Music today.....

[Ognib]

This is for Danny Lectro , my take and build on a Danelectro and Jerry Jones inspired electric sitar

That's a good looking guitar, Anne.

In a similar vein, here's a knockoff of the vox teardrop that Brian Jones played in the early stones, that is currently in the works.

[CrazyGirl]

ah cool job Ray ,,, I use to have a Vox Tear Drop like Brian Jones aka Elmore Lewis ,,but sold it years ago , so I too have one I am building

Edited May 30, 2013 by CrazyGirl

[CrazyGirl]

I like those Talmans Mike !!

[Ognib]

ah cool job Ray ,,, I use to have a Vox Tear Drop like Brian Jones aka Elmore Lewis ,,but sold it years ago , so I too have one I am building

You've got the vox pickups also, sweet.

[Ognib]

Some blues for a rainy morning, where I'm at.

[metalhead]

Hands down, my favorite band is Moonspell. Their album Omega White is paying tribute to the singer from Type O Negative. Great singing, great music and not too heavy. My all time favorite song from them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITVxcT1Sw5c

[metalhead]

I see the link didn't work. click on the link on the video screen.

[Greg Myers]

Yeap soooooooo right

Baby Girl age six

And Baby Girl with Dick Dale last year..............

[Greg Myers]

The Monkees were not a manufactured band. They played their own instruments and fought hard to get their recognition. They were only manufactured in the sense that a TV producer brought them together. THAT's never happened before in any other case.

The Monkees VS The Doors ? You're one sick puppy.

[Bernard Kron]

Alright. I guess I'll add my 2 cents worth...

Western popular music, and now worldwide pop, is currently in a very highly evolved state, very mature after almost two centuries of ever-accellerating change. Starting with the rise of the moneyed middle class in the nineteenth century and the birth of secular music in theaters, first in the form of opera and then music halls, through the revolution that was the phonograph record, then radio play of recordings, and finally the post WWII explosion that began with the long playing record and morphed into the digital music revolution, listeners have always been offered more and more choices in both musical styles and ways to listen.

Today, the shear quantity of available listening choices and recorded performances is just staggering. The result I believe is a neo-classical period, where musicians are spending more time exploring established styles than creating new ones. As a result the impression one can get is that music is somehow no longer "new", perhaps more derivative than it once was. To some extent this is true, but much of it is due to the enormous quantity of music out thetre. For many its simpler to listen to the originators of an established style that the third or fourth generation practitioners. Also, with so many choices, it quite easy to just pick a style and decide that's what you like, ignoring everything else.

But there's really nothing new about this. It's just that the pace of change has slowed way down. Changes in technologies, instrumentation, methods of composition and notation, methods of delivery, etc. are far more incremental than they were just a few years ago. So, for older listeners, there's a genuine nostalgia for an earlier "Golden Age", when, from day to day, you never knew what you were going to hear next.

But new, if perhaps not totally original, music is being created and performed every day, scattered across a gigantic range of styles. Some traditions still survive, such as country music's tendency to recapitulate the pop styles of 10 or 20 years prior. Other traditions have emerged to dominance, such as 70's and 80's r&b and hip hop's virtual death-grip on mainstream pop (a trend which may be showing signs of abating). Some traditions have largely ceased evolving and have become Classical idioms in their own right - jazz and most of the folk-based idioms, and perhaps reggae, come to mind. If there is a problem it's that all the prior styles and output survive and grow ever greater.

There's an old expression in the music business that eventually became the name of a band - pop will eat itself. In this era of cheap digital technologies and vanishingly small barriers to entry and time to market, this has never been more true. So, depending on your age/generation, most listeners today have their established favorites and less inclination to explore "the new".

Even methods of distribution have conspired to create this kind of conservativism. I can remember in the 1980's having recording executives battling to prevent the easy licensing and distribution of indivdual songs. They feared that this would kill off the album and lower profits by reducing the revenue from a unit transaction. Buyers would only purchase their favorite individual track by an artist - this would eventually stifle creativity and variety in pop music and create a yawning chasm between the hit artist and the rest of the label's catalog.. Well, today with iTunes, Pandora, etc. this has come true. Was their fear justified? Perhaps. But if music is important to you, the means to explore and discover have never been more varied, inexpensive and efficient. On the other hand this is not necessarily good news for the artists. With the exception of the fortunate few at the top of the food chain, the real, inflation adjusted, market price for their output has been driven inexorably downward. Today aspring young artists have not only to compete among themselves, but with the digital ghosts of the past.

[Greg Myers]

Surf rules !

[Greg Myers]

Henry Rollins on Ray Manzereks passing http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/05/henry_rollins_ray_manzerek_doors.php

[Greg Myers]

I played guitar in my surf band The Surfonics for ~15 years, this has been my most successful song:

Another one in a sort of Dick Dale vein:

Now I'm playing drums and singing in a sort of surf/swampabilly trio called the Mudskippers- forgive the poor sound quality, this was recorded in my garage during a rehearsal

http://www.reverbnation.com/mudskippers/song/14305740-gone-ridin

Here are a few more freely downloadable MP3s from The Surfonics:

www.thesurfonics.com/SecretSea1.mp3

www.thesurfonics.com/LongboardCowboy1.mp3

www.thesurfonics.com/BoogieBoard1.mp3

Hope you like 'em! -Mike "the infamous Captain Reverb" Graves

Great stuff , have you tried the Surfites ? http://www.doublecrownrecords.com/the-surfites/

[Quick GMC]

If you guys like surf music, try The Atlantics, or The Ghastly Ones.

[sjordan2]

Want to see great live singing, without weeks of studio fine-tuning?

I admit it. I've been hooked on "The Voice" from the beginning. Out of all these types of shows, I've never seen anyone like Michelle Chamuel. I would go right now to see her in concert, doing nothing but old standards and current covers - the only one I would say that for. People like Kelly Clarkson and Daughtry have been lucky enough to have awesome new material, and I hope she is that lucky, too.

[Danny Lectro]

@CrazyGirl: