On 2013-07-23 15:36, Zombie Magic wrote:
Vlad, EXCELLENT lyric observations on my 2 fav bands.

Soft Parade and Morrison Hotel are two of my favorite ALBUMS. There, I said the A word.

I got lucky. I was a kid and my brother, 7 years older, was info the new cutting edge music. They had this new thing called FM on the radio n and they would play entire album sides!

Music died a few years ago.

On 2013-07-23 16:17, Vlad_77 wrote:

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On 2013-07-23 15:36, Zombie Magic wrote:
Vlad, EXCELLENT lyric observations on my 2 fav bands.

Soft Parade and Morrison Hotel are two of my favorite ALBUMS. There, I said the A word.

I got lucky. I was a kid and my brother, 7 years older, was info the new cutting edge music. They had this new thing called FM on the radio n and they would play entire album sides!

Music died a few years ago.

The Beatles, The Doors, AND magic: you are truly a person of discernment my friend! I know that you are a Beatles fan, but I didn't know you were into The Doors as well! Did you know that The Doors and The Beatles actually met? I'll have to post the story but The Beatles were very much into The Doors music.

I said I envy the people that grew up with the great bands - and I still do - but I wonder if in fact we are more fortunate to have caught these bands after the fact? Sure, people then knew the bands were great but, who knew they would be legends? As a musician, I am still in awe of what bands like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Moody Blues, The Who and some others did; they blazed trails we have yet to follow.

Oh, sorry to tangent but in addition to an all originals band I am in, I just got a job with a Pink Floyd tribute band!!!! Sorry, but I had to share

On 2013-07-23 06:05, Vlad_77 wrote:
Actually, that whole album is the most "produced" sounding of all of The Doors principal albums. I have to say that the lyrics in this great song are a bit cagey. "What was that promise that you made?/Why won't you tell me what she said?" Pretty daring for the time. I've read that Morrison hated that album because it was more lush sounding.

I love when musicians put lyrics into a song but veil them such that the song can mention something that if sang straight out would never get airplay. Penny Lane was one of The Beatles' 27 number one hits - played everywhere then and now. There is a line "four of fish and finger pie" that McCartney stated he put in there for the Liverpool lads. It's not an innocent line at all.

Both eminently great bands. That said, as a musician and also an avid listener of music, I have to ask what the hell happened to rock? True, Black Sabbath's latest album was at number one a few weeks ago on Billboard UK and Billboard US, but, BieberGagaThicke has outdone even the worst excesses of the execrable nightmare known as disco.

Heaven help us!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I envy the people who grew up with the GREAT bands.

On 2013-07-25 06:32, Vlad_77 wrote:
Amen to the fact that without Blues we would have no Rock.

The Beatles and The Stones had commented many times that they were shocked that Americans were so unaware of the Blues. They thought it very strange that British bands had to wake Americans up to their own music.

Steve Tyler hit it on the head when he said that when he talks to aspiring musicians he always says that to really understand rock, you have to listen to, study, and understand Blues first. Other bands have done this by example. Pink Floyd was originally a Blues band (called themselves the Architectural Ab-Dabs) and the Pink Floyd name is an amalgam of the names of two old time Blues artists: Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

BTW brother, check this out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmn6vWgXS3M

Really wonderful!! (I may have posted this elsewhere in NVMS but it's so good I had to post it again)