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    Song Association Game :D

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    Posted · Edited by Notes_Norton
    censorship

    Speaking of addiction, how about;

    The Pusher - Steppenwolf (***** the pusherman) written by Hoyt Axton

    OK that's not quite it, but auto- censored so instead of ****** how about: Gosh Darn the pusherman? Doesn't have the same impact though.

     

     

    Song Association Game :D

    in The Coffee House

    Posted · Edited by Notes_Norton
    slight addition of opinion

    "Angel of the Morning" - Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts

    (IMO her tender approach makes it the much better version than the later Juice Newton cover - YMMV)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLm92VlmavE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwJfAjtgtKQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdt6MP6zy4Y

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6iC64-47mQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGBNAu2vaRI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQToIeA8csU

    Looks like none of these will embed - if anyone else can do it, please let me know how you did it.

     

     

     

     

    Starship’s ‘We Built This City’: Really The Worst?

    in The Coffee House

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    Sorry guys, it's true. I've never seen Simpsons, Sopranos, Taxi, Cheers, Idol, Thrones, Downtown Abby, or anything.

    The last two shows on TV I watched were (1) Johnny Carson's last Tonight Show because I grew up with that an (2) Jay Leno's first tonight show to see how it changed.

    And since without a cable or antenna I can't get anything but one Christian Sermon channel on my TV (snowy at that) I had to go to my mother-in-laws to see them.

    Paulo, my wife and I talk and talk and laugh and talk constantly. I got very-very lucky with her (she's my second, the first was a disaster). 24/7 wouldn't be too much time together. We work together http://www.s-cats.com and play together. We have similar tastes in music, we both love travel, we both prize experience over possessions, we both have warped senses of humor, and we are each other's best friends. It's been 41 years of bliss.

    Last year we spent 5 weeks in Australia in a tiny camper van - could have done 50 if we could have afforded it.

    Like I said, I got lucky.

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    Starship’s ‘We Built This City’: Really The Worst?

    in The Coffee House

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    I quit watching TV in the late 1980s. I've never seen American Idol.

    No cable, no antenna, no digital converter just a DVD player for an occasional rented movie from Netflix in my mailbox.

    Gigging on cruise ships for 3 years in the 1980s, when there was no TV on them except the movie that played again and again and again week after week after week broke me of the habit. When I got home I hooked up the cable, and in a couple of months realized I wasn't watching much, and when I forced myself to watch it, I would get fidgety because I was used to doing things.

    So instead of watching TV I learned to play wind synthesizer, learned to play lead guitar, learned to write aftermarket styles for Band-in-a-Box, learned to create a mail-order business selling those styles, learned to write web pages and transfer that business to the Internet, and I spent a lot of quality time with my wife/best-friend/lover/band-mate.

    There is nothing wrong with TV, but it's not for my wife or me.

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    Starship’s ‘We Built This City’: Really The Worst?

    in The Coffee House

    Posted

    4 hours ago, msmcleod said:

    I saw an interview with one of the engineers (or maybe the producers) who recorded it - he said Cher's pitch was so close to dead on most of the time, they actually had to use a pitch shifter to put it OUT of tune to get most out of the effect.

    It's hard to know what to believe nowadays !

    It is hard.

    That could be a cover up after the first anti-auto-tune wave years ago when singers were saying "I don't need it", or it could be the truth.

    I guess it doesn't matter, what matters is IMHO auto-tune is the most abused technology in the recording industry.

    I have nothing against Cher except that song. All in all she's a decent singer.

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    Starship’s ‘We Built This City’: Really The Worst?

    in The Coffee House

    Posted

    19 hours ago, Byron Dickens said:

    Curious  thing is that Cher can actually sing and doesn't need it.

    I read that when she went into the session she hadn't sung in a very, very long time. She was out of practice, her voice was out of shape, she had a lack of control and that made her intonation terrible. So they used auto-tune to fix it. I forget where I read that so I can't say for sure it was a trusted source.

     

    Song Association Game :D

    in The Coffee House

    Posted

    While on the subject of Blues, here is a very unusual take on the blues from an LP I had when I was very young. We played right before The Dave Brubeck Quartet in a Muscular Dystrophy telethon. (We didn't get on TV, we played during commercials.) Paul Desmond, the sax player was very kind to this young sax player still playing with metamorphic training wheels.

    Maori Blues - The Dave Brubeck Quartet

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86HF6u0Eac8

    it wouldn't embed so here is the link

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86HF6u0Eac8

     

     

     

    Starship’s ‘We Built This City’: Really The Worst?

    in The Coffee House

    Posted

    On 8/23/2019 at 8:35 PM, Magic Russ said:

    What really makes it so hated though, is the way that it embodies everything that was wrong with rock/pop in the 80s.  You've got the artificial peppiness, the mechanical rhythms, cheesy horn stabs, awkward synth fills.  You have anti-corporate lyrics in a song that was a symbol of corporate rock.  And fewer things are more 80s than crappy sellout music from bands that used to be good in the 70s.

    Exactly why it's repulsive - but although cheesy there are worse out there.

    The Black Eyed Peas auto-tuned and vocally quantized I Gotta Feeling never fails to irritate me a bit. There are people out there working for people who can sing without auto-tune. Let them do it.

    End of minor rant

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