Capitol Records is 80 Years Old Today!

[Bluesnik]

5 hours ago, JSngry said:

This is one of the essential guitar records:

Something I must dig into then. I don't know it.

[bertrand]

44 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Yeah, too little too late. Same thing with Zappa doing them.

In real time, I noticed a small but noticeable decrease in musicality from, say, Cream to Zep, and by the time Grand Funk came out of the musical rectum, the kids were NOT all right, the kids were more than willing to swallow that turd whole, over and over again.

I moved on with no regrets - and with no hesitancy. One of the better life choices I've made (not that there were all that many...).

 

Far worse bands came along after GFR. You dodged a bullet. Foreigner springs to mind...

[felser]

44 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Yeah, too little too late. Same thing with Zappa doing them.

In real time, I noticed a small but noticeable decrease in musicality from, say, Cream to Zep, and by the time Grand Funk came out of the musical rectum, the kids were NOT all right, the kids were more than willing to swallow that turd whole, over and over again.

I moved on with no regrets - and with no hesitancy. One of the better life choices I've made (not that there were all that many...).

 

Iiiiiiiii'm getting clowoser to my howwwwwwme!  I actually enjoy their Terry Knight-produced stuff.  Mind you, I'm not saying it's good, but it hits a spot for me.  Don Brewer singing killed the deal for me, as did the open misogyny of "We're An American Band".

[JSngry]

46 minutes ago, Bluesnik said:

Something I must dig into then. I don't know it.

Merle Travis was more-or-less the proto finger-picker, Chet Atkins before there was Chet Atkins.

[bertrand]

1 hour ago, felser said:

Iiiiiiiii'm getting clowoser to my howwwwwwme!  I actually enjoy their Terry Knight-produced stuff.  Mind you, I'm not saying it's good, but it hits a spot for me.  Don Brewer singing killed the deal for me, as did the open misogyny of "We're An American Band".

That song is the pits.

[Bluesnik]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

Merle Travis was more-or-less the proto finger-picker, Chet Atkins before there was Chet Atkins.

Ah, good to know. But what make is that guitar on the cover? Its headstock doesn't look Gibsonesque.

[Michael]

52 minutes ago, Bluesnik said:

Ah, good to know. But what make is that guitar on the cover? Its headstock doesn't look Gibsonesque.

Maybe a Bigsby?

[jazzbo]

I think there's a good chance it's an Epiphone.

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Bluesnik said:

Ah, good to know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Travis

just to know who he was. He was a huge influence within his realm.

[medjuck]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Travis

just to know who he was. He was a huge influence within his realm.

And he wrote "Dark as a Dungeon".  

[DMP]

Dakota Staton

[bertrand]

How many labels out there that are still active and older than Blue Note?

[Bluesnik]

11 hours ago, JSngry said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Travis

just to know who he was. He was a huge influence within his realm.

Oh, I see it's I think a Gibson Super 400. The ultra archtop and the biggest one of them. That is from the prehistory of Gibson, when they were making mostly archtops,  that is jazz guitars, and the headstock was maybe still not as highly developed as further on when they became instantly recognizable. And thanks for the answers.

[Teasing the Korean]

6 hours ago, bertrand said:

How many labels out there that are still active and older than Blue Note?

Active as functioning, autonomous labels, or active as imprints of global conglomerates?

Edited February 9, 2022 by Teasing the Korean

[Brad]

On 2/9/2022 at 6:38 AM, Teasing the Korean said:

Active as functioning, autonomous labels, or active as imprints of global conglomerates?

They’re all subsidiaries of UMG. 

[Teasing the Korean]

4 hours ago, Brad said:

They’re all subsidiaries of UMG. 

Yes, but I imagine some may be quasi-functioning labels, while others are merely legacy imprints.

[JSngry]

Capitol currently is representing as having an active artists roster!

https://www.capitolrecords.com/artists/

[Dub Modal]

25 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Capitol currently is representing as having an active artists roster!

https://www.capitolrecords.com/artists/

Pop music imagery is pretty weird and mostly depressing to look at. Clearly I'm not the demo for that stable. 

[JSngry]

Not even Neil Diamond?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[HutchFan]

Diamond and McCartney stick out like sore thumbs.

Fogeys among the kiddies.

 

[JSngry]

Wait - ABBA too!

[Dub Modal]

17 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Not even Neil Diamond?!?!?!?!?!?!?

A little before my time 

[JSngry]

and yet you thank the lord for the night time?

[Dub Modal]

I've never heard that song before 

[JSngry]

In real (before your) time, that guy was one of the more extreme crash and burn right before your very eyes pop artists of his day, even more than Elvis. At least Elvis half-ass tried to right some of his wrongs...