Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: alan on 31 October, 2008, 12:32:05 pm
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Won't Get Fooled Again : The Who
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The piano in Sweet Home Alabama.
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YouTube - Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (Live, 1973) (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9jp3de50_d8)
Most people think of it as a guitar riff but it doesn't have any power until Jon Lord comes in.
YouTube - Hoedown - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=N0FuFfcCZiE)
YouTube - Keith Emerson & Oscar Peterson - Honky Tonky Train Blues (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvQIobg0BwU)
Amusing to watch Emerson play so fast but he never really got any expression into his playing.
Damon.
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He was good at throwing knives into pianos though...
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YouTube - Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (Live, 1973) (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9jp3de50_d8)
Most people think of it as a guitar riff but it doesn't have any power until Jon Lord comes in.
I'm no fan of the organ, but with DP. :thumbsup:
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Voodoo Chile by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
(not to be confused with Voodoo Chile (Slight Return))
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The Charlatans The Only One I know (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aZI1BQzY-nU)
Jools Holland's contribution to The The's Uncertain Smile
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Piano in Layla, Green Onions
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This performance of Green Onions from Norway circa 1966? shows the roots of prog rock. Also notable for a Steve Cropper Telecaster solo reckoned by some to be his best.
YouTube - Booker T & the MG's - green onions - mod classic 60s (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7QSMyz5rg)
Damon.
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This performance of Green Onions from Norway circa 1966? shows the roots of prog rock. Also notable for a Steve Cropper Telecaster solo reckoned by some to be his best.
YouTube - Booker T & the MG's - green onions - mod classic 60s (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7QSMyz5rg)
Damon.
Terrific :thumbsup:
I recollect that being a favourite Saturday night tune at the Top Rank for a long while.
Major nostalgia attack ;D
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Virtually anything by Professor Longhair - maybe Every Day I Have The Blues, or Tipitina.
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This performance of Green Onions from Norway circa 1966? shows the roots of prog rock. Also notable for a Steve Cropper Telecaster solo reckoned by some to be his best.
YouTube - Booker T & the MG's - green onions - mod classic 60s (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7QSMyz5rg)
Except prog rock was a hideous self-indulgent mess that probably should never have been born. IMHO of course. ;)
The really good stuff that came out of and after the 60s R&B explosion was back in black music: War, Sly and the Family Stone, GSH, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield...
Back to the OP: hasn't anyone ever head of Jimmy Smith or Jimmy McGriff? Those guys were far better Hammond players than most others. In Britain, the two best mod players were probably: Ian McLaggan of The Small Faces (listen to some of their instrumentals as well as rock'n'soul tracks like Song of a Baker and Afterglow); and of course Steve Winwood - I mean the Spencer Davis Group tracks, Keep on Running, Gimme Some Lovin' and I'm a Man all piss all over anything that The Who have to contribute to the history of the organ. :)
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What they're playing on the radio now.
YouTube - Frankenstein (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6IEp5i9K7xQ)
Damon.
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Straighten Out - Dave Greenfield of The Stranglers
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Saturn 5 by Inspiral Carpets.
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Except prog rock was a hideous self-indulgent mess that probably should never have been born. IMHO of course. ;)
The really good stuff that came out of and after the 60s R&B explosion was back in black music: War, Sly and the Family Stone, GSH, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield...
Except that Booker T and the MGs featured the distinctly caucasian Steve Cropper and 'Duck' Dunn, they were the house band of the white owned Stax label, original home of the funk, which begat Jazz Fusion which interbred with Prog Rock,
there isn't much distance between Gong and Parliament/Funkadelic.
Prog appealed to 13 year old boys at a loose end who wanted to listen to dense self indulgent instrumentation to extend the listening life of the one album they could afford a month. Those tunes are hard wired into our brains, so are as instantly nostalgic as an RAF greatcoat. Get to 16 or 17 and you gave away everything except Dark Side of the Moon. The only Who track to heavily feature keyboard, a VCS3 synthesiser, was 'Won't get fooled again' .
Jon Lord was always the best Hammond player in the early 70s IMHO.
YouTube - Deep purple - Child in time 1970 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BJCTrolF3CY)
Damon.
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Except that Booker T and the MGs featured the distinctly caucasian Steve Cropper and 'Duck' Dunn
Did I say that they didn't? I was talking about what happened afterwards. In the 70s, post Black Power, things did get rather more racially split again (The Family Stone being rather the exception - in fact a hangover of the brief period of 60s integrationism, although sonically and socio-politically very black), and my contention is that by far the most interesting musical developments took place on the black side of the divide. If one adds in reggae, the case is even stronger, because without that you couldn't have had punk and new wave that destroyed mouldy old prog rock! That of course is a personal aesthetic judgement...
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Jimmy Smith's Mojo. (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x9g7C19rsTg)
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We're singing from the same songsheet here FM, albeit in a different key. I got rid of all my prog by the time I was 18 and transferred my alleigance to black groups, one of favourites is God made me Funky by Headhunters. YouTube - Headhunters "God Made Me Funky" (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SAfVsuVEYD0)
But it does share a lot of features with this Gong track from two years previously.
YouTube - Gong - The Isle of Everywhere (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=D09H7OkseZY)
The syncopation is better on the Headhunters track, but they share the basic funk style, there is a Charlie Parker inspired sax solo in both and the use of electronically treated instruments is common to the two.
Damon.
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Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor! (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXoyr_FyFw) :thumbsup:
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Jimmy Smith's Mojo. (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x9g7C19rsTg)
Now we're really smokin'!
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I always liked the piano in this.
YouTube - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eOlKtB94VB4)
But there's so much to like, the guitar, the bass, the drums, the sax.
Damon.
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I always liked the piano in this.
YouTube - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eOlKtB94VB4)
But there's so much to like, the guitar, the bass, the drums, the sax.
Exactly - they were a really tight outfit. :)
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Self-flaggelation aside, this is my favourite track from the first LP I ever bought with my own money! I'm nearly sorry about it too ...
Mick's Blessings (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2JVouRLKEbw)
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YouTube - Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4xfaA_9ycD8)
Still cant get this out of my head scince watching "Manhunter"
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Jimmy Smith's Mojo. (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x9g7C19rsTg)
Now we're really smokin'!
My fave Jimmy Smith The Cat (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WJsE9fo9pT0)
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Cheesy, but I like the piano in Bruce Hornsby and The Range's "The Way It Is".
The intro to the Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays" is rather good too. Johnnie Fingers was classically-trained.
YouTube - The Boomtown Rats. I Don't Like Mondays. (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8yteMugRAc0)
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Thanks to the Radio 2 response to to Wossy and Wussell; playing killer tracks all weekend. I can now point out the relationship between,
YouTube - You Haven't Done Nothin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNZj1oN-0eA)
and
YouTube - S.O.S Band-Just Be Good To Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn8yqR7YN_Y)
Both stonking great funky keyboard intros and riffs the size of a house.
The first 50 seconds of each is all you need.
Damon.