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2 fascinating Wiki off-shoots about music - jazzboCR - 19-01-2015
They call them "portals" and there's all manner of interesting stuff in them, not just the customary and usual. Here'e the ones for Canada and Australia--came across them by accident:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Music_of_Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Music_of_Australia
2 fascinating Wiki off-shoots about music - Big Ears - 19-01-2015
It's good to see a reference to Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. He almost made it here with Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy, but glam rock conspired against him.
2 fascinating Wiki off-shoots about music - jazzboCR - 20-01-2015
Big Ears Wrote:It's good to see a reference to Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. He almost made it here with Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy, but glam rock conspired against him.
Thanks, Big Ears--makes my point about these Wikis covering a huge swath. May I return the favor with these Billy Thorpe pieces?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqhRxyAz7RY << short bio appended
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmuQxwSDPEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygUD7mO9M4o << really rockin' a N.O. classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCO4R81n8iI << Mr. Thorpe sure had a varied career
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR2oct3zeTM << The first commenter was dead-on
2 fascinating Wiki off-shoots about music - Big Ears - 20-01-2015
I don't know too much about Billy Thorpe, but he appeared to encompass a lot of styles. Another Australian who never quite made it here was Alan Tarney, who seemed a kind of genius to me.
2 fascinating Wiki off-shoots about music - jazzboCR - 20-01-2015
Keep those tips coming, Big Ears--we have a good thing going on...and everybody benefits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Tarney Having a good career as both band leader and side-man << Interesting tid-bit about the music migration to Adelaide in the '60's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXjZy2LrlXo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4GJtJgGC_w << Great Everly Brothers cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KG2F04kZP4 << another terrif cover, this of a Knickerbocker's tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRHvW0F6EWg << Not really a cover--they wrote it for Cliff Richard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ubqKoJRydM << This band, this man should have been so much bigger. Blame the vagaries of the music biz.
BONUS: Full album from '78: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPhuLDPYXU
2 fascinating Wiki off-shoots about music - Big Ears - 20-01-2015
The Tarney Spencer Band were really good. A number of Australians with connections to Cliff Richard and the Shadows came here (allegedly and understandably) to avoid the Vietnam draft, including Trevor Spencer, Terry Britten and Kevin Peek.
I don't think I can suggest anything else Jazzbo. The Canadian portal, as far as I can tell, doesn't link to a number of interesting Canadian musicians, which are detailed on Wikipedia, so it probably needs more work on adding links. I have never contributed to, or edited anything on, Wikipedia, although I've been tempted a few times.
2 fascinating Wiki off-shoots about music - SteveO - 20-01-2015
I agree! The Canadian portal is skimpy to say the least!
2 fascinating Wiki off-shoots about music - Big Ears - 20-01-2015
Besides Rush and Celine, it needs links to Max Webster, Mahogany Rush, Pat Travers and KD Laing. But I suppose it is dependant upon a volunteer sorting it out. I probably drive people mad by championing Canadian (as well as Welsh and Dutch) rock bands wherever I go. Jazzbo's initial post is an interesting one because if you mention Australian musicians, for example, in the UK, people think of The Seekers, Rolf Harris, Frank Ifield, Kylie Minogue, Inxs and (these days) AC/DC. Likewise, with Canada, people would immediately think of Rush and Celine Dion. One of the good things about the internet is that it has brought more music from around the world (to a country starved of rock radio). There are lots of groups I would never have heard without the internet - Abraxas Pool, Frumpy, Spring, Starcastle. Subsignal, Sunstorm, Ars Nova, Bood of the Sun and lots more.
2 fascinating Wiki off-shoots about music - jazzboCR - 20-01-2015
Mentioning kd lang (not busting but she prefers a lower-case spelling) puts it right in the sweet spot. Not gonna be lengthy but some tunes? Oh yes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE << THE version--not even Jennifer Warnes does it better, as good as she is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOXMnYfJCtc << This, folks, is a duet for the ages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-0aIHtD2Q << Kills it solo too--"torch and twang" to the max
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjwR86IOQfo << For more of this good stuff, go here (but it requires free registration): http://www.kcrw.com/acl_users/credentials_cookie_auth/require_login?came_from=http%3A//www.kcrw.com/events/archive/kcrw-sessions-kdlang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngY5TFwXet8 << from an album covering Canadian artists: http://www.allmusic.com/album/hymns-of-the-49th-parallel-mw0000207951
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Gba61V2nQ << at her crooner best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2rY507vF1M << Can't imagine a song she's done that I wouldn't like << Sorry if some of these pix disturb the Troglodytes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIgPjIMLCA << I'll leave you with this...
Not to forget she did a wonderful album with Tony Bennett pre-GaGa.
2 fascinating Wiki off-shoots about music - CRAZY-HORSE - 21-01-2015
Back to Billy Thorpe....
He ended up in LA and scored the music for Star Trek:the next generation and several other TV series...
His best work IMO was his final,almost prog album, Tangier