Vacant Horizon
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dude, downloaded a few Darkside tunes. sounds great. the piano is awesome, is it a keyboard? doesn't sound like it. also, the sound is really warm. also, y'all really got the floyd feeling. it's like More era Floyd playing Darkside tunes. good stuff.
craig
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what up?
been wanting to bring this up for a while am finally getting around to it. my basic question to y'all is, do you ever get overwhelmed by music; what to listen too, what to buy etc. for me it's coming in basically 3 different directions, my ipod, torrents, and emusic. so i have enrolled and cancelled at emusic like 50 times because i just end up downloading all this stuff that i only having an ancillary insterest in (for example, i thought i was really gonna get into john fahey, but didn't) same with torrents. tom waits discography, springsteen, paul mccartney solo etc. so i get all this stuff on my 30 gig ipod excited, but ultimately overwhelmed and feeling a bit claustrophobic. first, the asthetics of having ALL of my music in one little box is hard to take after years of a tangible album, cd, tape collection. moreover, the bitrate issue, ahhhhhhhhhh! so i sit down to listen and i just can't decide. i end up listening to all this crap from emusic or torrents and ignoring the shit i love. (SBS for example). or, i put it on shuffle and just keep pressing the forward to button to 'see what's next'. so then i delete everything on my ipod, delete all the shit i downloaded b/c i feel guilty, and decide i am gonna go back to cds which becomes a hassle and so the cycle continues!
now part of this post is in jest, but also serious, as, like you, i am serious about music. so any kindred spirits out there? and please, let's dialogue. please no 'get it together' comments. just curious about y'alls experience with the new digital age and it's advantages and dare i say, disadvantages.
peace
craig
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great article. glad to see jason is really trying to get the sound right etc. too many times these old bands play reunions and they just use what ever technology and studio musicians they can get and it just sounds so hollow. for example, the eagle's replacement dude for don felder. i mean, he just had a crunch to his playing that only he had. so with zep, i am glad they're getting the sound right. page plant was good, but it wasn't zep. not to mention that 'drums' have all but become a nonentity in music since the 80s. just all reverbed etc. at least some of the indy bands are trying to get back to that nice warm, dry drum sound from the 70s.
so that pic is just great! they all look awesome, especially page and plant. they are still cool rock stars comfy in their own skin and not caught up in any fads like in the 80s and 90s. just look at plant's hair through the years!
i am not expecting zep from 73. i love plant's voice now, especially on raising sand. so, lowering the keys of the tunes is no big deal to me. although it sounds like a nightmare for page, seriously. i think that's why they got into rearranging everything for the no quater project as they needed to change keys and that just makes the song sound different. now page is gonna sound great no matter what and of course jpj will lay it down. i hope they are making sure his low end is phat and high in the mix! my hope is that they do what sounds good now, given their age etc. and not try to kill themselves rocking out or for plant, hitting the high notes.
So here's to some really good intentional rock from the masters. custard pie, houses, in the light, rain song, for your life...all would be great nice and slow.
craig
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hmm. several candidates for my top ten are in their 25-35 region. my number one isn't even on there.
where's neil young and, dare i say it, the eagles!!
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Led Zeppelin have been working on new arrangements of classic tunes ahead of their hugely anticipated comeback show next month - because frontman Robert Plant can't hit the high notes anymore.
The legendary outfit have been rehearsing songs in a lower key because 59-year old Plant's voice has got lower over the years, The Sun newspaper claims.
A source has said that it isn't plain sailing for guitarist Jimmy Page either.
"Jimmy is a bit rusty and Robert has been struggling with the high notes. To avoid any embarrassing vocal wobbles with the world watching, they decided it would be best to transpose the songs in a lower key."
The December 10 gig at London's O2 Arena - the band's first in 19 years - was postponed by two weeks after Page, 63, broke a finger.
More than 1million fans applied for tickets to see the band. Earlier this month Page said they would debut an "intense" new song live.
Source NME
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Yes, I did like the Eagles.
And I don't think that they suck. But after hearing the same damn songs over and over...
And that applies to ANYTHING that Don Henley sings on, actually. Just one of those voices and one of those presences whose mere existance has been working on my nerves for the last 25 or 30 years. And I think that is probably how most of the Eagles haters here feel. Nobody denies them their talent, it's just...
ENOUGH ALREADY.
That said, Joe Walsh has escaped a lot of the ill feelings associated with his former band. Both from me and from many other Eagles haters that I know. I think it's the sense of humor that has saved him.
well, the eagles are one of the few bands that i can hear their tunes over and over and never tire. hotel california and peaceful easy feeling being 2. that being said, i hate desperado and witching. i also pretty much hate glenn frey and don henley solo because they were played ALL THE TIME on mtv and top forty radio in the 80s!! now, i can see folks who grew up listening to radio in the 70s hating the eagles. like hating boston, styx, etc. too much airplay. i was a little kid in the 70s i had one record by blondie. unfortunately, my mom listened to the bee gees:(
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it's available as a podcast. caught this just randomly b/c i started listening to the podcast. although i am not a fan, i love to watch artists create and this was very cool! it is funny during the last interview, merritt is packing up and just cant wait to get out of the studio.
c
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My head is filled with (what should be forgettable) songs from the 1970s as my eyes soak in the scenes of another Tuesday morning. I
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well, i admit i am a fan. i love the old stuff, so i was looking forward to this, not expecting much though. i got what i expected. ridiculous lyrics (how about some metaphors and less preaching) also the prodution is totally compressed!! its so frustrating these days. like the new bruce album, sounds like they took the sound, stuffed it into a little tin can, put the lid on a poked one hole in it for the sound to eeek out!
anyway, there are a few good henley tunes on the album. some tracks are just insufferable with keyboards circa 1988. i mean, how can these dudes think that sounds good coming out of the 70s. proves my theory that most of the dudes in the 70(except neil young?) just got lucky with technology and the production of the time. they have no sense of production or sonics or arrangement. they just go with what ever the popular methods/instrumentation of time. so many fairly good songs and albums in the 80s and 90s were just ruined by cheese ball production.
i digress. fyi, the joe walsh songs are okay on the new album. (why is he in the eagles?)
all of this is not to say that i haven't been listening to it!
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ever interested in new artists?
man, i post rarely and it never fails that there is some asshole that has to respond with something akin to the above. so a question back at ya littlebear, "got better things to do?"
c
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i really was just expecting an mor neil record. which this is. nothing as great as The Painter or Flags of Freedom from the LWW set. Ordinary people is just too long. so is hidden path. the other songs are okay, but nothing amazing. it does have warm feeling to it and i'll probably warm up to it at some point. that's the way i was with Prairie wind and LWW. really diggin the new bruce disc and looking forward to new eagles!
c
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apparently when they said "3 tracks are old", they did mean old, not just written years ago either
link:
http://download.rbn.com/rstone/rstone/down...inarypeople.mp3
this is just getting worse by the minute. if Beautiful Bluebird is the original recording then that's it! An Old Ways outtake on a new album. God dammit Neil!! should've just thrown in some Landing On Water and Everybody's Rockin outtakes as well. Would've made for a great 'new' album. Neil has all this amazing shit from the 70s and he releases tunes from two of his most unpopular times. I mean, the bluenotes was a joke and neil knew it. That's why we got the comeback with Freedom, Ragged Glory and Harvest Moon. Now some may think these aren't great, but they were better than any 80s Neil. Which I like actually. But I liked it in the 80s. Maybe Geffen did have a case against Neil in the 80s.
Really wishing Neil just put out an EP of the new tunes or something.
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I avoid most anything Neil from the 80's (even Freedom) so this is pretty awful to my ears. Are we just supposed to ignore that terrible synth? Really curious to hear how this will match up with the rest of the record now...
i agree! this is utterly ridiculous for neil to do. it's one thing to release an archive, but a song recorded in the 80s with that terrible sound and release it as new. unacceptable. especially 80 minutes worth. god that synth is aweful. i mean, who sat down and said, hey this sounds great. really. i mean there is just nothing to look forward to anymore. artists are so god damn dissappointing!
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I'm a big fan of Freedom, so I'm excited...won't hear til tomorrow.
good deal. i am a fan of freedom era as well. really was hoping for something new though...oh well.
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thanks!
let us know what you think...
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heard the first single, the 18 min. 'Ordinary People'...it was obviously recorded in the late 80s. it has such a cheezy synth piano on it along with the 80s drum sound ect along with neil soundling like he is 40 years old, not 62. inexcusable move on neil's part. and again, if the tour is neil and pegi, as with farm aid, it's gonna be painful. pegi is flat as hell.
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had a huge 70s fusion stage in the mid 90s. Joe was one of the greats. Birdland actually came up on my ipod yesterday. RIP..
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Schreiber's semi-favorable review, which begins in earnest after a six-paragraph preamble comprising a long list of baroquely rendered, seemingly unrelated anecdotes peppered with obscure references, summarizes music as a "solid but uninspired effort."
this quote says it all about pitchfork and lots of other so called indie music rags/sites.
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well, i was really excited about this tour, but then i heard neil's farm aid set from last sunday night. (it's out there for those interested)...it was basically unlistenable. he sounds like an old man (no pun intended). just really tired and worn out. don't want to see him like that. he was pretty energenic on the CSNY tour last year. maybe an off night?
c
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agreed on the production end. i am just used to it now or i wouldn't buy any new cds ever. obrien has produced some good records. he did the thorns record which was a bit over produced, but was clean and less 'normalized'. the rising and now magic is just ridiculous. i just imagine bruce and brendon sitting in the studio (which is right down the street from my house, by the way) and saying, wow this sounds great. it's muddy shit! wish he could produce a record like his wife's most recent one. although i can't stand her voice, the production is clean, warm, and has that 'in the room' sound. just don't get the fascination with obrien.
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Is she in the Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen school of one hit wonders??
LouieB
well y'all might be right. my initial post may be an overstatement
but, i just randomly heard her cd and i havent really really dug a new album since, maybe AGIB.i don't really know where she fits on the spectrum of female artists ie amy winehouse, avril lavine?
c
ps-rock does need a bit of saving. for me that is. i have been in a rut!
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...saving rock and roll as far as I am concerned.
Serioiusly.
(just my opinion)
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that ocean is better than anythin on song remains the same. damn, it's kick ass!! love it when bonham sings and some roadie holds out a mic for him. to have seen zep in the ealry 70s! amazing!
NEW DBT Album Announced
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well, it's gonna be too long, but the shana songs are awesome!! she needs to do a solo album. really wish they made it a double or just held off. patterson just doesn't need to put all his damn songs on the dbt albums. especially ones about murder and meth. i've had enough of those. cooley, well, he's the man.
craig