Speaking of George, for his upcoming 75th birthday, his family is re-releasing the Concert for George. It's really excellent, particularly the Billy Preston-led version of My Sweet Lord.
It still bums me out that George is gone - there's a great HBO documentary by Martin Scorsese that shines a lot of light on George's post Beatles years. Just a really cool, semi-normal guy and father - who happens to be a Beatle.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:50 am
by columbia
slappy should stop by more often...we're harmless.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 11:59 am
by shafnutz05
All Things Must Pass easily....concur with several others.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:03 pm
by slappybrown
slappy should stop by more often...we're harmless.
my knowledge of music stops around 2005
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:07 pm
by columbia
slappy should stop by more often...we're harmless.
my knowledge of music stops around 2005
We discuss all eras here.
Don't get freddy started on Black Sabbath...actually do.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:18 pm
by shafnutz05
slappy should stop by more often...we're harmless.
my knowledge of music stops around 2005
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:19 pm
by Gaucho
I didn't know slappy was a Luther Vandross fan.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:35 pm
by tifosi77
John: intellect and innovation
Paul: pop sensibility
This is the popular sentiment, but it's backwards. John was the key mover behind the band's early, pop tart phase. It was Paul who asserted more creative direction over the band when they stopped touring and focused entirely on their studio work. Look up the 'mixtape' McCartney made in '65 or '66 - it was basically a road map for the next four years of the band, and that comprises by some margin their most dynamically creative and innovative works.
It was actually Paul's assertion of control that ultimately prompted George to quit the band on camera during the filming/recording of 'Let It Be'.
If Jay-Z wants to see someone truly hurtful to blacks—by contrast with Trump, under whose administration black unemployment has plunged to 6.8 percent in December, the lowest rate on record—he might usefully take a hard look at himself and the tribe of rap “artists” he leads. What is keeping down American blacks today is not racism, oppression, or lack of opportunity. That’s over. Black Americans are now free. What holds them back is the ideology of “authentic blackness”—a black identity rooted in the urban underclass culture of hatred of authority (especially of the police, the teacher, and the boss), indifference to learning, misogyny, sex stripped of love or commitment, hustling, resentment, drug trafficking and using, tolerance of lawbreaking, and rage, rage, rage, the hallmark of keeping it real. That’s the message rap hammers home constantly with its mind-numbing rhythm.
Unfortunately, there are iterations of this viewpoint in too many places.
I've mentioned this elsewhere here, but I really got into Nigerian psych rock. Really, really cool stuff.
Now I need to go checkout this shithole playlist.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:40 pm
by columbia
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 5:18 pm
by Freddy Rumsen
slappy should stop by more often...we're harmless.
my knowledge of music stops around 2005
We discuss all eras here.
Don't get freddy started on Black Sabbath...actually do.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 5:54 pm
by shafnutz05
John: intellect and innovation
Paul: pop sensibility
This is the popular sentiment, but it's backwards. John was the key mover behind the band's early, pop tart phase. It was Paul who asserted more creative direction over the band when they stopped touring and focused entirely on their studio work. Look up the 'mixtape' McCartney made in '65 or '66 - it was basically a road map for the next four years of the band, and that comprises by some margin their most dynamically creative and innovative works.
It was actually Paul's assertion of control that ultimately prompted George to quit the band on camera during the filming/recording of 'Let It Be'.
Can't say I'm a Beatles expert, but any viewpoint that casts dispersions on John Lennon is A-OK to me.
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 9:06 am
by iamjs
As long as you don't mind lawn seats, the Slayer show at KeyBank Pavilion is listed on Groupon for $20.
Here's Weird Al...covering "What is Life" for a George Harrison tribute concert a few years ago.
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:50 pm
by eddy
Zappa's Roxy performances box set came out today and it's 8 hours of music heaven going right now for me. My wife may divorce me though...
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:54 pm
by crusherstasiak
R I P, Dennis
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:56 pm
by eddy
Speaking of George, for his upcoming 75th birthday, his family is re-releasing the Concert for George. It's really excellent, particularly the Billy Preston-led version of My Sweet Lord.
Clapton has an a great live album, one more car one more rider and the DVD is one of my absolute favorite live performance shows. Preston is a dancing fool and goes absolutely nuts on it. Highly recommended
