Originally Posted by ben willis
Originally Posted by Darius Babylon

Its all a matter of taste. Frankly, there's a lot of crap and mediocre music from the 60s (Herman's Hermits?), 70s(Glenn Campbell?), 80s and 90s as well.

Darius, Herman's Hermits was a contrived band, but was backed by the best musicians in the UK. Can you say Jimmy Page? Yes he was a session musician and played on several of Herman's Hermits records.
Glen Campbell is a superior guitarist and all around musician. There should be no argument about Glen Campbell. But you started it.
Yes it's a matter of taste.
Read some history of Glen Campbell before you insinuate that he made bad music.


...in fact, if you're ever stuck for a "lead solo" in your song, take the "melody" and play it an octave lower on the acoustic guitar, maybe jazz it up just a little with a repeated note here and there...works every time...oh--and Glen Campbell invented that "baritone guitar solo sound"...and was also the voice of Jimmy Webb, arguably one of the top songwriters of last century; and put a royalties check in Johnny Hartford's mail box every month ("Gentle On My Mind"), so Hartford could then make the kind of records that would re-energize folk and bluegrass...Glen Campbell was my first music hero back in the late 60s...

I think music is always reflective of the times in which we live...There's a "Mylie Cyrus" now, there was a "Donny Osmond" in the 70s, and a Frankie Avalon and Brenda Lee in the 60s...teenyboppers need role models and heart-throbs...

To get back to Kevin's original statement, country IS more sophisticated now, and so is Nashville. The country of the early 60s, when Chet Atkins was producing Jim Reeves and Owen Bradley--Patsy Cline, people sort of "reflected" the sound of those recordings...more innocent, plain spoken, heart-on-sleeve...

Better or worse? that's always a subjective thing that people get real emotional about; I tend not to think in those terms...

I think a good way to know a society is to look at their "pop music and culture" ... it certainly makes sense, because pop culture "is what it is" because people literally "buy into it" because they "identify"...

--Mike

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 02/15/09 08:46 AM.
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