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Post by oksauce on Oct 24, 2011 18:11:07 GMT
well, up to Wind and Wuthering
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 24, 2011 18:40:22 GMT
Gave it a listen...so much do i trust Ray, but it sounds more like Yes on a bad day than Tull on a good day, to me.....but what do i know? I admitted liking a song i heard on the hard rock station last week enough to dash from car to computer to find out who it was and be crestfallen to read 'Ted Nugent' on the 'recently played' list...i had to double check in hopes it wasn't so...but alas, it was ( Stranglehold)...I also recently admitted to self i actually like one....and one only...Police song: Synchronicity II.
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Post by tullist on Oct 24, 2011 19:46:18 GMT
I have to give credit where it due. A friend dragged me to see Ted Nugent in 78, and while I cannot say I enjoyed any of the show, it was very clear that what he was doing he was doing very well. Also, as an aside moreso than for what it's worth, the loudest show I have ever seen, the only show I ever left where my ears were ringing. And I also tagged along to see the band that I understand was "credited" with the mantle of the loudest, Deep Purple in 73. And while neither is right down my alley though I know Tull fanbase does share some affinity with Deep Purple, and assorted other eyebrow raisers, (particularly that Canadian outfit)my memory would say Ted Nugent was very much the better show. And having been about a 40 year fan of Celtic music, whatever that thing is that Richie Blackmore is in, o yeah, Blackmore's Night, is the sorriest excuse for Celtic music I have ever heard, sort of Celtic light for proggers who might find the real thing a tad too twee. Additionally Nugent's political stance would most normally find me at the polar opposite. Having said that, if you have ever seen the man in an interview, one word that comes to my mind is respect. He thinks very clearly, is filled with passion, and has an intelligence level that was surprising to me. Clearly the heart and ability of a real warrior, but maybe a little too eager to use that option. I don't have to like someone to respect them, from what I can surmise there is not the first thing disingenuous about him, he speaks a hard and well thought out truth, to his perceptions. Yes on a bad day eh Bernie? That sir, would be truly bad. Btw, when was that good day? So angelic is that other Anderson. Having said that I do recall very much liking their cover of the Beatle's Every Little Thing on one of the earlier records, though not quite reaching the Beatles version, one of about ten in the most FABulous of catalogues this side of Miles Davis or Bach that I would mark as literally perfect, in some respects, pointless to cover, cannot be improved upon.
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 24, 2011 23:06:01 GMT
The thing with these lists and trying to explain why you like one band over another or one Tull song better than another is impossible - it's all down to your own ears, how you feel at the time and the defination of music - an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Thats clear - as mud ;D
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 24, 2011 23:11:27 GMT
I dabbled with bands and musicians a bit of this a bit of that then got bored. Never bored and didn't dabble with Tull - this was/is a long lasting commitment longer than my marriage ;D
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 25, 2011 9:01:18 GMT
Seems apt considering the cr@p weather the south west has had over the last couple of days.
Anybody got an ark I can borrow?
Peter Gabriel "Here Comes The Flood"
hunkydorey2
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Post by stevep on Jan 7, 2012 20:21:53 GMT
Have to disagree with folks regarding Billy Joel. A few years back I went to see a combined Elton John / Billy Joel concert. It started off with both guys on stage and then Joel left Elton John and his band to play. Like him or not, Elton John and band puts on some performance still. There was an intermission and I thought there was no way Joel could get anywhere near EJ for the second pat of the show. I actually thought it might be quite embarrassing... I was wrong, wrong, wrong though, Joel put on a hell of a show - his voice, the band and choice of songs was excellent. In the end he kind of blew old Elton away...(sorry for any puns there). I would actually go to one of his shows again.
Someone else I thought I would hate but ended up really liking was Lonnie Donegan (now sadly passed away). Some older friends encouraged me to see him in concert and I was just knocked out.
In the end, most of the folk that survive in the business have some special talent. We may not like them individually but they usually have something going for them
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Post by stevep on Jan 7, 2012 20:50:59 GMT
Never thought I would like Dr Hook but they did make me laugh (not the Top of the Pops era though).
Look wasted in this clip
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Oct 19, 2018 18:55:39 GMT
Ah, dear old Bobby Darin. One of my favourites. It always surprised me that in his day songs were composed at the Brill Building, Tin Pan Alley, etc, but that he wrote a lot of his own material. A very talented performer and his record "Dream Lover" was one of the first records I ever had bought for me. That and "Charlie Brown" by The Coasters. 1959 and I was 11 years old - where has the time gone? I remember when I was 13, around 1976 or so, and the show "Happy Days" briefly made all things 1950s in style again. I had a friend named Annette - named after Annette Funicello. Her parents had a great library of records from the 50s and early 60s. We went through a spell of playing them and then I, at least, decided I didn't really like them all that much. And still I lean more towards the blues/r n b element of it. I remember she was going through an "I hate my parents" stage and I thought they were great! Anyway, in regards to Bobby Darin, if anybody remembers on Happy Days the boys had a band, and the one song they always played was "Splish Splash." They sometimes played something else, but "Splish Splash" was the default song, and I got really tired of it. But several years ago I bought a Bobby Darin CD because I wanted to get "Mack the Knife," and it turned out "Splish Splash" was his too, which I didn't know. And for some reason it just sounded so fantastic! I don't know, it is really kind of a dumb song, but it can really sound good. Anyway, dig the rock and roll flute solo in that video! I remember those Happy Days episodes like they were yesterday. Potsy Webber singing Splish Splash was thrilling for me, as a boy. Great memory!
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 19, 2018 19:29:15 GMT
I assumed I wouldn't like The White Stripes because I got bored with the Strokes after about ten minutes and never got hooked by any other bands from that micro-era ( Hives, Killers, yeah yeah yeahs) but I have been fully and completely humbled, in the past couple years, as I discovered the amazingness and talent of Jack White. Everything he touches turns to rock and roll gold....I tell people that his albums are the best Led Zepplin albums ever for people who don't like Led Zepplin (me). I swear...he is as good as Plant and Page...he single handedly resolves lead singer/ lead guitar tension by doing both so well. Jack White is THE MAN.....you can start with: Blunderbuss ( the song), Take Me With You When You Go and Steady as She Goes. Icky Thump is a good White Stripes song.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Oct 19, 2018 21:38:15 GMT
Dare I say it and risk getting ridiculed? Okay, here goes. In my high school, most of the people who liked Black Sabbath were stoners who turned me off. So, from 1981 onward, I never gave Sabbath a chance; simply wouldn't listen to them (out of ignorance). Then, about fifteen years ago (around 2003), I became buddies with another cop who was a real good guy and very cool. He had every heavy metal album imaginable (even Dimmu Borgir, who was this serious Black Metal...couldn't even get the words. Apparently, they surpassed Ah-Ha as Norway's top selling band). Anyway, he gave me all the Sabbath albums and told me I didn't realize what I had passed up. So, with an open mind, I listened. Because I was now an adult (and not a snot nosed high schooler) I could think for myself. Well, I grew to love Sabbath and Ozzy's solo work and much of the Heavy Metal (mostly Brit bands)genre. And then, about five years ago, I was reading a Tull book and whattaya know....there was a few pages that shocked me to all Hell. I learned that Tony Iommi had done a stint with Tull in the very beginning.
I had this same experience for a ton of bands/artists. But, I think that's what growing up is all about, eh.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 22, 2018 14:48:34 GMT
That's the beauty of high school...you know everything already so you can make snap judgments with confidence...then you get the rest of your life to review and reassess. When I was in high school I was pretty sure the losers and sexually confused types who honed in on Bowie, Lou Reed and Todd Rundgren were barking up a tree planted on a dead end street. Little did I know that they were following the true path of rock and roll and the music I was listening to in between Tullfests ( Starcastle, Ambrosia, JSD Band, anyone) was destined for the cutout bins. Bowie alone is a universe as rich as Tull. Lou Reed is the granola free Neil Young who's literature level lyrics have amazed me for years and years, once I starting listening.
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