Comments on: Where Are All The Soul Records? http://mootbooxle.com/blog/2010/01/where-are-all-the-soul-records/ The Vast World of Moot Booxlé Sun, 07 Aug 2011 01:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Eric http://mootbooxle.com/blog/2010/01/where-are-all-the-soul-records/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Eric Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:13:34 +0000 http://mootbooxle.com/blog/?p=40#comment-178 Well, I can tell you for sure it's easier to pick up a copy of Metallica than it is to find a Memphis May Fire copy or Asking Alexandria. I'm telling you, all there is anymore is this hippidy hop stuff. Whatever that is. Even music like Metalcore and Deathcore is hard to come by, even if it is pretty popular and new. Anyways, I'm about to hit an all-nighter so I'm off to bed. \m/ Keep rockin, Moot. Well, I can tell you for sure it’s easier to pick up a copy of Metallica than it is to find a Memphis May Fire copy or Asking Alexandria. I’m telling you, all there is anymore is this hippidy hop stuff. Whatever that is. Even music like Metalcore and Deathcore is hard to come by, even if it is pretty popular and new. Anyways, I’m about to hit an all-nighter so I’m off to bed. \m/ Keep rockin, Moot.

]]> By: Tim http://mootbooxle.com/blog/2010/01/where-are-all-the-soul-records/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Tim Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:02:40 +0000 http://mootbooxle.com/blog/?p=40#comment-49 Thanks for the music. Looking to get more. :-) Thanks for the music.

Looking to get more. :-)

]]> By: Brandon Anthony Sciuto http://mootbooxle.com/blog/2010/01/where-are-all-the-soul-records/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Brandon Anthony Sciuto Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:57:52 +0000 http://mootbooxle.com/blog/?p=40#comment-48 So, so, so, VERY TRUE! It's very sad that music turned the ugly corner after the late 70's early 80's. I think by 1987 music was pretty much taking the new shape it purports today. Bad style. However...there IS still hope for another singer/songwriter with true blue eyed soul without the cotton candy pop overtones. You know, a guy like Mike Rodgers who you all probably know has the goods...and the originals. I've always wanted to release a record with a great producer that knows how to get the classic sounds while making them sound fresh & while opening up NEW musical directions. I had always hoped I'd be one of the guys influencing music on a large scale, but today I know why that wasn't supposed to happen...I found my place in SWFL after living and playing in LA thru 2000-2003. My place is here with my Taylor 812 around my neck singing with my two sons, Koda (4) and Sauter (1)...finding the greatest job in beig a father is what my hero John Lennon did in the mid-late 70's...I always wondered WHY he did that, and now I know why. Trust me...music will get better again, it actually IS better TODAY than it was in the late 90's early 2000's when I was playing 5 nights a week @ Paddy Murphys (1998-1999) and when I lived in LA from 2000-2003. Those days had the worst "bubble gum" POP ever with Backstreet, N'STINK, and the rest of Orlando subing for NY, Nashville, and LA as the music Mecca of the lower 48. No matter what...I've learned from the years of gigging (I'm now a Realtor/Mortgage Broker working at a law firm as a consultant) that when I gig I play 50% covers and minimum 50% originals!!! Bubblegum Pop A-Hole Bands and producers finally pissed me off so bad that I decided to go original...ME, the original cover guy making a living off of strumming DMB tunes on 5th got so sick of bubblegum that I bought a Mac and Logic Express. Hopefully I'll finish this record sooner than later....BTW, Moot...would you want to produce a track or two of BA10 ( which is 10yrs of my music spanning from 1999-2009ish)? I'll pay.... I'd be honored. Contact me at 239.601.8445 PS...ask Mike Blasucci about me. We jammed in 2003 when I returned from out west. We did Bistro 821...Mike is GREAT. So, so, so, VERY TRUE! It’s very sad that music turned the ugly corner after the late 70′s early 80′s. I think by 1987 music was pretty much taking the new shape it purports today. Bad style.
However…there IS still hope for another singer/songwriter with true blue eyed soul without the cotton candy pop overtones.
You know, a guy like Mike Rodgers who you all probably know has the goods…and the originals. I’ve always wanted to release a record with a great producer that knows how to get the classic sounds while making them sound fresh & while opening up NEW musical directions.
I had always hoped I’d be one of the guys influencing music on a large scale, but today I know why that wasn’t supposed to happen…I found my place in SWFL after living and playing in LA thru 2000-2003. My place is here with my Taylor 812 around my neck singing with my two sons, Koda (4) and Sauter (1)…finding the greatest job in beig a father is what my hero John Lennon did in the mid-late 70′s…I always wondered WHY he did that, and now I know why.
Trust me…music will get better again, it actually IS better TODAY than it was in the late 90′s early 2000′s when I was playing 5 nights a week @ Paddy Murphys (1998-1999) and when I lived in LA from 2000-2003. Those days had the worst “bubble gum” POP ever with Backstreet, N’STINK, and the rest of Orlando subing for NY, Nashville, and LA as the music
Mecca of the lower 48.
No matter what…I’ve learned from the years of gigging (I’m now a Realtor/Mortgage Broker working at a law firm as a consultant) that when I gig I play 50% covers and minimum 50% originals!!!
Bubblegum Pop A-Hole Bands and producers finally pissed me off so bad that I decided to go original…ME, the original cover guy making a living off of strumming DMB tunes on 5th got so sick of bubblegum that I bought a Mac and Logic Express.
Hopefully I’ll finish this record sooner than later….BTW, Moot…would you want to produce a track or two of BA10 ( which is 10yrs of my music spanning from 1999-2009ish)?
I’ll pay….
I’d be honored.
Contact me at 239.601.8445
PS…ask Mike Blasucci about me. We jammed in 2003 when I returned from out west. We did Bistro 821…Mike is GREAT.

]]> By: Major Minor http://mootbooxle.com/blog/2010/01/where-are-all-the-soul-records/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Major Minor Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:47:31 +0000 http://mootbooxle.com/blog/?p=40#comment-24 A couple of things... Most of the music I really enjoy falls into the "obscure" camp so I feel your pain... and no, of all people "Marvin Gaye" is certainly not one you'd expect to be hard to find, however the stores tend to carry what the people buy... The sad truth is that I can't help but notice that among my African American friends they will give lip service to the classic funk, soul and R&B music, but it shows up less in their CD libraries than you'd hope. Also every Jazz concert I go to ... mostly white people showing up. Whatever the social influences or reasons for this it's just a sad reality to face. .. and don't get me started on most pitch corrected, air-brushed, devoid of humanity, current acts calling themselves R&B... I think 50's through 70's R&B, Soul and Funk is among the greatest recordings known to man.... and yet I feel helpless watching the tide of mediocrity sweep away everything good in current forms of that music... same with rock, actually. Actually it's not all bad, for example there's a relatively recent white British guy named Lewis Taylor that released some tasty classic retro soul mixed with modern sounds that I'd recommend (Though he has one album called "The Lost Album" which, while still great, owes more to Todd Rundgren and Brian Wilson than soul...) ...and last but not least I watched your improv video with the synthesizers.com modular and was totally blown away... yuo shred! Not just keyboard skills but working your way around the modular and re-dialing everything on the fly... VERY impressed. (One of my other obscure tastes is for 70's German Electronic music like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze etc.) Anyway, keep up the great work! A couple of things… Most of the music I really enjoy falls into the “obscure” camp so I feel your pain… and no, of all people “Marvin Gaye” is certainly not one you’d expect to be hard to find, however the stores tend to carry what the people buy… The sad truth is that I can’t help but notice that among my African American friends they will give lip service to the classic funk, soul and R&B music, but it shows up less in their CD libraries than you’d hope. Also every Jazz concert I go to … mostly white people showing up. Whatever the social influences or reasons for this it’s just a sad reality to face. .. and don’t get me started on most pitch corrected, air-brushed, devoid of humanity, current acts calling themselves R&B… I think 50′s through 70′s R&B, Soul and Funk is among the greatest recordings known to man…. and yet I feel helpless watching the tide of mediocrity sweep away everything good in current forms of that music… same with rock, actually. Actually it’s not all bad, for example there’s a relatively recent white British guy named Lewis Taylor that released some tasty classic retro soul mixed with modern sounds that I’d recommend (Though he has one album called “The Lost Album” which, while still great, owes more to Todd Rundgren and Brian Wilson than soul…)

…and last but not least I watched your improv video with the synthesizers.com modular and was totally blown away… yuo shred! Not just keyboard skills but working your way around the modular and re-dialing everything on the fly… VERY impressed. (One of my other obscure tastes is for 70′s German Electronic music like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze etc.)
Anyway, keep up the great work!

]]> By: Unk Funk http://mootbooxle.com/blog/2010/01/where-are-all-the-soul-records/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Unk Funk Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:53:45 +0000 http://mootbooxle.com/blog/?p=40#comment-23 Hitting the nail right on the head Moot. Soon the CD will go the way of the vinyl, 8 track, cassette..etc. What would we do without Amazon? Hitting the nail right on the head Moot. Soon the CD will go the way of the vinyl, 8 track, cassette..etc. What would we do without Amazon?

]]> By: John Book http://mootbooxle.com/blog/2010/01/where-are-all-the-soul-records/comment-page-1/#comment-22 John Book Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:36:38 +0000 http://mootbooxle.com/blog/?p=40#comment-22 I was lucky to have grown up in a time when Tower Records was like an excursion, and stores like JCPenney, Sears, and Woolworth's had record sections that were my hideouts when my mom browsed through the fabric section. I remember going to DJ's Sound City as a kid, hearing Van Halen blaring out of the speakers, seeing Kiss' solo albums on the wall, but being thrilled at seeing a 4LP Keith Jarrett box set or trippy Miles Davis album covers. Genres were divided, but it was all accessible. I remember a local record store called Licorice Donut, which was downtown and I liked it because it was the only store that had a healthy section of soul and R&B. I believe I may have bought the 45 of Atlantic Starr's "Freak-A-Ristic" there. I think what gets to me is the fact that soul/R&B has become a "specialty music". On a music board I roam, I have asked about the lack of emphasis on soul reissues. I mean, you'll have the usual names on Legacy and Deluxe Edition, and I'm thankful someone pushes these projects. Then I'll go to Dusty Groove and look at all of the incredible reissues coming out of the UK, Germany, and Japan, or browse through CD Universe and see what lurks deep in their pages. One answer on why there is a lack of emphasis on soul reissues was explained this way, and I'm not joking here: "black people don't care about reissues. They want what's modern and now, not what happened 30 or 40 years ago, yet alone 5". The thing is, if a Japanese division of a label can release countless obscure jazz, rock, and country albums, why can't the American division do the same in the home country of the artists? I have suggested countless ideas to labels for reissue or compilations, and I still remember one label saying to me "we do not accept outside A&R". Sure, but if I was an executive producer or project coordinator at a label, I would be going through the vaults with many ideas I want to turn into reality. I await. I was lucky to have grown up in a time when Tower Records was like an excursion, and stores like JCPenney, Sears, and Woolworth’s had record sections that were my hideouts when my mom browsed through the fabric section. I remember going to DJ’s Sound City as a kid, hearing Van Halen blaring out of the speakers, seeing Kiss’ solo albums on the wall, but being thrilled at seeing a 4LP Keith Jarrett box set or trippy Miles Davis album covers. Genres were divided, but it was all accessible.

I remember a local record store called Licorice Donut, which was downtown and I liked it because it was the only store that had a healthy section of soul and R&B. I believe I may have bought the 45 of Atlantic Starr’s “Freak-A-Ristic” there.

I think what gets to me is the fact that soul/R&B has become a “specialty music”. On a music board I roam, I have asked about the lack of emphasis on soul reissues. I mean, you’ll have the usual names on Legacy and Deluxe Edition, and I’m thankful someone pushes these projects. Then I’ll go to Dusty Groove and look at all of the incredible reissues coming out of the UK, Germany, and Japan, or browse through CD Universe and see what lurks deep in their pages.

One answer on why there is a lack of emphasis on soul reissues was explained this way, and I’m not joking here: “black people don’t care about reissues. They want what’s modern and now, not what happened 30 or 40 years ago, yet alone 5″.

The thing is, if a Japanese division of a label can release countless obscure jazz, rock, and country albums, why can’t the American division do the same in the home country of the artists?

I have suggested countless ideas to labels for reissue or compilations, and I still remember one label saying to me “we do not accept outside A&R”. Sure, but if I was an executive producer or project coordinator at a label, I would be going through the vaults with many ideas I want to turn into reality. I await.

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