May 30
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I thought it was incredible how complete the song was after he layed down the chord progression. The bass and drums would be completely obvious. Oh, how about the lyrics? Joe's got that covered to!
don't know if you've seem this recent with Ringo, The Edge is sitting watching. Love the bass. Joe's voice is still strong.
Had wrong Floyd song in my head …. Never owned a Pink Floyd album or even a 45 …probably in hindsight of what happened in 75. Clearly my loss as some incredible music
I saw Walsh and the Eagles in November … he can still play like that ….….crazy he is 74 … still touring ….
Good stuff here, thanks! Saw Joe a while back on a TV show, Think it was called Live from Darryl's House. Liked that.
As long as we are posting some great song videos, I am going to share one that has meant a lot to me, plus it is just a great song. Kind of opposite Ed's experience, this song has helped me deal with a lot of things rather than avoiding a particular song. (Not knocking his way though, I understand that) Quick rundown:
2014 lost my mom, 2018 lost MIL and Dad, 7/6/2020 lost my wife, 7/7/2020 lost the father of one of my good travelling Coug buddies, August 2020 lost two former co-workers, dealing with Covid, then lost an aunt, uncle, and three friends in my car club in the past six months. A lot of gut punches piling up.
So here is a song I always liked, but has brought on extra meaning in the past couple years. Here is the link, will try to put in the actual video, but not sure how to do that. If that fails, at least you have the link to get there to see Joe Cocker do the definitive version of "With A Little Help From My Friends". Hope you like it.......
Comment on the song- I love the back-up singers! In fact, I think I fell in love with the one closest to the camera.
Check her out right around the 5 minute mark-does she have a real mischievous look or what? She looks like she would be a lot of fun to be around. Or maybe she is just a good actress? I appreciate how much the back-up singers can add to a song, like Pink Floyd's The Great Gig In the Sky, The Stones Gimme Shelter, Mellencamp's Little Pink Houses, and many more.
This thread brings back the memories. I was at WSU from fall '76 through May '80; the heart of the disco era. I was our dorm social chair my soph year and we opened with a dance (of course); Chinook for 77/78 has a picture of the sign we hung on the front of the dorm advertising our "Disko" dance (none of us knew how to spell it yet). During that era we had assistant football coaches teaching disco dance in PE classes; that way their recruiting trips to LA, SFO, etc., were underwritten by the school as academic research. They'd come back with the latest dances that they learned in their evenings at clubs. I had taken ballroom dancing in PE, and that was the right lead in to taking disco later. I met my wife at a dance I set up with McCroskey; it was in their basement and we had Ferdinand's ice cream (we were the nerd science & engineering dorm at the time, Waller, and we covered all of our bases). My wife-to-be was going camping with her roomies that weekend, but it rained. So they came to our dance, and the rest was history. The music of those years was an amazing mix; county rock, rock, motown, ballads, disco, funk and even some true country here and there, and you could hear a mix of all that at almost any club you visited that was not strictly disco. You could play hoops behind any dorm or frat and hear the music go from Eagles to Bee Gees to Kansas to EWF to Fleetwood Mac to the Spinners to Billy Joel to Manhattan Transfer to Boston to Rick James...can't forget Michael Jackson; or the Brothers Johnson...and on and on. Dances tended to feature a mix of fast beat stuff from all of the above, though the best dance beat stuff usually leaned toward Boston/Fleetwood Mac on the rock side, a whole bunch of disco folks and a nice leavening of funky rock. Brothers Johnson still gets me onto the dance floor; "thunder thumbs and lightening licks". One of the best bass-lead bands of all time.
Today's kids are worse off for not having the eclectic and diverse styles of music that we were exposed to.
Now its all about how far you can sag your pants. The more skid mark you can show, the better the look?
Ah yes, Cocker.... Showed my daughter a couple of his clips when she was younger just so she could see what it means to not give a shit about flash and being pretty. Just a guys voice, a tight band and backup singers and being exactly what he felt while he was singing.Good stuff here, thanks! Saw Joe a while back on a TV show, Think it was called Live from Darryl's House. Liked that.
As long as we are posting some great song videos, I am going to share one that has meant a lot to me, plus it is just a great song. Kind of opposite Ed's experience, this song has helped me deal with a lot of things rather than avoiding a particular song. (Not knocking his way though, I understand that) Quick rundown:
2014 lost my mom, 2018 lost MIL and Dad, 7/6/2020 lost my wife, 7/7/2020 lost the father of one of my good travelling Coug buddies, August 2020 lost two former co-workers, dealing with Covid, then lost an aunt, uncle, and three friends in my car club in the past six months. A lot of gut punches piling up.
So here is a song I always liked, but has brought on extra meaning in the past couple years. Here is the link, will try to put in the actual video, but not sure how to do that. If that fails, at least you have the link to get there to see Joe Cocker do the definitive version of "With A Little Help From My Friends". Hope you like it.......
Comment on the song- I love the back-up singers! In fact, I think I fell in love with the one closest to the camera.
I appreciate how much the back-up singers can add to a song, like Pink Floyd's The Great Gig In the Sky, The Stones Gimme Shelter, Mellencamp's Little Pink Houses, and many more.
One of my favorite bumper stickers...or maybe it was bathroom stall graffiti -
"Disco is to music what Etch-a-Sketch is to art"
True enough, some of it. Some was pretty good. But as a dance opportunity, it was great. Good way to meet the opposite sex.
Just reviewed a couple lists of “top 100 disco songs.” There’s some good stuff there, but they had to pull some songs that don’t seem very disco to me to make 100. Billie Jean? Super Freak?
I suspect that most of us had music that was good for pairing up. I’m just glad I wasn’t trying to do it in the musical wasteland that was the boy band era.
Then I'm sure you know that the great Merry Clayton sung on not only Gimme Shelter, but on Cocker's records and Mr Ray Charles. One of the most sought after female voices. Loved Joe Cocker. Here's a very interesting interview where they isolate her voice on Gimme ShelterGood stuff here, thanks! Saw Joe a while back on a TV show, Think it was called Live from Darryl's House. Liked that.
As long as we are posting some great song videos, I am going to share one that has meant a lot to me, plus it is just a great song. Kind of opposite Ed's experience, this song has helped me deal with a lot of things rather than avoiding a particular song. (Not knocking his way though, I understand that) Quick rundown:
2014 lost my mom, 2018 lost MIL and Dad, 7/6/2020 lost my wife, 7/7/2020 lost the father of one of my good travelling Coug buddies, August 2020 lost two former co-workers, dealing with Covid, then lost an aunt, uncle, and three friends in my car club in the past six months. A lot of gut punches piling up.
So here is a song I always liked, but has brought on extra meaning in the past couple years. Here is the link, will try to put in the actual video, but not sure how to do that. If that fails, at least you have the link to get there to see Joe Cocker do the definitive version of "With A Little Help From My Friends". Hope you like it.......
Comment on the song- I love the back-up singers! In fact, I think I fell in love with the one closest to the camera.
I appreciate how much the back-up singers can add to a song, like Pink Floyd's The Great Gig In the Sky, The Stones Gimme Shelter, Mellencamp's Little Pink Houses, and many more.
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If you're into that, dig around the internet and find the movie 20 feet from Stardom. Well worth the couple of bucks to rent. Ms Clayton features prominently in that film.
Interesting point. We thought of Michael Jackson as mostly disco at that point, including Billy Jean; Rick James, on the other hand, was termed "Punk Funk". Both likely to be played at any dance party. We had a wider tent for the term "disco" than my kids use today when they use the term...it was more along the lines of what would be played at a disco venue than it was about the strict nature of the music itself. And of course, it wasn't all the driving disco beat that my kids think of as disco...there were slow songs, too, of course...who didn't want slow songs where you got to hold the girl? Donna Summer did a couple of nice slow songs, as an example, and they were considered to be just as much a part of the disco genre as the fast songs.
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