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Post by anarkissed on Dec 16, 2020 14:01:36 GMT -5
Somehow, I'm not comfortable with letting David Crosby have the last word about anything...
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Post by anarkissed on Dec 11, 2020 17:07:46 GMT -5
Sometimes, I imagine that my grandchildren will say: "You're telling me, back in the day, you actually went somewhere, in person, and these people who actually recorded those songs, played those same songs, live?"
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Post by anarkissed on Dec 11, 2020 15:03:22 GMT -5
So, in a different world, what songs written by Paul could have conceivably become big enough hits to be worth big money via the "placement" path? Either via the original recording or covered by someone else. Remember that story that Cameron Crowe wanted "Within Your Reach" to be the song playing in the boombox scene? Would that have made a difference? That song is on the film soundtrack.
I was thinking: Paul could have easily knocked off a dozen of those "I Wanna Rock" type songs...In an afternoon. What if he'd written something like that straight, and Quiet Riot had covered it instead of that Slade song?
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Post by anarkissed on Dec 9, 2020 10:28:20 GMT -5
Wow. I always thought "I Wanna Rock" was Sammy Hagar...
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Post by anarkissed on Dec 9, 2020 5:58:52 GMT -5
Dee Sninder supposedly really cleaned up selling a majority interest in his catalog - which for the sake of value is basically 2 big songs. Dude can live like a king and die rich off 2 metal anthems he wrote in 1984. Did he have 2? I can only think of the one...
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Post by anarkissed on Dec 8, 2020 12:34:39 GMT -5
Bob Dylan has sold the rights to his catalog of original songs to Universal Music Group. Details were not revealed, but talk was that his asking price was around $300 million. First, I was somewhat surprised that he still had the rights to his songs. Second, I was somewhat surprised that he would sell them. Universal kind of made it sound like Dylan would be still be involved in "administering" their use, but I can't imagine they'd pay for something where he had veto power. How much do you think Paul could get for his collection? I'm thinking he holds the rights to most of his, or at least once did - the publishing rights - because he had that little period where he was thinking he might transition into more of a writer for people like Glenn Campbell or whoever. $100,000?
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Post by anarkissed on Dec 8, 2020 12:28:30 GMT -5
Today is the fortieth anniversary of the death of John Lennon. I remember I was watching that ABC "Monday Night Football" game on broadcast television when Howard Cosell broke the news. I was just out of high school. I felt like all hope for humanity had been lost. Most of the time, I still feel that way...
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Post by anarkissed on Nov 16, 2020 16:14:20 GMT -5
I never found the tone or volume control on the guitar itself to be of any use whatsoever, unless it was to turn it down for a second while I took a hit off a joint...I always had those on 10 at all times. Anything less just seemed like you just lost power and tone. I did use a foot volume pedal to moderate the overall volume. But I never had really good amps either...
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Post by anarkissed on Nov 8, 2020 0:36:29 GMT -5
Wonder how one knows it is actually a Tommy bass? Is there a certificate of authenticity? A letter from Stinson? You'll just have to trust us...
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Post by anarkissed on Nov 8, 2020 0:36:06 GMT -5
All members of the board should pony up 10/20 bucks and then we can do a raffle and pick one lucky winner. What the fuck? Keep it in the family. One of us deserves this beautiful guitar. (admittedly the logistics of this would be a clusterfuck but it could be done if there was a will) I'm in...
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Post by anarkissed on Nov 8, 2020 0:34:57 GMT -5
And to be honest, particularly if we add in Bob's playing, I think there were some lucky accidents that even they couldn't recreate...
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Post by anarkissed on Nov 6, 2020 14:30:20 GMT -5
He's frustrating...I can't play any of his songs because I have no idea what he is doing...
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Post by anarkissed on Oct 16, 2020 14:14:43 GMT -5
"Answering Machine" always reminded me of EVH - the flanger on the guitar and somewhat in the way Paul plays it. There's a part in "Panama" that is similar to parts of "Answering Machine"...
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Post by anarkissed on Oct 12, 2020 6:10:27 GMT -5
I saw Van Halen open for Black Sabbath in 1978. This was Sabbath's last tour before Ozzy left (for the first time). They seemed tired, but still exuded an impressive dark charisma, and I'll always be grateful I saw them during that original run. Van Halen were still young and hungry, and it was a fresher, more exciting set. The auditorium was a basketball arena in Houston, and I'd estimate the crowd was about 10,000. 9,900 of those were males between 15 and 25. We had seats on a second tier above the floor. The marijuana smoke was so heavy that there were actual cloud formations of it floating below us...
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Post by anarkissed on Sept 26, 2020 18:42:42 GMT -5
When this album came out, it just made me depressed: "Wow...They're going to break up now"...I wondered whether Paul would even keep working.
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Post by anarkissed on Aug 21, 2020 15:07:30 GMT -5
I would have liked for Paul to cover "Pretty In Pink"...
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Post by anarkissed on Aug 21, 2020 15:05:56 GMT -5
I love the ballads. But then again sometimes 'Shut Up' hits the spot. Nobody ever talks about it for some reason: Well apathy's got a hold on me And it won't let go Tell me your problem, I'll tell you mine Motherfucker you're gonna know He deservedly gets praise for writing the big anthems and the introspective ballads. But things like "Rattlesnake", "Run It", "Shooting Dirty Pool", "Wake Up", "Beer For Breakfast", the aforementioned...There's a certain level of genius there...I love those kind of songs that he seemed to write for the falling down numbskull demographic. They flirt with self-parody, and are socially insightful in their own way. Highbrow party rock.
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Post by anarkissed on Jul 30, 2020 13:27:44 GMT -5
The only way that I could see their biopic be interesting, accurate and nuanced would be a ten/twelve part series. Do it as a character study about a bunch miscreants that happen to play music, form a band and generally behave badly. Jasperson is a big, and sad, part of the story that would get short shrift in a standard feature. The Stinson family alone would need a feature length film. (as I write this it sounds a little bit like 'Shameless). I know it may sound ridiculous for a band with limited name recognition to have a series but they, and many others no doubt, have the story to make it compelling. The less one knows about the band the more interesting it may be. Squeezing the music, alcohol, drugs, immaturity, chaos, recklessness, fleeting success/chronic failure into two hours will never work. Just a thought I think this would be a good idea even if the series were simply based on a band like The Replacements. "Better call Saul" should be wrapping soon. Here's Vince Gilligan's next project...
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Post by anarkissed on Jul 29, 2020 15:56:17 GMT -5
I'm a sucker for the musical biopic...Mostly, I like the performance scenes. If these are done well, it's like a fantasy version of what it might have been like to actually be there at that time. The Apollo scene from "The Buddy Holly Story", for example. Especially if the actor is actually singing, as Gary Busey was here. It's better than any real clip I'm ever going to see of the real Buddy Holly. I liked "Great Balls of Fire", just because the band was John Doe, Jimmy Vaughan, and Mojo Nixon. That was pretty cool casting. (Bonus points for Winona Ryder as his thirteen year old cousin bride.) "The Doors" had a scene depicting them performing "The End" for the first time in a little club in Los Angeles, and doing the "Not to Touch the Earth" sequence from "Celebration of The Lizard" at some big bacchanalian outdoor festival. Those were better than any clips I've seen of the actual Doors. Those are the better ones. "Walk The Line". "Ray". "Walk Hard"...There are some real stinkers, like that Hendrix one someone mentioned.
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Post by anarkissed on Jul 29, 2020 15:39:38 GMT -5
I loved the book. For some reason, it didn't bother me at all. Maybe that says something about me that isn't too good...
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