Wayman Tisdale, great OU basketball player who later became a excellent
jazz bass player died of Cancer and he was 44 years old. Wayman was a
original who went from one profession to another, going from sports to
music. It is hard to tell when your time is up, here I am bitching at
each and every thing in the world and I should have been dead years ago
from either a stroke or heart attack but here I am. But when I read
about people such as Wayman or somebody younger passing on, I sometimes
wonder what their life was all about or their families. I've been living
in a fog for so long that even I don't know what I have done the past
couple years. I guess that's why I blog a lot. It helps me remember
things I would have forgotten years ago.
Dave White is the About.com
classic rock host and he's been on a tirade against Tom Scholtz of
Boston about the legacy of Boston and how other ex band members are
trying to mosy in on his creation. In fact that overplayed first album
remains perhaps one of the greatest creations of do it yourself music.
Music from the basement and basically it was Tom's baby from the get
go. I used to have an admiration for Barry Gordeau, the other
guitarist. The more I read about him the more it becomes clearer that
Barry tends to want more of the pie than he contributed. His 1980 S/T
album was probably a good Boston tribute album since he got John Boylan
to co produce it and got Brad Delp to sing on it as well as Fran
Cosmo. And the first three songs from the RTZ album of 1990 was classic
too. But you can hear the difference between Barry's part of the band
(Baby Let Me Take You Home Tonight) and the rest of Tom's vision and
songs. For the most part of his career Tom has had to fend off many
lawsuits from the likes of Barry and Sib Hasian, the drummer . The big
logic is that Boston IS Tom Scholz, has always been, has will be. As
much as flawed the albums were beginning with Third Stage, Walk On and
Corporate America those records remain Boston because Tom did most of
the work and music. There's always going to be some disgruntled ex band
mate that will probably bitch and moan and sue Tom once again and
we'll may never see another Boston album in our lifetime (although 2011
is the target date for the next Boston record-supposedly). The voice of
Boston was stilled back in 2007 when Brad Delp chose to take his life.
Unless Barry Gordeau or Sib Hasian can sing like Brad they should just
shut the fuck up and take their royalties like good little workers
should. As for Dave White, he's entitled to his opinion and the people
that he made mad theirs. But it's not whining and crying as Dave tells
it, it's Tom himself trying to tell his side of the story and basically
his story is more believable. UPDATE: since Dave White is no longer part of about. com, the link became obsolete. Also something about being a attack site, so I deleted the link.
Look
For A Black Eye For Boston or something other like that. I'm sure Dave
is entitled to his opinion and not going to slam him for his views.
But Boston remains Tom Scholtz and if Barry and Sib can't handle it,
that's their tough cookie. Back to the bars y'all.
And had Barry
decided to let Tom play on his S/T 1980, it could have been the third
Boston album, instead it turned out to be a very good tribute album instead. As for Orion The Hunter or RTZ.......or Eddie And The
Automatics.
Good moments but they're not Boston. I did take the
time to check out the songs from The My Space site of Eddie And The
Automatics which features ex Boston, RTZ and Orion The Hunter members,
namely Barry Gourdeau and Sib Hashian plus the saxophone player from The
Beaver Brown Band and find them to be a good blues band although what I
heard won't prompt me to go seek their album out. And so it goes.
http://www.cmt.com/news/1611430/nashville-skyline-music-industrys-future-parallels-that-of-newspapers/
Another
article about the demise of radio and newspapers and other things that
are associated with the Great Depression 2. Again The Telecom act of
1996 has killed media as we know it and spawned the hated Clear Channel
and the dreaded Cumulus Corp that owns four of the stations in the area
(namely KHAK and KDAT). I'm not saying that music is dead, but nothing
that has come out new gets promoted anymore. What you hear on the radio
is total shit. Top forty Radio is shit, country radio here is shit and
most of the new rock stations are shit. The RIAA looks after the best
interest of the Big 4 and the Big 4 don't give a fuck for music
anymore. They'd rather sue the file-traders and put up those "home
taping is killing music" propaganda shit that makes people quit buying
new music anymore. At some point, you give up in trying to find
worthwhile music since none of the new acts have any staying power and
the top forty pop tarts suck and the rap that dominates top forty sucks
even more. Seems like everytime Jenna at work plays that fucking Z102.9
I just want to bash her upside the head with the radio. Why continue
to torture your coworkers with this shit when you can be better off
listening to it with your earplugs? Led Zeppelin remains classic but if
KRNA rather plays something from 40 years ago or Nirvana from 18, it
doesn't bode well for an honest rock band out there, not playing to the
suits and bean-counters at the labels or radio. Black Stone Cherry
remains perhaps the only new rock band that I like to hear. But we have
way too many Nickleback wannabes, or Linkin Park wannabes and no
original bands with original music since radio won't play them. Radio
sucked ten years ago but it's worse today. You don't need to waterboard
a terrorist, just play them the crappy top forty radio station and
they'll cave in.
I still believe
in the power of rock and roll and a good song but it's time for me to
clean out my closet and get rid of the overplayed songs on scratchy
45s. I don't see the need of Sweet Home Alabama anymore, nor Take The
Money And Run. Nostalgia can only go for so long before like anything
else, clogs up the house and takes up valuable space. Once TX weekend
passes, think I'll do that. Keep a eye out at the local Marion
Salvation Army for the useless shit I don't need anymore.
And I haven't made any comments on the local band news cuz there's nothing to report. Maybe next week or the week after that.
