What are you listening to, right now................
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Talking about geriatric rock....check this out for a rest home jam session
Joe Walsh is a bit like Ozzy Osbourne in that he seems barely coherent when he talks but he still knows how to rock on stage. I love his unique voice, quirky lyrics and guitar playing ability.
I’ve mentioned on here quite often how overrated I think the Beatles are but Ringo is definitely likeable and loves what he does so hats off to him for that after all these years.
If anything his drumming is under rated by the public. Other musos rate him very highly.
What was amazing in that clip was the precise synchronised beats from the two drummersNot really, just good timing and practice from a couple of old pros.
Ringo does divide opinion that’s for sure
Quincy Jones: 'The Beatles were the worst musicians in the world'
Record producer takes swipes at the Beatles, the ‘machiavellian’ Michael Jackson, U2 and more
This article from Quincy Jones has always irked me a bit.
How do you define good / bad musicians? Ability to play a tune or ability to write a tune?
Ability to compose / put together a song, or ability to play a very complex time signature?
He can talk about Paul McCartney being a shitty bass player as much as he wants. But he owned Glastonbury this year playing bass, piano, guitar and singing. At 80 years old.
Quincy Jones opinion here is worth less than used toilet paper.
Yeah I found the article pretty amusing more than anything.
They’re certainly not what I’d call amazing musos but their legacies as composers/performers is second to none ( again, even if I don’t rate them as high as others )
I've read quite a few famous guitarists / musicians books and one thing that is consistent when they talk about band formation is the drummer and the sound they were looking for. To name some specifics, Adler, Watts, Ulrich, Irons/Smith were specifically singled out as having taking criticism, but the guitarists are all unequivocal that they had the exact sound/groove they are after.
I've not read a Beatles book, but I imagine they would say the same about Starr.
Yeah it’s all opinion isn’t it ?
Like yourself I love a good music book and its always good reading and having YouTube ready to listen to whatever songs they might be talking about.
Of that bunch I recall Ulrich ( who can often come across as a cock ) having a moment of reflection and saying he “wasn’t the best drummer in the world but he was the best drummer in the world for Metallica”
Indeed. I think that's why Jones comments irked me so much.
As he's a highly respected person in the music world & it just seemed to be more about trying to disrespect them as opposed to offering an opinion.
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Talking about geriatric rock....check this out for a rest home jam session
Joe Walsh is a bit like Ozzy Osbourne in that he seems barely coherent when he talks but he still knows how to rock on stage. I love his unique voice, quirky lyrics and guitar playing ability.
I’ve mentioned on here quite often how overrated I think the Beatles are but Ringo is definitely likeable and loves what he does so hats off to him for that after all these years.
If anything his drumming is under rated by the public. Other musos rate him very highly.
Yep. the likes of DJ Fontana, Stewart Copeland, Dave Grohl, Phil Collins etc, etc have Ringo in the top 3 or 5 drummers of all time
What was amazing in that clip was the precise synchronised beats from the two drummers
There's a running joke in the muso world which goes: "What do metronomes use to keep time? A: A Ringo"
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I'd rather go with someone who actually plays music a bit.
Session drummer D. J. Fontana recalled a 20 minute jam session with Ringo: "He never varied from that tempo - you couldn't move him with a crane. He has the greatest conception of tempo I've ever heard in my life. I have never heard anybody play that steady in my life, and that's a long time."
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@Victor-Meldrew said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I'd rather go with someone who actually plays music a bit.
Session drummer D. J. Fontana recalled a 20 minute jam session with Ringo: "He never varied from that tempo - you couldn't move him with a crane. He has the greatest conception of tempo I've ever heard in my life. I have never heard anybody play that steady in my life, and that's a long time."
One thing I will give him credit for is not playing boring drum solos.
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@mariner4life All I can think of is Office Space when I hear this song.
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I recently listed to a DJ set of nothing but 1960's French pop songs. Most of them were original, but notable were also this song (writen by Sonny, originally sung by Cher). I liked this way more than the original - I wonder how much of that is the sexy French accent...
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 cool is liking what you like and not giving a shit about other arbitrary views.
I do like that album. Fave track is suicide and redemption.
Oh I don’t but was just wondering all the same.
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“I want some of that. It looks… orgasmic!”
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
This article from Quincy Jones has always irked me a bit.
How do you define good / bad musicians? Ability to play a tune or ability to write a tune?
Ability to compose / put together a song, or ability to play a very complex time signature?
He can talk about Paul McCartney being a shitty bass player as much as he wants. But he owned Glastonbury this year playing bass, piano, guitar and singing. At 80 years old.
Quincy Jones opinion here is worth less than used toilet paper.
He can be kinda snob dickish in his opinions, but I like to hear from genius unfiltered, and I always listen to what he says, he’s a musical genius. He comes from a jazz background, and for him the height of musicianship I suspect is probably throwing sheet music in front of a band and having them nail it on first inspection in the company of an ensemble, and/or to improvise in a live performance. That has always been the highest aspiration of rock drummers like Ginger Baker and Bill Bruford and Charlie Watts, to be taken seriously as musicians by their jazz contemporaries. you just have to see the credits on his records to see the supremely highquality of musicans he employed, the highest paid studio session musicians in the business, who could nail a hit record in one take in the morning, record live big band arrangements with Sinatra for lunch, and then recording a movie soundtrack in the afternoon. He could get pretty psychedelic too.
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Waylon. Now, see, that’s a man’s voice. A real man. Some damn fine pickin’, too.
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In 1967 Tony Williams was 21 years old, and had already been a legend since he was a teenager. This made many rock drummers deeply insecure, they were in awe and could only dream to possess such talent.
