DCC Archive influences

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Unknown, Oct 1, 2001.

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  1. Unknown

    Unknown Guest Thread Starter

    Grant... very interesting to read all the comments from DCC's forum members.

    Anyway I'm sure no style of the next music waves would change my life... I'm getting old;-)
     
  2. Dave

    Dave Esoteric Audio Research Specialist™

    Location:
    B.C.
    Patrick M,
    Originally I was posting the years that those albums became a part of my life not the years they were released. Sorry for any confusion. ;)
     
  3. TimB

    TimB Pop, Rock and Blues for me!

    Location:
    Colorado
    Let's see here:

    1: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
    2:Abba Arrival and Waterloo
    3:The kinks, just about any albuem
    4:Beatles Abbey Road
    5:Crowded House Together Alone :eek:
     
  4. Holy Zoo

    Holy Zoo Gort (Retired) :-)

    Location:
    Santa Cruz
    Together Alone is an *amazing* album.

    Ok... here's mine:

    My earliest memories are of riding my rocking-horse to Johnny Cash's "At Fosom Prison". This would have been around 1969 or so (I was about 3 years old). Hearing "Orange Blossom Special" even today still gets my heart going.

    [​IMG]

    The next few years I took a tour of mostly kids albums (I can still pronounce the alphabet because of a Big Bird song off a Sesame Street album). Also somehow I got an LP of the Peter Gunn soundtrack (I think it got horribly scratched, so my Dad gave it to me - I'd never notice on the phonograph I got to use - a kit that my Dad built in the mid 1950s, I think). I bought the CD a few years ago, and was amazed at how well that album sounds.

    [​IMG]


    My next foray into rock music came with a handful of 45s that the daughter our next door neighbor gave to us (my brother and I). I was around 7 or 8 at the time (1974). There were perhaps 20 or so 45s, but the ones I remember vividly are:

    Mony Mony - Tommy James & the Shondells
    Come Together - The Beatles
    Green River - Creedence

    [​IMG]

    Soon after that my dad bought me a little black cassette tape recorder from Radio Shack, and I started taping music off the TV. Strange, I know, but for the next couple of years I listened to TV theme songs a lot :) My favorites were the theme from Wild Wild West, and The Rockford Files. Go figure.

    At around age ten I discovered (through my dad) Blue Oyster Cult, Elton John, Steve Miller Band, and Mike Oldfield. Now, I should point out that my dad didn't actually really like any of the above (he's a Artie Shaw kinda guy) but ended up with some of these records because of the Columbia House record club. Anything he didn't like, my brother and I ended up with.

    This soon led to taping things off the radio (98.5 KOME in San Jose... anyone remember Denis Erectus?) :)

    I think it was around this time that I finally discovered The Beatles (around 1978 or so). It's funny now -- The Beatles as only been broken up for 8 years or so, but to me the music seemed like an eternity ago - like Casablanca or Citizen Kane - it was sooooo long ago! I remember listening to Sgt. Peppers over and over. Of course, when that dreadful BeeGees Sgt. Peppers movie came out, I had to go. Ugh... what a mistake. I think it was a couple more years before I rejoined the beatles - I somehow talked my mom into buying me a Japanese box set of the complete albums (Odeon). Still have them sitting in the garage! Anyways, I'm around 13 here when I was in my Beatles immersion phase.

    I could probably go on all night, but lets just say that by about 16 I was deeply into Rush, and stayed immersed there for nearly a decade. I listened to other bands, of course, but Rush was MY band.

    [​IMG]


    Bummer... I have to head to dinner right now... maybe I'll finish this later. :)

    [ October 06, 2001: Message edited by: Holy Zoo ]

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  5. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    Up until the mid 80's I had always kept at least one ear open to top 40 pop/rock/soul. Since then, my interest in contemporary has been intermittant. I ALWAYS fall back on the music of my youth.

    It's depressing to recall how the influence of hip-hop, rap, and Brit-pop had pretty much destroyed soul/r&b music in the mid-80's. Actually, it was the desperation of record companies trying to capture larger audiences with established R&B acts by forcing them to "water-down" the music. Of course, by then, we had a totally new generation coming up who were influenced more by Kiss, Pink Floyd and Roxy Music than James Brown, Elvis Presley, or the Beatles. I work with people who think Led Zepplin started rock & roll and Motown was something only teenage girls listened to. Why am I rambling about this?
     
  6. Sckott

    Sckott Hand Tighten Only.

    Location:
    South Plymouth, Ma
    It seems very easy for me to turn people on to Tori Amos, although she's a very real, honest "artist" of the current time.

    I can't tell you how amazed a very old and forgotten record sounds, "Tininty Session" but the Cowboy Junkies. It brings you to tears how beautiful that sounds. That was recorded with ONE mic too!

    Don't fret. There are 13 year old kids looking at Stax/Volt, Motown and Atlantic with great interest. They just aren't in your back yard.
    When I was little, certain things stuck to me, like Beatles, Deep Purple, Bee Gees, Kiss... Where are all the little children now that they follow who they can't be?

    I'm telling you, it's gonna be this way, just like how Dion and Bobby Vinton came after the Black Man's R&B drove kids crazy.... and then something else pops up again for a reprise.

    Clean, tindy and cutsie only works for so long.
     
  7. pigmode

    pigmode Active Member

    Location:
    HNL
    Holy Zoo, if you still like Rush, and if you don't have it already, check out the MFSL release of Moving Pictures if you really want to hear Tom Sawyer.
     
  8. Holy Zoo

    Holy Zoo Gort (Retired) :-)

    Location:
    Santa Cruz

    Hey pigmode!

    Yes indeed, I have the MoFi 2112, Signals, and Moving Pictures cds, and enjoy all three. However I've only compared them to the original cd releases - I don't have the Mercury remasters.

    Signals stands out from the three in that one of the verses on "The Weapon" is missing. The music is there, but the vocals simply aren't! I sent mail to MoFi when the disc first came out (around '95 or so?) and they wrote back that the band had sent them this tape as the master.

    I can only guess as to how that could happen.

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  9. Unknown

    Unknown Guest Thread Starter

    Trinity Session?
     
  10. pigmode

    pigmode Active Member

    Location:
    HNL
    Signals? I didn't know MFSL did that one. I need to get it because Subdivisions rocks.
     
  11. Dave

    Dave Esoteric Audio Research Specialist™

    Location:
    B.C.
    Hey Pigmode,
    Yeah Mfsl made Signals as well but if you want to save some serious dollars buy the Rush remasters. I own both copies of all 3 that MFSL did and you can barely, if at all, tell them apart with your eyes closed.
    Cheers. :eek:
     
  12. Elton

    Elton I Hope Being Helpful, Will Make Me Look Cool

    Location:
    Carson Ca.
    These are the Records that have broaden my musical base and blown concept of what is right or good in music and sometimes the world.

    1. original soundtracks and music from great motion pictures-UAL 3303

    2. Frank Sinatra - ring-a-ding ding F-1001 (The first record I read the liner notes, and I have read them ever since!)

    3. Glenn Miller's big band sound, played by Jerry Gray's Big Band - What do you want I was 3, my parents bought the record-but I still have it! (Yellow Vinyl-not great condiction)

    4. Harry Belafonte at Carnige Hall - I performed the entire 2 albums for a year on weekends. Again, I was 3. (No, I have not done it in months!) :o ;)

    5. Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out - the Beatles. I got from my older (10 years) sister, to stay out of her records. The colection started here!!

    6. Ramsey Lewis - Wade In The Water - My first album that was cool without saying a word. :cool:

    7. Elton John - Your Song - After years of your name being mangled at roll in school, nothing makes a 10 year old pay attention faster then hearing his name on the radio, and with that title, come on! I was done. :D

    8. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On - The first album that not only talk to me, it talked about me, ask me question, gave me answers and told me to get off my butt and do something!! :)

    9. Always and Forever - Heatwave - The first musical vehicle I was able to work around the track of romantic life without crashing. :D
    But of course one of the best is still Marvin Gaye-Let's get It On. But with horsepower like, please do not use it foolishly. I don't want one to get hurt. :p

    10. There are two album at this spot. This is my Rock life. My Jazz, R&B, Country and World music influences go in 8 other direction (4 catagories + 2 directions) :)
    So my 2 Rock choices are Patty Smith-Horses and Nirvana-Nevermind. I feel they both got me to "Refresh" my view of life, from what I thought it was to reality. Each time, life was different, but both were saying "don't get too comfortable". From there things splinter, I find things from the past and the whole thing shifts, but no new trails to follow. I hope that it changes tomorrow. But don't we all.
     
  13. Gary

    Gary Nauga Gort! Staff

    Location:
    Toronto
    Patrick M: "The Trinity Sessions" is the second Cowboy Junkies effort, recorded right here in Toronto's Trinity Church (downtown Toronto). The church was chosen for it's acoustics. Sckott is right - only ONE microphone was used. They just all gathered togeather around the mic and played.

    Just an excellent album...... in my book, it's a "must have".
     
  14. wes

    wes Senior Member

    The Beatles when I was 4 on up. My parents always played Beatles and Stones. I got into Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, When I first saw the movie La Bamba, at 9. I was music crazed from then on. In Fifth grade my dad bought me the White Album for my birthday. I thought it was the greatest album ever, and I still do. When I was 14 I bought Dark Side of the Moon Mofi gold disc. I thought it was the greatest album ever, and it was my introduction to audiophilia. The Wall when I was in 9th grade was also another Floyd album that changed my life.

    -Wes
     
  15. Mark Jackson

    Mark Jackson Forum Resident

    Location:
    Bremerton, WA
    Well, off the top of my head,

    I was firstly influenced by my dads 78s. 20-40s jazz, big band, bop…..all the good 'ol stuff got me listening.
    Croce got me thinking about life and the Runaways got me thinking about girls.

    Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich got me playing drums, The Beach Boys, Beatles, James Taylor made me want to play in a band (stayin' up all night playing the LPs over and over trying to figure out how the heck to play the songs).

    Later I was influenced in a big way by the Boswells, Joe Venuti, Reinhardt and Grappelli (HCF). Through a friend, Larry, that I worked with in a show, mutual friend of Steve's, it's such a small world :^).
     
  16. Mart

    Mart New Member

    • ELO : Out of the Blue
    • Heart : Greatest Hits / Live
    • Donna Summer : On the Radio
     
  17. Unknown

    Unknown Guest Thread Starter

    I have it. My ? was actually poking fun at Scott's rapid typing and mucking the title pretty bad. :eek:
     
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