Music videos that feature EB0 to EB4 and SG variant basses...

[Basvarken]

Come on Dave. Have you heard what's on the radio these days? Nothing but really shitty pop songs. Generic pulp. AI generated crap.
Sheryl Crow can actually sing, write and play.

[gearHed289]

Come on Dave. Have you heard what's on the radio these days? Nothing but really shitty pop songs. Generic pulp. AI generated crap.
Sheryl Crow can actually sing, write and play.

100%

"Alarm Clock" could almost be a Garbage song.

[Dave W]

Come on Dave. Have you heard what's on the radio these days? Nothing but really shitty pop songs. Generic pulp. AI generated crap.
Sheryl Crow can actually sing, write and play.

No, I haven't heard anything on the radio these days, no doubt you're right. That doesn't make her songwriting any less shitty.

You don't bring me anything but down
Everything is crashing to the groun'

or

I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna tell everyone to lighten up

Over and over again. Very deep. 

[Pilgrim]

No, I haven't heard anything on the radio these days, no doubt you're right. That doesn't make her songwriting any less shitty.

You don't bring me anything but down
Everything is crashing to the groun'

or

I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna tell everyone to lighten up

Over and over again. Very deep. 

"Incense and peppermints, the color of time...."

"In-a-gadda-da-vida..."

"Rumor spreadin' 'round
In that Texas town
About that shack outside La Grange..."

Classic rock has many of those deep and meaningful lyrics...

[Basvarken]

 

[westen44]

"Incense and peppermints, the color of time...."

"In-a-gadda-da-vida..."

"Rumor spreadin' 'round
In that Texas town
About that shack outside La Grange..."

Classic rock has many of those deep and meaningful lyrics...

"La Grange" was meaningful enough for "American Songwriter" to have an article about it. 

https://americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-behind-the-controversial-blues-rock-song-la-grange-by-zz-top/#:~:text=The%20Best%20Little%20Whorehouse%20in,Best%20Little%20Whorehouse%20in%20Texas.

[Dave W]

"Incense and peppermints, the color of time...."

"In-a-gadda-da-vida..."

"Rumor spreadin' 'round
In that Texas town
About that shack outside La Grange..."

Classic rock has many of those deep and meaningful lyrics...

Completely irrelevant.

I never said that there aren't other inane lyrics out there, nor did I say that there aren't other idiotic pop songs on the radio. We're not into comparative shittiness, are we?

I'll stand by my opinion: she writes shitty pop songs.

"La Grange" was meaningful enough for "American Songwriter" to have an article about it. 

https://americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-behind-the-controversial-blues-rock-song-la-grange-by-zz-top/#:~:text=The%20Best%20Little%20Whorehouse%20in,Best%20Little%20Whorehouse%20in%20Texas.

I suspect that Al is well aware of the story. He spent some years teaching at Texas A&M. Poor guy.

[westen44]

^^^

Most people know the story.  All I was pointing out is that American Songwriter had actually gone to the trouble of writing an article about it.  Most of what I see from American Songwriter gets my attention.  Not necessarily because it's an American publication, but because it's just so good.  That particular article on ZZ Top was actually pretty short, though. 

[uwe]

Pop music is never good unless it has meaningful lyrics.









I therefore wholeheartedly support Dave on this with a resounding ...

a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom !!!


If the man has chosen to dislike something, he's never short of arguments.  Now wait for his: "Nothing you can say or write will change my view, harrumph!" 

[Pilgrim]

I suspect that Al is well aware of the story. He spent some years teaching at Texas A&M. Poor guy.

Makes little difference, but I headed up a radio/TV/satellite production unit. I did teach one semester which was a fun experience.

I planned to be there 5 years, but we had kids and I decided that the ticket to get out to a better position in higher ed was a PhD. It took another 8 years before we escaped to a great gig in Colorado, and that has been wonderful!

Met a lot of nice people there, saw many things around that pretty fascinating state and learned a lot (some of it the hard way), but my wife and I were both are extremely grateful for escaping from the cultural mindset in Texas.

All that said, I'm up for a trip to the Riverwalk in San Antonio any time. 

And don't think for a moment that especially back in the day before the campus went co-ed, those A&M cadets didn't know where the goodies were in TX and how to access them.

[Dave W]

Makes little difference, but I headed up a radio/TV/satellite production unit. I did teach one semester which was a fun experience.

I planned to be there 5 years, but we had kids and I decided that the ticket to get out to a better position in higher ed was a PhD. It took another 8 years before we escaped to a great gig in Colorado, and that has been wonderful!

Met a lot of nice people there, saw many things around that pretty fascinating state and learned a lot (some of it the hard way), but my wife and I were both are extremely grateful for escaping from the cultural mindset in Texas.

All that said, I'm up for a trip to the Riverwalk in San Antonio any time. 

And don't think for a moment that especially back in the day before the campus went co-ed, those A&M cadets didn't know where the goodies were in TX and how to access them.

 

I understand. Truth is, no matter what your own cultural mindset, there are pluses and minuses to every state.

As for the Chicken Ranch, just about every boy in Houston had heard about the place way back when I was in high school.

Pop music is never good unless it has meaningful lyrics.

....

Again, utterly irrelevant to my opinion of Sheryl Crow's shitty songwriting.

You can post another 30 videos, Blazer-style, and they will still be irrelevant.

Also, Louie Louie wasn't unclear in its original version. But you know this.

[uwe]

Not unclear, but badly untuned!

[uwe]

Herr Dunaway and a sultry talent called Fiona Silver start kissin' everything in sight - with his green/mirrored heavily customized EB-3-or-whatever-it-was (good shot of it at 02:58)!




She's does that kind of stuff well, even when no Gibson bass is involved, even Dave should approve ...

[westen44]

This is a band which seems to be achieving some local success at small venues.  Still, I didn't even know about them until I saw this video with a Gibson bass.  They're a little too post-punk pop rock for my taste.  But I genuinely wish them success and maybe they will get it, too.
  https://www.spin.com/2023/07/gloom-girl-mfg-nashville-interview/

[uwe]

Oh, I really like that! Bit like an over-ecstatic Chrissie Hynde. And it's always nice to hear a chick play solos who does not sound like a man while doing it.