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Post by admin on Jan 8, 2009 11:59:28 GMT
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Post by admin on Jan 8, 2009 12:20:14 GMT
I'm feeling the globe trotting today, off to Sweden The ever so spooky Opeth with Porcelain Heart who are the only band I know of with cookie monster vocals who I still think are brilliant (don't worry, none in this song though!) uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mfT1A5Caq84And no video for this but who cares, I love, love, love this song! Bit's of it could be Nick Kershaw in the 80's, bit's of it you can do big air guitar stuff to, it's prog, it's got funny time changes but you can dance to it! This just breaks so many rules it's downright genius! Turn it up LOUD Karmakanic - Let In Hollywood uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zhI-VQ4Qn1E
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Post by quizzkid on Jan 8, 2009 14:55:03 GMT
Bermondsey - South London I hope this works, It's not a band as such, but it's about the place I was born and have great affection for and where TaaB was recorded. It also features Joe Brown, musician of Olde London Town during the late 50's early 60's, Actress Una Stubbs and IMO one of our greatest ever comedy stars, the late great Sid James.....[of Carry on and Hancock fame (NB for our US cousins not the Will Smith Hancock)] uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-eVms_tAN0Eand Col did say elsewhere I could get away with it
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Post by rebecca on Jan 8, 2009 17:48:24 GMT
Bermondsey - South London I hope this works, It's not a band as such, but it's about the place I was born and have great affection for and where TaaB was recorded. It also features Joe Brown, musician of Olde London Town during the late 50's early 60's, Actress Una Stubbs and IMO one of our greatest ever comedy stars, the late great Sid James.....[of Carry on and Hancock fame (NB for our US cousins not the Will Smith Hancock)] uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-eVms_tAN0Eand Col did say elsewhere I could get away with it I love it! Were you one of the schoolkids who burned down the quaint old fashioned school house?
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Post by rebecca on Jan 8, 2009 17:58:15 GMT
In an attempt to show that we do have more than banjo music here, this is a new fellow from Kentucky, getting some attention for his first album. One of these songs was used on the TV show Weeds, if anybody watches that. I honestly couldn't decide which to use, since one or the other would not give a fair impression of what he does... I'm blessed to live somewhere with a really decent radio station and one of the things they do is have a live show every Friday at noon, so this is taken from one of those.
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This is going to be on my top ten list of last year's albums and I don't think it's because I'm prejudiced.
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Post by quizzkid on Jan 8, 2009 18:47:13 GMT
I love it! Were you one of the schoolkids who burned down the quaint old fashioned school house? Hi Rebecca, Happy new year No, it wasn't quaint and I didn't have a hand in burning it down, I will, however, own up to participating in flooding the staff room and putting the condom over the headteacher's microphone before school assembly.
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Post by rebecca on Jan 8, 2009 20:07:26 GMT
I love it! Were you one of the schoolkids who burned down the quaint old fashioned school house? Hi Rebecca, Happy new year No, it wasn't quaint and I didn't have a hand in burning it down, I will, however, own up to participating in flooding the staff room and putting the condom over the headteacher's microphone before school assembly. I didn't know they microphones that long ago. HNY to you too, buddy.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 9, 2009 9:38:31 GMT
Switzerlandi43.images obliterated by tinypic/2ekr5ht.png[/IMG] i42.images obliterated by tinypic/250nsd3.jpg[/IMG] Love the new 'names' of types of music genres you get nowadays eg Death/Pagan/Folk...Acid Folk .......Goth Yodel (made that up) Here's a band from Switzerland who are described as a 'new wave of Folk Metal.' It's a good combination of Scottish/Irish/Swiss - if you can get past the vocals which personally is not my favourite part of Death Metal however it's a nice wee tune ;D ;D It's a rouser !! (We used to say in Scotland that the bagpipes were dead animals but the bloke in the video looks like he is actually playing one.) Eluveitie uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iijKLHCQw5o
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Post by jioffe on Jan 9, 2009 17:35:41 GMT
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Post by rebecca on Jan 9, 2009 18:00:25 GMT
Yeah, I can see what you mean about liking the tune, but also about the vocals! They're kind of scary! They trigger my fight-or-flight response! They give me nervy problems (as we say in KY)
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 30, 2009 9:15:30 GMT
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Post by bluehare on Jan 30, 2009 15:47:10 GMT
Definitely out of my depth with this thread, but am getting a great education music-wise.
Geographically, it's hopeless about the flags (and the location of the nations). The little blue wedgie in Trivial Pursuit was always the hardest for me to get.
nonrabbit, love all the scenery you've been posting!
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Post by jioffe on Jan 30, 2009 18:25:03 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 30, 2009 19:20:06 GMT
Definitely out of my depth with this thread, No deep ends in this Forum Blue Hare - post away .......................... ;D
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 16, 2009 12:45:46 GMT
In classical mode today - The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams. To paraphrase Kate Bush . . . . "Oh England My Lionheart"
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 16, 2009 13:13:30 GMT
Although he was born in Devon, Seth Lakeman at The Minack Theatre in Cornwall
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Post by tullistray on Feb 19, 2009 18:53:28 GMT
Chicago, my very dear home town, which, while extending from civic pride into something stepping over the line into arrogance, in that I don't know of another city in the world that has turned out so many monster players in so many genres, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra which has been on the short list of best in the world for many decades. But Blues and Jazz is what we are rightfully known for, almost to where who isn't from Chicago? Actually several, but Chicago has made serious contributions. And any kind of ethnic music under the sun, as Chicago is the melting pot to end all melting pots, in many ways the greatest example, good and very bad, of the great American experiment of can all people live together and prosper? Chicago clearly says yes with the usual allowances for thuggery and the last word in under handed politics, coupled with a state that has turned out 2 guys named Lincoln and Obama. But to the music, I know Chicago has turned out famous rock musicians as well, trouble is, for the most part I don't like them much, so will not include them, sorry Styx, Chicago, Smashing Pumpkins, Urge Overkill, none for me, thanks. A separate thread could be constructed for the miracle that is Missisippi, regularly at or near the top for the USA'a most impoverished state, but have you ever looked at the roster of musicians and writers who came from that state? Amongst them some guy named Elvis from Tupelo. I mention Missisippi because that is where my first entry was born, but his name was made in Chicago. His name was McKinley Morganfield, aka Muddy Waters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuaG6j8cDYsI don't even know where to start with Chicago's jazz history. One thing that is wild is how many of the great tenor sax players came through one high school (Du Sable, the black explorer who discovered Chicago for the world) under the tutelage of the Vince Lombardi (hard ass American football coach for whom the Super Bowl trophy is named) of music teachers, Captain Walter Dyatt. Amongst the legends who came through his program include jazz tenor giants Gene Ammons, master of the ballad form when he wasn't kicking ass on the corner, John Gilmore, (main soloist in Sun Ra's Arkestra for decades and a major influence on Coltrane) as well as Pat Patrick another charter member of the Arkestra, a few legendary singers, Nat King Cole ,Dinah Washington and Johnny Hartman, top jazz bassists Richard Davis and Fred Hopkins, and others, the list is getting too long. I will choose a You Tube video of the recently passed "Little Giant", Johnny Griffin, clearly one of Dyett's star pupils, and one from the flagshipof what must be the most eclectic musical collective in the world, since 65, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicianship, aka the AACM, with the Art Ensemble of Chicago www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUYUcLRud50www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKh1G5sMN9s
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Post by tullistray on Feb 19, 2009 19:10:37 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 20, 2009 2:51:11 GMT
You cannot imagine how many San Francisco residents, on truth serum, would have to admit that the Grateful Dead was their primary motivation for moving to or staying in San Francisco.....all the other great music and artistic legacies aside of this small town ( no really....it's a pretty famous place for a population of 750,000.....big megalopolis Bay Area....but really not a big city in size nor population.....this is and will always be the land of the Grateful Dead....and part of my deep love for this place will always be entangled with my feelings for Jerry and his co-pioneers.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 20, 2009 9:30:13 GMT
....and part of my deep love for this place will always be entangled with my feelings for Jerry and his co-pioneers. ....music and geography...... We can expand this thread a bit to include fav music and a link to a place? and vice versa.....nostalgic/comic/bad memory .........
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 20, 2009 23:26:38 GMT
Thank you Tullistray and Maddog for the posts above - I have earmarked sometime this weekend to sit and listen ;D They look awesome AND the sax ones too Tullistray and Stormonkey - this Forum is just getting better and better Ps what is that annoying thing utube is putting on the top right hand of the vids !!!! I don't want to f****** download ( put a Billy Connolly accent to that and you'll hear me )
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Post by jioffe on Feb 21, 2009 17:45:27 GMT
Ps what is that annoying thing utube is putting on the top right hand of the vids !!!! I don't want to f****** download ( put a Billy Connolly accent to that and you'll hear me ) If you're getting a 'Download this video' tab, it's not from YouTube. You must have downloaded or upgraded Real Player. Actually it's a pretty useful facility, to be able to download stuff from YouTube and elsewhere to watch at leisure in full screen. If you don't want it, you can switch it off in the Real Player options. It's should still be available as an option on the right-click menu. Cheers, Jioffe.
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Post by rebecca on Feb 21, 2009 19:44:08 GMT
I've come to realize the value of this, since anything can be yanked with no notice. What do you use, Jioffe? I've got "youtube downloader" but it doesn't seem to do everything. It can come out in an unreadable format.
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Post by jioffe on Feb 22, 2009 15:45:11 GMT
I've come to realize the value of this, since anything can be yanked with no notice. What do you use, Jioffe? I've got "youtube downloader" but it doesn't seem to do everything. It can come out in an unreadable format. I agree. I saved my precious Cholmondley-Warner clips to my YouTube favourites and when I went back a few weeks later, about 3 or 4 of them were tagged 'No longer available', so I quickly downloaded the rest. This is the program I was referring to. Read the comments first, as they may put you off but, having said that, I haven't experienced any problems with it and tend to agree with the editor's review, rather than the users' comments: www.download.com/RealPlayer/3000-2646_4-10073040.html?tag=mncol;popCheers, Jioffe.
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Post by broadsword on Feb 22, 2009 19:38:25 GMT
Here's one for Canada, a country I've flown over and round several times. I'll try and get the pilot to land there next time i39.images obliterated by tinypic/2jcavlz.jpg[/IMG] i39.images obliterated by tinypic/2jcavlz.jpg[/IMG] i39.images obliterated by tinypic/2jcavlz.jpg[/IMG] i39.images obliterated by tinypic/2jcavlz.jpg[/IMG] i39.images obliterated by tinypic/2jcavlz.jpg[/IMG] i39.images obliterated by tinypic/2jcavlz.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 22, 2009 20:03:06 GMT
Ps what is that annoying thing utube is putting on the top right hand of the vids !!!! I don't want to f****** download ( put a Billy Connolly accent to that and you'll hear me ) If you're getting a 'Download this video' tab, it's not from YouTube. You must have downloaded or upgraded Real Player. Actually it's a pretty useful facility, to be able to download stuff from YouTube and elsewhere to watch at leisure in full screen. If you don't want it, you can switch it off in the Real Player options. It's should still be available as an option on the right-click menu. Cheers, Jioffe. Yes thanks Joiffe - your right ! I messed about with Realplayer and left it at that Sorry utube.. Thats a good idea about downloading utube vids for safe keeping. I was about to download a vid my son sent me of Neil Young busking in Glasgow aka 1976, I kept this in my email but now it's been deleted.... Damnation So question .. is there any way I could have downloaded that and kept it despite the fact it has been deleted ? Thanks Patti Ps I wouldn't mind seeing the Cholmondley-Warner vids again ;D ;D
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Post by tullistray on Feb 22, 2009 22:48:55 GMT
Renaissance, with the first song of theirs that I recall to have caught my ear in 73 or 4, Mother Russia, an ode to the Soviet era writer, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, man they got some cool names. In fact I hope we get some Russians, East Europeans on here, Lukas Was, another cool name who I think is from Poland, is the only one I am aware of to this point. Most of those folks can speak some form of our dastardly language, and often have an interesting take on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEP8w2CmyY0
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Post by tullistray on Feb 22, 2009 22:56:38 GMT
Good old Joni with California, though to some extent I believe that of which she sings only exists in part anymore, but parts such as Carmel, the Sierra's, the Redwoods and Sequoias and the Greek Theater in Berkeley are pretty hard to foul up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4foLKDlcE
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Post by tullistray on Feb 22, 2009 23:04:14 GMT
I am pretty sure few places have had as many songs written about it, but there again Ireland merits it. Mary Black, I presume with a couple of her De Dannan buddies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbDuk8l8Jjg
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Post by tullistray on Feb 22, 2009 23:09:35 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q38wBcVdJXM Even though it lacks the video, gotta include this Dick Gaughan delight. As I read the story it seems to involve a Scotsman who goes to Ireland for awhile, and is given a hard time upon return to Auld Reekie, and his invitation to the authority with his beating stick, is aye, ifye be willing to put that down, I'll be willing to show you a game (read beating) we play in Erin Go Bragh.
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