Totally 80s

[wolfking]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGVNz_KXkSw&feature=youtu.be

Not too bad for a bunch of weekend garage warriors, right?  (although I don't know where the guys disappeared to for the vocal harmonies )

This is actually really kickin', good work, good vocals too.  It looks like you are having the vest of times up there.

[bl5150]

It looks like you are having the vest of times up there.

That's copyright Mindcrime Enterprises 

[wolfking]

It looks like you are having the vest of times up there.

That's copyright Mindcrime Enterprises 

[Zydar]

[hefdaddy42]

Littler known fact: my favorite track from The Bangles is their cover of Hazy Shade of Winter, which was a non-album track originally released on the soundtrack for the film Less Than Zero, which is a mediocre film at best.

It is mine as well.  My band covers it and we usually use it as our set closer.  It tends to get great reaction, even among folks who many not be familiar with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGVNz_KXkSw&feature=youtu.be

Not too bad for a bunch of weekend garage warriors, right?  (although I don't know where the guys disappeared to for the vocal harmonies )

[TAC]

 
 

[Lowdz]

That leads to the obvious question: can Jon Bon Jovi still do that high part?

Having seen BJ several times back in the day he never got anywhere near it.
Tough part though.

I remember reading that Scorpions got Don Dokken in to sing a high note in Rhythm Of Love and I always wondered why you would record something your singer couldn't do even in the studio. If it becomes a hit you're stuck having to do it forever!

Reminds me of the Joe Walsh quote re Rocky Mountain Way - "If I'd have known then that I was going to have to play this song for the rest of my life, I'd probably have written something else".

[PetFish]

For some reason, Jon Bon Jovi is an extremely underrated vocalist, mostly cuz people tend to only focus on the Livin' On A Prayer key change.

If you really want to hear him bust a nut, check out the Always Demo from the box set and the key change at about 4:30 until the end.  I can't link it on Youtube cuz it's not official but when I first heard this part of the demo I almost crapped my pants.

I'm probably the biggest BJ fan (hehe) here.  I've seen them a lot live and in-person.  I've read the books and biographies.  I know their entire history.  Jon Bon Jovi and BJ are the real deal through and through.  They never fake it at their shows, they'd rather make the effort and miss the note a little than give up.  They play for 2.5 hours every show.  The crowd gets exhausted a few times and Jon, the greatest front-man of all time in my opinion, keeps bringing us back to life.  I could go on and on...

They even saw a psychologist before Keep the Faith that really helped them get over their issues and nobody knew about it until recently but then you get Metallica who made a movie about it with the same guy who helped BJ.

The Goldbergs season two starts this week!

[bosk1]

Nice.  But I think your band doesn't have enough guitar players.  

Ha!  Yeah, but since we cover a couple of Skynrd tunes, it's okay, right?    Actually, the truth behind that is, last May when we played the local Tour De Cure diabetes ride, they told us they wanted us to play 3-4 hours, which about doubled the amount of material we had to learn.  Our drummer (a former forum member, coincidentally) left us awhile back, so our bass player jumped over to drums, and we brought in a new bass player.  Problem is, Dave does not know nearly as many songs on drums as he does on other instruments, and our new bass player did not know as many either, and we had a short time to prepare.  Enter my neighbor Vince (the bald guy with the sunburst Les Paul).  He plays multiple instruments and knows a lot of songs.  By bringing him in and shifting people around on different instruments throughout our sets, we were able to more easily work up enough material to fill the time that this great charity wanted us to play for.

It looks like you are having the vest of times up there.

That's copyright Mindcrime Enterprises 

I hate you all so much right now.

[KevShmev]

Nice.  But I think your band doesn't have enough guitar players.  

Ha!  Yeah, but since we cover a couple of Skynrd tunes, it's okay, right? 

Haha, of course.  Just messing with ya a little.

[KevShmev]

Such a strange, but cool, video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXQYyKzyDaE

[T-ski]

Howard Jones getting all fancy for his video for "The Prisoner"......well, fancy for 1989.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6kQvJcpjBY

[Orbert]

I went to college, for the third time, in the mid 80's.  My Calculus professor was Dr. Howard Jones.  He was awesome and I ended up taking all four terms of Calculus from him.

To this day, when I think of Dr. Jones, I hear the line from "Things Can Only Get Better" by Howard Jones in my head.

♫♫ Whoa, whoa, whoa-oh-oh, whoa, oh, oh-oh-oh ♫♪♫

[bosk1]

[hefdaddy42]

I liked that Howard Jones.

[KevShmev]

You guys ever see the video for the Robert Palmer song, Looking for Clues? I had never heard the song or seen the video, but it was on Totally 80s recently, and I couldn't believe how unbelievably cheesy the video was, even by 80s standards.  The song actually wasn't bad; it was oddly catchy.  But that video, man oh man.

[King Postwhore]

Yup.  He's transposed on a kids xylophone.

[KevShmev]

LOL, I about fell off the couch laughing at that.

[Orbert]

I remember that, and the xylophone is the first thing I think of.  Actually, the only thing I think of.  It was bad.

[Jaq]

Oh yeah, the guitar solo that seemed to be one chord played over and over. Or one note. Or something. Just BWANG BWANG BWANG BWANG BWANG.

Robert Palmer turning into the well dressed guy singing in front of a wall of miniskirted ladies badly miming the song on their instruments might have been the biggest transformation in music history, after that video. 

[KevShmev]

Yeah, it was hard to believe that was the same guy.

[Jaq]

My reaction to the announcement of the formation of the Power Station was not to remark that two guys from Duran Duran were apparently forming a hard rock band, nor to remark that the drummer from Chic was playing with them, but to say "the guy who did the Looking For Clues song is their singer? What are they thinking?

In fact given how much of Palmer's music had the same sort of sound the Power Station used, that project might have had a lot to do with him becoming the Robert Palmer we knew from then on.

[dparrott]

Love almost anything 80's: music (not hair metal), games, TV, movies.  There's the new TV show The Goldbergs about life in the 80's, good show.

I wanted to do a metal cover of HSOW but my band didn't last long enough.  Great cover video though.