Seems like a lot of music is being written by AI these days, literally for figuratively. For example I'm just probably out of touch with the disruptive/creative stuff in the C and W genre which I used to love. I suggested to a local musician he learn a song or two by Billy Joe Shaver and he gave me a who the fuck is that? look. Oh, well, just trying to help out...
BTW, Arizona Republicans have tried multiple times to put the 60% (2/3 majority, not simple majority rule) rule on Citizens Initiatives here also. Lobbyists are hawking the same bad ideas everywhere.
Love this bit: "The songs have a lurch to them, a feeling that they are always about to fall apart; everyone swings with such a laconic and relaxed feel that the effect is like watching a tight-rope walker whose progress is made all the more compelling by his constant swaying - but he never falls." A Patti Smith performance in the late seventies had the quality of going completly off the rails into ? Losing it, breakdown, orgiastic something or other. I don't know what but it was riveting and seemed dangerous to herself and others. Right on the edge with a packed house there with her.
After exposure to the Band albums in my youth, it was hard to listen to much else except R&B and jazz, in which many musicians in those genres seem to be able to have that looseness required to swing. In the mid 70s groups like Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Lou Reed were all breaking down barriers, along with Graham Parker, Elvis Costello, and Nick Lowe in England. Great stuff.
Seems like a lot of music is being written by AI these days, literally for figuratively. For example I'm just probably out of touch with the disruptive/creative stuff in the C and W genre which I used to love. I suggested to a local musician he learn a song or two by Billy Joe Shaver and he gave me a who the fuck is that? look. Oh, well, just trying to help out...
BTW, Arizona Republicans have tried multiple times to put the 60% (2/3 majority, not simple majority rule) rule on Citizens Initiatives here also. Lobbyists are hawking the same bad ideas everywhere.
Love this bit: "The songs have a lurch to them, a feeling that they are always about to fall apart; everyone swings with such a laconic and relaxed feel that the effect is like watching a tight-rope walker whose progress is made all the more compelling by his constant swaying - but he never falls." A Patti Smith performance in the late seventies had the quality of going completly off the rails into ? Losing it, breakdown, orgiastic something or other. I don't know what but it was riveting and seemed dangerous to herself and others. Right on the edge with a packed house there with her.
After exposure to the Band albums in my youth, it was hard to listen to much else except R&B and jazz, in which many musicians in those genres seem to be able to have that looseness required to swing. In the mid 70s groups like Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Lou Reed were all breaking down barriers, along with Graham Parker, Elvis Costello, and Nick Lowe in England. Great stuff.