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Music and Reinvention |
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Random Notes of the Music Writer Dude
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Written by B. Noel Barr
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
Over the weekend in a series of conversations, the obvious became apparent, even to the L.A. Times. They—The Times—observed that VH-1 was reinventing the classic rock format by having somewhat younger bands approach and perform the older “Classic Rock” material, breathing new life into this style of rock. Ideally, this exposure would bring younger bands into the picture doing new original rock music. You don’t have to look very far to find bands doing rock music. They didn’t stop just because the pundits of change stopped listening.
Recently, I interviewed Brenton Wood, a man who has seen the ups downs of the industry, but with three major hits in his career—Gimme Little Sign, Oogum Boogum Song and Baby You Got It. Wood observed, “You will always find great musicians who will make incredible music.” In that light, you will find for a moment that someone will recognize greatness and quality music will come back in vogue.
With that thought in mind, I spoke with Cliff Wagner, leader and primary songwriter in Cliff Wagner Old Number 7. This blue grass group performs songs in a traditional style, yet puts a contemporary twist in their music.
“We had played the Pig and the Whistle—in Hollywood—on Friday and there was a singer songwriter crowd attendance. We came on just blew the other performers off the stage. Everyone loved what we were doing,” Cliff explained. “Though on Saturday we played in a place that had an older, more traditional bluegrass crowd, they did not get what we were doing.”
Terrance Simien, a Zydeco musician had taken his sub-genre of traditional music and recreated it with a more youthful sound added to this accordion driven music. Terrance had elevated his sound to a more world music feel, transcending the bounds of old style folk music. This is what Cliff is doing, as well. You can hear it in his soon-to-be released album.
On Saturday, again I witnessed one of the most phenomenal rock shows I had seen in a while—or least since the last time I saw the Hellhounds.
In their third time playing the Whisky in West Hollywood, the Hellhounds was now performing as bona fide rock stars. They had succeeded in reinventing the classic blues-based hard rock format, making it very much their own.
The band brings together two members of the death metal band Detriment, Mike Lane and Ryan Gomez, with Sean Lane and Darren Lancaster who worked as an outstanding acoustic delta blues duo. The bonding of these two diametrically opposite music forms has forged an alliance of hard double bass drum/slide guitar-driven hard rock band.
This group should be opening for the Stones or Dylan, two examples of reinvention right there.
The Stone’s who were a blues-based band, and Dylan the folkie both were instrumental in recharging rock and roll and creating a new era in modern music.
In all forms of music, the need to be charged, invigorated with new blood and new ideas is a necessity. Music always has to draw from an appropriate tradition in order to have that common jumping off point to make it new an interesting again.
Must see dates: The Hellhounds will be at the Blue Café Sunday July 27th at 9 p.m.
Cliff Wagner and Old Number 7 will be at The Cinema Bar in Culver City with Rancho Deluxe on Saturday, August 2, 2008, 9 p.m.
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