Posted on 05/25/2016 7:20:38 AM PDT by Borges
Classifying anyone as the “most successful” at anything tends to reflect more on the source than the subject. So keep that in mind when I make the following statement: John Philip Sousa is the most successful American musician of all time.
Marching music is a maddeningly durable genre, recognizable to pretty much everyone who has lived in the United States for any period. It works as a sonic shorthand for any filmmaker hoping to evoke the late 19th century and serves as the auditory backdrop for national holidays, the circus and college football. It’s not “popular” music, but it’s entrenched within the popular experience. It will be no less fashionable tomorrow than it is today.
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Agree with you about Bun E. Carlos. Marky Ramone on End of the Century is also awesome.
It was good mood music. I miss Soul music too.
Now, that’s interesting you mentioned the Mama & Papas....I Youtubed them last night for the first time, in forever. Their harmonies were sublime. The Michelle Phillips lead in on the song “Dedicated to the one I love” is off the charts incredible. She is perfection for those thirty seconds.
Yep. For some odd reason we forget The Mamas and The Papas, yet they like Dylan came out of the folk movement at about the same time.
And there couldn’t be a bigger chasm between the stunning harmonies of TMTP and the goose-squawking nasal tones of our pal Bobby Zimmerman.
For guitarists, Hendrix was IT!
Someone on the thread referred to who was influenced by whom?
Ask Larry Cornell. He!!, ask Clapton!
I was always indifferent to Soul Music. Just not my thing I guess.
Has anyone heard the soundtrack from Guardians of the Galaxy? A virtual goldmine of music we all will remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPztb80iT0k
‘ooga chaka ooga ooga’... who dares to say that we didn’t know great lyrics?
“Even if they had little talent, the freshness of the Beatles would have produced a major change in American music, but they had lots of talent. As a group, the Beatles were far more talented than any one of them, and I think that bothered a couple of them.”
+1
You had to be there to appreciate just how strong a break with the past the Beatle’s sound was. Like a knife edge.
And the Beatles appeared with their simple upbeat music almost simultaneously with Kennedy’s assassination, as if the fall of 1963 marked some turning point in history.
But he was heavily influenced by the vocal style of Sam Cooke, IMHO.
Love the picture of Keith Richards. So true.
Excellent
Should have been Coryell.
I hate autocorrect.
lol. Talk about a fat pitch over the plate...
The Rolling Stones. Because Keith Richards will still be alive.
5.56mm
Man I forgot about all that
I got to Manhattan right after Studio when punk was still hot
Max’s was closed but OMFUG was still kicking
The Palladium and Limelight were huge....Ritz and China Club...my friends....and the Cat Club
The Tunnel too
But I missed 54
Like I said though I went to Disco for the girls....
When the Stones did Hot Stuff and the Dead did Dancing in the Streets
Lord.....a bad memory
The Doors and later Byrds and some Buff ages well
But some of the sunset Blvd hippierama doesn’t
Almost Cut My Hair
Four Dead in Ohio
But Long Time Gone a revolution anthem akin to Volunteers ages ok
Weird
All Winwood had to do was Fantasy and he becomes on one song a
Top 10 contributor
But instead a huge body of work
Another artist whom LSD impacted
I liked them too
An alternative to Motown and they’ve aged great
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