Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: dela217 on June 02, 2021, 04:08:24 PM
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I ran across this today. I am not sure if this has been posted already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zESKng3g188 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zESKng3g188)
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Wish that guy in the blue would get out of the way! Thanks for posting :)
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"The toast and the eggs just don't taste the same"? C'mon, man.
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Disco?? With an Alembic? What an abasement of a fine instrument........
Peter
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What an abasement of a fine instrument........
i beg to differ, sir. i started out playing in a top 40 band in 1975. disco payed the bills and nothing gets people out on the floor like it. i never really considered it a good gig unless we we able to fill the dance floor. i still have a soft spot for workin' at the car wash and funky town. you haven't lived until you've played funky town on a series II. it takes some stretching to reach a C octave on the B string in the verse.
imho of course, ymmv etc. & so forth...
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I actually like it myself as well. I love playing 'Brick House' and 'Boogie Oogie oogie' to a packed dance floor.
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Disco?? With an Alembic? What an abasement of a fine instrument........
Peter
I consider that more teen (tween) pop than disco. Definitely cheesy.
As to disco while I wasn't a fan I liked that it brought the bass out front. It was also what got us the well paying corporate and wedding gigs since it got people out on the dance floor.
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That bass looks awfully familiar.
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What an abasement of a fine instrument........
i beg to differ, sir. i started out playing in a top 40 band in 1975. disco payed the bills and nothing gets people out on the floor like it. i never really considered it a good gig unless we we able to fill the dance floor. i still have a soft spot for workin' at the car wash and funky town. you haven't lived until you've played funky town on a series II. it takes some stretching to reach a C octave on the B string in the verse.
imho of course, ymmv etc. & so forth...
Disco was invented so club owners could charge a cover while only paying one fool to play records, instead of hiring a band. As I was making my living as a live sound engineer at the time, not only was the music fecal and the culture vile, it was a direct and intentional assault on my livelihood. Yes, I worked for one cover band who played some of it, but I hated every second they were playing it.
I also worked for a number of bands who constantly filled the dance floor playing rock & blues - and filled it with dancers who could handle something more complex than a 72 bpm 4/4 backbeat drowning out everything else, so that shoots that excuse. Not that drowning that drivel out was a bad thing, mind you.
Peter (who will confess to not minding how the disco girls dressed......)
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yeah.....If I had to play that I'd want to hide behind something out of the lighting too! ;D
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The bass player was Leif Paulsén. Couldn't find much else about him. Long shot, but in a few frames it could pass for this one. #77-617, close to my old Series I. On the right continental plate anyway. https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8440.0
Do Dragons migrate? ;D
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What an abasement of a fine instrument........
i beg to differ, sir. i started out playing in a top 40 band in 1975. disco payed the bills and nothing gets people out on the floor like it. i never really considered it a good gig unless we we able to fill the dance floor. i still have a soft spot for workin' at the car wash and funky town. you haven't lived until you've played funky town on a series II. it takes some stretching to reach a C octave on the B string in the verse.
imho of course, ymmv etc. & so forth...
Disco was invented so club owners could charge a cover while only paying one fool to play records, instead of hiring a band. As I was making my living as a live sound engineer at the time, not only was the music fecal and the culture vile, it was a direct and intentional assault on my livelihood. Yes, I worked for one cover band who played some of it, but I hated every second they were playing it.
I used to the feel the same way. Until I went to a GD show and as the opening chords of Shakedown Street rang out (before the album appeared, so it was brand new to my ears), some people in the balcony unfurled a huge banner "DISCO SUCKS!!!!!" It felt like a sellout, so I decided to take a break out in the hallway. All of a sudden I realized that there was an amazing jam going on and it was still the same song! That made me dig deeper and and I realized that disco was a fad in which there was some really good music, if you spent some time weeding through nonsense. Even Bootsy was playing some disco back then. Likely every era, there was a lot of crap. The video that is the subject of this thread strikes me no so much as disco but as pop music with a disco beat. IOW, meh, in my view. And it's a lip-sync, which is never that impressive.