A few more spins have endeared its sloppiness to my ears. It's not quite Neil Young/Crazy Horse territory, but I do enjoy its relative 'grunginess'.
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 June 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
every track is good until "Do What You Like" (though the "A Love Supreme" vocals on that are pretty funny)
I like the Allmans-style intro and outro on "Well All Right"
― Brad C., Friday, 12 June 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
Really good album all the way through, but Can't Find My Way Home is one of the greatest songs of all time.
― J. Sam, Friday, 12 June 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
― brimstead, Friday, 12 June 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
Sometimes I think Baker's approach to the drumset is so idiosyncratic that it might as well be a different instrument from the one played by e.g. Ringo or Watts or even Bonham. It's almost like someone saw a trumpet and said "what if I blow into the big end, instead of the small one?"
I don't love Baker's style, but I understand that he had a specific project, and pursued it doggedly.
I will not speak ill of Winwood.
― Tom Paine in the membrane (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 12 June 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
The drums on this don't sound unusually muddy for a Jimmy Miller produced album.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 13 June 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
oops don't
Not even sure it's the production! Part of my beef with Ginger is that if you're playing like he does - near-constant tom usage - you need to tune for it and have the right heads for it. I hear decent attack on "Sea of Joy," but no roundness. In other places there's low end, but little articulation. Of course the sound is notoriously uneven live, but that's to be expected.
Thought experiment: I wonder if you went back in time with a hygrometer, you'd be able to graph Ginger's drum sounds based on the ambient humidity of the spaces he was in. Correct for the age of the heads, and you could have a decently innovative physics dissertation.
― Tom Paine in the membrane (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 13 June 2020 11:29 (three years ago) link
If there's a weak link on this record, it's the vocals
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 14 June 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Presence of the Lord!
― flappy bird, Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
that's the answer I was looking for.
― calstars, Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
that winwood/clapton msg live thing from 10 years ago is pretty boring but winwood’s vocals on “presence of the lord” are heart wrenching
― brimstead, Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 19 June 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Sea of Joy higher than Presence? Shame
― calstars, Friday, 19 June 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link
Not as shameful as "Do What You Like" getting any votes at all.
― Rapsputin (Tom D.), Friday, 19 June 2020 08:55 (three years ago) link
After giving this album in spin back in June, it's really got its hooks into me. It's a shame Blind Faith didn't continue a bit longer.
The Blind Faith Hyde Park concert (available on YouTube) interests me. It looks like the 60s have turned into a grungy and unslinging heavy vibe, with everyone looking drab and depressed (the audience as well as the band).
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 30 July 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
*unswinging
In the concert footage there's a brief but really creepy shot of Kenneth Anger in the audience hissing and casting spells. What was he trying to do - inspire an Altamont?
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 30 July 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link