Music

[Vanhelsing]

My favorite Indo band over the last few years. Jammed with them a few times.

 

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Listening to a bit of Kravitz and JJ Cale this morning.

 

[jstar]

I remember seeing Lennie walking around in Brussels with his guitar, playing acoustically on the squares. And trying to score a gig. A couple of years later he was the second to top a million dollar asking price for performing at a summer festival. (After Metallica.)

 

[Vanhelsing]

I remember seeing Lennie walking around in Brussels with his guitar, playing acoustically on the squares. And trying to score a gig. A couple of years later he was the second to top a million dollar asking price for performing at a summer festival. (After Metallica.)

Did you know who he was at the time, or did you recall seeing him about after he'd made it?

On to some Rodriguez (you must watch the documentary Looking for Sugarman if you haven't). Also got the hankering for Pheobe Snow.

 

[macvert]

Searching for Sugarman is a good movie but unfortunately doesn't quit tell the whole truth & attempts to create even more mystique about him by omitting the fact that he was discovered in Australia & toured in 1979 & then again in 1981 when I saw him at the Regent Theatre in Sydney, about 10 years before he toured South Africa.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...out-the-searching-for-sugar-man-star-20130328

 

[jstar]

Did you know who he was at the time, or did you recall seeing him about after he'd made it?

Only later I found out this Romeo Blue was the same guy in fact. Bit of a long story, but a friend who was singer of a Belgian punk band and became later VJ at MTV Europe, made prgrams for a Dutch alternative TV station about street music and new trends etc. So one thing led to another...

 

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[Bad_azz]

Phew, relief at last ... hubby & the vocalist are forming a new band that will NOT be all Rolling Stones cover versions but one that will be more blues/rock orientated.
Why my relief? 'cos for the past few years all I get to listen to is Stones' music - now I get some Gary Moore/Little Richard/ Muddy Waters/ Clapton/ Tracy Chapman /Queen/ BB King etc thrown in. = A Happy Baddie

 

[jstar]

Ben Harper is huge in my home country (just like in Oz I think). But quite amazing they put a video clip with some skaters on that song. What is that, an attempt for some street cred?

Talking about 'wrong' videoclips, but in a very different way, this is one. The song is one of the best they ever made.

 

[Vanhelsing]

B_a, congrats on the new direction of hubbies music. I'm actually a blues nut and have to force myself to explore other music. If I ever got married I believe my wedding dance would be to Stevie Ray Vaughn.

jstar, that video is wrong but kind of hard to not watch as well. I actually laughed at the stuffed toy being traumatized after being licked by the dog.

I don't how many hours of my life have been spent listening to this guy.

 

[Terry MacArsey]

Phew, relief at last ... hubby & the vocalist are forming a new band that will NOT be all Rolling Stones cover versions but one that will be more blues/rock orientated.
Why my relief? 'cos for the past few years all I get to listen to is Stones' music - now I get some Gary Moore/Little Richard/ Muddy Waters/ Clapton/ Tracy Chapman /Queen/ BB King etc thrown in. = A Happy Baddie

Sounds good B A. I always feel tribute bands are a bit restricted so it will be nice for you, hubby + the vocalist to have a bigger choice of songs.

 

[jstar]

I hesitated between posting this on the US elections thread or here.

And we all sang, as the boat was sinking.....

 

[Terry MacArsey]

I hesitated between posting this on the US elections thread or here.

And we all sang, as the boat was sinking.....

Nice song, apart from the fiddles in the middle. For me, it doesn't fit so maybe I need to listen to it again. Sounds very much like the Levellers to me

 

[jstar]

^
Now that's a very good comparison, with the Levellers. Punk meets traditional music. Society critical lyrics. Both active in the end of the eighties early nineties.

That part in the middle was in live performances always replaced by a raw guitar solo btw.


Ah, if B_a's hubby is looking for material that does not deviate so much from the Stones but is not so main stream and well known either, (besides that 'Remedy' song from the Black Crowes) this might be an alternative:

 

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