Cruisertrash
Rising Sun Member
Guitar also feels like that to me
Friday afternoon music
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DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
I sort of doubt that...Guitar also feels like that to me
It's very frustrating, I want to smash the SOB some days.
But I persevere at torturing the poor guitar and anyone within earshot.
Which is more than just my wife and dog but neighbors since it's a dreadnaught. Dread they do when I butcher the scales or a song.
Yup.
Cruisertrash
Rising Sun Member
I own quite a few cool old guitars and amps, but have no idea what frets will yield what scale, what a mode is, or how to solo. I can hear a lot of these mysterious theory things and sort of half-a$$ed stab at playing them. My fingers aren’t very fast and often don’t know where to go. About 99% of what I play is original - once in a blue moon we’ll cover a song, but I’m not a campfire guitar player by any means - so I essentially find patterns that sound good and memorize them. I wish I actually knew how to play.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
View: https://youtu.be/lvvbkqrPMaQ
"It's Like Holding a Ghost's Hand"
herlovebeheadsdaisies
"All That's Left Of You (Swan Song)"
Edith Pike
Sisters Of The Blessed Sacrament split (2024)
Apparently Edith Pike formed in 2022 and broke up this year. They were a Denver band and you may still find some of their work or see them around.
This was a split with herlovebeheadsdaisies, who also I guess broke up this year, from I believe San Antonio.
Scream emo isn't really something I dig but maybe someone here does.
Edith Pike played a live set on KVCU (Radio 1190) at CU Boulder, which I only just came across a Youtube video. Gotta respect the flying V. Also know why my hearing is so bad now. Basement shows, yup. Props to the youth bringing forth the rock.
View: https://youtu.be/5dwz4xjm8DI
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DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
View: https://youtu.be/HLUX0y4EptA
"Handlebars"
The Flobots
Flobots Present...Platypus (2005)
I bet @Cruisertrash will understand this curation.
Cruisertrash
Rising Sun Member
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Never was able to get into Flobots
80s Hard Rock Ultra Build
Any love here for commutified 80s and 90s MTBs? Finished up my iconic pink/purple Hard Rock a while ago and have been riding it into work frequently. 1x11 conversion using Microshift XCD and a whole bunch of spare parts picked up from Bikes Together in Denver. A few finishing touches are needed...
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Johnny Utah
Rising Sun Member
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IelJR3F3DJs
Guns n Wankers - former members of British band Snuff. So good! Can’t stop listening. Album released in 1994.
Track two is my favorite - Skin Deep
90s punk at its finest!
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Hat tip to the northern regions.
View: https://youtu.be/cP68Z-ZDk_I
"Coffee Song"
Transistor Sound & Light Co. (Winnipeg)
Transistor Sound & Light S/T (1998)
This song comes from TS&L's only (to my knowledge) full length LP. They were only around about 5 years, 1995 to 2000. Jason Churko (usually singer and guitars) joined The Paperbacks after the band broke up. Marty Kinack (the drummer) has gone on to do some work as an engineer and producer of Broken Social Scene.
View: https://youtu.be/jpN2Sa27HeQ
"20 Cups of Coffee"
Pert Near Sandstone (Minneapolis)
Paradise Hop (2011)
These guys have been around a while. Really pretty great more-or-less straight up bluegrass, although they'll throw a ballad in their to control the flow. High, high energy shows, they give it their all.
View: https://youtu.be/HsGOiP-Gf04
"5 Cups of Coffee"
The Jayhawks (also Twin Cities product)
Blue Earth (1989)
Gary Louris and Mark Olson led the Jayhawks, a 1990s alt.country staple. They stood out for how well the two gents could harmonize. This album was originally only recorded as a demo but ended up being released. So it lacks some polish but I think that's also it's allure in their catalog.
View: https://youtu.be/O7MMOI0nUZc
"Coffee Creek"
Slocan Ramblers (Toronto)
Coffee Creek (2015)
Another straight bluegrass band. They jumped to prominence a few years ago opening for Jerry Douglas at a festival in Canada. Solid musicians and tunes.
View: https://youtu.be/cP68Z-ZDk_I
"Coffee Song"
Transistor Sound & Light Co. (Winnipeg)
Transistor Sound & Light S/T (1998)
This song comes from TS&L's only (to my knowledge) full length LP. They were only around about 5 years, 1995 to 2000. Jason Churko (usually singer and guitars) joined The Paperbacks after the band broke up. Marty Kinack (the drummer) has gone on to do some work as an engineer and producer of Broken Social Scene.
View: https://youtu.be/jpN2Sa27HeQ
"20 Cups of Coffee"
Pert Near Sandstone (Minneapolis)
Paradise Hop (2011)
These guys have been around a while. Really pretty great more-or-less straight up bluegrass, although they'll throw a ballad in their to control the flow. High, high energy shows, they give it their all.
View: https://youtu.be/HsGOiP-Gf04
"5 Cups of Coffee"
The Jayhawks (also Twin Cities product)
Blue Earth (1989)
Gary Louris and Mark Olson led the Jayhawks, a 1990s alt.country staple. They stood out for how well the two gents could harmonize. This album was originally only recorded as a demo but ended up being released. So it lacks some polish but I think that's also it's allure in their catalog.
View: https://youtu.be/O7MMOI0nUZc
"Coffee Creek"
Slocan Ramblers (Toronto)
Coffee Creek (2015)
Another straight bluegrass band. They jumped to prominence a few years ago opening for Jerry Douglas at a festival in Canada. Solid musicians and tunes.
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DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
View: https://youtu.be/oK_iXsjSLt8
"International Airport"
Carbon Leaf
View: https://youtu.be/Aj8f30Iguw0
"L.A. International Airport"
Susan Raye
View: https://youtu.be/C1v-M7naZ3g
"L.A. County Blues"
Band of Heathens
View: https://youtu.be/27Qn1PQ7T0k
"Carroll County Blues"
Doc & Merle Watson
View: https://youtu.be/-OTa5J7lwR8
"Carroll County Accident"
Porter Wagoner
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DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
View: https://youtu.be/89FpmHCZ30s?si=KsggG1V0kNwG95mk
"Moth"
moe.
No Doy (1996)
No reason really, just a 90s song I happened to hear today. I don't even really like moe. that much. They did play here recently but I didn't go see them. Not sure why. I do kinda miss the neo-bohemian vibe even if I'd be caught dead wearing Birks or missing a hair cut.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
View: https://youtu.be/8MoH4YgavEQ
"Thirty Years of Farming"
Henhouse Prowlers
Henhouse Prowlers (2006)
Chicago bluegrass (betcha didn't know that was thing) band The Henhouse Prowlers cover of a song written by Fred Eaglesmith. The Henhouse Prowlers have for a few years been U.S. State Department musical ambassadors, traveling, playing bluegrass around the world.
The song is originally more of a folk song but it's become a bit of a bluegrass standard after being adapted by James King about 20 years ago with 3-part harmony and a couple other arrangement changes like the a cappella chorus.
The original.
View: https://youtu.be/3cwLt0tBbd8
"Thirty Years of Farming"
Fred Eaglesmith
Indiana Road (1987)
Cruisertrash
Rising Sun Member
A local record store that I like had Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins walk in the door randomly today. I guess I’ll put one of their old albums on … a guilty pleasure from my formative years.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TKArddWrLg
"Paralyzed"
Arkansauce
All Day Long (2016)
Mentioned in the Bill Burke training thread, these guys are playing tonight downtown GJ. Excellent bluegrass if you're in town!
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Kickstart this thing for 2025.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic
"In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)"
Zager and Evans
2525 (Exordium & Terminus) (1969)
About as good an example of one-hit wonders. This song was initially a break-out single (what the kids would now call a viral song that the local DJs in Omaha were playing) and subsequent album were huge (10 million copies apparently) but their two follow up albums met with no success.
Their follow-up single was a song called "Mr. Turnkey." It's about a convicted rapist who crucified himself in prison. The lyrics aren't nuanced or subtle on a heavily produced recording. Catchy melody but typical of the time (it even has studio orchestration) so perhaps poorly matched to a heavy subject and maybe not surprising it fell flat.
Denny Zager (the clean cut fella playing the Yamaha) builds custom guitars, Rick Evans passed away in 2018 (with the goatee, playing a Martin in this video).
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth; won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine's doing that for you
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband; won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter, too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a-comin', he oughta make it by then
Maybe he'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the Judgment day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been"
Or tear it down and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old Earth can give
And he ain't put back nothin'
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now, man's reign is through
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe, it's only yesterday
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may thrive
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic
"In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)"
Zager and Evans
2525 (Exordium & Terminus) (1969)
About as good an example of one-hit wonders. This song was initially a break-out single (what the kids would now call a viral song that the local DJs in Omaha were playing) and subsequent album were huge (10 million copies apparently) but their two follow up albums met with no success.
Their follow-up single was a song called "Mr. Turnkey." It's about a convicted rapist who crucified himself in prison. The lyrics aren't nuanced or subtle on a heavily produced recording. Catchy melody but typical of the time (it even has studio orchestration) so perhaps poorly matched to a heavy subject and maybe not surprising it fell flat.
Denny Zager (the clean cut fella playing the Yamaha) builds custom guitars, Rick Evans passed away in 2018 (with the goatee, playing a Martin in this video).
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth; won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine's doing that for you
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband; won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter, too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a-comin', he oughta make it by then
Maybe he'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the Judgment day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been"
Or tear it down and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old Earth can give
And he ain't put back nothin'
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now, man's reign is through
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe, it's only yesterday
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may thrive
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth...
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DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXfThzIBXoI
"If I Had A Hammer"
Peter, Paul and Mary
Rest in peace Peter Yarrow (1938-2025).
This performance came from the 1963 Newport Folk Festival as seen in Murray Lerner's film Festival from 1967.
Festival
Before Woodstock and Monterey Pop, there was Festival. From 1963 through 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to document a thriving, idealistic musical movement as it reached its peak as a popular phenomenon. Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Howlin’ Wolf, Johnny Cash, the Staple...
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Being there when this was a hit I can say that it was one of those songs that made me twist the dial to another station every time. Same as Spirit in the Sky. Both lame songs that were waay overplayed. That could be an entire thread all its own.
Cruisertrash
Rising Sun Member
The only redeeming quality of that Norman Greenbaum song was the absolutely gnarly fuzzed out guitar. It deserved to have been in a different song…
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
In fact a no small reason I posted that song wasn't that it was good (yes, a tortured annos singulos reference, no doubt) study on mechanics of music. I found it interesting that Denny Zager is apparently a pretty decent luthier. Turns out a fair number of influential instrument makers have been either not very good musicians or in some cases not at all. So perhaps this is another example. Although like 'em or not they have a gold record and it didn't take auto tune and Pro Tools to make it happen. Uninteresting and contrite song writing, sure, perhaps. But I don't judge.
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