One World: Together at Home

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  1. purr1n

    purr1n Desire for betterer is endless.

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    Well, other than the Rolling Stones*, that was kind of crappy. Some of those dudes who were there in Live Aid 1985 should have retired. Hope the WHO recouped some of its lost income.

    * What da you expect? These guys have been performing live in front of audiences for more than half a century now. Their songs are simple arrangements that they jazz up / rock on. They're not sitting at home playing with beeps and boops while mumbling.
     
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    Rolling Bones man. People at my job still go crazy for them. However, their first album with covers songs were good.
     
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    I like me some old stones. The Mick Taylor era is my fav but I dig the 60s stuff. Like watching musicians. I didn't watch it but if it makes people happy and brings them together that's all that counts.
     
  4. purr1n

    purr1n Desire for betterer is endless.

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    I used to think that when I was in my 20s. And they were still old goobers back then - it was the 90s. Until I went to one of their concerts. And the realization of holy crap, these dudes actually wrote a lot of good songs. Later I learned their songs, the chord progressions, the bass lines, and realized these dudes were the closest thing to a jazz band (for a a rock band) in terms of improvisation. It's like playing from a fake book. (I took formal lessons with an upright from a jazz bassist, so I can totally appreciate these things).

    Rock is dead in 2020, debatable whether it died in 2000. But the quintessential pop / rock band must be able to perform live.
     
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    They certainly can boogie like Chuck Berry. One of my favs is get yer yayas out. Great happy party music you can dance to. Sweet guitar tone. Pretty big who fan also. The hi res of live at Leeds and Hull is great. Have it on vinyl along with who's next. Sounds excellent. Who was beast live in 69-70
     
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    purr1n Desire for betterer is endless.

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    It's about boogie, soul, and feeling. The antithesis of Joe Satriani - unless he recently developed soul.
     
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    Well said.
    All those ultra fast guitar masturbators are just jerking off on stage and lost track of what music is all about...
     
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    I quite like Satch and think he plays with a lot more emotion than say Vai or Malmsteen. However my favorite Satch is on Chickenfoot. He’s got a really dirty little groove on Soap on a Rope. Those 2 albums are the best I’ve heard him sound.
     
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    I cut school to see the Stones in 1981. I had been going to concerts since 78 but nobody before or since gave me a thrill just taking the stage. I was Star Struck.
     
  11. fraggler

    fraggler A Happy & Busy Life

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    Why can't Elton John sing "s"es any more? All I could hear is "I'm till tanding!"

    Like I posted in my profile, I am disappointed in how bad some of these home setups are for mega millionaires. I mean, they had to have been asked to do this far enough in advance to order some better webcams or mics.

    Favorite part was easily the air drumming by Charlie during the Stones' performance. Enjoyed hearing performances by lesser known (to me) artists.
     
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    It wasn't that bad, not Phteven level.

    Oh, scratch that. 3 minutes in, it's definitely till tanding!


    And here's the Stones video for those that missed it. Someone send Charlie some drums. ;)

     
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    Saw the Stones at the Rose Bowl in the nineties. Buddy Guy opened for RHCP who opened for the Stones. Buddy stole the show, RHCP were pure energy and the Stones just kinda felt like they were going through the motions with nthe notable exception of Ronnie Wood and Keith. I dunno, maybe I got a bad show.
     
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    @fraggler said, in a profile post,
    I'm guessing...

    Some of the best home-music-making setups might be found in the hoes of wannabe artists/engineers. The rest go out to work, to commercial studios where everything is available to them at the drop of mic cable. Including all the other musicians and more. Out of those, the super-successful who get fed up with travelling build the facilities, with house attached, and everything else comes to them.

    I've also known several musicians who don't give a toss about what, to us, is quality sound. It's not what they are listening to. It is something else. This also applies to serious listeners who love historical stuff. I've seen people swooning over ancient, multi-generation cassette tapes when all I wanted to do was cover my ears and run for the door. Some kind of filter in their brain that sees through the noise, and gets the signal. Actually... I wish could do that!

    And... No, I actually didn't watch any of this event. Nor did I ever see The Stones. The The band I most regret not seeing would probably be The Doors.
     
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    fraggler A Happy & Busy Life

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    Just frustration on my part since I enjoy musical performances, but equally enjoy good sounding ones. Jennifer Hudson has a great voice, but her backup singers had better sounding feeds than she did (echoey room with Iphone buds). Get out on your patio or something at least! It makes sense that pure vocalists wouldn't have anything at home. There were some decent setups for people who are veteran musicians. I don't care for their music much, but Keith Urban and Sheryl Crow had really nice studios at home.
     
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    I agree entirely. And my ability to put up with bad sound gets less as my hearing gets worse.

    One would have thought that singers, if even if they are never going to seriously-record anything at home, might at least have a cheap Zoom (H1N? Always sounds like a virus to me!) at the back of a draw. And, even if they are reduced to singing into the phone mic, a bit of forethought might give a half-decent result.

    In the South-Indian-Classical audience there is quite a tradition of recording concerts (and mostly it has been allowed), and some older people have extensive archives. Of course, cassette used to be king, but, along with the occasional Zoom, I see people recording on phones, even little old Nokias. I never got into this habit, because I never had equipment (And there is a Sony Walkman Professional among my audio antiques) that would make a recording I'd want to listen to.

    It's one thing to listen to some favourite song on a crappy phone speaker because that is what you've got where you are: it's quite another to record it in such a way that it will never sound better than that on any system.
     
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    I saw them that year, too, at Folsom Field in Boulder. The Tattoo You tour. I was sure it would be my only chance -- I mean, they were almost 40 years old; of course they were too old to do another tour.

    And yeah, it's a cliche that pro musicians have crappy home audio gear. Used to be Bose radios or mass-market Sony components, now it's probably just iPhones and Google/Amazon smart speakers. Elvis Costello sings about "a bamboo needle on a shellac of Chopin", though, so at least it's not a universal truth.
     

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