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Do You Wonder Why Classic Country Died?
Posted: 2 May 2010 12:23 am
by John Floyd
Posted: 2 May 2010 3:07 am
by Leigh Howell
GOOD GRIEF!!!!!
Posted: 2 May 2010 5:23 am
by Joe Casey
John is that Steel player anyone we know?
Hey Leigh,remember the time you and I did that thing With Ray something or other at the Chimes with Mike and Jimmy Collins?
Mike never forgot it.
Posted: 2 May 2010 6:48 am
by Barry Blackwood
The rhythm player looks like Thurston Howell from Gilligan's Island.
Not Just Another Hat Act,, Legends in their own minds
Posted: 2 May 2010 6:59 am
by John Floyd
Joe
Different Steel Player, Same teacher and school of None thought.
Whatever the Upright Bass player in the back is taking, I WANT SOME, Must be some Good Sh!t.
Here is another for all of you Music Lovers.
http://www.youtube.com/v/rex5NHWRT4s&NR=1&hl=en&fs=1
Posted: 2 May 2010 7:19 am
by Carson Leighton
Doesn't sound much like the way Hag does it.. Sounds like everything is out of tune quite bad...Their probably having a ball though...Carson
Posted: 2 May 2010 7:31 am
by ray qualls
I haven't seen sideburns that wide since the "70's"!
Posted: 2 May 2010 7:57 am
by Joe Casey
Big band ,too bad they all are playing a different song.
Wonder what Hag would think of the arrangement?
Posted: 2 May 2010 8:54 am
by Tony Glassman
They need another 2 or 3 rhythm guitars to really showcase that stellar "no-part" harmony
Should have posted this under humour
Posted: 2 May 2010 9:30 am
by John Floyd
But its not Funny, Its pitiful when they think they are playing music
Posted: 2 May 2010 9:58 am
by Alan Brookes
I thought it was pretty good. The mix wasn't up to much, and the vocal was much too quiet. But don't forget that it was live in a confined space, not in a studio.
The question was why it is that classic Country music has died, and the answer is that it hasn't, it's just gone out of style. No style of music ever dies. Look at the Charleston, bands are still playing it long after it went out of style. Classic country will always be with us, as long as there are a few people who want to play it and someone who wants to listen.
I think that some of the sound of those old 40s and 50s recordings has a lot to do with the recording equipment that was available at the time. For instance, I always wanted to play 12-string guitar like Leadbelly: eventually I realised that the sound from his guitar was changed by wow introduced by the unsteady speed of the record cutter and/or tape machine. He didn't really sound like that in person.
Posted: 2 May 2010 10:40 am
by Joe Casey
Theres a case where 3 chords were almost too much.
.Traditional country Out of style ?? For some maybe,but for others who grew up in the heyday of "Country" Music it will never be out of style until breathing goes out of style..
Theres plenty of it still around even tho places to play it have disapeared..I watched a 57 Chevy get sold at auction last night for 200,000 bucks..I'll bet a 2010 Chevy will never sell for that much 43 years from now?...
Posted: 2 May 2010 11:36 am
by Kevin Hatton
John Floyd you are right on. Those kind of players do more damage to a music genre than anything else. They have no business taking that outside of a mental institution. We've got these here in western N.Y. also. Somebody shoot me.
Posted: 2 May 2010 5:23 pm
by Wally Taylor
I think their band name says it all...
I do like the steel player though. However, they should indeed be the "Forgotten Ones".
Posted: 2 May 2010 11:29 pm
by Leslie Ehrlich
Barry Blackwood wrote:The rhythm player looks like Thurston Howell from Gilligan's Island.
He doesn't look anything like Jim Backus.
Posted: 3 May 2010 4:38 am
by Ray Minich
Actually they represent the "more talented" flavor of the types of local weekend musical groups we get around these parts. Drummer kept reasonable time, guitars nearly in tune, vocals intelligible at times. They get extra points for having a steeler.
I've played in much worse conditions...
(Three weeks ago the bass player in a local Sat. Nite. gig played for an hour with the bottom two strings badly out of tune... painful... He couldn't tell, one of the bandmembers finally fixed it.)
Posted: 3 May 2010 6:17 am
by Barry Blackwood
He doesn't look anything like Jim Backus.
Does too.
Posted: 3 May 2010 6:42 am
by Jim Cooley
The Paper Bag Band
Posted: 3 May 2010 4:46 pm
by Ray Minich
I agree with the Jim Backus resemblance.
I wanna see Ginger!
Posted: 4 May 2010 4:35 am
by Joe Casey
When and if one considers they are playing a one song medley, then it's really something else.
Posted: 4 May 2010 8:54 am
by Charles Davidson
Wish I knew what ya'll were talking about,Can't get it to download. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
Posted: 4 May 2010 11:10 am
by John Floyd
Can't help you there Bama, Works here and nobody else has mentioned having problems. Just a Standard youtube Video.
Posted: 11 May 2010 10:14 am
by Leigh Howell
Yeah Joe, I do remember! I got talked into playing bass for that gig, and had never played bass in my life. If I remember Joe you wound up playing the bass!! Ahhhhhhhh Memories Memories!!
Posted: 11 May 2010 11:21 am
by Richard Sinkler
AAAAAAARRRRRGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Singer's hat makes me realize it's lunch time. Off to Taco Bell I go.
EDIT:
Found them on My Space. Band members:
Jamie McGann plays a Fender Telecaster and is the singer, Tom Murphy plays a double bass, Freddie Tane plays pedal steel, Peter Blossom plays guitars and Vic Dias plays drums.
From the Myspace page dated 2006.
Posted: 11 May 2010 3:44 pm
by Joe Casey
Leigh,I thought you would remember.
.What came out of that night was good though..I got to meet you ,Jimmy and Mike and we all got paid..leigh I was just wondering if that Volcano is affecting you guys in Glasgow?