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Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: uwe on March 19, 2015, 06:42:03 PM
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... but Ronnie was new to me ... best visual moment at 4:34, the child is a card-carrying satanist!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdVDy8ioG_o
They shouldn't let children sing about mushrooms either, not those kind of mushrooms at least ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C0gM-ShcbA
Video of the artist as an even younger girl ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7rmJjO-w4g
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She has a powerful voice for any age. And she sounds much better than Grace Slick, although that's not hard to do anyway.
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Remarkable choice of repertoire for a girl of her age. Wish my kids would show an interest in rock music...
But I'm not particularly impressed by her singing though. It's not bad, but not great either.
This Dutch girl also sang quite a remarkable repertoire when she auditioned on a Dutch TV show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBMfgLvRZJs
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She still misses notes, but it's getting better over time, just imagine what she might be once she's 18.
That little opera singer is amazing too.
As for your kids taking an interest in rock music ... give them time. That only started with my son around the time he was 13 and he progressed swiftly from Right Said Fred to Eminem to Korn to Judas Priest to Guns 'n' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Cinderella, Whitesnake, Led Zeppelin to, errrm, Delta Blues and Bluegrass. And now sends me emails in the middle of the night proudly displaying how he has effectively used his most recent Kay or old Gibson acquisition to emulate Jimmy Page's sound circa 1969. Yes, Jimmy Page. Not Ritchie Blackmore. Children can be incredibly cruel.
I'm going out with him around Easter for a two week trip to Nashville and then down the Mississippi, a father & son roots of blues exploration road movie ...
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Wow Uwe, pretty cool trip with your son - have a great time!
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I'm going out with him around Easter for a two week trip to Nashville and then down the Mississippi, a father & son roots of blues exploration road movie
That is awesome Uwe. Have fun!
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I'm going out with him around Easter for a two week trip to Nashville and then down the Mississippi, a father & son roots of blues exploration road movie ...
Let us know if you find Bob's Country Bunker!
(https://daddydeyo.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/bobs-country-bunker-1.jpg)
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"On an Don an Don, it's Heaven an Dhell"
Evil, bitter old man that I am ;), I'm not generally inclined to give kids a pass on things like this. Phrasing is a big deal to me. Fact is, almost every School Of Rock here in the US has a couple of yewts with this level of ability. They all aren't 11 years old, but it's not that rare.
When it comes to musical wunderkind I always look for maturity in the vocal, as opposed to just the ability to hit notes.
I always use this lady's first album as a reference point (she now has a steady gig as a member of Kid Rock's touring band).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlNebHsmSjk
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I'm going out with him around Easter for a two week trip to Nashville and then down the Mississippi, a father & son roots of blues exploration road movie ...
You planning on taking a raft own the Mississippi? You do want it to be authentic, don't you? ;)
Plenty to see in Memphis and in the Mississippi delta.
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We'll expect a father/son duo hard-rock version of Paul Siebel's Nashville upon your return ........
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You planning on taking a raft own the Mississippi? You do want it to be authentic, don't you? ;)
Plenty to see in Memphis and in the Mississippi delta.
If you take that raft trip you each need a a pair of these to be authentic ;D :
http://www.round-house.com/products/45-round-house-made-in-usa-vintage-hickory-stripe-bib-overalls
To my knowledge these are the only overalls still made in America. Hickory stripe is a truly a fashion statement - I wear mine when i work in the yard - one strap hanging loose without a shirt...drives the soccer mommies mad! :o :rolleyes:
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I miss my Big Mac coveralls. Wore out the ones my dad left me. Had to buy Ebay Chinese-made ones, but I did get color choise.
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You planning on taking a raft own the Mississippi? You do want it to be authentic, don't you? ;)
Plenty to see in Memphis and in the Mississippi delta.
Watch out for inbreds.
:gay:
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Watch out for inbreds.
:gay:
Uwe's son plays banjo. He'll know to watch out if he hears Dueling Banjos. ;D
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I miss my Big Mac coveralls. Wore out the ones my dad left me. Had to buy Ebay Chinese-made ones, but I did get color choise.
Check out the Round House website - can't go wrong for $29.00 I wear mine when it's cooler down here - they really are hard to wear in the heat. Regardless of when i wear them I catch hell from the neighbors! Keep in mind that my wife and her friends have been calling me a fashion insult for about 35 years ;)
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Thanks for all the tipps and witty remarks - I'm sure we'll have something to report along the way!
In fact my son will be severely disappointed if the South he envisages is not gonna match his Deliverance expectations, he has made a point that he wants to go to places "where they regularly don't see tourists". Meanwhile, my major concern is how everyone will be thinking that we are a gay couple (which is ok) with a huge age difference (that is embarrassing for me!) - middleaged dirty old man with young handsome guy - and whether my helpful explanation that "We're really only father and son!" won't make things even worse! :mrgreen:
OMG, as I write this, my office stereo randomly plays Molly Hatchet's "Bounty Hunter" - "outlaws on the loose, running, running from the noose".
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don't forget to visit dockery farms in dockery, ms. anybody who is somebody worked there as a sharecropper. names include son house, muddy waters, charlie patton. howlin' wolf...
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http://www.round-house.com/collections/round-house-made-in-usa-bib-overalls
That there is gin-you-wine manly man wear. And the prices are fair.
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http://www.round-house.com/collections/round-house-made-in-usa-bib-overalls
That there is gin-you-wine manly man wear. And the prices are fair.
He's planning on wearing lederhosen.
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He's planning on wearing lederhosen.
Hmm, lederhosen-alls? Cut the legs off of the overalls and wear the knee socks and garters! :o
One word of caution Uwe - in the deepest part of the deep south DO NOT wear a "man bag" - people will talk! Now, wallet on a chain would pass muster ;)
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Hmm, lederhosen-alls? Cut the legs off of the overalls and wear the knee socks and garters! :o
I think in the South, the knee socks and garters only go with the seersucker suit that comes with shorts.
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He's planning on wearing lederhosen.
I wanted to stick with my he-man(owar) assless chaps and the Dean Dimebag Darrell Flying V!
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i don't know what south you guys are talking about because i can go years without seeing overalls. not even at walmart. i used to spend a lot of time in rural georgia but its basically blue jeans. sorry to rain on your hillbilly delusions. :o
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i don't know what south you guys are talking about because i can go years without seeing overalls. not even at walmart. i used to spend a lot of time in rural georgia but its basically blue jeans. sorry to rain on your hillbilly delusions. :o
+1
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I'm not a hillbilly but I can play one in my Big Macs.
Usually when I'm working under my car. ;D
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You'll see more overalls here in the upper midwest than in the south. Not so much in the big cities, of course.
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No worries, we're already in mode. Krauts assimilate quickly anywhere. "Cultural Learnings of America for Benefit of Great Nation of Khazakstan"!!!
(http://rsmg.pbsrc.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/IMG_20140624_200012_zpsflxpa1fj.jpg~c200)
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atlanta may as well be hollywood as far as fashion goes. your son looks like a refugee from the chickasaw mudd puppies. heavy lil' abner vibe going on. :)
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Don't worry, no one will mistake him for the suth'n group - he has all his teeth (presumably).
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you guys watch too much bad television.
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This reminds me of once when I had a temporary job in Cleveland, Ohio. In the break room, one of the employees was taking about a quick trip he had taken through the South. He seemed genuinely perplexed and disappointed that he hadn't seen any plantations. This also reminds me of how weary the Dutch must get with people talking about windmills, wooden shoes, pot, prostitutes, and tulips.
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you guys watch too much bad television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naUUyD-_oPc
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I remember when Deliverance came out...
My best buddy and I borrowed a 16-foot canoe and took a four-day vacation over spring break that year, canoeing down the east side of Coeur d'Alene lake in northern Idaho. (It's a really big lake - 30+ miles long, and big enough that it had steamboats in the early part of the previous century.) We camped on beaches and left each one cleaner than we found it. It was too early for anyone to be at their vacation homes, so we had no hassles.
(http://www.visitidaho.org/assets/images/scenic-byways/gallery/lakeCDA/lake_cda.jpg)
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This reminds me of once when I had a temporary job in Cleveland, Ohio. In the break room, one of the employees was taking about a quick trip he had taken through the South. He seemed genuinely perplexed and disappointed that he hadn't seen any plantations. This also reminds me of how weary the Dutch must get with people talking about windmills, wooden shoes, pot, prostitutes, and tulips.
I assure you: All five items are alive and well with our neighbours! You forgot dams and dykes.
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I assure you: All five items are alive and well with our neighbours! You forgot dams and dykes.
Well, I'd say the prevalence of wooden shoes has diminished, though. They may exist, but more as an oddity.
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In regard to hillbillies, notice what Bob Dylan says in this second paragraph in his description of rock:
Traditional rock & roll, we're talking about that. It's all about rhythm. Johnny Cash said it best: "Get rhythm. Get rhythm when you get the blues." Very few rock & roll bands today play with rhythm. They don't know what it is. Rock & roll is a combination of blues, and it's a strange thing made up of two parts. A lot of people don't know this, but the blues, which is an American music, is not what you think it is. It's a combination of Arabic violins and Strauss waltzes working it out. But it's true.
The other half of rock & roll has got to be hillbilly. And that's a derogatory term, but it ought not to be. That's a term that includes the Delmore Bros., Stanley Bros., Roscoe Holcomb, Git Tanner and the Skillet Lickers... groups like that. Moonshine gone berserk. Fast cars on dirt roads. That's the kind of combination that makes up rock & roll, and it can't be cooked up in a science laboratory or a studio.
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In regard to hillbillies, notice what Bob Dylan says in this second paragraph in his description of rock:
Traditional rock & roll, we're talking about that. It's all about rhythm. Johnny Cash said it best: "Get rhythm. Get rhythm when you get the blues." Very few rock & roll bands today play with rhythm. They don't know what it is. Rock & roll is a combination of blues, and it's a strange thing made up of two parts. A lot of people don't know this, but the blues, which is an American music, is not what you think it is. It's a combination of Arabic violins and Strauss waltzes working it out. But it's true.
The other half of rock & roll has got to be hillbilly. And that's a derogatory term, but it ought not to be. That's a term that includes the Delmore Bros., Stanley Bros., Roscoe Holcomb, Git Tanner and the Skillet Lickers... groups like that. Moonshine gone berserk. Fast cars on dirt roads. That's the kind of combination that makes up rock & roll, and it can't be cooked up in a science laboratory or a studio.
And the guy who really brought both halves together is Chuck Berry.
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And the guy who really brought both halves together is Chuck Berry.
Now we're getting somewhere. Chuck Berry may very well be the most important, but a few others made major contributions, too--Bill Haley, for example.
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...how weary the Dutch must get with people talking about windmills, wooden shoes, pot, prostitutes, and tulips.
Here it's grass shacks, hula skirts and a coconut/pineapple diet.
As if Gilligan were everyone's neighbor...
:rolleyes:
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Now we're getting somewhere. Chuck Berry may very well be the most important, but a few others made major contributions, too--Bill Haley, for example.
Right.
Chuck grew up in St.Louis listening to country music. Bill Haley's band evolved from The Saddlemen to the Comets.
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Right.
Chuck grew up in St.Louis listening to country music. Bill Haley's band evolved from The Saddlemen to the Comets.
And before the Saddlemen, the Four Aces of Western Swing.
Chuck Berry's influence was immeasurable. His influence was direct and literally overwhelming. I don't even have a favorite Chuck Berry song. There are too many.
Edit:
Just found this---(I doubt if everyone would agree with the list--I don't--but it's a start.) At the very least, the David Bowie version of "Around and Around" should be replaced with the Stones.
http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/10-Greatest-Covers-of-Chuck-Berry-Songs.aspx
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Here it's grass shacks, hula skirts and a coconut/pineapple diet.
As if Gilligan were everyone's neighbor...
:rolleyes:
But the majority of people on the mainland want to visit Hawaii. The image could hardly be any more positive.
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I can take you to see the people who are really like Deliverance, which took place in the Ozarks, not really the South, but a similar culture. There are quite a few inbred welfare families that definitely fit that bill, with the sad situation of a lazy patriarch using his daughters as breeding stock to keep the gubmint money coming in with a loose conflagration of transient girlfriends who leave their kids behind. There used to be a house full of them on the back side of the family farm in Hancock county and when my uncle had a good year selling cattle, he bought them out for the land, tore down the house and extended the pasture fence a bit. They were the embodiment of every southern stereotype you could think of, complete with junked cars in the yard, a toilet on the front porch, and the inbred, developmentally disabled kid who played guitar and banjo. They smelled awful, and were pretty pitiful. Child Services finally was able to rescue several of the kids after they were able to prove that they were the products of incest.
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i don't know what south you guys are talking about because i can go years without seeing overalls. not even at walmart. i used to spend a lot of time in rural georgia but its basically blue jeans. sorry to rain on your hillbilly delusions. :o
I'm in the Houston area and i see overalls on a regular basis - they're not real common but I do see them. Keep in mind that I'm in one of the more affluent bedroom cities that ring Houston proper. Houston is an odd mix - most likely that half of the population is from somewhere else so it's gets a bit eclectic - think south of the border meets the "yankee north" with a goodly mix of natives - it's quite the mashup.
I traveled heavily from the mid eighties to about 2001 for work. I got fairly good at hiding my accent while in the north as I got tired of having to explain that I had only one oil well and just few head of cattle in my back yard ;)
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that's because houston is not in the "real south".
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Examples of almost anything in Texas tend to be specific to Texas.
They're right, it IS like a whole 'nother country.
Any word from Sniper recently?
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Examples of almost anything in Texas tend to be specific to Texas.
They're right, it IS like a whole 'nother country.
Any word from Sniper recently?
IIRC Sniper moved from Texas a long time ago. He was in Webb City MO although who knows if that's still accurate.
Someone here was asking about his plates or switches a couple of months back, had written him with no reply. Hope he's okay.
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Chuck Berry's influence was immeasurable. His influence was direct and literally overwhelming. I don't even have a favorite Chuck Berry song. There are too many.
Edit:
Just found this---(I doubt if everyone would agree with the list--I don't--but it's a start.) At the very least, the David Bowie version of "Around and Around" should be replaced with the Stones.
http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/10-Greatest-Covers-of-Chuck-Berry-Songs.aspx
A decent lifestyle article from Gibson? I'm shocked!
Let's not forget those important Chuck Berry covers from the movies. Nadine by "Los Guys" from Cheech and Chong's Corsican Brothers, Johnny B. Goode from Back To The Future, and my favorite, Yahoo Serious as Young Einstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prqQKESDrj4
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I think the "Back to the Future" scene is awesome. Everyone has seen it. But there is also this I just found from the soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S98UjpPpSgo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_rk-RITts
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This will be heretic to some, but much as I love Berry's original and all versions close to it, I have yet to hear a version that was as daring as JP's. They practically reinvented the chorus.
http://www.myvideo.de/musik/judas-priest/johnny-b-goode-video-m-7969949
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I don't know if that was a studio or live version. It won't play in the U.S. Here is one that will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9YlTBEBwIQ
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Mine was the studio version too, they just filmed it live. Yours doesn't work in Europe, but now we have everything covered, danke!
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You're welcome. Since I have friends in Denmark and Holland, I tend to run into this a lot. Sometimes it's frustrating.
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that's because houston is not in the "real south".
What! 50 shades of REDneck!?? ;D
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My favorite Johnny B. Goode cover was by Johnny Winter And on their Live album recorded at the Fillmore East.
But I'd rather hear Chuck's originals than any covers.
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Weird choice, but I always liked this here, possibly because the Dead version was the first Johnny B Goode rendition I heard as a teenager. In all its laid back splendor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88aMSVP6cbY
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In the pub that I used to frequent when I was in my late teens /early twenties they used to play Frankie Marino's version each night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw_MEs0xOAg
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I'd have to say the best Johnny B. Goode covers I've heard are the Hendrix, Mahogany Rush, and Johnny Winter versions. For covers of other Chuck Berry tunes, it's tough to beat the Stones though. I agree that the originals are usually the best, although there are a few Berry originals where he sounds sorta bored and uninterested on the recordings.
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This thread has gone even further off course than usual. :)
Uwe and son must be in transit by now, or maybe already hanging out in Nashville bars.
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Hanging around in bars...? What sort of bars...?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulVQsQBenvs
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I'm going to attempt to tie this thread back together. Chuck Berry was awesome but there's only one King of Rock and Roll and that's Elvis. Here's a relative of his bearing his surname and it sounds like there are some Nashville cats backing her up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZiZwpr8Fw0#t=202
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Pleasant enough, but sounds like production-line Nashville to me.
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I wasn't bowled over either, just thought it was handy for the thread. For the record, I prefer early Chuck Berry to early Elvis. Elvis's best stuff to me was from the late 60's to early 70's
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elvis was no more the king of rock than mj was the king of pop. berry wrote dozens of songs which would be come rock standards while elvis did not write anything or so very little that no one noticed. if it wasn't for that crook col. parker, elvis may still be driving that truck.
also, chuck berry was a badass and the real reason for mothers to lock up their daughters.
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That's a tad harsh. Millions of rednecks can't be wrong.
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King is as King does - Elvis owned rock & roll for a number of years, and was one of the top media figures during that time.
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Lauren Marie Presley -- example # umpteen that talent is rarely inherited. And reason # umpteen why I rarely listen to the children of famous musicians.
They get a break because of who their parent is, not because of talent.
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This is what it might have sounded like if Robert Plant had had to call in sick and be replaced by Elvis the day of the recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJlcqMtDwHQ
This is what it might have sounded like if the whole band had had to call in sick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd8AVbwB_6E
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This is what it might have sounded like if Robert Plant had had to call in sick and be replaced by Elvis the day of the recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJlcqMtDwHQ
Love it!
there's an Elvis impersonator called Jim "the King" Brown who's whole schtick is doing covers of other dead rock stars, I've got his first album Gravelands which I listen to surprisingly often, and in looking for this link I've just discovered theres another one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFz98SK19QY
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Chuck wrote great songs and did witty lyrics, but his voice was nowhere near Elvis' (nor needed it to be). The older I get, the more I like the velvety warmth in Elvis' voice which wasn't strictly rock but encompassed so much more, gospel, country, old-fashioned crooning. Elvis wasn't a songwriter nor did he aspire to be one, but he certainly had a knack for choosing the right material to make it his own.
Like many, I used to mock him (largely based on his later Las Vegas or Hawaii shows though these are not musically without merit either), but these days I accept that he was one of a kind. In Graceland, I read a comment along the lines of that Elvis' secret was that he was dangerous enough to be an attraction for white youth, but not too dangerous to really shake the tree of their parents. And really: no white guy sang like him before he hit the airwaves.
And, hey, he was - along with Little Richard - an early inspiration to a certain Brit ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWZJPU7rf4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcceF1v0EE4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_uZMQZnrOw
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Getting a little closer back to the thread title.... Have you all seen this already? The bassist is only nine! The oldest, on guitar, is 14.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1boUYB9LFJY
They do their own songs too! I actually prefer this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kR6CFu6jBk
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Yes, I've seen The Warning, and I also like their own songs better than their covers.
When it comes to young talent, though, it's hard to top the Mizzone brothers from New Jersey a/k/a the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys. This clip is nearly three years old. Great cover of Flint Hill Special.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcRI0BdioE