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Post by cynical1 on Oct 7, 2022 7:17:21 GMT -5
Over the past 50 odd decades I've stumbled upon many musicians and bands that pleasantly surprised me with their music. YouTube is a goldmine of the obscure in this direction. I use a little app named FreeTube that allows me to clear any past activity, which keeps the algorithm from regurgitating content based on what I listened to yesterday. I've discovered over the years that logging on as a GUEST in your browser and choosing a certain act or genre takes the algorithm down a new rabbit hole every time. That's how I found these guys... I looked to see if they had any other videos online...and I discovered they've been around for 12 years... It begs the question..."How did I miss these guys?" Feel free to keep the string alive. No accordions, please. HTC1
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Post by b4nj0 on Oct 7, 2022 10:05:32 GMT -5
Yep. Top drawer. Rick Beato has interviewed Tim in the past year or thereabouts which is worth tracking down. Rick's is a pretty good YT channel, and he's no slouch on keys as well as guit fiddle in addition to a copper-bottomed knowledge of theory. I have 'The Beato Book" and it is way over my pay grade.
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Post by newey on Oct 7, 2022 18:52:23 GMT -5
Not that I didn't know the band existed, there was a cute girl in my high school who was into these guys. But, back in the day, I never heard any of their music, at least not that I can recall. But 50+ years later, I "discovered" them.
And, while I don't have a clue how many of the original members remain, these guys are apparently still touring.
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Post by cynical1 on Oct 8, 2022 6:31:14 GMT -5
...And, while I don't have a clue how many of the original members remain, these guys are apparently still touring. One member from 1969 left, Andy Powell. John Whetton played on one album back in the early 80's...as I seem to recall. They used to come through Chicago quite a bit back in the day... Thanks for taking me back to a time when I had hair...and it was brown... HTC1
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Post by b4nj0 on Oct 8, 2022 12:31:41 GMT -5
In the 1970s when I actually WAS in a "band"(!) the Wishbone Ash track "Blowing Free" was the only worked out number we had, the rest was just three chords and the wig out truth.
In that video, it looks like Laurie Wisefield on guitar. Andy Powell always played a Flying V. Laurie Wisefield replaced Ted Turner on "second" guitar. Martin Turner was holding down the low end. I can't remember who the drummer was. Ted Turner left the band just as it was peaking, allegedly (according to the NME or the Melody Maker) to go in search of the pyramids. Such was the BS put about by music hacks in the 1970s. I imagine it would be trivial to find out what happened to him and where he is now. Ted and Martin Turner were not brothers.
Laurie Wisefield came from the band "Home" that had two albums, "Pause For a Hoarse Horse" (which was MEH) and later "The Alchemist" which at the time I liked so much I bought a second copy because I wore one out. About ten years ago I sourced it on CD too and played it once or twice ... go figure. About the same time, SWMBO bought me a Wishbone Ash compilation on CD. I don't know why, and moreover I don't even think I even got to the end of it. It sat on the shelf collecting dust and I eventually threw it in the trash. I know it's subjective but for myself I realised they were a zeitgeist and humanity had moved on. I still have Argus, Live Dates and posdibly a third vinyl platter of theirs under the stairs. Bear in kind that Andy Powell was always very much a "my way or the highway" figure in Wishbone Ash, and by all (printed ...) accounts backed it up with a less than salubrious attitude towards fellow members both past and present. I guess there's a reason why he's the only one left flogging the nag.
I saw Wishbone Ash in the 1970s, I suppose it was at the Finsbury Park Astoria, known better at that juncture as "The Rainbow". A school mate worshipped them and organised the trip (I levered him into that band I was in for a jam on the QT because he played bass and he knew Blowing Free like the back of his hand.)
Thanks for reviving some long suppressed memories.
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Post by unreg on Oct 8, 2022 16:25:49 GMT -5
I used to follow a band called Eisley. Then, they introduced me to Midlake. Much later, they introduced me to Pilotdrift. While listening to Pilotdrift’s album Iter Facere, I thought, how did I miss these guys? Iter Facere’s most popular track was Elephant Island. I didn’t share a live yt video of it bc that video clearly fails to capture the Pilotdrift experience. Pilotdrift concerts always sounded exactly like the album. Actually, sounded even better to me bc of my semi-weak subwoofer. The live video suffocates all the low parts; and its sound quality of the high part is also terrible. All of Iter Facere is available for listening on yt. Here is a track Comets from their still available album Water Sphere. It inspired a painting on my wall. And it’s an excellent transition track, imo.
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Post by asmith on Oct 14, 2022 4:12:00 GMT -5
cynical1, have you heard Polyphia and Vai's cover of Sweet Child O' Mine?
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Post by cynical1 on Oct 14, 2022 7:50:19 GMT -5
No, but I like it. Thanks. Around 2008 or 2009, when I first started actually learning to play guitar, 4 Real sent me this tab:
I didn't know what it was...and it took the better part of an hour at the time, but when it began to sound recognizable I thought, "Buns and Noses?...seriously...from a Jeff Beck Fan". 4Real explained about an interview where Slash talked about that riff just being an exercise he came up with to practice string skipping. I've been using it as an exercise ever since. But it doesn't sound like Slash...or these guys... HTC1
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