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What are you listening to? Part III

KaliYoni said:
A tangent: Max Roach's discography is a great demonstration of why streaming media can be a positive force. So much of Roach's work is out of print that it's good there's a way to keep his music alive and obtainable for new listeners.
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So, so agreed. The opposite is also very true.

I follow Rick Beato on ewetube; he's a great music teacher, critic, musician and historian. He's posted some really good analyses of great songs by different bands, but every time he does one on certain bands (Eagles, Led Zeppelin) they're immediately blocked due to "copyright infringement", and he's actually testified before Congress on this issue.

But here's the interesting part: a lot of the newer fans for classic bands (let's say 60's to 2010's) find out about them on the 'netz (Spotify, ewetube, etc), NOT by hearing them on the radio or borrowing "an album". Hence, the bands who are so terrified of not being paid enough for their work a half-century ago, are actually ensuring their own disappearance; Rick had shown in one of his videos that the bands who were blocking their own content were dropping, a lot, in popularity compared to the bands who the younger folks could access/listen to!

Again, huge changes in how the music industry changes, and some folks aren't keeping up.
 
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BotchQue said:
So, so agreed. The opposite is also very true.

I follow Rick Beato on ewetube; he's a great music teacher, critic, musician and historian. He's posted some really good analyses of great songs by different bands, but every time he does one on certain bands (Eagles, Led Zeppelin) they're immediately blocked due to "copyright infringement", and he's actually testified before Congress on this issue.

But here's the interesting part: a lot of the newer fans for classic bands (let's say 60's to 2010's) find out about them on the 'netz (Spotify, ewetube, etc), NOT by hearing them on the radio or borrowing "an album". Hence, the bands who are so terrified of not being paid enough for their work a half-century ago, are actually ensuring their own disappearance; Rick had shown in one of his videos that the bands who were blocking their own content were dropping, a lot, in popularity compared to the bands who the younger folks could access/listen to!

Again, huge changes in how the music industry changes, and some folks aren't keeping up.
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If you like Beato’s dissections of songs, this book, written by one of the founders of Pandora, is a good companion:

The book can get way into the weeds and isn’t as entertaining as Beato’s YouTube videos but if you want to think about musical taste from another perspective, I recommend it.

And on a tangent, this is a cool book on recording music:
us.macmillan.com

Perfecting Sound Forever

In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell ...
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"In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an Edison Diamond Disc or a flesh-and-blood musician."

Now, here's what early 1900s recordings actually sound like:

Index | UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive

cylinders.library.ucsb.edu cylinders.library.ucsb.edu
 
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@Scepticalscribe I finally got the chance to check out Brandon Acker, I love his stuff! I'm vaguely familiar with classical guitar/lute/therobo, and I've been to classical guitar concerts, but it isn't something I've really explored. Good to be listening to more of that kind of stuff.
 
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rm5 said:
@Scepticalscribe I finally got the chance to check out Brandon Acker, I love his stuff! I'm vaguely familiar with classical guitar/lute/therobo, and I've been to classical guitar concerts, but it isn't something I've really explored. Good to be listening to more of that kind of stuff.
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Absolutely wonderful.

I'm delighted that you have discovered him.

I love his stuff, his music, and his videos, and he has some really impressive and interesting (well, I learned a lot) videos giving the background and history of musical instruments; his history of the guitar (it's about an hour long) is brilliant, and I highly recommend it.

A lot of Baroque music features a fantastic pairing of Baroque guitar (melody) and a theobo (rhythm and bass), which work extremely well together.
 
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rm5 said:
@Scepticalscribe I finally got the chance to check out Brandon Acker, I love his stuff! I'm vaguely familiar with classical guitar/lute/therobo, and I've been to classical guitar concerts, but it isn't something I've really explored. Good to be listening to more of that kind of stuff.
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Another early music specialist I would recommend that you take a look at (I've read that he actually plays a viola da gamba that dates from 1698, an extraordinary instrument, with an amazing carved face at the top of the pegbox), is the superb Jordi Savall.

As an aside, his son both plays the theorbo and also plays with jazz groups.
 
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I'm going to listen to this in its entirety today at work. I've never heard the whole LP. :)
 
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am I the only person who, since 1976 did not purchase an annual musical recording released this 2023?
That Trevor Horn or Yes recordings seem welcoming, but......

so actually this post should be in a "What RU NOT listening too." thread.
 
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