Dang!!!!

[dreric]

Being the soon-to-be middle aged fart that I am, I spend a lot of time listening to performers who are either dead or currently shadows of their former selves.

But I'm always drawn to passion, talent and the bands that have the skills to perform their music live.

This one popped up on my radar............... Dang! This girl can sing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma9lzcUe ... re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlhOgQ36m8&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZL9RUYf ... re=related

Anyone new hitting the mark for ya?

Eric

[KindaFuzzy]

I've really been into the black keys and deerhoof lately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5OsTCgOth0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIsU3dNf ... re=related

[Colossal]

Being the soon-to-be middle aged fart that I am, I spend a lot of time listening to performers who are either dead or currently shadows of their former selves.

Dreric, this is an interesting observation and I wouldn't quite equate listening to "old" bands as reliving the glory days. I'm been thinking about this myself lately and I'm right there with you. Last week, my wife was home flipping around morning network TV and I came in to see Elton John being interviewed on The View (no I don't watch those clucks sitting around yammering). He was asked about his opinion of today's music. He was very frank and was largely disenfranchised with facades like American Idol and the ADD short-attention-span-theater-Twitter-Facebook-texting culture our society has selected for. Elton went on to say that he would like to see these "idols" have to write their own music and this would clearly draw the line between the artists of yore and today's pop icons.

Getting back to old music, by comparison it's very true that songs today (at least the stuff that we are allowed to hear on the radio) don't have staying power. Nothing has been written like The Song Remains The Same/Stairway or The Wall or Bohemian Rhapsody or The Grand Illusion or Come Sail Away or Tom Sawyer ad infinitum since those days where musicians were actually artists. If you listen to the diarrhea-brown, homogenized sound that passes for today's hard rock (Nickelback, Shinedown, Staind, etc) it's all the same sound: same Mesa Boogie/PRS/LP droptuned stuff. But no real staying power, no great passion, there's just something...not there.

Didn't mean to drop off on a tangent but Dreric your post reminded me of how hard one has to search to find really cool music today. I've really been digging Jack White's work with The White Stripes and The Raconteurs. I was just on iTunes yesterday looking for some new stuff and ended up checking out more old stuff

[Bob S]

+++ on Jack White. I watched him on VH1C with Jimmy Paige & U2's Edge. Raw talent with attitude. He's one of the new breed that would still have made it back in the day.
I'd like to say don't worry about being an old fart - it doesn't hurt.
But it does.

[Colossal]

+++ on Jack White. I watched him on VH1C with Jimmy Paige & U2's Edge. Raw talent with attitude. He's one of the new breed that would still have made it back in the day.
I'd like to say don't worry about being an old fart - it doesn't hurt.
But it does.

Yeah, It Might Get Loud is a great rockumentary. It was nothing short of magical to see Jimmy Page playing Ramble On on that HiWatt (Jimmy Page Custom 100 nonetheless). You could feel the power in that amp. It was cool to Jack grinning like an idiot watching Jimmy play and talk. We'd all gawk like idiots too to see Page with his original '59 that had seen countless stages and written the stuff of rock legend.

Jack White has real talent for sure and is a great musician that seems unfettered by rules. I like his attitude and his music really grows on you. The Raconteurs stuff is really cool too. Same energy as The White Stripes but a little more polish. I gotta say that Icky Thump (White Stripes song) is one of my favorites (killer riff) and the tone he is getting is great.

[dreric]

Thanks for the tip on Deer hoof and the Black keys. I liked the tiger head and the keys were very cool. Thanks

For me there two issues that this post brought up. First it reminded me that every generation re-defines itself artistically. Rap was the first music that made me sound like my father: "I don't see how these KIDS can listen to this crap" Having three teenagers has reminded me over and over that there are only twelve notes, two or three popular scales and a handful of beats to bump to. I'm not suppose to "get" their music as my life's sound track is in the greatest hits phase while theirs is shiny and new.

The second issue is quality or more so our ability to find quality. I gave up watching TV fifteen years ago so I've missed the whole "idol" thing as well as the "reality" TV saga. At this point when I see TV it amazes me that anyone would watch it, it's so ramped up and sensationalized.

After the Counting Crows and Sound Garden hit rock radio in the 90's all the bands started to sound the same to the same to me so I started listening to the radio less and less. Recently I've been pushing to expose myself to "new to me" music.

While commercial broadcasting has become more homogenized and profit oriented than I ever thought possible the flip side is that technology the internet has made it possible for anyone to be come their own broadcaster and for us of us to become fans or critics. The for music, the moneys gone and while this is sad. However the ability artists have to get their art out into the world is astounding....... finding it is the key.

Finding these broadcasts, finding the new passion and talent is what what this post was about .............. who are you listing to now that is new?

Eric

[C Moore]

Being the soon-to-be middle aged fart that I am, I spend a lot of time listening to performers who are either dead or currently shadows of their former selves.

But I'm always drawn to passion, talent and the bands that have the skills to perform their music live.

This one popped up on my radar............... Dang! This girl can sing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma9lzcUe ... re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlhOgQ36m8&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZL9RUYf ... re=related

Anyone new hitting the mark for ya?

Eric

Somebody is really pushing the whole Super Model/Chic Rock Star image on her. Very sad to see. Grace is much prettier than that.
Cat Popper is also a beauty. Hard to believe there are two, such pretty "girls" in one band.
Anyway.......
Yeah, they are a great band and a breath of fresh air in an otherwise stale music scene.....