November music thread

[menotu]

Campfire Kid -  "The Campfire Song"

The Campfire Song

[MBantz]

Tim Christensen - How Far You Go

[gandy]

Since we're starting with slow songs. I found this a few days ago. Never heard it before then.

Queen - One Year Of Love (Lyrics)

[weirdwolf]

Another beautiful voice -- It's a twofer

Carnival Natalie Merchant

10,000 Maniacs (with Natalie Merchant) - Because The Night (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Rudge]

ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons explained the inspiration for the song: "I was driving in Los Angeles, and there was this unusual downpour. And there was a real pretty girl on the side of the road. I passed her, and then I thought, 'Well, I'd better pull over' or at least turn around and offer her a ride, and by the time I got back she was gone. Her legs were the first thing I noticed... She was not going to get wet. She had legs and she knew how to use them."

Personally, I never had a use for ZZ Top. Everything I ever heard them play was the same stuff that I was playing while growing up in garage bands.

For some reason, they made it work better than most but I have always attributed their success to "production".

I wish I had a dollar for every time I performed "Tush" with a band that could do it so well, you would be hard pressed to distinguish it from ZZ Top, with one exception...

I saw ZZ Top in concert, live... they sucked!

We did not.

Legs - ZZ Top - Beacon Theater NYC Sept 13th 2010

I know, this video is from 2010 but trust me when I say, it is an improvement over the performance that they gave in Atlanta (1983-ish?)  

Lots of smoke, it's hard to say... I was there,, that much is certain.  
    

[gandy]

For me, ZZ Top is the type of group that I like "one song at a time". It's good to hear them on the radio but I don't want to hear a whole album. I always thought it was humorous that the only member that didn't have a beard had the last name Beard.

[RadOH]

ZZ's GOOD...heres a little ELO.....

Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky

Stuck Like Glue, a must see video  

Sugarland - Stuck Like Glue (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Sugarland- It Happens (w/ lyrics) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

The Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post (Live At The Atlanta International Pop Festival) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[weirdwolf]

I think early ZZ Top was best YMMV 

ZZ Top - 02 Just Got Paid - Rio Grande Mud 1972 mix

ZZ TOP- LA GRANGE (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Good stuff that ELO
The music is reversible but time is not, Turn back, Turn Back
Electric Light Orchestra - Fire On High (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[scoundrel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ogmn_oqJts&feature=relmfu

[MGBguy]

Feeling nostalgic. 

Jim Croce - I Got a Name (1973)

[Rudge]

Read this> Described by band member Micky Dolenz as initially being "a TV show about an imaginary band that wanted to be "The Beatles", [but] that was never successful", the actor/musicians soon became a real band.

As Dolenz would later describe it, "The Monkees really becoming a band was like the equivalent of Leonard Nimoy really becoming a Vulcan."

For the first few months of their almost five-year initial career, the four actor-musicians were only allowed limited roles in the recording studio. This was due in part to the excessive time spent filming the TV series which in turn limited the amount of time available to the group to rehearse and coalesce as a band.

Nonetheless, Nesmith did compose and produce some songs from the beginning, and Peter Tork contributed limited guitar work on the Nesmith-produced sessions.

They soon fought for and earned the right to collectively supervise all musical output under the band's name. Although the sitcom was canceled in 1968, the band continued to record music through 1971.

Reference - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkees



Then watch this:   http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/sn/show.do?show=133957


Then listen to this:    

The Monkees - "Pleasant Valley Sunday" - ORIGINAL VIDEO - HQ

These guys weren't even a band. They were actors cast in a sitcom that pretended to be a band and yet, they created some music that we can never forget.  

[Tony]

ZZ Top: I remember listening to some of their Albums in the late 70's, and liking them. They became 'formularised' which you have to if you want to make money as a Band, and promote Videos. I feel they kind of packaged and popularised some traditional 'Texas Blues' sounds which was quite clever.

Really sucks not getting to see Bands in their own environment, living in Aus.

When I read about "The Monkeys" I was sure they hadn't written their songs, I may be wrong.
After some searching came across:
Pleasant Valley Sunday by The Monkees
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3885
Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote this about Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange, New Jersey, where they lived at the time. The Monkees fourth single, it is an ode to the simple life in happy suburbia.

I'm A Believer by The Monkees
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2135
Neil Diamond wrote this song.  

The Monkees sang on this, but did not play any instruments. The producers used session musicians because they were not convinced The Monkees could play like a real band. This became a huge point of contention, as the group fought to play their own songs.
Suppose the thing is The Monkeys are remembered for doing these songs and having huge hits. The TV show was their main vehicle for promoting the songs, however they probably could have been a successful band ?

Was fun back in the day watching their show on TV.

[Just17]

Had to post this in this thread .....  picked up from another thread on the forum .....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxR7dVPKnD4#

[scoundrel]

is that guitar even in tune 

[Vorteggs]

Bolero was composed by Maurice after visiting the steel factory "Bolero" in Spain.
I was there too.

Since I didn't find a link to this event I am posting this Bolero:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdOWqQbdOR0