tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240737.post7258558339784047615..comments2023-10-02T23:19:20.226+10:00Comments on The long slow {typecast} blog: Lenny Kravitz: Mama Said: Retropyrino breebaarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08732964644950027323noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240737.post-74222439496710990922014-04-08T20:11:55.151+10:002014-04-08T20:11:55.151+10:00cheers folks. Yes, the equipment Lenny uses is alw...cheers folks. Yes, the equipment Lenny uses is always 100% analogue and yes "vintage". Valve amplifiers, original era microphones, vintage instruments. He even used one of the original 4 track mixing desks used by the Beatles in Abbey road. <br /><br />So kitsch is close to shtick (it's the reverse, really - boom) is close to nostalgia-retro-rock ... is basically a null exercise in the end. A closed loop, philosophically. Regressive. SOngs are good, but the sound-style-gesture is doomed to closure.<br /><br />Actually, I remember at the gig, every (vintage) Marshall amp had a vintage (50s) style mic placed over it. Lenny had a real 60s Flying V. Everything looked authentic. But, playing as he did at the Entertainment Centre, with the house PA, it all sounded shit. The bass wasn't even there. So all the difference vintage might've made was totally wasted.<br /><br />Anyhoo.rino breebaarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08732964644950027323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240737.post-77811844715302026532014-04-08T14:59:04.396+10:002014-04-08T14:59:04.396+10:00Yes to Curtis Mayfield! Good music never goes out ...Yes to Curtis Mayfield! Good music never goes out of fashion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240737.post-91950487780664695622014-04-08T12:20:01.916+10:002014-04-08T12:20:01.916+10:00I'm with Mr T.
I heard some of the tracks fro...I'm with Mr T.<br /><br />I heard some of the tracks from this album while I was on my way from Melbourne to Whyalla one year. When I stepped off the bus, I immediately headed straight for the record shop in the middle of town and bought the CD. <br /><br />What I agree with was that it was retro if you didn't like it the first time around. <br /><br />But in a way... it isn't the stuff from first time around. It was a pooling of that era of rock. A nostalgic look back over our collective shoulders. But it was an accessible look for a new audience. SO yeah, to that end Lenny really is something of a gateway into 'retro'. Scott Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13243020164163596709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3240737.post-58863759560853357562014-04-07T23:09:01.766+10:002014-04-07T23:09:01.766+10:00"Mama Said" is a great album. I recall r..."Mama Said" is a great album. I recall reading that Kravitz used analog equipment only to record that and (the brilliant) "Let Love Rule" and the equipment wasn't in the best condition to begin with and kept overheating and catching on fire.<br /><br />As for retro, well it's only retro if you weren't into it the first time it was around. I only get bugged when hipsters latch onto something, like vintage wristwatches or cameras, because they think these items are kitsch and they don't take into account the build/design intricacy and durability of these things in this throwaway age.teeritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421337385763144173noreply@blogger.com