Posted on 07/21/2019 6:01:37 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Love blasting Road Rats on the Harley.
:D
My bike is painted up with Alice and everywhere I go, people stop and dig it.
When they leave, hubby says “Yeah. I know. Everybody loves Alice”
Digital is for people that can’t handle reality.
I was in a Best Buy store recently and was surprised to find a small display of vinyl LPs. Most were what are known as “ classic rock”. I expected to be shocked by the prices, but one that I looked at was only $17.95, and that was a double LP. Considering inflation, that wasn’t bad.
I’ve still got mine too!!!
Uhm but alice cooper is at LEAST 70 years old now. You been snoozing?
Million...dollar lineman...
Another FR dolt :)
I was talking about me.
No, until just the other day. My friend has a set. I started on sticks-—too unforgiving. But he had some brushes, and that at least lets me pretend I’m still good. Maybe I’ll graduate back to sticks next time.
Don’t give up... play a 30-min version of Up from the Skies. Next thing you know it you’ll be back to cranking out Spanish Castle Magic.
I think vinyl became relatively popular again because it requires a process to enjoy it, so the focus is more on listening to a full album. Most music today is consumed while something else is going on as well, walking, driving, cleaning, internet surfing whatever. Usually with earbuds or on crappy computer speakers. It’s almost a secondary after thought and available at the touch of a button. With vinyl and its requirements it’s maybe easier to focus on the music actively because of the time spent just to hear it.
I think it’s a good thing, certainly more bands are mixing with vinyl in mind which makes their CDs sound better, at least to me.
Freegards
They used to call us audiophiles. Bang & Olufsen turntable, Harman Kardon & Sansui power amps with JBL and Jensen loud speakers - will trump MP3s, CDs and all the rest. It’s eartastic nirvana.
I listen to CDs through Adcom amp and pre amp and big Acoustic Research speakers. I have a Harmon Karden turntable but rarely use it. More people listening and actively enjoying music as an end in itself will only help the music scene make better music. The resurgence of vinyl is one of the very few positive turns popular culture has made in a long while, at least in my opinion.
Freegards
I posted this before, but it's worth repeating:
If great rock music is played in the forest and nobody is hearing it, that doesn't mean great rock music doesn't exist. There still IS good new music. But where is that forest?
An old promoter once told me, in 1969 the greatest guitarist in the world was Duane Allman and he was playing the Fillmore. The greatest guitarist in the world today is in a bar playing to nobody.
Our quest, should we choose to accept it, it so get off our assez and go to the local bar, pay the $10 cover and listing to 5 new, live rock bands playing original music. 3 of the bands will be ok, one will be pretty bad, but one of them will make your heart beat faster and compell you to pay $20 for their album and a tshirt. I've done this several times and have a few CDs of unheard and unsigned bands that rock.
For those of us who can't get out...the interweb is FULL of new music. Stop listening to The Band and take a chance with that new group of 20somethings (or even old guys).
Unless you’re a strong Alice Cooper fan, you’d never know that he can belt out a real good ballad as well.
Go to YouTube and type in “I Never Cry” or “How You Gonna See Me Now”. Listening to those songs, you’d never swear it was Alice Cooper.
A few years back, I played “I Never Cry” to some 20-somethings at work. I didn’t tell them who the artist was. I let them guess. They’d heard of Alice Cooper before and were familiar with his hard rock style but were blown away that we could do a soft rock song too.
Absolutely, there is a ton of new great rock being made today by new bands. Finding it is easier than ever. But the trade off is that there will never be this huge shared experience of finding a new band at the same time as everyone else does, because radio doesn’t work that way now and music isn’t listened to that way now.
Many of these great new acts mix their music with vinyl in mind, their CDs sound great.
Freegards
Lots of people. Vinyl is very popular now. The MP3 and stream revolution has caused a lot of folks to value tactile music.
Great post! Thanks Drumbo.
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