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Old 09-11-21, 09:41 PM
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All of the music mentioned and nobody has mentioned Mark Knopfler or Dire Straits, one of the greatest guitar players ever! Just google his name, he has his own Youtube channel, listen to some great music and enjoy!
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Originally Posted by trainchaser
All of the music mentioned and nobody has mentioned Mark Knopfler or Dire Straits, one of the greatest guitar players ever! Just google his name, he has his own Youtube channel, listen to some great music and enjoy!
Bassist in a band I was in is a luthier. Does work for some big names. We came in for practice, and he drew us into the inner workshop. Opened a case, and it was one of Knopfler's guitars. Felt like we should drop to our knees and make the sign of the cross! He's also building a custom banjo for Bela Fleck.....
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Originally Posted by jamesdak
And it gave us ABBA.
Yeah, there's nothing fluffy, Abba-like in any other decade. Good point.
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Originally Posted by Deal4Fuji
Talent seems to have little to do with success sometimes doesn't it. Some 70's / 80's artists who IMO should have been bigger:

Paul Collins Beat, Gary Myrick, 4 Out of 5 Doctors, HooDoo Gurus, Rank & File,

+ these...

Holly Beth Vincent & the Italians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaQI30R7g48

Romeo Void
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSrZn9P3Iw8

The Ocean Blue (should have got a better name)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FJF4Swq_PU
their "libretto" is underrated.
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Originally Posted by SurferRosa
Yeah, there's nothing fluffy, Abba-like in any other decade. Good point.
Right! Until now that is, new album in Nov. I'm sure that'll make your day.
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Originally Posted by jamesdak
I'm sure that'll make your day.
Who brought up Abba? Not me. But if you like it, I think that's great. I might go figure out that one song I like of theirs after I update my ignore list.
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Originally Posted by jamesdak
Right! Until now that is, new album in Nov. I'm sure that'll make your day.
I'm an ABBA fan!

I'm also a fan of Pitbull, AronChupa, Metallica, The Dead South, Sia, Nicki Minaj, Flo-Rida, Becky G, Jain, Indila, Eminem, Nathaniel Radciffe, Rag n' Bone Man and many more ...and then all the 80's and 70's Rock and Alternative bands I'm 'supposed' to like at my age!

I like most genre's, I like music from all over the World, in different languages, cultures. I also couldn't care less how 'talented' or not the singer/band/whatever so avoid those debates, if it makes me want to listen in the moment, it's all good to me.
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Old 09-12-21, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by big john
The 70s


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Old 09-12-21, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by SurferRosa
Who brought up Abba? Not me. But if you like it, I think that's great. I might go figure out that one song I like of theirs after I update my ignore list.
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Old 09-12-21, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by AlgarveCycling
I'm an ABBA fan!

I'm also a fan of Pitbull, AronChupa, Metallica, The Dead South, Sia, Nicki Minaj, Flo-Rida, Becky G, Jain, Indila, Eminem, Nathaniel Radciffe, Rag n' Bone Man and many more ...and then all the 80's and 70's Rock and Alternative bands I'm 'supposed' to like at my age!

I like most genre's, I like music from all over the World, in different languages, cultures. I also couldn't care less how 'talented' or not the singer/band/whatever so avoid those debates, if it makes me want to listen in the moment, it's all good to me.
Yeah, I'm just a fan of music and my taste are all over the place. Meatlof is another favorite to a point. His first MoTown album with Stoney was great and then everything from Bat out of Hell to Bat II is great in my book. The lastest few albums have missed the mark for me although there are some good songs mixed in there.

POD is a fav for when I ride now, Meg Myers, Foo Fighters, Sol Seppy, Radiohead, etc.

Even such as off norm as this album. I have it as a surround sound recording and it is so amazing to turn up the volume on this and just breathe it all in.

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Old 09-12-21, 09:26 PM
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Shaun Murphy is great! She is doing well in TN. Stoney = Shaun Murphy
She has been a member of The Silver Bullet Band (BOB SEGER) since the mid '70's.
She was a member of Eric Clapton's band on the 1985 TOUR with both, each Marcy Levy and Shaun performing lead vocals on one song in concert and backing vocals and percussion, tambourines, and dancing...

I saw her youtube channel about a year ago, and she has one up from Mar '85 in Sweden where she's doing "While You're Stepping Out, Someone Else Is Steppin In, with EC. I contacted her and told her my younger brother tape recorded the entire Savannah Civic Center concert 4-19-85, which was beyond great and that she tore the roof off of that place with "While You're Stepping Out, Someone Else Is Steppin In". I sent her the cd copies and another Holmdel NJ '85.
Check out her YOUTUBE channel.
She is doing great stuff with The Shaun Murphy Band.
Perhaps if the pandemic gets under control, you might get to see her LIVE, maybe in The Music City USA
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ERIC CLAPTON Stockholm Sweden MARCH 1985 bootleg cd , Song: .....Steppin Out, ........ with SHAUN MURPHY lead vocals


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Old 09-12-21, 11:44 PM
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Was a quiet afternoon. On call for work.
Messed around with the bikes. Working on the yard. Was a Lyle Lovett kinda day. This was a great one. Lyle playing a Guy Clark tune.
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Old 09-14-21, 10:24 AM
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I'm up to riding for about an hour making about 15k a few times a week. My two playlists are:
ACDC - Get it Hot
Blondie - Will Anything Happen
Cheap Trick - She's Tight
Joan Jett - I want you and You drive me Wild
The Kinks - Destroyer
Nazareth - This flight Tonight
Prism - Spaceship Superstar
Joan Jett - Wild Thing
David Wilcox - The Grind and Hot, Hot Papa
Devo - Gates of Steel and That's Pep!
Heart - White Lightning and Wine
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Jethro Tull Fat Man

#2:
The Monks - Johnny B. Rotten and Nice Legs, Shame about the Face
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Girlschool - C'mon let's go
Golden Earring - Candy's Going Bad
Jack Green- Valentina
John Prine - Dear Abby
Nazareth - This Flight Tonight
Pete Townshend - I am an Animal
The Rolling Stones - Neighbors
John Lee Hooker - Whiskey and Wimmen
Ted Nugent - Wango Tango
The 568&8's - Whoo Hoo
Nena - 99 Red Balloons
The B-52's - Planet Claire
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Originally Posted by trainchaser
All of the music mentioned and nobody has mentioned Mark Knopfler or Dire Straits, one of the greatest guitar players ever! Just google his name, he has his own Youtube channel, listen to some great music and enjoy!
OMG. Brothers in Arms. I have that in a SACD 5:1 Surround sound format. My living room has a built in Klipsch Surround Sound system and I love to show up the systems by cranking it to Money for nothing. That intro, WOW!!!
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Old 09-14-21, 12:32 PM
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Because I refuse to just listen to old-fart music despite my own encroaching old-fartiness, I've been actively listening to new artists and music lately. I've even considered making a "New Music for Old Farts" Spotify playlist or something. Recent faves albums include:

The Weeknd - "After Hours"
Nathaniel Rateliff - "And it's still alright"
Wolf Alice - "Blue Weekend"
Lightning Bug - "A Color of the Sky"
Dua Lipa - "Future Nostalgia"
Beach Bunny - "Honeymoon"
Celeste - "Not your muse"
Kathleen Edwards - "Total Freedom"


I do still listen to a fair bit of old-fart music, though.
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Ironically, Tom Petty was right: "God, it's such a drag when you're living in the past."

At 61, I've listened to all the "classic rock" I can stand. Give me the new stuff, whether it's hip-hop, power-pop, post-rock, or hardcore -- anything but the 70s FM drivel I grew up with.
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Originally Posted by Rolla
Ironically, Tom Petty was right: "God, it's such a drag when you're living in the past."

At 61, I've listened to all the "classic rock" I can stand. Give me the new stuff, whether it's hip-hop, power-pop, post-rock, or hardcore -- anything but the 70s FM drivel I grew up with.
100%. I don’t know how anyone can listen to the same thing over and over all their life. Go to concerts and hear the same music from the remaining 1-3 members. No thanks.

I appreciate the classics and can get into a binge here and there but I like keeping up with the new stuff and if anything, there’s something for everyone at this point. Being a “club kid” from the 80’s and 90’s I have electronic beats in my blood but I like the down-tempo stuff mainly. Glass Animals, Little Dragon, Tycho, Thievery Corporation those are my vibes
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We could have a whole side thread of newer artists covering old fart songs. Here's one:
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I did not know the Sparks were still going. Thanks. Not bad!

I am not quite enough of an old fart to have enjoyed Marc Bolan at the time e.g. in 1972 when I was 7 but now I think he is great.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Marc+Bolan

E.g.

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My musical tastes suffered arrested development in the late 70s, early 80s. By '84 I was raising a family and my drive to work listening to FM radio was so short I had little or no exposure to new releases. This short, less than 10 minute commute continued until 2012 and as a result, I never was fully exposed to things like grunge, rap, hip hop or anything else. And while I have heard of Pearl Jam, Nirvana and The Foo Fighters, I really can't tell you anything they are known for.

Now I have a 30 to 40 minute commute depending on how I hit the stop lights and my Sirius-XM presets are all '70s on 7, Classic Rewind, Classic Vinyl, The Bridge and the occasional limited time channels like Yacht Rock Radio. I also have some quirks I suppose where I flip through them often because there are some "standards" or "classics" that apparently many people enjoy that I don't for some reason like Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen and a few others. As soon as one of those come on, I'm changing to something else. I also don't particularly care for The Beetles, but enjoy solo works from Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Star. I don't know what criteria Sirius-XM uses to give artists a dedicated channel, but I wish Led Zeppelin had a channel. None of the Artist's channels they have now are anything I care to listen to much.

But going back to the OP, I will usually stop my channel flipping if Baker Street comes on.
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Originally Posted by BobbyG
"To tie this back in to bicycling, I just checked, and the warehouse is an 8-mile bike ride from the house I grew up in. Because of traffic and stops it took so long to get there by bus, I never considered riding there on my bike, what was then a 2-year-old yellow Azuki 10-speed. Now at 58 I've been biking 9 miles to work for almost 30 years, and I am easily 10 years older than "the old men".
I lived in Chicagoland (Lincolnwood) for a few years and worked on Paulina Street by Diversey. That 'short' 10 mile drive was the longest commute of my life. Coming in on the Edens and merging into the Kennedy gave me a new appreciation of 'colorful' language. No shortage of idiots in front of me and jackasses behind me.
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