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Bob Dylan on the left, a Beatle on the right. They're quite famous.rick_chasey said:
I have no idea who these people aremorstar said:
Oh, I very much see his point.tailwindhome said:
Rick however will still think they’re all old fossils with one foot in their facist graves at those ages.
They teamed up with three other old codger musicians (the blind guy, the guy who did Mr Blue Skies and someone much more famous in America) to dick around in a studio and make boring music for themselves. But they weren't really ancient.0 -
Professional snooker player Bill Werbeniuk, famed in the 80's for his consumption of lager during matches to counteract a nervous condition (and for successfully claiming the cost as tax deductible) once won a drinking contest when his opponent passed out after 42 pints. After winning, he remarked "I'm off to the bar now for a proper drink."0
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Buy the album (in vinyl). You will be surprised that he doesn't sound like Bob Dylan. They all sound like an ELO tribute band, other than Roy Orbison who sounds like he has been joined for an impromptu medley with an ELO tribute band.rick_chasey said:
I have no idea who these people aremorstar said:
Oh, I very much see his point.tailwindhome said:
Rick however will still think they’re all old fossils with one foot in their facist graves at those ages.
One of them looks like Bob Dylan
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That people worry about stretching the shoulder straps on their bib shorts by hanging them on the washing line. Do they also worry they might stretch them by putting the straps over their shoulders.0
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I only know ELO as multiple sexagenarian bosses have banged on about them. Google tells me they were big 45 years ago.First.Aspect said:
Buy the album (in vinyl). You will be surprised that he doesn't sound like Bob Dylan. They all sound like an ELO tribute band, other than Roy Orbison who sounds like he has been joined for an impromptu medley with an ELO tribute band.rick_chasey said:
I have no idea who these people aremorstar said:
Oh, I very much see his point.tailwindhome said:
Rick however will still think they’re all old fossils with one foot in their facist graves at those ages.
One of them looks like Bob Dylan0 -
In time you will realise that all of the best music was made before you were born.rick_chasey said:
I only know ELO as multiple sexagenarian bosses have banged on about them. Google tells me they were big 45 years ago.First.Aspect said:
Buy the album (in vinyl). You will be surprised that he doesn't sound like Bob Dylan. They all sound like an ELO tribute band, other than Roy Orbison who sounds like he has been joined for an impromptu medley with an ELO tribute band.rick_chasey said:
I have no idea who these people aremorstar said:
Oh, I very much see his point.tailwindhome said:
Rick however will still think they’re all old fossils with one foot in their facist graves at those ages.
One of them looks like Bob Dylan2 -
Four of the musicians in that photo were younger then than Liam Gallagher is now
Rick, you've heard of Liam Gallagher?
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
rick_chasey said:
I only know ELO as multiple sexagenarian bosses have banged on about them. Google tells me they were big 45 years ago.First.Aspect said:
Buy the album (in vinyl). You will be surprised that he doesn't sound like Bob Dylan. They all sound like an ELO tribute band, other than Roy Orbison who sounds like he has been joined for an impromptu medley with an ELO tribute band.rick_chasey said:
I have no idea who these people aremorstar said:
Oh, I very much see his point.tailwindhome said:
Rick however will still think they’re all old fossils with one foot in their facist graves at those ages.
One of them looks like Bob Dylan
I did several concerts with a cellist who'd been a member of ELO. He was the loveliest, quietest man, tragically killed when a round bale of hay rolled off a sloping field onto his van as he drove along the road. I must admit that until I saw his obituary, I'd neither realised he'd been in the band, nor listened to them.0 -
Are you familiar with Penguin cafe orchestra?briantrumpet said:rick_chasey said:
I only know ELO as multiple sexagenarian bosses have banged on about them. Google tells me they were big 45 years ago.First.Aspect said:
Buy the album (in vinyl). You will be surprised that he doesn't sound like Bob Dylan. They all sound like an ELO tribute band, other than Roy Orbison who sounds like he has been joined for an impromptu medley with an ELO tribute band.rick_chasey said:
I have no idea who these people aremorstar said:
Oh, I very much see his point.tailwindhome said:
Rick however will still think they’re all old fossils with one foot in their facist graves at those ages.
One of them looks like Bob Dylan
I did several concerts with a cellist who'd been a member of ELO. He was the loveliest, quietest man, tragically killed when a round bale of hay rolled off a sloping field onto his van as he drove along the road. I must admit that until I saw his obituary, I'd neither realised he'd been in the band, nor listened to them.
Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
To be fair, he'd done his best work by the age of 23, and that was a long time ago.tailwindhome said:Four of the musicians in that photo were younger then than Liam Gallagher is now
Rick, you've heard of Liam Gallagher?
The real message to take is - I'm actually old.0 -
You've heard of Mozart?rick_chasey said:Lol the Beatles are almost 60 years ago.
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seanoconn said:
Are you familiar with Penguin cafe orchestra?briantrumpet said:rick_chasey said:
I only know ELO as multiple sexagenarian bosses have banged on about them. Google tells me they were big 45 years ago.First.Aspect said:
Buy the album (in vinyl). You will be surprised that he doesn't sound like Bob Dylan. They all sound like an ELO tribute band, other than Roy Orbison who sounds like he has been joined for an impromptu medley with an ELO tribute band.rick_chasey said:
I have no idea who these people aremorstar said:
Oh, I very much see his point.tailwindhome said:
Rick however will still think they’re all old fossils with one foot in their facist graves at those ages.
One of them looks like Bob Dylan
I did several concerts with a cellist who'd been a member of ELO. He was the loveliest, quietest man, tragically killed when a round bale of hay rolled off a sloping field onto his van as he drove along the road. I must admit that until I saw his obituary, I'd neither realised he'd been in the band, nor listened to them.
Never heard it or of it.0 -
Only two of the Travelling Wilburys are still alive. Bob Dylan (79) and Jeff Lynne (73).0
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You might have heard this in a film somewhere:briantrumpet said:seanoconn said:
Are you familiar with Penguin cafe orchestra?briantrumpet said:rick_chasey said:
I only know ELO as multiple sexagenarian bosses have banged on about them. Google tells me they were big 45 years ago.First.Aspect said:
Buy the album (in vinyl). You will be surprised that he doesn't sound like Bob Dylan. They all sound like an ELO tribute band, other than Roy Orbison who sounds like he has been joined for an impromptu medley with an ELO tribute band.rick_chasey said:
I have no idea who these people aremorstar said:
Oh, I very much see his point.tailwindhome said:
Rick however will still think they’re all old fossils with one foot in their facist graves at those ages.
One of them looks like Bob Dylan
I did several concerts with a cellist who'd been a member of ELO. He was the loveliest, quietest man, tragically killed when a round bale of hay rolled off a sloping field onto his van as he drove along the road. I must admit that until I saw his obituary, I'd neither realised he'd been in the band, nor listened to them.
Never heard it or of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJg1NNyke2E 0 -
Difficult to find solid research but the creativity well seems to dry up at a relatively early age for musical artists. Why can’t the best bands or solo artists write anything remotely reasonable in their later years? Lack of mind bending drugs? Or does the brain deteriorate that much 😔kingstongraham said:
To be fair, he'd done his best work by the age of 23, and that was a long time ago.tailwindhome said:Four of the musicians in that photo were younger then than Liam Gallagher is now
Rick, you've heard of Liam Gallagher?
The real message to take is - I'm actually old.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
seanoconn said:
Difficult to find solid research but the creativity well seems to dry up at a relatively early age for musical artists. Why can’t the best bands or solo artists write anything remotely reasonable in their later years? Lack of mind bending drugs? Or does the brain deteriorate that much 😔kingstongraham said:
To be fair, he'd done his best work by the age of 23, and that was a long time ago.tailwindhome said:Four of the musicians in that photo were younger then than Liam Gallagher is now
Rick, you've heard of Liam Gallagher?
The real message to take is - I'm actually old.
Too many examples to disprove that... Miles Davis constantly reinventing himself, for starters...0 -
And yet you've heard of them.rick_chasey said:Lol the Beatles are almost 60 years ago.
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I give you...seanoconn said:
Difficult to find solid research but the creativity well seems to dry up at a relatively early age for musical artists. Why can’t the best bands or solo artists write anything remotely reasonable in their later years? Lack of mind bending drugs? Or does the brain deteriorate that much 😔kingstongraham said:
To be fair, he'd done his best work by the age of 23, and that was a long time ago.tailwindhome said:Four of the musicians in that photo were younger then than Liam Gallagher is now
Rick, you've heard of Liam Gallagher?
The real message to take is - I'm actually old.
The frog chorus.
That was a step into the unpredictable for sure.0 -
For a lot, it's probably they can't do anything very different, so just end up churning out poor versions of the same thing.seanoconn said:
Difficult to find solid research but the creativity well seems to dry up at a relatively early age for musical artists. Why can’t the best bands or solo artists write anything remotely reasonable in their later years? Lack of mind bending drugs? Or does the brain deteriorate that much 😔kingstongraham said:
To be fair, he'd done his best work by the age of 23, and that was a long time ago.tailwindhome said:Four of the musicians in that photo were younger then than Liam Gallagher is now
Rick, you've heard of Liam Gallagher?
The real message to take is - I'm actually old.
I really liked some stuff (e.g. I Contain Multitudes) from Bob Dylan's last album, so there's some who can keep going forever.0 -
Sure, time erodes most musicians and leaves only the top ones.kingstongraham said:
You've heard of Mozart?rick_chasey said:Lol the Beatles are almost 60 years ago.
Just think what 60 year old music sounded like to the Beatles when they were writing their first hit records.0 -
I was a very big oasis fan as a child.tailwindhome said:Four of the musicians in that photo were younger then than Liam Gallagher is now
Rick, you've heard of Liam Gallagher?0 -
You won’t care that I know the violinist then 😂briantrumpet said:seanoconn said:
Are you familiar with Penguin cafe orchestra?briantrumpet said:rick_chasey said:
I only know ELO as multiple sexagenarian bosses have banged on about them. Google tells me they were big 45 years ago.First.Aspect said:
Buy the album (in vinyl). You will be surprised that he doesn't sound like Bob Dylan. They all sound like an ELO tribute band, other than Roy Orbison who sounds like he has been joined for an impromptu medley with an ELO tribute band.rick_chasey said:
I have no idea who these people aremorstar said:
Oh, I very much see his point.tailwindhome said:
Rick however will still think they’re all old fossils with one foot in their facist graves at those ages.
One of them looks like Bob Dylan
I did several concerts with a cellist who'd been a member of ELO. He was the loveliest, quietest man, tragically killed when a round bale of hay rolled off a sloping field onto his van as he drove along the road. I must admit that until I saw his obituary, I'd neither realised he'd been in the band, nor listened to them.
Never heard it or of it.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי1 -
Absolutely. Music made before John Lennon was born would have been stuff like Glenn Miller. I don't think anyone from Lennon's generation would have been listening to that in the 90s.rick_chasey said:
Sure, time erodes most musicians and leaves only the top ones.kingstongraham said:
You've heard of Mozart?rick_chasey said:Lol the Beatles are almost 60 years ago.
Just think what 60 year old music sounded like to the Beatles when they were writing their first hit records.
The Beatles split up before I was born.0 -
kingstongraham said:
Absolutely. Music made before John Lennon was born would have been stuff like Glenn Miller. I don't think anyone from Lennon's generation would have been listening to that in the 90s.rick_chasey said:
Sure, time erodes most musicians and leaves only the top ones.kingstongraham said:
You've heard of Mozart?rick_chasey said:Lol the Beatles are almost 60 years ago.
Just think what 60 year old music sounded like to the Beatles when they were writing their first hit records.
The Beatles split up before I was born.
It's hard to imagine that swing music in the 1930s was considered by older folk to be as 'dangerous' as any later 'pop' music, and that it was seen as hastening the breakdown of decent society.0 -
I mean nearly all music was made before any of us were born. 😏First.Aspect said:
In time you will realise that all of the best music was made before you were born.rick_chasey said:
I only know ELO as multiple sexagenarian bosses have banged on about them. Google tells me they were big 45 years ago.First.Aspect said:
Buy the album (in vinyl). You will be surprised that he doesn't sound like Bob Dylan. They all sound like an ELO tribute band, other than Roy Orbison who sounds like he has been joined for an impromptu medley with an ELO tribute band.rick_chasey said:
I have no idea who these people aremorstar said:
Oh, I very much see his point.tailwindhome said:
Rick however will still think they’re all old fossils with one foot in their facist graves at those ages.
One of them looks like Bob Dylan1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
FWIW, I listen to virtually nothing from the 60s or 70s except The Beatles. It's generally not stood the test of time.
But I could watch this on a loop.
The Beatles - Rooftop Concert from Lennon-McCartney on Vimeo.
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The best theory that I have read was that by the time a band breaks through they have a back catalogue of unpublished songs but once they have released that they are on the treadmill of churning out an annual albumkingstongraham said:
For a lot, it's probably they can't do anything very different, so just end up churning out poor versions of the same thing.seanoconn said:
Difficult to find solid research but the creativity well seems to dry up at a relatively early age for musical artists. Why can’t the best bands or solo artists write anything remotely reasonable in their later years? Lack of mind bending drugs? Or does the brain deteriorate that much 😔kingstongraham said:
To be fair, he'd done his best work by the age of 23, and that was a long time ago.tailwindhome said:Four of the musicians in that photo were younger then than Liam Gallagher is now
Rick, you've heard of Liam Gallagher?
The real message to take is - I'm actually old.
I really liked some stuff (e.g. I Contain Multitudes) from Bob Dylan's last album, so there's some who can keep going forever.0 -
Also, "Homeward Bound", for example, would be very different if it started "I'm sitting in a chauffered car, my private jet has a well stocked bar hmmmm. On a tour of concert halls, my luggage is by Aspinals, and every stop is neatly planned, so my pilot knows just where to land."2
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When JJ Cale got a record deal with his first album the record company asked for another one next year. He told them they must be joking that one had taken him 8 years. I don't think he was keen on working too hard, when asked if he was jealous Clapton had more success than him with 2 of his songs he replied "not at all, I haven't had to work in 12 years"surrey_commuter said:
The best theory that I have read was that by the time a band breaks through they have a back catalogue of unpublished songs but once they have released that they are on the treadmill of churning out an annual albumkingstongraham said:
For a lot, it's probably they can't do anything very different, so just end up churning out poor versions of the same thing.seanoconn said:
Difficult to find solid research but the creativity well seems to dry up at a relatively early age for musical artists. Why can’t the best bands or solo artists write anything remotely reasonable in their later years? Lack of mind bending drugs? Or does the brain deteriorate that much 😔kingstongraham said:
To be fair, he'd done his best work by the age of 23, and that was a long time ago.tailwindhome said:Four of the musicians in that photo were younger then than Liam Gallagher is now
Rick, you've heard of Liam Gallagher?
The real message to take is - I'm actually old.
I really liked some stuff (e.g. I Contain Multitudes) from Bob Dylan's last album, so there's some who can keep going forever.0
