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DR★ Music Draft reopened: make any outstanding picks and let's talk about the next draft (1 Viewer)
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wikkidpissah
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yeah, it's been almost 20 yrs since he skiied into a tree, but i guess he's been forgotten
El Floppo
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*PHEW*
all that big country talk scared the crap out of me... was always going to take this scottish king of post-punk/early new wave guitar... now just taking him a round or so earlier than I thought. if it's not scottish it's crap! took me years to figure out he was the sound and the guy on all of these bands and albums that I loved...
6.3... John McGeoch... Guitar
again- like Worrell- soo many bands and songs... here's a few- I'll try to do them in chronological order:
the light pours out of me- Magazine
fade to grey- visage
monitor- siouxsie and the banshees (halloween, spellbound)
the glory of love- the armoury show
seattle- PIL
all that big country talk scared the crap out of me... was always going to take this scottish king of post-punk/early new wave guitar... now just taking him a round or so earlier than I thought. if it's not scottish it's crap! took me years to figure out he was the sound and the guy on all of these bands and albums that I loved...
6.3... John McGeoch... Guitar
again- like Worrell- soo many bands and songs... here's a few- I'll try to do them in chronological order:
the light pours out of me- Magazine
fade to grey- visage
monitor- siouxsie and the banshees (halloween, spellbound)
the glory of love- the armoury show
seattle- PIL
El Floppo
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still a bunch of people you could lay that claim to left out there.
those are people who died, died.
wikkidpissah
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Dr. Octopus
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I think it's that he's still alive in all of our hearts so we don't see him as really qualifying.yeah, it's been almost 20 yrs since he skiied into a tree, but i guess he's been forgotten
Mr. Ected
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Our guy is more into baseball. But I know he's still livin'!yeah, it's been almost 20 yrs since he skiied into a tree, but i guess he's been forgotten
Just kidding!
Eephus
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Big fan. He was definitely on my medium list.
He's not flashy or easy to pigeonhole but was always inventive and complimented whichever singer was up front. I've listened to and read about music for a half century; I still don't know what the word 'angular' means exactly but it seems like it fits McGeoch's as well as anything. It's a lot more common nowadays but when he started with Magazine, it was unusual to have a rock guitar player who didn't owe a big debt to the blues. He's not around to contradict me but I don't hear it in his playing.
El Floppo
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otb_lifer
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hfs - that pick is right the mutha fudge up in my wheelhouse - fantastic snag
a mercenary soul he was, so glad to see him get some love.
El Floppo
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Eephus
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El Floppo
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Eephus
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Guitar slinging sidemen usually only get famous if they were a long-term member of a beloved band. I guess McGeoch's tenures with Siouxsie and PiL were probably his highest profile gigs but he didn't stay with either for very long.
I have that Armoury Show album on vinyl and have carried it on my ipod for years but frontman Richard Jobson was more annoying than when he was with The Skids (w/ Stuart Adamson). I don't think McGeoch did much session work, perhaps because his style was too idiosyncratic. He was always in good bands but none that were very big.
I have that Armoury Show album on vinyl and have carried it on my ipod for years but frontman Richard Jobson was more annoying than when he was with The Skids (w/ Stuart Adamson). I don't think McGeoch did much session work, perhaps because his style was too idiosyncratic. He was always in good bands but none that were very big.
Doug B
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Eephus
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El Floppo
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his career is kind of crazy... seems like he just kept stumbling into new bands. I think he was a founding member of Magazine, but like you say was brought in as a gunslinger with visage, siouxsie and PIL. his work with siouxie was just massive- every song seemed like it had blistering and iconic guitar work on it.
totally agree wtih you about armoury show front man being too much to take... otherwise, that would've/should've been a bigger band with a longer run. tbh, I didn't even realize he was with PIL until I started digging for this... seattle probably my favorite later tune of theirs with major debt to his guitar work. and then found out he became a nurse practitioner later in life. wtf.
El Floppo
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a whole bunch of massive people still out there while us knuckleheads are taking relatively obscure scottish guitarists instead.
Mr. Ected
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For my Songwriter I'm going to go with one of my favorites from listening to music with Mom during the 70s. I realize he died when I was barely 3, but his music continued on big thereafter. I love acoustic music, and his type of song would have fit in so well in the rebirth of acoustic in the 90s. I also love when you get to hear the story behind the creation of the song, which is why I put this version up on YouTube myself. I had seen other people put up this exact version, they just left of the minute or so when he describes how he got to the song.
6.05 - Composer/Songwriter - Jim Croce - Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
It's also interesting to note that this song was the 2nd #1 song to feature the word 'damn' after 'The Theme from Shaft'.
You know you are a good songwriter when Frank Sinatra sings one of your songs!
ETA: I forgot to mention that the guy who is playing with him, Maury Muehleisen, also died in the plan crash that killed Jim Croce.
6.05 - Composer/Songwriter - Jim Croce - Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
It's also interesting to note that this song was the 2nd #1 song to feature the word 'damn' after 'The Theme from Shaft'.
You know you are a good songwriter when Frank Sinatra sings one of your songs!
ETA: I forgot to mention that the guy who is playing with him, Maury Muehleisen, also died in the plan crash that killed Jim Croce.
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Ilov80s
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rockaction
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cosjobs
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Otis Redding vocals Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
I think he is one of the better fits for my setup. I am actually forming a band with my picks.
Hendrix & Stevie Ray
Kurt Cobain & Otis Redding
Clarence Clemmons
Buddy Miles
I think he is one of the better fits for my setup. I am actually forming a band with my picks.
Hendrix & Stevie Ray
Kurt Cobain & Otis Redding
Clarence Clemmons
Buddy Miles
rockaction
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Eephus
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krista4
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FINALLY. SOD for sure.
I'd put the #3-5 tracks on Otis Blue up against any three-song run ever recorded:
A Change is Gonna Come
Down in the Valley
I've Been Loving You Too Long
Those last two are absolutely drenched in sexuality, by the way.
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rockaction
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God save/Otis Redding cause I know he's dead and gone/and the stink falls from my mouth as we sing along/is it cigarettes and coffee now/or dreams to be remembered/I'll leave regrets for dead and sing along...
https://youtu.be/Dz98WzJLIoM?t=32
https://youtu.be/Dz98WzJLIoM?t=32
wikkidpissah
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rockaction
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He's forty-five+ and in the Arrivals also?
Green Day stole the riff from that to make American Idiot. It's sort of a famous punk song...
I was almost at that show, but didn't want to drive on Memorial Day in any sort of bad state.
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wikkidpissah
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one of these days i'm going to start a thread about the difference between art, expression & entertainment in music and will show as little patience with a LOT of music around as the guys who spent their whole lives making their notes would.
rockaction
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ScottNorwood
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One of these days I'm going to start a thread about everyone's favorite shampoo bottle designs
El Floppo
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you should. would be more interesting than whatever the hell wikkid's blabbing about.
wikkidpissah
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been thinking about it awhile. it'll probably have sufjan stevens in the title. a real A&R man would be giving out an awful lot of "incomplete" grades these last few decades and incomplete's a sin in art
rockaction
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-It was for freedom/from my heart and from the land/I've made a lot of mistakes/in my mind in mind
-Goldenrod and the 4H stone...
wikkidpissah
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he shoulda been Prince. he's barely him & still fandamtastic. won't even say what Prince shoulda been
Mr. Ected
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wikkidpissah
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6.08 BJWilson, drummer Power Failure
Seen all the greats (Moon, Bonzo, Palmer, Cobham, assorted draft elig jazzbows etc etc) and no one has impressed me as much as Procol Harum's BJ Wilson. He was to drums what James Jamerson was to the bass - he framed the moment within a song and gave it feel & import like no one else. Procol was one of the first bands to record with a symphony orchestra and i'm as sure as i am sitting here that the reason it was offered to them is the classical heft Wilson drumming imparted upon their songs. With Brooker's grandpiano pointed toward center stage, they put BJ's tiny kit in the middle in concert, and with his old-sahioned jazz grip, he hovered over his drums like three witches over a kettle and it was transporting to watch. A kickass drummer AND a true percussionist and the only rock drummer i'd pair with Jaco in my supergroup.
Seen all the greats (Moon, Bonzo, Palmer, Cobham, assorted draft elig jazzbows etc etc) and no one has impressed me as much as Procol Harum's BJ Wilson. He was to drums what James Jamerson was to the bass - he framed the moment within a song and gave it feel & import like no one else. Procol was one of the first bands to record with a symphony orchestra and i'm as sure as i am sitting here that the reason it was offered to them is the classical heft Wilson drumming imparted upon their songs. With Brooker's grandpiano pointed toward center stage, they put BJ's tiny kit in the middle in concert, and with his old-sahioned jazz grip, he hovered over his drums like three witches over a kettle and it was transporting to watch. A kickass drummer AND a true percussionist and the only rock drummer i'd pair with Jaco in my supergroup.
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Mr. Ected
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ScottNorwood
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Grant Hart - Drummer, Husker Du - Song, Pink Turns to Blue
Mr. Ected
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ScottNorwood
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Good thing Grant Hart died recently or I wouldn't have been able to pick him!
rockaction
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We up?
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