What are you listening to, right now................
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@Snowy said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
All they said was "Do-do-do, do-do, do-do-do"
That's what I like in a girl personally.
solid
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@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
My first LP and CD was probably the same album, Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms" in 1985.
IIRC the first cassette I bought was Men At Work's "Business as Usual" in 1981. I still have it in a box with my other cassettes.
1985 is closer to the end of the vinyl era than 1982 is. I bought a CD player in 85 and I bought Brothers In Arms and Blood On The Tracks at the same time. But generally there was bugger all CDs available, at least in Whangarei.
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More “watching “ than “listening to” but there’s a really interesting doco on BBC at the moment called “The Jazz Ambassadors “ about the propaganda use of musicians like Dizzy G and Louis Armstrong during the Cold War. It’s a piece of history I was oblivious to.
Really highlights the social influence and cross cultural power of music.
Some other stuff more suitable for the politics board but the power of music is strong -
Powderfinger are doing a concert on YouTube and it's awesome
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I cannot believe that in recent top lists, I didn’t include this:
Gillans vocals absolutely on point for current headspace.
Emotionally epic music at its absolute peak.
This song deserves to be their standard.....not fucken Smoke on the Water. ( As an aside what THE FUCK is up with the crowd ? were they expecting to hear some chamber music ? ) So good. Everyone nailed it.
Shit they were an awesome group....man for man you could argue each individual was equal or better than Zep.........but Deep Purple for whatever reason don't quite occupy that echelon.
Richie invented shredding, fuck that dude could play like a motherfucker.
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@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage That is THE Deep Purple song, and why I rate In Rock so highly. Unfortunately it hasn't been played live in a long time (2002) because of the vocals required.
Yeahs 74 now. Means stopped singing it at 56.
Fair cop.
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage That is THE Deep Purple song, and why I rate In Rock so highly. Unfortunately it hasn't been played live in a long time (2002) because of the vocals required.
Yeahs 74 now. Means stopped singing it at 56.
Fair cop.
Saw them in 2006. Gillan hilariously completely missed the intro to Highway Star and cracked up while doing so.
They were cool but definitely a concert of two halves, second being better once they busted out that, "Space Truckin", "Speed King", "Black Night", "Strange Kind of Woman" etc after a few songs no one knew.
If you think about it Steve Morse has been the guitarist for Deep Purple longer than Richie but despite being brilliant he just doesn't have the same magic for me. Mind you it sounds like Richie has the dickhead personality to match the talent.
Roger Glover is a joy to watch live. He just looks like he loves it. Paice's chops had slowed down quite a bit but he still nailed it. Gotta be one of Rocks most underrated drummers of that era cos he's every bit as brilliant as Bonham/Moon/Baker were. ( Sabbaths Bill Ward is incredible too )
For evidence of this look no further than the California Jam.......( How different were they only 4 years later than @MajorRages initial vid ? )
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Hell yeah! 78 and 79 were Auckland punk years. Scavengers, Reptiles, Proud Scum, Toy Love....
I was a bit younger than you but from about 80 on was sneaking into places like Reverb Room, Rumba Bar and Mainstreet.
Strangest gig I look back on was Toy Love playing on what must have been a summer tour at the already closed down Marineland at Orewa. I’m guessing the summer of 79/80. Climbed the fence with some mates and stolen beer.My brother set up and ran the Reverb Room from its outset until the cops shut it down booked the bands as well. I was overseas at the time and every now an then I'd get a cassette of someone like Blam Blam Blam recorded live.
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Snowy No More Heroes. If I remember I heard Rattus at a party and went out and bought it. Bugger me if a couple of days later No More Heroes was out. Back then there was no NZ music press, not even Rip It Up., so there was no way of knowing when records would be released. They just appeared.
Not true. There was Hot Licks - I know as I reviewed for them. I had to try and find something to write about Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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@kiwiinmelb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Hell yeah! 78 and 79 were Auckland punk years. Scavengers, Reptiles, Proud Scum, Toy Love....
I was a bit younger than you but from about 80 on was sneaking into places like Reverb Room, Rumba Bar and Mainstreet.
Strangest gig I look back on was Toy Love playing on what must have been a summer tour at the already closed down Marineland at Orewa. I’m guessing the summer of 79/80. Climbed the fence with some mates and stolen beer.Hahah I remember all those bands , then a few ska bands emerged , and the skin heads
The Windsor Castle was another good venue,
In that late 70s period in NZ ,
it seemed like there were only two music scenes , punk or disco ,and they were polar opposites , and you had to pick onefunny looking back
I played a gig at te Windsor Castle once - well when I say played a gig to be more precise I was giving whoever it was shit and he said if I could do better I was welcome to try. So I played Lay Lady Lay for about an hour. I didn't know the words and I can't play guitar. So i gave it the good old punk thrash and fortunately everyone was at least as wasted as me so it all turned out OK
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I remember well how the staff at the Windsor used to turn on the fire alarm at 10 minutes to closing, usually while the band was trying to drown it out with their last songs and encores.
If you have a copy of the Netherworld Dancing Toys 'Song and Dance' EP you can here the alarm ringing away on the live version of Change to the Contrary