paistecat: Yeah, he did the song "Neon Telephone". Prince gave it to him. I think I have Princes version on a tape somewhere. Mike even told me about it when I was younger. He grew up here in Carson.
It's great. The drummer, Danny Benair, was in "The Quick", regulars at the Starwood in Hollywood in the late '70's. The Quick evolved into Great Buildings and then the band that did the theme song of "Cheers". Mickey Mariano is a close friend of mine and they did, in fact, MEET Prince!! He sat with Prince and Sheila E at the grammys!
Let's get the facts straight. Great Building did not do the theme to Cheers. Two of their members, Danny Wilde & Phil Solem went on to became The Rembrandts and did the theme to Friends.
It's not splitting hairs. The two words have very different meanings. Progenitor means a precursor or ancestor, in other words something that came before the thing spoken of and led to it. Exemplar means an example of something. If this band were a progenitor of the Paisley Underground sound, they would have had to have been recording before the early 80s. The true progenitors of the Paisley Underground sound were the bands of the 60s that bands like this emulated.
Hmmm.. The Paisley Underground such as it was was an 80s phenomenon and an ephemeral one at that. Certainly they took their influences from the British Invasion groups but to me the progenitors of any movement are the people who actually start it rather than the people they take their inspiration from.
My favorite 3:00 song. Thanks for posting. But they weren't "progenitors" of the Paisley Underground sound; they were exemplars of it, right in the middle of it, not before it. And the Paisley Underground was an early 80s revival of sounds of the mid-1960s, hence the reference to paisley.
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OleNieling 2 months ago
This is interesting, because on the one hand it reaches back to The Byrds in the 60s, while on the other it looks forward to Britpop in the 90s.
Vilaries 9 months ago
paistecat: Yeah, he did the song "Neon Telephone". Prince gave it to him. I think I have Princes version on a tape somewhere. Mike even told me about it when I was younger. He grew up here in Carson.
AngelSoDivine1 1 year ago
Colibri, you must be a blast at parties. It's the type who get off on correcting people who use words like "hence."
dailyflash 2 years ago
I like this song, but I can't find the song "Jet Fighter" and I loved that song. If anyone has that song, I would love to hear it. Thanks
bcharlesdad 2 years ago
It's great. The drummer, Danny Benair, was in "The Quick", regulars at the Starwood in Hollywood in the late '70's. The Quick evolved into Great Buildings and then the band that did the theme song of "Cheers". Mickey Mariano is a close friend of mine and they did, in fact, MEET Prince!! He sat with Prince and Sheila E at the grammys!
ThePaistecat 2 years ago
Let's get the facts straight. Great Building did not do the theme to Cheers. Two of their members, Danny Wilde & Phil Solem went on to became The Rembrandts and did the theme to Friends.
MuzzikLvr 2 years ago
Progenitors? Exemplars? Who wants to split hairs today? I'm just glad and grateful to be watching this. Thanks very much!
pernicketty 2 years ago
It's not splitting hairs. The two words have very different meanings. Progenitor means a precursor or ancestor, in other words something that came before the thing spoken of and led to it. Exemplar means an example of something. If this band were a progenitor of the Paisley Underground sound, they would have had to have been recording before the early 80s. The true progenitors of the Paisley Underground sound were the bands of the 60s that bands like this emulated.
colibri1 2 years ago
Hmmm.. The Paisley Underground such as it was was an 80s phenomenon and an ephemeral one at that. Certainly they took their influences from the British Invasion groups but to me the progenitors of any movement are the people who actually start it rather than the people they take their inspiration from.
pernicketty 2 years ago
My favorite 3:00 song. Thanks for posting. But they weren't "progenitors" of the Paisley Underground sound; they were exemplars of it, right in the middle of it, not before it. And the Paisley Underground was an early 80s revival of sounds of the mid-1960s, hence the reference to paisley.
colibri1 3 years ago