The Music Thread

[finesse]

I may have listened to this album on drugs once.

 

[UNCMSinLS]

I may have listened to this album on drugs once.

I remember this song from the Plymouth Arrow commercials in the 1970s.

 

[OahuHiHeel]

Brad Rice worked at a sign shop in Raleigh during his Backsliders and all days. He would often come to work just plain worn out on Mondays and Fridays after playing gigs somewhere. During breaks he would go to a back room and sleep for however long. The manager was quite kind. Then he hooked up with Keith Uban, played in his band and it was sayonara Raleigh, I'm moving to Austin.

I knew that name sounded familiar. This might be the same Brad Rice that played in a local Raleigh band called Finger(and The Accelerators according to Wikipedia). I saw them open for Dinosaur jr in spring of 1991 at the Cat's Cradle and loved them. Picked up their cassette tape from somewhere after the show and played it all the time the next few years. Saw them play a small club in downtown Greenville about a year later.

Finger | Trouser Press

Had Raleigh, North Carolina's Finger managed to break free of the anonymity it endured throughout a three-year career, the quartet would undoubtedly have stood tall in the sea of dreck. Finger (the American album reprises five cuts from the British seven-songer) is worth searching for, worth owning

trouserpress.com

 

[grimes70]

I knew that name sounded familiar. This might be the same Brad Rice that played in a local Raleigh band called Finger(and The Accelerators according to Wikipedia). I saw them open for Dinosaur jr in spring of 1991 at the Cat's Cradle and loved them. Picked up their cassette tape from somewhere after the show and played it all the time the next few years. Saw them play a small club in downtown Greenville about a year later.

Finger | Trouser Press

Had Raleigh, North Carolina's Finger managed to break free of the anonymity it endured throughout a three-year career, the quartet would undoubtedly have stood tall in the sea of dreck. Finger (the American album reprises five cuts from the British seven-songer) is worth searching for, worth owning

trouserpress.com

Yep. Same guy.

 

[grimes70]

2021 American record producer Phil Spector, who scored a number of hits with his unique take on pop music but who was later convicted of second-degree murder, died at age 80.

The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound) is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios, in the 1960s, with assistance from engineer Larry Levine and the conglomerate of session musicians later known as "the Wrecking Crew". The intention was to exploit the possibilities of studio recording to create an unusually dense orchestral aesthetic that came across well through radios and jukeboxes of the era. Spector explained in 1964: "I was looking for a sound, a sound so strong that if the material was not the greatest, the sound would carry the record. It was a case of augmenting, augmenting. It all fit together like a jigsaw."[3]



So many were influenced by him.

 

[finesse]

I'm seriously thinking about going and seeing this guy at the Cradle Feb. 20.

 

[finesse]

 

[nashcounty]

Every time I hear this song I think of the fantastic X-FILES episode "Home" and the crazy, inbred Peacock boys.

 

[grimes70]

Upvote fot Johnny Mathis. See covers thread.