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Topic History of: Tribute and cover bands
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Green Man |
Rich wrote:
There used to be a late night chat on Radio 5 Live called the Virtual Jukebox that I'd listen to each weekend for an hour or so. I remember one time they discussed what they described as the very poor production values that seemed to creep into many records in about 1986/7, and I agreed. For some reason they singled out the only hit record that Barry White had in the whole decade from late '87, Sho' You Right. I thought his music that had been produced 10 years or more earlier had better production values and therefore we were going backwards, even compared to the first half of the 80's with great production on many tracks.
I never listen to Radio 5 Live anymore, they even managed to drag their weekly music discussion Virtual Jukebox on for so many years with the same guests each week they ended up repeating themselves and boring the pants off people with a keen interest in the subject. But it was cheap radio I guess. They held a vote each week on a track for the jukebox and I wrote a forum comment elsewhere questioning how many votes the winning track was receiving. Dotun Adebayo answered me over the air and said it was maybe just a couple of votes some nights. I gave up on it and turned off, bored witless they could turn what should be an interesting subject into such mind numbing drivel, and I remember the presenter on 5 Live made out he knew loads about music but made so many basic and big mistakes when talking the subject I couldn't believe my ears at times. But then he's an unsackable diversity hire. He made out on air one night that he had been in the recording studio at the time of a particular black music record that was a hit in the 90's, only for the artist to get in touch and deny that he had ever been near the place and that it was untrue, caught out on air. I took all the other puffed up self important anecdotes he'd also said about music connections and associations less seriously after that. Not absolutely certain but I think the artist was Omar who had the hit song There's Nothing Like This.
It seems the UK radio DJs were full of shit back then Rich. I do remember bits when Jonathan King did a talk radio segments in New York, doing some really odd interviews. I have to ask my mates to see if they have any home recordings of these.
There one American DJ who I respected and he did wonderful interviews with many British talent was Scott Muni. I can't believe it was over 40 years ago when I was in New York.
I found Canadian radio and TV very dull, I found Canada to be shit period. Unless you go to the mountains and the wilderness, then it's beautiful. |
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Rich |
There used to be a late night chat on Radio 5 Live called the Virtual Jukebox that I'd listen to each weekend for an hour or so. I remember one time they discussed what they described as the very poor production values that seemed to creep into many records in about 1986/7, and I agreed. For some reason they singled out the only hit record that Barry White had in the whole decade from late '87, Sho' You Right. I thought his music that had been produced 10 years or more earlier had better production values and therefore we were going backwards, even compared to the first half of the 80's with great production on many tracks.
I never listen to Radio 5 Live anymore, they even managed to drag their weekly music discussion Virtual Jukebox on for so many years with the same guests each week they ended up repeating themselves and boring the pants off people with a keen interest in the subject. But it was cheap radio I guess. They held a vote each week on a track for the jukebox and I wrote a forum comment elsewhere questioning how many votes the winning track was receiving. Dotun Adebayo answered me over the air and said it was maybe just a couple of votes some nights. I gave up on it and turned off, bored witless they could turn what should be an interesting subject into such mind numbing drivel, and I remember the presenter on 5 Live made out he knew loads about music but made so many basic and big mistakes when talking the subject I couldn't believe my ears at times. But then he's an unsackable diversity hire. He made out on air one night that he had been in the recording studio at the time of a particular black music record that was a hit in the 90's, only for the artist to get in touch and deny that he had ever been near the place and that it was untrue, caught out on air. I took all the other puffed up self important anecdotes he'd also said about music connections and associations less seriously after that. Not absolutely certain but I think the artist was Omar who had the hit song There's Nothing Like This. |
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Green Man |
Interesting what you call tinny Rich. In the 80s I listened to a a lot rock and metal. I thought the hair metal scene was amazing and great for dancing to. I didn't like the ballads these bands did though. I spent most of the 80s in New York and Canada Rich. I was exposed to many different genres and even country rock for the first time, none of the naff honky tonk stuff.
When I saw Alabama on TV for the first time, I became obsessed with their music. Lyrics are not relatable to me as such but they have that good ol' boy vibe. Strangely their collaboration with Nsync is not corny nor cringy.
80s had a genre's for everyone who liked music. If you didn't like pop there was electronic, didn't like metal there was synth pop, didn't like metal or synth there was country rock. I bought a lot Reba McEntire records, she was gorgeous even before she had surgery. |
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Green Man |
I use to lend records a lot I didn't always get them back. My ex was selling them bit by bit, the cow. I have also been burgled twice. The Americana music was left behind. Prog rock and 80s stuff in general was taken. There's value in that stuff. Even my green vinyl of Linda Ronstadt was taken. |
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Rich |
Green Man wrote:
One of the best songs ever written.
I lost of the Mighty Wah records I once had. They are not easy or cheap to replace. I still have one Wah LP that was not taken from me.
How do you lose your records GM? Surely you didn't lend them and not get them given back to you.
My mother still has all hers going back to 1957, although about 50 of the singles have completely lost those flimsy paper covers with a hole in the middle that they used to have in those days and really ought to get given new sleeves to protect them.
I remember that Wah! song coming out in early '83 very well, it seemed different but I also remember not liking the production of it very much, setting the actual song aside. I like a bit of bass on music, or I certainly did at the time and I thought it sounded a bit tinny. In the middle 80's I became quite obsessed about what I considered to be tinny sounding songs coming out that sounded lacking. Do you know what I mean when I say this? I haven't heard that Wah! song for quite a while so if I listen to it again I may have completely changed my view now!
Wah! and Wham! came out with debut hits within weeks of each other back then (both hit No3 too) and I always kind of paired them up because their names looked so similar and ended with an exclamation mark. They didn't prefix it with the "Mighty" bit on that first one. |
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