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Location: Boise, Idaho | Rick, you pretty much listed everything on my list, except I might back up a little earlier than you and add Bread and Three Dog Night. |
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Location: SoCal | Most of the people and groups that Rick mentioned (but leave out America). Add Rick Nelson, Glen Campbell, Steve Goodman, Jerry Reed (for guitar playing), John Denver, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, and a few others that I can't think of just off hand. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
80's metal is where my heart will always be. Miles, care to share any of those pics of you with long poofy hair and spandex tights? |
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Location: Oregon | Yeah, metal is hard to play (contrary to popular belief). I mean you have your sweep and all and such. I can't do it...yet.... |
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Location: NJ | I always thought that the first America album was a damn fine acoustic recording. Granted, they eventually developed into Velveeta-Rock commercial drek (with the exception of a few tunes from the George Martin days), but I'll far and away listen to that first record over ANYthing that Campbell ever put out . . .
My partner Rick is big into 80's Hair-Metal, and it's a constant bane to our musical partnership. To me, half of all that crap had already been "done" w/Zeppelin, Purple and the like. It was just augmented with rapid-fire, machine gun guitar scales punctuated with moronic, inane lyrics sung by a spandex-clad, beauty salon mop who'd be completely lost without the mountain of vocal-processing gear lurking off-stage. Don't even get me started on the song-writing skills (or lack thereof) . . .
Needless t'say, not a favorite musical period of mine. Makes for good fodder for Rick and I to bash each other while tearing down after a gig, tho . . . . ;-) |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Rick, you pretty much listed everything on my list, except I might back up a little earlier than you and add Bread and Three Dog Night.
Originally posted by Moody P.I.:
Most of the people and groups that Rick mentioned (but leave out America). Add Rick Nelson, Glen Campbell, Steve Goodman, Jerry Reed (for guitar playing), John Denver, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, and a few others that I can't think of just off hand.
What they said. Man, how could I have forgotten John Denver and Three Dog Night (those vocals!)? Vince Gill was in Pure Prairie League for a while (PPL was started by Craig Fuller, a local guy. We used to jam with him at a club called the Family Owl here in town when he was in a band called Melange. He wrote a song you may have heard of: "Fallin' In And Out of Love/Amie."). Rick Nelson-- especially post-Teen Idol, when he was with the Stone Canyon Band-- although I liked the Teen Idol stuff too. I forgot the Byrds, some Dylan, and Buffalo Springfield, too, and later, John "Don't Call Me Cougar" Mellencamp, Springsteen, and Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band. Man, that time period generated a lot of great music.
It's easy to pick on America (I like Cliff's description of "Velveeta-Rock!"), but they DID have a great sound. I love "Ventura Highway," but those LYRICS! I can just see Dewey Bunnell writing it: "Let's see-- I've got 'and the free wind is blowing through your hair/ and the days surround your daylight there/ seasons' crying, no despair...' I need something that rhymes with 'despair..' I've GOT it!! 'Alligator Lizards in the air!' I'm a genius! That's why they call me the 'Salvador Dali of Lyrics!'"
Uh, no. They called you the Salvador Dali of Lyrics because nobody knew what the heck you were TALKING about! Still love the song, though. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Oh, I almost forgot: "No, Oz never did give nothin' to the Tin Man / that he didn't already have / and cause never was the reason for the evenin' / or the Tropic of Sir Galahad." :confused: Huh?!
Gerry Beckley's lyrics were more coherent (I Need You; Sister Goldenhair), but it was still a great sound. There was a certain innocence about it all back then; they were just kids at the time. It was a reflection of the times. Those of us "of a certain age" were all just kids back then, and we were having a good ol' time! |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | By the way, I believe these guys were Ovation endorsees at one time (I have an early concert DVD where they trade off Ovations and Martins). They play Taylors now (boo! hiss!). |
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| Makes me "Skinny Liver Dupree"..... Somehow I never did see that list before.
As to the original Post; Glad you like the Site. There are a bunch of us Rock fans here. And at least a couple a die hard Blues fans. But it ain't the music we play that keeps us so interesting and entertaining so much. It's the guitars we play it all on that keep us checking in. And of course, Cliff... many of us check in to see what Cliff is up to now.... |
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Location: Tucson, AZ | ...another "newbie" here!
...that is, "new" to OFC, not to guitars or Ovations; in fact, two of my four guitars are Ovations:
1968 Fender Telecaster
1978 Ovation Balladeer (1117-1)
2002 Gibson ES-135LE
2004 Ovation EA68-5 Viper
...been playing rhythm guitar since 1959, but lately have migrated into chordal jazz. |
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Location: Tennessee | 'Alligator Lizards in the air!' Growing up in SoCal (along the Ventura Highway), we had a lot of lizards which would come out in the summertime. As kids, we were always catching lizards and keeping them in jars for a while before letting them go again. The smaller ones were called blue bellies for the bright blue spot they had on (yes, you guessed it) their bellies. There were larger ones called alligator lizards, which had a long snout, high eyes, and fat bellies, and looked remarkably like miniature alligators. On sunny summer days, they would lay en masse on rocks, upon which we would sneak in hope of catching one before they all caught a whiff of us and leapt through the air to the ground and scamper off into the undergrowth and rocks. The song lyrics always made perfect sense to me. |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | went to GC today, came home w/clapton songbook,and been play'n bellbottom blues all night. :) |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | "Stone"bobo; "Americas lyrics always made sense to me!"
Now why does this come as no surprise? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | WELCOME Old Tele Man...glad to have you aboard.
MMmmmmmmm...a '68 Tele....sweet :) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My thought exactly. People said that "Horse With No Name" wasn't supposed to make sense because if was about a heroin trip. But then all the later songs had the same problem.
I wonder if you "meet me in the middle, meet me in the air" there will be an alligator lizard there. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Probably, Mark-- with the free wind blowing through his hair.
Stonebobbo-- fascinating info about the lizards. Sorry, Dewey-- maybe you weren't as surreal as you seemed to be. I still would like to know what the heck the "Tropic of Sir Galahad" is, though! |
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| Cliff......!! This is so perfectly stated I had to copy and thank you for it's creation! Just noticed it in the earlier posts.....
"My partner Rick is big into 80's Hair-Metal, and it's a constant bane to our musical partnership. To me, half of all that crap had already been "done" w/Zeppelin, Purple and the like. It was just augmented with rapid-fire, machine gun guitar scales punctuated with moronic, inane lyrics sung by a spandex-clad, beauty salon mop who'd be completely lost without the mountain of vocal-processing gear lurking off-stage. Don't even get me started on the song-writing skills (or lack thereof) . . ."
Personally I love the Zeppelin stuff. There is some great, great music in there and Bob used talent not effects like this later watered down musical trash did.
The 80's Rock music was like the cars that were being made. All smoke and mirrors with coating of paint that covered the thin skin of a rolling piece of junk...... and by the 90's completely forgetable by their own industries.
You won;t see musicians playing much of this Music 50 years from now it has no artistic value really. Just like you won't see any 1980's cars in classic car collections..... But I'll bet you'll still hear songs from all the big names in Rock who actually created "music"........ From Zeppelin to CSN&Y to Pink Floyd....
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Location: Utah | Wildwood, my daughter has the 1778 T and I play that guitar more than she does! It's a great guitar for rock and blues. Last week my other daughter and I jammed for a couple hours playing some old Led Zep, Aerosmith, and even some midieval duets.
One clarification is in order, though. There is a big difference between taste in music and the ability to play it well! |
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