You are DTM if you don't dig this 70s song

[darkstar]

Seriously, if you don't like it, I suppose I'll get over it. But that doesn't change the fact that it rocks and you don't. I'm pretty sure this is what they meant by "cooking."

"Are You Ready"--Pacific Gas and Electric

Studio (back singers and *killing* guitar tone and solo):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20HmSomEHZ0&feature=related

Live (no back ups, but horns, the drummer pounds it, a great quiet passage, and the singer's voice...whew):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiZg82R89Qc&feature=related

[Lady Effingbroke]

1. Tha's a great song!

I didn't know anyone else knew about it.

[darkstar]

2. Ain't it great?

I hadn't heard it in I don't know how long and I just heard it on the radio today. Blew my mind when they announced who it was and their name didn't ring a bell. Criminal, eh?

Thanks for checking in. It's good to know we both rock.

:hi:

[Lady Effingbroke]

4. We absolutely do both rock.

There is no doubt!

:hi:

[Lady Effingbroke]

3. Here's another killer 70's song...a little more popular.

Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson.

[darkstar]

5. Yeah that's hot too.

Starting to pick up a disco feel in the late 70s, but that doesn't hurt a thing with true soul to hold it down.

Thanks, LE! It's a 70s jam!

Gonna take a break for 30Rock. Back in a bit.

[abq e streeter]

6. very cool --I still have my original 45 of this--and yeah, this COOKS

Had a blues/soul band with a gospel trained lead singer the last couple of years,and I brought this song to his attention shortly after I joined them. We'd sort of planned to eventually learn it, but he left the band before we could get around to it, and got replaced with a total asshole . The band is now not quite defunct, but close; we'll take a good paying party or wedding etc if it comes our way, but not looking for gigs nor practicing/learning material anymore. Damn shame, Brother E. woulda tore this one up. p.s.------are either of you familiar with a white soul band of that era called Flaming Ember? I'm too low tech to know how to provide a you tube link, but check out a song called Westbound #9. Doesn't quite cook like PG&E but pretty damn soulful for a bunch o' white boys.

[DS1]

7. I could use it in a soundtrack of a movie I was making

but otherwise, I have no use for it

how about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw8_7apOoyI

[darkstar]

10. Like that too.

Not my favorite thing, but I like noisier aggressive stuff too. Did you make that vid? I.e. you mentioned you were making a film. It that NIN thing wasn't you, what is it you are working on? Something with a 70s vibe?

[DS1]

24. I've been kicking around an idea of a movie showing off the software I've been developing

one of the other tracks I'd pick would be Autorock by Mogwai

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x40gsl_mogwai--auto-rock_music

[kentauros]

8. ehh.

For 70s music, this is much better :D

Tangerine Dream - Ricochet, live at Coventry Cathedral

[abq e streeter]

9. Well effing and darkstar, I guess some people just don't "get" this type of music

tried listening to the Tangerine Dream piece; I really did try, but found it so ponderous and just plain boring that I gave up before it ended. But hey, to each their own.If it moves the person that posted it, then it moves them... But my god,its bizarre to even think of comparing that to Are You Ready . Not even that one's theoretically better than the other; they just really have nothing to do with each other musically.

[kentauros]

12. I'm hardly comparing it.

Only that it also occurred in the 1970s, when I started noticing the music on the radio ;)

I love electronic and experimental, two forms of music that really took off in the 70s. I'm simply not into the kind posted here. Does nothing for me, but Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Synnergy, Mike Oldfield and so on "speak" far more to me than whatever genre the OP fits into :D

[darkstar]

14. Yeah man..me too.

I've been in to keys for a long time. Built synths and such. I've got stuff from all those bands listed except Synnergy. And I dug the Coventry clip. You play keys and twiddle knobs? My first synth was one I built. A PAIA kit. Remember those?

[kentauros]

17. I don't play anything

but my brother had a kit synth for a while too (probably still has it for all I know...) It wasn't like that, a lot taller, all analog in an all wood case. The front was white enameled metal, I think. I'll have to ask him what brand it was.

I simply appreciate the kinds of music I like. I have heard some R&B I like, but nothing I want to own or buy. I did get to see Steve Reich in concert here as well as when Philip Glass came to town for the opening of Powaqqatsi :)

The greatest electronic show I ever saw was Rendezvous Houston with Jean-Michel Jarre :D

How about yourself?
Including what you posted ;)

[abq e streeter]

15. Saying "this is much better" sounds like comparing to me

but it doesn't really matter. As I said, to each their own, and we got much bigger things to worry about, (that we obviously DO agree on , since we're both on DU) like trying to stop the republican party from destroying whatever they haven't destroyed yet. Have a good rest of the evening and we'll both listen to whatever music speaks to us.................. abq e streeter

[kentauros]

18. That comment was mostly to be silly

and dare to become DTM to darkstar ;)

And though I am also here to counter the repug-party, I have to avoid such topics when visiting my parents' place... So, this is my outlet, for serious and silly :D

[abq e streeter]

20. fair enough---sorry you have to avoid politics around family

I see people in similar situations on DU and feel for them. As neurotic as my family is,at least there ain't a single damn republican till you get to maybe a fifth cousin or two, and been that way since I was a kid. Sorry to take your comment more seriously than it was intended. Again, have a good rest of the evening...

[kentauros]

22. Don't worry 'bout it

:D

And I hope to have a good "rest of the evening" again, once the catbox is cleaned out :P

[darkstar]

13. hey man...what do you play..

I'm thinking of starting a gospel tinged soul/funk thing myself. I'm not that good at keys or guitar, but I'd like to try to get something like this organized. Singers, percussion, etc. You don't live in or around St. Louis do ya?

:hi:

[abq e streeter]

19. Nope, about a 1000 miles from St Louis

abq = Albuquerque....What's your main instrument? ( and should I assume you're a deadhead by your DU name? I'm obviously an E Street Band fan by mine) I'm a singer/ harmonica player that is also working( and making good progress) on getting my sax playing up to the level of the other two. Nothing fancy but good straight ahead Bobby Keys/Clarence Clemons style rock/soul tenor sax ( play flute too )... But I don't have a great soul or gospel voice ( although pretty good at blues). Rockabilly is actually my strongest vocal style but the local rockabilly community is real cliquish, and I never fit in with them and refused to play their games in order to, even though I LOVE rockabilly... I actually want to be in just one overtly political band, with influences like Springsteen, the Clash,Rancid, Rage Against the Machine, even The Doors and The Fugs, before I get too old to rock ( getting dangerously close to that too-----will be 58 this summer....WHAT????) But ALWAYS up for a good gospel -tinged soul thing. Terminally burned out though on being the one to put it together, try to hustle gigs etc. Our semi-defunct band's website ( I think its still up) is bluerhythmkings.com by the way....

[darkstar]

21. looks cool! Louisiana Red, huh?

Your band looks cool and like you had lots of work. I like all the differing venues and audiences. Really impressive.

Yah, I like jammy stuff, but tons of other musics too. Electronics, jazz, etc. I'm mostly a rhythm guitar songwriter/singer type in terms of bands; Straight up songs al la Petty or something I guess; an arranger type guy, too, I suppose, i.e. done local ads, productions, written and coached voiceovers, etc.

But I teach now, so music is strictly part time. I did my first ever gig as a keyboard player about a month back. Mostly B3/rhodes/acoustic piano arrangement stuff, i.e. no solos or hot fills.

Anyhoooow...I've been thinking of tapping into the music department at school and some church music around here to put together a band that doesn't really need to rehearse that much...something that does some charity stuff and benefits when we could 4-5 times/year...contemporary takes on songs like this, Melanie's "Candles in the Rain," maybe some talking heads funk-spins like "Take Me to the River" etc.

I'm probably off to bed, but really nice chatting. See round I hope.

:hi:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

25. Can I join in?

And say that I agree with you???

I don't particularly like electronic stuff that is monotonous. Like New Age stuff that camps on a D major chord for ten minutes. Not interesting enough.

I refer to Philip Glass' stuff as "Death by Arpeggio". I'd go nuts if I had to actually play that. And I am a pianist and violinist both.

[abq e streeter]

27. I'm with you, but I feel kinda bad that I was a little pompous

in the way I originally expressed my distaste for this kind of stuff to a fellow DUer who seems to be a very nice, intelligent person, who just has drastically different musical taste than me. But yeah, that kinda stuff just doesn't do it for me either. Then again I'm sure there's lots of people that would find John Lee Hooker or Muddy Waters monotonous too, whereas I find them mesmerizing even while droning on on the same chord or 2 ...Again, to each their own I guess.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. I remember that from hearing it on the radio!!!

I was in high school in 1970. Didn't know who did it, though.

Thanx!!!

That does ROCK, seriously.


(I like most everything except shitkick, hip-hop, rap & heavy metal.)

[darkstar]

16. Hey....nice to meet you

I'm like you. Remembered it vaguely from the 70s, I suppose, but hadn't thought about it once for dozens of years. As above, didn't even recall their name when I heard it announced today. God. To have a track this good and still be largely unknown to music fans of the era. Criminal indeed.

:hi:

[BlueJazz]

23. I just have to add this to the conversation >>>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxdAH2lkdyg

[abq e streeter]

29. That was fuckin great

I've always loved the Guess Who,although never saw the original lineup.Saw Cummings do a solo show once ( wearing the same Elvis t-shirt that I have; I thought that was pretty cool right there). I'd never realized what a fine piano player he was till that night.He sure does tear it up on that video you posted... I also have seen the remnants of the Guess Who; actually opened for them ( party at Al Unser Jr's house--the Unsers are, as far as I can tell, Democrats btw)in 1991 I think. Pretty sure it was the original rhythm section, but that's all...(that was whatever night it was that Kirby Puckett hit his 11th inning homer to send the world series to game 7 , that was '91 right?). My first college girlfriend was from Calgary ( transplanted Texan; daddy in the oil biz) and brought lots of Canadian-only released records with her including some Guess Who, who I was already aware of, from their great version of Shakin All Over, by Johnny Kidd ( his real name; how cool is that?). Jeez, am I rambling or what. Anyway, thanks for posting that video.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

26. ~

:D :thumbsup: :hi:

[Iggo]

28. Aaaaw, that my JAMS!

Nobody's DTY, because EVERYBODY loves that song!

[RebelOne]

30. Always liked that song. but I like this "Ready" song

by Rare Earth better.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPE5kWbTPIM&feature=related

[jakefrep]

31. I already like the song...

and I haven't got around to watching the video.