The Music Thread
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Another one of those songs that disappears for 40 yrs or so, and then pops into my consciousness at some point, based on some out of nowhere cue. Rick Nelson...
Dylan has written so many great songs, and a fair number of decent covers are out there. Here's another one...
Stone Canyon Band? Sounds like a group of American outlaws...
Speaking of American outlaws...
Frank and Jesses James...Nice harmonies from JB...
The Dalton Gang... 9 minutes of the lyrics melodies and harmonies that illustrate why Desperado is still my favorite Eagles album...
Billy the Kid...
Two albums released the same year (1973) that I graduated from high school which both utilized the theme of rock star as outlaw. It was an overriding theme on Desperado and just a secondary element of Piano Man (which along with Turnstiles is my favorite BJ album). I'm not sure Billy J ever achieved that degree of overall brilliance in his writing again, although parts of Nylon Curtain are genius as well...
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I was never a Joe Scarborough fan, in a political sense. He was a very conservative brash devote of Newt Gingrich, swept into office in the wake of Newt's Contract with America...
But despite those flaws, the first time I watched Morning Joe at some point in the early 2000s, I realized that he and I were kindred spirits, in a musical appreciation sense. He clearly loved great music, and unabashedly quoted relevant lyrics from the same people I had listened to for most of the previous half century. And the show frequently went to commercial break with a classic tune like Thunder Road or Powderfinger playing in the background...
The only problem was I never made it a daily routine to watch because it started too damn early. But now thru the magic of you tube I'm able to access and view clips that I would previously have never seen. So when this clip of today's show with Stern discussing his interview with Bruce popped up in my you tube list today, I knew of one and possibly more folks that would appreciate it if I shared it here. So enjoy...
The performances of Prove It from the Darkness tour have taken on a near mythological reputation. The official release is from the Phoenix show, but this version from the Capital Center in Landover is viewed as superior by many...
If you have not seen it, look up the video of the NFL game in Germany a couple weeks ago. The crowd sang that song at a timeout, the music stopped when play started up, the crowd kept going. 66,000 fans in Germany singing it. An article said it is popular in Oktoberfest tents.
Speaking of Dylan, an XM DJ mentioned yesterday that there has always been folk music. Dylan was the first to get teen girls to show up and scream over him, which suddenly made folk popular.
I just saw the Carmel, In High School marching band perform at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (on TV). They looked and sounded great. The entitled elitists get to have all the fun! The Macy’s parade is a personal tradition of mine. Never miss it. I’ve been in person a few times, and it’s not Thanksgiving without it.
I went to Ben Davis (not Carmel) and our parade thing was New Years, not Thanksgiving. My first trips ever to New Orleans (Sugar Bowl as soph) and LA (Rose as junior) were as a result of HS Band trips. I remember our bus trip to New Orleans and intersecting at a rest stop in Mississippi with a bus load of Nebraska football fans, who I believe were enroute to the Orange Bowl. We were initially confused by their Go Big Red attire, since in our world the Big Red was IU and we wondered why IU football fans would be heading anywhere, much less to Florida?
We flew to LA of course, and I seem to remember it being the first jumbo (747?) to fly out of Indy. I'd swear it had an upstairs observation deck area, but my memory could be faulty, since it would have been Dec 1971. One thing I'll never forget was the postcard advertising the Kona Hotel in Long Beach that was displayed in the band room, and marked as our destination. It was an impressive looking , ultra modern circular building that was several stories high and seemed to be right on the beach...Think the Capitol Records tower in Hollywood...
So when we discovered that some of the flight attendants were headquartered in Long Beach and had never heard of the Kona we were confused. But when we finally arrived in Long Beach the mystery was revealed. There was the Capitol Records looking building straight from our postcard, with a tiny shack next to it, which had also been shown in the post card.
I never found out what the name of the impressive building that dominated the postcard was, but we discovered to our dismay that the tiny shack was the Kona. From that point on, nothing really lived up to the experience we had created in our minds. The weather seemed to hover in the low 70s, and when we did venture into the Pacific, it was cold and the water contained oil...Don't think I've ever been back to Long Beach, but at that point in time it was pretty much a dump...
I’m in a country music mood tonight.
Sad news today as word comes that Christine McVie has passed Loved her smoky vocals, and I actually named my dog after her when I was in high school...
When I later brought that dog to IU, she would sometimes wait outside of Ballantine or Woodburn while I was in class. One day she was running ahead of me as I climbed the outside stairs at the Union above Dunn Meadow. Suddenly she took a flying leap over the side, and after I stopped screaming and forced myself to look down I was amazed to see her standing on the ground, a little dazed but otherwise unhurt. When I got to the bottom I discovered she had cut her chin and was bleeding slightly from that, but otherwise she was perfectly fine...
So RIP to Christine and to Chris the mutt...
Thanksgiving is over, so it's officially Hobby Lobby Xmas Season. Merry Xmas.
I started to post about this earlier today, when the first videos started to show up in my you tube feed and I could tell that Neil had done something special with Harvest. But glad I waited, since this just popped up, and for anyone who enjoys Box Sets in general this has the added bonus of having Neil himself do the unboxing. Pretty damn cool...
I was going to upload the Out on the weekend vid, so I'm glad he chose that for the background music in his video because it's an awesome tune. It's also really cool that he includes pics with people who inspired a couple of the tunes (first wife Carrie Snodgrass- A Man Needs a Maid), and Louis Avila- Old Man.
I remember at the time (I was a soph in high school) hearing Old Man,,Heart of Gold, Alabama etc on the radio, and then purchasing the album to discover that "Horse with No Name" was not a song on Neil's newest album. I guess it wasn't intentional, but it's really coincidental how America burst on the scene at just the same time with a song that just sounded remarkably like a Neil Young song. That's probably why that was the only song of theirs that I didn't find too poppy/insipid for my personal taste...
The naming of Broken Arrow Ranch and IIRC Broken Arrow as a label would indicate to me that Neil really loved Broken Arrow another of his classic Springfield compositions. It's off of Again, and seems to provide an indication of Neil's imminent withdrawal from the Group as none of the other members were there when it was recorded and Richie's backing vocals were added later...
I really like the version of Journey thru the Past he included as an outtake, because I was such a Neil nerd and bought everything that I even bought the soundtrack album for the movie he made for Journey...Love this vocal...
This Paul Simon special on CBS was not great. Just a reminder of how awesome Paul is.
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I saw him in a music fest here -- between Bonnie Rait and Jimmy Cliff. The mad feck was still wearing his jacket & teeshirt look in 90-degree temp.
Give him some creds -- he lasted at least 1hrs 30mins for his set. I would have been dehydrated and passed out from heat stroke by then.
Jimmy was incredible -- jumping or bopping around at 1am when I was staring to fall asleep.
Gotta respect the guy who brings the Loudon Wainwright.
