Posted on 02/13/2010 11:40:59 AM PST by SamAdams76
A number of today’s performers have their singing and playing enhanced. Get them out on stage live and they stink.
This is pretty funny.
Thanks for that....
I love Journey, but until I listened to their pre-Perry instrumental work, I really didn’t appreciate them as much. Yes they went ‘corporate’, but at their core is one hell of a music making machine.
I’ve always liked Journey. Their music is some of the first I remember from when I was very young.
Well I’d say you were born that way, you just now found out!
Just kidding. Compared to this new stuff my kids like like Snow Patrol and Maroon 7, Journey sounds pretty dog gone good.
I don’t know if I like them with that new singer though.
Back in 87, I was hitchhiking back east from Denver to New Jersey. Somewhere around Ames, IA, I got a ride with a trucker hauling a big refrig trailer full of tomatoes. Along the way, the driver got in the mood for some music.
"You like Zamfir?" he asked. "Um, sure." (Beggars can't be choosers, doncha know.) So he puts in a CD of Zamfir covering Billy Joel tunes. You remember Zamfir? "The master of the pan flute."
Well, wouldn't you know it, the cd got STUCK in the player, so from Iowa all the way to Chicago we listened to Zamfir playing Billy Joel tunes.
If that's not a cautionary tale about hitchhiking, I don't know what is. Made it home safe and unmolested, so alls well that ends well I guess. I'm too old for that sh%t now.
In the radio business we call those of your ILK the music “elitists”. :)
Most people like popular music, which is why it is “popular”. Early Journey (pre-Steve Perry lead vocals), was very cool...Steve just made it more mass appeal. It’s really not a crime to enjoy popular music, nor does it make you a sissy or whatever you think it might make you out to be. Nor is it any cooler to be an elitist. You’re just harder to reach in the world of radio. Musical taste is purely subjective.
I’ve programmed popular music and I’ve programmed elitist type stations. The Elitists like a lot of wild swings in style from Blues to Jazz and classical to acoustic to hard rock.. in no particular order. Popular music folk tend to stick to one or two genres.
Nothing wrong with any of that.
Formula music - which is easily identified... is much more common these days...and the record labels and artists alike should be ashamed of themselves for producing the drivel.
I miss the old story telling songs. Al Stewart (yes), James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, CSNY, Beatles and others that were Singer/Songwriters who had something to say. We’re not hearing that from todays best songwriters. Rob Thomas is considered to be a great songwriter now. Do you agree? He’s written alot of songs... but not one of them can hold a candle to Fire & Rain or ________________ fill in the blank.
We’re getting old and pretty soon Led Zeppelin will be elevator music.
I’m actually a big fan of Al Stewart, especially his “Year Of The Cat” and “Time Passages” albums.
I find the Eagles a must for any road trip
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Mozart and Back with a bit of Beethoven thrown in can be nice to mix it all up and get a little culture too :-D. If you are really feeling a bit hot and want culture at the same time, a group called Bond mixes up the strings and a bit of classical and other previously produced tunes such as in: 'Viva!' (Orian Mix), 'Allegretta,' 'Libertango.'
Consider yourself lucky you have not turned to Meatloaf's oldies but goodies to spice it all up for a wild diverse mix. Maybe toss in Pavarotti's Nessum Dorma!!! What a voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since the origin of iTunes I mix a lot of it up although fully produced albums can be a fantastic journey as well. For those 'Drama King and Queens' out there Opera is a nice addition. May the road always be safe and blessed Jerry!!
Back=Bach
You need to listen to some Rush, Boston, and Triumph.
What next, Barry Manilow? There are guilty pleasures one can be proud of and then there’s...
Definitely Rush. Although I used to get stoned while listening to them. It has taken awhile for that reason sober to listen to them again and they are fantastic. Wish I could have heard a lot more of this music with a clear head when I was younger. :-). I can appreciate great music a lot more. Especially ones that are well performed or well written.
Allman Bros. live >motor vehicle>speeding ticket.
lol. Meatloaf was my mention, but I did not mention my other shameful selected songs from REO Speedwagon—:-D. Okay we are on the internet. No one knows me so the confessional is safe . . . or is it? LOL.
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