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Some of you noobs may not have caught this classic Jam. Rise to the occasion and give it a shot. Once you’re finished and your mind is clear tell us what’s on your mind.
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Some of you noobs may not have caught this classic Jam. Rise to the occasion and give it a shot. Once you’re finished and your mind is clear tell us what’s on your mind.
Hey, you replaced the Farrah Fawcett (Majors) poster with the best little band from Tejas! No fair!
Yeah, I dig this jam mostly cause it’s clocks in at just over two minutes and it kicks ass.
You think that kid was dreaming about the Top or his mom? Eeewwwww!
You know, this whole Classic Jam consideration thing brings to mind the concept of musical/beauty timelessness.
The unfortunate truth however that musicians and models/actresses themselves are far exempt from the same timeless equation their best historic efforts adhere to.
Now, apart from going ultra philosophical, can you honestly think of one band/musician or model/actress that truly kept getting better with time? One who’s output (not to be confused with “putting out”)is honestly better today than it was all them years ago.
I personally can’t right off hand. ZZ Top were one of the best hard rock bands of all time during their heyday.Their historic timeless output proves as much. Unfortunately, nothing they have done since Eliminator has even remotely got me excited.
There are some pretty damn hot women out there between 40 & 60 years old. No question. But can you name me one that wasn’t hotter at 30?
I will offer YOU a challenge Mr. Moderator or anyone else who cares to try:
Name me one Rock artist/band who’s output is honestly better now, than back when they blew your mind first. Just one.
writehearnow, I’m probably way too old to be able to think of an artist/band who also hasn’t developed past the point when they first peaked in their youth. If I closely followed any artist with only 3 or 4 albums out, I might be able to suggest such an artist, but that artist would still probably be around the magical age of 30. I will say, however, that Nick Lowe’s last 3 new releases are more consistent, track per track, than his first 3 solo albums. For me, only the extreme greatness of Labour of Lust would put the collective greatness of the first 3 album (the first one being up and down and the third one kind of sucking) over the last 3. How’s that?
Honestly, as I age, I don’t think the question is how much better we get but how manage living in the face of what we know. To do that AND to express it creatively is an especially tough challenge.
Great, great, GREAT. I realize such admissions are based in subjectivity, but what the heck. I think it’s great that you could actually think of someone that is better these days than they were.
Personally, other than his last release, I would nominate Beck as having gotten better for me than his earlier stuff.
I would assuredly say the Boredoms got more ro my liking than their earlier noise related material. Talk about BigSteve’s left turn scenario.
But still in yet, I don’t think much any of the “Classic Rockers” (late60s/70s) artists/bands got “better” in terms of the magic that their creative output represents. Not to me anyhow. Maybe better technically as musicians, maybe they even figured out how to sell more records which is truly mind blowing, but all too often their creativity seems stricken with the binding rigor mortis of artistic days far more so mobile having since passed.
One of my musical heros is Joseph Haydn, who absolutely, positively got better at writing music until the day he dropped down dead.
Mr. Mod has already heard some of my half-baked ideas for capitalizing on all the Great rock music, written by people who blossom late in life, that you’ll never otherwise hear.
The same old, same old:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/arts/music/04arts-DRUGSANDALCO_BRF.html
If there’s any drug that kills rock ‘n roll, let alone rock ‘n rollers, it may be coke.
hrrundivbakshi, I would certainly be interested in these “ideas” if you have a link back to them or whatnot.
Sad about the drug related death. I have never even heard of Jay Reatard, but no matter, it’s always tragic when an artist meets their demise as a result of drug abuse. The mind of a junkie is a hard thing to fathom. I heard Frank Zappa, or perhaps read Zappa as stating that he just couldn’t imagine how someone could be that cruel to themselves. No one can who is not an addict/junkie. It just doesn’t work that way.
Drugs and cultures that support recreational drug use are a lot like a quote by Nietzsche that I first read in a book by Robert Ressler years ago. The quote is:
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
I know from experience what I nightmare of a drug coke is. All drug addiction for that matter. One could quickly and accurately substitute “is attracted to” for “fights” in the above quote and far more becomes clear instantly.
“we are often attracted to what we are most afraid of, and we often do best what we least like to do”
I believe the above is a sloppily paraphrased quote via the Character Don Juan Matus in one of Carlos Castaneda’s earlier books.
Just bought about 2,000 45 RPM records for 100 bucks from a very nice, slightly wacky old lady who has a trailer stuffed to the gills with old vinyl. I’ve already spotted some interesting stuff for a future “Thrifty Music” segment. For now, though, I’ll share my most remarkable find in the pile — which I’ve only sorted through a small portion of: a copy of a Big Star single on Ardent: “O My Soul,” in mono and stereo. Who on Earth thought that song ought to be a single?!