Steel2Velvet
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"Pleasant Valley Sunday" was a hybrid of "Penny Lane" and "My Generation."
I was about 15 at the time the show came out. I was struck by the fact that these 4 guys, 19 - 21 year olds (I thought) were living together; and none of their parents ever made an appearance or influenced their decisions in any way. Utopia!!
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I don't know his name, but the drummer (and frontman) for Rare Earth was one of the first rockers to utilize double bass drums (at about the same time as Ginger Baker.) I was fortunate to go to one of their concerts and the guy could really get it. And Whoa.. he sang lead as well.
The drummer on Santana's "Soul Survivor" was amazing.
Jim Keltner also played for Delaney and Bonnie as well as the smooth sounding drums on Derek and the Dominoes' "Bell Bottom Blues."
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In life, you build the roads you walk on
You construct your bridges to overcome your challenges
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So build your bridge with what you have learned
And know that it was built by your own hands
These four lines are great and constitute a core theme for a "construct your life" piece. Good philosophy at work here. If I were you, I would polish this up and rework it into a lyrical poem.
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Nights On Broadway - The BeeGees
Who Loves You Pretty Baby - The 4 Seasons
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I always think of Ramblin' On by Led Zeppelin when I think of good bass.
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For diction, style and sympatico, Roy Orbison and his soaring 3 octaves cannot be denied. Interesting that Elvis is absent from the various posts. His voice was considered the rock standard for many, many years.
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This probably not much enlightenment, but there may be some here who do not know that Bob Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman, but changed his name because he admired the work of the poet, Dylan Thomas.
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Good thoughts and honest words. Thank God it is never too late.
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From the song Third Rate Romance (don't recall the band, maybe The Amazing Rythmn Aces):
"She said, 'I've never really done a thing like this before. Have you?' He said, 'Yes I have, but only a time or two.'"
Rereading it here it doesn't sound exactly cool or funny, but in the context of the song, it is both.
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Something
The guitar solo, the bass lines, the backing vocals.
Frank Sanatra once said it was the best love song ever written.
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Oh, you're all sadly misinformed. Most sources agree that it was Raymond of Toulon (1173 - 1224). Though his debut performances were unheralded, most reviews agree that his concert in support of the Third Crusade (1198) was "simply sublime, a real tour de force; who wouldn't want a go at the heathen after a show like that ? Hold me back cardinal, I may just have to bang my head" (Innocent III, Pope) .
Wasn't Raymond the guy who drew and quartered his guitar after each performance?
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Not too sure how this would work as a song, but I am 100 percent positive that this will touch your father deeply. I admire a man who can say "I love you" to his father.
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But life has a way and life has a reason
To change ourselves like we?re a season
You nailed it, Brother!
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Freedom - The Sons of Champlin
Now THAT was a great group! I hadn't heard their name in many, many years. Thanks for reminding me, Bazooka.
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Big Brother and the Holding Company
Small Faces (with Ron Wood and Rod Stewart)
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"Chevy Van" was by Sammy Johns
"I'd Love You To Want Me" was by Lobo
"Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" was also by Lobo
Good catch. I realize now I think of "A Dog Named Boo" as the same song as "Chevy Van." There were a lot of dogs named Boo in Chevy vans in 1972.
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Hendrix credited Les Paul as his major influence. Prior to Les Paul, guitar was regarded only slightly above the harmonica as an instrumental force. The guitar was associated with country/western music as a rythmn instrument and was felt to have no real place in serious music. Les Paul innovated and made popular the style of picking individual notes from out of chord structures much as the Latino guitar stylings of the time, but folded with jazz and country runs and placed within popular tunes. He made the lead guitar appealing and acceptable. Les was also the first guitarist to popularize playing through an amplifier. All the others mentioned in this thread built upon his foundation. Does this make Les Paul the greatest? No. But it means the rest are indebted to him.
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"I´d love you to want me", by Lobo... did he have any other hit? Is the title of the song correct, by the way? I´m mistaking with Cheap Trick...
I think you're right that it was by Lobo. But Lobo had another hit with "Chevy Van."
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correct me if I am wrong about these one-hit wonders:
The Commodores - Brick House
The Commodores ... how about "Sail On" "Easy Like Sunday Morning" "Three Times A Lady" all before Lionel Ritchie went solo.
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I like the honesty and vulnerability of this piece without all the rage and anger that usually accompanies honest and vulnerable poetry. Well done in a unique and responsible style.
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My youth paralleled rock and roll and I recall vividly while everyone was doing the "Twist" or dancing to "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" or tapping their foot to a French nun singing "Dominique" along came Gary US Bonds with this gutsy, jazzed rocker, "Quarter til Three" and suddenly music came to life!
No list of influence could exclude the following: Johnnie Ray, who made singing with actual emotions acceptable. Ray Charles, who melded melodies from jazz, blues, coutry and rock with lyrics about real life experiences not just pie-in-the-sky dreams. Roy Orbison, who paved the way for falsetto by men as a valid singing style when all around were these macho voices trying to grow courser, darker hair. And the predeccesor to Bob Dylan, Arlo's dad, Woody Guthrie, who in the late 50's - early 60's, introduced politics to melody in America.
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The flute in rock (actually pop, in this case) was set back a few years by Chicago sometime back, in their sappy ballad, "Color My World." This should not be construed as innovation or getting "the guts" out of a flute. This was just a need to make some money by churning out another formula hit song by a band that knows how to do that.
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I think that was Cindy Lauper (unless Madonna covered it.)
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It works real well. You put a lot of thought into these lines. Thanks for sharing.
Most influential drummers in history
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Thanks for the catch on Soul Sacrifice, Bazooka. I felt as I wrote the first blurb, that it was not correct. I should have done some homework before hurrying with a comment. But thanks for the backup.
Do you perhaps know the lead singer and drummer for Rare Earth that I referred to earlier?