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Simple Minded wrote:in the interest of promotion diversity, artistic enrichment, and cultural cross pollination here is an anti-blues song, that puts a smile on everyone's face:

I’d hired Dr. Magnus Pyke, a well- known TV personality and scientist, to play the part of the mad psychiatrist. We didn’t see eye to eye. Despite the fact that I’d sent him a copy of the story board, along with a check that wiped out a large chunk of our budget, Dr. Pyke was not comfortable with the idea of wearing a white lab coat on- screen, and he was refusing to come out of his trailer. An assistant director brought me the bad news, so I went to see him myself. “My public don’t regard me that way,” he complained, clearly on the verge of a tantrum.

I bumped into Dr. Pyke many years later, in Edinburgh at a conference. He’d just returned from a lecture tour of the USA. I asked him how it had gone. “Badly, Dolby,” he spat back. “Every time I walked down the sidewalk someone would sneak up behind me and yell ‘SCIENCE!’ at the top of their lungs! It seems that bloody MTV video of yours is more widely recognized than my body of scientific work.”

Colonel Sun wrote:Tomas Dolby:

I’d hired Dr. Magnus Pyke, a well- known TV personality and scientist, to play the part of the mad psychiatrist. We didn’t see eye to eye. Despite the fact that I’d sent him a copy of the story board, along with a check that wiped out a large chunk of our budget, Dr. Pyke was not comfortable with the idea of wearing a white lab coat on- screen, and he was refusing to come out of his trailer. An assistant director brought me the bad news, so I went to see him myself. “My public don’t regard me that way,” he complained, clearly on the verge of a tantrum.

I bumped into Dr. Pyke many years later, in Edinburgh at a conference. He’d just returned from a lecture tour of the USA. I asked him how it had gone. “Badly, Dolby,” he spat back. “Every time I walked down the sidewalk someone would sneak up behind me and yell ‘SCIENCE!’ at the top of their lungs! It seems that bloody MTV video of yours is more widely recognized than my body of scientific work.”

Rodgers' legacy and influence is not limited to country music. The 2009 book Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century tracks Rodgers influence through a broad range of musical genres, internationally. He was influential to Ozark poet Frank Stanford, who composed a series of "blue yodel" poems, and a number of later blues artists. Rodgers was one of the biggest stars of American music between 1927 and 1933, arguably doing more to popularize blues than any other performer of his time.[21] Rodgers influenced many later blues artists, among them Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy,[23] and Chester Arthur Burnett, better known as Howlin' Wolf. Jimmie Rodgers was Wolf's childhood idol. Wolf tried to emulate Rodgers's yodel, but found that his efforts sounded more like a growl or a howl. "I couldn't do no yodelin'," Barry Gifford quoted him as saying in Rolling Stone, "so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine."

noddy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 2:13 am H9oTok7p228

the actual demo starts at 3.30 ish , its a super crazy pedal which Id never need but always be in danger of buying - the squelchy "bernie worrel" bass and the organ sounds alone are enough to trigger irrationality.,

Simple Minded wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 11:41 am My wife and I watched a PBS summary of the Ken Burn's documentary on the history of country music. Then watched the first episode of the series. Very interesting. Everything Burn's does is top notch.

Take an everyday event and sing about it. Talent is optional, creativity is expected.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-mu ... sode-guide

Simple Minded wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 11:57 am a classic:


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Mr. Perfect wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 1:06 am

Simple Minded wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 11:57 am a classic:


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I always thought this sounded like a car commercial

Mr. Perfect wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 1:14 am In case you haven't heard of seasick steve.

More than meets the eye. First, notice the bass player. Then notice the instrument and the riff. Finally, notice the main lyrical expression and how it's modulated. Simple, and deep. One of the more powerful lyrics I ever remember hearing, mostly because it's a declaration, as opposed to the more obvious trash talking element. Not too bad of a trash talk but that sentence is almost the creation of a new genre.

Rare authenticity.

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