Let’s get it on, shall we? As always, your gut answers to the following questions are what matter.
Is there a studio musician whose playing you so admire that you’d take a chance on buying an unknown album mainly based on his or her involvement?
What’s your favorite Paul McCartney album track (ie, not a single/Greatest Hits number) as a solo artist/Wings leader?
Which senior artist most needs to crank out one more great album for the benefit of rock and, more broadly, humankind?
Let’s say the government could provide a grant and both a team of therapists as well as a restraining order on Don Was to help coax said masterpiece out of this artist.
What instrument do you most wish you could hear more often in today’s rock ‘n roll music?
Who’s the Roger Corman-style, B-movie producer of rock ‘n roll?
What ’50s founding father (or mother) of rock ‘n roll do you feel has been most frequently forgotten or dismissed in recent years?
In these days of home recording and independently produced albums, who’s your favorite current studio musician?
Finally, Townsman Alexmagic suggested the following question for today’s Dugout Chatter:
On one of those blog music aggregator sites recently, I saw a bunch tracks by the ill-fated New Monkees and it reminded me that, at about the same time, there were also television shows for a “New Munsters” and “New Gidget” that were only slightly less disastrous than the New Monkees show/band. It got me thinking about which musical “brands” would be most/least successful if re-launched today as “The New [Insert Band Name
Here].”
I look forward to your responses!
