Posted on 04/24/2015 7:16:06 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
That's a little harsh, but not far off the mark. For me, I lost the faith in music when I learned of the existence of Antares Auto-Tune software and how it was used to "fix" vocal tracks. From that point (Spring 1997) I stopped listening to anything made thereafter because I could not trust the authenticity of the skill of the performer as opposed to the skill of the production engineer. My definition of art, is something that I can't do/learn to do for myself. I can't sing a lick, but with Auto-Tune, you'd thing I was the next Frank Sinatra. Even today, it is used in live performances to fix the vocals of washed up singers on the road.
So who is really is talented, and who has good staff? If record does not say that they didn't use Auto-Tune, then it's not worth entertaining as art.
Saw The Who once, Keith Moon still alive. Never caught the Stones though I realize I absorbed more of their stuff than I thought... Weird I always thought them “ dirty” but the Beatles and Who were “clean”
Bruce Cockburn was great until he went full-bore marxist. By the mid-1980s he was doing nothing but “protest” songs.
Lucky you. I saw them in '89. Their 1970 Isle of Wight concert is the single greatest concert video ever.
I like “if I had a Rocket Launcher” though.
Ya buddy, I was like 5 or so when I heard that. Has haunted me ever since...
42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. — Douglas Adams
Excellent!
I’ll call that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elnRbeNsNRk
and raise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG3Vx0ADQY
I’ve always thought Audioslave could do a great cover of House of the rising sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QU1nvuxaMA
I returned to my first love, classical music, after my broadcasting career ended at age 27.
Ya he “evolved”.
Searchers like Cockburn and say, Dylan seem to stumble on the Truth and search right on past it
And now for something completely different.
Unknown Hinson plays Voodoo Chile (He also does the voice of Earl on Squidbillies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdSgFABwtiw
I liked "Level 42", Mark King is a fantastic bass player.
I always wondered what it would be like if the Moody Blues did The Mood Is Blue.
I liked it a lot less when I found out he filmed the video while touring Central America as a guest of the various terrorist groups operating there.
Now you’re eclipsing my limited perspective, been too long out of the main stream.
I was doing good to tape an I phone to a stick and do this last year.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PHepHK4-9bE
Jimmy and Stevie Vaughn playing Pipeline together on a double neck guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSjRggiSBrU
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