utube - Apache - The Shadows

Bob Marino

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  Ok, maybe being a boomer (aging one at that) I have an affinity for the 60's music, even though I was only 7 when this pre-Beatle record came out. Thanks to utube, you can see almost anything you'd ever imagine, but take a look see here. No flash, no fireworks, no gyrations, no crotch grabbing, no color; just some young guys - guitars and drums in hand, in black and white and smoke, rockin' one of my favorite instramentals - Apache.
Also note their clothes - jeans, tees, leather, stingy fedora and boots. Timeless in its' simplicity - and as the saying goes, simplicity is the essence of elegance.


And tell me that this 54 year old video isn't something even the so called coolest of the new videos can surpass?

Bob
 
Well as long as we're on a '60's music theme AND because someone else is running a thread called "The Good, The Bad, and The Lucky", here's the sound track from the slightly more famous movie of a similar name.

 
Still the 60's in this thread and an outstanding singing performance

[flash=200,200]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuWTyEmmAC4[/flash]
 
Atho a few years younger than Bob (but just a few) I too like the "real" sound from back then. The early rock and especially the folk recordings have a realness to them that is so different from much of the "plastic" and over-electronically manipulated stuff of today.
 
  Agree, Ron. Oh, but don't get me wrong, there's was and still is phenomenal music being played out there, I was commenting on this little gem as being a good example of just a group of guys , probably unknowingly, making a superb, sans huge production, 3 minute masterpiece. The music and the their "look" is timeless and cool; sort of like Steve McQueen.

At my daughter's sweet 16 party in February, I don't think any kid there, besides my daughter, ever heard Apache, but they were dancing like crazy to it.

Bob
 
Sparktrician said:
Speaking of "Old Music", there's a new Johnny Cash album, Out Among the Stars, that was apparently just released.  Should be interesting... 

Will,

I heard about that on TV yesterday. It was just sitting around since the 80's I think.

Bob
 
Bob Marino said:
Sparktrician said:
Speaking of "Old Music", there's a new Johnny Cash album, Out Among the Stars, that was apparently just released.  Should be interesting... 

Will,

I heard about that on TV yesterday. It was just sitting around since the 80's I think.

Bob

Same here.  What surprised me was hearing that some of the music had never been released. 

 
Bob Marino said:
Bob, I used to DJ a lot (mainly weddings) and one of the most requested dance songs was "Apache", but it was from the early 80's rap group Sugar Hill Gang and used the same backbeat and hooks.

I am a fan of all eras of music and while both are excellent songs, I generally prefer the original...

;)
 
dicktill said:
Well as long as we're on a '60's music theme AND because someone else is running a thread called "The Good, The Bad, and The Lucky", here's the sound track from the slightly more famous movie of a similar name.



I'll never believe another Eastwood Clinton (my wife's name for him) movie again.  I have never imagined such formally dressed group for background to any of his movies.  [poke]
Tinker
 
even tho i am a whole lot younger than Bob, my music recollections goes back to late 30's and on thru the war years.  i was living with some very musical relatives (still very close to those who remain).  The father played piano at several niteclubs on weekends during summer months.  The mother played both piano and violin and was a terrific singer.  The father's father was an old barn dance type fiddeler.  everybody on the mother's side played and instrument or sang.  Many a Sunday evening (as other days on impromptoo occasions) the entire family would gather around the piano and sing.  Those who happened to have fiddle or other instrument along played or sang with equal gusto.  AND, we could actually understand every word and note as it was sang or played. 

My favorite music after I left the farm was folk music.  I was not musical, but when in the army, while many of my buddies were musical, and as a group, would gather around singing, and some playing guitars or other stringed instruments, we might have plenty of liquid lubrication to loosen vocal chords. So many of those young men were from the southern hills and could really bring some of Hank Williams, Hank Snow and others to life.  I was never a singer in even anybody's wildest dreams, but learned to play, as did my father many moons earlier, the harmonica.  With enough noise, I got away with that. 

A few years after I got out of the service was the beginning of hearing singing and music that was indecipherable.  I miss those days when we could understand every word and notes could be heard.  I tell my wife that one could never take todays music to bed with them as possible in the 40's into the early 60's.
Tinker

 
Tinker said:
dicktill said:
Well as long as we're on a '60's music theme AND because someone else is running a thread called "The Good, The Bad, and The Lucky", here's the sound track from the slightly more famous movie of a similar name.


I'll never believe another Eastwood Clinton (my wife's name for him) movie again.  I have never imagined such formally dressed group for background to any of his movies.   [poke]

Tinker

Hi Tink,

Tell your wife that another good name for "Eastwood Clinton" (good one!!) is "Squint Eastwood". It fits well with many of his roles.

Regards, Dick
 
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