The Music Thread
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In honor of Big Ten expansion - a little marching band/pop band merger roots:
A classic piece that I know has had almost all of you on your feet singing.
One of the best subtleties about that one is that not everybody will immediately know that’s Assembly Hall. IU fans recognized it immediately, before the first note. “Had to be there.”
Got to supplement this with the video from Danny's last performance of Sandy, prior to his death which just happened to be in Indy. I was in the Pit and seeing Danny suddenly appear was to us a miracle sign that he was getting better. Everyone knew that he had gone in the hospital after the Boston show 3 or 4 months back, so when we saw him in Indy we just assumed it meant he was getting better. At least that was how I saw it in the moment...
I was shocked when he passed a few weeks after the show. Subsequently we read the account from Jason who had flown with his dad on the private jet Bruce dispatched to bring Danny (and his medical team) to Indy. They literally had him hooked up on IV's on the flight from NYC, and when he flew back to NYC after the show he went back into Sloan Kettering until he died. He had requested one last chance to play with the Band and for whatever reason Bruce decided to make it happen in Indy the night I was there...The crowd was ecstatic to see him, but everyone on stage knew it would be The Last Carnival...
I've read vague references to David being ill. so I wonder how long we'll have him around...
More all around brilliance from David at the same show, including his best Rosemary Butler/ Tiny Tim impression during Stay...
Lindley is a musical encyclopedia of stringed instrument licks... and he's fearless.
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So at first glance this will seem pretty wacky, but hear me out... When I was 14 and first heard this song on the radio I just assumed it was sung by a Black, motown-like singer. In fact I assumed that this guy was similar to someone like Joe Tex who wasn't really Motown, per se but in that same R&B vein...Remember there weren't any videos in those days, just me and my transistor radio
Listen to the way it starts out...
Then when I was a senior in high school a new guy moved in who was from Livonia, MI and he introduced me to the Live Bullet album, with of course the Travelin Man/ Beautiful Loser Medley, along with classics like Katmandu and Turn the Page...
Here's an incredible live performance that just came up in my you tube feed tonight. Had never seen this before...
That's from a 1996 show at The Palace in Auburn Hills. My personal connection to that is that I've only been there once, and it just happens to be what is up until now my most recent live show. I saw Springsteen there in April 2016, and Bob Seger was in the crowd.
I wasn't on the floor that night, and was actually up from the first group of people that Bruce stops and shakes hands with as he heads to the crowd at the start of the video. So I could see events unfold as Bob who was on the side across from me snuck up on stage as Bruce was in the crowd with his back turned.
666 replies. Can't leave that hanging out there. So, here's some SLAYER.
I realize we have a major disagreement over JB's abilities as a songwriter/lyricist, but imho his first 5 albums were all works of genius. Of these Late for The Sky is likely my personal favorite, and the entire album showcases Jackson's lyrics and David's incomparable talent. For A Dancer inspired by the death of a high school friend is one of the songs that makes my list for songs to be played at whatever ceremony accompanies my death. This version with just Jackson and David on piano and violin respectively is pretty amazing...
"Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
That you'll never know"
No not really. I think you may have me confused with someone else. I'm not a huge fan, no but I really don't have anything bad to say either, even in jest. Troubadour produced a few good songwriters, JB was one and the others eventually became the Eagles.
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Since Santana collapsed on stage last night. Fortunately, he appears OK.
