It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Yet certain other albums and I haven't got a clue in what I saw in it - Brand X - Mahavishnu Orchestra and worse of all that album Carlos did with John - For years I liked Yes and had many on vinyl but few on CD - A couple of years ago I was in HMV and spotted The Yes Album for £2.99 on CD - No brainer I though until I played it in the car on the way home - What did I ever see in it I don't know
So a mixed bag rarely - Slade and T-Rex were teh 2 bands via Top Of The Pops that got me in to playing the guitar at 14 and when I here the single on the radio I still enjoy them and they sure take me back
Other 70s stuff hasn’t survived so well, agreed. Like you I bought an album from my youth recently, Genesis’s Nursery Cryme. Oh dear, it sounds really dated and nothing like my memories of how great it was. On the other hand Free Live still sounds as good as it ever did, in fact it’s even better in the remixed version where they sorted the mix out properly.
I loved a lot of the music of the early 80s though - Adam & The Ants, Hazel O'Connor, Japan, Joy Division, Kate Bush, Madness, Martha & The Muffins, OMD, Siouxsie & The Banshees, U2, Ultravox, Duran Duran, The Durutti Column, Echo & The Bunnymen, Gary Numan, The Go-Gos, Grace Jones, Heaven 17, The Human League, Simple Minds, Soft Cell, The Specials, Spandau Ballet (first album only), ABC, Blancmange, Fun Boy Three, Icehouse, REM, Talk Talk, Yazoo, Art Of Noise, Aztec Camera, Big Country, The Blue Nile, Cyndi Lauper, Eurythmics, New Order, The Style Council, Tears For Fears, The The, Wham!...
...and that's just a quick scan up to 1983 though my iTunes library! So much good music from that time. I'm pretty sure it didn't suddenly stop there either.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Also too much down-tuning gets tiresome.
I want a good riff and great vocals
But i have found a few bands that were good at the Winterstorm Festival in Troon, so maybe I just need to keep more of an eye out
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
When I had vinyl albums I could return to an old album at any time and it would immediately be familiar. A known quantity.
I ditched vinyl a long time ago.
That means that when I revisit an old favourite it is a lottery. At best it will sound great and at worst it will be unlistenable.
And that is annoying.
I guess it depends who was responsible for the transfer.
I don't regret not having a turntable. I think the swings just about outweigh the roundabouts. Steely Dan/Donlald Fagen is excellent on both CD and 24bit Flac. As is almost 100% of 50's Jazz recordings......I find that hard to explain but it seems that simple "in the room" recording transfers really well to high quality digital media.
Good thread, yes.
I can split out my interest in music into distinct phases really. And I still like and listen to all of it.
A significant period was when I got into guitar, and joined my first band. This would be around 83-86. Then, it was all about The Cult, Numan, Talking Heads, goth. I would obsessively learn as many tracks as I could, rote, so we could play them in the band. Keyboards and guitar, sometimes bass.
After that is was house music, steered by regular nigths at the Hacienda, and other clubs around the N West. Anything that bleeped, fizzed or throbbed, I'd have it.
Then anything and everything acid house/madchester, university in late 80s, early 90s.
After that came a late liking for classic rock and all things rock. Oddly, I didnt get into what you'd call trad guitar music until maybe the mid to late 90s.
These days, the last 5 years or so have seen me get right back into electronic stuff so I listen to as much new electronica as I can find.
For me, you can't listen to enough wide and varied music, its possibly (outside of my family), the most important thing in my life.
The most exciting thing about being into music today is that through technology we have access to almost every piece of recorded music there is, both past and present. You just have to know where to find it. That's pretty exciting to me.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
I still love the stuff I got into when I was 15 - Rainbow, Scorpions, Robin Trower, Mountain, Rush, Wishbone Ash, Black Sabbath, Y&T, bits of the NWOBHM etc. But nowadays I mostly listen to new things.
Most, but not all, of the stuff I liked in between - thrash, glam/hair metal, shred albums, some blues, grunge, nu metal (cough), etc - very rarely gets an airing and it'll probably stay that way.
I've never strayed far from heavy(ish) guitar-based rock music, though, although there was a period when I was well into Frank Zappa.
Sometimes you can go back and realise with the benefit of hindsight that a band had a period, or maybe just an album, when they were really good, and the rest doesn't quite hold up even though you liked it at the time.