Yes, so, was very privileged to meet KRG last night. KRG is very lovely (as youâd imagine) and super cool too. Possibly a tight contest between KRG and Ant to win the hippest of Papsweb award. Really nice to meet all your friends too, KRG! Nice bunchâŠ
Gig was great, band was funâŠand very rockabilly. Now I love rockabilly - grew up listening to it, have played a fair bit on the circuit, and love the originals from the 50s. And there lies my one critique (KRG will be sick of this by now). Rockabilly just hasnât evolvedâŠat allâŠbased on the band last night. I could have been listening to that same band 10 years ago, or 20 years ago and it would sound exactly the same. Itâs nice, I like it, it makes me feel happy, however there is no new to it. If music canât envolve, I might as well listen to the masters from the 1950s who, frankly, played it better and with more soul.
That is my bug bear with the rockabilly scene. The one track I linked above made me think they were doing something a bit more interesting, but based on last night, theyâre just another rockabilly band. Which is fine but a shame.
Apologies for discussing a sub music genre with limited appeal to the majority of the forum!
Ha! Just wait until you get to your 60s Lou. Youâll find most of your friends will only look back. Their musical tastes wonât have moved on since they were 25 and the âsoundtrack of their livesâ is on a tape loop of mainstream crap you never even listened to back in the day.
They will open social media groups for hundreds of old farts, run by a retired DJ who used to do a program on local hospital broadcasting. They will induge in an orgy of self congratulation that they grew up in an age of quality music, the kind of quality music you donât hear today except on âClassic Gold FMâ
You will make a mixed CD/MP3/Whatever of an artist you think your friend will like. Youâll ask everytime you see them if they liked it but theyâll tell you they havenât played it yet. In the end youâll give up asking and 15 years later theyâll tell you they found this CD you gave them, (the one you had long forgotten about) they played it last week and thought it was rather good. Youâll want to cry.
Oh yes, donât expect them to accompany you to a gigâŠthey wonât have heard of anyone youâre interested in seeing. This will include your spouse/partner.
Lou, hereâs one for you. From the legendary 1956 demo sessions (at least thatâs what it says on the cover of the LP I bought the best part of thirty years ago). And a fabulous LP it is too - only four songs, two takes of each, but fucking wonderful.
I think youâre probably right about rockabilly, though itâs not a genre Iâm all that familiar with. Most of the artists I love (and have loved for years) arenât content with churning out the same old stuff time after time after time - their music evolves over time. I may not always like what theyâre doing, but they donât stand still and I do like that. If an entire style of music gets stuck in a specific era (in the case of rockabilly, the era of its creation), then thereâs precious little invention going on.
I liked the song you posted, and Iâm sure Iâd enjoy hearing more by them, but sameness only has a limited appeal really.
Originally posted by @lifeintheslowlane
Ha! Just wait until you get to your '60s Lou. Youâll find most of your friends will only look back. Their musical tastes wonât have moved on since they were 25 and the âsoundtrack of their livesâ is on a tape loop of mainstream crap you never even listened to back in the day.
They will open social media groups for hundreds of old farts, run by a retired DJ who used to do a program on local hospital broadcasting. They will induge in an orgy of self congratulation that they grew up in an age of quality music, the kind of quality music you donât hear today except on âClassic Gold FMâ
You will make a mixed CD/MP3/Whatever of an artist you think your friend will like. Youâll ask everytime you see them if they liked it but theyâll tell you they havenât played it yet. In the end youâll give up asking and 15 years later theyâll tell you they found this CD you gave them, (the one you had long forgotten about) they played it last week and thought it was rather good. Youâll want to cry.
Oh yes, donât expect them to accompany you to a gigâŠthey wonât have heard of anyone youâre interested in seeing. This will include your spouse/partner.
Thereâs an awful lot of truth in that. When it comes down to it, many (if not most) people would fit Laughing Lenâs line âBut you donât really care for music, do you?â Not in that they donât like music, more that itâs not something theyâre all that fussed about. Much the same as not knowing a lot about art, but knowing what you like.
Many people I know fit this description. Theyâll listen to things that sound âniceâ and shut their ears to anything that doesnât fit in with that niceness. Theyâll be more than happy listening to ânewâ music that conforms to the pattern. I know others whose tastes formed in their late teens and got stuck there - being the age that I am and they are, this means that they love prog rock from the seventies and rather like prog imitations from later years. But they donât go for much else really.
And I know others who, like you and Bletch (at least thatâs the impression I get from both of you), are always interested in music that they havenât heard before. They may like it, the may love it, they may hate it, it may leave them cold - but they always want to hear it. My good friend and fellow poster SO5 4BW fits that description by the way (and he can buy me a pint on Saturday for saying something nice about him.
Me, I fit somewhere in the middle, in that I always enjoy hearing things that are new to me (well, up to a point - I canât say I got an awful lot from my stepdaughterâs McBusted CD), but I donât actively seek out the new (to me) in the way that I once would have done. To end this rambling post with some music, hereâs a piece of unashamed personal nostalgia.
Some time in 1987 (I think) I was down at my parentsâ house for the weekend, and I went into Southampton on the Saturday afternoon, largely to visit Henryâs Records (see what I mean about nostalgia?). I bought two records. The first was a double Hank Williams LP, the well-known one with a yellow cover; the second was a compliation of Cajun music from Swallow records. Not many years before that, the idea that Iâd buy a country music record would have seemed risible, but there I was with some of Hankâs finest tunes in my collection. Iâve loved Hank Williams ever since. But thatâs not where Iâm headed.
When I listened to the Swallow collection, I was liking it more than somewhat - and then this one came up:
It blew me away, and it still does.
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I have a simple breakdown of music. Dog music or cat music. Dog music bounds all over you, saying âlove me, love me!â. Cat music is a bit more aloof and might scratch your ears the first few times you hear it.
I prefer cat music.
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What about guinea pig music? The stuff that you spend a lot of time doting on and convincing yourself is really great until one day it dies and you suddenly realise it wasnât that great in the first place.
Or turtle music, where you listen to it and realise that itâs outstayed its welcome and shouldâve died a long time ago? Paul McCartney is a good example of this I think.
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Originally posted by @Fowllyd
Lou, hereâs one for you. From the legendary 1956 demo sessions (at least thatâs what it says on the cover of the LP I bought the best part of thirty years ago). And a fabulous LP it is too - only four songs, two takes of each, but fucking wonderful.
Ah yes, great track. Such a fascinating period of change for music. When you start delving into the 50s and 40s you just canât stop - suddenly modern music makes more sense.
Originally posted by @Fowllyd
Some time in 1987 (I think) I was down at my parentsâ house for the weekend, and I went into Southampton on the Saturday afternoon, largely to visit Henryâs Records (see what I mean about nostalgia?). I bought two records. The first was a double Hank Williams LP, the well-known one with a yellow cover; the second was a compliation of Cajun music from Swallow records. Not many years before that, the idea that Iâd buy a country music record would have seemed risible, but there I was with some of Hankâs finest tunes in my collection. Iâve loved Hank Williams ever since. But thatâs not where Iâm headed.
When I listened to the Swallow collection, I was liking it more than somewhat - and then this one came up:
It blew me away, and it still does.
You like Cajun music! Me too. I saw you posted a version of Promised land a few weeks back that I know very well. Have you ever come across this guy - Link Davis?
Hank Williams is my Good Lord Almighty. Have you ever checked out Jimmie Rodgers, who came before him?
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I hadnât heard anything by Link Davis before, I have to admit - I liked that one. Iâve always been a sucker for a song in waltz time; hereâs a big fave of mine from the wonderful Balfa Brothers.
And yes, I like the Singing Brakeman plenty. Here he is:
He recorded a lot of his songs several times in very different styles, but this is how he sounded best.
I used to have a tape of Hank Wiliams and the Drifting Cowboys from a radio show they used to appear on. Some of the songs were just brilliant, including a magnificent rendering of âI saw the lightâ with Jerry Rivers fiddling like a demon (not a euphemism). The show was called the Health and Happiness Show which, given Hankâs general state of physical and emotional wellbeing, could be taken as a sure indication that Americans really do have no sense of irony. It was punctuated by breaks for ââŠsome good newsâŠâ and Iâve always wondered just what those adverts would have been like.
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Huh - pair of hillbillies!
Doesnât anyone on here like black music?! 
Ornette Coleman died last week - RIP
Hereâs âRamblinâ.
Bassist Charlie Haden (from Shenandoah, Iowa, just about the most unlikely origin for a jazz musician) had a background in country music and his solo here (at about 4 mins in) was âborrowedâ by Ian Dury for âSex & Drugs & RocknâRollâ.
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Just get back into listening to System of a Down. I used to listen to them a little, but loving them at the moment⊠Now they are not doing anything!
Why isnât there a MOWO award when thereâs a MOBO? Its racist!
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Iâm pretty obsessed with James Bay myself at the moment.
Liking this guy too, hes nice and chilled!
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Why isnât there a MOWO award when thereâs a MOBO? Its racist!
Timesaving, Iâd imagine.
Winners would basically be poor imitations of MOBO winners from 1/2 years previously.
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Yo, Twigster, SO5,
When posting vids, donât bother linking them.
Simply copy and paste the URL into the window you normally type in, putting the URL on its own line, and youâre good.
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MOWO awards evening
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Originally posted by @SO5-4BW
Huh - pair of hillbillies!
Doesnât anyone on here like black music?!
Ornette Coleman died last week - RIP
Hereâs âRamblinâ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqwdRBWvPs0
Bassist Charlie Haden (from Shenandoah, Iowa, just about the most unlikely origin for a jazz musician) had a background in country music and his solo here (at about 4 mins in) was âborrowedâ by Ian Dury for âSex & Drugs & RocknâRollâ.
For those who havenât met him, hereâs a recent picture of SO5 4BW.
Actually, thatâs a fab tune. Having listened to it on YouTube, Iâm now halfway through Ornetteâs Shape of Jazz to Come LP on the same site. Yep, I can feel a chalk-stripe suit and turtle-neck sweater coming onâŠ
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