So, what have you been listening to lately?

[gearHed289]

RIP Sly. Their greatest hits album has been in my life since I was a little child. If that stuff doesn't lift you up, IDK what will.

[uwe]

Is it his touring band (Andersen, Sheehan, Fridzema) that is on this recording?

Sure is, all songs. He likes Fridzema's organ style so much, he now wants him in the band for good.

Yes, the squealing has become less, which a lot of people like. A major part is that even a freak of nature like Glenn can't defy biology forever, he's lost some of those real piercing highs, I've noticed that on the last handful of gigs I saw, but overall his voice is still amazing considering his age. I mean he's not the Greta van Fleet guy anymore who can effortlessly hit any note in the universe.

I like the new song too though it is a bit constructed:

- The intro is loaned from Coldplay and their love for dramatic triplet intros since 'Clocks' (that type of triplet playing has been done to death since then by any landfill indie, alt and post-rock band 😁).

- The verse sees Ash play a reggae one-drop-rhythm, snare beat on the three, + the chorus is U2esque, Big Countrysh, Alarmish, Simple Minded ..., you know what I mean. Catchy. Nice guitar sølø frøm Søren tøø – was that enough slashed o's to get the pøint acrøss? 😂

- But even I have to admit, this could be from a Dead Daisies, Black Country Communion or a Glenn Hughes album, it's all interchangeable. Glenn has of late devised a songwriting recipe for himself and it goes like this: Make the verse a little grungy and sparse with an ostinato bass – with that abrasively wiry Orange Amp overdriven sound he's grown so fond of – and him singing over it in a lower voice than he used too, don't forget to make it half-beat too, and then wait for the anthemic chorus in standard time. It works though.

- Very little funk ingredient for him, but that is his predicament: the majority of his fans have a Deep Purple inflection and want him rocky. I think he's even better when he lets the funk & soul beast in him rip:

(Did anybody say "Sly Stone"? ! )

(I sometimes think he should have stuck with that Michael Bolton mode, he had the voice and the looks.)

For your standard Purple fan, stuff like that is of course anathema  , I always fight an uphill battle in those Purple forums when I'm waving my Glenn flag!

For all the black content in his voice, people sometimes forget the overt Jack Bruce influence both in his singing and his bass playing:

Blackmore wanted a Jack Bruce/Andy Fraser type bassist to replace Roger Glover for Mk III - all in his quest to get "more Free into DeePee" (rhymes!), Coverdale as an ersatz-Paul Rodgers was the next logical step. Deep Purple toured Australia in 1971 together with Free - that left Ritchie impressed. He all of the sudden wanted less Gillan and less Lord in the band's sound, prominent harmony vocals and a bluesier approach.

[Basvarken]

Yesterday in 013 Tilburg things got pretty funky ;-)

[uwe]

Yeah, that sparse funky riffing, so Trapeze'ish!

[Basvarken]

Yes absolutely. I also hear some Come Taste The Band vibes in it.

[Basvarken]

Brian Wilson checked out too. Same age as Sly (82).
Rest In Peace

[uwe]

Brian Wilson checked out too. Same age as Sly (82).
Rest In Peace

An American 20th Century music genius together with Gershwin and Bernstein, no less.

[Dave W]

Sonny Curtis wrote it. He's still with us at 88. This is from 2010.

[uwe]

Immortalized (for those of us born after large scale atomic surface testing had gone out of fashion 😆) by ...

[uwe]

[Pilgrim]

I found this quite amusing...

[Dave W]

[4stringer77]

I wonder if this influenced Wayne Newton?

[Dave W]

I wonder if this influenced Wayne Newton?

Ya think?  Must be at least a subconscious influence.

Let Your Love Flow was written by Larry E. Williams and is about 50 years old. IIRC the Wayne Newton song is much newer. Did Wayne write that?

[Dave W]