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Post by chiyankee on Sept 16, 2019 8:36:12 GMT -5
This is very sad. I liked the Cars and their debut album, Candy-O and Heartbreak City were all great releases. RIP Ric. He was a remarkably talented songwriter and their post punk guitar/synth sound influenced a generation of other bands. An underrated band. Would not have guessed he was 75. The Cars were a very unique band, no one sounded like them at the time when punk was dying, disco was all over the radio and heavy metal had not yet become mainstream. I think I'll listen to their catalog at work to pay tribute. |
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Post by inger on Sept 16, 2019 11:16:20 GMT -5
Was surprised to see Okasek was born and mostly rested in Baltimore. He sounded a bit more European, perhaps even British/African due to his singing style... |
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Post by inger on Sept 16, 2019 18:31:08 GMT -5
The only preying mantis to make a gold record! An underrated group. The Cars were a wonderful reprieve from the disco apocalypse. I picked up on your praying manis comment, and I also “got it”. I’ve oft met people that have a particular shape of head or face, usually along with a slender frame and sometimes with a recessive chin that have trigger the thought in my head... Morgan Freeman has a bit of a cricket look to him...and Okasek would be a bit more grasshopper-like facially to me, though the addition of the slender frame pushes back to the mantis persona. As you can see, I don’t discriminate in my insect identification due to race or creed. Another mantis-like face was Sandra Locke who used to be in the movies with Clint Eastwood, who himself could border on membership. Though he’d be one tough grasshopper in his day...Sandra had the huge eyes and triangular face with a recessive chin. Probably ate her mates, too... |
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Post by chiyankee on Oct 6, 2019 8:55:36 GMT -5
RIP to Ginger Baker, one of the best drummers in music history.
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Post by inger on Oct 6, 2019 12:16:45 GMT -5
Where would rock be if drums were outlawed. I was listening on you tube last evening, just picking songs off the random list for a couple of hours. I listened to Rod Stewart and the Faces, with Kenny Jones pounding the Thermo-Glides in the mid song drum solo and thinking, that has to be one of the greatest, maybe THE greatest sounding drum solos of all time. If you get a chance to watch it on you tube, that is also one huge bass drum that appears to be larger than a standard piece of equipment...
So, when a drummer dies, all I can think is...
I’m hurt
Downhearted
And worried girl
Cause that FACE
Doesn’t belong to ME
Hmmm. Hmm. Hmmm.
Hmmm. Hmm. Hmmm.
Woo-ooo-hoo!!!
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Post by noetsi on Oct 8, 2019 22:47:05 GMT -5
Listening to Johnny Cash. Good for an old time liberal like me  |
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Post by kaybli on Oct 8, 2019 22:59:49 GMT -5
Listening to Johnny Cash. Good for an old time liberal like me Love me some Johnny Cash. |
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Post by noetsi on Oct 8, 2019 23:16:39 GMT -5
Men in Black is probably the most radical song every written. By a country singer no less. I always thought I walk the Line would be a pretty good baseball song  |
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Post by inger on Oct 8, 2019 23:19:05 GMT -5
Listening to Johnny Cash. Good for an old time liberal like me Love me some Johnny Cash. Me too, but only “some”, and in smaller doses. The old live album he did at San Quentin when I was still in High School (around ‘71 or so , I think) was a hoot. Though I’m not religious, I enjoyed his version of Kristofferson’s Sunday Morning Coming Down. I have a few country music roots in me, but the tree isn’t near as tall as the one growing from the crooners and solo artists of rock and sometimes pop. It was funny to me that when I was in high school I was laughed at in class one day when the teacher had us go around the room and announce what kind of music we all liked. When I said “Country Rock”, there were chuckles and even gaffaws. Apparently those kids didn’t understand that Crosby Stills and Nash, Neil Young, The Eagles all were playing rock that had it’s roots in country, as did many other acts modern acts billed as rock. If I would have added Ray Charles and the blues they might have all died laughing...We had cross over guys back then too, like Glen Campbell producing hit after hit on both rock and country charts. |
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Post by Renfield on Oct 8, 2019 23:33:14 GMT -5
Where would rock be if drums were outlawed. I was listening on you tube last evening, just picking songs off the random list for a couple of hours. I listened to Rod Stewart and the Faces, with Kenny Jones pounding the Thermo-Glides in the mid song drum solo and thinking, that has to be one of the greatest, maybe THE greatest sounding drum solos of all time. If you get a chance to watch it on you tube, that is also one huge bass drum that appears to be larger than a standard piece of equipment... So, when a drummer dies, all I can think is... I’m hurt Downhearted And worried girl Cause that FACE Doesn’t belong to ME Hmmm. Hmm. Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmm. Hmmm. Woo-ooo-hoo!!! Late getting back to this thread. Interesting story I heard about this song. Live, they would extend the drum solo. One night, once the solo started, the rest of the band went off stage, out the back door and to a pub next door to get a drink leaving poor Kenny Jones on stage by himself going on and on til they got back. He said he got them back later at another show when they were all standing on stage ready to start playing again after the tom tom roll which is the cue to come back in. Instead of going to the tom toms, Jones just kept on playing the drum solo while the rest of the band stood around cooling their heels on stage til he felt like it. |
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Post by noetsi on Oct 8, 2019 23:38:49 GMT -5
Cash was a strange person. He was religious. But addicted to drugs at times and a mess. Maybe that is not so strange after all...
Its really difficult for me to believe there was a time America was bothered by the type of things Cash complained about in Men in Black or could grasp his concerns with say prisoners.
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Post by Renfield on Oct 8, 2019 23:42:44 GMT -5
Since we're talking drums, Neil Smith, Alice Coopers old drummer, used to have a massive drum kit with double basses and all kind of bells and whistles. Supposedly, anytime he would talk to someone that had recently seen the Who he would ask "How many drums did Keith Moon have?" After he got an answer, he would go out and buy enough extra drums so that he would always have one more than Moon.
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Post by inger on Oct 8, 2019 23:45:48 GMT -5
Since we're talking drums, Neil Smith, Alice Coopers old drummer, used to have a massive drum kit with double basses and all kind of bells and whistles. Supposedly, anytime he would talk to someone that had recently seen the Who he would ask "How many drums did Keith Moon have?" After he got an answer, he would go out and buy enough extra drums so that he would always have one more than Moon. Drummers have egoes... |
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Post by Renfield on Oct 8, 2019 23:51:19 GMT -5
That's why they spontaneously combust.
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Post by noetsi on Oct 9, 2019 0:04:59 GMT -5
What modern songs go with baseball. Centerfield is the only one I can think of that is deliberately about it (as I said I think you could make a great baseball video with Walk the Line, particularly a one about great defensive plays). We are family was used by the Pirates long ago, to me a strange song for a team. I was thinking what song would go well with the Billy Martin Yankees... |
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