Wednesday, September 25, 2013

September 25, 2013

Funk

James Brown - The One - counting the beat a particular way
black pride, black focus, black audience - it crossed over on its own
whites got into it for its own sake - there was no white translator

Other black performers get into it

Sly and the Family Stone - drug influenced - San Francisco
integrated - white and black

Stax Records - Aretha Franklin
integrated black and white band and black singers
reverse of Motown
try to sound blacker, whereas Motown tried to clean up that black sound

Soul

soul music was a religious based music
right out of the black church
intense and powerful and considered nasty -
the singers who sang about god switched over to singing about love or romance

There was a reaction to all the dark, nasty, drug-fueled weird music and it was a really strange thing.

Country - Rock - reaction to what’s going

Gram Parsons
The Flying Burrito Bros
Neil Young
The Band
CCR

THE 1970s!

this is one of the most disturbing decades of all time
why?

The music industry has become HUGE business.

Records are ENORMOUS business

How does a band compete in this growing, bursting crazy market?

Everything gets more extreme
Glam Rock - British
sexy
weird
trippy
all kinds of homoerotic stuff - gay culture bursting through
David Bowie
he announced that he was gay - PS he was married PPS he wasn’t gay

Another band went into the same area and took to the bank

Kiss cashed in on the glam scene
Alice Cooper - horror + glam
everybody got in on the act

Blame the 60s Alternative

Velvet Underground
The Doors
The Stooges

Acid Rock
- heavy rock with a glam touch and a druggy vibe

Do you think everybody like grim, dark, creepy, sexually ambiguous music?

Grandma says no. (in reality, grandma gave me Kiss Alive II)

Pop

NICE!

calculated to make money

AOR - (yacht rock)
The Eagles? Yeah


Disco -

Funk -

Progressive Rock -

Reggae -

Punk -

Electronic -

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