Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Elvis Costello ripped her and Dusty Spingfield off. Just listen to My Aim is True and think of Ronnie. I'm tired of being that jerky ripoff artist Elvis Costello. New avatar day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted June 22, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted June 22, 2012 That ripped Woody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 That ripped Woody. Embrace the ripoff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted June 22, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted June 22, 2012 Absolutely! It's not like it's a bad thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Absolutely! It's not like it's a bad thing... Maybe this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Thumbs up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted June 22, 2012 Author Moderators Share Posted June 22, 2012 Somebody please take that cocktail away from that young man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 This is my all-time favorite "Friday Influences" (until this time next week?) It helps that I can relate (and love) every single "influence" here -- and recite (sing) in its entirety, and at full-tempo, "Well ya got trouble my friends, right here in River City . . . Why sure, I'm a 'billiard' player -- mighty proud to say it, yes, I'm mighty proud to say: I consider the hours I spend with a cue in my hand are GOLDEN (helps to cultivate horse sense, and a cool head and a keen eye) Say, D'ja ever try to establish an iron-clad lead for yourself, with a three-rail billiard shot? But just as I say it takes judgement, brains and the ability to score in the baulk line game, I say that any FOOL can take and shove a ball in any pocket. And I call that 'slaughter,' first-big-step-on-the-road-to the depths of degradation . . . Ya got trouble my friends!! . . ." (Sorry. I get carried away sometimes.) I'm actually here to post something you've never seen or heard in your life . . . but maybe should have: I'd been searching (in vain) a moment ago, for a Johnny Mercer tune sung by Bette Midler, and happened on this long-forgotten video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Only because it's the very next offering at YouTube -- and the fact that Bette Midler does the only modern version of this song that does it justice! Life was simpler then -- but not for musician/singers! (We now return to our regularly-scheduled programming.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2pfCFU3Mqww 2.68 million "views" and this most recent "Top Comment": im 15 and I'd heard my grandma talk about or sing these songs all my life but then my choir? did this song as part of a 40s style cabaret and I've been in love with it, and all the other classics ever since! rocketsparklegirl 2 weeks ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Oh wait, that kind of girl group pop.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Doo-wop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Happy days are here again.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 More Fats - when you've got a good thing going, keep doing it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjXzuQCKw_c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 I am regularly "influenced" by Fats Waller's chromatic bass move from Ain't Misbehavin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Wwhe9Hx_w (as is Norah Jones ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Just remembered that Blue2Blue called out that same Norah Jones song for being a ripoff of "Making Whoopie". I don't care. It's like saying that Bonnie Raitt rips off John Lee Hooker - true, but beside the point. She's cute, talented, and fun to work with. What's not to like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Cute AND talented? Nothing wrong with that. [video=youtube;_nl3Oo4-IQ4] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Not cute. Shape-shifting freaks. Bizarre yodeling. Weird synths. Guitar parts to make those hipster toes tap inside their Chuck Taylors. I don't care. Radiohead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBH97ma9YiI [video=youtube;RU8slEG-OtM] [video=youtube;E-RllNyZt90] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Out of tune, out of time, lousy recording, who cares. I hit it sideways. Velvet Underground http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJUpY5geWcU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Ripped off a million times. Still sounds good. The Stooges http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qannFs974gg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Subtle? Tasteful? Informed? Not so much. Still great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Heard an indie band on the radio yesterday that stole shamelessly from Steve Stevens' Billy Idol era guitar work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 Ain't no cure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 "And they said I was too uptown for the tots." -- Sideshow Bob -- after taking over the "Krusty the Klown" show ("Krusty Gets Busted") Or, as Mark Twain used to say, What this joint needs is a little culture. Though the Norah Jones song (I loved it) didn't remind this Great American Songbook nut in the slightest of my favorite Gus Kahn/Walter Donaldson song, Makin' Whoopee' (the melody lines are different, on every upturn and downturn, beginning to end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark Blackburn Posted June 22, 2012 Members Share Posted June 22, 2012 If you listened to that tune for the very first time, I guarantee it will stay with you: It's the strongest melody (I think) Bill Evans ever wrote! Evans' second great bass player, now grown old, Chuck Israels would agree. Chuck stays 'young at heart,' surrounding himself with musicians young enough to be his sons. Here, his latest 'orchestra' performs SHOW-TYPE TUNE at my new favorite bakery (just from the sound of it -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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