BAMF Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 LOL, Victor. Thanks, homie. I dig your taste in music more than you dig mine, I think (but hell, don't you even deny that you LOVE Eminem...I mean, I know you be bumpin' that when you drive your motorcycle! ). And hell muh'ufckin' yeah I dig Elvis...what kind of blasphemer doesn't dig Elvis? In fact, Elvis' 30 #1 Hits is updating onto my iPod as I type this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Pross Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 Kori, Oh, I see. You are an Elvis fan, huh? YET you are here--on a William Shatner thread telling me so--and not on my other thread Elvis Presley: universal Rock Icon. Oh, sure. WHY are you an Elvis fan? (Don't tell me here; go to the right thread. Do it!) B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Beatles were over-rated. The Kinks and the Stones were much better. Anyhow, the Beatles were hardly the watershed band people make them out to be -- I think they confuse them with Led Zeppelin.Though I'm a huge Zep fan, I think that much of their "watershed" credit should go to Jake Holmes, Willie Dixon and others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dailey Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Kori:~ You don't know what C&W is?~ Be thankful.LLAPJ:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Grieb Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 (edited) John; Great C&W is great music. Haven't you ever wanted to say "Here's a quarter tell someone who cares."" Edited April 18, 2007 by Chris Grieb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Jones Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Beatles were over-rated. The Kinks and the Stones were much better. Anyhow, the Beatles were hardly the watershed band people make them out to be -- I think they confuse them with Led Zeppelin.Though I'm a huge Zep fan, I think that much of their "watershed" credit should go to Jake Holmes, Willie Dixon and others.You're absolutely right, but the genius of Zeppelin lay in its fusion of folk, blues and metal. When it comes down to brass tacks, they WERE a metal band. But, the complexity of it all! How they took Memphis Minnie's dirge "When the Levee Breaks" and turned it into something utterly beyond description is nothing short of genius!By the way, to me Zoso was their "watershed" album, although "Whole Lotta Love" (two years earlier) was truly their watershed song, the one that defined their hard-driving song, while taking it in another direction from their other "caught my woman with another man" blues-rock songs/covers and earlier metal stuff, which owed a lot to Black Sabbath.To get back to my original point: In 1,000 years, the Beatles would never have been able to make anything that could touch "Kashmir" or "In My Time of Dying." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Jones Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 John; Great C&W is great music. Haven't you ever wanted to say "Here's a quarter tell someone who cares."Ditto. While there may be little of note nowadays save a bunch of slick clones affecting insincere twangs and moronic lyrics (Tim MvGraw, Alan Jackson, and a bunch of others too mediocre to remember the names of), the 1950s through 1970s saw some incredibly awesome acts likePatsy Cline Eddy ArnoldJohnny CashWillie NelsonHank WilliamsHank Williams, Jr.Loretta LynnBrenda LeeWanda JacksonJerry Lee LewisRoy OrbisonJim ReevesCharlie Danielsand a slew of others I'm too tired to name at 5 am. Check any or all of them out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAMF Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Kori:~ You don't know what C&W is?~ Be thankful.LLAPJ:DCountry/Western? I think I've got it. Too many abbreviations. Eh, I'm not too big a fan of country, but I haven't heard too much of it. Diffrent kinds of music strike different chords in different people. I do, however, love bluegrass. Hell, ah jus' wan' stomp mah feet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Grieb Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Robert; You forgot Tammy Wynette. But more and more I think the days the music died are the days when Hank Williams died and Patsy Cline was killed. I think both had a lot of good work in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Pross Posted April 18, 2007 Author Share Posted April 18, 2007 Robert; You forgot Tammy Wynette. But more and more I think the days the music died are the days when Hank Williams died and Patsy Cline was killed. I think both had a lot of good work in them.Chris, One of my favorite country weeper’s is Hank William's “I’m so lonesome I could cry.” What's yours? -Victor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Ray Charles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Grieb Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Victor; That is one of mine. I once heard Hank Williams Jr. give one off the lyrics to that song and then comment that his father was only 20 something. I think one has to add to the women singers June Carter. She and Johnny died within a very short period of time of each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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