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  1. #201
    Exactly to the post regarding teenage dreams of becoming a pro musican!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Littlemark
    I am not part of any police force.
    I indeed have used a VCR. I can even set the time! I have never recorded a film from HBO. But that is not relevant.

    I was not claiming any high ground about, merely questioning the legality and correcting your terminology.

    I am not sure why you are getting defensive. But you should probably not assume that I am not aware of legal means to download music, or films, or books. But I am certainly but aware of ALL of them.
    I’m not defensive about comments made by some guy on the internet. It’s the internet. Especially from someone who’s never even heard of the Stylistics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Littlemark


    My girlfriend literally turned to me and said "what the hell are you listening to?" With a scowl on her face.
    That's why I love her.
    Who cares. You’re the only person in the universe whose not heard of them. And you’re trolling. Let it go.

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    Weird benchmark.

    What program do you use?

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    She hasn't either. Did you miss that?

    Also, I'm not really trolling. It's not music that is appealing to me. (or her, or my other jazz friends who haven't heard of them either).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Littlemark
    She hasn't either. Did you miss that?

    Also, I'm not really trolling. It's not music that is appealing to me. (or her, or my other jazz friends who haven't heard of them either).
    No, I caught it. I’m willing to bet your friends have at least heard of them. I can’t imagine anyone who was listening to music in the 60’s and 70’s not hearing them. They owned AM radio.

    During the early 1970s, the group had twelve consecutive R&B top ten hits, including "Stop, Look, Listen", "You Are Everything", "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "I'm Stone in Love with You", "Break Up to Make Up", and "You Make Me Feel Brand New", which earned them 5 gold singles and 3 gold albums.





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    Yes I can use Wikipedia as well. I'm not saying they weren't successful.


    I'm trying have a dialogue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Littlemark
    Yes I can use Wikipedia as well. I'm not saying they weren't successful.


    I'm trying have a dialogue.
    Oh, I see. Did you ever hear of “the Philly Sound?” Or the Ojays?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop
    Oh, I see. Did you ever hear of “the Philly Sound?” Or the Ojays?
    Sure have.
    The disco beat was taken from it. Well one specific drummer from Philly. Can't remember his name of hand.

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    Alex Ross wrote an essay for The New Yorker titled 'Listen to This', which described growing up with classical music and without pop music, which he only discovered in adulthood. It does happen. The Stylistics might very well have owned AM radio, but many people never listened to it. Much of the rock music of the 1980s is entirely foreign to me, because I was listening to orchestral music at the time. The pop songs of the noughties that are now old enough to be played in the supermarket are new to me. In fact, the more time I spend on forums, the more I realise how little I know.



  12. #211
    Thanks for your effort, I really enjoyed this Great grouping of music!!! Wish modern RandB had this strong of melodies.

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    About 4 years ago, not long after I moved to Las Vegas I wandered into a room for bands in a casino. I had strong deja vu.
    This song gives me the creeps;


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    Quote Originally Posted by Litterick
    Alex Ross wrote an essay for The New Yorker titled 'Listen to This', which described growing up with classical music and without pop music, which he only discovered in adulthood. It does happen. The Stylistics might very well have owned AM radio, but many people never listened to it. Much of the rock music of the 1980s is entirely foreign to me, because I was listening to orchestral music at the time. The pop songs of the noughties that are now old enough to be played in the supermarket are new to me. In fact, the more time I spend on forums, the more I realise how little I know.


    But define many? Everyone at my high school in 1970 for instance listened to am radio, or purchased music from music they first heard on the radio.

    I’m not suggesting 100% of people should be aware of them. But if you were a music listener from the 60’s on you’d know the Stylistics. I’m not suggesting you had to like them. It’s like saying you never heard of the Beatles because you never listened to the radio.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doctor Jeff
    And the Stylistics...

    Do you have any idea how many babies were made to this music? When that first guy starts singing, the clothes start coming off.

    And on the other end of the spectrum....

    An FAQ About Your New Birth Control: The Music of Rush - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
    As much as I appreciate their musicianship...

    Why isn't there a puking emoji on the site? That's the real question.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
    80's and 90's was the best, pls. 50's was fun. 60's only in UK was fun. 70's sucked all around, too much soft music.

    Judging from the charts though, I hated music mostly in all decades. Mainstream was something to stay away from at all times for me.

    ''And the public gets what the public wants

    But I want nothing this society's got''

    It wasn't a competition to Americans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
    Does it even makes sense to you? I know you're doing comedy, but still?
    Excuse my latent California superiority complex.
    There was a band circuit overseas long ago but it was of little consequence to most people. Full time gigs for 2 bands a year. That's it. It didn't survive the bubble in Japan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop
    But define many? Everyone at my high school in 1970 for instance listened to am radio, or purchased music from music they first heard on the radio.

    I’m not suggesting 100% of people should be aware of them. But if you were a music listener from the 60’s on you’d know the Stylistics. I’m not suggesting you had to like them. It’s like saying you never heard of the Beatles because you never listened to the radio.
    I grew up in England. I knew of the Stylistics. I knew one song. My girlfriends played the cor anglais, the flute, the clarinet. They knew Dowland, Finzi, Vaughan Williams.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Litterick
    I grew up in England. I knew of the Stylistics. I knew one song. My girlfriends played the cor anglais, the flute, the clarinet. They knew Dowland, Finzi, Vaughan Williams.


    Did she only know British classical composers? That seems like a rather sheltered childhood. Verging on child abuse.

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    In re: the Millenial Whoop: Evolution of organisms proceeds from the simple to the complex. The opposite of evolution is devolution. It's your call.
    Play live . . . Marinero

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2bornot2bop
    There aren’t many on this forum who’ve been to Russia. I have. I spent a year between Russia and Ukraine. I truly enjoyed the laid back approach to life. And I met many truly wonderful people. That experience was one of the most rewarding of my life. And one learns that nothing happens without someone having their hand out. That in no way diminishes the beauty of either country. It’s simply reality.
    You guys are making me all warm and fuzzy with your vow to not steal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marinero
    In re: the Millenial Whoop: Evolution of organisms proceeds from the simple to the complex. The opposite of evolution is devolution. It's your call.
    Play live . . . Marinero
    Less complex does not mean inferior.

    I think it is safe to say that Baroque era music is more complex than both Renaissance and Classical era music. Doesn't make it better.

    Similarly bebop is more complex than cool Jazz and modal Jazz.

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    I really can't see why music for the baroque era is more complex than music form later eras. Why do you say that?

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    I was only comparing it to the Classical period. One of the features of Baroque melodies are that they are highly ornamented. Dense polyphonic texture dominated much of the era in contrast to the more homophonic and clearly defined form in the Classical era. The melodies are also far simpler.

    I mean if you want to compare it impressionist music you can do that too.

    I think you are focused on the analogy rather than the point I was apparently poorly making.

    From professor Wiki:
    In an anonymous, satirical review of the première in October 1733 of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, printed in the Mercure de France in May 1734, the critic implied that the novelty of this opera was "du barocque," complaining that the music lacked coherent melody, was filled with unremitting dissonances, constantly changed key and meter, and speedily ran through every compositional device.[81] Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who was a musician and noted composer as well as philosopher, made a very similar observation in 1768 in the famous Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot: "Baroque music is that in which the harmony is confused, and loaded with modulations and dissonances. The singing is harsh and unnatural, the intonation difficult, and the movement limited. It appears that term comes from the word 'baroco' used by logicians."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Littlemark

    I think it is safe to say that Baroque era music is more complex than ... Classical era music.

    Setting aside the fact that the Baroque itself is considered part of the classical common practice period.....

    Both compositional forms and music fundamentals (melody, harmony, and rhythm) expanded and evolved significantly after the Baroque.

    How did that expansion equate to simplicity, in your opinion?