RAP is NOT music. It is symptomatic of the decline in our civilization.
RAP is NOT music. It is symptomatic of the decline in our civilization.
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the academy is "band will get huge soon"
Farwell "band will get huge"
Old Who fan wrote:
Here are a couple of more obscure names that made it semi-big in their own way.
Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, just when he was starting out in the late 70s. He came back to our college every year after that.
Anybody remember any of these acts? All were very very talented, but seemed happy withe their niche.
Will catch Pat Metheny on Oct 8 in Ann Arbor. Have seen him 2 other times there over the years. Thoroughly engrossing sensory overload experience.
When I was running in Highschool at Ritenour in St. Louis, I was friends with a band called big blue monkey. This band as fate might have it signed a contract and hit it big. They became what we know as STORY OF THE YEAR. So I had the opportunity to watch them go from the bottom all the way to the top.
I saw John Mayer open for Guster back in early 2001. Shorlty thereafter he released Room For Squares twice and has been big ever since he released it the second time. I thought he played well but he was nothing to get overly excited for. I actually listened to his music quite a bit until main stream media played the crap out of it. I am not a huge fan of that genre anymore... it's all become sickly trite.
This will show my age.
Saw Led Zeppelin as a backup band to Iron Butterfly at Flllmore East.
Hey are any of these guys big names?
Michelle Malone
The Josh Joplin Group
Kelly Hogan
Rock*A*Teens
6X
17 Years
Anne Richmond Boston
Big Fish Ensemble
Tim Lee
Mudcat
Paul Melançon
The Indicators
An old jr. high friend now owns/runs a studio where these artists have recorded. He was a Hendrix wannabe who actually has had a decent career on his own (plays on one of the listed bands above). I was his first base player, but they kicked me out of the band when I couldn't play "Substitute." Wandered in the wilderness of teen angst and insecurity for four years until I discovered running. True story.
For The record said: RAP is NOT music. It is symptomatic of the decline in our civilization.
What came first, decline or rap? Rap exists for a reason. Lives in the gutter can be best expressed by those who are there, just like Celine Dion expresses her views on life, but, um, different. Expressing it in the appropriate language and words.
Rap in general however, is going the way of the 70s rock dinosaurs before punk kicked them all in the ass. Look at the rappers at awards shows these days. Much rap today concerns the scratch that someone put on their Mercedes, or the wrong bottle of wine being brought back stage. It's getting rich and fat and lazy, just like rock did.
I saw what I think was the first public performance of Porno For Pyros. It was on the first date of Lollapalooza II in Mountain View, CA. It was an unannounced performance on the second stage. I just happened to be walking close by when I heard people start yelling "Perry! Perry!" I moved over to the stage and there was Perry Farrell and his new band, jamming to a couple of hundred people who just happened to be wandering by like I was. Great show! I don't think their first album was released for several months after that.
Bonnie Raitt at a coffehouse in downtown (!) Ipswich MA.... way back, with just her bass player, before she put a band together. There were about six people in the place. She was drinking Southern Comfort and getting meaner by the snort. Whew, can that lady play some slide, tho.
A couple of years later went into BossTown to catch Orchestra Luna and the startup act was Split Enz. Both acts were amazing, but only Split Enz has become mythical. I had this distinct image they had just come from the Bizarro planet and were the most talented musicians that planet would ever export ....
Old Who Fan,
Anne Richmond Boston was in Swimming Pool Q's from Athens in late 70's.
Blasters were one of the best I've ever seen. My brother, who only liked country at the time, said "These guys could play the Volunteer Jam"
Saw Los Lobos in LA during 84 Olympics.
Dwight Yoakum played Reitz Union Ballroom, Gainesville, after a couple of albums.
Twisted Sister
10,000 Maniacs
Susan Tedeschi
Gavin DeGraw
Maroon 5
so no point in posting this then?
I mean you were meant to be surprised that they made it big. not "Not surprised at all that they made it"
f***ing loser.
the same things said about Rap today (though they're being said by people with no idea what they're talking about) was said about Rock and Jazz. I suspect anyone with that opinion has little idea of hip hop (rap) more than they're being presented on MTV (bet)...that's like saying chicken is bad for you because KFC is bad for you.
I saw Hilary Duff before she made it big as a singer. I saw her on the TV show "Lizzie McGuire".
When the show ended, she got a little pudgy, started singing pop songs, lost the weight, turned 18 yesterday, and is now of legal age (to buy cigarettes and vote, of course).
Two acts on completely different tracks.
Springsteen right around the time of "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J."
Barry Manilow just prior to "Mandy" polluting the airwaves.
What a diverse collection of concerts. Don't know much about the Springstreet dude you mention, other than that anthem of 'Born in East LA' or something like that. I gather he was going down hill when you saw him? Maybe that is why his friend Clarence started this thread.
We all know that Barry is the K I N G !
"...at the Copa, Copa Cabana. Music and fashion were always the passion at the Copa. We fell in love."
I used to live with the Violent Femmes when they were a $2 bar band in 1982.
Ricky Martin didn't used to be homosexual when we lived in an apartment together in Puerto Rico.
That last post was not supposed to be sent here. Disregard or delete it, please WeJo or RoJo. Thanks!