Kick out the jams and rock the block

[Rusty_Shackleford61 176]

I've been wanting to start this thread for about a year now.
While I immensely enjoy @TwoTankAmin Weekend Musical Treat, as he has great taste in music, I present this as an alternative. I'm a generation younger so I present this as a different perspective with a more modern theme.
That said this first installment is two takes on a classic. Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix.
First up is a version by the South Austin Jug Band. Yes, Jimi covered by a bluegrass band. Mandolin, upright bass, two acoustic guitars amd a fiddle. It's kinda mellow amd breezy, but still rocks. If you like it check out some of their live performances on YouTube.



Next up is Little Wing as done by Monte Montgomery. If you've never seen a guy shred on an acoustic guitar, this is for you.
I'm not sure how we gets this tone out of an old acoustic that's been played hard. I'm sure he's using a delay chorus similar to what The Edge from U2 uses.


Bonus Track:
South Austin Jug Band covering Jack Ass by Beck.

 

[Back in the fold16 1]

Play some Skynryd Man !

 

[Rusty_Shackleford61 176]

Play some Skynryd Man !

FREEBIRD!!!!!!!!

 

[GaryE22 20]

I've wanted to do something like this too, but more punk/ska/reggae/"ancient alternative" oriented. We had a member, maybe on this forum, who had a metal thread, but he was the only person who ever commented on it.

No freebird, stairway to heaven or dust on the wind, please...

 

[Rusty_Shackleford61 176]

punk/ska/reggae/"ancient alternative

Love it!
As a teenager in the 80's all the alternative, subversive, underground stuff was right in my wheel house.
The only time I ever play Stairway is from the live Song Remains The Same recording at Madison Square Garden, because it a 9 minute jam where Page goes nuts.

 

[GaryE22 20]

I was a teenager in the later seventies, but I think the sixties ended around 1972. I got seriously into music in 1976, although I was glued to my transistor radio from the age of 12. Things got stale and then punk opened doors to people with bad commercial taste like me. For some reason I've been on a burn where I'm listening to a lot of Jamaican and 2 tone ska, as well as dub reggae again. I go through phases. Last month it was Iggy and the Stooges, Fontaines DC and Bach. Next week it could be Tom Waits, punk or sensitive singer songwriters. My music brain is fickle.

If you ask me to list my 10 favourite bands, the list will mutate into 50...it's like asking me my favourite fish.

 

[Tomsfish20 19]

Love Little Wing.
Here is another run at it.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford61 176]

Ok @GaryE
This is a favorite of mine, The Urge from the STL. That's St. Louis, Missouri or is it misery?
Blending punk/metal/ska/reggae/hip hop, this band should have been way bigger.

 

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We had a member, maybe on this forum, who had a metal thread, but he was the only person who ever commented on it .

Yeah , I remember him . Wonder where he went ? Anyway , there aren’t a lot of metal heads amongst the predominantly old timers here . I like “ some “ metal as it seems almost classical in a strange way but the stuff you listen to is as foreign as Tetra breeding to me . But to each his own .

 

[TwoTankAmin52]

This is about as close is I ever get to metal. And I have to confess for many years I thought they were singing "DIrty deeds and the dunder chief"

 

[GaryE22 20]

I like the Urge so far... I didn't know them. Music to be explored - that always makes my day.

Metal? I find it is too technique based and hollow, to me. I know, what do I know? Music is very personal, and generational. What sounds good to one person involves culture, class, timing, and a host of intangible things. Research says it has a lot to do with what we were exposed to musically before about 16. For me, that was almost everything from African Highlife to Newfoundland folk. I was lucky. But we also get our backs up about eras - my generation were unimpressed with the sixties because we were constantly overtold how great they'd been. Many of us were looking for something different.

Doing what twotankamin does would be a lot of work though.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford61 176]

I like the Urge so far... I didn't know them. Music to be explored - that always makes my day.

That just made my day.

Metal? I find it is too technique based and hollow, to me. I know, what do I know? Music is very personal, and generational. What sounds good to one person involves culture, class, timing, and a host of intangible things. Research says it has a lot to do with what we were exposed to musically before about 16. For me, that was almost everything from African Highlife to Newfoundland folk. I was lucky. But we also get our backs up about eras - my generation were unimpressed with the sixties because we were constantly overtold how great they'd been. Many o

Yes this is interesting and I often find myself questioning the where I got my musical tastes and influences. Not my parents for sure. My father was 40 when I was born. I recall him playing big band/swing music from the 40's or Roger Whittaker. My mother was much younger and she had horrible taste in music. Pat Boone and Neil Sedaka. Not even the good 50's/60's music. Before I got a used stereo at 13 all I ever heard was hymns at church.
But once I got that stereo I had a lot of different FM stations at my fingertips. In a large city like Chicago you could find a lot of different genres of music, even specialty programs at weird hours of the night.

 

[GaryE22 20]

Musically, Montreal in the 70s wasn't Chicago. We had the world's most conservative rock radio stations - frozen in prog rock and sixties stuff well into the 80s. We had French language rock, some of which was good, and beyond that, it was people around me. Jazz came though my parents and TV, swing via my Dad, ska, reggae and salsa from neighbours, rockabilly from my aunt, hippy rock from my cousin, folk from older kids, Newfoundland and Irish folk music from my grandmother, Hank Williams from my grandfather on the other side... that kind of thing. I had a grade 7 music teacher who played African records. I didn't like it then, but it must have gotten into my head because as soon as I heard it as a young adult, I got the point. Disco was everywhere, and R&B came later - but I'd heard enough pop watered down types that it worked. It was similar with blues - I'd heard a lot of bad British blues rock, and sort of liked a tiny bit of it, but when I heard what they'd been trying to rip off, the real thing floored me. I can't stand much Clapton, but Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters were great.

Bits and pieces, and things from here and there. My grandmother liked jug bands from the 1920s, and I hated them, politely. Now, I really like them. And Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens were maybe the greatest band ever.

My cousin was came out of the Canadian Navy, grew his hair long and tried to be a hippy. But he was too working class to fit in, and just ended up as a tough kid with long hair who made the older Uncles mad. He was into the Stones and some really grainy sixties garage type stuff, and when he was murdered, I inherited his records. That kind of set a tone.

 

[TwoTankAmin52]

Here is one reasons the music in the 60s and into the 70s was so great. My first concert was Jimi Hendrix at the skating rink in Central Park in NYC. It was general admission and it cost me $1 for my ticket. Today, you cannot even buy a slice a pizza or a hot dog at a concert for $1.

Back then an album cost $2-3. Music was cheap and there3 was a lot of it. And then I got into a part of the music business when I was a partner in a sound company. I did shows with rock folks, country folks, gospel folks, jazz folks, blues folks and even some Latin folks. Our job was to make any style of live music sound great to all in attendance. I learned to like a lot back then. I also got to meet quite a few musicians.

I can recognize quality music and talented musicians whether or not I am a fan of the style of music they play. I learned to like Big Band music from films. I have seen an awful lot of movies made between the 1920s and 1970s. I learned to like the blues in the 60s because of the Columbia University radio station in NYC. They did a regular Blues show that played all the greats.

I have not found much in the past 20 years which I like, I cannot name any of the popular groups today. That guy who did the last superbowl halftime was pretty bad. He cannot sing. That is IMO or course. I have watched football since the 1960s and that was the first half-time show I ever saw. It will be the last one as well.

My taste in music is certainly eclectic. I still do CDs as my car has a CD player and so does my PC.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford61 176]

I have not found much in the past 20 years which I like, I cannot name any of the popular groups today.

That's because music has become an "industry".
With very few exceptions, most radio stations are crap. Pop music churned out using formulas, and even AI. All for profit. You could be better than Hendrix, but if you don't sell and don't make a profit the major label will drop you.
Most of the better bands and musicians these days are on smaller or independent labels, many even start their own record label. They do it for the love of it and to create art.