| Author | Message | ||
| olieoliver
Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 54 Registered: 2-2006 |
Did something I don't normaly do this morning. Turned on the TV, was nothing else on, so I flipped on VH1 Classic. From 6am to 7 they have 80's videos on. Man am I glad that decade is gone! Big hair and spandex, not a pretty sight. The top 40/ pop music was pretty laim too. I'm sure glad I swayed away from it. I was more into, SRV, Eric Johnson, Zappa.... | ||
| pas
Member Username: pas Post Number: 66 Registered: 3-2003 |
While all that 80's stuff - mostly drivel in MY opinion - was goin' on, I was hidin' out at Grateful Dead & Hot Tuna shows & playin' in Blues bands. I certainly was not a man of my era... (Message edited by pas on March 09, 2006) | ||
| olieoliver
Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 57 Registered: 2-2006 |
BTW: I forgot to mention that after the 80's video segment went off was VH1 Classic's all request hour and it started with Bob Weir and Ratdog. So it wasn't a total waste of TV viewing. | ||
| 88persuader
Intermediate Member Username: 88persuader Post Number: 180 Registered: 5-2004 |
Hey don't forget though ... the 80's were also a big time for Level 42 (Mark King) And Stanley did pretty good in the 80's too! It wasn't a TOTAL loss. POPULAR music is USUALLY based on the fads of the times. You need to look behind the fads and you'll always find something worth while! Like Flock of Seaguls! .... hehehehe (just kidding!) | ||
| bassman10096
Senior Member Username: bassman10096 Post Number: 855 Registered: 7-2003 |
What's the saying? "The good thing about popular music is that it doesn't stay popular for long..." (Something like that) | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 657 Registered: 9-2002 |
Well, just shoot me . . . I loved a bunch of it. Every time I hear 'The Reflex' or 'Don't You Forget About Me' or 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' or 'Live to Tell', I just turn it UP. Sure it looks silly now, but I had a lot of fun to those tunes, and there's a lot to be said for fun. J o e y | ||
| 88persuader
Intermediate Member Username: 88persuader Post Number: 181 Registered: 5-2004 |
Music like beauty TRULY is in the eye of the beholder! I love bands like King Crimson and Gentle Giant from the 80s. Generally bands people say WHO? about! Or when they hear them say WHAT?? .... or YUCK! :-) To each their own! ;-) | ||
| jorge_s
Member Username: jorge_s Post Number: 67 Registered: 8-2002 |
To each his own. I agree. It was during the 80's that I was in high school and starting to really discover music. There were tons of very creative bassists and guitarists. Despite of what they may have looked like, I look back on that decade as my favorite kind of music. | ||
| olieoliver
Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 62 Registered: 2-2006 |
To all here, I tip my hat and agree. ALL music is enjoyable to someone. I too agree that there is a lot of good music that came out the 80's. While I may not have liked the main stream music of the era others did and I was wrong to suggest that it was "laim". If a song makes even only one person smile and tap their foot it is a good thing. I'll take my 40 lashes now. | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 763 Registered: 12-2002 |
I think 80's music was great as well as 70's/60's/50's,,,,yesterdays music is related to all of todays music!.what i really dont care for is all this sampling thats going on in todays music,what are people forgetting how to write music these days? | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1088 Registered: 7-2004 |
I remember the 80's. One of my favorite bands that I saw many times throughout that decade ........................... the good ole Grateful Dead!!!! Bill, tgo | ||
| olieoliver
Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 64 Registered: 2-2006 |
oops (Message edited by olieoliver on March 10, 2006) | ||
| olieoliver
Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 65 Registered: 2-2006 |
I too am a "Dead Head" but they weren't exactly "Top 40" either. One of my favorite artist came out of the 80's too, SRV. Stevie certaintly wasn't "Top 40" but I do recal hearing his guitar on Bowies "Let's Dance" which was most definitely "Top 40".... .....33 OUCH...34.....OOOHHH.....35... | ||
| gare
Advanced Member Username: gare Post Number: 355 Registered: 11-2003 |
Ohh man..I read this post and drew a blank ! It must have been all that cough medicine. Then it started to slowly come back..Police, Steely Dan, Toto, Asia..Huey Lewis (well ok). Disco finally died. So it wasnt a complete loss. I'll have to go along with Keavin about the use of todays technology instead of imagination etc..but,to each their own. I can remember playing for hours with a sampler..mangling sounds. G | ||
| 811952
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 679 Registered: 10-2003 |
King Crimson! Midnight Oil! The 80's were good, and good to me. I even liked A Flock of Seagulls. Anybody remember "AEIOU and Sometimes Y" from college radio? John | ||
| strangerones
Member Username: strangerones Post Number: 51 Registered: 11-2004 |
My band is doing a cover of Eddy Grant's Electric Avenue.  I was skeptical at first...but we play it way better than he ever did. | ||
| lidon2001
Intermediate Member Username: lidon2001 Post Number: 111 Registered: 4-2005 |
I'm sorry, but since I think Fripp is closer to god than Clapton, Belew also closer for that matter, King Crimson is not an 80's band. KC is a 60's band. Too many hours listening to In The Court Of, and their 70's work In The Wake of Posiden, and Red. Fripp's "new" KC featuring Belew in the 80's and the 90's was amazing. Fripp, Belew, Mastellato, Gunn, Levin and Bruford live was just crazy. Their last tour without Bruford or Levin was just as good, relatively speaking. Gunn is out, Levin is back, and we fans patiently wait. OK I admit it, I enjoyed the recent VH1C showing of the Duran Duran reunion. I miss my Aria SB1000. Of course, not as much since I have the BalK on my shoulder... T (Message edited by lidon2001 on March 16, 2006) | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 689 Registered: 9-2002 |
As regards that DuranDuran show on VH1 in their newly reincarnated, touring form: I really appreciate when a supposedly old band comes back fully formed and swinging for the fences, no matter who it is. They certainly didn't look or sound dated, and that's not easy. And John Taylor was certainly taking care of his business, as were they all. Interesting that he's taken to the Peavey Cirrus, SURELY the most overlooked, terrific neckthru out there right now. And of course he grabbed his JT model SB reissue for those songs. J o e y | ||
| lidon2001
Intermediate Member Username: lidon2001 Post Number: 112 Registered: 4-2005 |
I know the post is about the music, but having KC somewhat grouped with seagulls sends a chill up my spine. lol I certainly don't include them as typical 80's music. I put Fripp & Co. up there with Zappa and the like. But with the major reincarnation of the band at the time, I can see how the impression is made. KC site. Free mp3 download sample! Not your typical 80's... http://www.dgmlive.com/kc/ T | ||
| jet_powers
Advanced Member Username: jet_powers Post Number: 264 Registered: 2-2003 |
Speaking of Belew.... I went to a Bowie concert back in the day (exactly when is a bit hazy now!)and Belew was in Bowie's band. Joe Satriani opened the show. Belew made Joe look like an amateur.... Joe who? JP | ||
| bassdr
Member Username: bassdr Post Number: 58 Registered: 10-2004 |
Check out Adrian Belew's album "Lone Rhino"- he is amazing- Michael | ||
| 811952
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 682 Registered: 10-2003 |
I have been a KC fan from the beginning, but have to credit the 80's for being there when Fripp reinvented the divine beast. I had an opportunity to tour with Belew in '85 and passed on it to placate my extremely jealous former wife. I will always regret that.  A Flock of Seagulls gets my nod for their minimalist soundscapes and the Gibson RD bass. And the hair. Gotta love the hair. I also really liked Violent Femmes but couldn't stand REM because they didn't know how to play their instruments (now I find them quite listenable). Oingo Boingo and Midnight Oil were in the headphones when I drove to Alaska in '88, and it was good. While YES made a comeback in the 80's, I hesitate to include them in the list because 80's YES doesn't do it for me like the Jon/Rick/Alan/Chris/Steve YES does.. John, whose current wife burned his parachute pants long ago... ;) | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 691 Registered: 9-2002 |
I got to see a Tony Levin clinic while he was doing his short-lived Trace endorsement (before Gibson folded it up, imagine that . . ), and it was wonderful. EVERYBODY that came to it except me ONLY wanted to know about King Crimson, like a Trekkies convention. TL was pleased, but a little amused to be in Music City USA and to be bombarded with KC questions. Then he took out The Stick and played that intro . . . it was funny as he wasn't sure he could remember it exactly, but recounted it was just so 'outside' he wasn't surprised. One of the great players, very nice man. I loved that picture of him with one the NS uprights strapped on at a Gabriel gig! J o e y |
