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Post by pierinifitness on Jul 23, 2020 2:18:55 GMT
OK, there's enough guitar to add this one to the mix, sung my the late and great Marty Robbins. Why is it that when I spend time on YouTube listening to music, I always go way back long time ago?
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Post by macky on Jul 23, 2020 2:21:28 GMT
1962 local (NZ) hit for Peter Posa. Around 1970 I was playing in a Samoan band as well as another rock band, and I started hearing some Samoans who had just arrived in the country. From time to time they would get up and play a few numbers as lead guitar, and they sounded very much like Peter Posa. I talked about it to a Fijian guitarist at the musos' club and apparently Peter Posa's sound had gone right around the Pacific Islands over the years, which surprised me, because although Posa was popular, he was never big as far as I know, singers and bands taking the main limelight in those days, and later.
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Post by macky on Jul 23, 2020 2:30:13 GMT
I don't think anyone could discuss great guitar players without mentioning this genius.
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Post by mr potatohead on Jul 23, 2020 3:41:20 GMT
Something from Nova Lima. I can't hear on my laptop, but it's got a great bass. Nice reggae number. This makes me happy. I like music that makes me happy.
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Post by mr potatohead on Jul 23, 2020 4:03:34 GMT
I like Ry.
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Post by macky on Jul 23, 2020 5:57:01 GMT
Good stuff mikey. Always good to come back to the old 12-bar blues chord structure/R&B/R&R format. So much variety in music has come from it. I'm sure Fats Domino would have enjoyed this version
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Post by Magnus on Jul 23, 2020 10:09:20 GMT
Turn up the bass Macky !!! I couldn't go with the other Marshal Tucker number, to be honest. I suspect that if I had more time I would catch onto it. This one here is a beauty. It's a great song, especially the lyrics... The studio version sounds a lot 'cleaner' (and sober), check it out:
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Post by mr potatohead on Jul 23, 2020 13:21:15 GMT
Good stuff mikey. Always good to come back to the old 12-bar blues chord structure/R&B/R&R format. So much variety in music has come from it. ..... Yeah, I have very simple tastes in music. I guess my taste in music is similar to my taste in exercise; I'm not interested in labeling it, categorizing it, dissecting it or even thinking about it. I'm only interested in feeling and enjoying it in the moment.
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Post by macky on Jul 23, 2020 21:44:51 GMT
I couldn't go with the other Marshal Tucker number, to be honest. I suspect that if I had more time I would catch onto it. This one here is a beauty. It's a great song, especially the lyrics... The studio version sounds a lot 'cleaner' (and sober), check it out: Yes much better. It goes to show that the first thing that a band has to aim for is "getting the sound right" no matter how simple or complicated the music is. The dancers/audience want rhythm and a good sound. This extends to recording sessions as well. The important "extra band member" here is the recording technician, and if he's not up with the play, the recording can ruin good music straight off. I did a couple of recording sessions with others that we were all playing together for the first time, just for some background music for a TV rock show. It was in a suburban house that had been outfitted as a recording studio, sound-proofing etc, with different instruments in each room. Phones on our heads so we could hear everything. But the tech was a bit reluctant to turn the drums way up, because the needles for the drums were going way off the dials. So he set the volumes all the same and when he played it back, the drums could hardly be heard. This was early 70's tech so it probably wouldn't apply today, but the drums hits are only temporary compared to notes played on other instruments and if the needles didn't go off the dial with the drums then the recording was useless. That's why it took 25 takes in one session we had, to get the sound balance right, in this case the organ I was playing running the needles off the dial during certain moments in the tune and overpowering the guitars and piano. I had to lessen the volume every time I played the offending bits so it was tricky. An interesting thing I noticed when I listened to the "improved" video above was that two of the principal chords were the same as the Boogarins-Infinu number that I liked, albeit in a different key. The two sounds are so different between the bands, but it shows that basically (in Western music) the chords are often quite standard in popular music and someone who is used to playing in sessions or behind a "new" singer in a cabaret can pick up the drift fairly quickly (they have to). Not that I was ever a brilliant muso, only just good enough to get paid for it, and no more.
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Post by macky on Jul 23, 2020 22:01:09 GMT
Good stuff mikey. Always good to come back to the old 12-bar blues chord structure/R&B/R&R format. So much variety in music has come from it. ..... Yeah, I have very simple tastes in music. I guess my taste in music is similar to my taste in exercise; I'm not interested in labeling it, categorizing it, dissecting it or even thinking about it. I'm only interested in feeling and enjoying it in the moment. I certainly agree. And simple music played well with feeling is far better than intricate stuff played technically, but nothing more. We had a lead guitarist as a temporary while our own guy was on holiday in the last band I ever played in, and he couldn't stop playing intricate and admittedly clever licks on his Ibanez. The guy was tech-brilliant but he wasn't "in" the music, so to speak. The music "didn't play him", his ego played the music. We had some good sessions, but we were glad to have our regular guy back. One should just be able to listen to whatever the hell they want without prejudice as to what category the sound falls into. I tried when I was growing up to listen to as much different sounds as I could, even into Indian and Chinese trad music, Pacific Island drums, various European folk music etc. Unfortunately, it's hard not to start "sorting out" the chords and bass, background, leads etc when one is playing in a band, or even solo, when one is listening to a nice number, which is why I automatically picked up on the similar chords for two vastly different styles of sound with Mags' presentations. Can drive one crazy sometimes. And of course we are all individuals, musically as well. There are some sounds that others like, but which for me just grate on my nerves. Cello classical music for example. Sounds like someone out in the backyard sawing firewood, to me
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Post by Magnus on Jul 24, 2020 1:19:09 GMT
Anyone into retro 'Sci-Fi' lounge music ?... Shen ?... (rofl)
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Post by Magnus on Jul 25, 2020 9:51:27 GMT
Rest In Peace Sid Haig. 'Captain Spaulding' ...
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Post by Magnus on Jul 25, 2020 15:35:36 GMT
This guy's an ANIMAL on the bass...
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Post by macky on Jul 26, 2020 6:50:35 GMT
Brilliant all right, after a fashion. Having been out of the bands for so long (since early 1976) it became apparent to me sometime in the 90s that there was a modern trend of bass playing re the sort of thing that the above guy has extended to such heights in his playing.
It seems to me a combination of low lead playing coupled with a bass drone to present a spread of upper and lower tones, instead of separate lead and bass guitars.
It's unique and clever no doubt. And if you only have a bass guitar to play with, you could probably hold the audience interest for a little while. But the bass guitar/bass was always supposed to provide the lower foundation for rhythm and lead guitars (and other instruments), and any bass solo was only a break in the overall tune.
This guy sounds great for sure. But I couldn't listen to even a half-hour of that sort of thing. We had a bass guitarist who stood in for one night in our band, and he played his bass similar to what this guy is doing, and it sounded f'in' horrible. The fill-ins and leads of my Yamaha double-keyboard organ, and the breaks of the lead guitar were constantly being ankle-tapped by this guy's bass playing, and for the songs we were playing it just didn't suit. The singing itself was being contradicted by the bass.
The indication of how much it didn't suit was the dancers moving around for a bit, then sitting down at their tables watching while we went though the song. Some of them were regulars in the lounge bar and came up to us later to talk to us about it all. We hastened to inform them that this was only one night, and that out regular bass player would be back next week.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jul 28, 2020 4:15:20 GMT
I don't think anyone could discuss great guitar players without mentioning this genius. Chet Atkins. Da man, hisself.
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