General Music Chat

I buy and sell a lot of CDs and that CCR Chronicle CD will sell as soon as I put it out and its everywhere.

Chronicle 2 is where it's at

Still loves me CCR.

CCR and The Beatles were it for me growing up. They can't touch the Fab Four, but i do think CCR is THE greatest American R&R band.

Boston-

I remember the first time i heard a BOSTON tune and being impressed w Tom Sholz's gtr tone and how he stacked up one after another harmony part to his outro solo....but then he did that same move over and over and it got real old for me.

This is a good point. All of the bands that have really held up as bands (not just individual albums or songs) tended to grow and change with every album that put out. You can hear distinct differences in their early stuff and their later stuff. Yet, somehow, you can hear them on the radio and you know it's them immediately, even if you'd never heard the song before.

I also was intrigued by Metro Boomin's beats at first.. also Migos was a swell sounding production.. but after a while it gets too repetitive even for my mature tastes..

Mark

I saw CCR open for Allman Brothers. I thought CCR were just a local outfit, they weren't cool looking or anything. But damn, they got the job done. I very much regret that they are in conflict with each other now, a sad ending for a great band.

To the dismay of my southern friends I just don't get the Allmans...never worked for me.

Talbot

To the dismay of my southern friends I just don't get the Allmans...never worked for me.

Interesting. The Allman Brothers are one band I still (mostly) enjoy. I mean, there are a couple of songs (Stormy Monday*, Ramblin Man) that I could go forever never hearing again, but there are so many of there hits I still enjoy.

*Yes, I know, not actually an original, but their version is no more tolerable that the 10K** other versions I feel like I've heard.
**Hyperbole? Who Me?

Jessica by Allman Bros. Is cool

Jessica by Allman Bros. Is cool

I also love Whipping Post, but mostly because of the intro riff. I'm a sucker for an odd time signature.

That first solo in Blue Sky is a classic example of how to play the major and the minor scale at the same time, I practiced this solo for a couple of years its filled with all kinds of licks, and even better how Duane sets up each lick. That solo in itself is a good guitar lesson. I love the Allmans, Dickie plays the second solo and its pretty fine, but not as fluid and flowing as that first solo by Duane.

In thinking about this and some of the replies, I realized there's a sort of tangentially related thing I've noticed as well.

There are a whole bunch of songs I enjoy playing with a band that I just can't stand listening to the original anymore. The tend to be "staples", songs that you don't even really need to rehearse if you're playing with reasonably experienced musicians. Some of them are songs that musicians are tired of, honestly.

Stuff like Mustang Sally, Play That Funky Music, Dancing In The Streets, and What I Like About You. It's not that the originals are bad , it's just that I'm so used to them being standards that listening to them makes me impatient.

I think what this all proves, really, is that I'm getting to be an old fart.

Mark

I saw CCR open for Allman Brothers. I thought CCR were just a local outfit, they weren't cool looking or anything. But damn, they got the job done. I very much regret that they are in conflict with each other now, a sad ending for a great band.

To the dismay of my southern friends I just don't get the Allmans...never worked for me.

Talbot

Yeah, that was a sad turn that those guys ended up at each other's throats...esp among the Fogerty brothers.

My first concert was seeing CCR at Madison Square Garden.... They came out and played a 45 min set of their hits sounding very much like their records... Then saw them at Forrest Hills Tennis Stadium about six months later... they played the EXACT same set! Then just a cpl mos later saw them at an all day concert festival at Shea Stadium.... once again the EXACT same set!

Fast fwd a few yrs and I'm at some raceway in NJ 1973 , same yr as Watkins Glen fest w the same Iineup of The Band, Allman Bros, and The Dead..... Killer show. One of my favorite moments was the Dead's sound check. The promoters were playing all the best tunes of the day over the PA and Phil Lesh walks out on stage, plugs in and starts jamming along to "Down On The Corner" that was still being played over the PA. And oh man, was he KILLING!

I would have loved to seen the dead, you know those 2 albums Workingmans Dead and American Beauty are two I'll never get tired of, sounds like you've seen some great concerts.

I would have loved to seen the dead, you know those 2 albums Workingmans Dead and American Beauty are two I'll never get tired of, sounds like you've seen some great concerts.

those are two of my fave albums as well. also love the double live album w the skeleton on the cover. yeah, i was lucky enough to grow up in NYC back in the day when concerts were affordable!

I saw the Dead in 84, one and only time, although I had a ton of Deadhead friends and a lot of their albums. Saw The Other Ones (Dead renamed) on the last day of my honeymoon in 2000 - wife and I left early as it was just long jamming. She went to see them in the last tour before John Maher joined them.
Never listen to them now.
Never listen to CCR, Beatles, Doors, Stones, Zeppelin, a lot of other older stuff. Saturation, pure and simple - but I did rip all my CDs (including everything by the above-named bands) to a 64G thumbdrive recently, so I can listen to literally anything in my music library in the new car (which doesn't have a CD player). Next up are all my bootleg live discs - a couple hundred of them to rip to MP3(320K).

My brother and I had several cover bands before I got ambitious and moved out west. We made a short list of songs we vowed we would not play under pain of death. We didn't hate them particularly, but enough was enough:

Smoke on Water
Proud Mary
Evil Ways
....

Still can't listen to 'em.

Talbot

We made a short list of songs we vowed we would not play under pain of death.

Every band I've ever been in has a list like that. At least yours makes sense. Many of them the list was "Nothing made after <insert year here>" or "Nothing made before <insert year here>". Or other silliness like "Nothing with a male/female vocalist".

But my personal favorite: nothing that was in the top ten on Billboard. Yes, I actually had a band leader say that. Yes, really.

Because, under no circumstances should you play music that people actually like.