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What are you listening to? Part III
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Thank you. I prefer the original though. BTW there are no rules about posting videos if someone else already has. Its just what you are listening to. My choices are probably quite repetitive!
So appropriate as I can't recall the last time it didn't rain!
I understand more than you might imagine. I was just like that -- I mean obsessively like that -- from the early 1970s until 2007-08 in one sense and until 2015 in another sense. I hated listening to any "pop hits" by anyone except the original artists. I didn't even like listening to them when they were being performed by other famous "pop artists" (I didn't even like listening to LIVE versions of my favorites by the original artists, because they were usually too different). That changed in 2007-08, when I started researching all charting hits from 1941 onward (because in the 1940s-50s it was common for multiple famous artists to perform the same new songs at the same time; these versions all competed with one other on the radio stations and in the record stores). I made the final transition -- enjoying listening to TOPNOTCH unknowns (not just any unknowns) performing a CERTAIN FEW pop hits -- in 2015. I'm still not entirely sure what caused this final change in me.
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On Sunday I posted guitarist Kim Chung's version of "Recuerdos de la Alhambra," which, with all of that tremolo, was definitely composed with the guitar in mind. So can you imagine someone attempting to perform it on a piano?
Paul Barton is at the top of my list of favorite "YouTube" pianists (tied with at least two others). The following performance is an example of why that's true. One of the people who commented on his video wrote exactly what I was thinking: "I am shocked and speechless. I play the classical guitar. I am not professional, but I know how much hard to use tremolo technique is. It takes many many years to give clear and symmetrical touches on guitar, although it is a guitar based technique. I just can't believe this performance on piano, so clear, so independent and on point touches. This is amazing, genius..."
Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Francisco Tárrega) - pianist Paul Barton (2015)
Paul Barton is at the top of my list of favorite "YouTube" pianists (tied with at least two others). The following performance is an example of why that's true. One of the people who commented on his video wrote exactly what I was thinking: "I am shocked and speechless. I play the classical guitar. I am not professional, but I know how much hard to use tremolo technique is. It takes many many years to give clear and symmetrical touches on guitar, although it is a guitar based technique. I just can't believe this performance on piano, so clear, so independent and on point touches. This is amazing, genius..."
Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Francisco Tárrega) - pianist Paul Barton (2015)
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Psychedelic. Kind of surprised he isn't better known...
Psychedelic. Kind of surprised he isn't better known...
Head East - Get Up & Enjoy Yourself - 1978
Before there was Journey (Steve Perry) - there was head east - lol
Had this on Vinyl back in the day
Before there was Journey (Steve Perry) - there was head east - lol
Had this on Vinyl back in the day
Talk about needing to be uplifted in these difficult times:
And here's a very recent one without any famous artists (well, well done):
And here's a very recent one without any famous artists (well, well done):
I attended South Dakota State University during my junior year (1981-82). My closest friend's roommate in our dorm had a Head East poster (or two?) taped to the wall(s) above his desk. Even with all of the clutter in their room, it was impossible to miss that poster every time I went in. I had never heard of the group before, so it always drew my attention (I kept wondering how anyone could like some group that I had never heard of 😁). In the attached photo (which is maybe a 10% crop of the full image), the wording on the poster is hidden, but I BELEIVE it's the Head East poster (it's been a long time, and there were at least two posters above his desk). I just now searched for "Head East" posters on Google Images, and I can't find this particular poster, but the guys in it very much resemble the guys in some of their other posters. It's possible that this poster was "just" an advertisement for one of their concerts in Minnesota (where it's owner was from) or South Dakota. I'm just wildly guessing.
There are hints of Santana and (early) Chicago in the The Fabulous Rhinestones' sound. Even more so, they sound very much like many excellent early 1970s groups; however, I can't quite pinpoint which group(s) they most remind me of. This song was their only charting hit. It peaked at No. 67 on July 29, 1972. I truly believe it should have gone much higher than that (click the title below and read other people's comments). One thing is for sure: It definitely has the Santana-like(?) "mellow" early 1970s FEEL to it.
What a Wonderful Thing We Have - The Fabulous Rhinestones
What a Wonderful Thing We Have - The Fabulous Rhinestones
And, now, a few from Genesis.
Earlier tonight, my brother phoned me. Spotify (something I have never used) suggested to him the track "I Know What I Like" by Genesis, and he remembered that I really liked that track (and that group) and so, with that in mind, he phoned me.
So, before I listen to that track, I am playing Mama, by Genesis.
Earlier tonight, my brother phoned me. Spotify (something I have never used) suggested to him the track "I Know What I Like" by Genesis, and he remembered that I really liked that track (and that group) and so, with that in mind, he phoned me.
So, before I listen to that track, I am playing Mama, by Genesis.
Cool Song - Great Album - one of favorite Styx albums - "Castle Walls" is a great track too - great drum section in the middle of the track
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I love this track - it sounds hauntingly familiar, but I have never had any of their albums - nice share 👍
Agree with your comments about sounding like Chicago a bit (with the brass) - but I find it even more similar to Todd Rundgren's work back at that time (example - Hello it's Me) - just my perception & IMHO
anyway thanks again for sharing this great track 💕
Snow Patrol kept me company earlier whilst I gardened.
I agree. "Hauntingly familiar" is the best way to say it. It's exactly what I think too.
I had never even heard of the Fabulous Rhinestones until I discovered this song in 2008 (during my unusual music-research period). When I first heard it I couldn't believe that it hadn't been a huge hit, and I also couldn't believe I had never heard it before. I listened to it 2 or 3 times last night just before and after I posted it on MacRumors, and, I don't know if it's because I've been listening to it off and on since 2008, but I began to wonder if it sounds "hauntingly familiar," because somewhere, waaaaaayyyyy in the back of my mind, I suddenly - finally - started to remember that I actually did listen to it back in the 1970s, but forgot it because no radio stations have played it since then. Maybe hearing it again for the 5th or 10th(???) time since 2008 finally caused my subconscious to lift that memory a bit closer toward actual consciousness.
By golly, I was actually thinking the same thing, but not with enough confidence to say so. I scrolled through my iTunes library last night before I posted the song. I was looking at all of the other 1970s rock musicians, trying to jog my memory, to see if I could find any whose sound is reminiscent of that of the Fabulous Rhinestones. I actually thought twice about mentioning Todd Rundgren (I have "Hello, It's Me"), but, as I say, I didn't have enough confidence to state it out loud. Besides, the Fabulous Rhinestones' sound, at least in this song, still reminds me more of someone else's sound instead of Todd Rundgren's. Or maybe the sound simply reminds me of the early 1970s feel in general, because it is such a perfect example of it in so many ways.
You're welcome.