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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 9 Sep 2010 11:10 pm |
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let me be the first...
i know lots of you will be raving about j. johnson and cowboy long on letterman.
this is nothing more than a mediocre night at a bar...i've played tighter more meaningful music in dives for years. ...david allen coe wannabee...ok steel playing but not something i'd write home about. how do these acts get pumped up as something special? if this is making someone rich, i should be a millionaire by now.
edited to say that i wrote this last night after coming in from a bar gig and yes there had been some drinking... i guess i'm just irritated that i'm not on letterman! |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 10 Sep 2010 7:15 am
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I'm think I'm glad I missed it.  |
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 10 Sep 2010 8:10 am
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| SO how do you feel about it this morning sobered up |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 10 Sep 2010 11:45 am
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| I intended to watch the Jamey Johnson spot, but fell asleep....and only woke up to the final strains of the steel guitar...didn't hear enough of it to comment, but I'm always happy to see steel guitar on national TV and enjoy listening to Eddie Long anytime I get to hear him. |
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Alvin Blaine
From:
Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 17 Sep 2010 4:45 am
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Good Steel,after listening to the song and the words it's certainly old school Country with a little COE added....Now if one had the sound down and judged by the bands looks,One would think it's an old Jack Daniels commercial or a rerun of deliverance..The Steel sounded good and the song had a good hook..Jamey may look like a Mountain man and the band may have found their clothes in a good will dumpster however they did not sound all that bad compared to whats out there representing the genre now..  |
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Steve Hinson
From:
Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2010 5:45 am
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| I thought it was GREAT! |
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Bob Knetzger
From:
Kirkland, WA USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2010 7:19 am
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Hey, I thought it was really good.
Pedal steel featured nicely, good sound and intonation, solid moves, nice twin harmony licks, even good TV shot coverage..and the steel player smiled and was having fun!
What's not to like?
I've been in that studio (well, in the audience)--it's crazy COLD and the music is LOUD. It would be very easy to make a flub.
As far as the act's "on stage" presentation and "look", a little rough for national TV, but maybe those ARE their stage clothes!
WWWNW (what would WIllie Nelson wear?) |
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Joseph Carlson
From:
Grass Valley, California, USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2010 8:18 am
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I don't know man. Sounded pretty good to me.
I wouldn't mind being in a band like that! |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 17 Sep 2010 8:48 am
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ok...i've sobered up for a moment. i still feel the same basically. lots better than plastic country pop and that idiot kid rock, but...
i guess i'm just spoiled or jaded from playing many hours with singers and pickers that i consider
every bit as good or better who have gotten no notoriety. and then some guy with hair and a beard comes along and everybody goes, wow..far out. where was he 30 years ago when other people with conviction were pushing that envelope. |
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Ian
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 17 Sep 2010 10:07 am
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| Just saw the clip, I thought it was great. Loves me a country drinking' song. Heck, even the Rhodes setting on the keyboard sounded good. |
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Joseph Carlson
From:
Grass Valley, California, USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2010 12:35 pm
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| chris ivey wrote: |
| where was he 30 years ago when other people with conviction were pushing that envelope. |
I'm pretty sure he was either in diapers or not born yet. |
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Theresa Galbraith
From:
Goodlettsville,Tn. USA
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Posted 17 Sep 2010 1:00 pm
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| Jamie has a raw country sound! |
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Jim Peters
From:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 17 Sep 2010 2:33 pm
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I liked it! JP
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Ken Lang
From:
Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 17 Sep 2010 3:45 pm
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Kinda like a country "hair" band. Sounded all right to me.
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 1:40 am
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i dug it
reminds me of what my uncle Richard Grando (rip)used to tell me when i'd say "oh man, they blow "
" yeah but they're up there doin'it & you're down here lookin' on "
Life is cinema, one has to know how to do it
so the steeler is Eddie Long ?
Last edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 18 Sep 2010 7:59 am; edited 4 times in total |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 7:12 am
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I pretty much agree with Chris, except I liked the steel playing better than he did.
Overall, boring song and singer .... |
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Brandin
From:
Newport Beach CA. USA
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 8:26 am
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Way too many beards! Shouldn't there be a limit?
GB |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 8:52 am
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I liked it, it was just unpretentious but solid country music. This is just another, "Just goes to show you can't ever please everybody." threads. That's no problem, we all have our own preferences, but I don't quite get the negativity. Fame is either highly calculated (which is frequently throwaway pabulum, IMO) or the luck of the draw. OK, yes - there are lots of great bar bands out there who don't get notoriety. What does that have to do with it?
To my tastes, real roots music is born in bars and clubs. Whassamatta with a good bar/club band being featured on Letterman? Shouldn't there be some balance to the autotuned and glitzed-out showcases that pass for music and entertainment these days? Maybe it'll catch on - at some point, maybe more people will grow up and tire of pabulum. Hope springs eternal.
My opinions, of course. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 9:03 am
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what it has to do with it is that it didn't really impress me.
did you mean pablum? |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 10:02 am
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| I liked it, it was just unpretentious but solid country music. |
Dave, did you mean, "just unpretentious solid country music?" |
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 5:52 pm
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I loved it, thanks for the link. Never seen them before actually.
I liked his song High Cost of Living solely based on listening to it on a Texas Music Festival compilation CD I got at Steamboat a year or so ago.
Clete |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 6:15 pm
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I wrote, and meant, pabulum - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pabulum
I wrote, and meant, "I liked it, it was just unpretentious but solid country music."
Not all unpretentious music is solid - in fact a lot of it is not, to my tastes. I think this was very solid.
I guess I'm not looking to be 'impressed'. I don't judge music on how 'impressed' I am. There's a lot of stuff out there that impresses the hell out of me, but I wouldn't want to listen to. YMMV, no problem. But I still don't get the negativity. Feels like sour grapes, to me. Ever heard of 'raining on someone else's parade"? I see a lot of it on this forum. Your prerogative, and the prerogative of others to note that. And, BTW - it is prerogative, not perogative.  |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 7:25 pm
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music and art that 'don't' impress me i find quite pablum-like.
you should read my book, 'fun with negativity'....it's a real yukfest. |
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Steve Hinson
From:
Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 7:35 pm
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| ...did you mean" yukfest"?Or"yuckfest"? |
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