tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post7227123637613242331..comments2024-03-28T10:37:48.564-04:00Comments on PowerPop: Weekend Listomania (Special Golden Throats Audio/Video Edition)NYMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10863355110457910935noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-79316827255651013472010-02-02T11:45:55.470-05:002010-02-02T11:45:55.470-05:00Beck smashing the guitar in "Blow Up".
...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zeza1xeWKM" rel="nofollow">Beck smashing the guitar in "Blow Up".</a><br /><br />Actually one of the best scenes in the movie ... the audience is completely wooden until Beck throws the neck of the guitar into the crowd ... then they all go berserk.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18282613112168154071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-58429638063517187032010-02-02T11:24:01.640-05:002010-02-02T11:24:01.640-05:00If you're talking male falsetto singing from t...<i>If you're talking male falsetto singing from the early '60s you have to mention Lou Christie. Was he before the 4 Seasons?</i><br /><br />No, definitely after.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18282613112168154071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-50545060827878358742010-02-02T11:22:25.426-05:002010-02-02T11:22:25.426-05:00It was Jimmy Page, no?
No. Definitely Beck.<i>It was Jimmy Page, no?</i><br /><br />No. Definitely Beck.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18282613112168154071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-88313263189767634392010-01-31T15:30:54.835-05:002010-01-31T15:30:54.835-05:00Libby's right about Janis Joplin, although man...Libby's right about Janis Joplin, although many times over the years I've thought, "Were is Janis now that we really need her?"<br /><br />If you're talking male falsetto singing from the early '60s you have to mention Lou Christie. Was he before the 4 Seasons?<br /><br />There's a record from a few years later called "I love you more today than yesterday" where it sounds like the guy is really hurting himself to hit those notes.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16965815258050677130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-77429355798680749502010-01-31T01:54:20.068-05:002010-01-31T01:54:20.068-05:00Jeff Beck, then a member of the Yardbirds, relucta...<i> Jeff Beck, then a member of the Yardbirds, reluctantly destroyed a guitar in the 1966 film Blowup after being told to emulate The Who by director Michelangelo Antonioni.</i> <br /><br />It was Jimmy Page, no?The Kenosha Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18033456113843929721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-14058970945523276492010-01-30T19:40:00.687-05:002010-01-30T19:40:00.687-05:00That's so funny. I came back because I just re...That's so funny. I came back because I just remembered it was the Who who started the guitar smashing thing. <br /><br />Also agree that Otis was one of a kind. <br /><br />And thinking about the psychedelic phase, some may argue it was the Grateful Dead, but I think Jefferson Airplane started drug band music. You do have to give the Dead credit though for keeping the genre alive for so many years.Libby Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01915834698802726985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-26914619166361668342010-01-30T12:55:44.112-05:002010-01-30T12:55:44.112-05:00Pete Townshend destroyed guitars before Hendrix di...Pete Townshend destroyed guitars before Hendrix did.<br /><br />From wiki:<br /><br /><i>In the mid 1960s, guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who was the first guitar-smashing rock artist. Rolling Stone magazine included his smashing of a Rickenbacker guitar at the Railway Hotel in September 196 in their list of the "50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock & Roll". A student of Gustav Metzger, Townshend saw his guitar smashing as a kind of auto-destructive art.<br /><br />Keith Moon, The Who's drummer, was also known for destroying his drum set. The most spectacular episode of this occurred during The Who's debut on U.S. television on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967. Moon overloaded his bass drum with explosive charges which were detonated during the finale of the song, "My Generation." The explosion caused guest Bette Davis to faint, set Pete Townshend's hair on fire and, according to legend, contributed to his later partial deafness and tinnitus. Moon was also injured in the explosion when shrapnel from the cymbals cut his arm. VH1 later placed this event in the top ten of their list of the 100 Greatest Rock and Roll Moments on Television.<br /><br />Jeff Beck, then a member of the Yardbirds, reluctantly destroyed a guitar in the 1966 film Blowup after being told to emulate The Who by director Michelangelo Antonioni. Jimi Hendrix is also famous for destroying his guitars and amps. He famously burned two guitars at three shows, most notably the Monterey Pop Festival. Jimi's and The Who's habit of smashing their instruments led to a confrontation backstage at Monterey, over who would go on first.</i>Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18282613112168154071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-34508691002143648592010-01-30T12:24:53.991-05:002010-01-30T12:24:53.991-05:00I always feel a little dumb to be adding anything ...I always feel a little dumb to be adding anything in the company of you musicologists but thinking that Janis Joplin led the way for white girls singing the blues. <br /><br />And Jimi Hendrix spawned the psychedelic guitar riffs. Trying to remember if he was the first to destroy a guitar on stage. If not, whoever did spawned the big stage effects movement that I think of as having, in a way, eventually led to Sid Vicious and punk. And didn't Sid also lead the safety pin as body jewelry craze?Libby Spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01915834698802726985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-23197620076529241012010-01-30T12:21:09.570-05:002010-01-30T12:21:09.570-05:00Otis Redding was one of a kind, imho ...
Were th...Otis Redding was one of a kind, imho ... <br /><br />Were the Walker Brothers influenced by the Righteous Brothers? If for no other reason that none of them were brothers? :-)Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18282613112168154071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-46773360732774453102010-01-30T11:46:22.503-05:002010-01-30T11:46:22.503-05:00Kind of a freak one of a kind thing, I'd say.
...Kind of a freak one of a kind thing, I'd say.<br /><br />Although there were groups that tried to sound like the Four Seasons.<br /><br />The Tremeloes covered "Silence is Golden," if memory serves...steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-37921096401314631342010-01-30T11:24:06.799-05:002010-01-30T11:24:06.799-05:00I have to assume Aretha was a huge influence, only...I have to assume Aretha was a huge influence, only because it was hilarious to watch Celine Dion try to out-sing her on a divas' TV special a few years ago. EPIC FAIL.<br /><br />Was Frankie Valli's falsetto a groundbreaker?Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18282613112168154071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-86657691003938693682010-01-29T23:47:33.763-05:002010-01-29T23:47:33.763-05:00Otis Redding?
Crickets.......
:-)Otis Redding?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Crickets.......<br />:-)The Phantom Creepnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-70098780174356983762010-01-29T23:31:57.474-05:002010-01-29T23:31:57.474-05:00David Byrne
I always thought he copped that style...<i>David Byrne</i><br /><br />I always thought he copped that style from that Pere Ubu dude. <br /><br />Chicken? Egg? You may ask yourself, "How do I cook this?"Noam Sanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14078219408896745687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-46086896212762962042010-01-29T19:16:44.137-05:002010-01-29T19:16:44.137-05:00I date the origin of R&B melisma to 1973 and S...I date the origin of R&B melisma to 1973 and Stevie Wonder's "Superstition". He adds a just little ornament at the end of a few words and lines, and the effect is of a piece with the rest of that magnificent song. Of course, as these things go in R&B, whatever works gets massively copied very quickly, and by the late 1980s, R&B singing was becoming unlistenable.<br /><br />My pet vocal villain has always been David Byrne. As with all bad influencers, it wasn't so much that he himself did the herky-jerky talk singing thing. It was his imitators who drove it into the ground.<br /><br />I've always loved Percy's Song in Dylan's version and especially by Fairport Convention. As a storysong, it's strange and unconvincing; the narrator doesn't really make a very strong case for the unfortunate friend; the judge's anger seems disproportionate; and the nine-minute length doesn't seem justified by the anti-climactic ending. But man, it just works, and Dylan seems to feel every word of it.Fazenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-76752936366801114002010-01-29T14:32:49.268-05:002010-01-29T14:32:49.268-05:00Harry Nilsson might have been more influential if ...Harry Nilsson might have been more influential if more people could even begin to hit those occasional insanely high notes. <br />Jane Siberry could have taught people a couple of things, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-55530566721056138252010-01-29T13:22:36.770-05:002010-01-29T13:22:36.770-05:00No Robert Plant, no Ann Wilson.
I'm sure Davi...<i>No Robert Plant, no Ann Wilson.</i><br /><br />I'm sure David Coverdale is relieved...<br />:-)steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-57217083889195171292010-01-29T13:21:16.981-05:002010-01-29T13:21:16.981-05:00Another person who can get away with oversouling i...Another person who can get away with oversouling is Aaron Neville. It is not too many notes when he does it.<br /><br />I am really glad that there is one Laurie Anderson, but I would be distraught if there were two. "Oh look, another Laurie Anderson clone."<br /><br />BG, we do math the same way when it comes to Madonna and Brit. I do listen to <i>Vogue</i> and <i>Express Yourself</i> on occasion, but the rest of it kind of offends me. I can listen to the 5,6,7,8's for relatively long periods, but Madonna outwears her welcome after two specific songs for me.<br /><br />TreyTMinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07221261635305430323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-64373038023174599282010-01-29T13:00:20.488-05:002010-01-29T13:00:20.488-05:00What -- no love for Otis Redding?
C'mon, the ...What -- no love for Otis Redding?<br /><br />C'mon, the absolute blueprint for soul singing....steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-30882634408180689672010-01-29T11:28:43.046-05:002010-01-29T11:28:43.046-05:00I'm not sure Kate Bush inspired many imitators...I'm not sure Kate Bush inspired many imitators, but even one would be far too many.<br /><br />For a short time several years back there seemed to be a bit of fascination with some dreck I heard referred to as "performance art". I remember hearing Laurie Anderson on the radio once or twice. God help us all if that were to ever catch on.<br /><br />And then there's Yoko Ono...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-49211645463101626062010-01-29T11:27:31.744-05:002010-01-29T11:27:31.744-05:00No Madonna, no Brit. You do the math.
Like that w...<i>No Madonna, no Brit. You do the math.</i><br /><br />Like that would be a loss?Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18282613112168154071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-35891459532636842692010-01-29T10:55:38.816-05:002010-01-29T10:55:38.816-05:00No love for Ian Curtis?No love for Ian Curtis?The Kenosha Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18033456113843929721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-72946519865024489712010-01-29T10:42:42.320-05:002010-01-29T10:42:42.320-05:00I have nothing much to add here, except that you g...I have nothing much to add here, except that you guys are cracking my shit up.NYMaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10863355110457910935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-71806248332517488532010-01-29T10:33:54.384-05:002010-01-29T10:33:54.384-05:00Oh dear god, that's priceless. Thanks...
:-)Oh dear god, that's priceless. Thanks...<br />:-)steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-84713810129049772662010-01-29T10:20:45.952-05:002010-01-29T10:20:45.952-05:00"That clown from Spandau Ballet"...
I a..."That clown from Spandau Ballet"...<br /><br />I assume you have see Modern Family's Spandau Ballet dig<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eos0AuSqrU8Ken Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-78650840256427564902010-01-29T10:03:52.865-05:002010-01-29T10:03:52.865-05:00the word you're searching for is "melisma...the word you're searching for is "melisma." my favorite practitioner is Todd Rundgren because, well, it's Todd. <br /><br />for influential - leonard cohen or, more recently, mark e. smith.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com