sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, lucretius said: He's not getting many keepers with that lens cap on. 🙂 I'm sure he's got millions of followers on Instagram anyway. Every God has followers after all. Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 9 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said: I can't think of a single example of a musicians output quality increasing with financial success. 1 minute ago, Samuel T Cogley said: I was talking Clapton and pop music. I see the Coltrane reference as somewhat non sequitur to this discussion. Noodley jazz and pop music are so not the same thing... Really.? Am I the only one sober here today.? Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 14 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said: My view on Clapton et. al. might be a little "out there": The more wealthy a musician gets, the more the quality of their output declines. I can't think of a single example of a musicians output quality increasing with financial success. Many examples. Eg Queen, Led Zeppelin had been in good, creative shape for a long time - at least the first 4 albums, U2 recorded good music long after making serious money.. The first ones coming to mind. Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 minute ago, Samuel T Cogley said: I think your examples make my point I don't think so. Samuel T Cogley 1 Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said: I imagine "pop success" generates orders of magnitude more wealth than "jazz success". I bet there are eg some successful pop musicians who are poorer than Miles Davis was. Also sometimes pop producers get richer than 'musicians', I guess.. Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 7 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said: Fight #3, Ferrari's suck! ;-) 👍 This is Fiat company after all. Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Here comes censorship, guys, beware @AudioDoctor I would ban those guys who offend well respected car brands like Ferrari or Fiat, what do you say.? Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 minute ago, AudioDoctor said: I would have to ban myself... That's what I meant.. AudioDoctor 1 Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 8 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said: 9 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said: Does anyone really dispute the apex of Clapton's success was the "MTV Unplugged / Riding With The King" era? He might have started out as beloved by hippies everywhere, but he ended up a top earning pop star. I think he might have been even more popular in the late 70's, just check out: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eric-clapton-mn0000187478/discography But of course he became divine much earlier. And richer - probably in the Unplugged era. Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 minute ago, fas42 said: Blues album - this is truly, truly fabulous stuff; it doesn't get better than this Great album indeed! Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 11 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said: That's AOR tracks trying to cross over to pop, with middling success. A standing for album or for adult? Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 10 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said: Album Oriented Rock I actually don't use this term, wasn't most of 70's rock album oriented? Link to comment
Popular Post sphinxsix Posted March 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 minute ago, Samuel T Cogley said: There were pop stations (mostly AM) and AOR stations (mostly FM) in the 70s. Using Yes' Roundabout as an example, if you heard that song on the radio, you were listening to an AOR station. That song never really crossed over to pop stations. I actually grew up in a completely different radio (and not only) reality. Please continue, as for EC's music I'm afraid I've already said everything I had to say though - that is that for me his early stuff - Cream, Derek & the D - had some value, I'm not much interested in his later activities. Samuel T Cogley and Solstice380 2 Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 31 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said: I see the mention of Yes and thought I’d lighten the mood with a tweet that nearly made me spit out my tea. Too funny. Yes, I agree, Yes got old. Genesis has always been old ex definitio.. 24 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said: Second, you're right. Masks don't work at all, Drs and Nurses just wear them for the hell of it... But you wear it every time I see you! Link to comment
Popular Post sphinxsix Posted March 23, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 23, 2021 2 hours ago, semente said: I feel the same about Pink Floyd. 🤔 50 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said: Next unpopular opinion... ha. I am not a fan of that either. I grew up in my early teens with their music so it has some 'nostalgic value' for me - you know - these albums which although you seldom listen to them nowadays nevertheless are also special because you remember every single not, every nuance on them, hence I would defend them. Same with eg The Beatles. But IMO OTOH Yes and Genesis didn't pass a test of time - I cannot listen to them nowadays, but I also wasn't as huge fan of these bands as of Pink Floyd. OTOH when I was a kid and I had only possibility of reading about Grateful Dead (they didn't play their music on the radio where I lived, in general the band has always been much more popular in the US) - I imagined, this must have been the greatest band of all time. Getting their first LP 'Terrapin Station' was the biggest disappointment in music in my life. The music was just bad and utterly boring. I still tend to think that Grateful Dead was actually a bad, boring and probably most overrated band ever. Many claim they were best while playing live (allmusic on 'Terrapin Station': "The theory is that the band's momentum is best experienced during the ebb and flow of a live performance rather than the somewhat clinical tedium of a recording studio.") but maybe their audience was simply usually too high to notice that apart from their ability to create a specific kind of connection with their audience they were in fact a bad, boring half amateur band.. I guess some are gonna hate me for this semente and AudioDoctor 2 Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 31 minutes ago, Jud said: If you approach them as friends around the fireside playing for fun on a cold and lonely evening, I think it helps get into the proper frame of mind. Thanks for your suggestion, I think I know what you mean but I'm afraid might have heard music at the fireside too many times to buy it on any record or to attend kind of live mass fireside gig.. Don't think this will change my attitude to GD Jud 1 Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 16 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said: I did enough dru... Really..? I mean, I believe no-one here did.. The Computer Audiophile 1 Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 7 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said: I was only being half serious... @Samuel T Cogley What he's hiding under his avatar's mask is the fact that the other half of his face is never serious. In my case the not serious part of my face is more than 3/4, that's why I don't use my photo as an avatar - if I did - you'd see only the very top of my head, makes no sense to me Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 EC seems to not give up with his anti covid restrictions manifests - aren't the very first lyrics of the first song of the Lockdown Sessions(!) a camouflaged call to break the lockdown rules.? Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 I've actually seen the above clip. He's better than me. Few are worse though.. Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 6 minutes ago, Temporal_Dissident said: Bullsh!t, strawman argument. Calling out wrongs in the world is not “cancel culture.” Blatant racism is not something to simply not “like”…it is morally wrong. And no one is “eliminating” Clapton. People are simply choosing not to listen to him as an artist. Yeah, I think well supported critique of everything is allowed. Here, there, and everywhere (unless you get a death sentence for it that is..). C'mon, some critical voices here won't 'cancel' EC.. Link to comment
sphinxsix Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 1 minute ago, Temporal_Dissident said: Yawn. Here he is, blues blasting away on someone else’s song. A fine musician. Sure. But what exactly did he ever do to push the boundaries of anything? He stuck to one genre (blues) and didn’t really even innovate within that genre. He’s a fine player. Smooth, great tone, technical, soulful. Fine. But where is the innovation? Where is the creativity? As Garcia used to say, Being a talented player is fine, but do they have anything to SAY? By the way, if you are looking for the real cover of this great George Harrison song (with an actually creative solo), here you go… A fantastic version, I agree! Link to comment
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