Termyn8or
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Music is s strange force to be reckoned with. It can emote you like an epic tale in a movie or book, it can make you dance, or look like your totally nucking futs depending. For some it holds the power to get them killed if they try to sing along. My study of music and psychology included over a year with the near total absence of music. The effects are probably better left to another thread, but they can be profound.
Another thing that gets me is how many things over the years turn out to be remakes. I mean when you get back to pre 1959 with Buddy Holly - Midnight Shift you might think you are there, but no, it was done by Joe Ely years before. It's amazing how many more modren tunes are remakes or adaptations of something much earlier.
This is not confined to rock/pop either. Years ago on TV they were hawking albums, stating that this waltz or that piece was actually part of the works of a master composer back in the 1700s or something. One wonders just how much music is really written today.
Anyway, being Tuesday night I might plod through my music driectory and come up with a few more. I always try to get the original, and the best remakes of course. I might have four versions of any given piece. Even one artist I might have studio, long studio, live and unplugged. That does not mean they wrote the song even.
What else gets me is the high quality of alot of oldies. I didn't have the equipment back then to tell the difference, but now I do. Other than a bit of hiss sometimes, the quality is awesome.
I am into the rare and/or forgotten. I have my normal stuff I am looking for but top of the list of hard to gets is Buddy Holly - That'll Be The Day. Now before y'all inundate me with 40,000 youtube links, I want it from the Ollie Vee album. It is done differently, no Crickets, a different band backing up, and a bluesy/jazzy style. It is also in a higher key I think. I've already got about theee copies of the regular version. I have tried a whole bunch of different search criteria and can't find it. I can't seem to buy it or steal it anywhere. Am I the only one who ever had that album or what ?
Maybe whoever was that said that all music has already been written is correct. There seems to a resurgence of interest in the oldies, which would make sense. And I get teenagers coming over here enjoying the living shit out of music that came out when their Parents were in diapers. I myself find new, quality music to be in short supply.
And what is an oldie ? Steven Stills - Treetop Flyer ? There were already computers in cars when that came out, but in perspective to the young, that wouldn't mean shit. Where is the cutoff point when it comes to oldies for me, in fact for you ?
T
< Message edited by Termyn8or -- 2/9/2010 4:18:08 PM >
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RE: Blasts from the past! - 
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