thinking about the potential musical mood for LCK's 'The other side of Blue' and I thought this : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rhino55 Posted October 8, 2012 Members Share Posted October 8, 2012 So much cool stuff here... as usual I have a relevant update for my post earlier in this thread. The handful of songs I played with Righteous Buddha went really well. They have a new drummer that is a complete machine, but what was more exciting than that is the organ player and bass player (playing fiddle) sat in for about half my set. Instead of the usually bass, drums, percussionist, and horn section, I was accompanied by drums, percussionist, piano (bass with left hand), organ and fiddle. I got so caught up in the moment that I ended up adding verses to three of the songs. After the fact, I asked my wife how those extras came across (sometimes you take a big swing and miss) and she said that she thought I had them worked out ahead of time. She would let me know if that wasn't the case. I already talked to the guys, and once I can get some money together, I'd like to do a proper recording session that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted October 8, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted October 8, 2012 Nice!!!! ^^^ So you're going to get them to record with you?!?!?!? Is that what you're saying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted October 8, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted October 8, 2012 I would love to here that. And that's probably my favorite PP&M song. Or cover, or whatever you say. I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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