My friend recently mixed together Herb's "A Taste of Honey" with Crass' "Asylum." It was an inspired combination that got me to thinking: how does the man with the golden trumpet rate?

Negative factor: Herb is (was) the A in A&M.

Positive factor: signing Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

Not crap.

Oh, so not crap.



Not even close. The Mendes '66/'67 etc. cements this. I didn't see the A&M thing as bad. Why is A&M bad?


Faiz

kerble wrote:Why is A&M bad?

Just bad in a sense that it's part of the whole Polygram/Universal monster conglomerate.

Herb did get a lot of money out of his one-time startup operation, though, so I guess that's kind of cool.

Yeah, I agree being the 'A' in A&M was a good thing, not crapafying. Now Almo...that was another story (He was the 'AL' in ALMO).

All in all, NOT CRAP, though he was no Trini Lopez or anything.

I always loved that stuff, even "The Bell That Couldn't Jingle", one of my fave Christmas tunes.

Just bad in a sense that it's part of the whole Polygram/Universal monster conglomerate.

A&M Records started w/ Herb selling copies of "The Lonely Bull" (great tune) 45 out of the trunk of his car. Very DIY.

Very NOT CRAP.

NC. No waffles. I fucking love the sound of a beat up HATB lp.

Don't know anything about this band except for Tijuana Taxi which I like.

BUT! WFMU recently posted "The Tijuana Brass Sound" 4 cd box set in their blog. Somebody posted it as a zip file in the comments section. http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/08/3 ... 32---.html

I still have a few HB & TJB albums, and I love them all. Most of my friends' parents had at least one when I was growing up (Usually "Going Places" or "Whipped Cream, etc.") but my friend and I between us (mostly my friend) had pretty much everything released up to 1975 or thereabouts. We loved that shit. NOT CRAP.

The dude got me into music. I think I saw him on TV when I was a kid and man did I want a trumpet. I got "Going Places" for my birthday.

My parents bought me a trumpet, I took lessons. Thanks, Herb.

I was thinking last night; who can actually formulate a dislike for Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass? The only thing I can think of is really unhappy people could dislike Herb Alpert because they're jealous.