OT: Question of taste and growing up

[Your Old Dog]

I got Direct TV. That means I get a couple hundred channels to surf through. As I'm stumbling along the channels I come to this musical performance on stage. It sounded great on the 5.1 dolby and 200watt sub woofer. So I click on the remotes INFO button just as QUEEN starts to play We will rock you! I'm embarrassed to say that although I've heard of the group Queen before I wouldn't have bet a plugged nickel that they'd play anything I like! I told the wife we need to get that live DVD but not to tell any of our friends :D

At 63 I feel I cheated myself a bit that I never paid more attention to these guys! I wonder what other groups I've screwed myself out of?

[John Stevenson]

Awesome group, saw them live at Wembley, London a few years ago.

Brian May's sister lives about 4 or 5 streets away, honest, and seen him in some of the local pubs and shops, never spoken to him, I respect their privacy too much.

[Dr Stan]

Try Yes, ELO (Electric Light Orchestra), The Boss (Bruce Springsteen), the Who, Peter Frampton, the Traveling Wilburys, Meat Loaf, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bonnie Raitt, and the Moody Blues for starters. :D

[lazlo]

Aye, Freddy Mercury (RIP) was a genius, and Bohemian Rhapsody, in particular, was unique, and brilliant, as was the album: A Night at the Opera.

[alanganes]

Awesome group, saw them live at Wembley, London a few years ago.

Brian May's sister lives about 4 or 5 streets away, honest, and seen him in some of the local pubs and shops, never spoken to him, I respect their privacy too much.


Brian may is an interesting guy. After getting famous and (I presume) becoming very wealthy from it, he went back to college and earned a PhD in astrophysics. If I recall correctly he teaches at a university someplace.

[bollie7]

Also try Jeff Waynes musical version of HG Well's War of the Worlds http://www.thewaroftheworlds.com/default.aspx

You can still buy the original version on CD.
A remastered Super Audio CD version was also released in about 2005. If you look around on ebay you would probably be able to pick up a copy.
This version has quite a few extra sound effects which you only hear when played using a SACD player but even in std Stereo I think its a far better version to listen to.
There is also a live stage show DVD in 5.1 surround which is very good as well.
After 30 something years its still one of my favourite albums. A modern masterpiece imho.

regards
bollie7

[Your Old Dog]

Try Yes, ELO (Electric Light Orchestra), The Boss (Bruce Springsteen), the Who, Peter Frampton, the Traveling Wilburys, Meat Loaf, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bonnie Raitt, and the Moody Blues for starters. :D

Well I already found DVDs for Moody Blues and Peter Frampton. Still need to get a live performance DVD of Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bonnie Raitt (Ihave 1 of her CDs) and I know I like Meat Loaf but don't know if there are any Live DVDs of his out there. A lot of these artist don't have Live DVDs but have MTV style crap with fast flash cuts and hard to appreciate for me.

I'm of the impression that the Traveling Wilburys sound like a country group?

Sir John, simply tell him who you are. Tell him about your prowess with things mechanical and how you tune your tin ear. I'll bet he'll have a brew with you if you don't grovel all over him :D It's best to get him just as he's taking a bite of his sandwhich. That's when you want to shout out "holy kielbasa, its Brian May" throw out your greasy paw and introduce yourself. :D I've worked with "stars" as tv reporters and they mostly hate it when they are eating and have to put down their food to shake the hand of a stone cold fan and then feel compelled to go back to the john (sorry John, that's what we call'em here) to wash their hands !!

[Liger Zero]

I will second Meatloaf. Also Bonnie Tyler.

[Mcruff]

Carlos Santanna should be on the list of awesome music and guitar players.
There are and were great musician and performers from every era, your age should not have anything to do with what you enjoy, the hard part nowadays is sifting thru the crap to find the good stuff, the oldere ones are easy to find there music survived over the years and actually thrived.

[Peter S]

So I click on the remotes INFO button just as QUEEN starts to play We will rock you! I'm embarrassed to say that although I've heard of the group Queen before I wouldn't have bet a plugged nickel that they'd play anything I like! :D

YOD,

Good on you, I can remember the first time I heard some good old songs, even though it was 35-odd years ago. I remember exactly where I was as a school boy with my first transistor radio hearing Black Dog (Led Zeppelin) for the first time. And We will Rock You a few years later, I recall exactly where I was parked in a mates car, the volume up loud and talking about the "choked" guitar sounds in that track.

Doesn't Brian May build his own guitars? He might have a good workshop and be a member here :)

[John Stevenson]

I used to like Meat Loaf until he did the monsters of rock festival at Donington Park a few years ago.

I was helping out the guy who supplied and ran all the generator sets on site, he was my tame Hiab crane man at the time and was short of labour.

We had a compound behind the stage area with two containers and the spare generators. Mark was real organised, first job onsite was to get our generator sorted and the fridge plugged in then filled with 10,000 bottles of Newkie Brown.

Anyway on the Saturday night I'd popped off on the quad to sort a genny out in the trade area and when I got back this big fat bastard had pinched my chair and was drinking my Newkie.

Not bothered about the newkie, we had loads but we only had two chairs.

Seriously, real nice guy and turned out he's come looking for Mark who was an old friend.

[Limy Sami]

At 55 I went through most of the groups first time round, and only of late have I realised just how good they were.

IMO The Who stand the test of time, Daltry's voice with strong lyrics,....... Baba O'Rielly (teenage wasteland)

The Travelling Wilburys ;- A country band? ...... with George Harrison Roy orbison, Dylan, Jeff Lynn and Tom Petty?............ er not quite ;)

Want to go back further?......... The Shadows do it for me, outstanding on modern kit.

[rkepler]

One interesting source (if you have a broadband internet connection) is pandora.com It's something like an internet radio station but plays songs that you like. You don't request a song directly (as that would cost a lot more) but instead "songs that are like this one" or "songs like this artist plays". Their database contains attributes of songs and they match up song attributes that you like. As they play songs you can say "I like this" or "I don't like this" and the attributes are affected appropriately.

In the end you can have a great mix with all sorts of artists you've never heard of (and. quite frankly, I would have avoided because of my perception of their roots). So while I like Bob Seger and Eddie Money (hard rock roots) I end up hearing Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, 3 Doors Down, etc.

[John Stevenson]

Here's a clip of Brian May and the Queens 'shed'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ULArCtL6zI&feature=related

:D

[John Stevenson]

Pandora doesn't work outside of the US.
I use one called Last.FM

http://www.last.fm/

Don't know it it works outside of the UK

[rockrat]

Don't know it it works outside of the UK

Just tried it, it works.

Never mind, screwed something up. The site does work.

rock~

[QSIMDO]

Let's not ignore Mrs.Gilmore's son Davey and Pink Floyd!

[halac]

Two of the best concerts I've gone to would have to be Pink Floyd when they were promoting the album "Momentary Lapse of Reason" back in 1987 at Tampa stadium. Sounded just as good as the studio album.

The other was more recent (11/2009) was the Edgar Winter Group in Chattanooga. What a performance! One of the most versatile musicians I ever seen and heard.

[andy_b]

Queen hung out at one of my friend's homes on a tour back in the late 70s or early 80s. My friend's sister was married to the lead in Dakota when Dakota opened for Queen on the tour. Not that it has anything to do with anything, but it was kind of cool. I never got to meet the band though.

andy b.

[wierdscience]

Speaking of SVR, here's the Fender promo featuring SVR playing Little Wing.Lots of Blues greats and the Fender factory going by too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdYRzH10L2M

[darryl]

Interesting. I was just last night putting together a picture set to send to the RhodieMusic web site to add something about the band I worked with in the late 60s-early 70s. Thinking of the musical influences- it was the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Moody Blues, Bob Dylan, Marianne Faithful, Janis Joplin- the list is much longer of course. One thing that still gives me a chuckle is the fact that so much of the music of that era is still popular today. Led Zeppelin is a hit with the younger crowd these days, and the band that I'm close to now plays all those oldie but goodies.

[Tony Ennis]

Traveling Wilburys

George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Bob Dylan.

[wooleybooger]

some country guys are great guitar pickers. back in the late 70s my R&R brother and CW me shared a house. he was always bragging about the rockers being the best guitarists. one night we caught a PBS show with Chet Atkins. he played awhile,talked about people he had played with and tutored (big names at the time) and finally broke out into classical guitar. one song he picked only 4-5 people in the world could play without screwing up. my brother was amazed that a country guy had taught some of the most famous R&R guys their most well known riffs.some guys can catch a wet mop string in the wringer,run their fingers over it and make music, some of us cant even mop right.

[Lew Hartswick]

I guess I need to start a thread (probably get, maybe if lucky, one response) on the kind of music I like. Opera and Classical orchestra.
With a bit of Bagpipes thrown in. :-)
...lew...

[steve45]

IMO The Who stand the test of time, Daltry's voice with strong lyrics,....... Baba O'Rielly (teenage wasteland)
A bit more modern, but I really like Blue Man Group's version of this song. It's only on the DVD version of "The Complex", not the audio version.

[Ken_Shea]

I guess I need to start a thread (probably get, maybe if lucky, one response) on the kind of music I like. Opera and Classical orchestra.
With a bit of Bagpipes thrown in. :-)
...lew...

Lew, I'd give you one, just for your grit in posting the thread :D

Actually, I believe you would be surprised at the numbers with similar likes.

[lazlo]

when I got back this big fat bastard had pinched my chair and was drinking my Newkie.

Not bothered about the newkie, we had loads but we only had two chairs.

LOL! -- Paradise by the dashboard light ;) It would take a pretty stout lawn chair to suit Meatloaf :)


Opera and Classical orchestra.
With a bit of Bagpipes thrown in. :-)

Man, I'm a big fan of classical and opera, but with due respect to our Scottish brethren, bagpipes are like dragging your nails across a chalkboard. :D

[doctor demo]

John Prine, Tom Waits, The Doors, C C R (Creedence) and The Mamas and The Papas make for a good mix if You have a multi disc cd player.

Steve

[bborr01]

One of my big regrets (I have so many like this) is not buying tickets to see Queen back in the mid 80's when my wife and I were visiting Toronto and they were playing and the marquis was displaying "FREDDIE MERCURY AND QUEEN".

The best music videos that I have been watching lately on my 10 foot tv out in the studio are:

The Eagles; live from melbourne. A real crowd pleaser.

Eric Clapton; Crossroads music festival. A lot of talent there. Very diverse.

Rock and roll hall of fame DVD.

Check them out from your local library if you don't want to spend the money on them without checking them out.

Brian

[Willy]

Classic rock, country, electric blues, and probably just about anything else. I'm fortunate enough to appreciate it all.

But PLEEEZE.....no frigging RAP!:D

[gearedloco]

you walk into an "average" restaurant (just a bit above the greasy spoon type) and the background music is the same as what you danced to in high school...:eek:

-bill

Corrected speling - my keybarrd must nee fixed

[DICKEYBIRD]

Yup, the 50” HD & surround sound TV SWMBO convinced me to buy (kicking & screaming) around Christmas completely changed my music experience.

As luck would have it, HBO was showing the latest Rock & Roll hall of Fame concert soon after we got the new TV installed and it was absolutely amazing. Jeff Beck and his young lady bass prodigy Tal Wilkenfeld, Simon & Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder with Sting playing bass (Stevie blew away Sting on Roxanne IMO) etc., etc. It goes on for hours & hours. If you haven’t seen it, keep an eye out for it, they just showed it again on HBO.

I watch most everything that comes on the Palladia channel and have to admit to having my crusty ol’ died-in-the-wool musical tastes expanded a bit. I recently saw Jason Mraz do a show and then the Pink Funhouse concert from Aussieland. (Speaking of Queen, Pink does an awesome job with Bohemian Rhapsody.) There’s a lot of really good stuff on that channel that I would have never been exposed to otherwise.

The live concert TV experience with big screen HD TV & surround sound is absolutely worth every penny!

[EVguru]

Try;

www.squirrelmusic.com

[jugs]

You want rock, try the original sound

(bad shreak for first 3 secs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2Ezif7zf8&feature=PlayList&p=F9E247DC6B2F901A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=10


German rock band Schelmish performing the number Chaos ->for Lew Hartswick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQiSZdX8vA


In total contrast listen to this wonderfull voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwMBe6-A6dM&feature=related

& how about this voice -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m8dhtHSXKU&feature=related
good rhythms at 50 secs


Enjoy
john

[Mark K]

Jazz - The Crusaders (except for any number with orchestra backups).

Classic Surf - The Ventures. 'Blue Skies' on the Colorful Ventures album will curl yer hair.

Bonnie Raitt, almost anything.

Joan Armatrading for a powerful, lovely voice. (Grace Slick had power, too)

The Allman Brothers, when they were all still alive.

Heck, I miss Joni Mitchell.

Scottish pipes are stirring, Irish pipes call a man's soul.

Mark

[3jaw]

Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" album. I can listen to Take Five" and just imagine I'm driving with my wife in a convertible along a coastal highway.

Got the CD and a wife, all I need now is a convertible and a coastal highway. :D

"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" How may of us have been there and done that? :eek:

[banjoallen]

"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" How may of us have been there and done that? :eek:
You mean the "prayin' for the end of time" part?Not me:D

[John Stevenson]

"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" How may of us have been there and done that? :eek:

Got to admit the first girlfriend had a nice dashboard, not that I ever got to see it.....................

[mlucek]

Try ... Stevie Ray Vaughn A pretty good live DVD from SRV is

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Live From Austin, Texas (1995) (http://www.amazon.com/Stevie-Ray-Vaughan-Double-Trouble/dp/157330056X)

This is an Austin City Limits concert - very good !!

This DVD is rather raw (amateur) footage, but shows SRV in his early days at very small club :
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Live at the El Mocambo 1983 (1991) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305019681/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=157330056X&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0TNTVXZ794JNKH5SBY37)


Rewind to 1983 and here is Stevie Ray at the beginning of his fame, his first album with his backing band Double Trouble, Texas Flood (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000ICN5/$%7B0%7D), having just been released to critical and popular acclaim. The venue is the El Mocambo club in Toronto, a dark, smoky joint with a laid-back but appreciative clientele. Vaughan, drummer Chris Layton, and bassist Tommy Shannon share the tiny stage. The guitarist, bedecked in trademark hat and alligator-skin boots, is pale of complexion, sweating from the heat and physical exertion, and physically much smaller than Shannon, who towers over him. But Vaughan dominates, as much by the magnetism of his flamboyant personality as his guitar playing. And what playing: by turns fiery, funky, then limpid and surprisingly graceful. Here is an authentic blues artist captured in the throes of living through his music. At this early stage in his career he was still very much in thrall to Jimi Hendrix (the flower-power shirt gives it away), as covers of "Voodoo Chile" and "Third Stone from the Sun" (the latter a Hendrix-inspired guitar-abuse session) indicate. The highlight of the show, however, is his rendition of "Texas Flood," which turns out to be an amazing essay on the art of blues guitar. This is a raw, intimate, and spontaneous record of a one-time event. All fans of the blues will be grateful to those who had the foresight to capture it on film. --Mark Walker
It's really an outstanding early Stevie at his rawest & his most honest.

Another recommend SRV DVD :
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985 (2004) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002SPPSC/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=157330056X&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0TNTVXZ794JNKH5SBY37)

Guess you can't tell I'm a huge SRV fan !!

Mike

[mlucek]

Speaking of SVR, here's the Fender promo featuring SVR playing Little Wing.Lots of Blues greats and the Fender factory going by too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdYRzH10L2M
SRV :p Of the 6+ renditions I've heard of Hendrix's Little Wing, including Hendrix, Clapton and others, Stevie's is by FAR my favorite ! :cool:. When you see the definition of a blues guitarist, SRV is it !


you walk into an "average" restaurant (just a bit above the greasy spoon type) and the background music is the same as what you danced to in high school...
That's when you KNOW you're getting OLD - hearing watered down Muzak version of R & R tunes :rolleyes: <barf>


... Thinking of the musical influences- it was the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Moody Blues, Bob Dylan, Marianne Faithful, Janis Joplin- the list is much longer of course. One thing that still gives me a chuckle is the fact that so much of the music of that era is still popular today. Led Zeppelin is a hit with the younger crowd these days, and the band that I'm close to now plays all those oldie but goodies.
This is the music that has and will stand the test of time. Look at the Beatles. It's been 40 years since the 1970 White Album and they are still as popular as ever !

That won't be said for the crap that passes now as "music". Nobody will remember the names/faces of all those clones and spoiled kids out there now claiming they're talented. Sheeeesh, gimme a friggin' break ! Take away the costumes, dancers, stage prop's, synthesized vocals, spotlights and other crap and what are you left with ? Not a whole lot.

Take SRV with just his guitar, bass, drums, no stage show, no dancers, no fake sh*t. What do you get ? DAMN GOOD MUSIC that lights the stage on FIRE !

Just like all those other 60's/70's groups that were mentioned, Led Zep, Beatles, Allman Bro's, Moody Blues (one of my favs) Joplin, Stones, CCR (John Fogerty in particular), The Who, Doors, Clapton, Yardbirds, Traffic, Eagles, Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon is consistently in Top 100 albums of all time) and dozens of others.

There are some very talented musicians out there now too, especially blues players taking up the reins and continuing in SRV footsteps. Tab Benoit comes to mind, guitar, bass, drum, and some very hot blues !!

I could go on for a long time :D

Mike

[gvasale]

Heh heh heh...somebody said Moody Blues? I saw them in Boston, in a little venue just outside of Kenmore Square, like almost , well close to Fenway Park, where the Red Sox play for those who don't know. The Moody Blues were a "one hit wonder" around 1967-68. They opened for the... Fugs.
A remarkable but musicaly untalented group from NYC. A few years, maybe even a year, Moody Blues were back. Knights in White Satin etc.

[darryl]

There was some pretty good Moody Blues stuff out around '69-70- I don't know the dates exactly, the music was and is good, but the pressings were so mediocre-

There's not much that I won't listen to- I even like the odd rap tune. I think there's about two that I don't mind, the rest of that I can live without. Friend at work plays in a band, and I get to hear the songs they want to learn- all day long- it's not that bad, in fact it's not bad at all. I did have to endure several hours of Elvis one day, not that I minded. I guess that's all stuff I grew up with- we had a cafe/hobby shop back then, and we lived in the back part of that building. Of course you had to have a juke box and pinball games then, so we got to hear a pretty wide variety. I had the juke box wired to my bedroom so anytime someone came in and played it, I got to hear tunes in my room. Hey- that was one of the songs that sounded great on my speaker- In My Room by the Beach Boys. When I was in Africa, I actually got to meet a couple of the guys who were later to join the beach boys. They were our guests at the Celebrity Club.

There were some years when I thought that there wasn't much anymore that a song could be written about, or that fresh music couldn't be composed without sounding like some other song, but it's just not so. There are still some good tunes being written and played. Music is in the very fiber of our beings.

[Your Old Dog]

One of my big regrets (I have so many like this) is not buying tickets to see Queen back in the mid 80's when my wife and I were visiting Toronto and they were playing and the marquis was displaying "FREDDIE MERCURY AND QUEEN".

The best music videos that I have been watching lately on my 10 foot tv out in the studio are:

The Eagles; live from melbourne. A real crowd pleaser.

Eric Clapton; Crossroads music festival. A lot of talent there. Very diverse.

Rock and roll hall of fame DVD.

Check them out from your local library if you don't want to spend the money on them without checking them out.

Brian

Your suggestions suggest to me that you would love the "The Guess Who" live in Canada with Randy Turner. It's the one where they have a powerful thunderstorm come through, they stop playing for a period of time and no one in the audieance left !! I had to have a DVD store search it out and order it for me but it was worth the effort. Leonard Skynard Live in Pittsburgh is also a great well done DVD. My favorite has to be The Eagles When Hell Freezes Over. It was playing on a nice system at a TV store and I told the salesman I wanted everything I needed to play that DVD as well as they were! I must have watched it 50 times at least. As the musicians get older they refine AND refine the music and is far superior then when the tunes originally came out.

[fasto]

Heh heh heh...somebody said Moody Blues? I saw them in Boston, in a little venue just outside of Kenmore Square, like almost , well close to Fenway Park, where the Red Sox play for those who don't know.
Would have been the Rat, probably. AKA the Rathskeller. Gone now, replaced by the Kenmore Hotel. I can vaguely remember some evenings there, around 10-15 years ago...

[wierdscience]

SRV :p Of the 6+ renditions I've heard of Hendrix's Little Wing, including Hendrix, Clapton and others, Stevie's is by FAR my favorite ! :cool:. When you see the definition of a blues guitarist, SRV is it !

Mike

SRV! Doh!:D Brain fade.

Has anyone mentioned Lynard Skynard yet? Well YOD did,glad I'm not the only one.

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

Procol Harum anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWULu5_nXI&feature=related

[John Stevenson]

Sometimes live gigs are better because of the atmosphere but studio recordings are able to use techniques that are not available to live bands.

I also like the Moody Blues and have a lot of the original on vinyl, one day I went to a show at Nottinham where they were appearing but something didn't seem right with the music.

I timed one track and when I got home I looked on the record cover for the duration and the record was 1 minute longer then the live version but nothing had been left out, they had just speeded up the whole show which spoilt it for me.

[Circlip]

What a set of b****y sadoes, -- be telling us the Mk1 Bridgie and the Monarch were the best machines ever.

63 and only just heard "Propper" music?? must have been chained in a cellar. :rolleyes: :D :D :D

Regards Ian

[.RC.]

Some might find this one suits them :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTVpxxzb2Dc&feature=related

[Your Old Dog]

What a set of b****y sadoes, -- be telling us the Mk1 Bridgie and the Monarch were the best machines ever.

63 and only just heard "Propper" music?? must have been chained in a cellar. :rolleyes: :D :D :D

Regards Ian

I was chained alright, not in the cellar but in my own mind. I'm not the kind of guy who would normally seek out a male group called Queen!! (I can just see the broadside of opinions forming now!)

[JoeBean]

Brian May probably would enjoy meeting John. He is a fairly hands-on, 'buildy' type person from what I've read. His primary guitar with Queen, Red Special (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Special), was a one of the guitars he (with his father) built himself.. It's interesting because if he hadn't become famous it would probably be considered about the most hacked-together POS you could get, with almost everything done "laughably wrong" from what you would expect on a quality, pro's guitar - from the finish, to the unorthodox wiring, to the zero fret usually (though not always) found on very cheap guitars. But it created such a unique sound that it's nearly impossible to replicate without the guitar. And even after he presumably had enough money to buy the best of the best, he kept with it because he appreciated it's qualities, and later on even had a prominent luthier from Australia IIRC replicate it, and replicas (with a bit more "polish", but sharing many of the same tonal characteristics) are even. available for sale (http://www.brianmayguitars.co.uk/the-guitars).

As for SRV live, PBS has a whole slew of recordings from Austin, TX that they used to play all the time. They're really, really good performances, and interesting as you can seem him from when he was relatively sober, to when he was totally out of it, to when he got sober again. If you like him, you might like Jimmy Vaughan (his brother) and the Fabulous Thunderbirds (his band). They're perhaps more country-ish, but Jimmy was actually considered a guitar prodigy, and the family figured he would be the prominent one, until Stevie grew up a little bit.

On the other hand, if you liked Queen and wouldn't mind something a bit heavier, there's Judas Priest...

[Tony Ennis]

DVDs.. get the Concert for George (http://www.amazon.com/Concert-George-Andy-Fairweather-Low/dp/B0000CEB4V/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1271333610&sr=1-1), a tribute to George Harrison hosted by Eric Clapton and about 100 friends. It's absolutely tremendous.

Also amazing is David Gilmour's 2002 Meltdown concert (http://www.amazon.com/David-Gilmour-Concert-Wayatts-Meltdown/dp/B00006LI4S).

And back on George Harrison, his last 2 solo works Brainwashed (http://www.amazon.com/Brainwashed-George-Harrison/dp/B00006LSM3/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1271333918&sr=1-1) and Cloud 9 (http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Nine-George-Harrison/dp/B00014TJ7K/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1271333918&sr=1-4) are very good.

Or, to ve a little different, try OK, Computer (http://www.amazon.com/OK-Computer-Radiohead/dp/B000002UJQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1271334022&sr=1-1) by Radiohead.

[oldtiffie]

What a set of b****y sadoes, -- be telling us the Mk1 Bridgie and the Monarch were the best machines ever.

63 and only just heard "Propper" music?? must have been chained in a cellar. :rolleyes:

Regards Ian


S&M? Ian?

Wotch art in that dungeon fer that female in leathers, with mask and a whip - and a rack!!

Dianna Rigg?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(TV_series)

http://redriverpak.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/diana_rigg_01.jpg

Yorkshire girl too!!!

http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&q=diana+rigg+%2B+pics&meta=&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=diana+rigg+%2B+pics&gs_rfai=&fp=18a51b3ed23f0245[/url]
[url]http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&q=diana+rigg+emma+peel&revid=893599489&ei=SgLHS4rpI4vg7APs_rXWDA&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&resnum=0&ct=broad-revision&cd=2&ved=0CEAQ1QIoAQ&fp=18a51b3ed23f0245

Perhaps some here fancy themselves (fancy that) as John Steed
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/TheAvengers60s.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TheAvengers60s.jpg

Or is that debonair chap John Stevenson off to the pub for a pint (and some "how's ya farver" - or what-ever)?

It just might be.

[John Stevenson]

What a set of b****y sadoes, -- be telling us the Mk1 Bridgie and the Monarch were the best machines ever.

63 and only just heard "Propper" music?? must have been chained in a cellar. :rolleyes: :D

Regards Ian

I was into heavy metal well before scrap hit 317 a tonne ;)

There's nothing wrong with a MK1 Bridgy that a scrap man can't fix

[lazlo]

I'm not the kind of guy who would normally seek out a male group called Queen!! (I can just see the broadside of opinions forming now!)

Freddy Mercury named the group "Queen" in reference to the fact that he was openly gay. Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor were not very happy about it, but 300 Million albums later, they probably forgave him for it :)

[EddyCurr]

... he was always bragging about the rockers being the best guitarists.

One night we caught a PBS show with Chet Atkins. he played awhile,
talked about people he had played with and tutored (big names at the time)
and finally broke out into classical guitar.

My brother was amazed that a country guy had taught some of the most
famous R&R guys their most well known riffs. Some guys can catch a wet
mop string in the wringer,run their fingers over it and make music, some of
us can't even mop right.Mr Atkins collaborated several times with a wet-behind-the-ears
youngster named Mark Knopfler who once played for a pop band.

A couple of tunes by the Atkins/Knopfler duo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wTVLIZaxMk
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaBTHu9JSB0

Mr Knopfler with some other friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJubwPUGxyc
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQVvF0AeRLI
.

[Circlip]

With age comes wisdom, Wonder how many of todays monotone(ous) talking (rap) renditions will become "Classics" in years to come??

I remember sitting in a pub ALL those years ago and on hearing the Stones "Little Red Rooster" come up on the jukebox and thinking what a pile of crap. Half a century later all the Stones stuff sounds great, must be a Terry TOG.

And then there's Charlotte Crutch? but the new Welsh Bint is a drink on a Bl***y stick but she needs to stick to the classics.

Regards Ian.

[gvasale]

Fasto: Not the rat. This was actually on Commonwealth Ave., a few hundred feet out of the square towards BU on the left side of the strreet, set back from the road. Smaller than the old Bostion Tea Party when it was on Berkley St.

[lazlo]

Mr Atkins collaborated several times with a wet-behind-the-ears youngster named Mark Knopfler who once played for a pop band.


Ouch! Dire Straits wasn't a pop band! That's classic rock!

Mark Knopfler has a monotone voice that reminds me a lot of Tom Petty's half octave range :)

[lazlo]

As for SRV live, PBS has a whole slew of recordings from Austin, TX that they used to play all the time. They're really, really good performances,

Those are the concerts from Austin City Limits, which is one of several annual music festivals that we have here. They're recorded in High Def and the audio recording is fantastic.

http://www.aclfestival.com/default.aspx

I love this city... :)