cum on feel the noize by... slade?

[Michedelic]

It's interesting that the artists credited with being the British Invasion of the 60s were mostly playing music influenced by American artists from the 50s or earlier... what goes around comes around

The Everly Brothers got especially plundered; I mean, c'mon, "Love Me Do"? Yet, the sad irony was, while they were beloved by the British bands(and the British record buying public), their career got run off the road by the very same bands. In 1966 they did a whole album with The Hollies backing them up(and writing a lot of the material), "Two Yanks In England", great stuff, but they couldn't get arrested. They later even tried their hand at country rock, their background, and got ignored. Here's an overlooked single they did with most of The Byrds backing them up...

That should have been a huge hit, a comeback, but no..

Very good. Swear you didn't google it?

Don't forget "I Knew You When".
And he charted with covers of " Tell It Like It Is" and "Til I Can't Take It Anymore".



Great stuff. "Town Without Pity" was stellar.
I really appreciated the salute thrown to it in the Tom Hanks "documentary" That Thing You Do!!

Dude, I was there. Remember, 'Million Dollar Weekends'? However, I was a little too young to fully understand why Mary Hill was such a thrill after dark. I'll take chocolate chip. You know what tune I though was totally boss, an absolute soul rocker with the Coral Sitar, psycho strings, and everything? This right here...

 

[Deleted member 165050]

Wouldn't she technically be a Baroness?

Jamie Lee is indeed technically The Right Honourable Lady Baroness Haden-Guest. For those who are into the whole nobility thing. Personally I'm rather embarrassed by my Galactic Overlord title...

 

[58kites]

I would quibble with the Sweet comparison in the US. Ballroom Blitz, Fox on the Run, and Love Is Like Oxygen were all over US radio in the mid- and late 70s--they topped out at #3, #10, and #8 on the US charts.

Slade, on the other hand, never came close to cracking the top 40 in the US (the highest charting single was Gudbuy T'Jane--still haven't heard this--at #68) until AFTER Quite Riot covered them. I never heard of them until that cover myself.

FWIW, I watched Don Kirshner In Concert at times, but not religiously as I was pretty young at the time.

I'm 60 right now, at my age we had heard Slade music during the 70's.
But when I was 16 in 1974-1975 I worked at a music store ..that also sold more records than most in New York State, so maybe my exposure to music was fairly large at the time... but it didn't really seem that way to me.

 

[JimmyM]

I would quibble with the Sweet comparison in the US. Ballroom Blitz, Fox on the Run, and Love Is Like Oxygen were all over US radio in the mid- and late 70s--they topped out at #3, #10, and #8 on the US charts.

Don't forget "Action" and "Little Willy".

 

[Thumpin6string]

Absolutely agree with you concerning the quality of the music, however, the context of my remarks was era specific, ie. early amateurish video attempts by great sounding, but less than photogenic musicians.
Greenslade was an all keyboard progressive rock act. Great players, but a video of 4 immobile guys staring intently at knobs with no change in facial expression?
Cure for insomnia.........and cringeworthy.

Renaissance, loved 'em........same story. Cringy.

Steely Dan's first video releases, oh lord. WONDERFUL songs, but close-ups of Palmers dental work? What were they thinking? Denny Diaz (GREAT player) in his farmer overalls? Skunk sitting down looking like a muppet? In a video?

Black Oak......nuff said.

Again, the context is the era of '72/'73, the birth of band videos, often filmed and directed by people with no prior music experience, perhaps NO experience at all, producing images of talented musicians uncomfortably crossing the threshold into a new era.
Unfamiliar with lip-syncing, lacking the energy and cohesiveness of a real live performance, some of these works are a snooze fest.
Directed to hop around like electrocuted hamsters, they are hilarious. When juxtaposed to what we expect of music videos nowadays, they are cringeworthy.
And wonderful!

Still can't figure out who you are talking about in Steely Dan. They were Donald Fagen and Walter Becker with a multitude of studio musicians. Who was Palmer, Diaz and Skunk (as in Skunk Baxter)? If they were the hired hands, their looks don't represent the band. Never noticed their names before on any songs. Fagen usually did the vocals and then there was Larry Carlton, Michael McDonald and the others I mentioned previously along with a few others. Also, I have never seen a video other than taped live concerts. Hey, but what do I know?

 

[JimmyM]

Still can't figure out who you are talking about in Steely Dan. They were Donald Fagen and Walter Becker with a multitude of studio musicians. Who was Palmer, Diaz and Skunk (as in Skunk Baxter)? If they were the hired hands, their looks don't represent the band. Never noticed their names before on any songs. Fagen usually did the vocals and then there was Larry Carlton, Michael McDonald and the others I mentioned previously along with a few others. Also, I have never seen a video other than taped live concerts. Hey, but what do I know?

Fagen and Becker always called the shots and everyone else were hired hands. But look, it's not like Fagen and Becker were male models, either. Who cares? You want music or a fashion show?

 

[Thumpin6string]

Fagen and Becker always called the shots and everyone else were hired hands. But look, it's not like Fagen and Becker were male models, either. Who cares? You want music or a fashion show?

I agree!

 

[Son of Wobble]

You want music or a fashion show?

Luckily, this clip provides both

 

[HaphAsSard]

I'll always cherish playing Foxy lady with Gary Moore...

Whohoa... I take my virtual hat off to you sir. With not a little envy on the side.

 

[JimmyM]

Luckily, this clip provides both

LOL! Well Skunk did look pretty stylish there. And he was actually standing.

 

[HaphAsSard]

OT, I'm afraid, but the above incidental mentions of Status Quo and the Everly Brothers reminded me of this very decent power pop number, first recorded by the latter, as covered by the former:


The Everlies' version was actually closer in style to later Quo's endless boogie.
So, not surprisingly, SQ re-recorded the song in a Invalid Link Removed.

 

[retslock]

Sheesh. next your going to tell me Chaka didn't do "Tell Me Something Good".

Wait, that one is true, although I did find myself arguing the point with our Alexa Echo Dot in our kitchen last night....

You didn't actually clarify for the folks who don't know.....Stevie Wonder wrote "Tell Me Something Good".

 

[tedious1]

He wrote "Summertime Blues", too.

One song at a time man, baby steps on a wet floor and all...

Respectfully, that sounds like nonsense. Next you'll be telling us that Sid didn't write "My Way"!

Respectfully, I'm after the low hanging fruit first. I figure with the lessons learned from "Something Else" I might be in a position to tackle "My Way." But let's face it, it's all just warm up for the main event:
"Louie, Louie" was not written by Black Flag.

 

[retslock]

I was always fascinated with all those post-Elvis American singers who got marginalized by the British Invasion,
yet were able to keep a career going somewhat. Royal, Tommy Roe, Terry Stafford, Gene Pitney, Bryan Hyland, Lou Christie, and the like(although Pitney hung with the Rolling Stones early on, and actually did the first cover of their material). Even though their stuff didn't rock like the Stones or whoever, most of it was fairly popular for a while. It was all a little before my time, but I heard it all on 'Million Dollar Weekends'. "Down In..." was also a part of an odd little subgenre, similar to teen death songs, that was like "I'm a poor boy who doesn't get a break, and I want your love" in the manner of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon", Johnny River's "Poor Side Of Town, The Animals' "It's my Life", and Paul Revere's "Hungry".

I remember those guys too. They all were known in Australia and had hits.

 

[retslock]

Not at all. According to what i have read, the movie based on Slade. And you are a musician, so you would be aware of them, but ask the average person on the street, outside of Great Britain, and they will not know the band. Now, if you have something to show that proves I'm not correct, I'd really like to see it. My source is very knowledgeable about the history of rock music. Part of his weekly radio show focuses on it.
Understand I'm not arguing, I'm seeking information.

Slade were well known in Australia.

 

[2tonic]

Still can't figure out who you are talking about in Steely Dan. They were Donald Fagen and Walter Becker with a multitude of studio musicians. Who was Palmer, Diaz and Skunk (as in Skunk Baxter)? If they were the hired hands, their looks don't represent the band. Never noticed their names before on any songs. Fagen usually did the vocals and then there was Larry Carlton, Michael McDonald and the others I mentioned previously along with a few others. Also, I have never seen a video other than taped live concerts. Hey, but what do I know?

Okay, a little history here.
Fagen and Becker were a songwriting team in the Grill building.
Steely Dan was a band they formed after they left Jay and the Americans (incidently where they met Elliot Randall).
Their first album "Can't Buy a Thrill" was recorded (with the exception of Randall's solo on "Reelin In The Years") and promo'd as a band.
Fagen and Becker took total control later (where they refined and perfected their technique of asking stellar musicians like Steve Gadd to make a part " fruitier"). But hey, whatever works!!
Watch the video @Son of Wobble posted and this one I included.
David Palmer is the singer (with the messed up grill).
Denny Diaz is the guitarist with the Tele.
Skunk Baxter is........well........Skunk, the other guitarist.
Jim Hodder is the drummer.
These were all full fledged members at this time.
Favorable response to Fagen's singing on the first album hastened the firing of Palmer.
Skunk and Denny held on for another year and album, then split.

 

[JimmyM]

Okay, a little history here.
Fagen and Becker were a songwriting team in the Grill building.
Steely Dan was a band they formed after they left Jay and the Americans (incidently where they met Elliot Randall).
Their first album "Can't Buy a Thrill" was recorded (with the exception of Randall's solo on "Reelin In The Years") and promo'd as a band.
Fagen and Becker took total control later (where they refined and perfected their technique of asking stellar musicians like Steve Gadd to make a part " fruitier"). But hey, whatever works!!
Watch the video @Son of Wobble posted and this one I included.
David Palmer is the singer (with the messed up grill).
Denny Diaz is the guitarist with the Tele.
Skunk Baxter is........well........Skunk, the other guitarist.
Jim Hodder is the drummer.
These were all full fledged members at this time.
Favorable response to Fagen's singing on the first album hastened the firing of Palmer.
Skunk and Denny held on for another year and album, then split.

They were a full band inasmuch as they were listed on the album credits as band members, but Fagen and Becker called the shots all the way down the line, set it up to be a core band with studio musician guests, and wrote all the songs by themselves. For example, Fagen and Becker didn't like the solos Skunk played on "Reelin' In The Years," and got Elliott Randall to do it. And I would bet dollars to donuts that the money split was not an even one. The other guys certainly didn't share in publishing, that's for sure.

Fun fact: Elliott Randall played that solo using an SVT and 810

 

[Son of Wobble]

[QUOTE="JimmyM, post: 21977900, member: 55676"SVT and 810 [/QUOTE]

Jimmy, what's the 411 on this bass? It appears to be a full P/J hybrid.

 

[JimmyM]

Jimmy, what's the 411 on this bass? It appears to be a full P/J hybrid.
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Well it's definitely a mod I guess he wanted the capability of getting darker and brighter tones out of the same bass. There is not much on the internet about it that I could find, and that's a shame.

 

[Son of Wobble]

Well it's definitely a mod I guess he wanted the capability of getting darker and brighter tones out of the same bass. There is not much on the internet about it that I could find, and that's a shame.

Fender put out a Stu Hamm model that had both jazz pickups as well as the humbucker. But that was eons later in 1993.
Anyone know if Fender had released such a model previously?