What rock music are you listening to? Non-Jazz, Non-Classical.

[soulpope]

14 hours ago, BFrank said:

.... over the years I came to realize that Jack Bruce was the innovator in that band, not Eric. As time went by I followed his career with much more interest than Clapton who seemed release an endless stream of mediocre albums. I still treasure most of Jack's output, both on solo albums and with more adventurous stuff with artists like Kip Hanrahan and Tony Williams.

True ....

[porcy62]

I usually judge the art not the artist, a bad guy like Caravaggio left something that enriches and improves the beauty of our world. Said that Clapton wasn't Caravaggio and I agree that he was particulary hateful about immigrants and the covid. I am not very impressed by his work, even with the Cream. Personally I have the same nuisance toward Roger Water and his position against Israel, definitely anti-semitic IMO. But art is art, artists are human beings, being a good man doesn't make better paintings or better quartets as supporting good causes doesn't make better music. In general as we judge art within his historical and artistic context, we should judge the artist, no surprise that in the works of men living in times where racism, machismo, slavery, ecc, were common sense we could find these elements. For sure Clapton does not live in the times of Suleiman the Magnificent or Elizabeth I, so he is unforgivable.

Edited May 21, 2022 by porcy62

[jlhoots]

Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine, Vol. 2

 

[ghost of miles]

On 5/19/2022 at 10:33 AM, HutchFan said:

As predicted:

My father loved this record.  So I heard it over and over again as a kid growing up in the Seventies.  It's one of a handful of records that I hear and immediately think of my childhood. 

So much of my father's music is like "mental furniture"; it's just there, beside all the other recollections from my childhood.  And, in some ways, I suppose it's even stronger than many of them -- since music was something that I absorbed unconsciously.  In our house, it was just in the air, all the time.

It's a great gift my father gave me.

 

About a year ago, a long-time family friend gave me this photo.  It's me and my dad, listening to music in the living room in our first house:

I suppose I'm maybe 10 years old (?) at the time.

 

Lovely remembrance and photo that remind me of my own childhood.

Speaking of childhood, listening right now to this classic from my youth:

 

 

[soulpope]

33 minutes ago, BFrank said:

RIP Dallas Good

Good platter ....

[Bluesnik]

18 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

Speaking of childhood, listening right now to this classic from my youth:

Also a classic from my youth. I even saw them live once in 1980 together with (guess who?) Mike Oldffield . I often think of them when I see those oh so fashionable Ramones T-Shirts from today. Which hipsters wear without probably knowing anything about them.

[EKE BBB]

[EKE BBB]

[soulpope]

[HutchFan]

[mjazzg]

23 hours ago, Bluesnik said:

Also a classic from my youth. I even saw them live once in 1980 together with (guess who?) Mike Oldffield . I often think of them when I see those oh so fashionable Ramones T-Shirts from today. Which hipsters wear without probably knowing anything about them.

From my youth too. I was all set to see them at Reading Festival in 1979, even had a "Gabba Gabba Hey" T-shirt printed up - they cancelled and Nils Lofgren, of all people, took their place.  Still wore the T-shirt though.  

[EKE BBB]

[soulpope]

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

[Bluesnik]

Because I seeked it out in Spotify and am listening to it right now. I have a Tee-shirt of that tour, which I am wearing right now. I inherited it from my (younger) brother who went to see him during that tour in the 80s.

[felser]

[soulpope]

[EKE BBB]

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

What a great farewell this was ....

[HutchFan]

The last Genesis album that I enjoy from start to finish. Also, the last Genesis album produced by David Hentschel -- and, arguably, the last prog rock album before they became (primarily) a pop/arena rock act.

[mjazzg]

On 26/05/2022 at 5:29 PM, EKE BBB said:

Me too now. What a great album this is

[soulpope]

As good as it gets ....

[ghost of miles]

The final entry in the Furs' classic run of early-1980s albums.