What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (VOL V)

RAW FOOD!!!!

"Dilla Stay Paid"

Latest collection of Dilla beats - put together by Ma Yancey and Pete Rock.

'24k Rap' with Havoc and Raekwon is serious - not for shook ones!

On vinyl:-


'cos I just bought it.

On DMM vinyl:-

On vinyl .

On vinyl:-

And now at the prompting of another forum member,on vinyl:-

John Fogerty - Eye of the Zombie

Seems pretty good to me, unsurprisingly CCWR tinted.
AMG seems to think this is a bad filling between, Centerfield and Blue Moon Swamp.I have not heard those albums so cannot comment further.

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AMG seems to think this is a bad filling between, Centerfield and Blue Moon Swamp.I have not heard those albums so cannot comment further.

Centrefield is a superb album. I like Blue Moon Swamp a lot. JF apologised to his fans for Eye of the Zombie. With the exception of Change In the Weather, JF never performs any tracks from this elpee. In fact it took him 10 years to decide he wanted to make a new record: BMS. I don't thin EOTZ is that bad.

Of course it was made when John was facing legal action for plagiarising - whose tune had he stolen? Well one written by J C Fogerty. Yes the dregs of CCR owned John's early songs and were signed to Fantasy. Together they accused him of sounding far too much like himself. The judge threw out the case.

Fogerty assigned the copyright for his song "Run through the Jungle" to Fantasy Records. Later he wrote "Old Man Down the Road" that was distributed by Warner Bros. and that Fantasy claimed was derived from "Jungle." The District Court rejected Fogerty's claim that he was immune from claims of copyright infringement of "Jungle" given his interest in the economic success of the earlier work; a jury later found that "Old Man" was not unfairly derivative of "Jungle." Rolling Stone (12 January 1989) implies that this dispute was the culmination of twenty years of animosity between Fogerty and Saul Zaentz, chairman of Fantasy, Inc., the Berkeley company that owned the copyrights to most of the songs Fogerty recorded with his pop group Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Fogerty ultimately appealed the case to the Supreme Court, obviously not on the copying issue, but rather on the question of how the Ninth Circuit handled his demand, after he successfully defended himself on the copyright infringement charge, for an award of attorney's fees. The Supreme Court agreed with Fogerty that the Ninth Circuit erred in applying a dual standard (under which prevailing plaintiffs were awarded attorney's fees as a matter of course while prevailing defendants were required to demonstrate that the suit was frivolous or brought in bad faith) and required the Ninth Circuit to take a more evenhanded approach to prevailing defendants and plaintiffs on this issue.

A comparison of the sound recordings (both by Fogerty) and notated versions of the two songs indicate a number of shared musical and topical elements. Within a broad musical context, however, consider whether these commonalties suggest more the spare compositional palate one associates with popular musicians possessing limited musical literacy who necessarily rely entirely on sound in creating their songs, than they imply an attempt by Fogerty to capitalize in a later work on the popularity of an earlier one. The only hints of melody (traditionally the lynchpin of plagiarism determinations) in both songs are the brief guitar riffs proffered at the openings of both numbers, and constantly repeated in the accompaniments thereafter. In keeping with what strikes us as a forced masculinity of Fogerty's raspy singing, the vocal lines eschew melody entirely (dangerously feminine and musical) and are syllabic monotone chants arranged in regular two-measure bursts. The lyrics of both songs share a vaguely voodoo/bayou motif in keeping with the swamp-rock genre with which Fogerty associated himself (his band came from El Cerrito, a non-descript San Francisco suburb quite devoid of the atmosphere and dialect one associates with the rural South). We included a brief clip of Fogerty's "Eye of the Zombie" as an example of another "swamp rock" number that draws on many of the same extra- and quasi-musical conventions of the songs involved in this dispute. The similarities lie, then, more in the overall affect and performance style of the numbers than in their rudimentary separable musical elements, and the jury's verdict appears to have been a sound one.

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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:

Snap.

Jono

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Originally posted by Voltaire:

Gordon, you inspired me to play this on the train home.

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Originally posted by Lontano:
Gordon, you inspired me to play this on the train home.

Excellent stuff!

And now, Five Peace Band a live double album - Chick Corea and John McLaughlin with Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and Vinnie Colaiuta. Herbie Hancock appears on one track - In A Silent Way.

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Originally posted by Voltaire:

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Originally posted by Lontano:
Gordon, you inspired me to play this on the train home.

Excellent stuff!

I look forward to tomorrow nights ECM choice

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Originally posted by Voltaire:

Looks like you are playing through my music collection! This is a good album that I bought years ago when released. Peter Erskine is one of my fave drummers and well Metheny, is one of my fave guitarists. I was hoping the new Gary Burton/Pat Metheny would be in the post box when I got home tonight but no luck. Hopefully tomorrow.

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Originally posted by Lontano:
I was hoping the new Gary Burton/Pat Metheny would be in the post box when I got home tonight but no luck. Hopefully tomorrow.

I was hoping my dealer might have it for me today but he didn't open his shop!

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Originally posted by Voltaire:

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Originally posted by Lontano:
I was hoping the new Gary Burton/Pat Metheny would be in the post box when I got home tonight but no luck. Hopefully tomorrow.

I was hoping my dealer might have it for me today but he didn't open his shop!

I ordered mine from the US as it was released two weeks earlier there. Fingers crossed for tomorrow!

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Originally posted by Lontano:
I look forward to tomorrow nights ECM choice

Sorry Adrian, I'm finishing tonight with...

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Originally posted by Voltaire:
Sorry Adrian, I'm finishing tonight with...

No need for sorry with a band of that talent. Scofield is a great guitarist. I was not keen on his latest release, Piety Street but have most of his other albums. My favourite of his has always been this one again with Joe Lovano (plus Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette). Time on my Hands.

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Originally posted by Jono 13:

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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:

Snap.

Jono

Well it is 32 years old today.

Jono