What Has Happened To The Music Industry?

7/13/02 | Maryellen Davies

[gunnedah]

The music coming out now is from the jungles and the major crime ridden inner cities.It surely carries a message and it is a form of brainwashing like this country has never seen.Between Hollywood,the press and the music industry we have become another Soddom & Gomorrah.
In the name of diversity we have destroyed America and she does not even resemble anything the founding fathers had in mind.
As long as we are a nation "ruled by lawyers" we will slide down this slippery slope until we become another third world country.

[edwin hubble]

Emmy Lou is also the heart and soul of one of the finest albums ever made: Trio (1987).

Powerful, heartfelt, dazzling virtuosity in the vocals and instrumentals. Devastatingly sad, beautifully written lyrics.

And all from the source... (What is now called roots music).

She also sang for "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".

[csvset]

I saw Alison at the Down From The Mountain concert Friday night . The show was fantastic. Check out the Del McCoury band.

Bluegrass, the answer is Bluegrass. whey Real musicians playing real instruments and playing it FAST!!!

Del McCoury Band

Those guys rocked. Lol, Can you say that about bluegrass?

Here's a link from David Grishman's page. Other bluegrass bands, etc.

Link

[sneakypete]

Don't you live in Virginia? Ever go to the Bluegrass Convention in Galax? Used to have one every year,and EVERYBODY showed up to play and listen. I haven't been to one since about 74,but they are most likely still going on.

[sneakypete]

Modern Jazz is the greatest crap ever passed off as music,

Well,it's at least in a three-way tie with Euro-Pop and Rap. MY description of jazz is "all technique,no tune",but probably the best description I ever heard was in the movie "The Commitments". They had been on stage playing something like a Percy Sledge song,and the trumphet player got "creative". When the set was over the lead singer asked him what the hell that was all about,and he replied,"I thought I would jazz it up a little". The singer's reply is a classic. He said "You know what jazz is don't you? It's musical mastrubation!"

[sneakypete]

and (doggone it, alzheimer's moment) what's the song Tommy Lee Jones puts on the 8-track when they're driving upside down in MIB?

Wouldn't that be the Chuck Berry great,"Promised Land",that goes "Hello operator,give me Norfolk,Virginian,Tidewater xx09. Tell the folks back home it's the promised land a-calling,and the poor boy's on the line."? One of THE greatest songs in rock and roll history! Forget all that Little Richard "I invented R&R" and Elvis,"the King of R&R" crap. The REAL inventors and kings of rock and roll were Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly.

Believe it or not,but I saw the Eagles in Norfolk,Va in the early 70's,and when they came back on stage to do their encore,they opened with "Promised Land". The place exploded! Man,they went back to the roots,and rocked the place out for the next hour! It was the first reserved seat concert I ever went to,and people were ripping the seats up to throw them against the wall to make room to dance.

Oh yeah,the Eagles opening act that night was Linda Rhondstat,and she closed out her encore with "Desperado". To this day I still haven't made up my mind who does it better,her or the Eagles.

[freebilly]

Real BANDS like The Eagles, KISS, The Who, Cheap Trick, Doobie Brothers, Electric Light Orchestra, REO Speedwagon, and Styx are all but ignored by contemporary radio and only heard if you're lucky enough to have a good oldies station signal

And why would a 15 year old in 2002 want to listen to music that I listened to 30 years ago in 1972?

As my kids tell me, "Dad, you're so old school..., You need to listen to Lincoln Park."

Whoever they are....

[FITZ]

Some of the new rock and alternative music is good. It's the pop and dance music that is completely synthetic.

[angcat]

it's never is right without orig. lead singer same for journey and the rest of the bands that keep their names. was glen tipton still with priest he was great?

[Wondervixen]

Freebilly, it's not their acceptance of the bands of yesterday, its their worship of the dancing bears of today that pisses me off...Kids today have taken a fancy to the intellectually lazy and musically talentless...The MUSIC isnt important to them, it's busting a move that matters and when you've seen one star and 21 nobodies on-stage doing the same damn thing over and over...If I wanna watch Riverdance or Michael Flatley, I'll buy a ticket for that...When I go to see a CONCERT, gimme .38 Special, ELO, or even ZZ Top anyday!

[FreedomPoster]

"Big Grin",indeed! Ever seen the "songwriters special" on PBS that has Willie Nelson,Lyle Lovette,Emmy Lou,and Rodney Crowell (sp?)?

Going to go see Lyle with Bonnie Raitt in a couple of weeks. Outdoor amphitheater, seats about 50' from stage center. I can't wait, should be a great show. I've seen them both, seperately, and together ought to be even better. First saw Bonnie in the mid-70's; man!, this aging thing sucks, but I guess it beats the alternative.

[freebilly]

Yeah, but most of the "dancing bear" stuff is aimed at adolescent girls. I know my teenage sons are listening to Rock (I just can't tell you any of the bands they're listening to)....

[Drumbo]

"Starr was a terrible drummer."

Admit it, you know nothing about drums. Not just mho:

"I think he's vastly underrated." - Phil Collins

"He's everything to me. I still think of him musically every time I sit down and play drums. He's a very important guy . . ." - Jim Keltner

". . . his influence in rock drumming was as important and wide spread as Gene Krupa's had been in jazz." - Max Weinberg

"I consider him one of the greatest innovators of rock drumming and believe that he has been one of the greatest influences on rock drumming today." - Kenny Arnoff

"He had great style. I never saw anyone play the way he did." - Dino Danelli

"He played a hell of a back beat, Man, and that's where it's at." - D. J. Fontana

"I think he did a wonderful thing for drums because drummers would see him and think, 'Hey, he's part of it, too.'" - Alex Van Halen

"Literally hundreds of thousands of players - including some of the greatest drummers playing today - cite Ringo as their first motivating influence." - Editor of Modern Drummer magazine

"Ringo is right down the center, never overplays." - Paul McCartney

"Ringo could be the best rock ''n'' roll drummer -- or at least one of the best rock and roll drummers . . . Ringo's got the best back beat I've ever heard " - George Harrison

"Ringo's a damn good drummer. He was always a good drummer." - John Lennon

[Wondervixen]

Maybe my angst is just aimed at the wrong parties. There ARE still Bands out there (Collective Soul, Linkin Park, Dave Matthews, etc)...I think it's more the teeny dweeb record company execs and the young turks in radio that are deciding for all of us that "studies show 88% of the public likes Dancing Bears, so we're gonna shove all we can down their throats in every visible market we can".

Truth is, they polled 88% on Mall Rats at the Gap who are spending allowance money Mommy & Daddy gave them.

How long would these dopes be around if they were TV execs & tried to heave all of the Olson Twins we could take on us 24 hours a day/365 a year?

[freebilly]

Dave Matthews Band--They're awesome! My 15 year old loves them (he's also a guitar player in a garage band).

[sonserae]

I switched to Country Music 3 years ago and haven't looked back. I used to hate the stuff, but acclimated my ear to it and now love it....It doesn't seem to be filled with all the political agendas that the pop industry has.

[sneakypete]

Going to go see Lyle with Bonnie Raitt in a couple of weeks.

That should be a real good show. Lovette has one of the best bands in the business,and his horn and string sections are as tight as it gets. I love his "mini-big band" sound and his voice,too. As for Raitt,she does some of the sweetest slide guitar work in the known universe. Seems like more people would understand that knowing when NOT to play is a important part of knowing HOW to play,doesn't it?

[sneakypete]

AARRRGGGHHHHH! Now you have Chuck Berry running through my head,and I gotta go try to see if I gave all my CB tapes away on my last trip to Russia,or if I have any left to listen to. Damn you!

"Left my home in Norfolk Virginia,California on my mind...."

"Saw Maybelline in her Coupe de Ville..."

"in a country shack lived a boy named Johnny B.Goode...go,go,go Johnny go..."

"mah ding-a-ling,man ding-a-ling,ah want you to play with mah ding-a-ling..." (his only number 1 song. shocking,huh?)

"Riding along in my automobile...My baby beside me at the wheel..."

[Wondervixen]

Don't kid yourself that you became acclimated to Country...The past 15 or 20 years, it's come to you (Hence all the posts here running down that country music has become pop with a cowboy hat & boots).

I remember a Gunnery Sergeant that Daddy was buddies with that played nothing but the old "cheatin' & drinkin' songs"...I'm kinda glad country eased more toward contemporary...LOL