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Sadly just the sweet hum of factory and resin being pumped through lines. Sad I know
 
As a huge fan of 90's rap (gangsta rap, East Coast, West Coast,etc), I consider this song one of the best

 
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jbutler said:
Really serendipitous. I was talking about this exact thing to a former professional jazz guitarist a couple weeks ago and his answer would be "lots".

My listening has been mostly guitar-focused lately as well. Primarily Zappa. One of my favorite commercially released live Zappa tracks:


For any other big Zappa fans, Dweezil was on WTF with Marc Maron recently and they talked mostly about Frank. Really worth listening.
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Was a really good episode, definitely worth a listen.
 
RIP Merle. This one came well after what most figured was his classic period, but it was one of my favorites of his.

 
Nickawompus said:
Haven't listened to J.Lang for a few years now but just did and it brought back some memories. The wifey went through a Jonny Lang stage a few years back where we travelled from Kalamazoo Mi. to Green Bay Wi. and several places in between. So we're in Green Bay at the Indian Casino the morning after the concert eating breakfast in the hotel and who is across the room?? Jonny and Co. !! We ask the waitress if it would be alright to go over for his autograph and she says sure and that she'll let us know when they finish eating and she'll come and get the wife and take her over to their table. Wow, great!! The waitress comes over and takes wifey and her girlfriend over to get an autograph,,,, epic fail. Wifey goes dumbstruck and can't get a word out,, mimics signing,, comes back to the table with tears in her eyes and can't talk for 5 minutes!! She did get an autograph,LOLOLOLOL. We still tell that story.

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Saw Jonny play for the first time during the Fender Experience Hendrix Tour a couple of months ago. Man this guy has some chops! Gonna see him again June 22nd in Ridgefield
 
My wife would play this on the Metro will going to and from covering the Paris Air Show/Eurosatory


It had the unfortunate side effect of garnering Corduroy a skinhead following, as we discovered when we got moshed at a gig at Southampton uni back in the day. Not what you'd expect an an acid jazz gig. The band was loadsa fun live.

Lemmy, justly, hated them for this:


This one is a stormer live:

 
I've been listening to The Coral singles collection.






Aside from their mainstream 'hits', I'd no idea the rest of their catalogue was so steeped in psych. Good stuff.
 
The new Matthew & The Atlas album, Temple, is out



I'll be checking it out next week. I wasn't taken with their last album and had high expectations after my first brush with them, which was their ace To The North EP. I think it may've set the bar/my expectations too high.

My two favorites off the EP:


 
Could not find youtube video now, but about once a month I have to search and watch Simon and Garfunkel's Central Park Concert from 1981. Soooooo beautiful.
 
Listening to Jenny Lewis last night when a part of the melody from this song:


reminded me of a part of the melody from Trisha Yearwood's first hit:


I love late 80s/early 90s country. Can't help it. Reminds me of little league practice and barbecues.
 
jbutler said:
Listening to Jenny Lewis last night when a part of the melody from this song:


reminded me of a part of the melody from Trisha Yearwood's first hit:


I love late 80s/early 90s country. Can't help it. Reminds me of little league practice and barbecues.
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I don't have the country music gene, but it's nice to see the chickens taking an important role in the videos. Not just eye candy, but substantive roles.
 
Chicken Rob said:
I don't have the country music gene, but it's nice to see the chickens taking an important role in the videos. Not just eye candy, but substantive roles.
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Honestly I see the country music from the mid 70s through the early 90s as a songwriter's genre as much as genres like Motown and early rock and roll. It just uses distinctive genre conventions. I think that's a big part of why I drifted from country music starting in the mid-90s. It started adopting the genre conventions of pop music and while I think pop music is fine on its own, I didn't like that there were so many fewer places I could go to find someone like Randy Travis or Reba McEntire.

The new singers who would have otherwise taken their places now sing songs written by the same folks that write for Avril Lavigne. It's even more difficult now to figure out who's who because "real" country has itself become kitsch and you have people like Zac Brown and Jamey Johnson singing straight garbage while trying to dress and look like - and being heavily marketed as - "traditional" country artists.
 
jbutler said:
Honestly I see the country music from the mid 70s through the early 90s as a songwriter's genre as much as genres like Motown and early rock and roll. It just uses distinctive genre conventions. I think that's a big part of why I drifted from country music starting in the mid-90s. It started adopting the genre conventions of pop music and while I think pop music is fine on its own, I didn't like that there were so many fewer places I could go to find someone like Randy Travis or Reba McEntire.

The new singers who would have otherwise taken their places now sing songs written by the same folks that write for Avril Lavigne. It's even more difficult now to figure out who's who because "real" country has itself become kitsch and you have people like Zac Brown and Jamey Johnson singing straight garbage while trying to dress and look like - and being heavily marketed as - "traditional" country artists.
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Yeah, there are 2 things that rub me wrong in the genre conventions in country:

the intervals used in the vocal harmonies
the way pedal steel guitar is used

And I agree that the pop/country era is worse. All the pedal steel and perfect 5th harmony vocals, plus pop!

It's weird, I like pedal and lap steel guitar in other genres. Especially hawaiian music, but in country I just cant take it. I do like a lot of country electric guitar though. Especially a nice classic Telecaster with a really sharp clean tone and a guitarist who is finger picking.
 

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