The Swamp

Their album is ok, even with Duane Allman adding a lot on guitar. The Fillmore concert is better. I must admit I have soft spots for "Let It Rain" and "Blues Power"

I just think the guy is overrated. He's a good guitarist, but...not god which some bridge signs and some former Swampers want you to believe.

Rush2112 wrote:Their album is ok, even with Duane Allman adding a lot on guitar. The Fillmore concert is better. I must admit I have soft spots for "Let It Rain" and "Blues Power"

I just think the guy is overrated. He's a good guitarist, but...not god which some bridge signs and some former Swampers want you to believe.

Agreed on the live album. Especially "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?" Just ridiculous guitar solos. I don't think he's g d. Not at all, there are at least 4 or 5 guitarists that I would rather hear, but live, he puts on amazing shows.

Slowhand and 461 Ocean Blvd are great albums.

Rush2112 wrote:I just think the guy is overrated. He's a good guitarist, but...not god which some bridge signs and some former Swampers want you to believe.

Fuck! What did you bastards do to AB???

kranepool wrote:Gunpowder Jones - Fuck Kranepool

Fuck Kranepool. Metallica's cover of Turn the Page is pretty sweet. So is their version of Whiskey in the Jar.

rass wrote:

Rush2112 wrote:I just think the guy is overrated. He's a good guitarist, but...not god which some bridge signs and some former Swampers want you to believe.

Fuck! What did you bastards do to AB???

I'm here but just filled with rage.

I don't think you can include Tears in Heaven because it's a tremendously personal song for him and the guitar work is pretty damn good specifically because it's not showing off what "Slowhand" was about. He has plenty of bad songs to choose from and I could get behind "Wonderful Tonight" for sure.

I don't put anyone above him in terms of guitar playing. So many guys from that generation were similar but I think when you hear Clapton playing you know it's Clapton playing. Hendrix has this, too, but there aren't a lot of guitar players that are instantly recognizable. It's like hearing their voice through their fingers.

his live shows are indeed tremendous. Drove the Nashville to see him and it was completely worth it.

Some of his mid-80-90s stuff is pretty boring, but the guitar work is still good to great. His later stuff has been excellent. A lot like Stephen King, who doesn't get the credit he deserves for developing as a writer as his career spanned generations.

I've said it before and I'l say it again...if Hendrix had lived as long as CLapton has, he would have had a bunch of stuff people wouldn't care for at all.

I'm no Clapton fan (and I cringe at "Tears In Heaven"), but he is not worthy of the anger that is often directed at him. Some of his recent bluesier stuff is quite good - even to a blues snob like myself.

Here's a terrible song that was huge years ago: "I Don't Like Mondays" - The Boomtown Rats. A fairly decent band in its brief time, but this song is brutal.

AB_skin_test wrote: I've said it before and I'l say it again...if Hendrix had lived as long as CLapton has, he would have had a bunch of stuff people wouldn't care for at all.

This is probably true for so many people.

When 2Pac got shot, he was 25 and awesome and all that. When Lil' Wayne was 25, everyone was constantly saying how great he was and he truly was phenomenal. Now he's 30 and rim jobbing strippers every song between tears.

Hell, someone kills Ja Rule after his first CD and people probably have a much different opinion of him these days.

Wasn't 2Pac kind of exempt from having to put out good music? His shit:hit ratio was insanely high for a name rapper and his place at the top was never questioned.

Nonlinear FC wrote:

howard wrote:

Nonlinear FC wrote: This reminded me:

ZZ Top: Legs

Video hot girls, and their extreme coolness trump the horrible lyrics. I will stipulate, the song should only be heard w/the video. Never listen to it unaccompanied. (Unless you've watched the video hundreds of times, then you can just remember the images.)

I think I was 12 or somewhere in that zone when the song came out. I get it.

Mix. Tape.

The song is almost unlistenable.

This article is almost a year old, but I just saw it.

HOUSTON—More than three decades after the song was a chart-topping smash and became an instant classic-rock staple, ZZ Top finally revealed to fans Tuesday the meaning behind its iconic hit “Legs.” “People have been coming up with all these crazy interpretations for 30 years, so we’ve finally decided to just come out and say that the song’s about a woman’s sexy legs and how much they make us want her sexually,” said lead vocalist Billy Gibbons, acknowledging that spelling out the meaning of “Legs” might take away from its longstanding mystique. “If the song means something else to you, that’s still cool, but there were lots of people who wanted to know what we were driving at.” Gibbons went on to say, however, that most of ZZ Top’s songs, such as the anti-apartheid anthem “Tush,” were pretty straightforward.

That is funny. Sounds like the commentary Posnanski and Ken Tremendous did during their last podcast, which featured a draft of Taylor Swift songs.

if we are still playing

police-roxanne

billy joel- scenes from an italian restaurant

Walking on Sunshine

Pruitt wrote:Walking on Sunshine

I like that song. Nice guitar by Kimberley Rew.

sancarlos wrote:

Pruitt wrote:Walking on Sunshine

I like that song. Nice guitar by Kimberley Rew.

Not the worst, but have heard it way too many times.

As a Canadian, I'll put "American Woman" on the mixtape from hell. Back in the mid-late 70's, The Guess Who were played on the radio up here so often - maybe trailing only the Beatles and Stones - that every Canadian kid knew that one year they supposedly sold as many albums as the Stones in the States.

A dubious claim, but hey, they were the only popular rock band Canada had produced up to that point.

And the profound commentary of the lyrics to "American Woman" have been spewing forth from Toronto classic rock stations for 40+ years now. I am convinced that in some bar room in Timmins tonight, the original bass player from the Guess Who is leading a band of fat 60 year olds through a stirring rendition of this Canadian classic.

Pruitt wrote:Walking on Sunshine

Pruitt wrote:

I un-ironically dig that song...

DaveInSeattle wrote:

Pruitt wrote:

I un-ironically dig that song...

I did too.

I didn't know the Righteous Brothers wrote and did the original version, thought it was a Mitch Ryder tune. (And I've never seen High Fidelity but the wiki sez this is referenced.)

howard wrote:I didn't know the Righteous Brothers wrote and did the original version, thought it was a Mitch Ryder tune. (And I've never seen High Fidelity but the wiki sez this is referenced.)

Uh, yeh... referenced on Giff's High Fidelity clip a couple posts above.

(And raise your hand if you remember Giff having the John Cusack High Fidelity avatar.)

Not only have I not seen the film, I only saw about 30 seconds of the clip above. Jack Black started jumping around acting silly, and I clicked through to something else.

I wonder if I'll like it as much now. Haven't seen it in probably 5-6 years, but I've always called it my favorite movie of all-time since seeing it when it was released.

Giff wrote:I wonder if I'll like it as much now. Haven't seen it in probably 5-6 years, but I've always called it my favorite movie of all-time since seeing it when it was released.

It was never my favorite of all time, but it was in very heavy rotation at the chedda house for years. The soundtrack is still great. I bet the movie holds up.

I suppose I should watch it, I'll probably like it. It has long been on my list.

A bot adding a link to Ayn Rand in a "Hypothetical Worst Mixtape Ever" thread.

It's...perfect?

Yeah, I'd like this bot to become a regular.

Unexpected mixtures indeed

Sorry, amusing as his post was, I deleted him. I'm not fucking around with bots and/or paid shills (more likely) from Ukraine.

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That's actually a rather flattering representation...

rass wrote:That's actually a rather flattering representation...

Is that Nipsey Russell?

A_B wrote: I don't think you can include Tears in Heaven because it's a tremendously personal song for him

A tremendously personal song....that was written for movie! ("Rush" with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Patric).

I can't decide what to do with that post. It's spam, I guess? I haven't clicked the link, because I don't trust it, and even if it's benign, I have no interest in reading it.

Should I leave it there as is? Just take out the link? Delete the whole thing?

Probably fair to remove the link at least, right? If my some chance it isn't spam he/she can come back and defend it.

Sabo wrote:

rass wrote:That's actually a rather flattering representation...

Is that Nipsey Russell?

Pretty sure it's Lobo.