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#291,901
Miles_ONeal said:
There were lots of good bands in the 80s, including many who were not new wave.
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I like and play a lot of 80's music. At the time I was more into hard-core punk, but I've circled back and found some stuff that I dismissed, was actually really good.
I was just listening to Parallel Lines by Blondie yesterday. Great writing, playing and production!
 
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Engle said:
I like and play a lot of 80's music. At the time I was more into hard-core punk, but I've circled back and found some stuff that I dismissed, was actually really good.
I was just listening to Parallel Lines by Blondie yesterday. Great writing, playing and production!
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Such a great record. Brings back a great memory. A buddy, my brother, and I were driving around San Francisco at night when an FM station debuted it. We had the first two albums and were casual fans. It blew us away. It took a while for it to gain traction, but once it did, Blondie was on top of the world. It came out around the time that Bruce's Darkness On the Edge of Town came out. Good times.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
"poorly written"? how?..
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Just compared to the well-written Bond songs that preceded it. We all tried to like it enough to learn it but it never got off the ground for us. We just stopped rehearsing it and no-one brought it up again. We get a request for it now & then, but not enough to revisit it. Another song we did was a more 'rock' version of "The World is Not Enough", but I always liked the original version better. We haven't played it for years and I'll occasionally bring it up to Cherie hoping she'll want to re-do it. She's the boss and calls the shots - we only recommend. :)

Awesome vid also...
 
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JIO said:
Just compared to the well-written Bond songs that preceded it. We all tried to like it enough to learn it but it never got off the ground for us. We just stopped rehearsing it and no-one brought it up again. We get a request for it now & then, but not enough to revisit it. Another song we did was a more 'rock' version of "The World is Not Enough", but I always liked the original version better. We haven't played it for years and I'll occasionally bring it up to Cherie hoping she'll want to re-do it. She's the boss and calls the shots - we only recommend. :)

Awesome vid also...
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Talking about talented producers, I believe Garbage's drummer Butch Vig produced that one.
 
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JIO said:
Just compared to the well-written Bond songs that preceded it. We all tried to like it enough to learn it but it never got off the ground for us. We just stopped rehearsing it and no-one brought it up again. We get a request for it now & then, but not enough to revisit it. Another song we did was a more 'rock' version of "The World is Not Enough", but I always liked the original version better. We haven't played it for years and I'll occasionally bring it up to Cherie hoping she'll want to re-do it. She's the boss and calls the shots - we only recommend. :)

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I enjoyed the early Connery era films but also liked "Golden Eye". Famke Janssen's femme fatale was fun to see along with a number of characters. It was nice to see Tcheky Karyo as well.

I like A-HA's "Living Daylights" - the soundtrack version with its cool acoustic guitar power chords.



Don't know why, but they're not on the album version-
 
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PhR75 said:
Just realized I can't retire: I'm a musician.
Unless I get a haircut and a real job.
And that will be the last time I joke about being a musician isn't a real job, I promise.
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It's not a real job. Anything people would do for the love of it and for free, but happen to get money for is not a real job. :D Not at all that it's not real work. Of course loosely and in partial jest, I'm defining a "real job" as something you have to pay people for that they otherwise would not do. Obviously not a categorical statement without nuance!

Knowing how I would play for little and for a lot would be a crazy bonus, I always said it's a little silly what top entertainers (musicians, actors, sports) get paid.* It's as if people don't realize they would do it for minimum wage, if not free! The other day I heard a guy who's currently dominating his genre with a bunch of Grammys and other awards say, "Why retire when I get paid to do what I love and would do it for free?" when asked if he ever thought about retiring. Echoing the old saying, "It ain't work if you love what you do."

*I realize it's in part because they can generate massive amounts of money (income not only for themselves, but countless others in the process). Kind of economics 101 in the end. If people will pay you that much, you can make that much.
 
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JIO said:
Just compared to the well-written Bond songs that preceded it. We all tried to like it enough to learn it but it never got off the ground for us. We just stopped rehearsing it and no-one brought it up again. We get a request for it now & then, but not enough to revisit it. Another song we did was a more 'rock' version of "The World is Not Enough", but I always liked the original version better. We haven't played it for years and I'll occasionally bring it up to Cherie hoping she'll want to re-do it. She's the boss and calls the shots - we only recommend. :)

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Interesting, "View to a Kill" is easily my fave Bond song, perhaps because it's DD and I really like them (again that '80s thing with me) - I do like a lot of the others quite a bit as well though.
 
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MCF said:
I'd love to visit you guys. My maternal grandfather was born in Sweden and I've always want to go there and to Finland.

The plan was to retire this October. But I need to work a couple more years. Which I'll do. Begrudgingly. Last Friday, I Johnny paychecked from a horrible employer that recruited me with promises and lies out of another job I also couldn't stand.

So I'm starting a new gig with a former employer in three weeks that I ran an office for from 2000 to 2010. I only left that job because the company closed the office and I didn't want to relocate (I should have, one of the places was Seattle). Now I'll be doing the local legal work for that company out of my home. It'll be a steady paycheck, if nothing else.
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Hate that your retirement has been pushed back, but happy that you have found a better option to run out your time. Hopefully that will make the next couple years far less difficult and maybe more enjoyable.
 
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TBird1958 said:
Interesting, "View to a Kill" is easily my fave Bond song, perhaps because it's DD and I really like them (again that '80s thing with me) - I do like a lot of the others quite a bit as well though.
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so totally agree…masterpiece…fme no one sings along to any other Bond tune the way they sing along to that one ….BLAST to play (for me anyway, ymmv) as well….seems like it got more kudos from the crowd than "Hungry" when I saw them in San Jose recently….
 
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TBird1958 said:
I used to play through GK cabinets, 2 4x10s - For kicks one day I took my 700RB II head and a Thunderbird to The Bass Shop | Selected Used and Vintage Bass Guitars and tried an SWR 6x10 Goliath. It came home within minutes of hearing it, the voicing was so much better to me, much more depth in the lo mid and bass than a GK cab. I got rid of the GK's very shortly after that and have since picked a 4x10SWR as well, it stays upstairs in the spare bedroom practice room - soon to be Jeff's bedroom :)
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Not in tempered to buy this: SWR Work Man - Lancaster
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
so totally agree…masterpiece…fme no one sings along to any other Bond tune the way they sing along to that one ….BLAST to play (for me anyway, ymmv) as well….seems like it got more kudos from the crowd than "Hungry" when I saw them in San Jose recently….
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It's interesting, the bass is really quite different in the mix from DD's earlier stuff, much bassier, perhaps a bit less articulate than say, "Planet Earth" or (the masterpiece) "Rio", regardless, I dig it!
 
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TBird1958 said:
It's interesting, the bass is really quite different in the mix from DD's earlier stuff, much bassier, perhaps a bit less articulate than say, "Planet Earth" or (the masterpiece) "Rio", regardless, I dig it!
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I think he may have recorded that part with a pick…..as you know, DD is not an always 4/4 kinda band….,the slow moving bass line adds intrigue imho….
 
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