MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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When I was a kid, we camped every month. A tent, in January, in Michigan. I was a Boy Scout for a while. I’ve tried the RV that gets gallons per mile instead of miles per gallon, and a public campground surrounded by hundreds of people. Not in a hurry to do those.
I have family on the east coast, so every year I drove out there. Leave Friday after work, and car camp when it got late. Let the sun wake me to finish the trip.
In ’78, I drove west. I’d leave the interstate to find cheap motels on Route 66. That was the trip I stopped for an hour at the Grand Canyon. Afterwards I drove highway 1 that Jung mentioned, to San Francisco.
There must be music in that last trip somewhere – Michigan seems like a dream to me now…Route 66…Pacific Coast Highway…San Francisco.
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This year after the Grammys I looked at the winners, and had a similar reaction. Even the people I like didn’t win with their best stuff. People like Bonnie Raitt, Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding. It looked like more of a career award than an award for that one song.
But this was the world top 10, and one had been on there 8 months. 4 songs in Spanish, Beso, La Bebe, and Ella Baila Sola were the 3 I remember.
So why does this happen? Are these popular because they’re in the top 10 or are they in the top 10 because they’re popular? Is this just record companies pushing this stuff? Idk.
I just checked Beso on YouTube – 32 million views and it says 3 weeks. Careful with these videos, some are NSFW.
Ella Baila Sola 17M views, 6 days. La Bebe, 50M, 3 weeks. La Bebe is a remix of the same song from 2021.
I’m not even sure what “Top 10” means these days. How it’s measured. YT numbers I have a better idea.
And the #1 hit, Miley Cyrus song Flowers. 377M views, 3 months.
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My local radio station reminded me of another example a couple minutes ago. They tend to play the original, not the cover…Rufus Thomas’s crossover hit, with Aerosmith covering it.
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And the original…
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Happy Easter and all the best to you as well, and everyone else here.
I’m lucky that my family still has Easter dinner together, I’ll be there today.
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Jung,
Would you recommend the EMO?
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You wrote – “3. All three chord songs…”
That brings back a memory of playing with a band in the early ’80s, and we covered Tulsa Time.
It has two (2) chords. Wonder how long it took the guy to write it?
A country standard, and was #1 on the country charts in ’78. After growing up with rock and roll, country was some culture shock for me.
Even the One Note Samba has more chords than that. lol
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Yeah, I guess it’s getting late. I knew that. Time to get some sleep. lol.
Before I cleared cache though, it didn’t show any comments more recent than 2 weeks ago either. So I didn’t see the one you mentioned. That was odd. But maybe understandable. Probably just to save them some cost by getting it from cache. Thanks. Good night.
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Interesting. When I search for it on YT, it shows numbers from 2 weeks ago, 159k views.
I tried signing off and clearing cache, and it’s still what I see. Although I do see the comments updated.
Good ole Google. Always playing with the algorithms.
They do run different versions all the time when they’re beta testing something new. In the past I thought they targeted them geographically, and I see you’re like 700 miles away. Maybe that’s it.
But they likely still know it’s me, since my IP address hasn’t changed, and they do track unique views so that would be very easy to do.
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Jacki,
I don’t see zydeco on your list of music. Do you like zydeco?
If you like singing and dancing, you should check it out.
I think zydeco has a few rules — the lyrics have to have the word “zydeco” in them, it has to have French words in it, it has to mention the “bayou” and no one is allowed to stay seated during the song. As if anyone could.
I am just kidding about that, but they might as well be rules.
Ever see that pic of Mona playing the washboard? She knows.
Any band that’s willing to pay someone to play the washboard/rubboard is obviously more concerned about their art than their pocketbook.
Imho, here’s the best singer in zydeco. I still have the beads and t-shirt he gave me. Careful, lots of energy gets released when you click on this.
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2087. In the US and Europe, 70 years after the last surviving writer dies, the song goes in the public domain. For Chuck Berry, that’s 2087.
Buddy Holly’s music loses copyright in just 6 years.
For Hendrix it’s 2030. Duke Ellington is 2034. Benjamin Britten in 2036.
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I can tell you’ve given this plenty of thought before. I’m sitting here trying to remember when I saw Chuck Berry if he played “Rollover Beethoven”. I don’t remember though. That was in the early ’80s. 🙂
Musical genres are artificial anyway. We’re all playing western music.
I heard a Ted talk this week where a guy suggests that melodies should be removed from copyright protection, since there are only 12 pitches per octave – and only jazzers use more than around 8. That’s a pretty limited number of possible melodies, and guys like George Harrison get sued because of it.
US copyright law says that if you record a melody, in almost any form, you automatically own the copyright, even if you don’t tell anybody you did it. You can’t win a lawsuit if the guy who infringes on your copyright has never heard your melody though, but hard to prove a negative.. He had a developer friend of his write some code to write down all possible melodies to demonstrate the problem.
Lots of music that seems different, out of only a few notes, that covers Classical, and everything in Jacki’s list that she grew up with too.
I saw a different piece a week or two ago about how Page and friends put together Led Zeppelin I in about two weeks on a shoestring budget. Page is a creative guy.
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Jung,
So Beethoven, Bach, and Page? And Beatles and Dylan.
Is that your list for when you play piano too?
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I had never heard of Smetana or the Moldau/Vltava. Thank you for mentioning that. I’m listening to it now on YouTube.
The first thing I thought of, in Die Quelle, was that Mona could play all of those flutes at the same time.
I always thought music was language. And it expresses emotion. There is so much we all share, including language, but nothing more fundamental than music.
You also talked about these pieces changing the way you looked at music. I’m not sure what that means. The more I think about it, maybe any great performance changes the way I look at music. Maybe that’s what makes it great?
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