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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 11:33:29 GMT
Saw this on another thread, well worth a look and it explains why HiFi evfolved so much from the 50s in order to reproduce the expanding musical quality. I knew this was happening, nice to see it backed up by research.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 6, 2018 12:37:42 GMT
I've seen this video before, and as you say, it's nice to see one's own thoughts replicated and reinforced in this way. Homogenisation is, to my mind, a rather too polite way of saying "reduced to the lowest common denominator" and it's happening everywhere. For instance, do you remember when the majority of cars started to be reduced to three or four general shapes?
A very few big companies own very many record labels. Money, money, money. We need to celebrate the original artists who still deliver music instead of product, and the record labels still prepared to release it...even if it turns out to be a "major" running it as a loss-leader, just to 'prove' their diversity.
What is really sad is that we 'older' music fans still know the difference between music and mass-produced pap, but there will come a day when whole generations will not have had our mass exposure to 'real' music, and The Beatles and The Stones will be their 'classical' music and will be reduced to a specialist, minority, interest, instead of having "Pop - File Under Popular" on the sleeve.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 6, 2018 13:16:20 GMT
Being old I remember the good times in the 60s at school when wonderful music abounded.
There was also an awful lot of cobblers. Us lot avoided it.
Fast forward to Bath Festival in Shepton Mallet (70 or 71)
We expected to be a few thousand tops. No there were zillions (honest !) as festivals became the place to be.
The lightning fast, highly responsive music industry (joke) eventually worked out they could make money from a load of cobblers if they boys and girls looked pretty and danced.
The total amount of music increased exponentially so there is more crap in the total volume.
Still good stuff, well made just a smaller percentage - no ?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 19:19:52 GMT
Fast forward to Bath Festival in Shepton Mallet (70 or 71) We expected to be a few thousand tops. No there were zillions (honest !) as festivals became the place to be. The 1970 Bath festival was where I met It's a Beautiful Dayfor the first time and, not mentioned on te flyer, saw Joe Jammer who was Led Zep's guitar roadie and filled in between acts at the festival. He's still going strong performing real R&B round the country. One of the best festivals in the UK ever.  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 6, 2018 20:20:57 GMT
Agreed. I loved it.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 7, 2018 6:00:28 GMT
It's always apparent to me whenever I play some of my music to our three children. They mostly love it and they themselves have researched and found their own favourites. The creativity comes shining through, something sadly lacking from much of today's output.
Watching that footage, one general warning comes to mind: if a performance needs dancers, there's usually something lacking with the music.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 7, 2018 9:52:23 GMT
This is slightly different though and this  |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 7, 2018 9:57:01 GMT
This is slightly different though mmm, for values of different = crap! |
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Post by Slinger on Jun 7, 2018 11:03:33 GMT
...Watching that footage, one general warning comes to mind: if a performance needs dancers, there's usually something lacking with the music. I don't like ballet either, Martin.  But... |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 7, 2018 12:24:57 GMT
Ah, now Stacia is an honourable exception  Was it Lemmy who was shagging her or one of the other band members? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2018 12:31:01 GMT
Ah, now Stacia is an honourable exception Was it Lemmy who was shagging her or one of the other band members? I used to know that whole crowd very well back in the day....... Ask me in private, not that I'm a gossip, this is more history |
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Post by zippy on Jun 7, 2018 14:06:26 GMT
Once upon a time, the words were as important as the music and songwriters wrote proper songs. Once upon a time there were no distracting videos, only music. "Everything now is down to algorithms" (quote: Pete Waterman - link) |
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Post by Slinger on Jun 7, 2018 14:33:57 GMT
Ah, now Stacia is an honourable exception Was it Lemmy who was shagging her or one of the other band members? I don't know about Stacia, but Lemmy did say he shagged all of the band-members' wives after he was sacked and before rest of the band got back to England. He qualified this statement by adding "bar one, who was too ugly" and then saying that he was shagging two of them anyway. I think it was Dave Brock's missus he didn't fancy. I believe she was living too far away as well. N.B. I don't believe Lemmy used the words "shag" or "shagging" when describing this period in his life...or any other. |
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