lowdown Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 80's was a great time for me. I was particularly into a lot of singers from over the pond. George Benson, Luther Vandross, Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, James Ingram, Chaka Khan...endless really. Also a lot of Quincy Jones productions, all with the top end LA and New York studio players. The American, so called super groups (rock) went well down with me. Plus never ending TV theme music. Chick Corea, David Sanborn, Dave Grusin, George Duke...etc. Like I said, good for me and a lot of good challenging Bass lines to play. http://youtu.be/ur8ftRFb2Ac http://youtu.be/cjqOsYRQI0o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lojo Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 [quote name='paul h' timestamp='1437115097' post='2823627'] That is an awesome set list. I could do without Sweet Child but other than that it's spot on. [/quote] Yeah Im with you on that, though Walking on Sunshine is tired also, we actually skipped it last gig. [quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1437149023' post='2824059'] I am guessing you have a female singer? There is a few I would do with a different singer than ours. [/quote] Yes, and a cracking voiced one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybone Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 As much as I hated the Pop music of the 80's (and still do!), there seemed to be a lot more variety in styles, and a lot of "underground" scenes which didn't get much mainstream press at the time, though Sounds, NME & Melody Maker tried to cover a large variety of stuff. Though to be fair until the advent of Stock, Aitken & Waterman, there seemed to be far less "manufactured" music around than there was in the 70's and 90's and beyond. Who else listened to John Peel on the radio and discovered a whole heap of different music good/bad or indifferent? Everything seems to be "pigeonholed" these days into some sort of tightly confined sub-sub genre. If you like it, you like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Really pleased to see that people remember The Prisoners!! Tremendous act and extremely influential if you're playing in the garage/mod/60s vibe circuit. I recently got an LP from their latest incarnation Graham Day and the Forefathers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Riva Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 [quote name='Baxter' timestamp='1439147931' post='2840423'] Really pleased to see that people remember The Prisoners!! Tremendous act and extremely influential if you're playing in the garage/mod/60s vibe circuit. I recently got an LP from their latest incarnation Graham Day and the Forefathers [/quote] Graham Day was on Eddie Piller's Modcast a while back talking about the band.. Probably still available to download from iTunes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 [quote name='Old Man Riva' timestamp='1439151414' post='2840448'] Graham Day was on Eddie Piller's Modcast a while back talking about the band.. Probably still available to download from iTunes? [/quote] I'll have a look. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybone Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Was speaking to someone a while ago, and telling them about a club I used to frequent, that was "home" to Goths, Punks, Indie Kids, Psycho-billes, Bikers, Rockers, Retro-heads & generally all the 80's sub-cultures that didn't find any of the other clubs that interesting. A huge wide variety of music was played, and a huge wide variety of people mingled in the same space. Great place & saw loads of cracking underground bands there before quite a few of them went on to "make it". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 I thought that gated snare thing was Bowie's legacy from 'Let's Dance'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike f Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1439221411' post='2840989'] I thought that gated snare thing was Bowie's legacy from 'Let's Dance'? [/quote] I thought it was "Modern Love"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 The gated snare drum sound has it's origins in Peter Gabriel's 3rd album from 1980. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toneknob Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1439224567' post='2841018'] The gated snare drum sound has it's origins in Peter Gabriel's 3rd album from 1980. [/quote] Yep, from Intruder. (Hence my earlier "Blame Phil Collins" mention). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Some think it was earlier than that, and pushed and made popular by the above. Quote: "What were some of the first records in the early 80's to adopt the huge reverb on snare and vocals that became associated with that era. Or was it late 70's that this trend started? What popularized it was when Phil Collins played drums on the Peter Gabriel track "Intruder" produced by Hugh Padgham. After that the flood gates were opened for the 80's... From Wiki... Perhaps the earliest known use of the gated snare drum technique was on the recording Mondo Bondage (first verse only) from the 1975 self-titled debut album of the San Francisco rock band The Tubes.[dubious – discuss] The drums were played by Prairie Prince. Recording produced by Al Kooper and engineered by Lee Rhett Keifer. Recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder used it on many of the songs on the 1976 album Velvet Darkness by Jazz fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth.[citation needed] The drummer on this recording was Narada Michael Walden. Another early use of this technique was on the 1977 David Bowie album Low. Use of the gated reverb effect spread to popular music during the 1980s. Producer Mutt Lange was a pioneer at drenching the recorded drum sound in gated reverb. An early and prominent use of gated reverb was in Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Hugh Padgham's production of the third Peter Gabriel solo album" http://youtu.be/RP04AiRv8N0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TransistorBassMan Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 (edited) I'm a big fan of music from the 80's, and I feel that there are too many lazy generalisations made about it. My favourite album, Gary Numan's Telekon, was released in 1980. Yes, it has lots of synths, but the main instruments are piano, bass and drums. Does it sound like a "typical 80s" album? (if there is such a thing) It took less than a minute to come up with this list of bands who released some great stuff between 1980 and 1989 , and I could make it a lot longer. The Specials Big Country Red Guitars The Cult The Beat Madness The Cure The Bolshoi Fun Boy Three The Wonder Stuff Jesus Jones The Skids The Bolshoi The Planet Wilson Japan Level 42 Edited August 12, 2015 by TransistorBassMan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 I agree, the bolshoi are good enough to name twice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopsdabassist Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Ah Big Country...That was a band from the 80's I enjoyed immensely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 [quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1439362316' post='2842092'] Ah Big Country...That was a band from the 80's I enjoyed immensely! [/quote] They are still gigging Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybone Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 With Mike Peter's of The Alarm singing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TransistorBassMan Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 (edited) Mike Peters isn't singing with Big Country these days. Simon Hough is on vocals now. And Derek Forbes is playing bass for them. Edited August 12, 2015 by TransistorBassMan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzodog Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 [quote name='TransistorBassMan' timestamp='1439382409' post='2842311'] Mike Peters isn't singing with Big Country these days. Simon Hough is on vocals now. And Derek Forbes is playing bass for them. [/quote] That is correct. Always thought Mike Peters was going to be a long standing member of Big Country. The Alarm were another classic band though and had some great songs well into the 90s. 68 Guns is still one of my favourite all time songs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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