Title: Accept - Blood Of The Nations Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Jun 26, 2011 Author:Accept Post Date:2011-06-26 09:17:08 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:12471 Comments:23
They've actually been back for a while with this singer...Trillo...Trunino something like that...thyey get a lot of play on Sirius/XM's Metal channel...
I'm not the fan of them as I was 25 years ago...think they were called Band X then...
I just discovered them again yesterday watching youtube videos. I saw them probably 3 times opening for bands in the 80's. This new singer kicks ass though.
ONe of the things that has kept me listening to AC/DC is that they are not over produced...Band X had an insane rawness to them...this band is good, don't get me wrong...I just like Metal to have that raw edge...
ONe of the things that has kept me listening to AC/DC is that they are not over produced..
That was the ONLY complaint I ever had about anything Ray Charles ever did. The man was a musical gift to the world,but he did have a tendency to go into the studio and overproduce his songs. As smart as he was about music,you would think he would have understood that the rawness of his tunes is what gave them power.
Still,even a half-strength Ray Charles was miles ahead of practically everybody else.
Ever heard of Cab Calloway? Etta James? Louis Armstrong? Fats Domino?
Cab Collaway never became popular or "mainstream" until he began appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show in the 60's. Calloway didn't have a great rep in the music world and in the 40's and 50's was known as "the junkie Dizzie Gillespie stabbed on stage".
Fats' move into "mainstream" radio and popularity occurred a few years after "Mess Around" hit the charts. Fats never recorded on or under the auspices of a mainstream label until London records bought Imperial in the 1960's. The irony, of course, is that London bought that label because of the Nelson Brothers. Fat's first hit, "Blueberry Hill" came after "Mess Around".
Etta James didn't have a mainstream label or hit until "At Last" which was an early 60's hit.
Louis Armstrong is a different bird and, yea, you have an argument that he made it easier for blacks to record on mainstream labels but he never did until he was picked up by Decca in the 60's. He got play because of his catchy way of incorporating ragtime and jazz into "pop".
So, no, Charles, with "Mess Around" under Atlantic was the first...
I guess it all depends on how you define "mainstream". I knew who Cab Calloway,Louis Armstrong,Etta James,and Fats Domino were in the 50's,and had no clue what record label any of them recorded under.
Seems like I even remember Louis Armstrong being on the Ed Sullivan Show back in the 50's,but I could be wrong about that.
He got play because of his catchy way of incorporating ragtime and jazz into "pop".
I disagree with that one,too. He got to play because of his unique gravely voice,but mostly because that man could blow a horn like nobody else.
Check out the album "Louis Armstrong Plays the Music of W.C.Handy" if you want to hear something special.
