The Music Thread
- Thread starter TheOriginalHappyGoat
- Start date
I'll let it go this time and won't tell UncleMark. Just don't let it happen again.
Something for these times …
The Clean Debt Ceiling locomotive is highballing southbound …
The “Save and Grow is highballing northbound …
The Clean Debt Ceiling locomotive is highballing southbound …
The “Save and Grow is highballing northbound …
And Meat could sing opera with the best of them.
When I visited the R&R HOF I voted for Meat to be inducted. He never made it.
This is an old one, but props to Ralphie for finding it and posting it on Facebook, and directly relevant to the recent Ed Sheeran case.
May 1965. Co.H graduates IU and the Rolling Stones record I Can’t Get No Satisfaction. Both world changing events.
Back in my IU days, one of our frequent major discussions (esp when getting high) revolved around listing your all-time top 5 album sides... This was invariably on most people's list- the 2nd side of Abbey Road...
For the Bruce Fans...
CBS Sunday morning did an excellent story on the making of Nebraska earlier this year which gives some real insight into what Bruce considers his "landmark" album...I hadn't seen it when originally broadcast, but it showed up in my you tube feed in the past couple weeks, so I decided to share...
As one of the youtube commenters pointed out, this is so good because Axelrod converses with Bruce, rather than interviewing him...
I may have posted this 15 pages ago, not sure, but I want to share this for my sister, who is going through some things.
I love the baseball analogies (and name check of Pete Rose) in the first verse of this song. Plus I can certainly relate to getting older, but not up...
Bonnie Raitt makes singing seem effortless.
So I saw Once Were Brothers the other day, and I was surprised at how it grabbed me and drew me in. I know that some folks felt it was Robbie making himself out to be the hero, and I can see aspects of that. But there are also incontrovertible facts, some of which I was unaware of...And if you've ever wondered what the connection some of the guests at The Last Waltz (Clapton,Van, Ronnie Hawkins) had to The Band's history, the movie gives some insight...
It's become fashionable to downplay Robbie's talent and sort of portray him as a glory hound. But he was a bright young talent as a teenager writing songs and playing lead in Canada, and he was the initial person that Ronnie Hawkins was impressed with. After Levon joined the Hawks he and Robbie became virtual blood brothers, and they basically hired the others who eventually became The Band.
But Robbie basically wrote everything. For example, the lyrics of The Weight, esp the opening line came out of Robbie needing another song for the Big Pink album. He happened to look on the inside of his Martin, saw the inscription that it was manufactured in Nazareth (PA), and the opening verse just came to him. I think he said he basically wrote the entire song in a single afternoon...
There was also a lot of video/home movies of the '66 tour with Dylan when the crowds came nightly just to boo and show their displeasure over Dylan's new direction. Hard to believe the amount of vitrol the crowds reserved for "the Hawks" , who Dylan had hired to back him in the electric/rock portion of the shows. It wore on all of them, but especially Levon who basically quit and went to the Gulf to work on an oil rig.It was only after they had recorded The Basement Tapes (at Big Pink) and they were able to play them for Levon that they were able to convince him to come back and join then at Big Pink.
It was basically a musical revolution, the harmonies and American heartland sound they were able to create for the Big Pink album. They exploded on the scene and were set to tour, and then fate intervened. Rick drove his car into a ditch and broke his neck and while he survived, he was laid up in the hospital for months and the tour was scrubbed.
Eventually they were able to release The Band album, which had multiple hits and rocketed them to stardom. Again most of the compositions were Robbie's songs, but he seemed to prefer that the lead vocals went to others, esp Levon,Richard and Rick. Robbie seemed to get more pleasure out of providing harmonies, playing lead guitar and essentially writing brilliant songs. I got the sense that it was family and kids not naked ambition that led Robbie to drift away from the others. And that was exacerbated by the party nature of the others, esp Levon and Richard who both got drawn more and more into heroin addiction and alcoholism.
Again it's popular to paint Robbie as an egomaniac, but I came away from the movie with a more nuanced perspective. I love Levon, but his addction led to paranoia and bitterness and there are just too many people interviewed in the movie to corraborate that perspective to be able to dismiss it as just Robbie's version of events. I know the story is that Levon felt Robbie unfairly screwed out of writing royalties, but he was more involved with working on arrangements than actually penning lyrics...
Robbie was content to be a songwriter.He mentioned once in an interview with an author who asked him why he never sang lead that he preferred to write songs and then act as the director casting leads in a play. Everyone had a role to play, and basically he had 3 or 4 fantastic singers that he could designate to sing lead on various songs while he played guitar and added harmonies...
Prime example of a song (possibly autobiographical) that Robbie wrote, but had Rick sing...
Another classic that Robbie wrote, Rick sang on the album version, but Levon sang it live at times as well.
It's become fashionable to downplay Robbie's talent and sort of portray him as a glory hound. But he was a bright young talent as a teenager writing songs and playing lead in Canada, and he was the initial person that Ronnie Hawkins was impressed with. After Levon joined the Hawks he and Robbie became virtual blood brothers, and they basically hired the others who eventually became The Band.
But Robbie basically wrote everything. For example, the lyrics of The Weight, esp the opening line came out of Robbie needing another song for the Big Pink album. He happened to look on the inside of his Martin, saw the inscription that it was manufactured in Nazareth (PA), and the opening verse just came to him. I think he said he basically wrote the entire song in a single afternoon...
There was also a lot of video/home movies of the '66 tour with Dylan when the crowds came nightly just to boo and show their displeasure over Dylan's new direction. Hard to believe the amount of vitrol the crowds reserved for "the Hawks" , who Dylan had hired to back him in the electric/rock portion of the shows. It wore on all of them, but especially Levon who basically quit and went to the Gulf to work on an oil rig.It was only after they had recorded The Basement Tapes (at Big Pink) and they were able to play them for Levon that they were able to convince him to come back and join then at Big Pink.
It was basically a musical revolution, the harmonies and American heartland sound they were able to create for the Big Pink album. They exploded on the scene and were set to tour, and then fate intervened. Rick drove his car into a ditch and broke his neck and while he survived, he was laid up in the hospital for months and the tour was scrubbed.
Eventually they were able to release The Band album, which had multiple hits and rocketed them to stardom. Again most of the compositions were Robbie's songs, but he seemed to prefer that the lead vocals went to others, esp Levon,Richard and Rick. Robbie seemed to get more pleasure out of providing harmonies, playing lead guitar and essentially writing brilliant songs. I got the sense that it was family and kids not naked ambition that led Robbie to drift away from the others. And that was exacerbated by the party nature of the others, esp Levon and Richard who both got drawn more and more into heroin addiction and alcoholism.
Again it's popular to paint Robbie as an egomaniac, but I came away from the movie with a more nuanced perspective. I love Levon, but his addction led to paranoia and bitterness and there are just too many people interviewed in the movie to corraborate that perspective to be able to dismiss it as just Robbie's version of events. I know the story is that Levon felt Robbie unfairly screwed out of writing royalties, but he was more involved with working on arrangements than actually penning lyrics...
Robbie was content to be a songwriter.He mentioned once in an interview with an author who asked him why he never sang lead that he preferred to write songs and then act as the director casting leads in a play. Everyone had a role to play, and basically he had 3 or 4 fantastic singers that he could designate to sing lead on various songs while he played guitar and added harmonies...
Prime example of a song (possibly autobiographical) that Robbie wrote, but had Rick sing...
Another classic that Robbie wrote, Rick sang on the album version, but Levon sang it live at times as well.
If you want to catch them as they are, this is supposedly their last tour as they are currently assembled.
We know how that goes though.... Kiss has been on their farewell tour for like 20 years now.
A musician friend of mine tried to convince me of his worth and recommended the John Mayer Trio album…it’s DOPE and it changed my mind.
My epiphany was 2008 at a concert at Deer Creek. He played like two of the poppy songs and then just jammed out the rest of the time. Usually on his own stuff but still damn good. Excellent musician.
Ten Rock albums every music fan should own, I think it is a pretty good list.
americansongwriter.com
Top 10 Rock Albums Every Music Fan Should Own
There are many albums that are considered classics in the world of rock, so we selected a handful that are "must-haves."
americansongwriter.com
