Yes the live version of Sweet Jane from Rock and Roll Animal is for my money one of the great live tracks. It morphs into a chilling rendition of "Heroin." I could go on and on. They really don't make music any more like they did in the 60s and 70s. And yes that makes me sound like the sort of curmudgeon I vowed I would never become. I always read your posts with great interest, David. Keep it up! Cheers.
Curmudegen?! Never. Lets just say "more discerning with age"
Thanks for the encouragement - glad you find the stuff interesting.
Got the Who going right now - "Won't Get Fooled Again" - made loud to be played loud. Loved the Live Aid version - Roger Daltry looked like a demi-God.
Just terrific! 'Kiss my Country Ass' immediately posted to 'Fake News and the NZ Herald' the others will feature on Spotify for me. Apart from the music, the sentiment is unapologetic and subversive - perhaps we need to reclaim the word 'progressive' and apply it. Thanks!
Loved this. Love all the music on this. I wish I was tech capable. I'm useless on a computer, or anything like that. I have some substackers who want to be paid subscribers, and Substack keeps telling me to turn on my paid thingy, which I keep trying to do but jeez, I can't work out how to struggle through Stripe! It's like trying to get a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. I've given up.
Glad you enjoyed it. I have a music video one that I made based on a photoshoot I did at Santa Monica that will be going up soon.
You need to be a bit patient setting up Stripe but once it is there it is done.
They pay (after clipping the ticket) and it goes into your bank account.
It starts slow and low but it is a way of setting some of your content as pay per view and some free.
I post most of mine free. The paid stuff is that which requires a heap of research, blood sweat and tears. The series on the Doctrine of Discovery was one such and the upcoming series on Controlling the Narrative has some episodes pay per view and others free.
Very enjoyable thanks David. Haven't had time yet to listen to the tracks you put links to but here's my experience: I grew up in a family with a strong classical music bias then married at 21 to someone who put himself through Otago by playing in bands. A cool jazz group (which included a flute), a pop-rock group that did wonderful close harmonies and a heavy rock group. So I had a crash course in a variety of modern music styles, and as this was the sixties/early seventies there were a lot of drugs of one sort and another. But while many of these albums remain in my all-star lineup, as I've aged I've become increasingly fond of country rock and what gets labelled as alt country, with many NZ artists included: Marlon Williams, Tami Neilson, the Warratahs, Delaney Davidson, Reb Fountain etc. and that's not even getting onto the US artists. If you'd told me fifty years ago I'd be enjoying this music I would not have believed you, so perhaps it's an age thing?
There is a country station on iHeart radio - just got started!
I remember in the late '60's that a kiwi country singer suggested that country would take over. A lot of us laughed that off and then Crosby Still and Nash happened and things began to change. I have written elsewhere of the lovely first album that was entitled at one stage "Renaissance Fare"
I saw it on a documentary channel online which I subscribed to and then after I had watched the show cancelled my sub. It is very much worth a watch if you can find a service that acrried it. It is available via Prime Video which points to another site suggesting free access. It is well worth the inquiry.
They say if you can remember the sixties you weren't really there - there were occasional hazy moments......
What! No mention of Little Feat? And as for bad boy merde-kicker - very little can beat Lou Reed's "Street Hassle."
"Sweet Jane" from the Velvet Undergound days and "Satellite of Love" are a couple of Lou Reed faves.
Lovely to hear from you Bob.
Yes the live version of Sweet Jane from Rock and Roll Animal is for my money one of the great live tracks. It morphs into a chilling rendition of "Heroin." I could go on and on. They really don't make music any more like they did in the 60s and 70s. And yes that makes me sound like the sort of curmudgeon I vowed I would never become. I always read your posts with great interest, David. Keep it up! Cheers.
Curmudegen?! Never. Lets just say "more discerning with age"
Thanks for the encouragement - glad you find the stuff interesting.
Got the Who going right now - "Won't Get Fooled Again" - made loud to be played loud. Loved the Live Aid version - Roger Daltry looked like a demi-God.
Just terrific! 'Kiss my Country Ass' immediately posted to 'Fake News and the NZ Herald' the others will feature on Spotify for me. Apart from the music, the sentiment is unapologetic and subversive - perhaps we need to reclaim the word 'progressive' and apply it. Thanks!
Thanks Mike - glad you enjoyed it.
The opening riff from "Sweet Home Alabama" never fails to quicken the sinews and summon up the blood.
...as does their untimely death.
Loved this. Love all the music on this. I wish I was tech capable. I'm useless on a computer, or anything like that. I have some substackers who want to be paid subscribers, and Substack keeps telling me to turn on my paid thingy, which I keep trying to do but jeez, I can't work out how to struggle through Stripe! It's like trying to get a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. I've given up.
Hi Deborah
Glad you enjoyed it. I have a music video one that I made based on a photoshoot I did at Santa Monica that will be going up soon.
You need to be a bit patient setting up Stripe but once it is there it is done.
They pay (after clipping the ticket) and it goes into your bank account.
It starts slow and low but it is a way of setting some of your content as pay per view and some free.
I post most of mine free. The paid stuff is that which requires a heap of research, blood sweat and tears. The series on the Doctrine of Discovery was one such and the upcoming series on Controlling the Narrative has some episodes pay per view and others free.
Hats off to the Rolling Stones for making Hackney Diamonds at their age. It's much better than some of their other later-era output.
Very enjoyable thanks David. Haven't had time yet to listen to the tracks you put links to but here's my experience: I grew up in a family with a strong classical music bias then married at 21 to someone who put himself through Otago by playing in bands. A cool jazz group (which included a flute), a pop-rock group that did wonderful close harmonies and a heavy rock group. So I had a crash course in a variety of modern music styles, and as this was the sixties/early seventies there were a lot of drugs of one sort and another. But while many of these albums remain in my all-star lineup, as I've aged I've become increasingly fond of country rock and what gets labelled as alt country, with many NZ artists included: Marlon Williams, Tami Neilson, the Warratahs, Delaney Davidson, Reb Fountain etc. and that's not even getting onto the US artists. If you'd told me fifty years ago I'd be enjoying this music I would not have believed you, so perhaps it's an age thing?
There is a country station on iHeart radio - just got started!
I remember in the late '60's that a kiwi country singer suggested that country would take over. A lot of us laughed that off and then Crosby Still and Nash happened and things began to change. I have written elsewhere of the lovely first album that was entitled at one stage "Renaissance Fare"
There is a brilliant documentary series (2 episodes) entitled "Laurel Canyon". The trailer is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt5yfItXQ2I and a backgrounder is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Canyon_(TV_series)
I saw it on a documentary channel online which I subscribed to and then after I had watched the show cancelled my sub. It is very much worth a watch if you can find a service that acrried it. It is available via Prime Video which points to another site suggesting free access. It is well worth the inquiry.
They say if you can remember the sixties you weren't really there - there were occasional hazy moments......