The Music Thread
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Since most of us are IU fans, safe to say most of us have been to Assembly Hall. My first visit wasn't a basketball game, but rather the first of many concerts I saw there over the years. I was a junior in high school, Stephen Sills was my RockNRoll hero, and I played the shit out of this album when it was released in 1972...
All 4 sides are awesome, but The Wilderness (side 2) has always been sort of my favorite. I had this romanticized vision of going out to Colorado and living the life in the Rockies that he wrote about pointedly on that side of the album...
Unfortunately when some buddies and I made a trip out there while I was at IU, reality came crashing down and shattered expectations. It was July and our plan was to camp out a couple of nights with just our sleeping bags.
But it was so cold that first night that we knew we couldn't go thru that again, so we went to a motel in Boulder. I kind of discovered that Colorado had incredible scenery and was a wonderful place to visit, but I no longer had any desire to actually live there...Or sleep outside, for that matter...
LOTB is a great song, but personally I prefer the early DF albums such as Souvenirs and Captured Angel to his later Top 40 hits. My roomate freshman year at IU had an 8 track, and it would cycle thru stuff as diverse as James Gang, Rod Faces, J Geils and Dan Fogelberg...
Speaking of Mr Walsh, he plays some tasty guitar licks on this song
My only concert at Assembly was on a Halloween night - The Grateful Dead. I was with one guy (Bill) who claimed to be at our college after he robbed a bank by making a briefcase that he could make pop open by sending a radio signal, with instructions to load it up with money and leave it by the trash can on the corner “or else.” The judge (allegedly, if you believe his story) said “out of state college or jail”. Also with a guy (Pete) who became a Franciscan monk. The third guy I can’t remember his name, for reasons presumably related to late 1970’s concerts, but he was a shitty driver.
My first trip to Colorado was awesome. My law firm sent me to a trial seminar where I learned more in two weeks than I did in three years of law school. They put me up in a 5-star hotel for two weeks. The Miami Dolphins showed up the last weekend. Then my wife flew out and we went up to Rocky Mountain national Park. We stayed in a joint in Estes Park that was owned by people from Lexington Kentucky. It was July. No ski crowd. They gave us a room as big as a barn loft right on the bank of a rushing Rocky Mountain Stream, all of it under hundred foot tall pine trees.
This was written by a deaf Beethoven. You might recognize it from the Band of Brothers episode where they find the concentration camp:
These guys will probably be hit or miss for a lot of you, but I'm loving this new song, 'Favourite' by Fontaines D.C.
For a relatively new band, I love their sound. They don't really sound like much other 'new' music out there. Plus, they're Irish, which gives them a few extra cool points in my book (you can skip the first 20 seconds or so of the clip where they show one of the bandmembers singing when he was younger):
For a relatively new band, I love their sound. They don't really sound like much other 'new' music out there. Plus, they're Irish, which gives them a few extra cool points in my book (you can skip the first 20 seconds or so of the clip where they show one of the bandmembers singing when he was younger):
Ok now that I’m here, you should probably leave. You should probably leave.
Soul shine one of my all time AB favorites
Any Beach Boys fans? I actually saw them once at IU, when they were splitting the bill with Eagles during the Desperado tour. And yes,per usual, Mike Love was an asshole that night...
I think I only bought 1 BB album and that was Holland. The surf stuff was fine for radio but not something I wanted to spend money on. I actually bought the album for "Sail on Sailor", but ended up liking these 2 songs more. Al Jardine wrote CA saga...
And I always loved Only With You which Dennis wrote and Carl sings...
I think I only bought 1 BB album and that was Holland. The surf stuff was fine for radio but not something I wanted to spend money on. I actually bought the album for "Sail on Sailor", but ended up liking these 2 songs more. Al Jardine wrote CA saga...
And I always loved Only With You which Dennis wrote and Carl sings...
