The day the music died.

[MossRoad]

My wife and I saw ZZ Top 3 times. Twice at Notre Dame (for free since I worked at the airport and took care of their plane) and once in Indy. Good shows.

 

[BravoXray]

They just played at the Elkhart County Fair on Saturday night.

 

[tracracer8867]

Yeah, uh, no... there's plenty of "real" young and talented musicians out there today.

Ok, tell me about them and i will sure check them out.

 

[rontaki]

One way to find new music that is real is to tune into various streaming radio stations if you have the internet bandwidth. It doesn't take all that much.

I'm an old guy who likes music that is made by talented people and is from the heart and soul, just like the music of our favorites from ye bygone era. That's Frank Zappa goofing on an old tractor in my avatar picture.

Much of my listening comes from streaming sources these days. Old stuff, new stuff and in-between.

I'll put a word in for my local community FM, KVMR. They can be streamed online. Not an NPR station, rather a mix of all kinds of music. Their program is a mix of shows made by different DJs who play what they want to. It's not like a college station either. They archive their broadcasts so any show can be listened to for a couple of weeks. For us old Deadheads, the Dead Air show has originated from KVMR for 40 years, I believe. You can find just about any kind of music on that station alone.

Next time you're in the mood for something not in your collection, just start looking online. I'm not talking Pandora or Spotify in this case, but most radio stations and a number of free sites.

Happy hunting!

 

[Frankenkubota]

Ok, tell me about them and i will sure check them out.

There are lots but try this one

Rhiannon Giddens, local girl, greensboro nc.

she recently won a big time $ award for her work with folk/traditional music.

she was with a group called carolina chocolate drops but solo now.

she plays a bunch of instruments, in addition to all the other goodies

 

[Jstpssng]

One way to find new music that is real is to tune into various streaming radio stations if you have the internet bandwidth. It doesn't take all that much.

I'm an old guy who likes music that is made by talented people and is from the heart and soul, just like the music of our favorites from ye bygone era. That's Frank Zappa goofing on an old tractor in my avatar picture.

Much of my listening comes from streaming sources these days. Old stuff, new stuff and in-between.

I'll put a word in for my local community FM, KVMR. They can be streamed online. Not an NPR station, rather a mix of all kinds of music. Their program is a mix of shows made by different DJs who play what they want to. It's not like a college station either. They archive their broadcasts so any show can be listened to for a couple of weeks. For us old Deadheads, the Dead Air show has originated from KVMR for 40 years, I believe. You can find just about any kind of music on that station alone.

Next time you're in the mood for something not in your collection, just start looking online. I'm not talking Pandora or Spotify in this case, but most radio stations and a number of free sites.

Happy hunting!

You raise a good point. A lot of musicians used to get exposure from so called "underground radio" stations. I don't mean the one on Sirius... anybody who plays the Beatles is not an underground rock station.
Stephen King has a radio station up here who plays some music I don't hear anywhere else; mixed in with the same old boring stuff.
I don't listen to the radio much anymore... after you've heard the same songs about 10,000 times it gets old. I could hav sworn that the Stones had put out more than 3 releases in their career, yet you wouldn't know it to listen to the radio.

I think a lot of people here are familiar with the "Jack Reacher" series of books. He likes to play with numbers in his head. Yet in the very first book it was music; he didn't need a radio as he had all of the songs stored in his head.

I have Sirius in my truck, as there are very few stations up here. Despite their claims of "No commercials", they have one every other song. It's always internal, so I guess they call them "promos." A commercial by any other name is still a commercial.

 

[Sigarms]

There are lots but try this one

Rhiannon Giddens, local girl, greensboro nc.

she recently won a big time $ award for her work with folk/traditional music.

she was with a group called carolina chocolate drops but solo now.

she plays a bunch of instruments, in addition to all the other goodies

Older, but still a local I actually like per music is Chris Daughtry. He's actually a pretty good guy as a person as well IMO.

My one 16 year old can impress others as he got into the 70's and 80's music from being with me (he went to a drive in move with a girl and her family, and the mother was rolled over when he could name most of the bands she was listening to on her radio and sing along with the songs LOL), and now that he's into albums, there are some pretty good "non pop" musicians out there that I found I even like that are current.

I think part of what music is to me is the history of my youth listening to it growing up to it during that time frame (no different my father with big band music in the 40's and going to more rock into the 50's).

That said, I also grew up on Tommy Dorsey, the Mills brothers and the Four Freshmen LOL

 

[Steppenwolfe]

There are lots but try this one

Rhiannon Giddens, local girl, greensboro nc.

she recently won a big time $ award for her work with folk/traditional music.

she was with a group called carolina chocolate drops but solo now.

she plays a bunch of instruments, in addition to all the other goodies

OH YEAH... very nice. Thanks !

 

[MossRoad]

They just played at the Elkhart County Fair on Saturday night.

I don't think that was Dusty Hill in Goshen. It was most likely their guitar tech, who's been filling in on occasion while Mr. Hill was unable to perform due to the hip injury.

 

[bullbreaker]

RIP Johnny Ventura " Dominican Merengue Giant " !!! ........... The Black Horse ! """"""""

 

[robbyr]

I don't think that was Dusty Hill in Goshen. It was most likely their guitar tech, who's been filling in on occasion while Mr. Hill was unable to perform due to the hip injury.

I'm guessing this is correct. Heard on radio the other day that they've decided to continue touring with the tech as Dusty would've wanted it that way.

 

[3930dave]

Sad days, for us 22 Top (as one early dj called them) fans.

We can take some consolation and distraction from the interesting sources recently posted here.

If you like classic blues, try XRDS 88.1 fm XRDS fm out of Clarksdale Mississippi. Next to nothing for ads, and other than music, they have an occasional "Mississippi Moment" - a brief history or anecdote concerning a classic artist.

The vintage and program quality of xrds reminds me of the jazz show Jeff Healey used to do out of Toronto..... I'm hoping that programming is also still out there too.....

Rgds, D.

 

[Wagtail]

Sad days, for us 22 Top (as one early dj called them) fans.

Rgds, D.

Or, as I've often heard it, Zed Zed Top

I still call them that.

 

[PJSprog]

... reminds me of the jazz show Jeff Healey used to do out of Toronto.....

Another great artist who left us too soon.

 

[Jstpssng]

Not a musician, yet a star and bit of an icon... Jim Morrison's widow died yesterday. Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, Jim Morrison's ex and famed rock reporter, dead at 75

 

[3930dave]

Another great artist who left us too soon.

Too true. ( "I thought you'd be bigger". "Not bad for a blind white-boy". I can see them both, smiling and laughing....).

I heard of him first, from an older friend who was very into guitar.... he saw him at the old Barrymore's (old vintage theatre, with a very steep wall of seats, and great acoustics) in Ottawa just before he broke out. Said he really lifted the roof off that place that night....

Like some other famous artists who are known best in other genres, Jeff was a big jazz fan, had an extensive personal collection, and was quite knowledgeable of early jazz history. I really should try and track down his series of jazz shows....

Rgds, D.

 

[Frankenkubota]

news just said....

Dee Tee thomas, founding member of kool and the gang died.

not a fan but as always, RIP

 

[Frankenkubota]

Nancy Griffith passed.

They showed her singing with John Prine, that was tuff.

RIP

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Sad days, for us 22 Top (as one early dj called them) fans.

We can take some consolation and distraction from the interesting sources recently posted here.

If you like classic blues, try XRDS 88.1 fm XRDS fm out of Clarksdale Mississippi. Next to nothing for ads, and other than music, they have an occasional "Mississippi Moment" - a brief history or anecdote concerning a classic artist.

The vintage and program quality of xrds reminds me of the jazz show Jeff Healey used to do out of Toronto..... I'm hoping that programming is also still out there too.....

Rgds, D.

Or, as I've often heard it, Zed Zed Top

I still call them that.

Just so Y'all know, it is pronounced ZEE ZEE Top. Long E.... that is all.

 

[3930dave]

No disrespect (to a great band) intended..... us Canooks talk funny, but many of us are bilingual..... we speak 'Murican too !

IIRC, all those years ago it was an American dj that thought the graphic was 22.....

Right up there with the music wizard years ago that told the Stones to lose the singer with the big lips.....

Rdgs, D.