[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Llarry

Love this song! I am old-fashioned and buy CDs; I checked out Amazon and the album is 48 minutes of music for $17.
I guess I'll just listen on youtube...

News over here is that cassette tapes may be making a comeback.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...an-1234606978/

[M5Rick]

[QUOTE=Esteban;30068310][QUOTE=M5Rick;30068122]

Well what's the million dollar answer answer? I choose this one... today.
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Your choice

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by CarsAndGuitars

Love the riffing in this song. I used to like Crue, but can barely listen to them anymore. Besides Mick, they are each a bigger waste of flesh than the next. Petulant, self-absorbed scum of the earth.

I tend to hold that opinion also lately of them, time passes and it's just too in your face.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by Llarry

Love this song! I am old-fashioned and buy CDs; I checked out Amazon and the album is 48 minutes of music for $17.
I guess I'll just listen on youtube...

I must be Old School" a well as I buy a lot of CDs. I have a few of hers. You should not deprived yourself based on a few dollars. Listening on YouTube is fine to sample genres or recommendations but nothing beats the sound of a proper system. Check you messages.

[M5Rick]

I'm coming in early as nothing's been played.
Greg Kihn band with Jeopardy.

This is my fave today.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by Artemis

Opus magnum.

Indeed...!!!

[M5Rick]

Jefferson Starship

A great band.

[M5Rick]

Another one by JS and Mickey Thomas' voice is on another planet in this one.
---Find Your Way Back---

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Indeed...!!!

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Trivia:

The first side of "The Dark Side of The Moon" ends with "The Great Gig In The Sky", Richard Wright and vocalist Clare Torry's soulful metaphor for death. Clare Torry (25 back then) was a session singer and songwriter and a regular at Abbey Road. Studio engineer Alan Parsons liked her voice, and when the band decided to use a female vocalist he suggested that she could sing on the track. Sunday 21 January 1973 between 7pm and 10pm: Torry is at the studio and Pink Floyd band members explained the album concept to her, but were unable to tell her exactly what she should do. David Gilmour, in charge of the session, asked her to try to express emotions rather than sing words, to sing something "emotional". After abandoning a soul style, she found what proved right for a second take. The melody was left to her. She improvised a wordless melody to accompany Wright's emotive piano solo. She was initially embarrassed by her exuberance in the recording booth and wanted to apologise to the band. They were impressed with her performance but did not tell her so. Her takes were edited to produce the version used on the track. She left the studio under the impression that her vocals would not make the final cut (she thought what she'd captured was "caterwauling" and that it wouldn't be used). She only became aware that she had been included in the final mix when she picked up the album at a local record store and saw her name in the credits. For her contribution she was paid her standard session fee of £30 (equivalent to about £420 in 2023).

In 2003 Alan Parsons criticized the Pink Floyd band: "I still wake up occasionally, frustrated about the fact that they made untold millions and a lot of the people involved in the record didn't."

In 2004, Clare Torry sued EMI and Pink Floyd for 50% of the songwriting royalties, arguing that her contribution to "The Great Gig in the Sky" was substantial enough to be considered co-authorship. The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, with all post-2005 pressings crediting Richard Wright and Clare Torry jointly.

"The track that she was supposed to sing on in was "The Great Gig in the Sky", which had originally been titled "The Mortality Sequence" or "The Religious Section". The author was Rick Wright, and the song was initially based on a long solo on a Hammond organ, surrounded by voices singing about death. When he wrote it, Pink Floyd’s keyboardist wanted to express the sense of gradual passage from life to death, with a characterisation of the piece in two distinct parts. The first showed the refusal to accept life’s end, while the second was resignation and quiet acceptance.
But Pink Floyd were not entirely convinced. The song was missing something, and their sound engineer seemed to have identified the solution. Alan Parsons persuaded them to introduce a female voice, which could bring more evocative passages to the song.
Madeleine Bell and Doris Troy were initially suggested, but Parsons pushed for Clare Torry, who had impressed him in the past with her vocal talents. Unlike Bell and Troy, Clare was white and when she arrived to meet Pink Floyd, the band was not impressed. David Gilmour would confess afterwards that the young girl had looked more like a common English housewife than a singer.
Gilmour told her that there was no lyrics for "The Great Gig In The Sky". She was supposed to just sing as she thought about the passage from life to death. It was basically improvising. Ultimately, Pink Floyd gave her complete freedom, but at the same time it was clear that they had no clear idea what they actually wanted her to do.
Torry was surprised by the unusual request, but she tried immediately to follow the band’s guidelines. Her first performance was stopped almost immediately because she was singing “Oh yeah.” Pink Floyd had banned the lyrics. The keyword was 'improvising', and she tried to jump in. But that required something more than a simple chorus singer: it needed somebody able to turn themselves into an instrument and merge their voice with Wright’s sound.
On the second take, she tried to get into the song, but something was still wrong. She took a break and then tried for one last time. This time she decided not to follow the song: she would just 'be' the song, imposing the emotional wave that moved inside her, letting go and really imagining the flow of life towards the inevitable end.
The sessions lasted three hours, then Torry left, not particularly convinced. She didn’t think that her contribution had been appreciated by Alan Parsons and the band, and she was sure that they wouldn’t choose her voice for "The Great Gig In The Sky". For her performance, she received thirty pounds (twice the usual rate, since it was Sunday) and she returned to normal life.
Months later, she stumbled across a strange black album cover with a monolith in the middle and, intrigued, she picked it up and was surprised to read her name among the credits on "The Dark Side Of The Moon". Her efforts had been rewarded."
(source: here)

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by Artemis

Trivia:

The first side of "The Dark Side of The Moon" ends with "The Great Gig In The Sky", Richard Wright and vocalist Clare Torry's ...

I checked the sleeve of my ( My dad's) 1973 pressing and sure enough, she is credited for the song. Good for her for winning the suit. She was the song, not just a backing voice.

[Esteban]

Back to Starship again, huh? That's okay with me. I like me some Mickey Thomas as well.

We Built This City

One of the best voices in music.

[Esteban]

Oh, and as far as the "scum of the earth" comment made by another member earlier, I try not to judge like that. That’s something my parents did. I'm here for the music, and it's all rock 'n' roll to me. They weren't the only band like that back in the 80s.

[Esteban]

Speaking of...

Billy Joel - It's still Rock and Roll to me

[Esteban]

Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young

[B58-M340iX]

I'm more into electronica (house, EDM, etc), metal/rock, instrumentals, some piano, and rap. I'll sample a flavor of each. Country sucks

EDM:

(much harder) Metal:

Rap:

Instrumental (rock example):

Piano:

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

I checked the sleeve of my ( My dad's) 1973 pressing and sure enough, she is credited for the song. Good for her for winning the suit. She was the song, not just a backing voice.

Wait a sec, does your DSotM vinyl label sticker feature a solid blue triangle (instead of a black triangle) ?

Those usually change hands for hundreds of dollars. The triangle/pyramid color was changed to black for readability reasons. And so collectors hunt for the vinyls featuring the solid blue prism. In 2018 a copy was sold for $3,242 (£2,557).

eBay: here

[EdM5]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

News over here is that cassette tapes may be making a comeback.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...an-1234606978/

True!
Obviously small scale but still very impressive!

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by Artemis

Wait a sec, does your DSotM vinyl label sticker feature a solid blue triangle (instead of a black triangle) ?

No, just the regular black triangle with blue border.

[EdM5]

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[EdM5]

Legendary stuff

[EdM5]

Never gets old

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by EdM5

True!
Obviously small scale but still very impressive!

That's the one Ed,Maxell Metal