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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on May 22, 2009 20:06:53 GMT -6
Post - Script ---
I love flute music! ( Classical or Jazz or otherwise ) ---
Herbie Mann was always one of my faves -
&, have you ever heard the "Jazz Suite For Flute & Piano" with Claude Bolling & Jean-Pierre Rampal?
( I might have gotten the album title a little mixed up ) ---
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Post by Stormrider on May 23, 2009 6:25:15 GMT -6
No, I haven't heard that piece for flute and piano. I will have to look into it. thanks for mentioning it.
I played the flute in 3rd and 4th grade and wish I had kept up with it. I started an art class instead. I don't remember a darn thing about how to play one anymore but I can still read music! I wish I had kept up with it...alas it was a rental instrument and my mother did not keep up on the rental fee once I got into the clay sculpting class.
I was looking at prices on flutes on line a few years ago and they have a wide price range from just a couple hundred to into the thousands. There are several kinds of flutes, too, and since I had played in 3rd/4th grade, I didn't know what to consider. I suppose I would have to go to an instrument store and talk to someone about it. But there just isn't enough time in the day and I have so many other hobbies and interests that I didn't pursue getting a flute again. (If only I didn't have to work--then I would have time!) lol!
So I've always enjoyed Jethro Tull and the Moody Blues. If I hadn't quit playing I would have been as good as they are! I saw Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson in Rockford with my cousin about three years ago. It was awesome! I took my binoculars since we were in the balcony.
The Moody Blues were very appealing to me. My husband and I had our wedding band learn to play "Nights in White Satin" for our first wedding dance together. I would love to see them live since they have an orchestra play with them in many of their pieces.
I have been listening to the CD's I installed on my Media Player at work and it is on scramble so I get all my favorite groups and orchestras playing randomly. It helps relax me since it has been very tense at work getting our new ERP system up and running which will be going live on May 30 and 31. I still have to enter our parts in the OLD system and the NEW and ALL our customers have decided to go thru art and packaging changes so I have to build everything in the systems. So the music is helping relax me, even the loud noisy hard rock stuff!
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on May 23, 2009 14:49:00 GMT -6
Hello Again, Stormrider ~~~
All through grade school & into high school, I had friends & acquaintances who studied instruments for the school orchestra beyond ( to more ambitious ends ) ---
In elementary school, the school loaned out instruments to the students who participated in the music program, but the individual student ( & his family ) was responsible for buying the accouterments, & for the upkeep of his/her instrument... I had one good friend in elementary school who studied some kind of wind instrument - ( clarinet, perhaps ) and who would go downtown to the Music Store to buy reeds for his instrument...
I was never in the music program at school, and it's probably just as well - as much as I always enjoyed listening to music, I never had any talent in that direction - no sense of keeping time, no musical ability at all, really - I had my little toy instruments, ( a plastic harmonica, a toy coronet, a little xylophone ) which I fooled around with - I tried to follow the "system" ( for learning tunes ) that came with the harmonica [ breath in hole "A", breath out hole "D", etc ] in order to play a tune like "My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean", but all I could ever do was play the tune haltingly, while still reading the "notes" ---
Similar results in high school - my mother was always under the delusion that I might become a great concert pianist someday, so I took the Piano class that was offered there - By the end of the semester, all I could manage were the few opening notes to Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" --- ( & it wasn't by learning to read music ) ---
I was just about to mention "The Moody Blues"! In the late 1970's, I had a good friend ( who I had first met in high school ) and we shared a great enthusiasm for the group's music - we especially loved to listen to the "preamble" to "Nights In White Satin" - the poem: "Breath deep the gathering gloom..." [ which follows the "Tuesday Afternoon" song, right? "Tuesday afternoon...something calls to me..." ]
It's funny, because it was at this very same time that my friend turned me on to the Claude Bolling/ Jean-Pierre Rampal music - ( which, by the way, is actually called: "Suite For Flute And Jazz Piano", I believe ) ---
We both listened, around this time, to a local Jazz station, KJAZ, which, unfortunately, went out of business some years ago now - ~~~ "The Nutcracker" sure gets used a lot in commercials around Christmastime! --
Several years ago, we won some free tickets to go see "The Nutcracker" [ put on by the San Francisco Ballet Company ] That was an exciting outing! My wife, her mom, and I, all went over to the Opera House, in SF, [ a stately, impressive edifice, it was the first time any one of us had ever been inside the building ] and it was also the first time any of us had ever been to the Ballet, either... My favorite scene was "The Dance Of The Snowflakes" - so pretty!
I also enjoyed the first half of the production more than the second half - there was more excitement and anticipation in the first half, I guess, and then the second half "settled down", where there was less "story-line" and it was just one "set-piece" dance sequence after another --- Still, it was all a lot of fun! ~~~
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Post by Stormrider on May 23, 2009 21:58:36 GMT -6
My friend played the organ and a couple of times I plinked at it after she told me where one of the notes were (I think it was C). I knew enough about the white and black keys (sharp or flat depending on whether they were to the left or right of a white key) to read the music and plink the correct keys to play it. The piano or organ is ok but they aren't my favorites. I purchased an acoustical guitar from a co-worker once and took lessons on it for several months. It had to be tuned all the time and I just can't do it (I wonder if that is the norm or was it the reason the co-worker sold it!) I tried so hard but my ears just don't pick up the tones well enough to match the correct pitch to get it tuned. My instructor had to tune it for me. Even the tuning tool was no use. It shounded good to my ear as I was tuning it, but when I went to play anything it was awful! When in tune, it had a really nice soft sound. Although I wasn't coming along nicely on the guitar, I gave it up since I would never be able to tune it. Same thing for not trying the violin! I imagine I could learn to play the flute again with lesson books all on my own. I can read the music, I just need to re-learn how to push the right keys and holes to play the correct sound. Talking about this is getting me stirred up to get a flute and give 'er a whirl but I have so many other projects and hobbies that I would end up neglecting my practices. maybe once I retire? * * * Moody Blues--I have all their albums (yes those large flat discs) and I also have a CD of their greatest hits. I'm going to have to start listening to them again. Timothy Leary and Ride My See Saw are great but my favorite is the album with Tuesday Afternoon and Nights in White Satin. I would love to go see The Nutcracker at the theater. I've seen a ballet on television but while it was done well, seeing it live would really be an experience not to foget. I am going to have to start listening to Jazz now. I have to see if there is an all Jazz station in my area to get me pointed in the right direction so I can start learning what I like (or don't like!) about it. But I think I will like much of it. Isn't Swing kind of like Jazz? One of our Tolkien's Ring friends, Sparrow, is into Swing dancing. I also loved Blind Faith (Rock and British Blues) and Traffic (Jazz influsion) (Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Steve Windwood). What does Jazz Infusion mean? Anyway I really loved these bands created by these artists. I was lucky enough to go to one of Traffic's concerts and was it GOOD! ;D I also saw Led Zeppelin live at the Kinetic Playground in Chicago in 1969. That was a wild night. The Playgound had huge screens up all around on the walls flashing all kinds of wild pictures and images. Then the light would go off and everything would go into black lights and strobe lights. With Led Zeppelin on stage, I was in heaven. That was the most unforgetable and awesome night listening to a favorite group I have ever had. * * * What do you think of the Blues? I really like blues when you can tell the singer really puts their heart and soul into it--Janice Joplin comes to mind. She had kind of a scratchy odd voice but it had such a soul wrenching ring to it. She really gave her all in her songs. I think she lived her short life to the fullest and that her songs portrayed her feelings down to the core of her being. I haven't heard a whole lot of Stevie Ray Vaughn and his electric blues guitar but what I have heard I think he is another dang good blues musician and one of the top guitarists around. I remember we had just moved into our new Ranch in Aug. 1990. Toward the end of that month, his helicopter crashed on his way back to Chicago from a concert in Wisc with Eric Clapton (who was NOT on that helicopter, of course!).
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on May 24, 2009 1:31:22 GMT -6
Hello, Once Again, Stormrider ---
You've given me so much to respond to ( in your last posting ) that I'm not sure where to begin, or if I will be able to get around to commenting on everything - but I will give it a shot, anyway...
Those old vinyl records were the best! And I still feel like a really good Hi-Fi Stereo system ( with the turntable, the amplifier, the speakers, etcetera ) will produce the richest, best quality sound in a recording... These have almost completely disappeared, but not yet completely, although vinyl albums are making a bid for a comeback ( of sorts )- so some of this equipment ( or something compatible ) must still be available somewhere...
In the East Bay town of El Cerrito, there recently opened a "hip" new coffee-shop-combo-record album shop - where they keep a goodly selection of real record albums - customers there can browse among the selection, & play one on the shop phonograph... ( I've been wanting to visit there ever since it opened, so I hope they are still in business ) ... One time, some years back, when my wife and I were browsing in the Oakland Library Used Book Store, I came across an old Herbie Mann LP - "Love In The Rain" I should have bought it just for the album cover - very Late-1950's, Early !960's, with all that lovely green in the design... But then, I figured: "But we don't even have a record player, and I don't know when we will get one, so what's the point" Well, I could have stuck the cover up on the wall, as Art, anyway... We still don't have a record player... I have a small collection of tapes, & sometimes I check out CDs from the library, but mostly I just listen to the radio....
The Moody Blues "Tuesday Afternoon...Nights In White Satin" LP was the one me & my friend used to listen to all the time... I think I only ever listened to one other MB album once - ( the one that had the "mystical Eastern Religion" theme on the cover art )....
Swing is definitely Jazz! The Swing "movement" was huge in the 1930's - just about all the Jazz you ever heard ( at least, on the Radio ) and most of the Dance Music at the time was "Swing Music"... It really was America's Popular Music, right up through the War years of the 1940's - Other, newer styles began to appear in the mid-1940's, like "Be-Bop" - ( and later, "Cool Jazz", and other styles ) but these & other "experimental" styles were mainly being played in the nightclubs and other Jazz venues - ( and, of course, recordings were being made, but they were mainly being bought up by the "followers of Jazz" - all those Hep Cats who dug that crazy music, man - for the most part, these recordings weren't exactly "Hit Parade" material ) I'm still speaking in broad generalities, here - but most of the "crooners" who were so popular on throughout the 1950's were "Swingers", and the bands that played for radio shows still used that Big Band/Swing sound --- Frank Sinatra could "swing" - Ella Fitzgerald "swung"....
Of course, when speaking of "Swing Dance Music", it usually refers more specifically to the Big Band Instrumental sound of bands like the Jimmy Dorsey Band, or the Glenn Miller Band, & all the other bands that played the Ballrooms from coast to coast, & made recordings, & were heard playing on the radio ( and in a few movies, as well ) ---
And, actually, some of the tunes and orchestrations that we are still so familiar with today could be considered almost sedate, in comparison to some Swing bands that "REALLY Swung" - bands like the Count Basie Band, which would pull out the stops ---
I can't say what "Jazz Infusion" is, for sure, either - It sounds like it just means some elements of Jazz getting "injected" into a musical style that is mostly "not Jazz" to begin with - something that is mainly Rock & Roll or some other style of music, ( or, the other way around ) and then the styles get "fused" together to produce a new & different kind of sound - I have usually heard this called "Jazz Fusion", but "Jazz Infusion" works, too - I'm not positive, but I think groups like "Weather Report" play what could be called "Jazz Fusion"....
The Blues is a whole other topic - I'll have to come back to that....
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on May 24, 2009 2:49:14 GMT -6
On the subject of The Blues:
I'm afraid I'm not all that crazy 'bout the Blues... ( this is a little "in" joke for me, because on the Jazz station I listen to, which has Jazz programming 24 hours a day, has a program on Friday nights, running from Nine to Midnight PST, which plays all Blues & "Rhythm and Blues", called: "Crazy 'Bout The Blues" --- and, whenever I switch it off, I say to myself: "Sorry, I'm not crazy 'bout the Blues..."
The Blues is raw, wild, passionate and "earthy" music, and I guess I'm just more into the more restrained stuff...
Not that Blues singers like Janis Joplin aren't great! Actually, in my younger wilder days, ( say, just over 25 years ago ) I used to frequent a bar in Berkeley - where they had music & downstairs in the subterranean basement almost every night... By the early 1980's, the predominant style of music being played there was hard-driving, "Rhythm & Blues"... I think "Mississippi Johnny Waters" might have been a featured guest performer at some of these venues ( at least, that name comes to mind ) - but it usually the "House Band" that used to be "rockin' the place" on weekend nights...
Sometimes I think listening to too much Blues ( like listening to some authentic Country & Western ) might drive me back to drinking & smoking ( neither of which I do anymore ) --- I know that's really silly - but if you listen to a lot of the lyrics songs from both these musical genres - there's an awful lot of heart-breakin' and cheatin' and hard drinkin' and mornfulness...
Jazz itself owes an awful lot to the Blues, of course - The Blues is at the very roots of the tree, where Jazz is concerned, so I should be grateful to it, but I am more interested in the styles of Jazz that evolved on down the line - the leaves on that very same tree, you could say, instead of examining the origins of Jazz ---
But then, the Blues continued on to evolve on its own, just as Jazz continued to evolve over the years and the "Rhythm & Blues" sound ( especially with the electric guitar work ) then gave birth to Rock & Roll -- Sometimes, when I have been listening to R&B Music for a while, I am really struck at how similar it sounds to Rock Music - its sometimes almost indistinguishable from Rock to my ears, especially when those electric guitars are wailing...
Of course, the Rock artists of the 1960's and beyond added their own touches to the style, and injected other ideas into the music, so Rock Music ( although an off-shoot of R&B Music ) still evolved into its own distinctive genre...
If you'd like to start listening to more Jazz, I'd highly recommend tuning in to KCSM on the Internet - I know it "streams" on the Internet ( although I listen to it only on the radio ) The station, which broadcasts from the studios at the College Of San Mateo, CA - is a non-commercial station, which broadcasts a great variety of Jazz Music - the Dee-Jays are usually quite eclectic in their choice of selections - although they sometimes also have their preferences, and certain styles they might play more of than others --
-- The "morning show" - "Morning Cup Of Jazz", with Alyssa Clancy, tends to have a very jovial mood -
--The "evening show" - "Jazz Oasis", plays some of my favorite kinds of Jazz - romantic ballads - mellow "cocktail lounge" music, soothing or sad music, ( but not "Smooth Jazz" - like the stuff you hear in the dentist's office ) - graceful piano playing, and so forth ---
On Sundays from Two til Six PM PST, there is "Latin Jazz" ( also not one of my top favorites, but you might find that you like it )
And there's all manner of Jazz "in between", & some NPR Jazz programs as well...
Also, the big, long "Spring Pledge Drive" just ended, which means you can listen to all the music without having to also listen to all the pitches for donating money to the cause...
I realize a non-commercial station like KCSM has no choice in the matter - they have to have these funding drives, but they do get monotonous, and I usually have to flee from the station, when these drives are ongoing.....
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Post by Stormrider on May 24, 2009 8:38:34 GMT -6
Ardo: You have a pretty good "wealth of knowledge" about all kinds of music! Thank you for sharing so much of it with me and anyone else who is reading this topic. I have learned a lot from you. I agree with you on the blues topics: You said: "heart-breakin' and cheatin' and hard drinkin' and mornfulness". Country and Western does have a lot of these topics in their songs. I probably won't start drinking and smoking listening to it but I know what you mean--they can be depressing. What strikes me about it is the pouring out of the singer's soul in the song. As far as Country and Western, I like peppy and lively sounds--especially fiddle. My favorite is Charlie Daniels with his fiddle and story tales. I also like Chris LeDoux with his more down to earth songs. Some other of my favorites are Alabama, Toby Keith, George Strait, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Confederate Railroad, the Dixie Chicks, Dolly Parton, Reba MacIntyr, Montgomery Gentry, and Big and Rich (are they considered Country or Rock Country?). Anyway, I like Country and Western but it isn't one of my first choices in listening pleasure even though I have gone to the big Country Thunder 4-5 day campout concert event up here in Twin Lakes Wisc a few times. What haven't we talked about? Oh yeah, Opera. ho hum! I haven't really delved into this form of musical art because I just can't get past the singing. It doesn't help that it is usually in Latin (or whatever it is) since I don't understand what they are singing. I guess if they took the lyrics out, I might like it.
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on May 24, 2009 13:38:43 GMT -6
Good Day To You, Stormrider { & Everybody } ---
I don't know if I really know all that much about the subject -- What I have is a "smattering" of bits of knowledge, gleaned from over the years...
I may have glanced at a book on the history of Classical Music once, but much of what I know about that subject, I have gathered from all the little historical anecdotes and background info provided by the announcers on the Classical Station - [ & from documentaries & such, such as the one I described before ] I've also gleaned a lot of info from the "Classic Arts Channel" Have you ever watched this? It's actually a continuous stream of scenes from productions of Opera, Ballet, Musicals, Modern Dance, Movies, Symphony concerts, Chamber Music ( some of the musical numbers are "Music Videos" ), some Jazz; some short documentaries & interviews, & so on... It's all funded by a foundation ( The Lloyd E. Wrigler Foundation ) which "feeds" this pre-recorded material to Public Television stations, local community cable channels, & so on, ( via satellite ) with no charge to the station or the viewer & no commercials....
I have similarly gathered bits of info about Jazz History from anecdotal knowledge supplied by the announcers on the Jazz radio station, & from some of the NPR programs on the same station --- When I was taking that Jazz History class, I did read a book on the subject, as well: "West Coast Jazz" -
I think there's a lot of Opera that's plain monotonous - or else grates on the nerves - ( mainly some of these operas that are either too "old", [written before Opera entered its "Golden Age", when the full potential of the format was exploited to the max ] or conversely, too "young" - too modern, which means they are usually sonorous & depressing...
Last year, we went to a great free deal they put on out here - it was at least partly sponsored by KDFC - "Opera At The Ballpark" --
The San Francisco Opera's production of "Lucia De Lammemore" was simulcast over to a big screen & big speakers at the AT&T Ballpark ( on the waterfront, east-side of town - where the SF Giants play baseball ) --- Now, that was a great way to see an opera! Early arrivals got to sit out on the field, with their blankets spread out & their picnic lunches - & some of the concessionaire stands were open, for those of us who hadn't brought our own victuals ---
We arrived a little late - almost halfway through the opera, but we still had a good time - { "A good time was had by all" } We had a tofu-hot dog & some Non-Alcoholic beer & some ice-cream, & enjoyed the opera from our seats in the stands... It was an unusually warm night for SF ( the middle of a heat-wave ) so there was no freezing to death in the stands....
We also got to go to see a live performance of Wagner's "Das Rheingold" ( also put on by SF Opera ) at the Opera House itself - I'll save that tale for next time...
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Post by Stormrider on May 25, 2009 7:40:55 GMT -6
Classic Arts Channel? No, I haven't seen anything from that. I will have to see if we get that channel on Dish Network. My husband is always watching sports so I don't get to see much television except for my two favorite shows, Lost! and 24, and their seasons are over until next year. I will have to sneak in on the tv while he isn't around and check it out. Ravinia in Chicago (actually it is in Highland Park) www.tickco.com/venue_schedules/ravinia_festival.htm has a lot of picnic concerts and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays there many times during the season. Also other groups or singers will appear there, such as the Beach Boys, Steve Miller Band, Herbie Hancock, Carrie Underwood, etc. It is outside and everyone sits on the grass and brings their lawn chairs and picnic baskets and champagne or wine (or beer). I see Camelot is playing there June 5th and Gypsy Kings on June 6th.
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on May 25, 2009 18:04:29 GMT -6
~~~ There is a wonderful out-of-doors music festival yearly in San Francisco, in Golden Gate Park, [ which we have never actually been to, although I once saw a taping of some of the performances, on the PBS TV station, KQED ]
It's called something like: "The Not Nearly All Bluegrass Festival" & although it has Traditional Bluegrass, it also has what you could call "Bluegrass Fusion" - music & singing that might sound closer to Rock or R&B, or Folk, or Jazz, and so on...
My wife and I ( when we were first going out together ) once went to the UC Berkeley Jazz Festival, which held out-of-doors at the Greek Theater on campus, a large ampitheater ensconced in the side of a hill... This was the 1977 Festival, & the main attraction during the afternoon was the "Lew Tabackin - Toki Akioshi Big Band" (a lot of bright sounding brass in that band ) But at night, the star performance was by Ella Fitzgerald... ( I'll always be grateful that I got to see one of the Greats in live performance, while she was still among us ) ---
I have less fond memories of when we went ( five years later ) to a "Day On The Green" at the Oakland Coliseum -"Genesis"; "The Scorpians"; "Iron Maiden"...
I've been reconsidering some of the things I was saying about the Blues... Really, the Blues is more of a "feel good" music, rather than a "feel bad" music... At least, it can be: "Hurts so bad, it feels good"... And sometimes, it's just plain "Having fun with it"...
The very earliest Blues, which came out of the African- American experience with slavery & oppression & suffering, were certainly very mournful, & a were used as a way to "work out the pain"---
By the 1920's, a lot of "Bluesy" numbers didn't sound quite so sad - many of them had a more celebratory mood to them - & some of the vocals had silly, humorous, or even raunchy lyrics...
By the time we get to Rythm & Blues, things were starting to become even more "upbeat" - It's like, "Swingin' Party Music" - "A Big Night Out On A Saturday Night At The Club"...
Once again, I'm only speaking in broad generalities - there are always "exceptions to the rule", of course...
This "Ravinia in Chicago" festival you speak of reminds me of the SF Shakes's { San Francisco Shakespeare Festival } "Free Shakespeare In The Park" -- annual "tour" of different parks in the Bay Area ( during the Summer/Early Autumn ) -- It's not a music venue, of course, it's Shakespeare - but it's the same deal with people bringing their lawn chairs & blankets & picnic baskets & bottles of wine, etcetera, and setting up on the grass to watch the show...
For a goodly number of years, one of their regular locations utilized was at Lakeside Park, at Lake Merritt, in Oakland - that's where we used to go to watch the plays - & it was a wonderful setting - in the glade there, surrounded by the trees, with the changing colors in the sky, and sometimes falling leaves, & flocks of geese or other birds flying overhead - [ Lake Merritt was the country's very first officially designated "Bird Sanctuary" ]...
Unfortunately, [ & more's the pity! ] the Lake Merritt performances have been discontinued for several years now, although the shows continue on at other locations...~~~
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Post by Stormrider on May 26, 2009 5:19:22 GMT -6
I have less fond memories of when we went ( five years later ) to a "Day On The Green" at the Oakland Coliseum -"Genesis"; "The Scorpians"; "Iron Maiden"... What didn't you like about Genesis? I have always liked Phil Collin's group because it is prettier lighter music. I used to listen to them while I was in the tanning bed. I am not sure who the Scorpians or Iron Maiden are though. They sound more like heavy metal rock by their names. I haven't listened a whole lot to the blues or rhythm and blues, but yes, it isn't ALL sad and depressing! Thank goodness! and Janice Joplin isn't specifically classified completely as a blues singer--According to Wikipedia, she falls into these categories: Blues-rock, hard rock, and psychedelic rock. Even though Led Zeppelin is considered heavy metal, I think some of their stuff sounds like blues-rock and I really LOVE Zeppelin! Especially some of their early stuff like Dazed and Confused, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, You Shook Me are more blues-like.
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on May 27, 2009 20:28:51 GMT -6
Good Afternoon ( my time ) Stormrider! ~~~
Actually, I had nothing whatsover against Genesis! At the time, it was of my favorite groups... ( & I was still listening to a lot of "Pop Music" in those days ) ---
it was just that particular time in my life, my head was very often "messed up" ... To be very frank, Drugs ( & alcohol ) were my whole life, & just about everything I ever thought about ( or really cared about ) in those days...
The weather was hot, alcohol was involved, & later on, after the concert, my wife & I were held up at gunpoint ( not at the concert venue ) - the gun may not have been loaded, ( we will never know ) but it was a harrowing experience, none the less )... So, bad memories....
I was just listening to some Irish fiddlin' music - & boy, it's just about indistinguishable from Bluegrass fiddlin' music... Of course, Bluegrass & Hillbilly music has it roots in this Scotch - Irish tradition...
Some of the "retro" Gaelic - Celtic music I hear might have different sounds to it - a lot of the Celtic Music I hear on that NPR program ( "Thistle & Shamrock" ) has sounds similar to Indian Music ( by which I meant the India in Asia ) --- I think this is an attempt to "reproduce", or "reconstruct", what Ancient Celtic Music may have sounded like...
My mother went through a phase where she used to listen to a lot of Country & Western Music - ( this would have been back in the 1960's - when Johnny Cash, (early) Kris Kristopherson, Roger Miller, were big... And she took me to see the bio-pic of Hank Williams Senior's life...
My wife also went through a period ( in the 80's-90's ) when all she wanted to listen to all the time was "Country"...
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Post by Stormrider on May 28, 2009 6:29:30 GMT -6
Ardo:
Oh Dear! That would give you many bad memories. Yikes! At least you and your wife weren't hurt--that is the main thing. The 60's and 70's were very drug inspired eras and I think many of us dabbled in some form of it. It was part of experimenting, finding yourself, and growing up.
Irish Fiddlin? hmm...I think I could like that! I should really start listening to more Celtic music. What I've heard I do like and I think I would like more.
I like some of the Asian Indian music. I remember when the Beatles were influenced by Ravi Shankar. It is pretty and exotic.
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on May 29, 2009 14:41:53 GMT -6
A Good Afternoon To You, Once Again...
I'm afraid I made a couple of prodigious boo-boos in my previous postings:
First: I'm not even sure now, if "Genesis" was even at that "Day On The Green" -- "Foreigner" was there, for certain, however - they were the "Headliner" at the venue... One of the main things I recall about that concert is peering down to the playing field, where pretty much all the guys had taken their shirts off, & the girls were either wearing halter-tops or T-Shirts ( at any rate, everyone had bare arms, at least ) and it was like peering down at this sea of little teeny bare arms ( from my vantage point ) that were being pumped up & down to the heavy beat of the Heavy Metal music of the HM band ( most likely, "Iron Maiden" )....
Secondly: I referred to the "Scotch - Irish Tradition"-- I should have said "Scottish" or else, "Scots" -- As one Scotsman pointed out in a Rick Steves travelogue: "Don't call us 'Scotch' - Scotch is something you drink - it's not a nationality" ~~~
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on May 30, 2009 15:20:19 GMT -6
A Very Good Afternoon To You, Stormrider ( & Everyone )! ~~~
Well, right now at this very moment, the sounds of the "Thistle & Shamrock" NPR radio show are coming through to my ears, through a local non-commercial radio station, KALW --
On top of that, today's show is going to be followed by a locally-produced show, "Folk Music And Beyond", where the special guest is going to be a woman from the Hebrides Islands, who sings ( & can speak in, as well, I assume ) Scots Gaelic ---
So, I'm becoming imbued in Celtic-Gaelicness for a couple of hours;
Right at the moment, there is a piece being played which might be hard to pin down, as to exactly which "category" it might belong to - the language being sung is Scots-Gaelic, but the musical style was sort of Pop/Euro-Techno/Spacey stuff...
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