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An acquaintance is temporarily losing his band's bassist and has asked me to fill for several shows over the next two months. I said yes as a personal favor to him, and now I'm ass-deep in an entirely new repertoire which mostly consists of 1970s - 1980s rock and pop.
It's really interesting to see how musical composition has developed over the last 50 years.
Take Warren Zevon's "Splendid Isolation": it has a lot going on. The track contains harmonica, multi-voice vocals, guitar, bass, piano all in the same piece. Despite that, it feels noticeably more "open" than a lot of modern music. Rather than anchoring the song on guitar riffs, Zevon anchors it on a simple backbeat and a repetitive bass riff on the bottom end. Once he establishes the groove, he uses the harmonica and piano sparingly on the high end, but leaves a space in the sonic environment for vocals that's big enough to drive a truck through.
It's not a style you really see anymore. Like a a few other things, Phil Spector killed it.
That punchline was so good I suspect the rest of the post of being a setup!
I'm actually being earnest in the post. The evolution of music composition is something I find fascinating.
I'm also never going to pass up a tasteless joke, though.
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