Music Thread

[Gaucho]

[Silentom]

[Troy Loney]

I think this might be the first time in about 10 years where I haven't been able to come up with 25 songs from the year that I like.

[columbia]

She should be more famous, so I'm posting this....

[columbia]

TIL I learned that one of my employee's father went to Woodstock.
He met Janice Joplin, but was tripping too hard to know (at the time) that it was her.

[Gaucho]

*Janis

[crusherstasiak]

I'm driving down the road in my Porsche listening to Here & Now and they're interviewing this California dude who has recently become a country music star. The guy enunciates like he's never heard of the Mason/Dixon line. He's brought his guitar and they ask him to sing a song and he sounds like Del McCoury. And the 'song' was awful.
#shitville

[Gaucho]

The Story of Tropicália in 20 Albums

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-an ... al_twitter

[columbia]

There was that weird time when Tortoise backed Tom Ze in Chicago; I didn’t go, though I was living there.

[columbia]

That price tag makes me fell less bad about wanting to mail order this 60s guitar for $450.

Got it for $425 and free shipping (from McKees Rocks!)

[crusherstasiak]

Nice. I bought a Telecaster Deluxe from Don Hollowood back in the mid 70's when their store was in Oakland

[columbia]

Interesting. I never knew they were in Oakland.

[crusherstasiak]

Interesting. I never knew they were in Oakland.

It wasn't very big at all. A right off of Forbes (I wanna say Atwood but that may be where the Decade was ?). Anyway it wasn't far from the Decade, so very near The O

[crusherstasiak]

Speaking of which you'd always see Dan Marino at the O. Dude subsisted there, no ****.

[Viva la Ben]

My stepdad worked with Hollowood’s back in the day. The only thing I’m familiar with was he designed and manufactured high end microphone power supplies.
Korby microphones iirc.

[columbia]

Marino: That place attracts coke dealers, so...

[crusherstasiak]

I have a bunch of stories about The Decade.

It's the early days of Stevie Ray Vaughn. Lot of buzz and all. So we hear he's going to be at The Decade.

Now Glen Pavone (who was in Billy Price's band at the time) just floored anyone who'd ever heard him play. No matter what genre a player he knocked you out; from jazz cats to people who were into Steve Vai (like this long blond haired dude name of Rick Mals who worked for Vic DaPra and who won a Guitar Player magazine contest for an original composition featuring Rick's stellar Vai influenced playing...btw, had Vic wanted to he could've been as well known for his playing as he is for his Les Paul expertise). Yup, if you saw Glen Pavone live you were impressed with every aspect of playing. And his only tools were a Hiwatt 100w head with a twin speaker cabinet he made himself along with a Strat he made himself. Oh, and a chord.

Anyway, back to SRV. We go to The Decade to see him and despite it being a weekday it's packed. Very dark, very smokey as per usual. There's like twenty amps onstage and a shitload of pedals. Ok, not twenty but at least four (Twins-one blackface, two silvers, a Deluxe is my recollection) but still a shitload of pedals.

Show supposedly starts at 9PM. Come 10 PM, no show. 11 PM, no show. Finally, near midnight out comes SRV and...pffffffffft. Immediately he's twice too loud. You can't hear Shannon or the drummer (Reese Wynans wasn't with him yet) and worse, he stinks. His tone is horrible. He's stomping on this pedal then that pedal then another pedal. And he's playing his licks and they're just like the ones you heard on Austin City Limits but at that volume when combined with that god-awful tone it was excruciating. We didn't make it through the first set.

We said 'f this' and left. We weren't the only ones heading to the parking garage a couple of streets over. Some dude from another gaggle recognizes me and says 'dude ain't no Glen Pavone' to which we all unanimously agreed.

Time passes and you heard about SRV's drinking problem thus it's nearly certain that Stevie was loaded to the gills that night at The Decade. And retrospectively, obviously he was better than that. But -and this probably should go in the 'Unpopular Opinions' thread - I maintain had Stevie been born in Poughkeepsie you'd have never heard of him. He could play but he wasn't no Glen Pavone.

R I P Glen, a helluva player but even a better person.

[Freddy Rumsen]

Inheriting my parents record collection.

Thankful my mom and dad were into funk, blues, prog, and early hard rock. Oodles of phenomenal stuff. Very little bubblegum pop.

[DigitalGypsy66]

My dad has an original Sgt. Peppers LP, with all of the cutouts intact. Lots of early 45s as well. He won't let me near them.

[columbia]

Inheriting my parents record collection.

Thankful my mom and dad were into funk, blues, prog, and early hard rock. Oodles of phenomenal stuff. Very little bubblegum pop.

None of this?

[Freddy Rumsen]

Thanks to my mom there are plenty of Carpenters, Seals and Croft, and the Bee Gee's.

[tifosi77]

Have we ever played the first album you ever bought game?

I think it was Rick Springfield "Working Class Dog".

[Gaucho]

Sorry, tif.

[Gaucho]

Man, Springfield is 68 and TIL he's recorded 20+ albums. Still active.

[tifosi77]

But -and this probably should go in the 'Unpopular Opinions' thread - I maintain had Stevie been born in Poughkeepsie you'd have never heard of him. He could play but he wasn't no Glen Pavone.

This..... is nothing short of heresy.