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Mark73

Mark73

I know, I know, honey.
New breeds arise from older breeds and who's planted the very first seeds?
Whirlwind cavemen screams at a sabletooth barbecue, the neanderthals playing bone drumkits - it must have been music.
 
Ambreen

Ambreen

Sordide Sentimental
strangegirl said:
[Jeff Buckley]
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Excellent choice ;) I remember having spent all summer 2006 listening to all his work, guided by a musician friend whose ultimate influence was, is and will ever be Jeff Buckley.

In the second disc, there's a moment when Jeff begins talking about Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a pakistani qawwali (a devotionnal music from Sufism) singer whom he considered as his "Elvis" and then he makes a cover from a Nusrat song...I'm from pakistani origins and I happens to speak urdu but I didn't understand one of Jeff's sentences, he has an awful pronounciation, the first time I listened to it, I was laughing and laughing, though Jeff's efforts.

The one I kept listening and listening again at that time :
http://www.musicme.com/#/Jeff-Buckley/albums/Mystery-White-Boy-Live-95-96-5099749797222.html
 
Ambreen

Ambreen

Sordide Sentimental
Oh, my link doesn't lead to the title I wanted to focus on. It was What will you say. Here's a fantastic live version :

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Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

Here's a pre-Machine Head version of Highway Star. This must be from Autumn 1971 or thereabouts. Missing is the famous guitar solo and Roger Glover is still hammering away at his Fender bass instead of the Rickenbacker 4001 he used shortly after that. Some early improvised lyrics from Gillan.

 
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One of my favorite songs, ever. I like the studio version better. The guy who wrote it and plays guitar (in the black shirt) was published in Bottle #3.

Bill
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

:D Good one. Never under estimate the power of booze, don't you know.

Sorry for the Purple barrage (you can always ignore me, you know?), but here's some more good shit. Wring That Neck from '69 in Bilzen, Belguim, when Nick Simper was still playing bass for these cats. Blackmore rips apart his Gibson ES 330-series axe:


Blackmore scalloped his fingerboards. By that, I mean, he had the wood between the frets "scooped" out a bit so that he could use the frets rather than the fingerboard to root his sound.

I'm not positive that this guitar had that, but his Strats sure did. You can hear a real "metallic" sound in his playing as a result.
 
mjp

mjp

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Purple Stickpin said:
Sorry for the Purple barrage (you can always ignore me, you know?), but here's some more good shit. Wring That Neck from '69 in Bilzen, Belguim, when Nick Simper was still playing bass for these cats. Blackmore rips apart his Gibson ES 330-series axe:

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Thank you for the stark reminder of how badly Deep Purple sucked prior to In Rock/Machine Head.

It's kind of like listening to the first two Alice Cooper albums. You wonder how the bands that recorded that meandering, self-important dreck ever learned to rock properly.

The 60's ended not a moment too soon. Someone really should have told some of the other bands of that era though...
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

I rather liked it. All that noodling and all. But it is rather gratuitous, to be sure. But songs like Hush and Kentucky Woman were tight pop tunes that had an edge. It's not quite representative of the Mark I band to lump all their stuff into one dustbin, as it were.

I should probably check out those first two Alice Cooper records. :D
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

I'm assuming you mean Pretties for You and Easy Action?

I found this little gem on wikipedia (sorry, it's useful for useless crap like titles of bad albums) while researching the names:

"After an unrehearsed stage routine involving Cooper and a live chicken garnered attention from the press, the band decided to capitalize on tabloid sensationalism, creating in the process a new subgenre, shock rock. Cooper claims that the infamous 'Chicken Incident', which took place at the Toronto Rock 'n Roll Revival concert in September 1969, was in fact an accident. A chicken somehow made its way on stage during Alice Cooper's performance. Not having any experience around farm animals, Cooper presumed that, since the chicken had wings, it would be able to fly. He picked it up and threw it out over the crowd, expecting it to fly away; the bird instead plummeted into the first few rows of the crowd occupied by disabled people in wheelchairs, who reportedly proceeded to tear the animal to pieces."
 
1fsh2fsh

1fsh2fsh

I think that I think too much
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mjp said:
Oh shit, I dare you! Ha ha. I defy anyone to listen to them all the way through.
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shit, I hate to admit it but....cooper used to be pretty much an every weekend show around michigan back in those days, my buddies (bros :cool:) and I helped set up a couple of stages for them, loading cases and cases of budwieser on stage. first time I saw him was at a sunday free concert at a park in Jackson. Hell we thought that it was some woman named alice. If I remember right he did some spoken word at that show. even had us freaks scratching our heads,(from bewilderment, not hygine). anyhow, yeah I wouldn't want to know how many times I listened to that awful stuff.
 
Gerard K H Love

Gerard K H Love

Appreciate your friends
In San Bernardino in the 70s, my friends saw someone throw an M-80 at Alice Cooper on stage. That upset him a bit. I opted out of going to that concert.
Isn't Alice Cooper the one who did Dead Babies Can't Take Things Off the Shelf?
 
Digney in Burnaby

Digney in Burnaby

donkeys live a long time
Too much AC for me to be coherent. Early single as doc.

Most of the pretties and easy stuff has been yanked from youtube. A few years back my sister's kid was grumbling that it was too cold (they lived north of Prince George) and my sister's response was "I'm freezing I'm frozen I'm icicle blue" from Refrigerator Heaven. The days when a hit (I'm 18) would get the back catalogue reissued and I bought it all and played the shit out of it. Guess my sister was listening as well.
 
hoochmonkey9

hoochmonkey9

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an "industry insider" ;) gave me an advance review copy of this.

I bought the cd the other day and I'm liking it very much. his strongest and most consistent work in a while.
 
mjp

mjp

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Purple Stickpin said:
I'm assuming you mean Pretties for You and Easy Action?

"...the infamous 'Chicken Incident'..."
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Yes, those are the two. They originally came out on Zappa's Straight label. You can hear hints of what was to come in a few of the tracks, but most of it is unbridled, wanker shit. And I loved Alice Cooper as a young idiot in the early 70's.

The "chicken incident" is funny. Every time it's told a new wrinkle is introduced. "...the first few rows of the crowd occupied by disabled people in wheelchairs..." Ha ha ha - first time I've seen that twist. It was a typical 1969 hippie crowd, they were neither bloodthirsty nor violent. They did, however, manage to kill the chicken.

Cooper's management were early punk marketing geniuses, realizing that the more disgusting the "news" the wider play it would receive.

hoochmonkey9 said:
[Bob Marley]
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Fyah!

What, boy! I've been rotating those three box sets pretty heavily lately. But this morning it's Peter Tosh, Legalize It, and Bunny Wailer, Protest and Blackheart Man.
 
chronic

chronic

old and in the way
I read somewhere that after the news of the chicken slaughter got out, Zappa called Alice and asked if it was true. When Alice said that it wasn't, Zappa told him that whatever he did he shouldn't deny it.
 
Digney in Burnaby

Digney in Burnaby

donkeys live a long time
mjp said:
Yes, those are the two. They originally came out on Zappa's Straight label. You can hear hints of what was to come in a few of the tracks, but most of it is unbridled, wanker shit. And I loved Alice Cooper as a young idiot in the early 70's.

Cooper's management were early punk marketing geniuses, realizing that the more disgusting the "news" the wider play it would receive.
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Helped that AC got a producer, Jack Richardson, that whipped them into shape. An extract from a longer interview with Richardson:

The success of the Guess Who records led to Alice Cooper contacting you. Cooper was already making a name with shock value. How did you approach those records you did with him?

Shep Gordon, Alice's manager, contacted me. [Alice] was the Darth Vader of the music business at the time, but all I think I said was, "We don't have to kill chickens onstage to make records." But it was these productions that we brought Bob Ezrin in on, as a kind of apprentice. I did Muscle of Love; Bob and I did Love It to Death and Killer together. I had agreed at first to do four sides with Alice. We did them at the RCA studios in Chicago, and Brian Christian was the engineer again, though later we also did some recording at Record Plant in New York, and Muscle of Love we started at Sunset Recorders in L.A. and finished at Record Plant. On the first session, we had Alice come in dressed in full Alice Cooper regalia, and Brian could never bring himself to call the guy "Alice." I don't put much credence in superficial appearances. I'm more interested in what they're doing musically and if they're serious about that. We actually became pretty good friends.

How was Cooper different as a production client from Guess Who, besides sartorially?

These were the records I moved to 24 tracks on. And the band was pretty raw players by comparison. That was something of a surprise. I'd have thought that a band who had already made three or four records would have been better players. I'm talking about issues like getting the guitars in tune. But the shock value of the music actually overcame these deficiencies. Still, to make the records, I needed a very sharp razor blade for edits. There was no Pro Tools then. I often took a chorus from one part and a verse from another and edited them together. We often worked from a tape drum loop. The albums were done much more as overdub sessions than ensemble playing. We also brought in some outside players, like Rick Derringer on Killer and Jack Bruce on Muscle of Love. But they were also attracted by Alice's notoriety. Alice, himself, was a very good singer in terms of knowing the songs and giving a good delivery. He was also a pretty nice guy. I would have brought him home to meet my mother. He was also a soap opera fanatic "” watched them all the time in the studio.

Guess I'm reminded of Richardson because the Junos (Canadian version of the Grammys) are being held this weekend in Vancouver and the Production award is named after Jack.

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Ah, no, I didn't read that. Just pulled it out of the pit that I call a memory.
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My mind is not unlike a pit. And then I make notes to myself and can't find them or understand them when I do find them. Actually I'm lucky if I can raise my memory to the level of "pit".
 
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hoochmonkey9

hoochmonkey9

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

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very good triple (TRIPLE!!) cd from a hometown hero. my hometown, not yours. obviously.
 
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