That album is loaded with great music! I haven't had the opportunity to see them live but thanks for the review. I know you're picky about what you think is good just like I am.
When those bands like Pearl Jam, STP and Counting Crows were popular was around the last time period I sang in R&R bands. It was nice to have a fairly abundant amount of good music to choose from with which to perform.
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Saw Radiohead in ‘94 also in Hawaii, they played with a 3 girl Japanese metal band, that was really good even if I couldn’t understand a word they were singing.
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They will probably hit 1 billion views for this video
Finally getting into OK Computer. It took a few listens... after sitting on the "to do list" for ages. Definitely a unique band that imposes atmosphere on the listener.
Pretty sure I posted this in one of these threads a while back. I could watch everyday and it would still send chills up my spine...
One of my favorite bands from the 90’s. One of the under-appreciated. One that may have been missed because their hit was so quaint and poppy. Written off as that Bee Girl album band. Meanwhile the rest of that album sounded little like their hit. It was much darker and psychedelic, with midwest alt-rock and southern influences.
A lot of good music slipped through the cracks in the '90s.
Heard this seeping through crowd noise -- not enough for google to recognize. Riff stuck in my head. Took me about five minutes whistling it into google once I got home.
Spacehog? Never remember hearing that band name but definitely the song "In the Meantime". Did a deep dive into their catalog and found some really good stuff... and a lot of diversity:
The Bee Girl album is one I can still go back to to this day. I love every song on that album. Even No Rain… though I do tend to skip it. The song Sleepyhouse is one of my favorite. It feels like a warm, comforting, psychedelic hug.
There are lyrics in Tones of Home that still resonate with me… even more so now. “And I always thought this would be the land of milk and honey Oh but I came to find out that it's all hate and money”
…and the heartfelt “I only wanted to be 16, and free” in the song I Wonder… boy do I relate every morning when my alarm goes off.
I love Blind Melon. Shannon Hoon is an under mourned rock and roll death. He was a tragic poet with a drug addiction that he struggled to beat. Ultimately succumbing to it. Sucks for music.
I’ll see your Space Hog and raise it with a Toad… the Wet Sprocket. Another under appreciated 90’s band that may have gotten pigeon holed by their hits. They actually made some interesting music beyond the radio play stuff. I saw them in like ‘94ish (?). They it on a good show. Much ‘rockier’ than one would think.
A hit…
Not a hit, but also not what you’d expect if you only know their hits…
I went to the Atlanta Agora which were the same people who ran the Agora in Cleveland.
Went there to see Leon Redbone who I love. The show was opened with a guy I never heard of Tom Waits. He blew my mind. I had never seen or heard someone like him. Creative, dramatic, and fascinating to watch. He did this "song" which really was more like beat poetry to jazz. You could not take your eyes off him. I have been a huge fan since. His songs are so unique, lyrically, musically, vocally, and visually in person.
I find it rather ironic Willie did that song with the guy who sang "Okie from Muskogee". I remember a song Pure Prairie League dedicated to Merl after he released that song.....
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Watch "Travelin' Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall" on Netflix
It's staggering to realize how fast and furious those hits came; and the whole doc is centered around a legendary performance in front of people that had no idea they were about to have their faces rocked off.
"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Cooper is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Moore is flanked out wide to the right. Chubb and Ford are split in the backfield as Watson takes the snap ... Here we go."
This past Summer, there was a national phenomenon involving "fake buskers."
For those unfamiliar with the term 'busker,' here is an efficient, two-sentence description: A 'busker' is a street performer who brings his/her product to The People to a public place. Patronage is immediate: a passer-by might toss the coins from his pocket (..and perhaps some 'folding money' as well) into an open guitar case, etc.
We've all seen these fellow humans, in our day-to-day. Buskers. They have a name.
So... I went to my local Target last Summer to buy something that is already unimportant to me... and this attractive, 20-something young lady, dressed in the latest, coolest 21st c. version of "Sexy 2020's BoHo Chic" style, is dragging out Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" (don't sweat the title- there's no quiz at the end of this post, and if you've ever been to a wedding, you've prob heard it more than once-).
I go in, make my purchase, pull out of my parking spot, and slow down, as I approach her performance station. I pull into an open space nearby, and place my whip in 'park.' Her current tune was something by Celine Dion.
It took about 5 seconds to see that this fetching young lady knew two essential things:
1. how to operate a loudass public karaoke machine in a parking lot. 2. how to draw a straight bow across an unplugged electric violin.
The entire thing was cheap theatre, designed to separate rubes from their hard-earned. In a department store parking lot. Almost none of her gestures came close to what real music-making looked/sounded like.
I pulled out, without tossing this comely grifter so much as a farthing from my car's coin trough. The internet was right, that day. I witnessed it for myself, in my own back yard. |
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The following example is the exact opposite of that abomination I witnessed last Summer.
This young lady is extensively trained, and plays at a very high level. She prepared this presentation with hundreds of hours of work, and now can take this 'impromptu street show' anywhere she wants, knowing that she can kill it any time, anywhere.
This spring someone was playing in my Kroger parking lot. Pretty big lot and strip here in the Coventry part of the Wayne. Jumped out about 100 yards from where I could hear it but couldn't see through the sea of cars, as it begins to register, "Queen on the Violin?"... I headed into the store. As I'm hitting the door my mind is already racing... "get in and get out, so you can see where this amazing music is coming from!" I'm also wondering why someone so talented is playing in a Kroger parking lot.
I got out of the store and it was gone. I was literally heartbroken. It's not in my DNA to walk by without a smile, thanks, and some coin. It's weird to explain, but it's almost embarrassing to me when someone is playing "in the street" and people walk by with nary a nod of appreciation. Not only that, but I really wanted to hear more. I would be the guy whose wife calls 45 minutes later like "where the hell are you?" "Watching someone play violin in the parking lot, duh."
So I skimmed your post, and went on a mad internet race to find Kirsti. I'm reading her creds and thinking "why would she be playing in a Fort Wayne parking lot?" 🤣
I come back and actually read your post, and hung my head. Is there no sanctity left in the world?? Let the air right out of my balloon. Dissapointed that I probably had some fake-ass musician, in my parking lot, I head back to the Tube.
Yep, I'm just going to convince myself it was him so I can sleep at night. Although I'll still have bad dreams about a generation of kids who will walk by, now with even less respect, as they explain to their friend under their breath that it's "probably fake".
When going to Nashville I see a lot of this. Don't get me wrong, they're certainly not attempting to perform Ave Maria. lol
Some deserving and some just grifters. In Nashville it's just a case of so much talent with only so many venues. So you'll find more gems than one might think here as it pertains to street performers.
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Once upon a time, there was a metal/hard rock/sleaze band from Youngstown named WhiteNoise that used to destroy "White Punks", metal style, at Filthy McNasty's in Kent.
Man, I remember McNasty's. I used to go to Heavy Metal Sundays when I worked in Ravenna.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
This past Summer, there was a national phenomenon involving "fake buskers."
For those unfamiliar with the term 'busker,' here is an efficient, two-sentence description: A 'busker' is a street performer who brings his/her product to The People to a public place. Patronage is immediate: a passer-by might toss the coins from his pocket (..and perhaps some 'folding money' as well) into an open guitar case, etc.
We've all seen these fellow humans, in our day-to-day. Buskers. They have a name.
So... I went to my local Target last Summer to buy something that is already unimportant to me... and this attractive, 20-something young lady, dressed in the latest, coolest 21st c. version of "Sexy 2020's BoHo Chic" style, is dragging out Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" (don't sweat the title- there's no quiz at the end of this post, and if you've ever been to a wedding, you've prob heard it more than once-).
I go in, make my purchase, pull out of my parking spot, and slow down, as I approach her performance station. I pull into an open space nearby, and place my whip in 'park.' Her current tune was something by Celine Dion.
It took about 5 seconds to see that this fetching young lady knew two essential things:
1. how to operate a loudass public karaoke machine in a parking lot. 2. how to draw a straight bow across an unplugged electric violin.
The entire thing was cheap theatre, designed to separate rubes from their hard-earned. In a department store parking lot. Almost none of her gestures came close to what real music-making looked/sounded like.
I pulled out, without tossing this comely grifter so much as a farthing from my car's coin trough. The internet was right, that day. I witnessed it for myself, in my own back yard. |
______________________
The following example is the exact opposite of that abomination I witnessed last Summer.
This young lady is extensively trained, and plays at a very high level. She prepared this presentation with hundreds of hours of work, and now can take this 'impromptu street show' anywhere she wants, knowing that she can kill it any time, anywhere.
I present to you, The (buskers) Real Deal.
If people don't know who buskers are, they shouldn't be on a music thread. That is the most basic form of music performance on earth.
Every year we have a Busker Festival here in town. It's great. Food trucks, beer and wine vendors and a whole bunch of folks putting out their music. I stuff my pocket with $100 of $5 bills to drop in their instrument case, jar, bucket, whatever. It's a great time.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
Van Morrison is one of my favorites. I've been spending more time looking for new artists these days. We're both far more old school so there isn't as much newer music I like that much but I REALLY like this group!
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My ex wife was in the concert catering business in Atlanta for many years. Both my son and daughter worked the shows.
If there was a show I wanted to go to. It was not a problem. I reached a point that I quit going.
However, I did go to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. They were great. But what happens is to a degree the crowds actually ruin the show. So many drunks and drugs. Behavior and noise gets to be to much. A lot depends on the venue. The open air shows are the worst. The theaters are still good.
At this stage I will only go to see a select few and even then only at small places.
I love live music but I would rather see jazz in a small club than the big stage rock shows.
I certainly stopped going except on rare occasions for pretty much the same reasons as yourself. Tom Petty was at a big arena but the crowd was quite well behaved. I too at this point in life prefer smaller venues. In Nashville we have The Ryman which is a wonderful venue! I'm hoping to see The Tedeschi Trucks Band there the next time they come to town.
I was lucky enough to have a few ticket hook ups during my life. When i was young my mom's cousin ran the ticket office at the #1 concert venue in Dayton at the time, Hara Arena. Then as fortune would have it I was very good friends with not one but two DJ's on local radio so tickets to sold out shows were not only free but very easy for me to get even after the shows were sold out. As much as I love music I consider that a very big blessing in my life. I made sure to let those people know just how much that meant to me. It's not as if I haven't bought concert tickets but in the grand scheme of things it hasn't been that often. I make up for getting free tickets by purchasing merchandise at the shows as well as their records to support the artists.
steely Dan is another band I really like that doesn't get a lot of attention on these threads.
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I love live music but I would rather see jazz in a small club than the big stage rock shows.
The best audience experiences I ever had were in intimate Jazz clubs. When the band takes a break, they routinely sit at a table near the front of the house. They are accessible to their fans.
Must have been early 80's, My boy Byron & I road-tripped to Gilly's Jazz club in Dayton to see Art Blakey's newest Jazz Messengers incarnation. During the break, we local low-level musos chatted with the band over at a table in the corner.
Bro- that night, Byron & I spent 20 minutes with Wynton and Branford Branford Marsalis. Back when they were 20-somethings, just like us.
There is nothing like the intimacy of a Jazz club. Patrons rub shoulders with the music makers. Music lives at the heart of the village.
I use to go La Cave a lot when I was in high school and Cuyahoga Community college.
Blood Sweat and Tears and a band called The Hello People who dress in mime. Bands would play sets and then mingle with the crowd. It was a small place. You could get as close to the stage as you wanted.
The Jazz Temple was another place. https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/811#:~:text=For%20a%20brief%20time%20in,club%20called%20the%20Jazz%20Temple.
I remember seeing Roland Kirk there.
I have not been to a place like that since that time.
I've been listening to Jason Isabell quite a lot. They label his music as Americana but I'm not really sure that he fits into a single category as music genre's are described these days. This tune reminds me of the classic Neil Young style of song and I really like it....
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Jade is really growing as an artist. She was a pop star in Sidney at a young age. Her writing and sound has matured.
Her last two albums (one of which will be out soon) are really good.
Her voice is deeper in tone. The music is beginning to have "her sound."
Her writing is both personal and universal.
She has become a devout Browns fan. I mean to the max. It really cracks me up because before she met my son. She did not know a thing about football. Now she is a football geek.
One of my favorite musicians of all time is Leon Redbone. I loved the guy and the music he played.
He was a rare kind of dude. He didn't need a thing besides himself, his guitar and maybe a harmonica. Once in a while he would have a clarinet player. Or, he would sit in with some kind of band. But for the most part he would show up by himself. Sit down, play outstanding acoustic guitar, and sing great songs in a manner unique to him.
Okay, so the chord pattern is pretty much a rip off of Jumping Jack Flash. I know, I know. But it's the lyrics and the message sent in this song that has always stuck with me. And I believe every word of it. When the time comes we have to depend on those we have helped, nobody will answer the call.
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My wife has gotten used to me just randomly starting to sing songs neither of us have heard in twenty or thirty years seemingly out of nowhere which just pop into my mind on a regular and sometimes even troubling basis.
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Came across all of these "Midnight Special" episode vids on Youtube. Boy does this (along with Don Kirshner's Rock Concert) bring back a lot of memories from my mid to late teen years (1970's). Raw performances by some of the greatest bands ever, spanning just about all genres. The description for each episode gives you the exact times to jump to your selected artist/song.
I'm a little younger, but do remember Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. I don't think it played much in my house.
Raised by my half-brother and sister-in-law... they were both white people with Afros and prefered Don Cornelius' Soul Train... I was on the “Double Dutch Bus”.
The Midnight Special was really diverse....They'd pick one band/artist to be the host. You'd have Al Green introducing Foghat, Gladys Knight introducing the New York Dolls, Jose Feliciano introducing Johnny Winter, etc. I remember seeing a lot of these episodes, and we didn't have VCR's back then. They really had an impact. There was no lip syncing or overdubbing either, just raw performances. I'm so glad they posted these to Youtube.
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
I've skimmed a little and I see that. Becoming more of a Bee Gees fan over the years. For them to be pigeon-holed into disco is obscene. Very diverse catalog. Checked out a bunch of one of their episodes, seemed like a big party with all the personalities!
And thanks for "The description for each episode gives you the exact times to jump to your selected artist/song." Makes it very easy to jump around when you don't have the time to be glued to an episode.
It is so understandable how that music spawned so many later groups. Yardbirds, Stones, Cream, SRV, John Mayall, Zeppelin, Humble Pie, Jethro Tull, Jeff Beck, Allman Bros, ZZ Top.
I still love that acoustic sound.
This is a Robert Johnson song. Nobody plays this better than Leon Redbone.
He is a super talented guy .... Free, Bad Company, The Firm, The Law, Queen, his solo career and who knows how many other projects.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
New video from Lindsey Stirling. Very powerful. This video shows her career. The voice lines in the beginning are from when she was on America's Got Talen in 2010.
It's supposed to be hard! If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great!
I listened to Adam Duritz tell the story behind the song Anna Begins.
I had almost the identical experience. I love the song.
He said that he had grown sick of music and he and a friend took off to backpack around Europe. He met a girl that he fell in love with on a Greek island.
He had no money and a return flight that could not be changed. He returned and that was it. The song was about that encounter.
"She disappears and Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing"
Lyrics count for me and that album has some of the best lyrical songs.
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