You’ll have to give me time!
Didn’t watch all of Macca. It was patchy and could have been half as long to be honest. As others mentioned there were too many mediocre songs that lost momentum. Some great stuff though. I thought his rendition of “Something” was very moving.
Will watch the rest later.
Knuckle deep inside the borderline
This may hurt a little but it’s something you’ll get used to
Relax, slip away
(Perhaps the greatest piece of music ever composed, imo…)
that entire album is brilliant. I’m partial to Forty-Six and 2, and The Pot off 10,000 Days.
Yea first half is a bit of a slow build, second half is back to back bangers!
Seeing the whole crowd sing Seventeen Going Under word for word is pretty special, like it’s this generation’s Mr Brightside but with a social conscience. Will be listening to more of him for sure.
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To @Nikola and @Sithbare and other heavy rockers.
Check out you tube The Charismatic voice. This chick Elizabeth Zharoff is fabulous as a opera singer and vocal coach assessing the great vocalists when hearing the song for the first time. Her reactions are brilliant particularly when hearing Painkiller for the first time.
I’ve only been through Heaven and Hell, child in time, painkiller, Stargazer, gates of Babylon and victim of changes so far. But Gillan, Halford and Dio are next level. Next up is Disturbed version of Sounds of Silence.
Proved to me again that Stargazer is the greatest vocal performance ever by the great Ronnie James Dio
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All personal opinion of course, but for me RJD has the greatest voice in rock.
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I largely agree. I love his vocals.
Just want to pitch in halford and peak Tate there.
There are so many great vocalists I’ve heard, especially in metal music, but when it comes to conveying emotion, I don’t think any of them comes close to late Warrel Dane for me. That was one man who made the absolute most of what he was given - and he was given immense range he used to expand with some extremely strong falsettos earlier in his career before almost completely dropping them for his natural range and singing straight from his heart, whether it was absolute rage at mindless political decision or sorrowful musings on his family discord. I miss him so much, Nevermore had already disbanded but his solo work should have been a continuation of amazing, if underrated career.
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Just to bookend the Macca at Glasto chat: Watched the second half and it was much better. Got pretty choked up a couple of times. It felt like his swansong, and thus the final act of The Beatles.
It’s hard to convey what a huge presence they’ve had on my generation. I was born a year before Love Me Do, and all my childhood was filled with their songs and their influence. In my early teens there was Wings and then John’s solo stuff and they have remained part of the cultural landscape ever since. I don’t love them all. Yellow Submarine, Ob la di and others are rubbish, but still, it’s impossible to imagine a world without them.
In mourning somewhat, but glad I watched it, and great to see all the love from the crowd, most of whom could have been his grandkids.
Oh, and Paul, thank you for not playing bloody Mull of Kintyre!
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Have to say, as much as I love Crowded House, I thought they were fairly lackluster on Friday evening. Set list was great, but nothing really stood out in their set.
Devin Townsend , Mike Patton , Danny Gildenlow , Geoff Tate…
amongst the so called newer guys
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A friend of mine got me some jazz albums to listen to a while back. Mostly it was enjoyable but a couple of the Free Jazz ones were rather out there. I was listening to one in the car when the most horrendous noise started coming from the engine. I stopped the car but couldn’t hear the noise in the engine bay. I then realised that it was the drum track on the CD.
FWIW the album, Out To Lunch by Eric Dolphy, was regarded as part of the “Core Collection” of essential albums in the Penguin Guide To Jazz. If you ever fancy getting into Jazz, don’t start with that album. Seriously, just don’t.
Not jazz, but listening to this one is a definite shortcut to insanity imho:
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Makes early Tangerine Dream sound like Bach, doesn’t it? Another one in a similar vein was Electronic Music by George Harrison (him from the Beatles). Now I really like his music, even all the Indian Classical stuff, but I think this is one of those few albums that I actually bought but only played all the way through once.
By the time he recorded Abbey Road he had apparently read the manual. The solo on Here Comes The Sun was recorded using the same equipment and that is rightly regarded as an all time classic.
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Well, not sleeping for another night hearing that… Sounds like those Type O Negative interludes from World Coming Down album, only ten times longer and a hundred times bleaker. Bands like Thou and Burning Witch sound like kindergarten music all of a sudden.
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