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21 hours ago, T&C said:

One of the 2 best latin psych/rock/folk/prog lp's out there... from Peru and sung in english @DrW:

 

 

 

Very interesting - we never hear much from bands outside of the English-speaking countries, especially if their sound is not mainstream but incorporates elements of music from their own country (I don't think the Scorpions adding elements of Polka music would have been a hit.). Overall, I find the quality of the songs a bit uneven, and the sound would have benefited from a better recording studio. Still, the two tracks "Meshkalina" and especially "Jews Caboose" are outstanding.

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21 minutes ago, DrW said:

 

Very interesting - we never hear much from bands outside of the English-speaking countries, especially if their sound is not mainstream but incorporates elements of music from their own country (I don't think the Scorpions adding elements of Polka music would have been a hit.). Overall, I find the quality of the songs a bit uneven, and the sound would have benefited from a better recording studio. Still, the two tracks "Meshkalina" and especially "Jews Caboose" are outstanding.

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Glad you liked it/had a new experience. Agree on a better recording studio but I guess for the time that was what they were working with. Plus there was plenty of acid/buttons, etc. involved. They pulled off the language barrier pretty well I think. Got a laugh out of the Scorpions mention! 

 

This is the other one, and I forgot about Another one, that I mentioned of 2. Now 3 but I'll save that one for another time. 

 

As far as I know there were 3 different Kaleidoscopes...  one US, one UK, and this one, recorded in Mexico with players from all around,

Frank Tirado (Puerto Rico) - Vocals and a little bass
Orly Vázquez (Puerto Rico) - Vocals in 3 songs, Bass and little guitars
Pedrín García (Spain) - Guitar
Rafael Cruz (República Dominicana) - Drums
Julio Arturo Fernández (República Dominicana) - Organ...

 

Little known but this is one acid drenched listenable piece. From what I know less than 300 copies of this were ever pressed. I have a reissue of 200, forget the number, and a CD copy. 

 

 

 

 

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Inspired by the movie Elvis (well worth seeing) this song wasn't in the movie but I think its neat they interposed a girl drumming.  In the movie real Elvis footage was edited into the actors replication it was really cool and well done just as a side note

 

 

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17-year old Lucy Landymore plays Zappa's "The Black Page"

 

 

Today, Lucy is percussionist in Hans Zimmer's orchestra (they do lots of movie scores) and does tutorials

 

 

Zappa's percussionist, Ruth Underwood, explains aspects of Zappa's "sound":

 

 

 

 

 

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On 6/28/2022 at 6:56 PM, T&C said:

Glad you liked it/had a new experience. Agree on a better recording studio but I guess for the time that was what they were working with. Plus there was plenty of acid/buttons, etc. involved. They pulled off the language barrier pretty well I think. Got a laugh out of the Scorpions mention! 

 

This is the other one, and I forgot about Another one, that I mentioned of 2. Now 3 but I'll save that one for another time. 

 

As far as I know there were 3 different Kaleidoscopes...  one US, one UK, and this one, recorded in Mexico with players from all around,

Frank Tirado (Puerto Rico) - Vocals and a little bass
Orly Vázquez (Puerto Rico) - Vocals in 3 songs, Bass and little guitars
Pedrín García (Spain) - Guitar
Rafael Cruz (República Dominicana) - Drums
Julio Arturo Fernández (República Dominicana) - Organ...

 

Little known but this is one acid drenched listenable piece. From what I know less than 300 copies of this were ever pressed. I have a reissue of 200, forget the number, and a CD copy. 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, this was surprisingly good. However, it was more mainstream and less influenced by the music in their home country.

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@DrW I took note that the drummer was again a woman in your clip . It seems to be an underserved role in rock music. Except for this one. She is truly a percussionist icon if the genre. imo.

 

 

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Steppenwolf — Monster, 1969

 

And though the past has its share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But its protectors and friends have been sleeping


Now it's a monster and will not obey


The spirit was freedom and justice
And its keepers seemed generous and kind
Its leaders were supposed to serve the country


But now they won't pay it no mind


Cause the people grew fat and got lazy
Now their vote is a meaningless joke
They babble about law and order
But it's all just an echo of what they've been told

 

Can any lyrics from over 50 years ago be so relevant to today’s events?

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10 hours ago, muppy said:

@DrW I took note that the drummer was again a woman in your clip . It seems to be an underserved role in rock music. Except for this one. She is truly a percussionist icon if the genre. imo.

 

 

 

And here is the perhaps earliest female rock drummer...  Maureen "Moe" Tucker.

Camera by Andy Warhol (demonstrating that an artist excelling at some expressions of art can suck at others).

 

 

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1 hour ago, DrW said:

 

And here is the perhaps earliest female rock drummer...  Maureen "Moe" Tucker.

Camera by Andy Warhol (demonstrating that an artist excelling at some expressions of art can suck at others).

 

 

Love the Velvets... hadn't seen this clip before, was cool to see Nico moving around. 

 

This is in my top ten albums of all time... chick drummer And bass player, from 1969, rare as hell... again, I have a reissue. Dora Wahl kind of blows the doors off of Moe really. Its kind of like the mamas and papas to the tenth power... 

 

 

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22 hours ago, DrW said:

 

And here is the perhaps earliest female rock drummer...  Maureen "Moe" Tucker.

Camera by Andy Warhol (demonstrating that an artist excelling at some expressions of art can suck at others).

 

 

 

Well, I am a scientist. Thus, I dug a bit further and stumbled upon a female jazz/big band drummer, Viola Smith. Here is a clip from 1939. She died in 2020 at the age of 107.

 

 

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On 7/1/2022 at 7:44 AM, muppy said:

Inspired by the movie Elvis (well worth seeing) this song wasn't in the movie but I think its neat they interposed a girl drumming.  In the movie real Elvis footage was edited into the actors replication it was really cool and well done just as a side note

 

 

 

Polk Salad Annie was written by Tony Joe White, and his performance beats Elvis by miles (well, it is difficult to do the pelvis gyrations when you have to play guitar at the same time)...

 

 

My favorite Tony Joe White song...  Usually, singers/songwriters are not very high on my preferred music list. However, way back in Germany a TV station had a competition asking for songs mentioning types and/or models of cars, and the "Continental Lincoln" in this song made the list.

 

 

 

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great stuff @DrW gracias. You enlighten the 2bd music board whenever u post.

 

the polk salad annie reference was primo. I hadn't given that song or Elvis either for that matter much thought untll the recent movie came out. Having seen it makes he a much more interesting character/person not just a hips swaying gyrating performer. And female drummers there just aren't that many. I do think this next clip has a great female  drummer. Beyond she and Sheila E my knowledge was basically squat until this thread.

 

 

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One of my favorite bands. They just made one album, the eponymous "Heron Oblivion". All the concert clips I could find from this band had Meg Baird's vocals turned even further down than on the record and I decided to go with the album audio instead.  

 

 

 

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@DrWI googled and this was written about the band Heron Oblivion. I almost wrote heroin oblivion ha. This band indeed has an interesting vibe.  I looked at their influences and was aware of a few of their influences from my sons tastes (Polvo, Sonic Youth) . From wiki

 

I am glad I checked into them further an interesting cuppa tea. unique beautiful voice. Here is her picture 

 

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Heron Oblivion received mostly favorable reviews from critics: according to Metacritic, the album has a score of 80 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[5] Aaron Leitko wrote in the Washington Post that the album "moves elegantly between extremes — soft and loud, harmony and dissonance."[2] Writing for Pitchfork Media, Leitko gave the album a score of 7.7 out of 10 and described its songs as "moody and dark, with clear moments of guitar solo-driven catharsis."[3] Doug Mosurock wrote for NPR that the album "restores both austerity and blistering excess to the form, following in the footsteps of Fairport Convention, Jefferson Airplane and the purists that came after (Major Stars, Vermonster and the rest of the Twisted Village roster, for starters, as well as Polvo and Sonic Youth, who cut their own trails throughout the '80s and '90s)

  

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Three outstanding live versions of one of the finest rock songs ever, "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (written by Winwood, Capaldi and Wood of Traffic). The two first versions feature Jerry Garcia on guitar. First, the Grateful Dead...

 

 

Now, Traffic with Jerry Garcia...

 

 

Several excellent cover versions of this song exist, e. g. by Crosby, Stills and Nash (I really liked Steven Stills' vocals) or Jimi Hendrix. However, IMHO the best cover by far is by Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. They are expanding the song into territory not touched by the original. And they incorporated the "Hey Jude" theme 20 years before the Grateful Dead. Enjoy...

 

 

 

 

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