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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2022 5:37:55 GMT
petrolino - So I was giving The Band That Milwaukee Made Famous a spin, and I couldn't help but notice this riff in "Overture," starting around 3:27... How is that not "Crazy on You" by Heart, which was released a year before? I know nothing of the rock 'n' roll band Heart. Anybody?
Wow! Really? That honestly surprises me for some reason. Anyway, check it out the riff at 0:50... It's the same riff. I suspect that if Bad Boy's song was a big hit, there would have been a lawsuit.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 19, 2022 15:04:44 GMT
I know nothing of the rock 'n' roll band Heart. Anybody?
Wow! Really? That honestly surprises me for some reason. Anyway, check it out the riff at 0:50... It's the same riff. I suspect that if Bad Boy's song was a big hit, there would have been a lawsuit.
I've no idea, but maybe that's what happened. Not enough people heard both songs to tell them to contact their lawyers for legal action.
I do remember Mark Andes of Spirit played in Heart. Spirit had a high profile case that made the news here in the U K, it involved their song 'Taurus' and 'Stairway To Heaven' by Led Zeppelin. But generally, I pay no interest to these cases and I think they pass me by. Ed Sheeran was in the news a lot recently for comments he made in court regarding these kinds of cases.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 24, 2022 20:01:17 GMT
Wow! Really? That honestly surprises me for some reason. Anyway, check it out the riff at 0:50... It's the same riff. I suspect that if Bad Boy's song was a big hit, there would have been a lawsuit.
I've no idea, but maybe that's what happened. Not enough people heard both songs to tell them to contact their lawyers for legal action.
I do remember Mark Andes of Spirit played in Heart. Spirit had a high profile case that made the news here in the U K, it involved their song 'Taurus' and 'Stairway To Heaven' by Led Zeppelin. But generally, I pay no interest to these cases and I think they pass me by. Ed Sheeran was in the news a lot recently for comments he made in court regarding these kinds of cases.
I listened to Heart's debut album 'Dreamboat Annie' (1975) this week, nice record, very romantic. I also enjoyed listening to Heart's album 'Little Queen' (1977) which gets a little funky in places and adds a bit more swing.
I didn't realise Heart had performed 'Stairway To Heaven' as early as the mid-1970s. I knew they had performed it for Led Zeppelin when they received their Kennedy Center Honors.
'Stairway To Heaven' - Heart performing at the Aquarius Tavern in Seattle, Washington in 1976
So, it's kind of funny that Mark Andes ended up joining the band. To my mind, he was one of psychedelic rock's greatest bass players.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 31, 2023 19:35:11 GMT
In June 2021 I see I wrote, "I'm going to check out some music by Bad Boy, they sound like another staple of midwest rock, and as a Violent Femmes fan, I'm always keen to explore influential music from Wisconsin."
Hearing Bad Boy was a great experience and the continuation of an intense journey through the ruins of Wisconsin's damaged rock 'n' roll scene. That's not to say there weren't winners, but it seems like some local rock bands became regional heroes, or midwest favourites, without gaining the level of wider national exposure needed to keep going. For example, Clicker were an experimental rock band based in Madison, Wisconsin who emerged from the ashes of Baby Grand in the 1970s. They experimented with all manner of musical styles, including Raspberries-inspired, harmony-infused, midwestern power pop on their second album 'Harde Har Har Har' (1975).
'Lucy Cain' | 'Cockeyed Doodle Blues' (1972, EP) - Baby Grand
My favourite musical discovery so far would have to be White Lie who may well have torn it up live on the circuit with Cheap Trick and Bad Boy. Though Rick Nielsen, Tom Peterson and Bun E. Carlos are all from Illinois, Robin Zander was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, near the state border between Wisconsin and Illinois, but raised in Illinois. White Lie emerged as a regional dual threat to Cheap Trick with their debut album 'True Confessions' (1980) but I read that they couldn't secure a satisfactory record deal in the aftermath and were never granted a nationwide media push. Led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Krystel Love, White Lie did earn and maintain a rabid fan following while grinding it out on the club circuit, mostly playing venues located in tough industrial towns and cities. Round about the same time they were working on recording sessions, the Bends began generating serious local thunder with their album 'The Furthest Edge' (1981), while Oil Tasters brought it all together to create their debut album 'Oil Tasters' (1982).
'True Confessions' (1980) ~ White Lie { : 0:00 Don't Ruin Me / 3:08 29 / 6:46 Substitute / 9:34 Are You My Lady / 12:40 Hold On / 15:47 You / 18:59 Show Me / 21:42 Holiday / 25:12 Don't Tell Me / 28:35 Ravina / 34:27 Mr. Chips : }
Here's some rare concert footage of White Lie closing out a great decade for the arts which was given a nod of approval online by guitarist Scott Finch ...
White Lie Mini-Concert (28:42 _ TV Workshop, recorded January 31 (New Year's Eve), 1979)
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