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Post by kora on Jan 15, 2015 15:52:29 GMT -5
Hey, Jo, So glad you joined us. Didn't know you were into this type of music. Glad you like "One More Try." And thanks for the videos. I really like the early U2. My hubby is a big U2 fan. Son likes such a wide variety I can't keep up with him. I grew up with my parents listening to country music so it's what I heard. But in my teens, like most teens, I didn't want to listen to "their" music so I listened to pop. I was 17 when I graduated from high school and moved a hundred miles away. Which moved me forward into disco, then urban cowboy, then the older black groups which played live gigs locally. That was followed by the years when everyone in my neighborhood sat outside on the porch stoops every evening. No air conditioning. We all shared music, laughter, jokes, and beverages. Then I got consolidated out of a job and decided to move to a different town and ended up working at an NPR radio station. I loved the classical, some of the minimalist....never really did develop a love for the opera. It filled my days, 5 days a week, in the background. It was part of my job to have a monitor on my desk. Another move to another town a few years later and I found myself engaged to a guy who loved jazz. Which is especially awesome live. About the only music I haven't followed along the way is rap, the heavier rock, punk, and opera. It's kind of ironic that mainstream country is now largely a mix of rock and rap. Such is life. Mostly though I fell in love with the violin/fiddle when I was in the first grade and if you follow the trail through what I've always loved best, it's where that fiddle is. Fiddles are where my heart and home live.  Jo - Enjoyed reading about your musical background. The violin/fiddle for me is about soul. I love it, especially Gene Elders' fiddle playing. Mainstream country doesn't cut it for me, and I don't listen to country radio anymore. I like the more traditional country and its instruments. I'm not much into rap, either, or soul by the black singers. I can handle a rap or hip hop song here and there, but I really don't listen to it. I like Kid Rock and some of his rap moments. I heard jazz live in New Orleans when I was younger on vacation with my parents. It didn't rub off on me. My lawyer friend likes a little jazz, and I put up with it for him. LOL! Forgot to mention in my earlier post when I hear "Stayling Alive," I have to get uip and dance. LOL! You and I both like a variety of music, and that's good. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2015 11:46:35 GMT -5
I have always wondered why ...
If you call a fiddle a violin in the South...you get snubbed.
If you call a violin a fiddle in the North...you get snubbed.
Its like saying that Bob Wills is a good violinist.
Jazz is the same...listen to Dixieland at 6 in the morning...sounds totally different.
There is this guy called Ian Anderson that people mistake for Jethro Tull.
Problem here is that he does not play a fiddle...he plays a flute...
I think it may fit perfectly here ...or not!
I wouldn't tell Ian that though...ah the concerts of yore. 
youtu.be/gWubhw8SoBE
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2015 19:08:25 GMT -5
Kora,
I quit listening to mainstream country about the same time I took a long break from the internet. Lately I've been listening to some of it on CD from the library but I haven't come across anything that really speaks to me yet. Seems like what the library had available was "bro" country. Maybe I'll find something I like in the new batch of CD's I checked out...more ladies in this batch.
I want to boogie when I hear "Stayin' Alive" too. : )
Then in the 80's, there was a mini Grease revival in a club where I lived. Everybody would show up once a week and sing along to the songs of Grease...so much fun. Gotta add one in here now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2015 19:15:54 GMT -5
Michael,
You and my hubby...he's a big Ian/Jethro fan. : ) We just saw Ian in concert last year ....touring to support his new album.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2015 19:31:30 GMT -5
Going back to my teen years and the Midnight movies now...though it still plays at the Midnight movies even now....RHPS.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 12:05:19 GMT -5
That is so awesome to go to that show!!! There are so many great older artists touring small venues now.
Imagine...seeing Ian live...I remember hearing about a riot when Tull played Red Rocks.
Oh I had a video in mind but must search this one out...
youtu.be/d2BMPWWt0-k
This is when we snuck into Red Rocks Amphitheater in the 70's.
Notice the dark ledge on Shiprock ...that is where we would come out to watch.
Crazy things that we would do for music.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 12:12:00 GMT -5
Now back to my original train of thought... Billy Joel to me was our countries answer to Sir Elton John. Though Billy Joel could whoop all over Elton...this is a tough match. Unlike but like the folks from Grease...Billy is the real deal... our royalty in a way. No excuses here...lol... the entire world misunderstands the lyrics too. youtu.be/h3JFEfdK_Ls |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 12:21:52 GMT -5
I never really got the Rocky Horror Thing...we would go...watch for awhile.
When people got up acting all crazy... I think we usually split.
Though it was a good place to meet up with your friends and run at night.
We used to use this as an excuse and run the streets until the milkman came by.
I need to admit a crime right here and now...
We took milk from our neighbors milk box.
At 5 in the morning by the railroad tracks... watching the sun come up.
Drinking a half gallon of ice cold chocolate milk...priceless.
You know...if they get through Billy they will still have to contend with Bruce!
youtu.be/129kuDCQtHs
I hear he drank a lot of milk...taken from his neighbors!
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Post by kora on Jan 19, 2015 15:39:18 GMT -5
Now back to my original train of thought... Billy Joel to me was our countries answer to Sir Elton John. Though Billy Joel could whoop all over Elton...this is a tough match. Unlike but like the folks from Grease...Billy is the real deal... our royalty in a way. No excuses here...lol... the entire world misunderstands the lyrics too. youtu.be/h3JFEfdK_Lsnash - I like both singers. Elton, though, seems more of an institution, maybe beause of the British invasion. Did you catch Billy Joel on tv recently when they honored him and notables sang his songs and he sang at the end? - In the posts above, you and Jo have left me in the dark. LOL! Of course I know about the Grease fad but not many of the artists you mention from the 70s, 80s. I was a baby in the early 80s. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 11:14:07 GMT -5
Now back to my original train of thought... Billy Joel to me was our countries answer to Sir Elton John. Though Billy Joel could whoop all over Elton...this is a tough match. Unlike but like the folks from Grease...Billy is the real deal... our royalty in a way. No excuses here...lol... the entire world misunderstands the lyrics too. youtu.be/h3JFEfdK_Lsnash - I like both singers. Elton, though, seems more of an institution, maybe beause of the British invasion. Did you catch Billy Joel on tv recently when they honored him and notables sang his songs and he sang at the end? - In the posts above, you and Jo have left me in the dark. LOL! Of course I know about the Grease fad but not many of the artists you mention from the 70s, 80s. I was a baby in the early 80s. Very cool that you think that Kora...about leaving you in the dark. It's the same feeling that I get listening to some stuff today...so I know how you feel. Back in the dark ages we had no video...only vinyl albums that we watched spin round and round...I learned it from my folks. They would sit around at night and watch the radio...while I was a baby. There certainly a history to music...fact of the day... There is a song being played now that will last for 1000 years...imagine that! so if you are interested in where we are going with music...you have to know where we have been. youtu.be/pKiPLPhyrxYJo ...do you know where the light switch is here?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 11:29:13 GMT -5
The movie "Dazed and Confused" was more accurate display of my misspent youth.
Has anyone watch this movie...I need to watch it again???
I know that it had great music in it!
youtu.be/MrtQ5uIOcKY
And today
youtu.be/BqatdbG7noQ
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 11:49:42 GMT -5
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Post by kora on Jan 20, 2015 17:41:04 GMT -5
nash - your longplayer live is different. A little of it is good to hear. I like some of Shania's songs and think you can post her songs here. I don't think anyone would be offended.
I love Barbra Streisand's voice and her songs.
Early "Somewhere"
1994 "Somewhere"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2015 17:48:53 GMT -5
That is so awesome to go to that show!!! There are so many great older artists touring small venues now.
Imagine...seeing Ian live...I remember hearing about a riot when Tull played Red Rocks.
Oh I had a video in mind but must search this one out...
youtu.be/d2BMPWWt0-k
This is when we snuck into Red Rocks Amphitheater in the 70's.
Notice the dark ledge on Shiprock ...that is where we would come out to watch.
Crazy things that we would do for music. I've got my Maglite but not a cigarette lighter. : ) Kora....Michael and I be a tad bit older than you....oh, to be young again Love Billy Joel. Not a Springsteen fan. Great JB song. I'll add in "Running on Empty"....I was 17 then. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2015 17:59:04 GMT -5
I saw Chubby doing this song live in a little black club in the 70's. I think there were all of two of us white folks there. : )
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