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    Preferring The 'Wrong' Version

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    Anyone else find themselves on the wrong side of popular opinion when it comes to original versions vs cover versions? Three examples for me that I've had to play:

    Ain't no Love in the Heart of the City - brought the Bobby Bland version to a band, everyone else wanted to do the White snake version.

    Too Hard to Handle - can't find anyone else who wants to play it in the Otis Redding style.

    Knocking on Heaven's Door - we played mainly Dylan covers, and the drummer insisted on ramping it up like the awful GnR version. 

    Northern Exposure

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    Me and a colleague (late 80s) were obsessed with Johnny Staccato. Great Big Band theme by Elmer Bernstein, and even a stylish clip (blink and you'll miss it) of some double bass playing.

     

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    Facebook advertising, is it worth it?

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    I used to put very small amounts on FB ads and made a highly focused target audience. Got nothing from it.

    There are a couple of bands who I have become aware of due to FB ads - When Rivers Meet are the ones I can name. No idea what they are like as I haven't listened to them, however, I have seen them climbing up the festival circuit bills.

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    Unacknowledged musicians

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    2 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

    I think the list of unacknowledged/unappreciated but hugely talented musicians goes down the road and around the block several times especially $h!t hot pioneering guitarists outside the rock genre e.g. Tommy Emmanuel, Lenny Breau, Danny Gatton, Leo Kottke, Adrian Legg, Peter Huttlinger, Roy Buchanan, Isaac Guillory, Martin Taylor, John Jourgensen, Pierre Bensusan, Davy Graham, Andy McKee, Tony McManus, Bryan Sutton, Scotty Anderson...

    Some great names here, but all highly acknowledged albeit in their specialist fields. Unlike another example here of Andy Partridge who had some huge hits in the mainstream, but whose name, and musical contributions are somewhat overlooked. 

    But then that's the joy of discussions such as this one.

    Name a Genre an give me your top 3 tracks from it

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    9 minutes ago, Jackroadkill said:

    Opera;

     

    The Habanera, from Bizet's sublime Carmen:

     

     

    Another perhaps obvious choice; The Queen of the Night's Aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute.

     

     

     

    And lastly, the maestro himself:

     

     

     

    Not to everyone's taste, granted, but opera gives me something that I don't get elsewhere.

    Oddly for me (an atheist) it is choral music rather than Opera that can really have an impact. Mozart's Grand Mass in Cm, and Thomas Tallis Spem in Allium are two very different but great examples.

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    Streaming Platforms

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    Occasional Spotify user here. I only use it for reference and anything I want I will buy a physical copy. Have a real problem with their business model and sound quality. An example was listening to Searching For the Young Soul Rebels - I couldn't believe how bad it sounded. Bought the CD and it was every bit as good as I remembered.

    Rounding off a 55+ year old project

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    Just seen the rest of the pictures. That's a great bass with no caveats. When you do add the caveats of your then lack of knowledge, experience, and the lack of available knowledge and resources 50+ years ago, this is absolutely exceptional. 

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    The New Music Thread

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    4 hours ago, LowB_FTW said:

    Slash has a new album out soon, it's gonna be a blues covers album with one original song on it, and he's released a video for the first single, Killing Floor (YouTube link to video).

    Album to be titled Orgy of the Damned, and will feature the following tracks, together with other artists performing on them …

     

    1. The Pusher feat. Chris Robinson (Wayne Hoyt Axton)
    2. Crossroad Blues feat. Gary Clark Jr (Robert Johnson)
    3. Hoochie Coochie Man feat. Billy F. Gibbons (Willie Dixon)
    4. Oh Well feat. Chris Stapleton (Peter Green)
    5. Key to the Highway feat. Dorothy (Charles Segar, William Broonzy)
    6. Awful Dream feat. Iggy Pop (Lightnin' Hopkins, Clarence Lewis, C Morgan Robinson)
    7. Born Under a Bad Sign feat. Paul Rodgers (William Bell and Booker T. Jones)
    8. Papa Was a Rolling Stone feat. Demi Lovato (Barrett Strong, Jesse Norman Whitfield)
    9. Killing Floor feat. Brian Johnson, Steven Tyler (Chester Burnett)
    10. Living for the City feat. Tash Neal, Jenna Bell, Jessie Payo (Stevie Wonder)
    11. Stormy Monday feat. Beth Hart (T-Bone Walker)
    12. Metal Chestnut (Slash)

     

    If that track above is an indication of the overall quality of the album, I think I'm going to like this.

     

    Mark

    That's one hell of a line up. 

    My band is about to be on the radio...

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    Update 2 - the importance of promotion: seeing on Bandcamp the Andy Rourke credit I realised I had liked your stuff before, but with so much else going on I had forgotten. You need to keep reminding people (especially those of us of a certain vintage) 😆

    Keep up the great work!

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