Country died a little bit more tonight... - Page 2

RCinMempho · April 25th, 2005, 10:00 PM

I believe the Opry could save country if they just went to a 3-hour live Friday night broadcast on GAC.

Nothing could touch it, and it wouldn't stay on GAC more than two seasons.

denny · April 26th, 2005, 03:36 AM

You folks and your satellite cable TV monstrosities. My 13 inch TV with rabbit ear antenna doesn't get any of that junk. I don't turn the dang thing on much these days.

I think that the quality of television has dropped dramatically ever since they came out with those "remote control" thingies... and they don't even make TV's with TUBES anymore.

Don't sit and gripe about how bad it is, just unplug that useless thing and PLAY YER GEETAR.

denny

Reno Sepulveda · April 26th, 2005, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by andrew

Nashville is in need of another George Strait to bring the country back. The question is who will it be, and will the record companies kill him before he has a chance?

I was suprised as all get out several years ago when I saw Buddy Miller and his wife Julie singing backup for Lee Ann Womack on one of those award shows. I wondered how anybody could walk up and accept an award for male vocalist that night with Buddy in the room.

Buddy recorded four amazing albums for Hightone Records in his old house in Nashville and it was some of the best country ever recorded. The guy is at least as good a singer as he is a guitar player yet I never saw one Buddy Miller video come out of those wonderful records. The record companies didn't kill him, the "fans" just ignored him.

Joel66 · April 26th, 2005, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by jpkusa

This is just what happens when you do market-research and focus-groups to determine what kind of songs your assembly-lines should churn out. Have you ever seen some of the songwriting credits on a typical Nashville hit? Sometimes it's the usual 2 or 3 people, but often it's as high as 5 or 6. That's fine for a big-budget movie, but a 3 minute country song?

I have heard an account of a particular label head in Nashville in the late 90's who once mentioned at a meeting that he wanted to get Patsy Cline to duet with one of his artists. The staff had to inform him that she'd been dead for several decades. Doesn't that just sum it up?

I took no offense at all to what you had to say. I just wanted to touch on a couple of things though. Is 4 writers too many for a 3:36 song?

1982....Leave Them Boys Alone from Hank Jr's album Strong Stuff was written by the following: Dean Dillon; Gary Stewart; Hank Williams, Jr.; Tanya Tucker (sorry, I just had to ask that)

The label head/Patsy Cline story:
I can't remember the label head's name but, they were having a meeting about an artist. They wanted to get the Patsy Cline master tapes from, I believe, MCA. They were discussing doing that when the label head piped in that it would cost a fortune to get those tapes. He then asked (I'm paraphrasing here) "Why don't we just have her come in do the duet?"

If I remember the story correctly, that pretty much ended his career as a label head in NashVegas.

Joel

tweedman · April 27th, 2005, 09:17 PM

Waylon was right 35 years ago.
The Nashville establishment s_ _ _ _ d then and it still does.

They are not interested in Great music ,just male and female video sexuality.

I loved the Mike Wallace special with Loretta Lynn and Jack White.They exposed Nashville for what it really is.
It took a MTV rocker to appreciate great Country Music and record a duet with Loretta.Go figure that!

"Hackville" would not recognize real country music if it walked up and slapped them in the face.

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April 26th, 2005, 03:36 AM	#42 (permalink)
denny Tele-Meister Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: North of Dallas Posts: 454	Solid State Digital Television.... BAH You folks and your satellite cable TV monstrosities. My 13 inch TV with rabbit ear antenna doesn't get any of that junk. I don't turn the dang thing on much these days. I think that the quality of television has dropped dramatically ever since they came out with those "remote control" thingies... and they don't even make TV's with TUBES anymore. Don't sit and gripe about how bad it is, just unplug that useless thing and PLAY YER GEETAR. denny

April 27th, 2005, 09:17 PM	#45 (permalink)
tweedman Tele-Meister Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 414	Waylon was right 35 years ago. The Nashville establishment s_ _ _ _ d then and it still does. They are not interested in Great music ,just male and female video sexuality. I loved the Mike Wallace special with Loretta Lynn and Jack White.They exposed Nashville for what it really is. It took a MTV rocker to appreciate great Country Music and record a duet with Loretta.Go figure that! "Hackville" would not recognize real country music if it walked up and slapped them in the face.