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Reply #26 - Dec 28^th, 2013 at 2:05pm

Pdog wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 9:16am:

The Stones and Beatles were boy bands 50 years ago.

No they werent - they were two groups of friends who got together due to a mutual love of the same music. Boy bands are brought together by media moguls through a process of auditions to make money, some of them not even knowing each other beforehand.

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Reply #27 - Dec 28^th, 2013 at 5:53pm

Gazza wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 2:05pm:

Pdog wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 9:16am:

The Stones and Beatles were boy bands 50 years ago.

No they werent - they were two groups of friends who got together due to a mutual love of the same music. Boy bands are brought together by media moguls through a process of auditions to make money, some of them not even knowing each other beforehand.

You are correct Gazza, the term Boy bands wasn't around in '64, The Beatles who got The Stones into writing their own music, were the first to actually write their own music, before that they had songwriters to write their music, Frankie Avalon, Fabion, you name it, they were made to be tenny bopper idols, the Beatles/Stones changed all that, I was around in '64, so I know what I'm talking about.

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Reply #29 - Dec 29^th, 2013 at 1:46pm

It seems that after a break of 7 years U2 will be returning to their original record label Island Records, leaving Mercury Records.

Reports from the NME suggest that a source close to the band states that U2 are 'going back to their spiritual home' for their next album release, due in the spring of 2014.

The break from Island Records in 2006 coincided with the release of 18 Singles, when former Island Records label executive Jason Iley left to join Mercury, shortly followed by U2.

It would appear that earlier this year Mercury Records was absorbed into the newly formed Virgin EMI, a subsidiary of Universal Music UK.

In fact perhaps this news should not be such a surprise as a close look at the back cover and labels of the recent release of Ordinary Love shows no mention of Mercury. It would appear that in the US, U2 will continue to be signed to Interscope.

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Reply #30 - Dec 29^th, 2013 at 5:25pm

Heart Of Stone wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 5:53pm:

Gazza wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 2:05pm:

Pdog wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 9:16am:

The Stones and Beatles were boy bands 50 years ago.

No they werent - they were two groups of friends who got together due to a mutual love of the same music. Boy bands are brought together by media moguls through a process of auditions to make money, some of them not even knowing each other beforehand.

You are correct Gazza, the term Boy bands wasn't around in '64, The Beatles who got The Stones into writing their own music, were the first to actually write their own music, before that they had songwriters to write their music, Frankie Avalon, Fabion, you name it, they were made to be tenny bopper idols, the Beatles/Stones changed all that, I was around in '64, so I know what I'm talking about.

I know the term wasnt around - my point was that the concept of what became a 'boy band', ie manufactured groups where the band members auditioned - wasnt what those bands were.

You could argue that the Monkees fitted more into that category, but that was a few years later. Apparently Stephen Stills auditioned for them - and may have got the job if he'd had better teeth.

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Reply #31 - Dec 30^th, 2013 at 8:03am

Gazza wrote on Dec 29^th, 2013 at 5:25pm:

Heart Of Stone wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 5:53pm:

Gazza wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 2:05pm:

Pdog wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 9:16am:

The Stones and Beatles were boy bands 50 years ago.

No they werent - they were two groups of friends who got together due to a mutual love of the same music. Boy bands are brought together by media moguls through a process of auditions to make money, some of them not even knowing each other beforehand.

You are correct Gazza, the term Boy bands wasn't around in '64, The Beatles who got The Stones into writing their own music, were the first to actually write their own music, before that they had songwriters to write their music, Frankie Avalon, Fabion, you name it, they were made to be tenny bopper idols, the Beatles/Stones changed all that, I was around in '64, so I know what I'm talking about.

I know the term wasnt around - my point was that the concept of what became a 'boy band', ie manufactured groups where the band members auditioned - wasnt what those bands were.

You could argue that the Monkees fitted more into that category, but that was a few years later. Apparently Stephen Stills auditioned for them - and may have got the job if he'd had better teeth.

Stills may have been eliminated when they found out he actually could play guitar.....

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Reply #33 - Dec 31^st, 2013 at 1:12am

More likely The Banana Splits, albeit you couldn't ever really see the BS's bollocks thru their trous.

Also...
In '14, will the Spunky-Monkeys be unleashing new Sticky Sticky Thingies and lovely liveness and fresh tunerizations? Not much of a Chauncey Gardiner, guvnor.

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Re: One Direction will surpass U2 and the Stones with their $1 Billion stadium tour this year
Reply #34 - Jan 4^th, 2014 at 1:04am

Yeah, obviously the Beatles and Stones were not boy
bands in the sense they had been put together by some
management group to specifically target the free-
spending young female demographic.

BUT nonetheless it is that same demographic that
changed the world by suddenly deciding they liked
boys with guitars and long hair more than those
without. It was pure luck in a way (as it had been
with Sinatra and Elvis) that the subjects of this
young female passion also happened to have lasting
musical impact and import.

For all those waiting and hoping for a return to
massively popular rock-guitar-based music (which
I think has about the same odds as a return to
dominance of Swing), your only hope is that someday
young girls en masse find the 19 year old purveyors of
such music to be irresistably cute beyond all the others
competing for their dollars and/or yuan.

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Re: One Direction will surpass U2 and the Stones with their $1 Billion stadium tour this year
Reply #36 - Jan 5^th, 2014 at 2:52pm

gimmekeef wrote on Dec 30^th, 2013 at 8:03am:

Gazza wrote on Dec 29^th, 2013 at 5:25pm:

Heart Of Stone wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 5:53pm:

Gazza wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 2:05pm:

Pdog wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 9:16am:

The Stones and Beatles were boy bands 50 years ago.

No they werent - they were two groups of friends who got together due to a mutual love of the same music. Boy bands are brought together by media moguls through a process of auditions to make money, some of them not even knowing each other beforehand.

You are correct Gazza, the term Boy bands wasn't around in '64, The Beatles who got The Stones into writing their own music, were the first to actually write their own music, before that they had songwriters to write their music, Frankie Avalon, Fabion, you name it, they were made to be tenny bopper idols, the Beatles/Stones changed all that, I was around in '64, so I know what I'm talking about.

I know the term wasnt around - my point was that the concept of what became a 'boy band', ie manufactured groups where the band members auditioned - wasnt what those bands were.

You could argue that the Monkees fitted more into that category, but that was a few years later. Apparently Stephen Stills auditioned for them - and may have got the job if he'd had better teeth.

Stills may have been eliminated when they found out he actually could play guitar.....

IMO
The Osmonds,
The Jackson 5,
The Monkees
Fit the bill!
As first in the thin called Boy Bands!

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Reply #39 - Jan 5^th, 2014 at 4:06pm

The Osmonds were Mormons. When asked why their religion banned black people from being made, Donald O. said "That's the way god wants it." That was in 1977. The video is on YouTube.

I've heard that Mormons are now eligible to adopt black babies.

I met Donald once at a charity gig. He's a decent enough guy in a robotic way. He can't drop his schtick for a second, though. He's time locked in Puppy Love for life. What a Mormon geek. What's the point?

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Reply #40 - Jan 5^th, 2014 at 4:19pm

Kilroy wrote on Jan 5^th, 2014 at 2:52pm:

gimmekeef wrote on Dec 30^th, 2013 at 8:03am:

Gazza wrote on Dec 29^th, 2013 at 5:25pm:

Heart Of Stone wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 5:53pm:

Gazza wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 2:05pm:

Pdog wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 9:16am:

The Stones and Beatles were boy bands 50 years ago.

No they werent - they were two groups of friends who got together due to a mutual love of the same music. Boy bands are brought together by media moguls through a process of auditions to make money, some of them not even knowing each other beforehand.

You are correct Gazza, the term Boy bands wasn't around in '64, The Beatles who got The Stones into writing their own music, were the first to actually write their own music, before that they had songwriters to write their music, Frankie Avalon, Fabion, you name it, they were made to be tenny bopper idols, the Beatles/Stones changed all that, I was around in '64, so I know what I'm talking about.

I know the term wasnt around - my point was that the concept of what became a 'boy band', ie manufactured groups where the band members auditioned - wasnt what those bands were.

You could argue that the Monkees fitted more into that category, but that was a few years later. Apparently Stephen Stills auditioned for them - and may have got the job if he'd had better teeth.

Stills may have been eliminated when they found out he actually could play guitar.....

IMO
The Osmonds,
The Jackson 5,
The Monkees
Fit the bill!
As first in the thin called Boy Bands!

A group of brothers forming a band, encouraged by pushy parents was hardly a new thing.

Nothing The Beach Boys and others hadn't done years earlier.

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Reply #41 - Jan 5^th, 2014 at 4:38pm

Gazza wrote on Jan 5^th, 2014 at 4:19pm:

Kilroy wrote on Jan 5^th, 2014 at 2:52pm:

gimmekeef wrote on Dec 30^th, 2013 at 8:03am:

Gazza wrote on Dec 29^th, 2013 at 5:25pm:

Heart Of Stone wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 5:53pm:

Gazza wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 2:05pm:

Pdog wrote on Dec 28^th, 2013 at 9:16am:

The Stones and Beatles were boy bands 50 years ago.

No they werent - they were two groups of friends who got together due to a mutual love of the same music. Boy bands are brought together by media moguls through a process of auditions to make money, some of them not even knowing each other beforehand.

You are correct Gazza, the term Boy bands wasn't around in '64, The Beatles who got The Stones into writing their own music, were the first to actually write their own music, before that they had songwriters to write their music, Frankie Avalon, Fabion, you name it, they were made to be tenny bopper idols, the Beatles/Stones changed all that, I was around in '64, so I know what I'm talking about.

I know the term wasnt around - my point was that the concept of what became a 'boy band', ie manufactured groups where the band members auditioned - wasnt what those bands were.

You could argue that the Monkees fitted more into that category, but that was a few years later. Apparently Stephen Stills auditioned for them - and may have got the job if he'd had better teeth.

Stills may have been eliminated when they found out he actually could play guitar.....

IMO
The Osmonds,
The Jackson 5,
The Monkees
Fit the bill!
As first in the thin called Boy Bands!

A group of brothers forming a band, encouraged by pushy parents was hardly a new thing.

Nothing The Beach Boys and others hadn't done years earlier.

and lets not forget the joke that was Dino Desi and Billy!

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Reply #44 - Jan 5^th, 2014 at 5:51pm

Kilroy wrote on Jan 5^th, 2014 at 5:21pm:

Edith Grove wrote on Jan 5^th, 2014 at 5:01pm:

Where would the Partridge Family fit in all this ?

Or The Cowsills
but both of those had a gurl in them!

Did you know the Partridge Family was inspired by The Cowsills ?

Susan Cowsill still performs in New Orleans and elsewhere.

Barry Cowsill died during or after Katrina:

Cowsill was living in New Orleans when the city was hit by Hurricane Katrina. He left a very distraught message on sister Susan's voice mail and was never heard from again. There was a search for him that ended tragically, as his body was found in late December washed ashore on the Mississippi near the Chartres Street wharf, near the home he and his family lived in for some years in Fauborg Marigny, just outside of the French Quarter. His body was subsequently identified by comparison to dental records, and the death was ruled a drowning as a result of the Federal Flood following Hurricane Katrina.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Cowsill

I have my doubts about Barry's death.
If he lived in the Fauborg Marigny as the article states, then he was only blocks away from my place in the French Quarter.
That area got either no flooding or very minor street-type flooding, not nearly enough to drown in unless you were passed out in a gutter somewhere.

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Reply #45 - Jan 5^th, 2014 at 6:49pm

Edith Grove wrote on Jan 5^th, 2014 at 5:51pm:

Kilroy wrote on Jan 5^th, 2014 at 5:21pm:

Edith Grove wrote on Jan 5^th, 2014 at 5:01pm:

Where would the Partridge Family fit in all this ?

Or The Cowsills
but both of those had a gurl in them!

Did you know the Partridge Family was inspired by The Cowsills ?

Susan Cowsill still performs in New Orleans and elsewhere.

Barry Cowsill died during or after Katrina:

Cowsill was living in New Orleans when the city was hit by Hurricane Katrina. He left a very distraught message on sister Susan's voice mail and was never heard from again. There was a search for him that ended tragically, as his body was found in late December washed ashore on the Mississippi near the Chartres Street wharf, near the home he and his family lived in for some years in Fauborg Marigny, just outside of the French Quarter. His body was subsequently identified by comparison to dental records, and the death was ruled a drowning as a result of the Federal Flood following Hurricane Katrina.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Cowsill

I have my doubts about Barry's death.
If he lived in the Fauborg Marigny as the article states, then he was only blocks away from my place in the French Quarter.
That area got either no flooding or very minor street-type flooding, not nearly enough to drown in unless you were passed out in a gutter somewhere.

I agree......Strange

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