Posts by Simon Grigg
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to recordari,
They were a bit revolutionary (pun intended) in their time.
My copy of Coup flew off the roof of a car as I was unlocking it in Harlesden and under the wheels of a Routemaster bus.
I retrieved it and it still plays perfectly. The cover has a wide tread mark on it.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to recordari,
And not sure if this has been posted before, but I love it.
What I loved about Ten City (apart from the fact they may have been the only trio ever to have two guys called Byron as members) was that they so perfectly referred to and drew from the great male soul/R&B vocal group tradition which goes back via the Miracles, Temptations etc to the likes of The Ravens and the doo-wop. They kinda tied it all together and were one of the last major acts in a now almost extinct lineage.
The irony is that producer and mentor of Ten City, Marshall Jefferson - one of the most important creators in the whole scene and vastly influential - personal tastes veer towards heavy metal and hard rock.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Jackie Clark,
So the advent of House was never a revelation to me as such, just a continuation from the disco music that I have always loved
House music, as with techno - the pure stuff not the Europop variety that has usurped the word - is mostly just disco made with machines. The lineage is pretty well defined.
Put this:
next to:
[of course I'm trying to find a way to sneak Loleatta into the thread. RIP]
I do wonder, though, what much of what listen to now would sound like without those kids in Chicago and Detroit. Very, very different.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Jackie Clark,
my love of early Elton.
Madman Across The Water was a wonderful record, although I think it sounds a bit overblown now.
I went to the Yellow Brick Road show at Western Springs around on 28th Feb, '74
Now that was a spectacle....
See, I'm pulling this thread off course now.
The fix:
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Just briefly, Simon.
Whoops sorry, I wasn't trying to stomp on Toto or your taste. As musicians those guys were / are peerless. It was more that the thread, musically, had veered off and I was being protective.
Such of, course, is the nature of PAS.
I like some of Paul McCartney's direst moments so I'm not one to hold a beacon to taste. I'm no arbiter of anything beyond 'I like'.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Jacqui Dunn,
something that got me bopping around
Dieter Meier and Boris Blank were, with Kraftwerk, the godfathers of all things Chicago and Detroit so it's a perfect fit, Jacqui
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I'm very concerned that Toto have edged their way into this thread. It needs to be dragged back from the abyss
The non-trainspotters may wish to pass, but two quite wonderful vids of the Robert Owens performing a pair of 80s Chicago classics almost acapella in Melbourne in 2007.
Goosebumps for me
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to andin,
It must be time for a little funk/soul seeing as we're all dancing
It's a tune that has perhaps been played to death over the years but for about fifteen years Peter Urlich and I formed a New Years Eve DJ tag team and that was our midnighter. The acapella intro on the 12" is exactly 1 minute long and I'd drop it at one minute to twelve. The crowd would go nuts at the first drum beat which signalled the new year.
So, yes, choon!!
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Russell Brown,
Heh. I stand corrected.
Only slightly - Jack Your Body made number one and the two were intertwined in many minds (and on many dancefloors) at the time.
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And this, perhaps the greatest Trax release of them all (without the unnecessary vocal bits added in later years)
Recorded on a cassette....
edit: PAS doesn't recognise YouTube shortners it seems