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Cardiff by the sea
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The Beach boys were Great. One of the things my father gave me growing up was his influence in good music. There was always Beach boys in the house. We still share a common interest in musical taste. My old man is 68 (i think) and about 4 or 5 years ago we saw Black Sabbath (the original line up)together. Cool times indeed! Thanks for the tune Largo.
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dogtown
climber
Cheyenne,Wyoming
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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they got a box that puts you in tune now.
sounds like sh#t.
to hear it, listen to just about any song on KFUK Kuntry 106 that has a harmony vocal, which is 100 opercent.
it's called Autotune, and the engineers love it because it can make anybody sound in tune, no matter how wasted they are, or how terible a vocalist they are.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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three years ago, i scored a ticket to tirol and bavaria in the shoulder season.
i landed in salzburg and wandered around looking at the obvious musical and poetic landmarks, waiting for the mountains to clear.
contemorary art, crowds of foreign music students with cases in the streets, the opera house (my destinatino) closed for remodeling. i blundered into the old church while the organist and a choir were rehearsing for an upcoming performance for the music festival.
couldnt id the piece, not the music of my youth, training, or libido, but unf*#king real nonetheless. i got a really good sense of how gothic and baroque churches actually worked bitd.
the place frickin rocked.
and it was empty, save for me and an errant nun.
then, after they'd run their numbers and the choir quit singing, the organist guy went all aggro on the emnpthy house and started pushin the pipes to the limit including pieces of -- ikiduknott-- iron butterfly.
frickin austrians.
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AndySan Diego
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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I saw the post. I thought CSN&Y But love the Beach Boys as well. Thanks for posting the vids Largo.
Carry On.....
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Fletcher
Trad climber
the end of the world as we know it, & I feel fine.
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Everything But the Girl is awesome.
Tracy Thorn also did some pretty awesome guest tracks with Massive Attack.
Eric
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Erik of Oakland
Gym climber
Oakland
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Simon and Garfunkel did all right
Gary Louris and Mark Olson harmonize superbly
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Traditional choirs that do classical music, a conductor, etc often have superlative harmonies.
If we're talking about the 1960s and harmony in pop/rock, most everyone deferred to the Beach Boys, except toward the end with CSN&Y. Many Motown acts were also very very good.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Seems we started to cover some good ground a few weeks back in this thread here, but got a bit tangled up in politickering.
And for best harmonizing/best band you're never heard of crossover potential, I gotta give it up for my own fledgling band: Üncle Rïco!!!!
Oooh, and here's my favorite song about shooting a bear in the arse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT5kU-Ff0s0
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Rick L
Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
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Any Everly Brothers song. I lived in a small town in central Florida as a kid in the 1950's. The harmonies of the Everly Brothers ["All I Have To Do Is Dream", "Till I Kissed Ya", "Cathy's Clown", "When Will I Be Loved?" etc.]were piped over the loudspeakers at the summer Fairs and the memories of the harmonies are indellible. Seems like much can be traced to these boys- a link between Nashville/Gospel and Folk/Rock.
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dmalloy
Trad climber
eastside
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for the last few years, I have found myself captivated whenever The Wailin Jennys pop up on Prairie Home Companion or in various films and tv shows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wS_mop0emw
The have a great "happy" song about "the littlest birds sing the prettiest songs" - could not find that on the youtube. Anyhow, amazing voices, and they have been singing together a long time.
More Canadians, too, eh?
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