Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (TV Special 1992) ⭐ 8.1 | Documentary, Music
3h 24m | Not Rated
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Gonna be a nasty hangover tomorrow.
Dirty Frank
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Priller
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Managed to be underrated despite stacks of hits. His Live at Carnegie Hall is in the conversation for greatest live records ever, including James Gadsen and Melvin Dunlap holding down the rhythm section with the most laid-back cool you'll ever hear. And the audience chat stuff, which usually gets old on live records, still hold up. Withers has great comedic timing.
Priller
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Not exactly a huge leap from Bill Withers! Sounds like you're getting sent the '70s soul playlist. Wait'll it lines you up with Bobby Womack (Across 110th Street, Woman's Gotta Have It, etc )...
The bass on this sits so far back on the beat it's almost lying flat:
Hopefully it also sorts you out with the rest of the genre staples: Otis Redding, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway, The Meters, Aretha (anything on Atlantic, but her Live at the Fillmore West record with King Curtis' band and a cameo by Ray Charles is mind blowing - Bernard Purdie on drums is a wizard of feel), Dusty Springfield's American records (also on Atlantic), '60s/'70s Stevie Wonder (his '80s stuff doesn't grab me), Sam Cooke, and Marvin Gaye and so many more that I've forgotten. Come to think of it, anything on Motown with the Funk Brothers band, or on Stax/Volt with the Booker T band, or Atlantic with the Memphis or Muscle Shoals boys is worth a listen; those bands and the 'in the room' way most of those records were recorded make almost any artist sound great.
I came to soul later in life, mostly because I started playing bass and no genre has better players. Jamerson, Babbitt, Jemmott, Dunn, Rainey, Cogbill and so many more. There's an energy about the way a lot of these records were cut, where the singer would give the band the basic run through, keys and changes, and they'd mostly improvise their own parts on the spot, and then record together in a room so they were all bouncing off each other. There's a great Atlantic compilation out there call something like "Greatest Sweat-soaked Soul Songs" that captures the energy and urgency of a lot of those recordings...
bigpoppa
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YES!
It started with the wire and bill withers, I listen to spotify while cooking, and it just started playing all this great stuff
been listening to bill withers, Otis redding, Al green, curtis mayfield, sam cooke, also been on a huge bobby bland trip lately, his voice is amazing
Love any/all soul from the 60's-70s
Will check out the others on the list
Also surprised by how good the speakers are on modern phones...
Priller
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Funny, I listen to it when cooking as well. It invariably makes me nod, bounce, and shake my ***, which makes any job more fun. I listen to soul when working on my bikes as well, as it usually puts me in the right frame of mind for mechanical work: happy, chill, and in no hurry.
As for sounding good on phone speakers, most of it was mixed to work on transistor radio speakers, which aren't too different. Some stuff later on was mixed with more range as home HiFi systems became a big deal, but that was usually left to the more adventurous artists like Stevie Wonder and his concept albums.
One group I forgot to list is the Jackson 5. It's easy to lose what they were with how incomparably huge Michael got, but their first three records are like distilled joy. It is impossible for me to listen and not come out the other side smiling:
