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Unfascinating rhythm
Continuing in the vein of In Rock Around the Clock, here’s another neural network hallucination — Burn as if it was recorded by a swing band. Sadly, the Gershwin’s riff in the title track went well over the silicon head. Anyhow, might be worth a chuckle, but not much more.
Thanks to Tinnitist for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
It will never make it into Phil Aston’s Top 20 of the BURN riff then: https://youtu.be/1ZLhnOQaFeY
January 3rd, 2025 at 20:51This stuff does nothing for me though it’s all over YouTube by now. It’s just putting DP song titles and lyrics to completely different songs. It has no musical merit, I don’t see the point. Anybody can sing the lyrics of a song over different chords to a different melody.
I’m all for brave and ‘out there’ re-arrangements of songs or presenting them in a totally different musical style. If there was a big band version of the song material of the Burn album that paid tribute to the original chords and melodies, I’d be the first one to incorporate it in my DP Family collection, even if it was an AI creation like all these spoofs are.
THIS is for me an interesting take on Burn (the song).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgJmcl3bZP0
January 4th, 2025 at 06:12That’s the first time I have clearly heard the lyrics!
January 4th, 2025 at 14:31Well, Uwe, there IS such a thing!
It’s called ROCK THE BIG BAND and they do BURN nicely. Among other stuff. It’s on youtube …
January 4th, 2025 at 16:45I like Phil Aston’s podcasts in general, but with Burn he seems to miss the point a little. Yes, Ritchie’s four to five note riff (three of those notes identical with SOTW) is great, but the song would be nothing without Little Ian’s brilliant and inspired OTT drumming in the sung verses and that is where nearly all non-DP Burn versions fall flat on their face. What Paicey does is simply beyond the capabilities of most drummers. It‘s a difficult song to cover well and also apparently a hard one to find an alternative arrangement for that works.
Probably my favorite Purple track. I‘m not a great fan of fantasy lyrics, but here DC found cinematic words.
January 4th, 2025 at 18:02Yes it all is a complete waste of someone’s time me thinks, doing all this so called ‘musical’ or I should say computer related ‘creativity’. Did I waste some of my time having a listen, indeed I did but thankfully not a lot. It is rather comical in that aspect, Lay Down Stay Down and What’s Going On Here, hilarious but that is about it. I cannot wait until they do Stormbringer, Soldier of Fortune or Gypsy. Not to mention High Ball Shooter. Thanks Uwe for the link to that chap playing the guitars, yes that is much more enjoyable and dare I say, real. Cheers.
January 4th, 2025 at 21:07The worst part of this was what the a.i. did to Sail Away. Unforgivable!. Uwe is right, all of this “reimagining” of albums by a.i. algorithms has gone to far. It was amusing at first, but now it’s just a pain in the ass. You could give a person a fancy new saw to trim the overgrown branches of some trees, but you don’t expect them to go & cut through all the tree trunks.
January 5th, 2025 at 06:31You can’t stop people from having fun fooling around with songs.
January 5th, 2025 at 07:11I don’t like this style of music, it’s killing the great momentum that these songs has.
My advice is not to bother talking about it too much and ignore it.
Peace ✌️
Made in Croatia -“Animal Drive” –as WS ( HM version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPSTakcfwPw
PS
January 5th, 2025 at 08:54Besides DC II, we (CRO) have… and Tommy Aldridge II …much younger 🙂
I heard a bunch of these remakes. Basically they take the lyrics and a completely different music and they make a new song. My question is: is this made with the use of artificial intelligence or are there real musicians playing these songs?
January 5th, 2025 at 13:11That’s a nice straight version of it.
So is this one:
https://youtu.be/WXXCmwILZrs
I don’t know anything about these guys other than that I’ve seen the very good drummer, Tim Brown
https://www.martinturnermusic.com/tim-brown
a couple of times live when he still played with Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash (he was with Martin for almost a decade). Of course, ‘The Classic Rock Show’ (horrible name) don’t really add anything to Burn, but they do a rousing, spirited version of it and especially perform the Coverdale-Hughes dual vocals dynamics excellently without trying to ape the individual voices. But in the end, they are just a (very good) traveling juke box.
January 5th, 2025 at 17:16This is kind of an old hat, it came out in 1995 by four talented Frenchies,
Philippe Ballot (drums),
Francois Barisaux (piano),
Alain Gaillet (electric bass, excellent player and if I say so myself!) +
Philippe Miraille (tenor & soprano sax),
but the music – just like DP’s – has held up well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSWKfI7CCQo
This is music that does justice to BOTH the genre Jazz AND to the song Burn unlike this other kids’ spoof stuff.
They did a whole album full of DP songs, mostly Mk II:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDySzAVM3Mc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nAxsEFSJbo
Complete album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUCZgxgAaVU&list=PLXXM2HqNPU082bovzE5rbEXTKnx2f_w1A
Adaptions like this, I’m totally on board with, they have musical merit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqmw5_7CljE
And even a harsh deconstructivist approach is fine with me, because radically fragmentizing a song like SOTW at least has brains behind it, it’s kind of Dada, if not exactly pleasant to listen to (but then not meant to be either):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbrytIQg6V8
I really dig the male “Greek Theater choir” the Flaming Lips have inserted at (in)appropriate places. The whole thing is very respectful in its respectlessness. 😂
January 5th, 2025 at 22:46I forgot to mention how disappointed I was that ‘A’ 200 was not on this. A golden opportunity missed. Cheers.
January 6th, 2025 at 07:39@13: Yeah, that really itched me too!
January 6th, 2025 at 20:06@13 MacG & 14 Uwe, A200 indeed…if only they could have included a blazing, two minute clarinet solo.
January 7th, 2025 at 01:58I do wonder whether AI freaked out when it tried to do Jon Lord’s synth opening to ‘A’ 200. Then Paice’s drumming blitzkrieg kicking in totally blew AI’s ‘mind’. Otherwise yes it could have at least attempted it one would think. Blackmore’s solo, yes indeed let’s see that one performed. I wonder if any of Zappa’s music would disengage AI. I probably shouldn’t have mentioned that, although there would be someone somewhere probably attempting that. Hopefully AI will be ZAPPA’d as in KO’d. Cheers.
January 7th, 2025 at 08:51To me ‘A’200 always sounded like world music from an alternative universe. I didn’t mind it at all, didn’t think it was throwaway track, there was even something pleasantly sinister to it. Pity they never played it live.
Strangely, on that track, Glenn’s Rickenbacker 4001 sounds like it does nowhere else on the album, maybe due to the proggie nature of the song he and Martin Birch dialed in an extreme Chris Squire likeness in sound (that bristling, slightly overdriven ‘clank’) – to an extent it almost comes off as a pastiche. Incidentally, it’s the type of sound Roger never wanted to have thinking Squire’s trademark sound (which worked great within YES and was and is copied by many PROG bands to this day) inappropriate for Purple. In the final mix, I think they overdid it a little, it sounds a bit too tinny.
January 7th, 2025 at 15:28Nonsense and stupyd trend for moronz.
January 7th, 2025 at 20:02I have always noticed the bass guitar more in ‘A’ 200 and I do think it is because there are not any other noisy instruments to compete with. No riffing guitar & Hammond organ & no vocal either. So we get to hear more of the rawer sound of the instrument, in that aspect. It is a little more tinny as you say Uwe, not as heavy & not as deep a growl as Squire’s, but then again, who’s bass guitar sound is. ‘A’ 200 is also a progressive rock track to me. Cheers.
January 7th, 2025 at 21:20“Nonsense and stupyd trend for moronz.“
Not while you were kissing me, Herr Winters, but you took the words right out of my mouth.
https://youtu.be/_wO8toxinoc
January 7th, 2025 at 22:55Someone may mention Lemmy in regards to a growling heavy bass guitar sound on a Rickenbacker, so I thought I had better pay homage to the Lemster. Not my favourite bass guitar sound while he was in Motorhead, however it is certainly a nasty loud tone. Cheers.
January 8th, 2025 at 05:42let’s get on with this shit. Happy New Year to Canadians and Greenlanders 🥂
January 8th, 2025 at 16:16It’s a running joke among bassists that Lemmy actually needed one (a bassist!) in his band to complement his baritone rhythm guitar. 😎
That was nowhere more apparent than when Motörhead played live (I saw them four times over the decades in various line-ups), they really lacked sub-woof oomph, it only came from the double bass drum (which never sounded that deep either), Lemmy couldn’t provide it with his grinding tone. No wonder, on the armada of 100 watt guitar Marshalls he used/punished, he dialed the bass to zero (no joke) and the nasty mids ‘to eleven’ to get his sound – plus his signature Ric (the one with the oak leaves) had special distortion-prone pick-ups and he strummed chords most of the time.
During his tenure with Hawkwind, Lemmy was actually a very melodic, improvisational and flowing bassist although he already had rhythm guitar tendencies back then (and wasn’t rhythmically flexible in a bassist sense at all). Listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAlw83pm0NY
With Motörhead he dumbed his style down and it became sonically extreme. No matter, the man was a heavy metal counter-culture icon (though he was always adamant that Motörhead weren’t heavy metal).
January 8th, 2025 at 20:32Lemmy was fine in Hawkwind & I do like his playing there, especially around that 1973- 75 era. Hall of the Mountain Grill & Warrior in particular. As I have stated here earlier I came ever so close to experiencing Motorhead in 1984 when they dropped into our ‘outback’ town in New South Wales. Bummer the mixing desk was found to be not working upon setup. I am not a Motorhead fan at all, just went along as we couldn’t believe it was them all the way out there in the middle of nowhere & of course it was Lemmy from Hawkwind, ha ha ha. Crazy it still seems to be. It was surreal in that aspect, seeing him in the bar playing the pokies & I couldn’t resist trying to strike up a conversation. I place a lot of emphasis on the word ‘trying’. Not to worry as my ears most probably were relieved in missing that assault upon them, he he, the band I mean, Lemmy was pissed off but ok otherwise, sort of. Cheers. I just found the 1984 dates, ours was the August 1st Yoogali Club, Griffith. They played Geelong in Melbourne the night before. No doubt they may have been able to obtain a replacement desk perhaps if they were in the city somewhere, possibly. Not in outback NSW they couldn’t.
January 9th, 2025 at 01:0030 Jul 1984 Palais Theatre Melbourne, Australia
31 Jul 1984 Palais Theatre Geelong, Australia
01 Aug 1984 Yoogali Club Griffith, Australia
02 Aug 1984 Shellharbour Club Woolongong, Australia
03 Aug 1984 Family Village Inn Sydney, Australia
04 Aug 1984 Selinas Sydney, Australia
05 Aug 1984 Shellharbour Workers Club Wollongong, Australia
07 Aug 1984 Bridgeway Hotel Adelaide, Australia
08 Aug 1984 Bridgeway Hotel Adelaide, Australia
09 Aug 1984 The Venue Melbourne, Australia
10 Aug 1984 The Venue Melbourne, Australia
11 Aug 1984 Tarmac Hotel Melbourne, Australia
12 Aug 1984 Tarmac Hotel Melbourne, Australia
13 Aug 1984 Nunawading Skating Ranch Melbourne, Australia
14 Aug 1984 Caringbah Inn Sydney, Australia
15 Aug 1984 Newcastle Workers Club Newcastle, Australia
16 Aug 1984 Central Coast Workers Club Lismore, Australia
17 Aug 1984 Brisbane, Australia
18 Aug 1984 Gold Coast, Australia
20 Aug 1984 Workers Club Goulburn, Australia
21 Aug 1984 Hotel Manly 2223 Sydney, Australia
22 Aug 1984 Penrith Leagues Club Sydney, Australia
23 Aug 1984 Sweethearts Sydney, Australia
25 Aug 1984 Whitesands Hotel Perth, Australia
26 Aug 1984 Nookenbura Hotel Perth, Australia
Motörhead sure didn’t take too many “days off” in their touring schedules – live fast indeed! 🤯
January 10th, 2025 at 02:33Yes that touring schedule is madness, the new lineup with two guitarists and a different drummer, well it was new to me at the time. Cheers.
January 10th, 2025 at 21:17That’s the one line-up I never saw, the one with Würzel, I saw them twice with Philthy Animal and Fast Eddie, once with Brian Robertson and once in the final line-up with Phil and the Danish guy who now drums for the Scorpions.
My two fave tracks from them were:
https://youtu.be/6Y3zV9eTx1E
https://youtu.be/fg_bWlmbeb0
January 11th, 2025 at 03:43Uwe, Uwe, Uwe… Mikkey Dee is not Danish, he is Swedish. His real name is Micael Kiriakos Delaoglou, which doesn’t sound either Danish or Swedish, but he is born in Gothenburg and he is one of the most Gothenburgish people you can find. I guess his parents a Greek or something like that.
January 11th, 2025 at 10:27@28
January 11th, 2025 at 18:56Indeed mr Dee is Swedish, but Svante do you know he is in Shu-Bi-Dua where he is bashing away at the drums 😊
Crap!
January 11th, 2025 at 18:59It seems that Mickey nearly joined Lemmy recently. Good health to him from now on we hope. Cheers.
https://axs.tv/news-story/motorheads-mikkey-dee-talks-near-death-experience/
January 12th, 2025 at 00:00@29
January 12th, 2025 at 09:09Well, on one song, “Mange tak”, from the 1987 album Shu-Bi-Dua12.
My bad, but weren’t all Swedes Danes once and still are from time too, I mean Scandinavian borders are always in flux, Norway cropped out of nowhere a century ago and who knows to where Greenland will belong to next week … 🤣
To my defense 😇, all you Viking DNA remnants, I wrongly deduced Mickey’s nationality from the fact that he once was with Merciful Fate/King Diamond or were those Swedes too?
Anyway, keya på dig/god bedring to Mickey who always had a great musical career cut out for him.
https://youtu.be/PydCGEXg1zk
January 12th, 2025 at 12:45Mercyfyl Fate and King Diamond were (are?) indeed Danish.
January 12th, 2025 at 22:43@33
January 12th, 2025 at 23:11No!
We all know EXACTLY where the borders are! ☺️
@32
January 12th, 2025 at 23:21Åh ok så 😉
🤣
January 13th, 2025 at 13:08“We all know EXACTLY where the borders are!”
Karin @36: Indeed, so do we, you brisling & hesterejer-feeding land grabbers, BRING NORDSLESVIG HOME!!!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/DenmarkSouthJutland.png
😎🤣😎
January 13th, 2025 at 21:21@38
“ BRING NORDSLESVIG HOME!!!” 🤣😆
Well come and get it why don’t you!
Btw please take Greenland too now you’re at it!
In Denmark we’re very friendly! We love to share everything with our neighbours! And as you and your darling missus already have discovered the amazing Ringkøbing, I guess you both can move here and live for good! I do believe our climate is a bit better and more friendlier that the one you’re used to ☀️
January 14th, 2025 at 11:19