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I love Buddy Holly & The Crickets. They made some damn fine music.
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Went to see Moving Sounds last night. Great Mod band from Stockholm.
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Thin Lizzy - Night Life (1974)
First record with the Gorham/Robertson/Downey/Lynott line-up.
Kinks - Misfits (1978)
Kinks - Low Budget (1979)
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Dug up a couple of gems in a second hand record store this weekend. The Back From The Grave comps are really something, with various 60's garage rock bands. All vinyls.
V/A - Back From The Grave, Vol.1 (1983)
V/A - Back From The Grave, Vol.2 (1984)
V/A - Back From The Grave, Vol.3 (1984)
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That was excellent. It appears there are other youtube clips from the same performance. I'll check them out tomorrow. And the Apeman video was also excellent.
Yeah, I watched every Rainbow clip I could find on youtube. Great performance, I'll have to check if it's available on DVD.
I love Dave's backup vocals on this. Sadly it's not a live recording, but a great song.Cool song, I've never heard it before.
BTW, this weekend I bought Sleepwalker, Misfits and Low Budget. Been listening to Sleepwalker and Misfits, both are sounding great. I still have to listen to Low Budget.
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LOL, that Apeman clip was funny..
I gotta add this one, recorded live at the Rainbow Theatre 1972. Great performace!
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The Kinks would have been my third concert (back in 1979) except i got grounded for "sneaking" to see YES two weeks earlier. Was worth it, too! I did see the Kinks in 1981 with Foreigner at the JFK Stadium, an outdoor venue that held over 100,000 people (you may have heard of it from Live Aid!)... really great show and i still enjoy their music today.
Misfits is a great album, and that song is one of my all time favorites, period! Whatever album you get (The Kinks have good greatest hits albums, too) make sure one of them also includes "Victoria"...another fantastic song! and for Spats, lol
"Low Budget"!Cool Kinks story! I'll have to get Misfits, sure seem like a great album.
Victoria can be found on Arthur, which is an outstanding record.
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Jerry Jeff Walker. Damn, he's good.
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I think the only reliable source is Ian's home page, as he is one of the involved. And when rumours escalate, like it seems to have done lately, it forces Stewart and Flea to refute the rumours this way.
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After work I went on a shopping spree, in search of Kinks' 70's albums. I ended up finding one of the albums I was looking for, plus a couple of other LP's.
The Kinks - Sleepwalker (1977)
Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox (1976)
The follow up to Jailbreak and just as great as it's predecessor.
Jerry Jeff Walker - Viva Terlingua (1973)
Cool live album recorded in Luckenbach, Texas.
Humble Pie - Rock On (1971)
Underrated album by an underrated band. Glyn Johns production, with Frampton and Marriott in their prime.
The Runaways - Queens Of Noise (1977)
Edited for spelling
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Well, I had to do a little research of Kinks post-Mushwell Hillbillies era. By reading reviews and listening to song clips, my conclusion is that I have to get these albums:
Sleepwalker (1977)
Misfits (1978)
Low Budget (1979)
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How did you like "State of Confusion" ? I thought it was OK for the eighties, but I have always like thier old stuff.
To be honest, I still have a lot to discover when it comes to their later catalog. I have only heard Come Dancing from that album. I am pretty curious about those later records though, and will check 'em out eventually.
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Yes sir!!!! :D Thanks for the recommends Swede!
You won't regret gettin' them. I promise.
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You WILL HAVE TO GET the following albums (no excuses):
Face to Face (1966)
Something Else By The Kinks (1967)
The Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969)
Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1 (1970)
Muswell Hillbillies (1971)
All but Lola is available with bonus tracks.
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Looks like I will be seein' Nicke Andersson's, of the Hellacopters, new project Cold Ethyl next Friday. Members include Dorf from Australian band Jet. I really look forward to it!
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Heck yeah, all of Jimmy's Vee-Jay era stuff is killer. Even songs that bands like the Stones and Yardbirds covered sound better in Jimmy's original version to my ears. If you've never heard his original of Honest I Do that the Stones covered it's a must hear tune and despite the Yardbirds taking his song I Ain't Got You and turning it into a showpiece for Clapton to burn on the original is a lot funkier. The sad thing is Jimmy was swindled by the folks at Vee-Jay. Many of those songs he wrote ended up being credited to his handlers and people that ran the company because he was ignorant and had no idea as to what he signed because he couldn't read or write.
Yay, I love Jimmy's stingin' guitar sound on Honest I Do! I've got a couple of Vee-Jay singles with Jimmy. He was great to say the least.
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I will see Cut In The Hill Gang on February 17th in Glasgow. I never got to see singer Johnny Walkers former band, Soledad Brothers, but what the hell, this will be just as great I think!
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Just got home from a great concert. I watched Den Stora Sömnen (The Big Sleep), a new and upcoming band from Stockholm. They were great!
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Yeah, just as bad in Stockholm too.
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One of my favourite albums from 2004, The Dirty South.
When you've named your band the Drive-By Truckers and your first three albums are called Pizza Deliverance, Gangstabilly, and Alabama Ass Whuppin', you might have a hard time at first convincing folks that you aren't joking. But the Drive-By Truckers proved that they were most definitely not kidding with 2001's brilliant double-disc Southern Rock Opera, and 2003's Decoration Day actually upped the ante on what might have been a fluke masterpiece with its dark and thoroughly absorbing chronicle of hard times in the American South. With The Dirty South, the DBTs have crafted an equally effective companion piece to Decoration Day that plays on the gangsta rap reference of its title with a set of vividly rendered portraits of life along the margins of respectability below the Mason-Dixon line, from laid-off factory rats dealing drugs to feed their kids to Alabama gangsters determined to shut down the cops who made their daughters cry.
From the first low, metallic stomps from Brad Morgan's kick drum on "Where the Devil Don't Stay," it's clear that The Dirty South isn't going to be a good-time party most of the way, and while there are some brilliant anthemic rockers on this album (most notably "The Day John Henry Died," "Carl Perkins' Cadillac," and "Never Gonna Change"), and Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, and Jason Isbell have grown into a force to be reckoned with as both guitarists and songwriters, there's more than a little blood, fear, doubt, shame, and simple human tragedy at the heart of these stories. While much of America might be laughing at "You might be a redneck..." jokes, the Drive-By Truckers aren't about to let anyone forget the harsh truth behind growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in this country, and the tough, muscular force of their music only sharpens the bite of their stories. They can also turn down the amps and still hit you in the heart, especially on "Danko/Manuel" and "Daddy's Cup," and David Barbe's production gives this band the full-bodied clarity they've always deserved.
Believe it — the Drive-By Truckers are the best, smartest, and most soulful hard rock band to emerge in a very long time, and while The Dirty South isn't always good for laughs, it has too many great stories and too much fierce, passionate rock & roll for anyone who cares about such things to dare pass it up.
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If The Animals toured with guitarist Hilton Valentine and drummer John Steel as the only original members, Faces can do the same with Mac, Jones, Wood and Stewart too.
I really don't care much for reunions, even if ALL members are included, because it can never be the same anyway. The ONLY band I ever saw, that I can imagine was alomst as it used to be, is probably Black Sabbath. People take reunions WAY TOO SERIOUS.
If a Faces reunion happen, I'll be there to watch them. Only because I never got to see them back in the days and, of course, for good fun.
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Ron when he was real cool:
The Birds (starts around 0:40)
Got to love his style on this clip!!!
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Just my honest opinion you understand, I await your disaproval.
Regards, Danny
Hey Danny, I respect your opinion. But that is all it is, your opinion. As I been trying to say. Otherwise Led Zeppelin would be everybody's favourite band.
Sure, you can measure technical skills, but that is just a part of what music is about. Music is suppose to create sounds and melodies that is suppose to appeal your mind. Some think the sound of a pedal steel is the most beautiful sound an instrument can create while others think it sounds awful, no matter how great the player is.
Of course, I can tell if a guitarist has technical skills and plays perfectly. But if I don't like the sound of his guitar, amp, distortion and his technique, it won't appeal to me. If it ain't perfect to me, then I can't call what I hear the worlds greatest music. And it's all my subjective opinion.
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First of all, thanks for the words Angel. As for Swede and Jahfin, true that music is art and ones perception is going to differ. But Playboy magazine had polls out for years rating instruments by category. What do you think the Grammy awards are? they are a competition so to speak. To say that you cant measure talent in any way is just absurd. Are you going to tell me that if I say some beginner that just picked up a guitar is better than Jimmy Page or Peter Townsend that is ok and it is his personal view? Bullshit. Talent can be measured. When you are comparing super groups I agree then its opinion. But dont give me this shit that there is no differance in quality in music. I play an instrument too Swede and I took music theory also. So I have more than a laymans opinion on the matter. And the Jonas brothers are not in the same league as the Beatles. They wont survive the test of time. They are only this day and ages Partridge family or heart throb for a bunch of crazed teeny bopper girlies.
I can see you point. BUT, talent for what? Technical skills? Feeling? Songwriting? Way of words? Page is great IMO, but there are people who thinks he's playing style is sloppy sometimes. Maybe he does, but in compare to what. We all hear things different. There are sloppy punk bands that together make something that sounds good, even though their individual technical skills is inferior. It's about sounds that appeal to people.
The Grammy awards is proof enough that you actually can't compete in music, in that case we would never complain over who won, would we?
"Low Budget"!
:D Thanks for the recommends Swede!
It's a fab song too.
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LOL, thanks beatbo, but I think I'll have to listen to them a couple of times to live up to your expectations.
I agree with you that some albums really grow with time. There are many albums by artists that was overlooked at the time and got bad reviews and all. But in time with another perspective they can even top the albums that got rave reviews back then.
Not yet, my first list should be in priority.
