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Eric Myers Member From: Waynesville, Missouri, USA |
posted 25 January 2003 09:10 AM
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I once saw Neil in concert and he started a song then stopped and said "man thats out of tune even for me!" |
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Earnest Bovine Member From: Los Angeles CA USA |
posted 25 January 2003 09:31 AM
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Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow were good on last night's Leno show but it would have been much better with a steel guitar. |
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Bill Moore Member From: Manchester, Michigan |
posted 26 January 2003 06:33 AM
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More about Kid Rock from an article in yesterday's Detroit Free Press: click here [This message was edited by Bill Moore on 26 January 2003 at 06:35 AM.] |
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Jon Light Member From: Brooklyn, NY |
posted 26 January 2003 06:41 AM
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Yo, ma brutha Larry Miller---are you runnin' down Yo Yo Ma? Yo? |
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Roger Light Member From: Sheldon, IL |
posted 28 January 2003 12:42 PM
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I hardly ever post on here, but I read quite often all the arguments about "country music" and how they are trying to market it to a younger crowd. I'm not one to know all the technical stuff about guitar leads and what is good or bad,(I do play, but not all that great) but rather if one likes the song. Most of the buying public doesn't know a c chord from a G, they just either like the song or they don't. Now to my point (if there is one) . I was sitting at a bar the other night and that Kid Rock song come on the juke box. There was this kid sitting around the corner at the bar singing along word for word. That kid would never think of listening to "country" let alone know the words. If we can call this song remotely country, and I think we can, this might be the way to turn some of the 20 somethings on to country and they won't even know what hits them. Do you think they might start liking Ray Price & Merle? I dought it, but it was neat seeing this kid with his hat on backwards sing something that was "close" to sounding like country. P.S.: I probably didn't make any sense but what the hell. I got to post something |
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Greg Vincent Member From: Los Angeles, CA USA |
posted 28 January 2003 01:45 PM
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Roger, I've found that 20-somethings are pretty open to the 'real' country stuff from the 40's, 50's, 60's & 70's. It's the 'hot country' power-ballad stuff they loathe. Who is buying that music? -GV |
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Theresa Galbraith Member From: Goodlettsville,Tn. USA |
posted 28 January 2003 04:43 PM
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Greg, It was the power-ballad that made my daughter take notice of Kid Rock. |
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Jerry Hayes Member From: Virginia Beach, Va. |
posted 29 January 2003 05:27 AM
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I remember one time while I was still in California where we got a Sunday afternoon gig in Newport Beach at a place called the Cannery. It was an old Tuna cannery which had been converted to a restaurant/bar. We'd never played for the "High Class" clientle before and didn't really want the gig but it paid damn good so us hillbillies took it. We did a couple of Neil Young songs in our show and a couple of Eagle's things but mostly westcoast country. When we got up to play the first set out Bass player/lead vocalist (Bobby Ray) said "To hell with these clowns, if they don't like what we pick we'll just leave". He said "Key of G boys" and just took off singin' Buck Owen's "Love's Gonna Live Here". To our surprise they loved that stuff. We did a little rock but they seemed to love the honky tonk country stuff better. We got the gig for the whole summer and had a great time. I remember one guy coming up and asking me who did a couple of songs and I told him it was Buck Owens or Haggard or whoever. A week or so later he came back to the gig and said he'd gotten a couple of records and was going to get more. He said he hadn't heard of these people and thought country was mostly people like the New Riders, Commander Cody, etc. All that said, I really like the Sheryl Crow/Kid Rock thing and it IS country. There are a lot of closet hillbillies out there who just need to come out of the closet. A short note on tuning...Do you remember the Hank Jr. classic "Family Tradition"? Just listen to the electric guitar, especially the very last note played. It's really out of tune but makes for some ballsy stuff. In tune is great but sometimes it's too perfect. I sort of like the raw edge myself. Like I've said before, my kid turned one of my tuning keys the other night and wouldn't tell me which one it was!!!!! Later, JH ------------------ |
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