Moby Grape - Best Rock & Roll band you've never heard of.

[bookumdano4]

 

Anyone hear of Bonnie Hayes and the Wild Combo? Pure pop for now people...

 

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That was kind of cool but it made my left brain do too much analysis on how close the track is to "Good Thing" by FYC and "Let's Go Crazy". I just can't listen to anything anymore without searching my memorybanks to figure out where "they" got the ideas from. I'm not a now people.

[Anderton]

"Girls Like Me" was done in 1982, well before "Good Thing" (1988) or "Let's Go Crazy" (1984).

[davd_indigo]

I did a drop the cursor on the Dukes of Stratosphear. I listened for several minutes at each cursor drop along the course of the whole album. Two things came to mind. One was the Electric Prunes. The other was "Psychotic Reaction" by (IIRC) Count Five. The thought occurred to me that a cliche is only something that was adopted in enough pop music to sort of "wear it out" in the minds of listeners. So many cliches were good ideas that became overexposed. I wonder how many here remember in the early Beatles' days when uttering the words "Yeah yeah yeah" became a joke about that particular cliche.

 

Along the lines of what was labeled "crosstalk" I happened to think of Captain Beefheart and his Magic band. Here, I'm thinking of crosstalk as separate, independent lines that work together to complement each other. And I guess, more than just 2 lines going on at the same time. Whether or not it works well, again is up to the listening mind of each individual.

 

I've been somewhat obsessive about close listening to Moby Grape since I realized what was going on in their band arrangements. I do believe this topic has been (by me) a bit worn out. A bit cliched.

 

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

"Low Yo Yo Stuff"

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"Nowadays A Woman's Got To Hit A Man"

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The following is not for the faint-hearted. It's from "Lick My Decals Off Baby" by Captain Beefheart. It has multiple lines, combined here for a more abstract effect. And (if anyone is interested) listen closely to the marimba riffing on the main lick from the Beatles "Day Tripper". The marimba never achieved cliche status as did the harpsichord.