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Looks like the last generic music video thread has been filed for quite a while...


Saw this the other day and can't get it out of my head.

Talk about stamping some mood on an iconic track. Just ridiculous.



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Is this "The Voice", in America?

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I have no idea.

Slid down the rabbit hole watching some cover versions with my wife. She insisted Pentatonix' "sound of silence" was better than the original. I said it couldn't be better because they didn't create anything that wasn't already there. "You just like it better."

Then we watched this.

"Never mind" rofl


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Well, I didn't recognize any of the judges, but it did appear to be "The Voice", ala American "The voice." Regardless, I admit I'm biased. I think GNT (Girl Named Tom) did it better on the U.S. version of The Voice. Did I say I was biased? GNT are my cousins.

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Nice. Gotta love young talent.


Here’s a mixed aged amateur group doing a Todd Rundgren cover. The young female lead has pipes. Her vocal run around the 4 minute mark is impressive.




On the professional side here’s a great vintage live performance by a 28 year old Tom Petty. Dude was in his prime. Feel’n it…


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Love the Heartbreakers.

This is a cover on an old Robert Johnson song:


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IMO Randy Newman is a brilliant songwriter.

The song "Everytime it Rains" is a beautiful sentiment and Joe Cocker adds to the feel of the song.


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j/c:

Went to the Cleveland Auto Show last night with my cousin, who choose the music in our ride on the way home. He put this song on. Man, I haven't heard it in a million years. Great song!


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I am fully aware that this video will not mean much to many.

Most are not old enough to know the impact Nat King Cole had on music and society. This type of music is not popular today.

I decided to post this after I watched a documentary on him. It made me remember the impact he had on me as a boy. He still remains to me the greatest singer I have ever heard.


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Nat King Cole is one of my absolute favorite singers of all-time. He was also a pretty damn good piano player. Mono Lisa is a wonderful song that Nat recorded perfectly. His rendition of When I Fall in Love is one of the best ever, if not the very best.

Each year during the holiday season, the first Christmas song I play is The Christmas Song and it is also the first song we play when we sit down for dinner on Christmas Eve, which our biggest day of celebration.

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Went to the Cleveland Auto Show last night with my cousin, who choose the music in our ride on the way home. He put this song on. Man, I haven't heard it in a million years. Great song!


Excellent. Paul Rodgers is one of my all time favorite vocalists.


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This morning I watched this documentary on Nat King Cole and was deeply moved.

https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/video/298014787867/Nat-King-Cole-Afraid-Of-The-Dark

When I was a boy around the age of ten or so. I really had no concept of race. My parents were not prejudice. We lived in Harrisburg, Pa. it was an all white neighborhood. Nat King Cole had a TV show in 1956 and 1957. I watched the show and it never dawned on me the significance that a black man had a TV show.

I just watched the show and thought that Nat King Cole had the best voice I had ever heard. The show was cancelled after 60 weeks even with the highest TV ratings. And the fact that guests like Tony Bennett and Sinatra played for free. It was cancelled because the southern states refused to put the show on TV.

The documentary reinforced my opinion about Nat and it was also felt by many of the giants of music. He was a great jazz piano player. His trio was also one of the first to ever incorporate electric guitar. When you watched Nat play piano and sing. It was like he could play piano with zero thought. His fingers just worked on their own. He would sing and be looking sideways at the camera while playing piano. He would never even look at the keys.

He was am amazing talent who had an incredible impact on music and black history.

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This is good song and for the time it was released it is what I like to think of as a modernized version of Tom Jones:


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Another great long forgotten by many. Billie Holiday.





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I have been a huge Billie Holiday fan since I first really listened to her when I was in college.

i have damn near everything she ever recorded in remastered CD's.

The Ken Burns film Jazz covers Billie extensively. It fascinates me to listen to those who played with her. Bradford Marsalis said his dream was only to play behind her.

My favorite recordings of Billie are with Lester Young on sax.

Her voice was small. She was not "big mouth" singer with projection. She was a stylist with a voice that sunk into you. Her phrasing and pitch were unique to her alone.

There are times when I will listen only to her for a week or so. I imagine being in Harlem back in her day and going to a club to listen to her. The jazz music of her time remains some of my favorite music.

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I give her so much credit for telling the truth and speaking out at a time that it was dangerous to do so.


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Her life story was rough.

She went through hard times and bad relationships. Died broke and smacked out.

But damn she was great during her prime.

Listening to those who played with her. Reverence, the way she captured an audience. It was told you could hear a pin drop when she sang.

Harlem in her day must have been something. Whites went to Harlem because they loved the music.


Back in the day I'm talking 1964-65. I used to go to Leo's Casino on Euclid Ave. We went to hear MoTown. Stevie Wonder, Smoky, Temptations, The O'Jays were the house band. It was great times. The audience was 60/40 black to white. Never was a problem. Just people loving music.

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I guess when "music videos" comes up, I think about early to mid 80s MTV (when MTV meant something).

The Pretenders were a great rock'n'roll band.


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Me too. I used to watch them quite a bit.

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The Pretenders had a great sound.

Chrissy's brother played in the Kent band 15-60-75 the Numbers Band. The lead singer Bob Kidney was a friend. His girl and mine were high school buddies from Kent.

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The Pretenders recorded this song. It is so strange to me to see and listen to this song. It does seem possible to see Bob now. I found this video and it was the first time I saw Bob since 1970.

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This is how I remember Bob. Scroll a bit and play.

https://www.popmatters.com/177421-1...immy-bells-still-in-town-2495700846.html

He was a terrific singer and harp player. I had some connections in music and wanted to manage the band. He had no interest in going on the road and doing the things needed to "make it."

He spent the next 50 years pretty much right in Kent.

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IIRC, MTV actually had some pretty good, extended, late night programs at the time: 120 minutes, Headbangers Ball, Liquid TV. I guess all that sort of stuff is on the internet now.

At any rate =

Gotta go back to the mid-80's again when, I think, music videos were sort of novel.

Strange to wrap my head around the 40 or so years since I saw this one. A little grimey and raw:


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This is how I remember Bob. Scroll a bit and play.

https://www.popmatters.com/177421-1...immy-bells-still-in-town-2495700846.html

He was a terrific singer and harp player. I had some connections in music and wanted to manage the band. He had no interest in going on the road and doing the things needed to "make it."

He spent the next 50 years pretty much right in Kent.

The world needs people like him.
World-class talent that stays near home deepens the cultural landscape of places that aren't on both coasts.

Additionally, many artists have their own definition of "making it." Not everyone wants the grueling, solo life of the artist/entertainer who spends month of his life on the road, promoting the next money-maker for the label that owns his contract.

Most musicians/artists do what they do because they are called to the Art, not to garner fame and/or fortune.

*Edit* I wrote this post before listening to either vid you posted of your pal Bob. Went back and watched both- in chronological, not thread order. The youthful Bob was "talent in training." The mature Bob sang with the same gravitas as Johnny Cash, when he covered Trent Reznor's "Hurt." A lot of Life and learning transpired between those two performances, and it shows. That is the true mark of a artist: one who never stops exploring, reaching, and finding new ways to give voice to that which lives inside, bursting to get out.

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Interesting that Ms. Nicks shows up just now.

Almost exactly a year ago, I flew to Phoenix to visit one of my Best Friends in Life.

We became best buds back in the early 80's. 2 years of everyday face time on the job, and we became friends for life. Absolutely brilliant musician. Deep intellectual. Multi-layered personality, with a deliciously malicious wit. The last time I visited him in PHX was the week when John Lennon was slain in front of the Dakota. I flew out last year, because he'd been telling me of his cognitive decline, and informed me that he didn't know how much longer he'd still be himself.

I was there for a day, when he said he'd invited his longtime local music pal over to jam for the evening. I didn't have my cello, but he owned a mandolin, which I could play reasonably well (it's tuned just like a violin, so there is a 'family familiarity' that allows me to get around on the instrument). I'd been hearing about this brother ever since By moved out there, so I was keen to meet. Turns out, he'd heard a ton about me as well. Years of anecdotal stories from our times in the trenches, and all.

So, dinner's wrapping up, and My Boy & his wife are talking while plates are being scraped, and clean-up is underway.

[She]: I wonder which Al will show up- Big Al, or Little Al.'
[He]: "My guess is 'Transitional Al'... there's a new tour coming up- but he loves him some some eats..."

The doorbell rings.

She opens the door, and yells, "Big Al! long time, bro!" By starts laughing. "I guess he's not slimming down for the tour yet-"
A big Hispanic dude with curly, shoulder-length salt&pepper hair, a guitar and a huge, broad, blindingly-white smile walks in, and gives massive bear hugs to She & He. It had been a good long while since they'd all been together, but it had the feel of "Old Home Week." He then looks at me and says, "So you're the infamous Clem I've heard so much about, all these years. Did you bring your axe?"

"Axe" is a slang word for musical instrument in the Jazz world... it refers to the tool we use to chop/shred wood (music on paper... 'going to the woodshed' means getting deep into practicing).

[me]: "Nope. I wasn't paying for an extra seat on the plane, and I'll never trust My Girl to baggage handlers. But I think I can limp around on this little piece of crap your boy has lyin' around his crib-


Big Hispanic Dude LHAO, looks at My Boy and says, "He's just as advertised." He then sticks out his hand as says, "I'm Al. Glad to meet a fellow playa."
Note: as we shook hands, he specifically made a point to NOT say, "player." That's when you know that your reputation has preceded you. Using the "er" pronunciation is a secret, coded pronunciation for "pretender."


For the next 3 hours, a happy noise was made at My Friend's home. 3 bros did stuff together that most Dawgtalkers Folks could only imagine for themselves.

At one point, Byron looked at me and said, "My two favorite musicians, making noise with me. What a great night!" When it was done, and Big Hispanic Dude had left to go home, She came up to me and said, "This was the happiest I've seen him in 3 or more years. You guys helped me to get My Baby back... even if for only one night."

And then, she hugged me as if her life was at stake.
I lost contact with My Dear Friend in the Summer of 2022.


AZ Brown: I had just spent that entire evening throwing down notes with Al Ortiz, bass player for Stevie Nick's touring band.



Here he is, with my bass-playin' bro, Byron Lipkins, in a cover of Midnight Rider (Allman Bros Band).
Byron Plays With Al

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Different. Incredible.


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Eminem: with a guitar, singing/playing skills... and his own message.

This young man's work is important.


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Bob "made it" exactly the way he wanted too.

He became very well known and respected by musicians and maintained a local audience to live.

https://www.cleveland.com/entertain...ty-but-theyre-nowhere-near-oblivion.html

Really a pure success story.

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I had to take an early lunch today. Clem and OCD just made this one frickin' enjoyable lunch hour!


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Regarding tour MTV reference and when music videos were more novel, there was another duet given a lot of air time that I liked very much.



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Nothing is better than when an artist can make you feel it.


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I do remember that one. But I think a 25% sober Ozzy would have wanted that one back. Or maybe not.

Superstar duets have almost always been duds, especially in the 80s.

I think the exceptions within that time period were the three Nicks' duets and a few Michael McDonald guest appearances.

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I will say that for some reason the voices of Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks blended probably better than almost any I've ever heard. I'll also say that, even though some people may not like it, I think the best music Ozzy and Steven Tyler ever made was when they were wasted as hell.


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Thought you might have a comment about Nat King Cole and Billie Hollday.

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Re: Steven Tyler.

I completely agree. I really disliked any studio stuff Aerosmith did after 1982. Their "Live Bootleg" album is still one of my favorite live rock albums of all time. Just listening to that one, you can tell there was some hooch and blow helping out the effort. A good, sleazy album. Funny how things work out.

With the exception of Midnight Special, I don't remember watching much good music on the three available TV channels in the 70s. I wonder what music videos would have looked like as a true commodity in the decade before MTV.

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Nothing is better than when an artist can make you feel it.

Stevie was one with that SRV guitar. Man, could he PICK And SANG.

Here are two more greats that can effortlessly hit you in the feels.




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I think this is an incredible song and video


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Prince & The Revolution

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Don't recall this in the closed thread?



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On the flip side, you can tune a piano but you can't tune-a-fish.


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Genesis.....Turn It On Again

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I feel a little late on this one, and I may be the only one who likes this, but what the heck.

Judith Durham passed last summer and I didn't say anything then. She had a wonderful voice. This to me sums it up and is a feel good song from days gone by.



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