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Plug the wah in backwards you cowards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtZDszk3S3Y

lol there was a dude on r/diypedals that was trying to mod a wah just to make that sound!

(word to the wise: r/diypedals is fucking awesome. build-it-yrself ce-2 housed in a cardbox box? ya, c'mon in friend!)

it doesn't work for bands with wide discographies or a ridiculous number of songs you want to hear, but the 45 minute set time that a lot of openers get is starting to be my favorite set duration.

long enough to get you excited, short enough that you don't get exhausted/physically worn out.

esp after seeing a 2 hour Foo Fighters set the other day that was...frankly...exhausting given how much they were padding the set (and this is a shorter show for them!)

This shouldn't be controversial. Long sets are a drag. James Brown could return from the grave to jam with Kate Bush and Aphex and I'd still be content with a lean 50 minutes

seeing a 2 hour Foo Fighters set

D.J.: I wasn't going to tell you this. I've been listening to the distress signal, and I, um, think I made a mistake in the translation.
[Plays the distress signal]
Miller: Go on.
D.J.: I thought it said "liberate me" - "save me." But it's not "me." It's "liberate tutemet" - "save yourself." And it gets worse.
[Plays the distress signal again]
D.J.: There - I think that says "ex inferis." "Save yourself... from Hell."

it was at a festival but had i not been riding w/ people who were enjoying it and wanted to catch the whole thing, I'd have peaced lol...at one point they played Monkey Wrench and there was still almost an hour left

at one point, a fight broke out in the front of the stage, where one guy pepper sprayed others in the crowd, so Grohl said he was going to play Stairway to heaven until the issue was resolved, and he got to about the first "and it makes me wonder"

I thought there might be a thread for musical opinions you're embarrassed to admit, but there isn't--that would be better than this thread or one about "guilty pleasures" (a concept I don't really believe in). Anyway, I always loved talking about Little Richard with students, but truthfully, there are only two songs I totally love: "The Girl Can't Help It" and "Lucille." So: except for "The Girl Can't Help It," I love ELO's "Rockaria!" more than any Little Richard song.

i have never listened to an entire album by little richard, jerry lee lewis, or fats domino. they make me tired after awhile.

all early rock n roll, blues, r&b is for the most part better served by singles comps

otm.

bo diddley on the other hand...he's like candy!

I don't understand listening to Fats Domino when Professor Longhair is right there.

Little Richard has five or six great songs; my favorite is probably "Keep A Knockin'", but "Long Tall Sally" is amazing too. Jerry Lee Lewis has, like, three songs I love, too, but I don't know why anyone has time for anything he did after about 1957.

“they make me tired after awhile”

distilled review a+. it’s like my feelings about dog-energy. it’s often the very best, but— so much

My '50s pantheon makes no sense. I've got Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Bo Diddley, and the Everlys on one side--love them all--and Elvis, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis on the other; two or three songs each. And Fats Domino on neither side. (I was thinking of that Kramer line from Seinfeld: "What do you mean, who am I? I'm Kramer!" He's just...Fats Domino.)

Jerry Lee Lewis has, like, three songs I love, too, but I don't know why anyone has time for anything he did after about 1957.

He benefitted a lot when went Country by getting access to a number of great songs from Glen Sutton, Micky Newbury, Kris Kristofferson etc. before others got ahold of them.

If it's "Not For You," it's not for you, but both Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard made interesting stuff up into the '70s.

Rip It Up is a total slam jam

I have similar feelings to clemenza and scott on this (I like Little Richard and Fats Domino but I don't *love* them) and boringly I think it just comes down to me preferring guitar to piano, at least as far as '50s r&b goes.

yeah I can't co-sign on that one, I like lots of songs on Little Richard's first 3 albums, and his late 60s comeback isn't bad either

Yeah, Jerry Lee's country sides for Mercury are as good as his Sun stuff, imho.

Also this is one of the greatest deep soul singles of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMzX72GOOEQ

Jimi Hendrix on guitar!

The thing with Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis is they were trying to be too much, making songs that were exclamation points on the radio. But we've lost the radio context and no one listens to the slightly smoother stuff. Even live, these guys would have been playing 15 minute sets on a bill with harmony groups and such. Gotta imaging it capping a mix of Clyde McPhatter, Coasters, Moonglows THEN Little Richard. Really, it was compilations that got me to appreciate early r'n'r.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEdj8J-Wods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OOSwWNcmRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TG0PBFrgsQ

And Bo Diddly, Everlys and Holly are sorta proto-rock rock 'n' roll, good with riffs and waiting for album-length statements to become the norm.

Carl Perkins for me!! I even enjoy the drippy ballads like Sure to Fall

Matchbox??? Please. Unassailable. Ants in the pants music if I’ve ever heard it.

i can listen to endless hours of forgotten rockabilly and hillbilly country. i ended up with hundreds of CDrs someone made of cool doo wop/country/rockabilly comps and boxes and i play them at the store all the time. i just put them on and let them spin. i rarely know who is playing. i think it is more honking sax r&b and piano-bashing rockers who make me tired. i like older r&b with a big band feel more. jump jazz. that kinda thing. i like a lot of the stuff on Specialty that wasn't Little Richard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCos-v8oLdA

i wonder if nile rodgers would have done something cool with TP & the HB. something slinkier. they could do slinky. they knew how to create good grooves. might have just come out like mick solo though. ooh, bill laswell! instead of dave stewart. that would have been weird.

of all the music we could be shitting on and you guys are choosing Little Richard

honking sax r&b and piano-bashing rockers

lol more of this pls

oops that was for the tom petty thread. my last post.

Favourite Carl Perkins is "Dixie Fried." I've mentioned this before: I think certain iconic '50s songs--"Good Golly Miss Molly" and "Great Balls of Fire," "That'll Be the Day" too, not among my Holly favourites--were ruined for me by the barrage of K-Tel commercials in the early '70s when they started compiling that stuff during the revival craze. They became reduced to two-second snippets of their titles, heard hundreds of times. "Johnny B. Goode" may have been one of those songs, but that somehow escaped a similar fate with me--and all of Berry's other greatest songs were not part of that, and I don't remember Bo Diddley being part of that either.

Slippin' and Slidin' so great that might be my fav Lil Rich

Ooh yes Dixie Fried is good. Before finding Carl Perkins at the public library, my whole life I had been searching for music that sounded like the three little pigs band in that old cartoon about the big bad wolf and for me, Carl Perkins is IT

My fave Lil Richard is def Rip it Up and Jenny Jenny

Bo was more a minor player in the context of the 50s, I think. He was so ahead of his time, and such a thing for the Brit invasion, but I don't think he was as much in the mind of the K-Tel target audience.

The 80s Atlantic R&B 1947-1974 comps are great, confined to the Atlantic sound, but flow through the years in a satisfying way.

This was probably the biggest culprit among those albums (plus a second volume)--there were others, too.

https://www.discogs.com/release/3606514-Various-25-Rock-Revival-Greats

Surprised that Holly isn't on there at all--licensing, I guess--and Bo Diddley is (he must have been bypassed for the commercials). "One-two-three o-clock..." "Hello, baybee..." "Goodness gracious..." drilled into my brain forever. And yet, I still love "Mission Bell" and "Book of Love," and other songs on there weren't hurt too much. So arbitrary. (What in the world are the Dave Clark Five doing on there?)

Listen to Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps, especially with Cliff Gallup, that's all I'm here to say.

i love gene and eddie. even the ballads.

it has often been said that the world is made up of two kinds of people. tittyshaker mod dancers. and the other kind. i think i'm the other kind. i don't need this a lot. swanky as it is. some people can listen all day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF1R2m4W_cI

i'm more northern popcorn garage.

The Hamburg '64 live set is the only Jerry Lewis I need though I quite like the country comeback records from the late 60s early 70s.

really really really hard to sell: ray charles records. one of those legends that is hard to sell. some legends are! i mean, ella fitzgerald and tony bennett are legends, right? barbra streisand? dollar bin legend. actually, free bin legend.

I wonder what it is about them, maybe a bit too mainstream showbiz in style or in reputation?

I mean I know there's not much that's underground or cool about any of them, in the senses of those terms that would translate to better sales.

I mean I think Ray and Ella are pretty cool but I can objectively understand why others might not think so based on various factors.

that whole era of ray charles always showing up on awards shows to sing georgia on my mind, the whole pepsi commercial thing then the movie made him an widely recognized icon but maybe obscured how important he was musically.

He was even on an episode of Who’s The Boss! Never forget “Always a Friend”

i just remembered the Ray Charles California Raisins commercials

xpost i don't remember that! wild

i own nice mono copies of Genius + Soul = Jazz and Ray Charles At Newport. they are hot stuff. all that early ray on atlantic stuff sounds so good on vinyl and its so cheap. i can't say i listen to the stuff on ABC. he put out a lot of records.

re: Ray, I get by with this one now:
https://www.discogs.com/release/2335584-Ray-Charles-A-25th-Anniversary-In-Show-Business-Salute-To-Ray-Charles