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Arts and Television => Music => Topic started by: liquidsilver on July 30, 2018, 12:01:14 PM
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Share your thoughts on the latest popular music artists.
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We need to have a Woodstock concert on our Southern Border, to show our love for Mexicans, and to raise money to hire lawyers to battle on behalf of our Latino immigrants, etc.
We can get the Chili Peppers, probably...
Link...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0AXjUy1_gY
And NASTY HABITS...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAj82yZMJ-4
And a million other bands from Venice, California, and I bet Carlos Santana would play.
I bet a lot of bands would want to play. The backlash against putting children in cages is not over yet.
Salute,
Tony V.
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Share your thoughts on the latest popular music artists.
It may not feature the latest popular music, but it's always good to know where the retro stuff is when you are feeling nostalgic (or hosting Jazz Age party)-- Cladrite Streaming Radio, featuring the best from the 1920s,'30s and '40s :
https://cladriteradio.com/
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Okay, I might give that a try.
Damn, I missed both of Louis Armstrong's birthdays this year.
I was busy for the Aug 4 one.
It's odd but I've found that most of my favorite songs are discoveries of mine and largely unknown.
Such as my Trump Admin theme song: Bad News, Bad Times by gospel great Marion Williams.
Or my favorite jazz vocal Ain't No Use by Sarah Vaughan
My favorite Gospel tune: Sail Away by Albertina Walker
Some favorite Soul:
Yesterday is Gone by Jimmy McCracklin
Blues, Tears & Sorrow - John Williams
Give Her a Call - Gil Scott Heron
Same goes for 50's R&B, but probably doubled
Sometimes it's a well-known song, but an obscure cover version is a favorite of mine:
Such as Edwin Starr's version of My Sweet Lord
Or Marion Williams rendition of I Shall Be Released
As for the old jazz you tout:
Draggin' My Heart Around - Al Cooper & his Savoy Sultans -
Imagination - Bennie Moten
Blues I Love to Sing - Adelaide Hall w/ Duke Ellington
It just seems that a large % of my favorite tunes had to be unearthed and virtually nobody else is listening to. Odd and a little sad maybe.
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Want to check those out. Some are so obscure I don't find a wiki for them.... Like I found Stevie Knicks Draggin my heart around but not the AL Cooper one. Think we've got Sarah Vaughn in a storage shed, but don't know if that one. Some of those got hit with mold and need new jackets.
I play too little jazz on the piano... Can do some Gershwin, Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Monk (round midnight of course), Rollins, but not much. Pre-jazz, like Confrey and Waller is fun to play. I do this weird mix song that blends Putting on the Ritz and Unsquare Dance, maybe I should put that on utube sometime.
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Aretha
In a world with not enough nobility, she was royalty.
A very sad day
RIP
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopee_John
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We've got to get ourselves back to the Garden...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsGDiYlMFuk
Salute,
Tony V.
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https://youtu.be/zlG7Zrr-WQA
https://youtu.be/6C70QRbawN8
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https://youtu.be/7FdDLvED_4E
Dear lord don't let me die now...
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The Doors
Lyrics
"Spanish Caravan"
Carry me Caravan take me away
Take me to Portugal, take me to Spain
Andalusia with fields full of grain
I have to see you again and again
Take me, Spanish Caravan
Yes, I know you can
Trade winds find Galleons lost in the sea
I know where treasure is waiting for me
Silver and gold in the mountains of Spain
I have to see you again and again
Take me, Spanish Caravan
Yes, I know you can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZhORUIKWtQ
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Salute,
Tony V.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=92zMMZWPyGE
Was going to post this last Friday....
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDO78-0a4ho (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDO78-0a4ho)
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Help. I'm trying to track down a music video from the seventies, which has a quartet of snl players (one of them Chevy Chase, another probably Belushi) with just their white-painted faces against a black background, each face making silly expressions in rhythm with some classical piece of music. Google has failed me. Anyone remember this with any specificity that would help me track it down? Or maybe it was a bit before SNL, with Second City players?
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Sounds familiar. So I'd assume it was an SNL skit.
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When you are running down our country you are walking on the fighting side of me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIgUKHnwl_8
Salute,
Tony V.
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This guy is one of a group of young blues/boogie/ragtime pianists who are keeping these genres alive. Luca is amazing. Click on his Boogie Woogie Stomp, too.
https://youtu.be/B2xrLoBwk0E
Also check out the virtuosic Stephanie Trick, who is a fan and gifted interpreter of Jelly Roll Morton, Albert Ammons, Fats Waller, James Johnson, Art Tatum.
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Patsy Cline
"Tennessee Waltz"
This is stuff you can dance to.
https://youtu.be/kRNdap-ioNM
Salute,
Tony V.
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Maybe this is well known and I'm just late to the party, but last night a guy showed me a very cool tech feature on my mobile phone.
I had music playing on my phone without headphones, like a radio, when I popped into a shop. And another customer liked the song (Express Yourself by Charles Wright) pulled out his phone opened wechat -- a messaging and payment app everyone in China uses -- shakes his phone and it listens to maybe 5 seconds of the song I'm playing and it finds the song and downloads it to his phone.
Super-easy to share songs. I just tried this at home and it listens for 4 or 5 seconds and then takes another 2 or 3 seconds to match it and locate the song. And this can be any part of a song, not just the opening .
Not sure how often this will be useful, but pretty impressive. Blew my mind. I am going to have to play with this. And figure out how to make it useful. I might just start asking people I know what their favorite song or two is, get them to play it, so I can swipe it. Unfortunately this would be better if I weren't in China.
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I imagine it won't work for more obscure music -- like some Sun Ra for instance. And it had trouble with a very slow song (Dark Was the Night by Blind Willie Johnson).
Edit: I just tested Dark Was the Night starting from the beginning, and it knew the song after maybe 3 seconds of the opening. It just had trouble with the slow middle part.
Well, I tried again with a slow middle part with some humming and it worked fine.
It seems to be less good on jazz. A few Mary Lou Williams songs stumped it. But it did find Machito songs just fine. And Bennie Moten tunes. Even one out of two on Al Cooper and the Savoy Sultans. Not bad.
On to semi-obscure soul, it didn't do well.
Onesy Mack's I Do Believe I'm Losing You not only stumped it but came up with a few false matches, including a nice Brendel classical music piece. It has no clue who Eldridge Holmes is (recorded for soul for Allen Toussaint). Most disappointing it couldn't find Earl King's great Hard River to Cross which isn't that old or obscure. Came up with a movie sound track piece the first time and then The Ladybug Song on a retry.
Overall, it's really impressive.
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Besides getting song recs from friends, another use I can think of is when traveling. I'm heading to Armenia and Azerbaijan soon, and I wonder if it can find their music. If I hear a tune on the car radio or in a café, I could shake my phone and not only know what the tune is and who is doing it, but have a copy on my phone.
When in Romania there was a tune that kept popping up on the radio which had a good little horn riff I liked. We didn't even listen to the radio that much, and must have heard that tune about 5 times. But I have no idea what it was. With this app, I'd know (well, if the app could recognize the tune and had it in its database). There are plenty of Asian songs here, including one nice song I just got as a mistaken result for Hard River To Cross, but whether it includes Romanian and Caucusian music I have no idea. Would have been good to try in Israel and Jordan where we heard a fair amount of Egyptian music.
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Would be really useful if it could search across all genres of music and would work if you sang or whistled a theme or riff into it. I often have such, that I can't remember who did it, and would find that handy. There is a site that you can input a few notes on a blank treble clef ledger, and it will search for classical themes. I have to have my piano or KB with me, to use that, though. And it's picky about precise time values for each note, you can't just throw in a line of quarter notes unless it happens to be all quarter notes. And if it's a complex syncopation between bassline and treble, like say the intro to Vipers Drag (Waller), it's useless. And contrapuntal is out, obviously.
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RIP Dick Dale, musical pioneer of 20th century rock, king of surf music, father of heavy metal. Imploder of eardrums.
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https://apnews.com/678dcb90ff2344d39348cea55c95cf52
Fun with today's google doodle. You and JS Bach compose together.
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Or, in Bach's case, decompose. Ha!
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Or, in Bach's case, decompose. Ha!
Fuguet about it!
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Help help me rondo!
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RIP great jazz, ragtime, blues performer and Panama hat wearer Leon Redbone.
Please don't talk about him when he's gone.
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Here is a video of Ariana Grande doing a duet with Andrea Bocelli, it is beautiful...
https://youtu.be/Z8SYtmvEI9U
I would love to hire Ariana to play the lead role in my film "Echo, A Rock and Roll Tragedy." We will see what happens.
Salute,
Tony V.
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RIP Dr. John
He was in the right place....must have been the wrong time.
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Yarrow was sentenced to three months in jail over a 1969 episode in which the 14-year-old and her 17-year-old sister went to his hotel seeking an autograph and he answered the door naked.
https://apnews.com/0f5e16818c5b47bc98b9ed57d55f14f4
Yarrow dropped from music festival for acting the way young people did in the sixties, when it was the sixties. Have social media shaming dogpiles gained too much control over our decisions?
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Louis Armstrong Birthday Broadcast all day 4 July.
http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u
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I have a friend who was in the band Suicidal Tendencies, Jon Nelson, and a guy who played bass, Louiche Mayorga, formed a band named Luicidal, and they did a version of the hit "Institutionalized" in Spanish with a Latina singer, Ceci Bastida, it turned out pretty cool.
https://youtu.be/gGjrXTTtfG8
Salute,
Tony V.
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There is a new Springsteen cinema event coming out in October.
https://youtu.be/nGqjav-KbDU
It looks like it will be something that the Bruce Spingsteen fans are going to love.
Salute,
Tony V.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vinyl-cds-revenue-growth-riaa-880959/?fbclid=IwAR17Mhcxp75qAo-mj25iT8iPWJbS5qf6ybQxb1IWyvzr-4cYcufjIJ4aaVg
It is to laugh!
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With vinyl, you can almost hear what kind of plaster they used on the walls of the concert hall. Glad to see this form of analog hanging in there.
RIP Ric Ocasek. Wherever he goes, let the good times roll. A master of earworms.
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Coltrane's Birthday.
Coltrane radio all day Monday Spet 23:
http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u
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IIRC the first jazz I ever heard was Coltrane - my uncle playing a record with Equinox on it. He also played Miles Davis' Freddie Freeloader a lot. I felt fortunate, later, to have been exposed to many musical genres early in my life.
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I'm a big Jazz fan, but to be honest Coltrane (and Miles) don't do it for me. From that era, I'm more of a Mingus, Sun Ra, Cannonball Adderley kinda guy.
I like Coltrane when he teams up with Monk.
Some of his ballad work is good too.
As for his latter spiritual period for which he became legendary, I find it all overdone and somewhat grating. I prefer Pharoah Sanders in a similar vein, or Albert Ayler's ramshackle approach. Or Sun Ra's cosmic take.
It's kind of odd, because Miles and Coltrane are giants of jazz, I'm a giant jazz fan, but I just don't take to their music at all. Maybe it has something to do with Mingus-Cannonball having more connections to roots music -- gospel and blues -- and those two plus Sun Ra having a sense of humor. While Mingus and Ra both hark back to Duke Ellington and swing.
Maybe Coltrane and Miles are a bit too musiciany and self-serious for my taste. Maybe I should one day just download a dozen albums form each and plow through and see if I "get" them. If nothing else I should be able to pull together a one hour playlist for each. But it's funny how I react to most Miles and most Coltrane. Like eating Brussels sprouts when I was a kid, something clashes with my sensibility.
Btw, I like Brussels Sprouts now, and they are a terrific vegetable in miso soup, as they don't go mushy and taste good with the miso.
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I recall hearing some Mingus and liking it. When I learned piano, I played a fair amount of Ellington...Satin Doll is irresistible, if you play piano and can even halfway knock it out, it makes you sound better than you are. Sophisticated Lady, A Train, Solitude, Mood Indigo, also favorites, though one of the kids absconded with my anthology, so I need to get it replaced. I will listen to some Cannonball, because I'm mostly unfamiliar with him and I like stuff that comes from roots music. The spouse was playing some gospely thing the other day, "Rain Down," or something like that, and I was reminded how great that stuff is, how joyful.
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Well, I'll give you some Cannonball recs.
If I have time later I can even set up a drop where you can get the songs. But it's pretty easy these days to download any music you want.
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (I prefer the 5 minute live version with Cannonball's fine little spoken intro). A very infectious gospel jazz tune which became a surprising instrumental hit in 1966.
Sack o Woe & Jive Samba
These two get at the heart of Cannonball, but both are 10 mins long. Great stuff.
The Happy People -- A Brazilian jazz romp. Just sounds like huge fun. I like the whistle as an instrument.
I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water -- a blazing blues romp with Lou Rawls just killing it on vocals. Dynamite.
Save Your Love for Me -- Nancy Wilson on vocals with minimal backing. Nancy Wilson was a Cannonball discovery, and this is just pure Nancy. A gem.
Why Am I Treated So Bad -- in the vein of Mercy, Mercy, Mercy with a similar that blues-gospel organ carrying things along.
Kelly Blue -- low key Cannonball, where you can hear his playing quite well.
Tengo Tango - a jazz tango written by his brother Nat, as cannonball explains in the intro. Interesting concept.
African Waltz -- a bit brassy and noisy, but also a lot of fun.
Due to the times a changing, Cannonball often incorporated gospel or soul and blues in with jazz. Or gave Brazilian-jazz a try. There's a real joy to his work. And he's got such a great tone.
He also gave clever and informative intros to his tunes, which helped make them more accessible. Really Cannonball live captured his work better than in studio,so they even started doing studio albums with a live audience.
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Mingus (and Sun Ra) have easy ins for someone who likes Ellington, as they performed plenty of homages to Duke.
Pussy Cat Dues is one such Mingus ode to Duke.
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting is full-throated Mingus jazz but, as the title suggests, with some revival gospel in the mix.
Mingus' version of Moanin' is classic, and keeps a solid blues fell to the proceedings.
Original Faubus Fables is a pretty potent protest song, with a sense of humor.
Eat That Chicken & Oh Lord Please Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me are both accessible and humorous and pointed political-social barbs.
Better Get Hit in Your Soul (like Fables of Faubus) is a reworking of an earlier tune. And quintessential Mingus.
The Clown is a semi-improvised jazz-story with Jean Shepard narrating. ("real fine town Pittsburgh") Terrific.
Otherwise, Tonight at Noon, Hora Decubitus, Haitian Fight Song and Pithecanthropus Erectus are all classic long form Mingus tunes that really get to the heart of what he was.
Others might have different favorites, but those are a dozen classics, and I think the first 8 are quite accessible. It all depends where you're coming from and what you like.
Since you play piano you should check out Myself When I Am Real, from Mingus' solo piano album. Beautiful. (He was a great bassist who dabbled on piano).
I'm pretty surprised that I didn't already have a Mingus playlist formulated. I quickly threw 15 songs into a setlist, but will need to reorder and fine-tune and add more.
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I'm bookmarking this page. You sort of had me at "Brazilian jazz romp." Thanks, Bo, for all the breadcrumbs to follow. Yeah, I have no trouble finding the tracks, so this will be fun.
Jazz, generally, is something I heard in early life, ignored too much in the middle, and now I'm finding my way back to it. Discovering the power of chords, on the piano, really got me back to jazz - the diminished seventh and ninth, modal scales, the 2-5-1 progression in sevenths, etc. It got me back to the awareness that most pop songs are statements, whereas jazz is an exploration. And how can exploring not be incredible fun?
And how will I resist a jazz number called "I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water" ? Heh.
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And how will I resist a jazz number called "I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water" ? Heh.
Actually it's an old blues tune dating to the Depression. But Lou Rawl blazes through it with Cannonball's band providing outstanding backup. A great version. The spoken intro is great too.
I think it matters where you're coming from and your point of reference. If you like Duke, Mingus has some kind of dukish songs. I recced just one, Pussy Cat Dues.
With more difficult artists, like say Ornette Coleman or Cecil Taylor, usually the best to start is with their first album or two, because you can see where they veered off, and their style isn't fully developed or as detached from the earlier traditions.
For instance Mingus' first two albums have plenty of covers of jazz standards, such as I'll Remember April. And hearing how a new musician approaches a familiar tune is also a good way of understanding their approach.
Cannonball does a rendition of Fiddler on the Roof which is pretty solid. But I like plenty of Cannonball better than that.
My three favorite Mingus albums: Oh Yeah, Ah Um, and The Clown. I assume most folks don't listen to albums much these days. But it is a way to hear the art as it used to be and was intended to be heard. Cannonball didn't make great studio albums, so his catalog lends itself to pilfering and making a playlist.
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Some blues...
https://soundcloud.com/blackkrip/calling-mississippi-walking-limping-wheeling-through-blues-trails?fbclid=IwAR07d7z-Gg0pmiNzSuCg0w-YqAcAhiwaLjtvx9lAPt5F5PGlFnW1CPbV38U
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Here is a music video that my neighbor, Erik Umland, made, he writes all of his own music, and he sings and plays every instrument, plus he is an expert at recording.
https://youtu.be/lJiYi3SLeDg
Salute,
Tony V.
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For everything there is a season.
https://youtu.be/eiprqeaydik
Salute,
Tony V.
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https://youtu.be/3R8tRKIiAII
Seasonal blast from the past, Too Much Heaven....
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RIP McCoy Tyner, jazz master.
https://apnews.com/1bba11e86d46f349ca677c8a331bb35c
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I only saw McCoy Tyner once in NYC, down in the Village circa 1984. He was pretty flashy, trilling up and down the keyboard. Technically impressive. He could do alot.
Unfortunately, he was playing with Ron Carter who had a cast on his leg, kept looking at his watch and clearly wanted to be elsewhere. That performance didn't last longer than it was obligated to.
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Pretty amazing when he went solo... here's Autumn Leaves...
https://youtu.be/_eRbNkEUkkk
Can't decide if I prefer Tyner's interpretation of My Favorite Things or Brubeck's - both outstanding in different ways.
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Eight miles out of Memphis and I got no spare...
RIP Kenny Rogers.
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(https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/eda8d2b2add04534bff02fed53cd921d/600.jpeg)
It's not wearing shoes so it must be Paul?
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Mingus Mingus Mingus Birthday broadcast, all day April 22 (http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u).
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Will check it out. Thanks, Bo.
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For the morning segments, they seem to be focusing more on lesser known Mingus particularity his early group and trio work before he was a leader. A lot with vibes, as Mingus joined Lionel Hampton for a year in 1947-48, and was with the Red Norvo trio (with Tal Farlow on guitar) 1950-51 and they recorded a lot.
From '52-55, Mingus played bass with a lot of the bebop stars of the day, and that would be interesting to me. The birthday show also jumped to early 70's Mingus for a bit, continuing the lesser-known theme.
So far when I've been listening, very little classic fire-breathing Mingus leading his own band. More restrained early fare, and you have to remind yourself to listen to the bass. Mingus was a terrific bass player, and this shows some of his early training. Mingus was always fond of standards and especially Ellington. He even called himself Baron Mingus for a time! in his early 20's in the late 1940's trying to make a name for himself. He didn't lack for confidence. If you want prime, classic roaring Mingus, probably the afternoon or evening portions.
One thing I noticed is that DJ's seemed to switch somewhat frequently, every 2 or 3 hours apparently. And they keep saying that this was pre-recorded, which is odd. It took me a while to figure out why. Covid-20 (I'm staying up to date, none of that last year stuff for me). I'm assuming since this project was scheduled well in advance -- hell, since the 1970's -- they had DJ's come in and record their Mingus segments when a studio would be empty and few around. Usually it's all done radio live.
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I need to check out some of the new Christian metal bands, in the realm of Stryper, I need to have more balance, I cannot just listen to all devil bands, I need to have some good Christian music going through my head when I ride down the street on my bicycle.
https://youtu.be/vC5PcD9Pq1E
There is Narrow Intercession too, which is cool Christian music that a friend made, Jon Nelson, if you are into Christian music you can check it out.
I need to start listening to Christian music more, and I need to buy some Christian CDs at FYE, I hope they carry Christian music.
Salute,
Tony V.
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You want good Christian music? Check out Marion Williams, Albertina Walker, Mahalia Jackson, etc. 100 years of recorded music, so there's plenty of great gospel tunes out there.
Here's a Gospel Mix I made and placed on these here internets a few years back.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/d2c24f5qxnc7t/Gospel_Mix
That's a pretty good sampling of classic gospel music.
But gospel music has had a long and varied lineage.
For instance for some jazz-funk gospel, try Mary Lou Williams Praise The Lord. A song I slip into many playlists as it's so rowdy and infectious.
For rock-gospel, which you seem to be leaning towards, try Spirit in the Sky- Norman Greenbaum or Jesus is Just Alright - Art Reynolds Singers did the original version. In the late 60's and early 70's hippies and rockers often took the idea of Jesus seriously and there were interesting songs written. And of course Dylan famously ventured into Christianity for a a period and a bunch of albums.
Actually I just did a search of my music files for "Jesus" and came away with 184 songs and 9.4 hours of sanctified stylings.
It's only recently I discovered searching your music files for a specific term.
I like when artists try to update the concept of Jesus and Christianity to keep it relevant to the changes and new times. I'm listening to a gospel song called Jesus Done Blew My Mind, and it's pretty much straight gospel, but from the title you can guess the time frame it was recorded.
Btw, The Jesus & Mary Chain have a song entitled Bo Diddley is Jesus. Sort of a stripped down garage-band punk-techno hybrid sonic blast which doesn't do much for me. But for anyone who concurs, I can tell you where to send donations ...
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Heh!
Geo Harrison - my sweet lord
Depeche - personal jesus
Doobie bros - jesus just alright (hadn't heard the original art reynolds)
ZZ top - Jesus just left chicago
Tom Waits - Jesus gonna be here
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I love Edwin Starr's rendition of My Sweet Lord.
A real favorite of mine.
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Duke Ellington Radio until midnight:
http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u
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Banks had a great post on Little Richard over in the Trump thread. I hope we can move the topic of that great, now late, rock icon over here.
Fun fact: L R could only play piano in three keys. Well, that's all you need, really.
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Little Richard was great. Listen to Don Covay's first recordings and he's totally imitating Little Richard. Little Richard himself swiped his famous Whoooo! from gospel great Marion Williams.
In college, I was interested in this girl named Jenna, so for Valentine's Day I gave her a flower, a poem I modified, and a 45 record of Little Richard's Jenny, Jenny which she had never heard.
One time on Chinese TV, they were showing some US star search type show. A performer finishes belting out a tune. They go to the judges. One of them was Little Richard. LR: "Whoooo! Oh honey. That made my big toe stand up straight in my boot!"
A random classic LR moment.
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I have a compilation: Little Richard the Formative Years 1951-1953.
And on both ballads and uptempo numbers, mostly Little Richard sounds a lot like R&B singer Roy Brown, who was tearing up the race charts back then.
It's solid stuff, but derivative. And LR sings with a deeper voice in that blues shouter mode (think Jackie Wilson, Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris).
It's interesting how short-lived the careers of many of the rock pioneers were.
Little Richard had 2 or 3 prime years, and then retired for a while. Buddy Holly went down in a plane crash. Chuck Berry got tossed in the clink. Jerry Lee Lewis faded into country music. Elvis disappeared into anodyne movies for a long stretch. Bo Diddley had a 4 year or so run. Fats Domino had a pretty good run, but NO R&B/rock got left behind.
Kind of wonder about the history of rock and roll if white British boys didn't take it up with a vengeance.
One early rock great who was fairly similar to Little Richard -- they were labelmates at Specialty in NO in the mid-late '50's -- but is largely forgotten today = Larry Williams. Bony Maronie, Slow Down. Dizzy Miss Lizzy. Short Fat Fanny. The very funky She Said Yeah, which the Stones covered early on.
He tried to keep up with the times, hooked up with Johnny Guitar Watson for a time. Wake Up is a great piece of black consciousness soul. Died in 1980 in suspicious circumstances.
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I never did get to see Little Richard. During the period when I was catching a lot of aging musical greats -- 1981-87 -- Little Richard didn't appear in NYC to my knowledge. I was once scheduled to see Fats Domino at the Bottom Line club, but for some reason I called before we left and he had cancelled. We ended up with Plan B which was catching Big Jay McNeely, an R&B sax honker, who put on a terrific show, walking down the bar blowing, and on top of tables.
Among Little Richard contemporaries, I did see Bo Diddley a few times; Big Joe Turner; James Brown -- and Little Richard followers such as Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack, Sly Stone, etc. The 80's in NYC was a very fertile time&place to catch live music from Jazz, R&B, Soul and Blues greats.
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The Google doodle this morning was honoring Bruddah Iz, who would be sixty-one today. Due to extreme morbid obesity, he is somewhere over the rainbow.
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Coming out soon is Neil Young's Homegrown - an album he recorded in 1975, but decided not to release. Until now!
I'm moderately excited!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homegrown_(Neil_Young_album)
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"is this song racist? "
A Key & Peele video, for Juneteenth...
https://youtu.be/TLnUJzueBOQ
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Tom Petty's Family Doesn't Want Trump Using His Music For A 'Campaign Of Hate'
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/21/881444533/tom-pettys-family-doesn-t-want-trump-using-his-music-for-a-campaign-of-hate
Hopefully, the family won't back down.
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I just ran across Joni Mitchell's version of Leaving on a Jet Plane. Not sure how I missed it before, but it's really great. Most of the other versions are nice but a bit overly folk/pop.
Edit: forgot to mention that the opening of Mitchell's Jet Plane sounds like it was swiped by Kevin Smith for the opening to Joey Lauren Adam's singing Alive in chasing Amy.
Was thinking maybe folks could share little known cover versions that they think are great.
Since I started off with Joni Mitchell covering Jet Plane, let me rec Richard Thompson covering Joni's Woodstock from 2000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h54rRq2SAv0
The video doesn't add much imo (except Joni in the audience) -- I prefer just listening to the audio without the vid.
And here's an old video of Joni Mitchell doing Woodstock, one of her very first performances of the song: https://www.ouvirmusica.com.br/mitchell-joni/258301/
But i'm always looking for good music, so if anyone wants to drop some song recs.
I thought we'd start with covers ...
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I will look around for some underrated covers.
RIP guitar god EVH.
To hear some virtuosic "tapping" method, try "Eruption" or "Spanish Fly"...
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-eddie-van-halen-guitar-solos/
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Rest in peace Eddie Van Halen.
I saw Van Halen live for the Diver Down concert at the Great Western Forum. We had great seats and it was a great concert.
I snuck in 45 joints, I would light a joint and hit it and pass it, we were so high, and we got everyone around us high.
David Lee Roth was drunk, and forgot the words, but Eddie Van Halen was great. And Alex Van Halen was great.
May Eddie rest in peace, and I said a prayer for his family.
Salute,
Tony V.
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President Trump mourns the loss of Eddie Van Halen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cB7VIvMJCU&feature=push-fr&attr_tag=QFzD0d6eupU8s2DH%3A6 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cB7VIvMJCU&feature=push-fr&attr_tag=QFzD0d6eupU8s2DH%3A6)
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Very mean, and very funny!
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Bart was mentioning very repetitive songs to listen to while standing in a long line to vote, like Brick House, or We Got the Funk. May I offer....
https://youtu.be/GVQnUWQNKMg
Kool and the Gang, "Get Down On It. "
And my favorite, though not quite as repetitive...
https://youtu.be/DlSsIKn3HTU
Ba de ya!
I liked Bo's mixtape suggestions for that voting line -- should bring that over here.
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Election Line Blues:
1. Bad News, Bad Times - Marion Williams
2. Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley
3. Suffering in the Land - Jimmy Cliff (surprisingly upbeat considering the title)
Dock of the Bay - Aaron Neville
Sitting Here in Limbo - Jimmy Cliff
Many Rivers to Cross - Jimmy Cliff
Long and Winding Road - Beatles
I was trying to think of songs related to voting but couldn't come up with much.
Power to the People - John Lennon
(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People - The Chi-lites
I think Marvin Gaye's What's Going On? works.
This seems to tie in with my coronavirus playlist:
Fever - Little Willie John or Peggy Lee
Rockin' Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie - Huey Piano Smith
Ventilator Blues - Rolling Stones
Little Bit of Soap - Garnett Mimms
Ode to Billie Joe - Sinead O'Connor or Bobbie Gentry
("there was a virus going round Papa caught it and he died last year")
I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra (or Stuff Smith's humorous take)
Sick And Tired - Chris Kenner
Sea Cruise - Frankie Ford (from back in March when cruise ships were floating death villages)
High Fever Blues - Bukka White
Old Fart at Play - Captain Beefheart
(in which the intricate face mask and important breather hole alternative is explained)
Stayin' at Home - Fats Waller
Ain't Misbehaving - Fats Waller
The Whole World Needs Liberation - James Brown
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More covid playlist:
Cold as Ice -- Foreigner
Every Breath You Take -- Police
St James Infirmary
25 or 6 to Four -- Chicago
Keeping Out of Mischief Now - Waller
And, for weathering MAGA hat wearing relatives....
What a Fool Believes (Doobie bros)
The Fool on the Hill (Beatles)
Give Stupidity a Chance (Pet Shop Boys) (very timely song)
How to be Dumb (Costello)
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How on earth did I forget Woody Guthrie, for the long voting line playlist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ
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https://youtu.be/fqfHLsT1b0o
Gabriella Quevedo, fingerstyle guitar, Sultans of Swing
https://youtu.be/qw9k2F9OPVE
Brick in the Wall.
Damn.
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Just came across Bo's covid playlist.
What now seems ages ago, way back in early March, I started a "My My, My, My, Corona" songs for the coming pandemic, on my other primary social media outlet.
Here's a link to it.
https://sonsofsamhorn.net/index.php?threads/my-my-my-my-corona.29853/ (https://sonsofsamhorn.net/index.php?threads/my-my-my-my-corona.29853/)
I kicked it off with
So as we face the pandemic virus here in the USA and the prospect of it mutliplying faster than a Heather Locklear shampoo reccomendation
I started to wonder about a quarantine play list tailored to the disease du jour/semaine/mois/annee or until Trump discovers a cure
Sick songs is where I'm going
Lets start with
Robert Palmer's "Dr. Dr."
Huey "Piano" Smith's phenomenal "Rockin' Pneumonia"
and Shel's Silverstein's "Don't give a dose"
there are probably several hundred tunes.
so have fun and wear a mask
Merry X-mas.
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RIP Claude Bolling, jazz piano great.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08083BNaYcA
Gerry of Gerry and the Pacemakers died today.
I understand that the plan is to bury cross the Mersey.
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I hope a pacemaker didn't fail him.
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https://youtu.be/nM4okRvCg2g
Is this one of the worst music videos of the eighties?
Sorry about the pacemaker joke.
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RIP Chick Corea, who managed to drop out of both Columbia and Julliard and then have a stellar career in jazz.
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Double Shot of my Baby's Love added to my CoronaVirus playlist ...
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Just listened to a couple tracks of Stacey Kent, a jazz singer I'd never heard of. Really good stuff.
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Kent was part of the 2nd wave of the 90's jazz revival. First recordings 1997.
Suddenly everyone started putting out albums of jazz standards in the early 2000's.
Then everyone moved on.
I really like Kent's version of Little White Lies.
And she does a nice job with More Than You Know.
Both with classy arrangements.
Kent also collaborated songwriting with Kazuo Ishiguro .
Let me know any other Stacey Kent songs you think are aces.
I haven't delved too far. But she has a nice voice.
Other jazz singers from the early 90's jazz revival:
Nnenna Freelon
Sepia Wing & I Thought About You are top-notch.
Holly Cole was also in the initial wave.
I'm not that fond of her voice, but she has sass and a theatrical presentation.
I like If I Were a Bell and the creative On The Street Where You Live. Invitation to the Blues and Train Song are very much Rickie Lee Jones imitations. Cole seems to have fun and it comes through in her songs.
Jane Monheit was in the last wave, first album out in 2000.
I like her sultry stripped down version of Just Squeeze Me .
And love her version of Save Your Love For Me (one of my favorite songs) which really shows off her voice.
Trombonist Sarah Morrow is more in the serious jazz musician category, but her few ballads with vocals are beautiful. Try:
It's Getting Late Now & You Stepped Out of a Dream
Those are on Morrow's terrific first album Sarah Morrow - Standards and Other Stories 2002 .
For some young, recent jazz singers/musicians try Bria Skonberg and Andrea Motis.
Both talented trumpeters who sing. Motis is just 25, from Spain.
I probably should go to Youtube and check out what's there and find more Kent, Monheit, Freelon, Cole songs that I like.
I've already done that with Skonberg and Motis a couple years ago.
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I will post a couple Stacey Kent tracks. ATM I'm just hear to post a member of a Danish youth chorus singing Mozart's "Confutatis" to a koala toy that, well...
https://youtu.be/80bmzhGtKqk
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What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
Stacey Kent with her husband on guitar. Lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbOWL3m7k8E
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That was one of the ones. And this....In the Still of the Night
https://youtu.be/PfS5hCde_9w
And this... So Nice
https://youtu.be/9ZV2ySXezEU
Occasionally reminds me of Shawn Colvin, but with less smoke in her voice.
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So Nice is a favorite bossa nova. Aka Summer Samba. It became elevator music, but the good kind that made you want to stay in the elevator.
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"This cover of Bohemian Rhapsody using only Boomwhackers is amazing"
https://www.facebook.com/altpress/videos/791518474778112
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That is!
But why are they dressed pseudo-Western? They're at Harvard aren't they? And the tubes were invented by an MIT alum.
It's doubly amazing because you don't usually use only a clipped percussive sound for the more sustained legato of Queen's musical theater style. And yet it sounds fine.
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Elvis
Put your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee.
https://youtu.be/6Nkp_t2RUaA
Salute,
Tony V.
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https://youtu.be/K4MKQMTHplI
Stairway to Gilligan's Island.
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I've been everywhere man...
https://youtu.be/f5W3oI7Kd0g
L.A. Rats
Salute,
Tony V.
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Cool, Tony. Rob Zombie has teamed up with a new supergroup.
I like the old Johnny Cash version, too....
https://youtu.be/ov4epAJRPMw
Salute,
Usta B. Barton
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RiP Dusty Hill, ZZ Top bassist. Died in his sleep, at age 72.
Let's go out to Egypt 'cause it's in the plan
Sleep beside the pharaohs in the shifting sand
We'll look at some pyramids and check out some heads
Oh, we'll whip out our mattress 'cause there ain't no beds
Slip inside my sleeping bag
Slip inside my sleeping bag
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https://phys.org/news/2021-08-secret-stradivari-violin.html
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Josh, I read this, and posted the link at scienceforums.net, which provoked some discussion. There's some debate out there as to whether or not people can really distinguish the old and new violins in blindfold tests. And how the anti-worm chemicals would affect tonal qualities compared to the myriad other factors involved in making a Cremona violin.
Living with a pro musician for decades, and having a violinist daughter, I had heard before that some thought the varnish was important to the tone. But the chemicals used on the raw wood would seem to be more significant both to the original tone and how that tone held up over the long haul.
https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/125659-stradivari-violin-tonal-qualities-due-tochemicals/
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I don't care if it sucks or not, I just must see Schmigadoon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmigadoon!
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Josh, I read this, and posted the link at scienceforums.net, which provoked some discussion. There's some debate out there as to whether or not people can really distinguish the old and new violins in blindfold tests. And how the anti-worm chemicals would affect tonal qualities compared to the myriad other factors involved in making a Cremona violin.
Living with a pro musician for decades, and having a violinist daughter, I had heard before that some thought the varnish was important to the tone. But the chemicals used on the raw wood would seem to be more significant both to the original tone and how that tone held up over the long haul.
https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/125659-stradivari-violin-tonal-qualities-due-tochemicals/
Thanks.
Interesting discussion there.
The FB group I read it in had quite the lively discussion, too, but is private so I cannot share the link meaningfully.
I suspect they will be poking at this issue for a good while, yet!
Especially with the threat to the trees from which these lovely instruments have been made!
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I don't care if it sucks or not, I just must see Schmigadoon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmigadoon!
I think that is just true - for me, not just you.
An adolescent I work with was excited about it, but was totally unfamiliar with the original!
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Songs for these times?
Marshall Tucker - Fire on the Mountain
Sanford & Townsend - Smoke from a Distant Fire
The Doors - Light my Fire
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Jimi Hendrix - Fire
Bruce Springsteen - I'm on Fire
The Clash - London's Burning
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
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Songs for these times?
Marshall Tucker - Fire on the Mountain
Sanford & Townsend - Smoke from a Distant Fire
The Doors - Light my Fire
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Jimi Hendrix - Fire
Bruce Springsteen - I'm on Fire
The Clash - London's Burning
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters
That's the Smoke They're Blowin' - Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel
Forest Fire - Wintersleep
and honorable mention to the entire soundtrack from the movie Always (including JD Souther's version of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes).
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I can't easily explain why I came to be listening to a Dixieland band in Belgrade, Serbia....
https://youtu.be/wgByX1P0H6M
They're pretty good. I like the piano break.
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Listening to the sublime Straits...
https://youtu.be/g3X3rKtruSg
Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong.
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https://youtu.be/rbQgaHZOFZ0
Twenty Years in Afghanistan: The Analogy Video
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John Lennon was born today. 35 years later, his son Sean was born.
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He sure looks like dad, too. Calendar coincidences are fun - Darwin and Lincoln born the same day and year.
The Asia/America thing, funny. Boston and Kansas both averaged about six people, so they were much less populated than I had thought.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/28/europe/glastonbury-drugs-river-wildlife-scn-scli-intl/index.html
Your hovercraft won't be full of eels if the eels are getting all coked up.
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https://www.npr.org/2021/10/22/1048289039/randy-bachman-fan-tracks-down-the-musicians-stolen-guitar-in-japan
This is a good story. A clever sleuth takes care of business.
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https://youtu.be/4qNJfVXxrQU
Les McCann. One of the baddest jams of the seventies.
Compared to What.
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Ahhh , that is the name of the song.
Meanwhile Irish moondancing idiot gives shit opinions on public health....
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-health-9811c0204c3913f4f9ac846acb61e918
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And his British slowhand idiot friend demonstrates why rock icons are not public health officers...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/11/11/eric-clapton-vaccine-lockdown/
Layyyyy la, ya got me in a ventilator...
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I shot the sheriff
But I did not vax the deputy.
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I recall someone here had a birthday around now, possibly Josh? If so, congrats on another lap around the sun.
If not, then happy birthday Wendy Carlos, Aaron Copland, Johann Hummel, Leopold Mozart and Buckwheat Zydeco. And that lady in todays Google Doodle. Fanny Mendelssohn. I have heard plenty of her brothers compositions, but not sure I have heard any of hers. Same goes for Leopold Mozart, who was also somewhat eclipsed by a famous relative.
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Great musicians play off of each other. Here's a great example of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_6GrnhUzzw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_6GrnhUzzw)
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This is how the people are living in Nevada...
https://youtu.be/q-Dvok7_fpw
Bunch of Cowboys.
If you go into a cafe in Battle Mountain, Nevada, you will see every guy in the place has a Cowboy hat.
Salute,
Tony V.
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Faster Pussycat is playing at the Whisky in Hollywood on New Year's Eve, it is going to sell out for sure.
Salute,
Tony V.
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What is your favorite Christmas music (regardless of your own religion)?
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In no particular ranking...
Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson
The Messiah - Handel
Nutcracker Suite (hard to beat a masterpiece)
Troika - Prokofiev (this is great, paired with the Leroy Anderson one!)
Carols:
O Holy Night (lyrics written, ironically enough, by an atheist)
Good King Wenceslaus
Chestnuts Roasting (esp the Nat King Cole)
Joy to the World (listed because of the audacity of the opening being simply a major scale played backwards!)
Angels We Have etc.
God rest ye merry (got to get a trad. English in there)
In the Bleak Midwinter (underrated, except by choral folk - really one of the greatest)(music by Holst)
O Come, All Ye (any choir worth the name will blow your socks off with this one)
Carol of the Bells (when the harmonies are well done, this is beautiful)
Hark the Herald (Mendelssohn writes damned good music)
Christmas song I never want to hear again because it's a tiresome festering ear parasite that will eat your brain:
Feliz Navidad
(The other one in this last category I don't even mention by name. You know what it is, you know it causes permanent neurological damage, nothing can be done to stop it!)
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Listening to Meat Loaf tracks. And Ellen Foley should be remembered for her amazing vocals on PbytheDL. These performers aren't just rocking, they are operatic! Shed some tears, listening to those times long ago and far away when music was so much better than today.
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https://www.npr.org/2022/01/26/1075904939/neil-young-spotify-joe-rogan
My my, hey hey,
Neither burning out
Nor fading away...
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New Janis Ian album!
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lrPGhbk3bakxxPTcxQ1reUBwyN-8TuXao
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Kristen Mosca is one of an amazing group of young pianists who are keeping ragtime and boogie woogie alive and thriving.
https://youtu.be/NvZKi_wQoek
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Putin wants to live by the sword, and he is about to die by the sword. As he dies then no one should weep or fuss. The whole world will be better when Putin is gone.
https://youtu.be/QvW99Ogo9pE
Salute,
Tony V.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOHOLaV6U4Q
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Honda Center
Yesterday
JUST ANNOUNCED: World-renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli returns to Honda Center on December 4!
Tickets go on sale Monday, April 11 at 10am.
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Everyone here is making reservations for a pre-concert dinner at the Anaheim White House Restaurant before the Bocelli concert.
https://anaheimwhitehouse.com/
I would love to take a beautiful woman on a date to dinner and then to the concert, it would be a great night. I need to get things going on so that I can start attending events like this.
Salute,
Tony V.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGuxGGOIV0
This is a shitty video in several respects...Berry can't get close enough to the mike on "Memphis, TN" because John is hogging it, Yoko breaks in with a weird little screeching noise, the rhythm section is crud, John shows flashes of awareness that he is a lesser performing talent as his lower register fails him, and the overall audio is hideous. And yet, this is our chance to see two rock icons perform together. Maybe some videos can be lost in a solar flare and our culture will be preserved anyway.
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Poor Judd is daid,
Poor Naomi Judd is daid,
All gather round her coffin now and cry
She had a heart of gold
And she wasnt very old
Oh why did such a lady have to die?
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https://youtu.be/yb26D8bBZB8
Eddie van Halen, in a fascinating interview. What a humble and kind person - real people don't come across as guitar gods or rock icons. I don't have to wonder if his family and friends miss him.
Anyway, when you hear people ranting about immigrants and how they just want to be freeloaders, think of the van Halen family.
They were fleeing the Netherlands, due to mom and dad being a mixed-race couple (she Indonesian) and facing harassment for that.
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THEY are a little kooky,no?
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/halsey-reveals-recent-health-struggles-really-sick
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See a gun is real easy in this desperate part of town, turns you from hunted into hunter, going to hunt somebody down.
https://youtu.be/FYVMTEtYqi8
Salute,
Tony V.
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I have changed the style of music that I have been listening to, I am not into music about Satan and stuff anymore, I like Rock and Roll and Metal, but I do not need for it to be about the devil. I do not know why they have to sing about the devil, there is nothing good about the devil. So, I quit listening to the devil music. I would rather have Christian Metal like Stryper.
That is a cool thing about the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, is that they are a Christian music school and they are training the Christian bands of the future.
If I am going to listen to Metal, then it might as well be Christian Metal. If I was a producer of music then I would produce the Christian bands.
I am not into music about the devil anymore.
Salute,
Tony V.
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Stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change...
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Dead Man's Curve...
https://youtu.be/haUM04KBTwM
Salute,
Tony V.
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I do love some Springsteen; but he had to go and ruin yet another great song. This isn't new, but I'd been spared up to yesterday. Condolences to The Crystals.
https://youtu.be/QYABA-Z0T_s
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Dave Mustaine has a beautiful daughter, Electra Mustaine, who is an American treasure, I would send her to the AADA to train as an actress, she is gorgeous.
Dave Mustaine was in Metallica, but they kicked him out, so he started his own band Megadeth, and he became very successful. And he still rocks.
Dave Mustaine entered the wine business, and he owns vineyards now and he makes wine. It is very cool. I hope he succeeds big time. Dave also loves Italy, and Monaco, and Cannes, and their family travels to Europe often.
Here is a photo of Dave Mustaine's daughter Electra...
(https://pics.wikifeet.com/Electra-Mustaine-Feet-4213193.jpg)
I would put Electra in acting school at the AADA, and I would make her a star.
Salute,
Tony V.
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One of the great sets...
https://youtu.be/IKayR1oqC7w
Round Midnight
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A friend argued that 1971 was the best year in rock, citing this list of 50 albums:
https://bestclassicbands.com/1971-classic-rock-albums-11-6-1888
Agree? Got one you like better?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNW4yaa1BWI
I'd Rather Be Rich.
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A friend argued that 1971 was the best year in rock, citing this list of 50 albums:
https://bestclassicbands.com/1971-classic-rock-albums-11-6-1888
Agree? Got one you like better?
Such a subjective topic. A fair argument could also be made for 1967, 1968, or 1969. Mainstream artists like The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dylan, The Who churning out a bunch of great stuff and at the same time turning rock music on its ear. The emergence of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Bowie, Pink Floyd - never mind the British invasion as a whole and the impact it had on American culture. Release of Tommy, and concept albums becoming a thing. I think anyway; cannot recall any Glenn Miller-era concept albums. An explosion of smaller bands, garage bands, and singing families finding success during these years. The already successful Motown label continuing to flourish. I guess I'm looking at it differently by considering the impact on American culture (or more succinctly, me and the people I knew) versus going strictly by album sales or number of critically acclaimed released in a given year, but I'd still make the argument.
I'd give it to 1969 but just by a hair - https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/6-highest-rated/1969/1
then 1967 - https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/6-highest-rated/1967/1
with 1968 bringing up the rear - https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/6-highest-rated/1968/1
but still a very good year.
1977 is no slouch based on the critical and financial success of Rumours alone. But add in punk starting to form with releases by The Clash, Elvis Costello, The Ramones, and The Sex Pistols and the arrival of disco -- love it or hate it, it was huge, infiltrated many rock stations, and influenced other genres and artists -- and it could be argued to be at least a pivotal year in rock. I know people who would call it the best year in rock, not sure I'm completely on board with that.
Others I know would go with 1991 due to the release of Nirvana's Nevermind bringing on the grunge movement, plus the growth of metal, rap rock becoming more mainstream, and the rise of indie rock. I can't make that argument, since I haaaaaate grunge and metal, but it's out there.
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I'd lean towards that late sixties cluster, too. (though Led Zeppelin 2, seminal and great as it was, didn't get as many spins on my turntable as LZ 4, two years later)
Again, a piece of my chromosome got broken off with the ranking things gene, so all I've got are 60s-70s LPs floating in memory - Abbey R, Let it Bleed, Tommy, LZ 4, Taser and the Firecat, Goodbye YBR, Sticky Fingers, Night Moves, Van Halen debut album, Moondance, Machine Head, Aqualung, Dark Side of the Moon, Boston debut, and a hundred others, all with moments and people and places attached like remoras of memory and making any objective comparison fruitless. I could say some of those albums were perfect - Deep Purple's blend of blues and nascent metal in Machine Head, Pink Floyd's DSotM, Who's Next, Bat Out of Hell, and others that just didn't waste a note.
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... all I've got are 60s-70s LPs floating in memory - Abbey R, Let it Bleed, Tommy, LZ 4, Taser and the Firecat, Goodbye YBR, Sticky Fingers, Night Moves, Van Halen debut album, Moondance, Machine Head, Aqualung, Dark Side of the Moon, Boston debut, and a hundred others, all with moments and people and places attached like remoras of memory and making any objective comparison fruitless.
Well, it was the '60s (mostly). That happened a lot.
I could say some of those albums were perfect - Deep Purple's blend of blues and nascent metal in Machine Head
Smoke on the Water. That is all -- at least summer 1973, it was.
I never warmed up to Led Zeppelin for some reason, and in spite of constantly being bombarded with their tunes -- mostly Stairway to Heaven, then everything else sort of far behind in a relatively even mix. I do like Robert Plant's solo stuff and work with Alison Krauss.
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Rest in peace Loretta Lynn. I never met Loretta, but I escorted her sister Crystal Gayle during Crystal's Christmas special when I worked at Universal Studios back in 1995. Loretta Lynn was an American treasure.
Salute,
Tony V.
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https://youtu.be/A6cbCWzHXkg
Amazing pianist, Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu.
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Fans of Haruki Murakami may remember this is the trio that Mr Hoshino listened to in the coffeeshop in Kafka on the Shore.
https://youtu.be/5mrfy_D9JVE
I started out meaning to just listen to the scherzo movement, but got drawn in. Beethoven never disappoints. He always seems to communicate that whatever happens in life, whatever tempest of emotions you weather, one can find happiness and joys in life.
Murakami is a huge music buff, with his own vinyl collection over 10K albums atm, and I'm rarely disappointed when I seek out classical pieces mentioned in his books.
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When musicians, and the conductor, really earn that paycheck....
https://youtu.be/QLUm_yvnyo4
The Bartered Bride, overture. Going hot and hard with the sixteenth notes, and not one dropped on the floor!
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Just in case that wasn't kinetic enough for you, here is Dance of the Comedians, also from the Bartered Bride...
https://youtu.be/enfvCNQHxWg
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Syd, over at Third Eye film, alerted me to the passing of the great singer, Irene Cara. Much too young at 63. Not Amy Winehouse or Janis Joplin too young, of course, but still premature.
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And now Christine McVie. A great contralto.
https://youtu.be/qrU1Zg0wugE
Her passing is more than just rumours...
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Of whom was Muhammad Ali speaking when he said, If _____ had been Frank Sinatra, the Beatles or Ricky Nelson, the FBI would be investigating.
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Bummed to learn that Dino Danelli of The (Young) Rascals has passed.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dino-danelli-drummer-the-rascals-dead-1234648652/
Sam Cooke? The FBI has files on Tupac Shakur so assuming it was investigated to at least some degree.
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Sam Cooke? The FBI has files on Tupac Shakur so assuming it was investigated to at least some degree.
Cooke is Correct. A rather peculiar investigation by local law enforcement, sounds like. AFAIK, no fed followup.
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=_deujLjHAk0&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Ashlenazy's is one of the best interpretations of the Pathetique sonata. As one who has tried to play the first movement, I am like many others moved to ask how he can keep tempo on the allegro part - my fingers won't do that without falling off.
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Listening to Jeff Beck. Freeway Jam.
RIP
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My how the rock icons are falling! RIP David Crosby. Only just learned that his father was the cinematographer of High Noon.
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The greatest of all male harmony singers (Emmylou in case I'm asked)
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I'll say a little prayer for you, Burt Bacharach. Master of the melodic earworm.
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Listened to a sort of a Russian battle of Capriccios. First Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien, then Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espanol. I'm calling it a draw. The Tchaikovsky is maybe a little warmer, more romantic, but the RK is haunting and might make you ache for someplace you've never been. What the Germans call fernweh.
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Something about Spring...calls for some waltzes. Here is Voices of Spring (Fruhlingsstimmen) by J Strauss II:
https://youtu.be/iYw3tF5plR0
If asked to name a favorite Strauss, this might be one, though Tales from Vienna Woods, The Emperor Waltz, and a couple others all try to muscle in on that position.
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The Merry Widow Waltz is also a contender, though that's Lehar, not Strauss.
Anyway, when you're not in the mood for poisoning pigeons in the park, perhaps a waltz will do.
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Daylight come and Harry Belafonte wanna go home at 96.
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Mr Tally Man completed his count.
And today the ridiculous trial begins against Ed Sheeran, charging that he pilfered from Marvin Gaye classic, Let's Get It On...
https://youtu.be/lp-EO5I60KA
I don't think so. Beyond similar chord progressions, common to thousands of blues and rock pieces, I don't really see him stealing anything.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHo1fNnXFVU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHo1fNnXFVU)
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Thank you Gordon Lightfoot for all the memorable seventies songs and for teaching shitty guitar players like me the real value of the suspended A chord. And for writing Edmund Fitzgerald which has chords so simple that even I could play them. And for "Sundown" which somehow is woven into my memories of youth and the romantic FOMO that happens in those uncertain relationships. Canada should put their flags half staff.
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Yanks current tagline reminds me that 20 years after VM wrote Astral Weeks, he borrowed the slipstream notion from it in Queen of the Slipstream. QotS also references Brown-Eyed Girl with something about "slipping and a-sliding..." I never have any problems with VMs recycling phrases.
In a way, though they are completely different songs (VM gets more spiritual), when I hear Astral Weeks I also think of Bob Segers Turn the Page.
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Yanks current tagline reminds me that 20 years after VM wrote Astral Weeks, he borrowed the slipstream notion from it in Queen of the Slipstream. QotS also references Brown-Eyed Girl with something about "slipping and a-sliding..." I never have any problems with VMs recycling phrases.
In a way, though they are completely different songs (VM gets more spiritual), when I hear Astral Weeks I also think of Bob Segers Turn the Page.
Having grown up in SE Michigan i try very, very hard never to think of Boring Bob. Perfectly fine bar band, inexpilcably famous.
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So I guess when you got out of there, and were done working and practicing on the night moves, and found yourself running against the wind, you didn't go to Kathmandu.
I liked Hollywood Nights, Night Moves, a couple others. His vocals carried those songs a little farther than some might have.
That said, mediocre hits like Old Time R&R were so overplayed in the soundtrack of my youth that they wore out their welcome. Not sure what you call that...Billy Joel syndrome?
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https://youtu.be/EsofwhCA1sw
Bangles parody. I actually loved The Bangles. I was so smitten by Susanna Hoffs that I have almost zero recollection of the other band members. I think they were all bipeds and played musical instruments of some kind but that's about the extent of it.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robbie-robertson-leader-band-dies-80-rcna99107
Fuck.
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Beer drinkers and hell raisers.
https://youtu.be/KXswale5Kss
I smoked a joint with ZZ Top at Del Sur Gardens in Lancaster, California, back in about 1989. A bunch of old bikers and hippies lived at Del Sur Gardens and ZZ Top used to hang out there.
There is still an RV Park at Del Sur Gardens. They are still having parties there. BBQ and live bands all summer.
Salute,
Tony V.
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Rumor spreadin round
In that Texas town
About that shack outside La Grange
And you know what Im talkin about
Just let me know if you wanna go
To that home out on the range
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Rep. Andy Kim will challenge Menendez in primary for Senate seat.
I'm sure Kim will rock him gently, rock him slowly.
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My friend Jon is playing tonight with the band "No Reaction" on the Boardwalk in Venice Beach. If you are in the area I am sure it will be great.
Here is a video of Jon from a song that they dedicated to me one night at a club in Venice Beach...
https://youtu.be/XAj82yZMJ-4?si=LPf7FCRK6OxCPNAJ
Salute,
Tony V.
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Blue Oyster Cult is going to play at the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blue-oyster-cult-mark-farners-american-band-and-american-mile-tickets-715740267407
Salute,
Tony V.
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Ingeborg Hallstein, arguably one of the greatest coloratura sopranos ever. Here she is singing Voices of Springtime, by Johann Strauss Jr.
https://youtu.be/qmPrIW1lGLk?si=AZ4t0hBlA0hLWPBh
I feel like her heart is in every note.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHo1fNnXFVU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHo1fNnXFVU)
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Wasn't into the GD at all until I heard this song. A beautiful meditation.
The animated/Tarot video is also a good one for connecting with this song.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn-DtgrffE4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn-DtgrffE4)
Incredible musicians.
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Tight instrumentals. Good harmonizing. My daughter plays fiddle in a band that has a similar sound - though they avoid the use of flatpick on a banjo.
My daughter also plays banjo - she heard me playing when she was little (piano and guitar were more my instruments, but I did learn the basic fingerpicking and 3-finger roll) and likely absorbed the concept dad plays banjo, how hard could it be?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd1nrSeSaJ4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QISOupYqTi4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd1nrSeSaJ4
Damn! Thanks for sharing that!
This song makes me think of Bergman's Seventh Seal, the knight playing chess with Death.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QISOupYqTi4
Infinitely listenable shimmering soul jam. Sad as hell he was murdered a few months later. I was listening to this while working in the shop, just had to put down my tools and soak in it.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mojo-nixon-dead-obituary-1234964257/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dauhGboXzu8
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Debby Gibson is Pregnant with my Two headed Love Child is a timeless classic! Played by Winona Ryder in the video. Twas a time when I would watch a floor wax commercial if Ms Ryder was in it.
Also, Drunk-Divorced Floozie (The Ballad of Diana Spencer).
How can you see a title like that and not listen?
Just realized Mojo and Winona were both in that Jerry Lee Lewis biopic.
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Remembering this seventies novelty song done by an ad hoc band (session musicians teamed up with a professional auctioneer), and teenage me marveling that such lyrics could be memorized.
https://youtu.be/zcRe6DO-sE8?si=BvEP51V8Rdc35wGJ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmaXdkC0zE4
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Wish I was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana.
https://youtu.be/eyCEexG9xjw?si=qXHSvGeN2H2YRgNs
(I think Border Radio preceded Mexican Radio by a couple years...Blasters a possible inspiration to Wall of Voodoo?)
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The Dragonfly is a great club in Hollywood with a great smoking section for guys like Carlos Santana and Willie Nelson who like to smoke pot.
https://dragonflyhollywood.com/
It says Hip Hop on the page, but Metal bands play there too, and the Punkers jam there too.
It would be a cool spot for Orianthi to jam at.
And the Hollywood Vampires, etc.
Salute,
Tony V.
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What are your favorite Misheard Lyrics? I have many (thanks to a minor neurological issue as a child with hearing certain sounds in speech, there was a time when I was the king of misheard lyrics), but the most fun are the ones you know must be wrong, but you enjoy hearing them that way. An example:
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with colitis goes by...
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Also works, albeit less well, in the opening verse of Hotel California.
Warm smell of colitis, rising up through the air...
I was rather advanced in years before I learned that "colitas" is Mexican slang for MJ buds. A fact I'm sure serious Eagles fans appreciated.
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What are your favorite Misheard Lyrics? I have many (thanks to a minor neurological issue as a child with hearing certain sounds in speech, there was a time when I was the king of misheard lyrics), but the most fun are the ones you know must be wrong, but you enjoy hearing them that way. An example:
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with colitis goes by...
For what it is worth i just realized that the Whitney Houston song i had always heard as "Climb every mountain" is in fact "I'm every woman." IT IS THE TITLE OF THE FUCKING SONG AND IT TOOK ME 30 FUCKING YEARS TO FIGURE IT OUT.
Had a similar issue with an Adele song i thought was about a dead end job in a collection agency. "Should I give up or should I just keep chasing payments, even if it leads nowhere." Title of the song is "Chasing Pavements". Work it out, moron.
Also, a song whose lyrics i always heard as "We'll be smoking grass today". Any guesses?
Though not actually a mondagreen because I knew the right lyrics, I used to cheese off my college roommate by unintentionally singing a line of our school Alma mater, played for alums before football games, that sang of "ivy covered halls" as "ivory covered halls".
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Also, a song whose lyrics i always heard as "We'll be smoking grass today". Any guesses?
Jeremy - Pearl Jam? Jeremy spoke in class today?
That mondegreen would lighten the song up a bit.
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Also, a song whose lyrics i always heard as "We'll be smoking grass today". Any guesses?
Jeremy - Pearl Jam? Jeremy spoke in class today?
Yes
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Layla eases her worried mind over memorabilia.
Something in the way she collects things...
https://apnews.com/article/pattie-boyd-auction-george-harrison-eric-clapton-7d39c0ddc9dfbe4c81c8c80ef768cff4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOseBZlZ8TQ
What a terrible, sad waste.
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What a terrible, sad waste.
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RIP Dicky Betts. Listening to Jessica again, a great instrumental. This used to come round a lot on the jukebox in the taverns of my youth and I can almost hear behind the music the click of billiard balls, smell perfume, smoke, sweat, beer.
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Posted this before possibly, but it just feels like the time for it. What is Life, plus ballet, plus young lovers outdoors.
https://youtu.be/fiH9edd25Bc?si=LepYSoCG54KxX7w1
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Well I was, as they say, today years old when I first realized the line from the Arrowsmith song Dream On was "Sing with me, sing for the years etc" and not "Sing women etc."