I watched Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary on MAX last night. It was a well woven narrative about the soft-rock of the late 70s and early 80s, then how it ended, and what happened to a lot of those guys.

I'm glad they noted how Robbie Dupree flat out lifted Michael McDonald's sound for things like "Steal Away."

There was a point made about people distancing themselves from Christopher Cross, yet "Sailing" is one of the most penultimate songs - that actually has a sailing (yacht) theme - in yacht rock.

A lot of cool full circle moments in it. Questlove offers great insight into the genre, as well as those who played the music.

TrivialPursuit said:

I watched Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary on MAX last night. It was a well woven narrative about the soft-rock of the late 70s and early 80s, then how it ended, and what happened to a lot of those guys.

I'm glad they noted how Robbie Dupree flat out lifted Michael McDonald's sound for things like "Steal Away."

There was a point made about people distancing themselves from Christopher Cross, yet "Sailing" is one of the most penultimate songs - that actually has a sailing (yacht) theme - in yacht rock.

A lot of cool full circle moments in it. Questlove offers great insight into the genre, as well as those who played the music.

I missed the start but saw it recently. Steely Dan, Christopher Cross etc isn't my thing, but I found myself enjoying the documentary. I like these type of music features and felt the people talking were passionate and knowledgeable - Questlove is just a good sound bite. As I didn't know that much about the genre I learnt things. It is interesting how the bands/acts praised the black acts that inspired them, and in return black acts spoke praise for them when they heard them.

robertgeorge8 said:

I missed the start but saw it recently. Steely Dan, Christopher Cross etc isn't my thing, but I found myself enjoying the documentary. I like these type of music features and felt the people talking were passionate and knowledgeable - Questlove is just a good sound bite. As I didn't know that much about the genre I learnt things. It is interesting how the bands/acts praised the black acts that inspired them, and in return black acts spoke praise for them when they heard them.

I did this recently - I would encourage you to go through Steely Dan's catalog. It's not that big. Take one record at a time, listen and absorb it. It's quality stuff front to back.

TrivialPursuit said:

robertgeorge8 said:

I missed the start but saw it recently. Steely Dan, Christopher Cross etc isn't my thing, but I found myself enjoying the documentary. I like these type of music features and felt the people talking were passionate and knowledgeable - Questlove is just a good sound bite. As I didn't know that much about the genre I learnt things. It is interesting how the bands/acts praised the black acts that inspired them, and in return black acts spoke praise for them when they heard them.

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I did this recently - I would encourage you to go through Steely Dan's catalog. It's not that big. Take one record at a time, listen and absorb it. It's quality stuff front to back.

Excellent observations! Finding new music is always energizing, particularly when it has such a deep history and is praised by a variety of musicians. It's definitely worth checking out Steely Dan's distinctive sound. I will also need to peruse their catalog!

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I've seen this listed on the tv guide but didn't pay it much mind as "soft rock" was never my thing and I've never heard the term "Yacht Rock" until last weeek.

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Read this thread on yesterday, caught it on tv, and came in on the story about how K. Loggins and M. McDonald collaborated for "What A Fool Believes" (had no idea that K. Loggins co-wrote that) so I hit RECORD to come back to it.

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Turned out, Whitney's '94 Durbin concert was on PBS so I watched that for a while but that's for another thread...

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I think y'all know by now that I'm not a Bot...

Do they mention Player?

Need to check this out just out of curiosity amd my music obsession.

2freaky said:

Do they mention Player?

I think they do?