General Music Chat

I really cant speak now I'm knumb from this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7STUD1n8s4

I would really like to have that hi watt bass amp.

That was awesome on so many levels.

These guys get it that being a performer is as much art as being a songwriter and make the most of it.

I clicked on this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAnzBNie1Nk and liked it as well. The recording wasn't as good, but the performance was also very cool.

If I wrote that song I would just shake my head.
The message and mood of the song is completely
obliterated with the theatrics of that style of play.
Sure they're good but that song wasn't ment for that style.
In watching it, it's all about performance.

This is a writers view point.

thanks for sharing with us, I enjoyed this. Pretty much rockabilly done well with good energy. It's a refreshing change from the usual crap I hear these days.

Well, when one is performing, Klug, it isn't about the song - it's about the performance. Songwriters don't own the performance, & the beauty of it is in the eye of the beholder, for sure.

I quite liked it. Very good energy. I don't get your problem with it, but that often happens when we're talking opinions...

Hey, Paul Simon's done many terrible things to his own songs...Bridge Over Troubled Water among them. I saw him do a version of it with Black Momba Mambo, or whatever that African group he used for awhile is called. Yeah...sometimes adjustments must be made to allow for the present instrumentation & vocalists.

Sometimes it works great, & sometimes it doesn't...

If you had said "Chasing Blue Cars" I would have said Dishwalla.. lol

If I wrote that song I would just shake my head.
The message and mood of the song is completely
obliterated with the theatrics of that style of play.
Sure they're good but that song wasn't ment for that style.
In watching it, it's all about performance.

This is a writers view point.

The imagery of the band IS rockabilly. I almost never analyze the lyrics in terms of the band's performance being appropriate for the lyrical content. I mainly listen to the music. These guys are good at what they do. They just happen to be performing a song in the style of their choosing that , in your opinion, isn't appropriate for the lyrical content. So what.

Just exerciseing my opinion BOB, and you are right
I don't think it is appropriate. I said they were good
but I also think the song was writen with a mood and meaning.
It's like rap music or grunge that 30 seconds into it
you realize that you have no idea what they're
talking about it's all about the beat. I wouldn't like
that band doing any slow ballad in their style.

It's just me BOB.

Hmmm...do you prefer Bob Dylan's rendition of "All Along The Watchtower," or Jimi Hendrix'? I've done it reggae, often, & it goes over well.

IMHO, a good song is a good song, no matter WHAT genre it's played in. if it can stand up to various genres & still stand & be recognizeable, that makes it truly great!

It's just me phil. Maybe I'm a purist.

Once you write that song, & set it free, Klugmo, you've got to love it enough to let it go where it will, because, like a child that's grown, you have no more control over it.