knew the Col. over 20 years. such a sweet man and so smart. Not to mention a great musician. so many people love this man and he will be missed so so much. rest in peace Col Bruce.
I was at Hampton 70 last night at The Fox and witnessed a legend fall. Obviously, because of people searching his name after the terrible news, this video is suddenly getting a lot of clicks and comments. Please remember that a great man is gone, and he leaves behind fans, friends, and family. So, please respect his memory and keep things civil, y'all! RIP Col. Bruce. You were one of a kind!
This is an incredible interview - really upbeat and interestingly investigative - love your concept and how he opened up to you so nicely because of it. As always, his words loom prophetic, even over a year ahead of what you witnessed last night. I am so sorry for the collective loss. What an awesome mind. Cheers to you - hugs too. I know it can't be easy for you.
"...it was 4 hours long... And those musicians DIED every night ... They couldn't even walk off stage, they were sweating so hard...". He was talking about James Brown but also seemed to describe last night... Eerie to say the least... thanks for capturing such a great interview with the Col...
Indeed a great man is gone. So sorry for this loss to the music community. I was wondering, do you know the name of the young man he called forward before he collapsed? My heart breaks for him, that has to be heavy on his mind and his heart.
Bruce was a good friend, and I miss him every day. He had tremendous insights on EVERYTHING. We used to go for Indian food about every two weeks. I'd learn something new every time.
Was he part Native American? I could look into his eyes in the movie Sling Blade and see maybe he had some Cherokee in him, might be where his insight and wisdom came from :)
Never will forget those gigs we shared, those crazy days on the road. I promise I'll start using the stage name you gave me, Col. Brato Ganibe brother. Brato Ganibe.
I totally agree with him. I grew up in the 80s and I can't stand today's music. I went all the way back to 50s and 60s music. I use to have my radio on all the time now I don't even bother turning it on anymore. I listen to my music online or I go to see the musicians that are still playing in person. I would not waste my money in any of today's so called singers. Col. Bruce Hampton died on May 1, 2017. May he rest in peace.
Yes, and like he said, just wait and it will cycle out with quality coming back in! Its still out there but not popular with the current generation for the most part which is the sad part.
Mister Smithwick I am amazed that you were divine this much information about the man from one interview. Surely your powers are monumental. My $.02 - The Col. is already missed.
@@Born_Into_This great analogy lol. He was like Sun Ra, Dali and Zappa- brilliant creatures that were just naturally enlightened and born high and didn't need chemicals.
I was browsing some of the interviews of your channel (after seeing the Steven WIlson one) and you have really great content. Congratulations. Subscribed. Keep doing this, man.
At 0:40 when it says they are at “Randy’s House,” I couldn’t help but imagine that Morris had finally come over to practice after all these years had passed. Doyle never wanted to practice and in fact said they didn’t have a band.
Makes a great point that I don't think people understand. Quality is not a part of most music today. You used to listen to any genre & know that everybody cared about making a quality record. Now they just care about pumping out records.
Incidentally, President Gerald Ford never played college football with no helmet. That rumor got started after President Lyndon Johnson made the wisecrack, _“He’s [Gerald Ford] a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.”_
F,na Col. Bruce! Rest in peace and thank you for your music and being so kind to me being a young shit heel kid aspiring musician . and your mystery hallways of questions to determine my date of birthday. ...memories that will not be forgotten .Col. Bruce! Much love!
Just found your site and subscribed. Never heard of the Colonel until now and will be following up on him and his musical recommendations. Most of all, I loved your questions. Looking forward to watching some more. Thanks for this! All the best from the UK
In 1996/1997, you could tell something was starting to go wrong with mainstream music. By 2001, it was basically dead, and ever since then, probably 40 percent of all songs are just the same I-V-VI-IV chord progression over and over again, melody has disappeared and somehow no one has noticed. Over 20 years of nonstop I-V-VI-IV with no melody. That is a musical apocalypse.
I’m not a musician so I can’t quite put my technical analysis like you can but to me so much modern rock music is just boring. No energy, no crazy skynyrd-type solos, so many top bands sound to me like a regular house band doing generic loops for a stock sound effects album. It’s like rock version of elevator music.
he's right about it all except the cycle part - the radio has changed as a format. it will never again be the place to look for the next thing, for quality. we find it here, on streamers, from a friend's instagram feed. i'm from ATL and when 88.5 went to NPR, I laid a rose on the grave of good radio.
Music today that I love: Alabama Shakes, Black Keys, Flying Lotus, Ceephax Acid Crew, The Bad Plus, Animal Collective, Hiatus Kayote, Battles, Janek Gwizdala, John Scofield, Nelson Veras, Joshua Redman, Tal Wilkenfeld, Diego Figueiredo, Alex Machacek, Animals as Leaders, Chico Cesar, Björk, Erykah Badu, Beth Hart. However, no one in my circle of people knows any of them. Col is right, mainstream is in a bad spot.
“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
The Day Someone's Butt Smelled a Monster 😂😂😂 The Colonel was such a character on top of being a musical genius. This was a great interview. Loved what he said about Mumford and Sons being as sexual as a brick 😂
Bruce is right, music now days #sucks. Zappa predicted it 30 years ago, give some glamor boy or girl a catchy beat and let someone else wright the lyrics. Is there gonna be a revolution of new great music? No not on the radio. #sad
I guess mainstream doesn't get what music is supposed to be like. All the top 50's I hear anymore sound exactly the same. So simular that it annoys me. This has lead me to like Alternative rock and Metal because at least these guys know what they're doing.
*"I stand on the hill, not for a thrill, but for the breath of a fresh kill. Never mind the man who contemplates doin' away with license plates. He stands alone, anyhow, bakin' the cookies of discontent by the heat of the laundromat vent. Leavin' his soul!" Then like in poetry I go dot-dot-dot, you know, kinda off center, then I drop down and then I go: "Leavin' his soul! And partin' the waters of the medulla oblongata of - -brrrrrr! - -mankind!" ~ Morris*
His take on Gerald Forde is so accurate... Forde, unelected, presided with VP Nelson Rockefeller, also unelected, over the 1976 bi-Centennial celebrations of US Democracy... That was a clear signal to anyone paying attention that all is not what it seems to be or what it says it is
Haven't heard of most of the artists he mentioned and for some reason they are all hard to spell just hearing the names. Can someone transcribe those? Great interview.
Thanks, Wesley. Here are some of the mentioned bands and artists: Campbell Brothers Quebe Sisters Lake Street Dive Del McCoury Hard Working Americans Todd Snider Dave Rawlings Gillian Welch Jason Isbell John Moreland
Man! what great art would srinivas and the colonel have conjured if that jam had happened! RIP both! I am guessing the colonel recently heard Chingaari- Bombay Makossa record
Yeah, I got a new tune in composition entitled "The Thrill." And it goes somethin' like this: "I stand on the hill, not for a thrill, but for the breath of a fresh kill. Never mind the man who contemplates doin' away with license plates. He stands alone, anyhow, bakin' the cookies of discontent by the heat of the laundromat vent. Leavin' his soul!" Then like in poetry I go dot-dot-dot, you know, kinda off center, then I drop down and then I go: "Leavin' his soul! And partin' the waters of the medulla oblongata of - -brrrrrr! - -mankind!" That was a damn good song, wasn't it
I agree. Sure there is good stuff, but it's a full time job to find it. As someone who said he barely uses the Internet, how would one expect him to find any of the decent bands of today? I am going to have to see Here Comes Rusty now...
I love Col. Bruce, and I agree that most of the music on the radio today sucks. But gee whiz Bruce, are there really only three artists out there gettin' it done for ya?! There's a ton of great music going on today, right under our nose. It's just not on the radio. How about the Punch Brothers? Julian Lage? The National? Cory Henry? Wild Feathers? Tedeschi-Trucks? Ryan Bingham? Grace Potter? Soulive? The New Mastersounds? Let alone a whole host of jazz, blues and bluegrass acts that are very active on the festival and club circuit. If you just look around the music is out there, and thanks to the internet it's easier than ever to find! Otherwise, great interview. What a crazy dude! Really dug it. Cheers from Virginia.
Thanks for watching. I think, to be fair, he named three off the top of his head. When he asked me for new stuff I only came up with about four. And then about fifty more in the car ride home. :) Thanks again for watching and leaving some feedback. Cheers from Atlanta.
+Apparently This Matters Yeah, I hear you. Just a few more that deserve a mention: Ray LaMontagne, Jackie Greene, Okkervil River, Amos Lee, Dawes, Damon Fowler and Southern Hospitality, Sturgill Simpson, The Time Jumpers, Kacey Musgraves, Kate Davis, Jamey Johnson, Carbon Leaf. And I think we're kidding ourselves if we don't admit that Adele is a hell of a talent. I think one could almost argue that there's more great music going on today than there was in the 70's! The difference is there's basically zero major label support for it and it gets no mainstream promotion. It's definitely a tough time for the music industry while they try to play catch up and figure out how to make money again. But the Col. is right on about the absence of huge and mega talented acts on the radio. There certainly doesn't seem to be an Eagles or a Stevie Wonder or a Johnny Cash out there right now. Hopefully he's also right about the cycle ending/beginning soon. Keep the faith brother!
+VirtualWoodshed You are correct. There is an abundance of good music being made today. Every generation has its garbage. To make a sweeping generalization about today's music is foolhardy. I'll add a few more: Vampire Weekend, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, Daniel Bachman, Alabama Shakes, etc., etc. etc.
+MapToons LICM Y'all realize he did qualify the statement with music on the radio? Programming music has always been disposable, but there was a time when it was well composed music marketed by a vast industry. Now that same industry makes that same music geared toward ear bud tech and by drawing from a smaller pool of people needed to do the job and so the quality of the product has suffered. I was always a Top 40 fm listener. I remember skipping school to stay home to hear the release of a new single by a band, and more than once, as clearly as I remember dialing in the local station traveling when I was grown trying to find a song I had heard in a coffee shop that morning. I don't seem to do that much, anymore.
You nailed it Col. Bruce ! I'm 52 and grew up in the 70's. When music had a quality that MEANT something. Generation of fucking snowflakes makes me sick. R.I.P Col. Bruce Hampton
It’s a double edged sword, technology allows more musicians to get their music out there but it also means the market is saturated with terrible bands too that you have to pick through the crap to find the gems.
What does "Mister Smithwick" hope to accomplish by all his foolish and obvious lack of knowledge on the topic of Col.Hampton comments below that were posted earlier this morning ? I mean what the hell ??
I think today's music is the greatest. I think Bruce is sitting in the center and he needs to get to the edge to see everything, like Vonnegut said. We're all in orbit, and sometimes our perspectives align in weird ways. Outside is not over there, Bruce. Undo yourself. Get without it, mang.
Living in the wasteland and liking it.he's talking about what's on the Mainstream radio and 90% of it is total shit made buy people that can't really play,sing or write.made by people in marketing not music.there are exceptions but very few,but there is great music out there you just have to find it yourself now.
jarrett, i understand why you might wanna disable the video's ratings--it encourages people to verbalize their feedback in comments rather than just click a button. but you might wanna enable them! most people like your videos, and likes HUGELY increase the exposure of videos on youtube's algorithm
I love Bruce and knew him a very little and knew many more who played with him and loved him but “old man yells at clouds” is the best comment on this video! (And the one which actually properly captures Bruce’s spirit/aesthetic). He is low-key trolling in this clip and kinda full of shit in his own endearing and amazing way. Bruce had amazing insights and could be very poetic and even sublime in his own uniquely southern DADA way but he also has a bit of the soul of an old carnival barker, pontificating street preacher, or a disseminating salesman. His ridiculousness and intermixing of the poetic/philosophic and the deliberately meaningless is in and of itself a kind of meta-commentary on truth and integrity and how we define it and look for with in ourselves and without. Great music was being made in 1962 and has always and will always be being made as long as there are people to make it. And the music of today will be seen as the great old music of the past in another fifty years or sixty years by old men still yelling at clouds, assuming by then the earth isn’t already populated by roving bands of irradiated zombies and malicious corporate software code isn’t running the crumbling remains of the modern techno-state! Hhhhrrrrrmmmm (humming noises from behind the wall). Old man yells at clouds indeed. “I’ll believe it when I can gnaw on their skulls with my very own teeth, because it still hasn’t gotten weird enough for me.” -Hunter Thompson
knew the Col. over 20 years. such a sweet man and so smart. Not to mention a great musician. so many people love this man and he will be missed so so much. rest in peace Col Bruce.
I was at Hampton 70 last night at The Fox and witnessed a legend fall. Obviously, because of people searching his name after the terrible news, this video is suddenly getting a lot of clicks and comments. Please remember that a great man is gone, and he leaves behind fans, friends, and family. So, please respect his memory and keep things civil, y'all! RIP Col. Bruce. You were one of a kind!
This is an incredible interview - really upbeat and interestingly investigative - love your concept and how he opened up to you so nicely because of it. As always, his words loom prophetic, even over a year ahead of what you witnessed last night. I am so sorry for the collective loss. What an awesome mind. Cheers to you - hugs too. I know it can't be easy for you.
Oh - and Moreland! What a great suggestion, wonder if he ended up hearing him?!
"...it was 4 hours long... And those musicians DIED every night ... They couldn't even walk off stage, they were sweating so hard...". He was talking about James Brown but also seemed to describe last night...
Eerie to say the least... thanks for capturing such a great interview with the Col...
Indeed a great man is gone. So sorry for this loss to the music community. I was wondering, do you know the name of the young man he called forward before he collapsed? My heart breaks for him, that has to be heavy on his mind and his heart.
Brandon Niederauer. Wrote an open letter to him today: twitter.com/JarrettBellini/status/859395982248816640
Bruce was a good friend, and I miss him every day. He had tremendous insights on EVERYTHING. We used to go for Indian food about every two weeks. I'd learn something new every time.
Was he part Native American? I could look into his eyes in the movie Sling Blade and see maybe he had some Cherokee in him, might be where his insight and wisdom came from :)
Never will forget those gigs we shared, those crazy days on the road. I promise I'll start using the stage name you gave me, Col. Brato Ganibe brother. Brato Ganibe.
I totally agree with him. I grew up in the 80s and I can't stand today's music. I went all the way back to 50s and 60s music. I use to have my radio on all the time now I don't even bother turning it on anymore. I listen to my music online or I go to see the musicians that are still playing in person. I would not waste my money in any of today's so called singers.
Col. Bruce Hampton died on May 1, 2017. May he rest in peace.
Yes, and like he said, just wait and it will cycle out with quality coming back in! Its still out there but not popular with the current generation for the most part which is the sad part.
Col. Bruce! He is missed very much...
Thanks for this interview, very well done!
Mister Smithwick I am amazed that you were divine this much information about the man from one interview. Surely your powers are monumental. My $.02 - The Col. is already missed.
RIP Colonel....you're missed but we are forever grateful for all you've done
Wow every detail of this interview is spot on. Great perspective
"those guys died on stage, they left ia ll up there". Can't believe he says this and then dies on stage.
He was truly a western culture yogi
@@Born_Into_This great analogy lol. He was like Sun Ra, Dali and Zappa- brilliant creatures that were just naturally enlightened and born high and didn't need chemicals.
great interview!
I just discovered this channel/series and I am hooked. These interviews are great!
I always thought Bruce was a genius. Now I have my proof. Great interview. "R.I.P. Col. Bruce."
The Heaven Band awaits the arrival of this seriously talented musician. RIP Colonel Bruce!
I was browsing some of the interviews of your channel (after seeing the Steven WIlson one) and you have really great content. Congratulations. Subscribed. Keep doing this, man.
At 0:40 when it says they are at “Randy’s House,” I couldn’t help but imagine that Morris had finally come over to practice after all these years had passed. Doyle never wanted to practice and in fact said they didn’t have a band.
Makes a great point that I don't think people understand. Quality is not a part of most music today. You used to listen to any genre & know that everybody cared about making a quality record. Now they just care about pumping out records.
Ralph Towner is phenomenal live. I thought my heart just might explode.
Incidentally, President Gerald Ford never played college football with no helmet. That rumor got started after President Lyndon Johnson made the wisecrack, _“He’s [Gerald Ford] a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.”_
Could see that, yeah.
Great interview and an even better compliment he gave you at the end.
Thanks, D. Much appreciated!
F,na Col. Bruce! Rest in peace and thank you for your music and being so kind to me being a young shit heel kid aspiring musician . and your mystery hallways of questions to determine my date of birthday. ...memories that will not be forgotten .Col. Bruce! Much love!
Just found your site and subscribed. Never heard of the Colonel until now and will be following up on him and his musical recommendations. Most of all, I loved your questions. Looking forward to watching some more. Thanks for this! All the best from the UK
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The opening Gerald Ford bit is priceless!
Great interview, thank you!
In 1996/1997, you could tell something was starting to go wrong with mainstream music. By 2001, it was basically dead, and ever since then, probably 40 percent of all songs are just the same I-V-VI-IV chord progression over and over again, melody has disappeared and somehow no one has noticed. Over 20 years of nonstop I-V-VI-IV with no melody. That is a musical apocalypse.
I’m not a musician so I can’t quite put my technical analysis like you can but to me so much modern rock music is just boring. No energy, no crazy skynyrd-type solos, so many top bands sound to me like a regular house band doing generic loops for a stock sound effects album. It’s like rock version of elevator music.
My life is complete now that I've seen Col. Bruce in shorts. I love this man!
Saw him early 2000's with the Codetalkers at suwanee Florida. What a man. Helluva musician/entertainer/raconteur. Miss ya Colonel!
Please don't bring ANY bad vibes here for a legendary mentor. Thank you. :)
he's right about it all except the cycle part - the radio has changed as a format. it will never again be the place to look for the next thing, for quality. we find it here, on streamers, from a friend's instagram feed.
i'm from ATL and when 88.5 went to NPR, I laid a rose on the grave of good radio.
its the BEST time for music -not restricted as before its all there online for all to enjoy -all the time
Music today that I love: Alabama Shakes, Black Keys, Flying Lotus, Ceephax Acid Crew, The Bad Plus, Animal Collective, Hiatus Kayote, Battles, Janek Gwizdala, John Scofield, Nelson Veras, Joshua Redman, Tal Wilkenfeld, Diego Figueiredo, Alex Machacek, Animals as Leaders, Chico Cesar, Björk, Erykah Badu, Beth Hart.
However, no one in my circle of people knows any of them. Col is right, mainstream is in a bad spot.
Whoever disliked this video has no soul and needs to be punched in the kidney.
100%
“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
The Day Someone's Butt Smelled a Monster 😂😂😂 The Colonel was such a character on top of being a musical genius. This was a great interview. Loved what he said about Mumford and Sons being as sexual as a brick 😂
Bruce is right, music now days #sucks. Zappa predicted it 30 years ago, give some glamor boy or girl a catchy beat and let someone else wright the lyrics. Is there gonna be a revolution of new great music? No not on the radio. #sad
I guess mainstream doesn't get what music is supposed to be like. All the top 50's I hear anymore sound exactly the same. So simular that it annoys me. This has lead me to like Alternative rock and Metal because at least these guys know what they're doing.
*"I stand on the hill, not for a thrill, but for the breath of a fresh kill. Never mind the man who contemplates doin' away with license plates. He stands alone, anyhow, bakin' the cookies of discontent by the heat of the laundromat vent. Leavin' his soul!" Then like in poetry I go dot-dot-dot, you know, kinda off center, then I drop down and then I go: "Leavin' his soul! And partin' the waters of the medulla oblongata of - -brrrrrr! - -mankind!" ~ Morris*
Im gonna miss the Col.
Did he play a part in sling blade?
Yes
He was in Doyle’s band and he recites this hilarious nonsensical poem
His take on Gerald Forde
is so accurate...
Forde, unelected, presided
with VP Nelson Rockefeller,
also unelected, over the
1976 bi-Centennial celebrations
of US Democracy...
That was a clear signal to anyone paying attention that all is not what it seems to be or what it says it is
Ford not Forde, but otherwise you are quite correct .
Haven't heard of most of the artists he mentioned and for some reason they are all hard to spell just hearing the names. Can someone transcribe those? Great interview.
Thanks, Wesley. Here are some of the mentioned bands and artists:
Campbell Brothers
Quebe Sisters
Lake Street Dive
Del McCoury
Hard Working Americans
Todd Snider
Dave Rawlings
Gillian Welch
Jason Isbell
John Moreland
+Apparently This Matters Thanks! Quebe Sisters was the one in particular I hadn't heard of.
Hooked when that sitar ringtone came on.
Does anybody have a leaf blower? Or a broom?
😂
I think Bruce is talking about you.
you get to an age you just don’t give a shit.
60's my parents 90's myself he's right time for a new wave
COL B STARTED THE JAMZZZZ. LOVE ALWAYS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
Still waiting for that Cycle when new music won't be Horrifying!
Man! what great art would srinivas and the colonel have conjured if that jam had happened! RIP both!
I am guessing the colonel recently heard Chingaari- Bombay Makossa record
AGREED!!! SURELY it can't get any worse. I keep saying that!
Lake Street Dive...oh Yeah
But does he still know my sign? DOT DOT DOT
Mumford and Sons is as sensual as a brick. yep. s0 true
The radio is for weather reports.
Yeah, I got a new tune in composition entitled "The Thrill." And it goes somethin' like this: "I stand on the hill, not for a thrill, but for the breath of a fresh kill. Never mind the man who contemplates doin' away with license plates. He stands alone, anyhow, bakin' the cookies of discontent by the heat of the laundromat vent. Leavin' his soul!" Then like in poetry I go dot-dot-dot, you know, kinda off center, then I drop down and then I go: "Leavin' his soul! And partin' the waters of the medulla oblongata of - -brrrrrr! - -mankind!" That was a damn good song, wasn't it
You don't want to question a genius, Vaughn. See Morris here is a modern day poet.
They should set it to a drum machine and twang of da banjo
R.I.P
whatever colonel says is the truth. count on it
Spot on. Cant believe hes gone.
I agree. Sure there is good stuff, but it's a full time job to find it. As someone who said he barely uses the Internet, how would one expect him to find any of the decent bands of today?
I am going to have to see Here Comes Rusty now...
Agree!
"mumford and sons is about as sexual as a brick" LMAO
"never mind to contemplate, doin' away with license plates"
The music of today is horrifying but the most viewed video on Apparently This Matters is Steven Wilson's interview. There is hope.
rip
I love Col. Bruce, and I agree that most of the music on the radio today sucks. But gee whiz Bruce, are there really only three artists out there gettin' it done for ya?! There's a ton of great music going on today, right under our nose. It's just not on the radio. How about the Punch Brothers? Julian Lage? The National? Cory Henry? Wild Feathers? Tedeschi-Trucks? Ryan Bingham? Grace Potter? Soulive? The New Mastersounds? Let alone a whole host of jazz, blues and bluegrass acts that are very active on the festival and club circuit. If you just look around the music is out there, and thanks to the internet it's easier than ever to find! Otherwise, great interview. What a crazy dude! Really dug it. Cheers from Virginia.
Thanks for watching. I think, to be fair, he named three off the top of his head. When he asked me for new stuff I only came up with about four. And then about fifty more in the car ride home. :)
Thanks again for watching and leaving some feedback. Cheers from Atlanta.
+Apparently This Matters Yeah, I hear you. Just a few more that deserve a mention: Ray LaMontagne, Jackie Greene, Okkervil River, Amos Lee, Dawes, Damon Fowler and Southern Hospitality, Sturgill Simpson, The Time Jumpers, Kacey Musgraves, Kate Davis, Jamey Johnson, Carbon Leaf. And I think we're kidding ourselves if we don't admit that Adele is a hell of a talent. I think one could almost argue that there's more great music going on today than there was in the 70's! The difference is there's basically zero major label support for it and it gets no mainstream promotion. It's definitely a tough time for the music industry while they try to play catch up and figure out how to make money again. But the Col. is right on about the absence of huge and mega talented acts on the radio. There certainly doesn't seem to be an Eagles or a Stevie Wonder or a Johnny Cash out there right now. Hopefully he's also right about the cycle ending/beginning soon. Keep the faith brother!
+VirtualWoodshed and snarky puppy (and cory henry), bill laurance, shaun martin, the sunpilots, haken, ...
+VirtualWoodshed You are correct. There is an abundance of good music being made today. Every generation has its garbage. To make a sweeping generalization about today's music is foolhardy. I'll add a few more: Vampire Weekend, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, Daniel Bachman, Alabama Shakes, etc., etc. etc.
+MapToons LICM
Y'all realize he did qualify the statement with music on the radio?
Programming music has always been disposable, but there was a time when it was well composed music marketed by a vast industry.
Now that same industry makes that same music geared toward ear bud tech and by drawing from a smaller pool of people needed to do the job and so the quality of the product has suffered.
I was always a Top 40 fm listener. I remember skipping school to stay home to hear the release of a new single by a band, and more than once, as clearly as I remember dialing in the local station traveling when I was grown trying to find a song I had heard in a coffee shop that morning. I don't seem to do that much, anymore.
find it interesting he never mentions Gary Clark, Jr or Phish or Tedeschi Trucks Band
he did say Dereck Trucks
oh you're right -
LOL thanks for the laugh. Phish is the greatest thing to happen in Rock n' Roll since Grateful Dead.
Phish is great. So is everything Trucks touches. Music isn't the SEC, 'we don't have to compete.' cookookachoo -eggman
well said to each is own - but anyone who dogs The Phish clearly lives in tunnel vision of the ear canal
RIP COL BRUCE!!!
Upalappu Srinivas too at 4:24
so this is what Leonardo DiCaprio will look like when he gets old.... he looks like him
Bruce had me at Quebe sisters.
Campbell Brothers and Lake Street Dive.. He knew his music and talent!
i hear after progressing of vocals i turn off the device.
so long, colonel... :(
It's about image and not music anymore I blame technology
I totally agree and tech will be the end of us...The stuff they have on deck like ID2020 is scary
The cycle wont end till we hang all the suits. RIP Col
I am into weird Al
You nailed it Col. Bruce ! I'm 52 and grew up in the 70's. When music had a quality that MEANT something. Generation of fucking snowflakes makes me sick. R.I.P Col. Bruce Hampton
Latest hit... Little dog poop rhymes to a fart sound back beat. It's Gold!
"Mumford and Sons is about as sexual as brick." God, curmudgeons are hilarious. :-)
Tedeschi Trucks Band ✊🏼
💘✊🏼🎶✌🏼😍🔥
Dave Wong...yes.
Technology is the culprit.
It’s a double edged sword, technology allows more musicians to get their music out there but it also means the market is saturated with terrible bands too that you have to pick through the crap to find the gems.
🙏🏽
what a guy!
The Col. knows...
Dot dot dot
The "Mayor of 5 points" Baker Mayfield...?!%%%
love cbh - but guess he wouldn't have liked meshuggah.
I wouldn't assume anything about the Colonel.
Bruce got to live in a nice house. But that's Atlanta. Nice place.
Was that at his house?
What does "Mister Smithwick" hope to accomplish by all his foolish and obvious lack of knowledge on the topic of Col.Hampton comments below that were posted earlier this morning ? I mean what the hell ??
70 isn’t old
ehh?
@@shoechew What ?
Robert Lee takes Ann Arbor, Michigan by virtue of Monroe. I guess sweaty Ted.
I think today's music is the greatest. I think Bruce is sitting in the center and he needs to get to the edge to see everything, like Vonnegut said.
We're all in orbit, and sometimes our perspectives align in weird ways.
Outside is not over there, Bruce. Undo yourself. Get without it, mang.
Living in the wasteland and liking it.he's talking about what's on the Mainstream radio and 90% of it is total shit made buy people that can't really play,sing or write.made by people in marketing not music.there are exceptions but very few,but there is great music out there you just have to find it yourself now.
Pop music generally sucks. I saw " Hampton grease Band " in 1971 , NOLA outrageous.
The medulla oblongata - and like in poetry - I go - dot dot dot/ anyone get the reference 🍟
@wishboneman ahhh , you got it!!! Your awesome.
“That’s a good song isn’t it? You like that song… hawwwww!!
“You’re a tunesmith Tarrent, melody and tune is your trade”
@@keithpasculli7465 ha ha - awreet!
ZAMBI
Pet peeve: people who don't do cpr.
jarrett, i understand why you might wanna disable the video's ratings--it encourages people to verbalize their feedback in comments rather than just click a button. but you might wanna enable them! most people like your videos, and likes HUGELY increase the exposure of videos on youtube's algorithm
on it! thanks for the feedback
old man yells at clouds
musta breathed too much of that Halifax air
Brato Ganib...Brato Ganib
I love Bruce and knew him a very little and knew many more who played with him and loved him but “old man yells at clouds” is the best comment on this video! (And the one which actually properly captures Bruce’s spirit/aesthetic). He is low-key trolling in this clip and kinda full of shit in his own endearing and amazing way. Bruce had amazing insights and could be very poetic and even sublime in his own uniquely southern DADA way but he also has a bit of the soul of an old carnival barker, pontificating street preacher, or a disseminating salesman. His ridiculousness and intermixing of the poetic/philosophic and the deliberately meaningless is in and of itself a kind of meta-commentary on truth and integrity and how we define it and look for with in ourselves and without. Great music was being made in 1962 and has always and will always be being made as long as there are people to make it. And the music of today will be seen as the great old music of the past in another fifty years or sixty years by old men still yelling at clouds, assuming by then the earth isn’t already populated by roving bands of irradiated zombies and malicious corporate software code isn’t running the crumbling remains of the modern techno-state! Hhhhrrrrrmmmm (humming noises from behind the wall). Old man yells at clouds indeed.
“I’ll believe it when I can gnaw on their skulls with my very own teeth, because it still hasn’t gotten weird enough for me.” -Hunter Thompson
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Go pack go
Duane Trucks...........close!! LOL!!!
Is this Gen. Lee from Owensville Kentucky...or his boy Cassius Clay Kentucky Fried movie!!!!
Mr. Pink Floyd from Mississippi.com