only if you're in for the next oneIs this draft over such that I can take you to task for overlooked picks?
I'm making a band. Do the same? I'm going to add to Douglas tonight and maybe post the rest tomorrow. Mine are all written down and I welcome sniping so share however you like. Not sure why you want to be mean about it though.Is this draft over such that I can take you to task for overlooked picks?
Buddy HollyIs this draft over such that I can take you to task for overlooked picks?
Also gets me some squeezebox.And then there was his artistry. He was the most intuitive player I've ever seen. His style was slippery and fluid, drawn to the spaces the other musicians in the E Street Band left. He wasn't an assertive player, he was a complementary player. A true accompanist. He naturally supplied the glue that bound the band's sound together. In doing so, he created for himself a very specific style. When you hear Dan Federici, you don't hear a blanket of sound, you hear a riff, packed with energy, flying above everything else for a few moments and then gone back in the track. "Phantom" Dan Federici. Now you hear him, now you don't.
Offstage, Danny couldn't recite a lyric or a chord progression for one of my songs. Onstage, his ears opened up. He listened, he felt, he played, finding the perfect hole and placement for a chord or a flurry of notes. This style created a tremendous feeling of spontaneity in our ensemble playing.
In the studio, if I wanted to loosen up the track we were recording, I'd put Danny on it and not tell him what to play. I'd just set him loose. He brought with him the sound of the carnival, the amusements, the boardwalk, the beach, the geography of our youth and the heart and soul of the birthplace of the E Street Band.
Should be a bunch of non-charting terrible counting crows albums availableWilling to be a participant in the next draft...songs, albums, Billboard, whatevers.
Should be a bunch of non-charting terrible counting crows albums available
in - either way.Here's my scarcity gimmick I came up while walking the Boz.
Still a 1965-85 song draft but no Billboard requirements because it seems like too much work.
We start with two dice rolls, one to select the starting year and another to determine whether we go through the years in forward or reverse order. For the purposes of this example, let's assume we're starting in 1970 and going backwards so the rounds would go 70, 69, 68, 67, 66, 65, 85, 84...
Round #1, everyone picks a song from 1970. At the end of the round, all artists chosen during that round are blacklisted for the rest of the draft. So if "Let it Be" was drafted in 1970, no Beatles songs could be chosen for 1969-65. The blacklist doesn't kick in until the end of the round so someone else could draft "The Long & Winding Road" as their round #1.
The gimmick enforces scarcity, introduces a bit of strategy and allows drafters at the end of the round to scramble things up.
Fine print:
If someone was skipped during the round, their artist would remain eligible for one round after the make-up pick was made so everyone would have a fair shot at the artist.
We'd go by the artist of record so the Jackson Five, The Jacksons and Michael Jackson would be three different artists.
ETA: ...or we could just skip the Billboard songs
Willing to be a participant in the next draft...songs, albums, Billboard, whatevers.
sorry, try again. BJ's my alltime favorite drummer and was my Round Six pickmy drummer - the man who turned down Page and Plant's offer to drum for Zep: B.J. Wilson "Conquistador"
when i think back over all the songs i've loved in my lifetime, this ranks right up there close to the top, and is undoubtedly a top 10, as far as most listens by me. i am still blown away by that drumming, and his bombastic, powerful playing was the catalyst for me begging for a drum kit when i was 8 yrs. old.
never got it, but i still have this.
"and though you came with sword held high/you did not conquer/only die"
rules?sorry, try again. BJ's my alltime favorite drummer and was my Round Six pick
Died of leukemia in 2010.He's dead? :(
I was going to use the HOF footage because of the difficulty linking Prince's studio catalogue, but i was able to find a link to an old Prince chestnut that might shed new light to a lot of folk on his guitar work.Two of my favorite videos from people that I didn't get to pick are...
Prince - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (2004 RRHOF induction of George Harrison) The solo at the end is spectacular, and where does the guitar go? Read the short article about the prep for the show.
SRV - Pride and Joy (MTV Acoustic) - Amazing to listen to that song and realize there is only one instrument (besides the sweet voice )
I dig this nutty band.Final Roster
Band Name: Don't Fear The Reaper
Singers: Levi Stubbs, Celia Cruz, Bradley Nowell
Guitar: Gary Moore, Dimebag Darrell Abott
Bass: Cliff Burton
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Rapper: Ol' Dirty *******
Songwriter: Jim Morrison
Other: Tito Puente
I'm in for the next one too, I've been in Europe for a couple weeks. Is the next one going to take place here or maybe somewhere where the moderation is more coherent?Willing to be a participant in the next draft...songs, albums, Billboard, whatevers.
Lol. Yea it's all over the place. Would fit right into the genrepalooza draft.I dig this nutty band.
It's one of the worst songs of all time - but sad that the kid died. At least I'm sure he got a ton of p###y when he was alive.Died of leukemia in 2010.
I hated Summer Girls at the time but it's one of those songs that takes me back to a specific time and place.
I think that's what makes it work so well.Lol. Yea it's all over the place. Would fit right into the genrepalooza draft.
I was mainly targeting artist that have inspired and tickled my musical tastes over the years and wasn't really thinking about putting together a coherent band. I like that others were thinking this way though.
Wikipedia has lists of top 100 singles for a year but I've never found a free database that shows weekly top 40 chart placement. If we use the year-end top 100s, I don't think that's very restrictive because a good portion of the lists are dreck.
Sorry, I didn't read the entire last page. Looks like you all have discussed this alreadyMe too - I need a distraction.
What about songs that never charted in the top 40. Might be difficult to research and we'd need a definite chart/guide.
this pick, that song, his chops10th: David Byron, Vocals (Uriah Heep) - "Lady in Black"
Unless you've been talking to King Diamond or other European metal artists, you won't hear a lot of acclaim for Byron. Trying to rectify that a little bit here.
.
I remember using the first site for a previous draft. Site search was kind of wonky as I recall.Anything wrong with using these sites, also, for Top 40 checks? These sites are run by the same guys, so they cross-reference each other:
https://weeklytop40.wordpress.com/
https://singleschronology.wordpress.com/
And, to search for a song ... you don't have to sift through those web pages. Enter this into Google "weeklytop40.wordpress.com, SONG_TITLE, ARTIST" and/or "singleschronology.wordpress.com, SONG_TITLE, ARTIST". Artist name would be optional in the search, usually, unless the song title is kind of generic.
I just found Pearl Jam's "Even Flow" that way, as a test. I quickly learned that it never made the Hot 100, but appeared on the Bubbling Under chart. It was not released as a commercial single in the U.S. until 1995 ... so it's chart appearance was based strictly on airplay.
Yeah, I wouldn't use the site search, either. Google's spiders do a much better job.I remember using the first site for a previous draft. Site search was kind of wonky as I recall.
If we're all drafting from the same year during a round, CTRL-F should work OK
Townes is on my short list of writers along with Curtis Mayfield who was chosen and another. I like the idea of Layne singing dark stuff from Townes so.krista4 said:Mr CIA correctly predicted that my 2a or 2b songwriter would have been Townes Van Zandt. I’m not surprised he wasn’t selected, though. I am surprised that, unless I missed it, no one took Hank Williams?
"Out of the Past" on TCM @ 6pm EDT, @Ilov80sIn for whatever. Please @ me when we start the new thread as I'm mostly just here for the music threads.