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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2024 18:33:12 GMT -5
Margo Guryan. She was strictly Bach and Bird. Well, not strictly, but she had a lot of jazz musician friends. She married a jazz musician. One of her mentors was Jaki Byard. She loved classical, too. Her favorite composer was Bach.
She told me this, "I was very into jazz until the Beatles showed up. I didn't listen to pop radio...thought most of it was junk. But when Brian Wilson came along that did it for me!"
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Post by bessieboporbach on Feb 1, 2024 18:41:03 GMT -5
Margo Guryan. She was strictly Bach and Bird. Well, not strictly, but she had a lot of jazz musician friends. She married a jazz musician. One of her mentors was Jaki Byard. She loved classical, too. Her favorite composer was Bach. She told me this, "I was very into jazz until the Beatles showed up. I didn't listen to pop radio...thought most of it was junk. But when Brian Wilson came along that did it for me!" Jaki covered "Surfer Girl" on the last record he made (Involution with Michael Marcus). |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2024 23:38:46 GMT -5
Wow! I had no idea. I followed Jaki in the late 60s and early 70s. Andrew Hill was my favorite pianist (and composer), Jaki was right up there in second place.
Oh, I have to mention songwriter and singer Paul Davis. We met in 1986 at a big wing ding that the Capitol labels threw on the grounds of Castle Recording Studios in Nashville. It was a fun, sociable evening. There was lots and lots of food and drink. At one point, Tina Turner was running around, barefoot, passing out plates of peach pie to guests. There was live music, I believe Jason & The Scorchers played. I introduced myself to Paul and told him that I really liked his writing and congratulated him on his song Bop (Dan Seals), which had gone #1 in the Country charts. At some point I mentioned The Beach Boys and his eyes lit up. He told me that when he wrote Bop that Darlin' was the inspiration for it. At that point, he starts playing air guitar, fingering the Dmi7 and G7 chords to the Bop's chorus and demonstrating how he took that little chord progression from Darlin'. It was a memorable exchange. Sweet guy!
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Post by E on Feb 2, 2024 3:56:16 GMT -5
There is, somewhere, an interview with Brian Eno where he talks about being into (I'm not saying 'influenced by" here, because I'm not sure he said that) by the Bs - The Band, The Beach Boys, The Byrds. Not sure he said the other B group, but I imagine he did...
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Post by jk on Feb 2, 2024 8:48:54 GMT -5
Oh, I have to mention songwriter and singer Paul Davis. We met in 1986 at a big wing ding that the Capitol labels threw on the grounds of Castle Recording Studios in Nashville. It was a fun, sociable evening. There was lots and lots of food and drink. At one point, Tina Turner was running around, barefoot, passing out plates of peach pie to guests. There was live music, I believe Jason & The Scorchers played. I introduced myself to Paul and told him that I really liked his writing and congratulated him on his song Bop (Dan Seals), which had gone #1 in the Country charts. At some point I mentioned The Beach Boys and his eyes lit up. He told me that when he wrote Bop that Darlin' was the inspiration for it. At that point, he starts playing air guitar, fingering the Dmi7 and G7 chords to the Bop's chorus and demonstrating how he took that little chord progression from Darlin'. It was a memorable exchange. Sweet guy! Great stuff, Steve, as always. Well with "Bop" such a key part of your story, perhaps we’d better hear it! |
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Post by Awesoman on Feb 2, 2024 11:05:11 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Feb 2, 2024 12:53:21 GMT -5
Bono references Brian Wilson in his liner notes essay: "FLASHBACKS 4 SONGS OF INNOCENCE":
"I also wanted to see Brian Wilson's house, it was supposed to have a sand pit with a piano in it... and I loved the Beach Boys. they brought rhythm for the body, melody for the mind, harmony for the spirit etc Brian sang like a girl too…"
That memory turned into "California (There Is No End To Love)", of course.
[ With thanks] I love U2's studio albums. Regrettably I find them hard to listen to these days -- the wonderful person who turned me onto the band passed away in 2020.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2024 13:34:03 GMT -5
Unless I missed it, has anyone mentioned the High Llamas yet? I'd argue they have aped Brian's sound more directly than most other artists. I always loved their song "Nomads". There are much better words than "aped" one could use to describe what Sean O'Hagan (and crew) did with Brian's approach to arranging and composing. Sean took some of Brian's musical essence from the '66, and a little forward, era and used it to fashion some really nice minimalistic music beds and melodies. One major Brian thing High Llamas tracks don't have is vocal texture (harmonies/countermelodies). |
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Post by Awesoman on Feb 2, 2024 15:38:25 GMT -5
Unless I missed it, has anyone mentioned the High Llamas yet? I'd argue they have aped Brian's sound more directly than most other artists. I always loved their song "Nomads". There are much better words than "aped" one could use to describe what Sean O'Hagan (and crew) did with Brian's approach to arranging and composing. Sean took some of Brian's musical essence from the '66, and a little forward, era and used it to fashion some really nice minimalistic music beds and melodies. One major Brian thing High Llamas tracks don't have is vocal texture (harmonies/countermelodies). Was not trying to be derogatory with my words; merely playing off the clear and obvious inspiration the Beach Boys had on O'Hagan's sound. The influence was more than subtle which isn't a bad thing, but it does explain why any talk of the High Llamas can't go without bringing up BW and the Beach Boys. |
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Post by Awesoman on Feb 2, 2024 15:40:43 GMT -5
Bono references Brian Wilson in his liner notes essay: "FLASHBACKS 4 SONGS OF INNOCENCE":
"I also wanted to see Brian Wilson's house, it was supposed to have a sand pit with a piano in it... and I loved the Beach Boys. they brought rhythm for the body, melody for the mind, harmony for the spirit etc Brian sang like a girl too…"
That memory turned into "California (There Is No End To Love)", of course.
[ With thanks] I love U2's studio albums. Regrettably I find them hard to listen to these days -- the wonderful person who turned me onto the band passed away in 2020. Sorry to hear. Speaking of U2 - Van Dyke Parks handled the string arrangement for their song "All I Want Is You". |
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Post by jk on Feb 4, 2024 13:49:06 GMT -5
Unless I missed it, has anyone mentioned the High Llamas yet? My favourite of theirs is the utterly gorgeous "Might As Well Be Dumbo": |
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