The Music Thread

[grimes70]

 

[finesse]

This isn't exactly beach music but you sure would hear it. Sorry for the white people dancing.

 

[finesse]

Being full of teenage angst, at the time this was a big song for me.

 

[grimes70]

Only got to see him live a couple of times. Talk about exhausted by the end of the show...

 

[UNCMSinLS]

I always pondered these measurements:

 

[heelinhell]

Being full of teenage angst, at the time this was a big song for me.

I saw Jerry Butler back in the day at the Cat's Eye.

He was a member of the Impressions teaming up with Curtis Mayfield before going solo

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[finesse]

I saw Jerry Butler back in the day at the Cat's Eye.

He was a member of the Impressions teaming up with Curtis Mayfield before going solo

Google Search

There's a lot of people unaware of how good a guitarist Mayfield was. I still think the Superfly soundtrack was brilliant.

Jerry Reed was another really good guitarists that a lot of nonmusicians didn't realize.

 

[finesse]

I always pondered these measurements:

Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go around
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go around

 

[heelinhell]

I always pondered these measurements:

don't get better

But I'm going Maurice Williams and Zodiacs

 

[finesse]

don't get better

But I'm going Maurice Williams and Zodiacs

That was the closer for a lot of high school dances.

 

[grimes70]

 

[superrific]

Johnnie was a race car driver. Drove so goddamn fast. Never did see that checkered flag, but never did come in last.

Jerry was the race car driver. John was a fisherman

 

[UNCMSinLS]

don't get better

But I'm going Maurice Williams and Zodiacs

I met a guy several years ago who worked on the "Stay" recording session. He was doing some 8 mm film to DVD transfers for me. He knew Maurice Williams (who died a couple of weeks ago) and said the session was pretty laid-back but professional. No one predicted the song would become the hit that it did.

Piece of trivia about "Stay": it is the shortest single to ever hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100. It clocks in at a little over 1 and 1/2 minutes.

 

[Geisterfahrer]

I didn’t realize there was beach music other than this song:

 

[finesse]

 

[grimes70]

RIP James Darren he of Gidget Fame

 

[Centerpiece]

That's my jam. I tried to play flat-pick guitar a la Doc and Tony for over 20 years before I realized I wasn't cut out for it. Now I play upright bass when playing bluegrass. For guitar, I went back to my roots of James Taylor, Paul Simon, Dylan... but I make money playing jazz in a combo. I simply croon the tunes and play rhythm guitar. (I learned the jazz chord inversions over time). Those years trying to play bluegrass guitar helps my rhythm on the swing tunes.

 

[Centerpiece]

Only got to see him live a couple of times. Talk about exhausted by the end of the show...

grimes: You'd like a friend's band called Hillbilly Moon Explosion. They're out of Zurich. Lead guitar player is from England - killer player. He's got all the licks. Recently toured America

 

[grimes70]

grimes: You'd like a friend's band called Hillbilly Moon Explosion. They're out of Zurich. Lead guitar player is from England - killer player. He's got all the licks. Recently toured America

Very cool. I'll post this one for you.

 

[Centerpiece]

Very cool. I'll post this one for you.

That's the band. Firmly in the Rockabilly mode.
That's my boy Duncan on lead guitar. He's a guitar tech at Gitarren Total in Zurich. Duncan and I used to busk the same street corners in Europe back in the 1980's. (He's older than he looks in the videos, hahahah!)