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Post subject: Re: Favorite Instrumentals
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:56 am
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Post subject: Re: Favorite Instrumentals
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 9:33 am
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Be Bop Deluxe had a great one w/ this:

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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 8:18 am
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This has been great reading through all the posts. There are a lot of tunes here I hadn’t heard in a while so a fair share of nostalgia to be had. As well as some stuff I hadn’t heard before so some new music to enjoy as well.

Here’s another one I thought of… yeah its Def Leppard but Steve Clark is one of my favorites and this one to me has some really great Marshally tone on it and just reminds me of a freight train coming… or train wreck I suppose depending on your perspective.




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Post subject: Re: Favorite Instrumentals
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 8:23 am
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I just read that Pink Floyd's new upcoming album The Endless River, due out very soon, will not only be their last but it will also be an entirely instrumental album. I suspect that may very well alter more folks opinions than just mine of what is the best instrumental song.

As a side note I find it immensely gratifying and a little amusing as well that this album will have no lyrics ... knowing the history of the band as I do. There is a smug little smirk on my face even as I type this.

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Seriously looking forward to this too. I heard one of the releases "Alllons-Y" and looking very forward to hearing the rest. Gilmour has a solo album coming out as well so getting really spoiled here. :lol:

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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:23 am
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another one i thought of... Foreplay by Boston

I remember being blown away as a kid when i heard this cranking on my brother's stereo at full volume


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Post subject: Re: Favorite Instrumentals
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:09 pm
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Post subject: Re: Favorite Instrumentals
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:54 pm
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Regarding the new Pink Floyd "The Endless River" release on November 10th, they are all instrumental except the final song which is a vocal. The lone vocal is titled "Louder Than Words" and it is track 18. So, 17 instrumentals then a vocal for the finale of the band. Gilmour says it will be the final Pink Floyd new release. I think it is appropriate since so much of the feeling of this band's most popular music came from the ethereal instrumentation just as much if not actually more than the vocals. DG has stated he has no interest in pressing on with any future PF project without keyboardist Richard Wright, now deceased. Wright is playing keys on this final album through the magic of building entire songs around his keyboard work surviving from a one time abandoned project recorded prior to his passing. What Wright left behind was reshaped from the original unreleased project into this release which for all the world appears to be their swan song.

PF stuff will be endlessly repackaged of course and they may even resurrect a new "lost" track now and then like the Beatles did with "Free As A Bird" in 1995, but there is not enough finished "lost" stuff left to do another entire album. Trickle out a track or two on a compilation is perhaps a possibility, but this is the last full album.

"The Endless River" Blu-Ray/CD combo box set seems like a pretty amazing package. That will be the one to own for true fans who should skip the CD on the rack at most bigbox stores in favor of ordering the combo box. There's bonus material including vintage video in the Blu-Ray/CD combo box worth having. The CD itself will be number one on the album charts November 17th and platinum by January, 2015. This is one of the most highly anticipated and pre-ordered releases in musical history. It won't get a lot of airplay except on AOR stations and most of those are gone. It will become #1 solely through worldwide sales to a faithful fan base who knows it is coming one week from today.


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Post subject: Re: Favorite Instrumentals
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:09 am
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captainc wrote:
another one i thought of... Foreplay by Boston

I remember being blown away as a kid when i heard this cranking on my brother's stereo at full volume



Boston is one of my all time favorite bands to listen to, especially their vinyl recordings. Just amazing analog masterpieces. They actually lose something in the digital transfer to CD. Anyone else remember the disclaimer on their album covers which read, "NO SYNTHESIZERS WERE USED IN THE RECORDING OF THIS ALBUM?"

It seemed amazing to me that they could get all that without a synth. It was a revelation to me when I found out that what I considered the best Boston tracks were not recorded in any studio, but instead were recorded in the basement of Tom Scholz's Watertown, MA apartment building. Tom Scholz hired a sound truck built for recording live concerts and had it drive up to the basement door and ran mic cables into the basement from the truck.

Johnny Rivers did the same thing in the 60's at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go. Epic had no inkling that it was a "home" recording because he called his basement, "Foxglove Studios" and hired a middle man to perpetuate the myth that it was being recorded at a newly constructed top flight east coast studio. This is probably the most famous end run ever made on major label execs (CBS execs at that) who had wanted Boston to record in a major LA studio. Boston would have just been another band out of LA if they had actually done what Epic wanted. Tom Scholz was a genius and they got sounds out of his basement that they never would have gotten otherwise.

Boston was in reality the BIRTH of home recording going major label folks!

Another favorite would be the analog 70's Steely Dan recordings that seem to get no respect anymore nor airplay either. Steely Dan was a relentlessly tight band who had some seriously stupendous instrumental content fusing rock with jazz while layering vocals whose lyrical content frequently failed to outshine the players. With Steely Dan the vocals were frequently a distraction more than anything else to me, because I just wanted to hear the band play. I was more in awe of their instrumental work than the lyrics which I more often than not found too oblique to even try figuring out. The ones I did figure out seemed juvenile. Steely Dan had some seriously good musicians that most kids today have never heard, yet should hear playing on their tracks. To define "TIGHT" listen to Steely Dan. They are the definitive "tight." No reverb or echo or effects, just clean tight musicianship.

If Boston had recorded in LA instead of Tom Scholz's basement, they would have sounded a lot more like Steely Dan than Boston. Fortunately they didn't, so we have both sounds.

Landmark recordings in general always have a signature uniqueness that just pulls you into a world you never visited before. In a large part that is what Pink Floyd did for ages. Steely Dan did it in major LA studios and Boston did it in a Watertown apartment building basement.

There is a lesson in this kids. The lesson is that uniqueness, originality and a signature sound that has never been heard before has a place and it is an art in itself to create that original sound that will draw people into YOUR world and make them want to be there.

So stop trying to sound like everyone else, instead it is better to sound like yourself and tell your own stories. This is the same exact principle that worked for Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Leon Redbone, Captain Beefheart and Jamiroquai and if it worked for them then by God it will work for you.

One of my favorite bands from the olden days was an outfit called The Hampton Grease Band from Atlanta. One thing you can say is that they were unique and had a distinctive fluidity that could go from one extreme to another at the drop of a pin. Probably nobody here but me ever heard of The Hampton Grease Band, but trust me they were one of a kind and had a serious live fan base in the late 60's through the 70's in the eastern USA. John Lennon spontaneously joined them on stage at a live show once because they were just that good. I was there and witnessed it. Their records didn't sell well and they weren't commercial at all, but they were signed by Columbia. They were Atlanta's version of the Mothers of Invention. Sort of. The Hampton Grease Band were "Musicians musicians." They were off the page and off the charts. Just downright fun. Fun is good!

Anyway I went a long way to get to the point of...if you want to be remembered, BE YOURSELF. Forget everyone else and what they sound like. Cover bands are NOT where it is at long term unless you are in a reunion outfit covering a song by someone you are actually playing with at the time. You will have a much more lasting impact telling your own story and doing it uniquely than trying to sound like anyone else that came before.

Question whether or not your music is true to yourself or not. If not, how can you make it more YOU? People are more tolerant, receptive and open than you think. (Referencing Neil Young again here.)

After all it is 45 years later and I'm still a fan of The Hampton Grease Band. A band nobody here knew or will ever hear. There is more room for uniqueness than many obviously think. Instead of looking at what came before and trying to emulate it, look at yourself and tell your own story in your own way. Now get out there and make it happen, but stay off of my lawn!


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Post subject: Re: Favorite Instrumentals
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:33 am
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That used to be Queen's saying on the back of their albums, no synths used at all. Because of all the sounds Brian May got from his guitar.


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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:35 am
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My favourite instrumentals are:
1. "Pali Gap" Jimi Hendrix,that was such a departure from what we were all used to hearing and it was also a hint of what was to come had he lived long enough to finish the album and make more
2. "Sleepwalk" -Santos and Johnny but I really am floored by Jeff Beck's cover and his incredible,masterful use of the vibrato arm to mimic steel guitar slides and bends.
3."Theme from The Midnight Cowboy."
4."Theme From A Summer Place."
5."Telstar"
6."Apache"

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Post subject: Re: Favorite Instrumentals
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:47 am
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BMW-KTM wrote:
I just read that Pink Floyd's new upcoming album The Endless River, due out very soon, will not only be their last but it will also be an entirely instrumental album. I suspect that may very well alter more folks opinions than just mine of what is the best instrumental song.

As a side note I find it immensely gratifying and a little amusing as well that this album will have no lyrics ... knowing the history of the band as I do. There is a smug little smirk on my face even as I type this.

:wink:

I just heard a track of the new PinkFloyd release and I swear I heard Vocals, kind of sounded like David Gilmour singing. Then I could be hearing voices
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BMW-KTM wrote:
I just read that Pink Floyd's new upcoming album The Endless River, due out very soon, will not only be their last but it will also be an entirely instrumental album. I suspect that may very well alter more folks opinions than just mine of what is the best instrumental song.

As a side note I find it immensely gratifying and a little amusing as well that this album will have no lyrics ... knowing the history of the band as I do. There is a smug little smirk on my face even as I type this.

:wink:

I just heard a track of the new PinkFloyd release and I swear I heard Vocals, kind of sounded like David Gilmour singing. Then I could be hearing voices
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Track 18 is a vocal titled "Louder Than Words." The other 17 tracks are supposed to be instrumentals.


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brotherdave; Thanks for clearing that up, for a moment there thought I was having a flashback :mrgreen:
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brotherdave; Thanks for clearing that up, for a moment there thought I was having a flashback :mrgreen:
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Have they releases Louder than Words yet? I did hear Allons-Y and enjoyed it. Was a good dose of Wright, reminiscent to me of something from Dark Side of the Moon. Can't wait to hear these in context as they appear on the album. I'll have to see if i can find Louder than Words. Curiosity is getting the best of me.

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