What happened to rock/music

[Animl-AW]

Yep.  And he often gets mislabeled as country when he's said many times he's not and doesn't claim to be.  Also love the fact he considers himself a guitarist before a singer-songwriter.

Well, the way I see it, when a person considers himself bad at something they try harder.

I don’t look, my guess he signed with someone that demanded another album when he wasn’t ready for it. So ya rush stuff out. Happens all the time. Stones screwed up signing to put out 25 albums, a lot of crap got rushed out.

Our convos had zero to do with music. Just hangin like dudes do in free time. If you walked in ya’d have no clue we were involved in music.

I dunno what label, maybe folk/country? Def not contemporary, thats what he joked about.

[icepac]

   

This is more my speed, though. 

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Hot Mulligan

[Eagler]

Had the choice of seeing Nugent or Jackson Browne while at USF in late 77 or early 78...

Made the error and picked Ted..way too loud, distorted and didn't sound like the album..cat scratch fever didn't sound anything like it was supposed live..

Friends that saw JB said it was fantastic!



Eagler

[Animl-AW]

Had the choice of seeing Nugent or Jackson Browne while at USF in late 77 or early 78...

Made the error and picked Ted..way too loud, distorted and didn't sound like the album..cat scratch fever didn't sound anything like it was supposed live..

Friends that saw JB said it was fantastic!



Eagler

Ya I saw Ted in 76 and 78. Loud music back then didn't have the modern gear to clean it up. No one manufactured sound systems then. Even showco the biggest they made arean gear for sports games,.. people grabbed that and subs out of movie theaters and managed to make a loud speak system,.. it was all wrong...but the only thing available. Those sound engineers walked into a room of arena echo and approached it backwards, with volume, which is exactly what you should not do. Ted is great on the albums but live he wonders. Because on an album you're not in front of people trying to act cool instead of playing right. His ego smashed him. He always claimed best gtr player in the world,... the world mind you. He was just really good at what HE did. IMO, high volume is testosterone over-load, and irresponsible sound engineers, who themselves have egos to be seen mixing and the power in finger tips. That's why I took up monitors, the ego guys HAD to be seen mixing FOH,.. I'm not ego, in fact on the shy side in crowds. Being hidden on stage rockin with the band was my thing... it was all about the fun, I may have done it for free it was that much fun one stage,.... most times.. Since no one wanted monitors because they are the hardest thing back then, it left a vacuum for me to fill and I worked more than them.

IMO Ted was all about Ted. Derek St. Holmes the vocals for his best stuff and this album,.. ya know,... his vocals really made the songs, when Teddy pushed him outta the way because he got too much recondition, things went down hill. His Gtr may have been great but Derek St. Holmes  brought it full circle and made that album rock.

Jackson Browne is a great writer, but he could be hard to work with too at times.  Anyone on that road that long can get jaded....<Raises Hand> I love most of his stuff for sure. Now back to volume,... it probably sounded better in an arena because he was not going after volume, just enough for room resonance. And that's how echo chambers are warred. Besides at that lower volume you get more of a feeling for the mix itself. Today,... I'd hit a JB show. He also hired really good players who stayed in line.

BTW, Drugless Teddy is nonsense. I won't get myself started on Stevie Nicks,... she was disgusting with it. She could snort the best right under the table, and when she couldn't it went in somewhere else, not a needle. Stories from their former crews

[icepac]

[Animl-AW]

I feel like I just played a cheesy video game<blank stare>

[AKIron]

My cousin took his son to some big concert in England. Posted pics of different bands. Said they stood for 14 hours. I don't get it.

[uptown]

I worked with a Dead Head back in the day, and he would quit his job every year to follow the Grateful Dead around the country tour. He would sell tie dye t-shirts and acid to pay his living expenses. That whole fan base was weird, and not a stick of deodorant within 50 miles and the chicks had more hair than me.   

[hazmatt]

I worked with a Dead Head back in the day, and he would quit his job every year to follow the Grateful Dead around the country tour. He would sell tie dye t-shirts and acid to pay his living expenses. That whole fan base was weird, and not a stick of deodorant within 50 miles and the chicks had more hair than me.

I got to go to one dead show at the shoreline amphitheater when I was stationed at Moffett Field.
It was definitely a one of a kind experience.   

[AKIron]

I see that concert made the news. Looks like it was Ozzy's last performance with Black Sabbath. Other bands were there. I bought Black Sabbath's albums when they first came out but no way I'd endure a concert.

[xanax]

My dad and his wife were murdered by a maniac driving while high on drugs a few months back. I saw all the Eagle's talk in this thread today and I was immediately reminded of his favorite song by Eagles and James Gang member Joe Walsh. I dialed it up on Spotify to give it a listen for old times sake as my dad would hit it up on the Juke Box while we played pool once a week at our local pool hall during my high school years. Wow, it really hit hard and drew a tear listening to it initially but once reminded of the fun we had while playing pool to it and some other old tunes we liked, I added it to a playlist I made consisting of his songs. It's quite a range as he liked surfing music, Johnny Cash, the Stones, Yardbirds, Blind Faith and others but this song was the top of his list. I'll never forget him using his cue stick as a microphone, guitar, sword or bayonet as we listened to these tunes emanating from the jukebox at that pool hall that's no longer.