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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:56 am
by bill_g
The Kings of Leon present Mustang - a song about a boy and his daydreams of clouds. I think. Fresh off the presses, new this month. Be the first on your block. I like the twisted guitar licks. YMMV


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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:14 pm
by John Thomas8
33+ 37+ years along, still putting out bangers:


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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:34 am
by Tiredretiredlawyer
Bravo!

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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 3:11 pm
by AndyinPA
:clap:

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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:54 am
by Foggy

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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:11 am
by bill_g
That's such a great album. That song always hit me in the heart. I loved the story, the music, the arrangement. In particular - the drums - they were perfect. It was one of the first songs I recall with drums that offered more than just a tempo. They added drama and emphasis at critical points. I can't say for sure, but I'll bet it was The Wrecking Crew. They were in high demand back then. I've always wondered if it's a man or a woman singing the contralto towards the end.

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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:06 am
by keith
bill_g wrote: Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:11 am That's such a great album. That song always hit me in the heart. I loved the story, the music, the arrangement. In particular - the drums - they were perfect. It was one of the first songs I recall with drums that offered more than just a tempo. They added drama and emphasis at critical points. I can't say for sure, but I'll bet it was The Wrecking Crew. They were in high demand back then. I've always wondered if it's a man or a woman singing the contralto towards the end.
wikipedia
The Wrecking Crew is a loose collective of US session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for a great number of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including hundreds of top 40 hits. The musicians were not publicly recognized in their era, but were viewed with reverence by industry insiders. They are now considered one of the most successful and prolific session recording units in music history.
Wikipedia

Bookends was recorded at Columbia's Studio B at the CBS Studio Building in Manhattan.

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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:36 am
by bill_g
Oh! Right on. Thank you Keith.

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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:42 pm
by keith
bill_g wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:36 am Oh! Right on. Thank you Keith.
I hadda lookit up cause it didnt fell right that S&G would have gone to LA to record. I knew the WC was LA.

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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:24 am
by John Thomas8

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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:32 am
by northland10
:lol:

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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:35 am
by John Thomas8
I laughed, too, but he seemed to nail the different styles pretty well.

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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:06 am
by northland10
Hans Zimmer made up musical instruments for the Dune score to make it sound outworldy. Somebody has taken twenty hands to do the same on a piano. It involves things from bowing the strings to using guitar picks and percussion brushes. They have gone a bit John Cage/George Crumb like.


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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:07 am
by bill_g
He captured John Cage perfectly! His Stevie Wonder was more Herbie Hancock IMO. (wink)

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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:10 am
by Tiredretiredlawyer
Loved it!

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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:12 am
by northland10
Chairs are musical instruments.

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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:01 am
by bill_g
Mars to Liverpool by Squires and Gallagher. It's in heavy rotation on Portland radio. It has a 60's Beatles sound to it.


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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:15 am
by Tiredretiredlawyer
I luvs Hans Zimmer's music!

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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:22 pm
by northland10
Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:15 am I luvs Hans Zimmer's music!
Some of his music can be a bit predictable, but I still love it.

I love the use of the watch and the Shepard tone in Dunkirk (and his head nod to Elgar's Nimrod near the end).


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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:12 pm
by AndyinPA
Interesting. Thanks.

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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:40 pm
by Tiredretiredlawyer
Coooooool!

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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:06 am
by derevan
keith wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:06 am
bill_g wrote: Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:11 am That's such a great album. That song always hit me in the heart. I loved the story, the music, the arrangement. In particular - the drums - they were perfect. It was one of the first songs I recall with drums that offered more than just a tempo. They added drama and emphasis at critical points. I can't say for sure, but I'll bet it was The Wrecking Crew. They were in high demand back then. I've always wondered if it's a man or a woman singing the contralto towards the end.
wikipedia
The Wrecking Crew is a loose collective of US session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for a great number of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including hundreds of top 40 hits. The musicians were not publicly recognized in their era, but were viewed with reverence by industry insiders. They are now considered one of the most successful and prolific session recording units in music history.
Wikipedia

Bookends was recorded at Columbia's Studio B at the CBS Studio Building in Manhattan.

Image
Oddly enough, although the album was recorded in New York and the Wrecking Crew was LA-based studio musicians, the band on Bookends was mostly the Wrecking Crew. Hal Blaine was the drummer - definitely a member of the Wrecking Crew.

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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:08 pm
by bill_g
derevan wrote: Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:06 am Oddly enough, although the album was recorded in New York and the Wrecking Crew was LA-based studio musicians, the band on Bookends was mostly the Wrecking Crew. Hal Blaine was the drummer - definitely a member of the Wrecking Crew.
Thanks dereven!

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Put on your headphones, volume about 8, boost off


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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:35 pm
by keith
derevan wrote: Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:06 am
Oddly enough, although the album was recorded in New York and the Wrecking Crew was LA-based studio musicians, the band on Bookends was mostly the Wrecking Crew. Hal Blaine was the drummer - definitely a member of the Wrecking Crew.
I'll be darned. Session musos flying across country for particular sessions? Or based on different coasts at different points in their careers? Or touring with somebody and happened to be available?

Anybody got a link to Andrew Hickey to ask?

Andrew Hickey: The History Of Rock And Roll in 500 Songs

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Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:03 am
by John Thomas8