The Music Thread

[Dreams Burn Down]

Neil Peart (9/12/52-1/7/20) RIP

 

[Sabres Fan in NS]

5 years already.  Hard to believe.

[DarthEbriate]

When we get to next summer's thread on goal songs, this won't be my choice. But it is related.

 

[Pimlach]

OK, so I am one of the older guys around here....  I went to see the Bob Dylan movie - A Complete Unknown.  

I enjoyed it, but being a "biopic" as they call them today, it did not cover his entire career, just the earliest portion - his start up and leading to his breakaway from acoustic folk music to a broader sound with electric band accompaniment. 

Pretty good film.  

 

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[Weave]

4 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

OK, so I am one of the older guys around here....  I went to see the Bob Dylan movie - A Complete Unknown.  

I enjoyed it, but being a "biopic" as they call them today, it did not cover his entire career, just the earliest portion - his start up and leading to his breakaway from acoustic folk music to a broader sound with electric band accompaniment. 

Pretty good film.  

 

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Its on my list.  Everything I have seen so far looks really promising.

[Pimlach]

1 hour ago, Weave said:

Its on my list.  Everything I have seen so far looks really promising.

It takes you from his start up to his expansion to electric music and early days with Al Kooper, Paul Butterfield, etc.  

Far from comprehensive, probably some embellishments,  but interesting for me to connect some dots in his early days (woody Guthrie, Pete Seger, Johnny Cash). 

I went home and looked closely into my record collection and I have 16 Dylan albums on vinyl.  

I supposed since I am retired I could catalog my collection which is well over 2000 records and over 500+ CDs.  Even in the winter I have lots of other things I prefer to do.   I asked my kids if I should sell it off or give it to them - they all said "do not sell".    

Edited Friday at 05:42 PM by Pimlach

[Weave]

10 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

It takes you from his start up to his expansion to electric music and early days with Al Kooper, Paul Butterfield, etc.  

Far from comprehensive, probably some embellishments,  but interesting for me to connect some dots in his early days (woody Guthrie, Pete Seger, Johnny Cash). 

I went home and looked closely into my record collection and I have 16 Dylan albums on vinyl.  

I supposed since I am retired I could catalog my collection which is well over 2000 records and over 500+ CDs.  Even in the winter I have lots of other things I prefer to do.   I asked my kids I should sell it off or give it to them - they all said "do not sell".    

I agree with your kids.

[Pimlach]

18 minutes ago, Weave said:

I agree with your kids.

Me too, but I have been trying to minimize since retirement. 

Less clothes, less books and paper stuff, less tools, less "stuff" in general.  

Exceptions:  Guitars, golf clubs,  vacations ... 

[LTS]

3 hours ago, DarthEbriate said:

When we get to next summer's thread on goal songs, this won't be my choice. But it is related.

 

What did I just watch?  This will haunt me for awhile.  And *****.. it's catchy. I hate life.

[darksabre]

9 minutes ago, LTS said:

What did I just watch?  This will haunt me for awhile.  And *****.. it's catchy. I hate life.

BABYMETAL *****in rock.

I'm partial to HANABIE as well

 

 

[Weave]

1 hour ago, LTS said:

What did I just watch?  This will haunt me for awhile.  And *****.. it's catchy. I hate life.

I lose a little more faith in humanity every time Babymetal shows up on my youtube feed.

1 hour ago, darksabre said:

BABYMETAL *****in rock.

I'm partial to HANABIE as well

 

 

I thought I knew you.

[Slack_in_MA]

2 hours ago, Pimlach said:

Me too, but I have been trying to minimize since retirement. 

Less clothes, less books and paper stuff, less tools, less "stuff" in general.  

Exceptions:  Guitars, golf clubs,  vacations ... 

Funny, I retired a little over a year ago and my retirement sounds a lot like this-- de-cluttering, a lot more golf, and I just bought myself a new electric guitar (Fender Squier 70s Classic Vibe Telecaster Thinline). I'm less than a year into teaching myself to play, mostly through the magic of YouTube. 🎸 🎶

[LTS]

2 hours ago, darksabre said:

BABYMETAL *****in rock.

I'm partial to HANABIE as well

 

 

It's like... watching an accident that's about to happen. You know it's not going to be good, horrific in fact, yet you cannot look away.

I'm usually not this confused when it comes to music... and I am fairly certain that if this were played for me without the video first I might have had a different opinion, but... with the video. I'm lost. So lost.

[Pimlach]

33 minutes ago, Slack_in_MA said:

Funny, I retired a little over a year ago and my retirement sounds a lot like this-- de-cluttering, a lot more golf, and I just bought myself a new electric guitar (Fender Squier 70s Classic Vibe Telecaster Thinline). I'm less than a year into teaching myself to play, mostly through the magic of YouTube. 🎸 🎶

Very cool. I have the original (vintage) version of your guitar.  A 1970 Fender Telecaster Thinline.   I bought it used from a guy I played with way back in 1977 for $150 bucks.   

It has single coil pickups.    I see the new Squire version of this guitar comes with your choice of humbuckers or single coil.  

[steveoat87]

1 hour ago, Pimlach said:

Very cool. I have the original (vintage) version of your guitar.  A 1970 Fender Telecaster Thinline.   I bought it used from a guy I played with way back in 1977 for $150 bucks.   

It has single coil pickups.    I see the new Squire version of this guitar comes with your choice of humbuckers or single coil.  

I find it amazing what these guitars cost now.  I now longer play guitar, nor have any guitars (like you I am retired).  However, in my youth, the other guitarist in the band and myself owned at one time:

1958 Les Paul

Fender Broadcaster

SG Standard

ES 335.

If we still had these guitars, we might have been able to retire earlier.  The current prices are astronomical!!

[Sabres73]

Shortly before I was born my dad owned a '62 Strat (probably would be worth $25k or so), which he sold for $300 because I was on the way. I currently own a Gibson SG (with a rare ebony neck and crescent moon inlays), an Epiphone Wilshire, a Fender Mustang bass, a Guild acoustic, and a few other instruments kicking around.

[7+6=13]

Going to see Robert Cray in mid February.

[steveoat87]

44 minutes ago, Sabres73 said:

Shortly before I was born my dad owned a '62 Strat (probably would be worth $25k or so), which he sold for $300 because I was on the way. I currently own a Gibson SG (with a rare ebony neck and crescent moon inlays), an Epiphone Wilshire, a Fender Mustang bass, a Guild acoustic, and a few other instruments kicking around.

The one acoustic guitar I owned was the Gibson Everly Brothers, which was a beautiful guitar.

An interesting story about the 1958 Les Paul.

I believe this was the model Jimmy Page used.

The other guitarist in the band obtained the Les Paul from a guy in Brooklyn.  Believe it was in the original case (pink plush interior) with the tags on it.

I never heard a guitar this powerful sounding before.  In those days the pickups were wound by hand.

After my friend sold it, he was informed by the buyer that one of the pickups was broken -- only one of the coils was working.  However, at the time, when we compared it to the Les Paul guitars made at the time (mid 1970s) this guitar, even with its broken pickup blew the other guitar away.  Apparently they are currently making copies of the old Les Pauls, (the copies are quite expensive) but I have yet to hear one of them.

[Pimlach]

2 hours ago, steveoat87 said:

I find it amazing what these guitars cost now.  I now longer play guitar, nor have any guitars (like you I am retired).  However, in my youth, the other guitarist in the band and myself owned at one time:

1958 Les Paul

Fender Broadcaster

SG Standard

ES 335.

If we still had these guitars, we might have been able to retire earlier.  The current prices are astronomical!!

Wow.  Excellent collection.  

2 hours ago, Sabres73 said:

Shortly before I was born my dad owned a '62 Strat (probably would be worth $25k or so), which he sold for $300 because I was on the way. I currently own a Gibson SG (with a rare ebony neck and crescent moon inlays), an Epiphone Wilshire, a Fender Mustang bass, a Guild acoustic, and a few other instruments kicking around.

Same.  Excellent collection.  My son loves his SG.  

1 hour ago, steveoat87 said:

The one acoustic guitar I owned was the Gibson Everly Brothers, which was a beautiful guitar.

An interesting story about the 1958 Les Paul.

I believe this was the model Jimmy Page used.

The other guitarist in the band obtained the Les Paul from a guy in Brooklyn.  Believe it was in the original case (pink plush interior) with the tags on it.

I never heard a guitar this powerful sounding before.  In those days the pickups were wound by hand.

After my friend sold it, he was informed by the buyer that one of the pickups was broken -- only one of the coils was working.  However, at the time, when we compared it to the Les Paul guitars made at the time (mid 1970s) this guitar, even with its broken pickup blew the other guitar away.  Apparently they are currently making copies of the old Les Pauls, (the copies are quite expensive) but I have yet to hear one of them.

And that is the beauty of the old stuff.  The hand wound pickups are unique as are the other parts used.  Can’t get that sound now (although with today’s tech you can probably come up with pedals to get close.)  

I took my Telecaster to a luthier for a re-fret.  He had to razor cut along both sides of each fret before popping out the frets because he did not want to break/crack all the layers of finish on the maple neck.  It took 3 weeks for him to finish.  You can’t see that he did a thing except when you play it, it’s perfect now.   He checked all the internal parts (cloth insulated wire, switches, pots) and all are original, which I expected him to say.   It plays like a dream after 55 years of service.  

I am not worthy of this instrument actually.  

[DarthEbriate]

7 hours ago, LTS said:

What did I just watch?  This will haunt me for awhile.  And *****.. it's catchy. I hate life.

It's so wonderfully catchy; downright infectious. Extremely well-crafted pop song. Extraordinarily produced thrash metal so everything fits into its proper EQ. Those "fu, fu" callouts cut through the roaring beam and are magical.

6 hours ago, Weave said:

I lose a little more faith in humanity every time Babymetal shows up on my youtube feed.

I thought I knew you.

Give in to the Babymetal side!

4 hours ago, LTS said:

It's like... watching an accident that's about to happen. You know it's not going to be good, horrific in fact, yet you cannot look away.

I'm usually not this confused when it comes to music... and I am fairly certain that if this were played for me without the video first I might have had a different opinion, but... with the video. I'm lost. So lost.

It's just kids having fun. Playing music loud. Allow them the joy.

It's only rock 'n' roll.

[7+6=13]

https://youtu.be/uIss2Qmmc5k?si=9nVBGxOUQ2xxWL45

[Jorcus]

19 hours ago, Pimlach said:

Wow.  Excellent collection.  

Same.  Excellent collection.  My son loves his SG.  

And that is the beauty of the old stuff.  The hand wound pickups are unique as are the other parts used.  Can’t get that sound now (although with today’s tech you can probably come up with pedals to get close.)  

I took my Telecaster to a luthier for a re-fret.  He had to razor cut along both sides of each fret before popping out the frets because he did not want to break/crack all the layers of finish on the maple neck.  It took 3 weeks for him to finish.  You can’t see that he did a thing except when you play it, it’s perfect now.   He checked all the internal parts (cloth insulated wire, switches, pots) and all are original, which I expected him to say.   It plays like a dream after 55 years of service.  

I am not worthy of this instrument actually.  

 

I have a 1990 American Fender Telecaster plus with the lace sensor pick ups. My wife had bought me a fender acoustic for Christmas but let me trade it in. Went to Airport Music and they had this barely used telecaster for about the same price so I came home with that. It is very different than most telecasters in that it's heavy and does not get that country twang without a lot of help. It does have a versatility and is easy to play. It's popular mostly because Jonney Greenwood from Radiohead often used one and they only made them for 4 or 5 years. I don't play it often. I really need a better amp to play it though. I have acoustics that I play more often.  

The most valuable guitar I ever played was a very early Stratocaster. A guy I worked with got it from his fathers closet and it pretty much sat in his closet. I swear the serial number on it was in the teens which did not make any sense in the Fender numbering plan but it was authentic. He called the shop where his father bought it and they remembered his father and that it was the first one that they had sold. Being the early 80's guitars were just starting to command big collectable prices. I think the Japanese were getting really big in to collecting then and started to blow up the market. He took it to the House of Guitars who were just dumbfounded. At first they thought it might be a fake I think because of the odd serial number. They were like this can't be but then decided to offer him a fairly large sum for it and to put it up in the big glass case above the door. He passed, He just wanted to get an insurance value. Neither of us could play very well and it was not an easy guitar to play for an electric. You needed strong fingers for the heavy strings. It was probably worth 10,000 then. If he still has it who knows. Well north of 100K because of the shape it was in. Truly a classic. 

Edited Saturday at 08:33 PM by Jorcus

[Slack_in_MA]

17 hours ago, Pimlach said:

Very cool. I have the original (vintage) version of your guitar.  A 1970 Fender Telecaster Thinline.   I bought it used from a guy I played with way back in 1977 for $150 bucks.   

It has single coil pickups.    I see the new Squire version of this guitar comes with your choice of humbuckers or single coil.  

Mine has the humbuckers 

16 hours ago, 7+6=13 said:

Going to see Robert Cray in mid February.

I saw him in a double bill with Buddy Guy about 15 years ago

Edited Saturday at 03:42 PM by Slack_in_MA

[Slack_in_MA]

16 hours ago, steveoat87 said:

An interesting story about the 1958 Les Paul.

I believe this was the model Jimmy Page used.

Page played a ‘59 LP (“Number 1” as he called it). He got it from Joe Walsh!
 

He also played a ‘60.

[7+6=13]

4 hours ago, Slack_in_MA said:

Mine has the humbuckers 

I saw him in a double bill with Buddy Guy about 15 years ago

He's my personal favorite artist.  I've seen him probably a dozen times.  He comes to smaller venues where the acoustics are typically outstanding.  

 

I live in Charlotte NC and he's coming to a quaint spot about an hour away in Morganton NC.