It's a dull grey and rainy day - so some somber / melancholy music mixed with a few fun melodies - "Nocturne" Jean-Jacques Kantorow
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What are you listening to? Part III
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I loved Curtis Mayfield's music from when he was just getting noticed. Heh, he may have saved the guitar string industry singlehanded with that F# open tuning he favored... one's choice to flip into that mode is either retune the thing when needed, and keep buying new strings from the old ones getting annoyed over "what, again? so soon?" or else get another guitar, so... way to go is keep buying plenty of strings.
I've been reading the bio of Curtis Mayfield that his son Todd wrote with Travis Atria. We all know it's possible to keep a good man down, or knock him down --and the fate that brought that piece of a lighting rig down on him during a live performance just makes one so angry at such sheer "right place wrong time" bad luck-- but by now we also know it was going to take something not invented yet to keep the mind and music of Mayfield from making the world a better place to hang out in while we're here. Even after that accident, and paralyzed from the neck down, he continued to compose and sing. The man had some serious grit behind all that talent. I still love listening to his music; I'm not even a huge fan of R&B but Mayfield really taps into human feeling. It's also impossible to forget the impact of his politically charged music during the civil rights era, a time before which it would not have been likely even to imagine a song like "People Get Ready" getting sung outside of maybe a small black church.
I love Paul Simon - What an artist in every sense of the word - IMHO - "an artist" not as a technical singer or player - although he was included as one of the the Rolling Stone's top 100 guitarists of all time !!
One of the songs I have always enjoyed from his first solo album was "Hobo's blues" - Composed with Stéphane Grappelli who was a French jazz violinist who founded the "Quintet du Hot Club de France" with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934
A pretty cool collaboration - especially at the time
Not to take away from the rest of the great songs on that album (especially my favorite - "Lincoln Duncan")
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I'm 30 years old and Smoke Ring for My Halo is the first vinyl record I ever bought (this morning, lol).
It's so damn good and the sound of vinyl is just amazing.
The Eagles - tracks from Hell Freezes Over. Great mix of live and studio work. The live version of Hotel California is so fine. They'd fought so much at one point they finally swore hell would freeze over before they'd play together again. Glad it finally happened after that 14-year "vacation"...
The Turn Into video from Show Your Bones album - the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Love Karen O.
I watched the "Hell Freezes Over" show in Montreal shortly after the CD was released - it was a big deal and on the radio promotions back then it was said that "they all flew in on separate flights and only showed up together on stage" - lol
I don't know how that is possible? - there is substantal practice and coordination needed for large concerts like this - and I have to say it was a very technical show - great sound and orchestration
First they did much like the video - unplugged version
loved it - popular at the time and then took a 30 min break and did the original versions - loved it even moreA great concert
I watched the "Hell Freezes Over" show in Montreal shortly after the CD was released - it was a big deal and on the radio promotions back then it was said that "they all flew in on separate flights and only showed up together on stage" - lol
I don't know how that is possible? - there is substantal practice and coordination needed for large concerts like this - and I have to say it was a very technical show - great sound and orchestration
First they did much like the video - unplugged version
A great concert
Yeah they had to have gotten together to work out a show for a reunion tour. I suppose the pre-show patter was all because the promoters figured the theme was Hell Freezes Over and so the idea of an ongoing squabble and distancing from each other was key to getting any reunion venue packed to the rafters... but how wonderful you could see that show!
There was whole lot of ego in the talent there, along with a mutual desire to produce the best possible music, just different ideas sometimes on how to get there. The Oklahoman ran a long piece that detailed some of the band's ups and downs over the years, an interesting read.
https://oklahoman.com/article/feed/...agles-are-done-it-was-always-glenn-freys-band
That piece was published in November of 2016, right before the three surviving members of the last version of The Eagles and Glenn Frey's widow received Kennedy Center honors that had been conferred on the band in the prior year, with ceremony deferred at that time in the hope that the then gravely ill Frey would recover and be able to be present. But, that was not to be. So we have what have in the way of recordings and our memories of "The Eagles"... there's an end to all things but what remains in music and memory of these guys is pretty special to a lot of people.
Van Halen - Great Riff - Great Rhythm - Awesome Groove
Oh yeah forgot - it's "Mean Street"
Oh yeah forgot - it's "Mean Street"
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I'm not a big Eagles fan by any stretch but I do own some of their music.
I always felt like poor old Joe Walsh was just caught up in the middle of all this mess.
Is there a book on what really went down?
The members of The Eagles as they evolved sure were a closed-mouth bunch for a long time as far as trying to keep a lid on differences in their various incarnations, but over the years that changed and so yes, there are a bunch of books about them, by band members themselves, their companions (Walsh's in particular), rock journalists etc. All probably best taken as snapshots from a moving train, I suppose, and who knows with what agendas. I haven't read any of them, remember seeing some reviews. They have got all litigious with each other on several occasions. Walsh probably got caught up mostly by his addiction to booze but of course he wasn't the only one struggled with that, and he did seem to get caught in the crossfire in some of the band members' maneuvers with each other. What a wild ride they gave themselves while managing to give us their music.
There is a live video of that demanding piece, from BBC Prom 39, 1998 Aug 17. Spectacular performance by Dame Emma Kirkby, Christopher Hogwood conducting Academy of Ancient Music; it was a Proms premiere of the piece.
Merely sharing what my selection is - aka personal playlist - this afternoon and evening.
Lovely piece, isn't it?
And now, still with somewhat melancholic but lovely music from the Baroque era, allow me to share with you that I am listening to Ground in C Minor by William Croft.
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