tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post8318108354059770981..comments2024-03-26T01:59:52.206-04:00Comments on Just outside: Brian Olewnickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08567239067604835372noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-30197192842477189032008-02-19T13:44:00.000-05:002008-02-19T13:44:00.000-05:00I was never all that into the Allmans, though I li...I was never all that into the Allmans, though I liked the live album and Eat a Peach well enough. Something too clean about their sound maybe. I remember a friend back then chastising me, "You like jazz, you should like the Allman Brothers!" But they never really clicked for me.Brian Olewnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08567239067604835372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-11359059013383695382008-02-19T11:07:00.000-05:002008-02-19T11:07:00.000-05:00I don't think your age matters much on this, I thi...I don't think your age matters much on this, I think it's that this was formative music for you and the actual blues wasn't. I'm younger than you and feel the opposite way (even though I heard Cream at a decidedly younger age than any actual blues). anyway, I'll take the Allman Brothers first four records over anything Cream did, but it's not like I listen to them any more either.Jon Abbeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16554860803665562805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-28866633858020450692008-02-19T08:30:00.000-05:002008-02-19T08:30:00.000-05:00Jeez, glad someone noticed....No doubt about prefe...Jeez, glad <I>someone</I> noticed....<BR/><BR/>No doubt about preferring originators to copyists, but as time goes on there's often aspects of interest with second generation workers in a given area, especially when compared against progressively weaker strains. Even if "Traintime" isn't <I>entirely</I> honest, it's more so than most subsequent efforts.<BR/><BR/>It's sorta like listening to Canned Heat...or even Beefheart. There's enough there, for me, to render it palatable. If I were ten years older, familiar with the progenitors of the music, I might well have a different opinion.Brian Olewnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08567239067604835372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-46080976252694712008-02-19T03:35:00.000-05:002008-02-19T03:35:00.000-05:00if no one else is going to acknowledge it, the CRM...if no one else is going to acknowledge it, the CRM II thing was clever. <BR/><BR/>not a fan of the band, though, I'll take "the actual blues musicians"...Jon Abbeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16554860803665562805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-25963170017396171022008-02-18T18:35:00.000-05:002008-02-18T18:35:00.000-05:00Well, since I probably won't get to my "Wheels of ...Well, since I probably won't get to my "Wheels of Fire" for a while yet, I'll skip ahead: A few years ago, I was up visiting my folks and my dad says, "You know, you have some old LPs down in the basement." I checked it out and, indeed, there were a handful that seemed to have escaped trade-in, likely because my brother Glen wanted them. Not much I felt like revisiting (a few Doors albums in there) but I picked up WoF and said, "Huh. Wonder how this would sound some 30 years later?"<BR/><BR/>It actually sounds pretty good. The most interesting thing to me was that the live, bluesier portions were what I liked most today, not the song-oriented disc, the opposite of what I felt at 16. (This was my first double album btw!)<BR/><BR/>Traintime doubtless pales beside any quasi-similar piece done by an actual blues musician, I'll give you that. But maybe it's just that its second-generation-ness sounds relatively good compared to the eighth or ninth generation versions one might hear today by whatever Cream's equivalent would be.<BR/><BR/>Dunno, but I thought Bruce's mouth organ playing was pretty decent, his vocals heartfelt and Baker's brushwork quite adept and supportive.<BR/><BR/>Bring on "Toad"!!!Brian Olewnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08567239067604835372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-11787554420226140852008-02-18T16:33:00.000-05:002008-02-18T16:33:00.000-05:00I used to hate "Traintime". Isn't that on the same...I used to hate "Traintime". Isn't that on the same side of "Wheels of Fire" as "Toad"? A side to skip, if ever there was one.Alastairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06229187273419378525noreply@blogger.com