Kill the Wabbit...
Saw ELP live when they were accompanied by a 115 piece orchestra! Not long after the tour started it was canceled for being far too expensive to maintain. I have no idea who thought that would work but it was a thing to behold.
And then you find out the singer is gay and married a man. Geeeze!I always thought hard rock from the mid to late 70s, thru to the early 80s was "my thing". I always put the tv on some kinda rock when I'm cleaning house or something. Well today it landed on "60s Rock" and I am in heaven!!How did I spend my entire life not listening to these guys every day??
What's y'all's favorite era??
I need to expand my horizons.(As old as I am it will be more like "revisiting" ... Lol)
Right now it's "Sweet Caroline" by (like I have to say it outloud) Neil Diamond. My name ain't Caroline but I "might" have enjoyed a gentleman or twos attention while this played in the background.
Yeah, 60's is my music era. Funk in the 70s and disco were OK and got me a lot of dates because I could actually dance. Not like SNF dance but I could dance and had a lot of women ask me to dance.
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At 77yo myself, I am kinda like that Seger guy,
Won't go to hear 'em play a tango
I'd rather hear some blues or funky old soul
But There's only one sure way to get me to go
Start playin' old time rock and roll.
I have thought a little bit about this in the past. Each of us has a rhythm inside us that listening to music can sometimes fit. What, 5 million years most of our ancestors had beating sticks or drums going on in the background for communication or relaxation. Sometimes it is the soothing flow of an orchestra playing somewhere over the rainbow or something like that. Sometimes it is the basic ya know what is coming up as going to be rhythm with a good blues song, Or, like for me, I can get sucked into my heart beating, foot stomping, up and dancing with most any George Thorogood songs.
Many of us grew up in the era of when these old rock and roll songs were written and told a story. Like Don posted with the avitar of sitting in a sling shot dragster.
"Little Duce Coupe" was worn out 45 on my phonograph, I was not quite old enough, but I wanted a hot rod car. Then, "do you love me now that I can dance" became a favorite" But then "She's real fine my 409" I saw fired up with open headers on a stage as a Beach Boy opener in Dallas at a concert. Nope, only had a 327 4 speed in my
56 Chevy, but that's OK, hey thinking of the beach also.
In my opinion, songs back then had a story down to our soles of real life that was or we wished it could be and a beat we could dance to combination at the same time.
Sorry, I can not get into the lyrics or the beat of today's "music". I guess that is why they make all kinds. Someone somewhere will connect with their style of who ever is playing anything.
Iffen you look back at a lot of old rock and roll and other musical stuff of different types look how many songs had connections out of Oklahoma. There has been a lot of talent generated here. Might look up Tulsa Sound for one place, rock and roll, Clapton, country singers, MacIntire, Clarke, etc. My class of 65 yearbook has a classmate of mine carrying in his cousin, guy by the name of Garth Brooks to a HS football game..
Yep we all have a different beat in our soul, but some kind of music is part of most of us iffen we let it connect.
Won't go to hear 'em play a tango
I'd rather hear some blues or funky old soul
But There's only one sure way to get me to go
Start playin' old time rock and roll.
I have thought a little bit about this in the past. Each of us has a rhythm inside us that listening to music can sometimes fit. What, 5 million years most of our ancestors had beating sticks or drums going on in the background for communication or relaxation. Sometimes it is the soothing flow of an orchestra playing somewhere over the rainbow or something like that. Sometimes it is the basic ya know what is coming up as going to be rhythm with a good blues song, Or, like for me, I can get sucked into my heart beating, foot stomping, up and dancing with most any George Thorogood songs.
Many of us grew up in the era of when these old rock and roll songs were written and told a story. Like Don posted with the avitar of sitting in a sling shot dragster.
"Little Duce Coupe" was worn out 45 on my phonograph, I was not quite old enough, but I wanted a hot rod car. Then, "do you love me now that I can dance" became a favorite" But then "She's real fine my 409" I saw fired up with open headers on a stage as a Beach Boy opener in Dallas at a concert. Nope, only had a 327 4 speed in my
56 Chevy, but that's OK, hey thinking of the beach also.
In my opinion, songs back then had a story down to our soles of real life that was or we wished it could be and a beat we could dance to combination at the same time.
Sorry, I can not get into the lyrics or the beat of today's "music". I guess that is why they make all kinds. Someone somewhere will connect with their style of who ever is playing anything.
Iffen you look back at a lot of old rock and roll and other musical stuff of different types look how many songs had connections out of Oklahoma. There has been a lot of talent generated here. Might look up Tulsa Sound for one place, rock and roll, Clapton, country singers, MacIntire, Clarke, etc. My class of 65 yearbook has a classmate of mine carrying in his cousin, guy by the name of Garth Brooks to a HS football game..
Yep we all have a different beat in our soul, but some kind of music is part of most of us iffen we let it connect.
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JJ Cale, Leon Russell, Roy Clark....
Remember MTV's "unplugged"? AIC, Nirvana....those bands kicked ass even without electronics and echo machines. One of my favorite videos is Black Sabbath in Paris, 1970. No special effects, just a band and a singer, and a wagonload of talent.
Being able to scratch 33s and rhyme isn't much of a talent in my opinion, but it's a fair indicator of where we are on the evolutionary scale.
And Leon Russell, however, I never cared for his singing.
Late 70's New Wave, 80's New Wave and Alternative, 90's Alternative and Grunge. What really s_cks is going to a grocery store and hearing your once cool club music being piped in - heard Depeche Mode songs played in a Homeland. Really made me feel old.
'Cause you are old?
Just remember, getting old often beats the alternative! And it gives you something to complain about, so you always have a topic for conversations with snarky friends
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