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Post by tullistray on Feb 22, 2009 23:32:44 GMT
A couple about the United States, first from Paul Simon. Never been much a fan, but very much love this song, gets me choked up even, that reference to uncertain hours, thinking of all the willing young soldiers who have fought and died, in some cases to return to a country where they were not allowed to go to the washroom, and certainly my Father and Uncle and Normandy,Battle of the Bulge and interment camps, and a current friend after 2 Iraq tours, willingly dumping his job, a good one, and his just purchased condo, to answer the call for Afghanistan, regardless of whether he supports the notion, it is what five generations of his family have done, they don't much ask why, actual heros who would slap you for saying as much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE3kKUEY5WUGil Scott Heron, Winter in America, with footage to make you sick to your core. Cannot help but wish we put as much aid to this in many ways most American city as we do to banks and brokerages and from what appear from this vantage point to be highly overpriveleged pigs at the trough. How our country has avoided a race war will always be a miracle to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRD6DsZ8IC0
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 23, 2009 9:57:39 GMT
A couple about the United States, first from Paul Simon. Never been much a fan, but very much love this song, gets me choked up even, that reference to uncertain hours, thinking of all the willing young soldiers who have fought and died, in some cases to return to a country where they were not allowed to go to the washroom, and certainly my Father and Uncle and Normandy,Battle of the Bulge and interment camps, and a current friend after 2 Iraq tours, willingly dumping his job, a good one, and his just purchased condo, to answer the call for Afghanistan, regardless of whether he supports the notion, it is what five generations of his family have done, they don't much ask why, actual heros who would slap you for saying as much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE3kKUEY5WUOne of my favourite PS songs - thanks for posting. I remember when the ". . . Rhymin' Simon" album was issued in this country I fell in love with the song. Co-produced by Paul Samwell-Smith and recorded in the UK and it always, for me at least, had a very English feel to it. PS-S was the bass player in the original lineup of the Yardbirds and went on to produce a lot of artists including a producers credit on Broadsword. It's a small world
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 23, 2009 13:02:21 GMT
Gil Scott Heron, Winter in America, with footage to make you sick to your core. Cannot help but wish we put as much aid to this in many ways most American city as we do to banks and brokerages and from what appear from this vantage point to be highly overpriveleged pigs at the trough. How our country has avoided a race war will always be a miracle to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRD6DsZ8IC0What a powerful video and a great song/singer! Can't help thinking as well Tullistray how we were brought up in the UK watching American TV/films that always potrayed America with rich families, large houses and a white picket fence. Didn't get to see that side at all! Wonder why? Come to think about it what happened to all those gritty British documentaries that focused on poverty and injustice here too ?
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 23, 2009 13:10:51 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 She has some voice hasn't she?and she sings that song with so much passion! Great posting.....you've posted so many great ones recently - I'll just stop telling you There have been so many songs written and sung about Ireland and Scotland over the years and I think it's a lot to do with the amount of them who left the old countries over the generations. The diaspora - 'the scattering of seeds' The memories of the land they left. Or to put it another way ... " I love Ireland, I love Scotland" "Oh, where do you live then? " "England" ;D ;D
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Post by tullistray on Feb 23, 2009 15:03:27 GMT
While there are about 10000 songs that at one time or another have been my favorite, this is certainly one of them from the doomed Steve Goodman, dead from tuberculosis within a couple years. While set in Rottedam and named the Dutchman, it is a universal message of a woman who continues to love her now addle brained husband. Tempted to include A Dying Cubs Fan Last Request, but the message would be lost on non Americans, a song that is an ode to Chicago's most beloved sports team, now more than 100 years removed from their last championship. This season's tickets went on sale this week, per usual, the park is completely sold out for the season in TEN MINUTES! www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5zvCPVAn9U
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 23, 2009 15:26:46 GMT
What a f****** brilliant voice, maybe the sentiments of the Cubs song might be lost on us but for the likes of me who has never really heard his music I could take lots more of it !! This song/ performance/ (audience) reminds me of my youth, the sheer rawness of some of the acts, lack of sophisticated equipment and the incredible talent and passion that was played and appreciated, regardless whether you agree with the sentiments or not.
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Post by tullistray on Feb 23, 2009 15:27:47 GMT
Surely Tunisia should get a mention UP n here. And if not Tunisia, than certainly as strong a musical aggregation as America has produced, Art Blakey and the Jazzmessengers, right there in the mix with the Grateful Dead, Miles Davis Quintet, John Coltrane Quartet and Duke Ellington Orchestra as our proudest musical export, with near misses from the Sun Ra Arkestra and Art Ensemble of Chicago, strictly from my perspective, I notice it does havea jazz slant, but, there again a music that Art Blakey himself would often cite as America's only true, self grown export, jazz music. While composed by Dizzy Gillespie on a garbage can lid in an alley in Havana, sitting right by his side was Art Blakey. The amount of talent that passed thru the Jazzmessengers is staggering, trumpet players beginning with Clifford Brown on thru to the eighties with the Marsalis brothers Wynton and Branford, and then Terrence Blanchard who is the guy you hear playing at the beginning of the "X" movie, the part with the burning X, and passing trumpet players on the way in the life of this band like Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, and my personal favorite, the guy playing here, Lee Morgan, (who met his demise in the latesixties atthe end of a gun wielded by his wife) with a very young Wayne Shorter on tenor, about 2 years before Miles called for him. One of the great recent jazz reads is Branford Marsalis' book about this extraordinary institution called "Hard Bop Academy." www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_v7mUGoKDcPS In my list up there I managed to forget who I consider our main musical export, though he got ricoheted back to us via the UK, James Marshall Hendrix.
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Post by tullistray on Feb 23, 2009 15:55:22 GMT
Another one for Cali, Dave Alvin's classic King of California, followed by his take on American music, with his kick ass band, the Guilty Men. Only found out about Dave about 10 years ago, and he is my main musical find in that time. Along with Neil Young, RT, Hot Tuna and Tull I consider Alvin and his band to be the best live show from old guys available in 2009, want to include FC or Steeleye or Ratdog, one slim tick in back. I recall the first time I saw Alvin, it struck me that this must be what it was like to see the Who at the Marquee Club, you come out deeply believing in the spirit of rock and roll. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUMPgnsgL68www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZNQJWalfAA www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BtzpaCZnjA Got to include this one too, as it is a professional recoding unlike the other 2, and it certainly concerns the USA in content
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Post by jioffe on Feb 23, 2009 18:36:02 GMT
Ps I wouldn't mind seeing the Cholmondley-Warner vids again ;D ;D Here's a couple to be getting on with, then: Cheers, Jioffe.
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 24, 2009 13:15:47 GMT
Ps I wouldn't mind seeing the Cholmondley-Warner vids again ;D ;D Here's a couple to be getting on with, then: Cheers, Jioffe. GREAT STUFF thanks Joiffe !! "...the activity involved in the successful execution of one's conjugal rights in order to produce orfspring...." "Has the train arrived in Paddington yet?" See Jeff we Brits are masters/(mistresses!) of avoiding any frightful talk of a procreational nature.
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Post by admin on Feb 25, 2009 11:04:28 GMT
G'day sport's we haven't been down under yet! The best, and possibly only prog band in Australia - Unitopia (seriously they are excellent. The double CD The Garden is awesome, check 'em out!!!) This Life promo And a little taster of one of Unitopia's longer and more complex pieces, The Garden And I can't do a post from OZ without including the king of Australia!..... Heresy? Maybe? But at least Page & Plant got thier own back!!
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Post by rebecca on Feb 26, 2009 0:11:21 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. Haven't been able to look at it yet, but thanks, buddy! How's the football?
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Post by rebecca on Feb 26, 2009 0:15:31 GMT
"...the activity involved in the successful execution of one's conjugal rights in order to produce orfspring...." "Has the train arrived in Paddington yet?" See Jeff we Brits are masters/(mistresses!) of avoiding any frightful talk of a procreational nature. And I work (and worked 20 years) in a place where huge hunks of the day are spent in people reading sex scenes to another. Can't say it ever becomes old hat, but it becomes very comfortable. In fact, I had sex three times just today, twice with Erin and again with Roy!
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Post by broadsword on Feb 27, 2009 22:17:00 GMT
Combination of UK/US personnel - John Mayall, The Bluesbreakers and others, blues at their best i27.images obliterated by tinypic/98x4s4.jpg[/IMG] i30.images obliterated by tinypic/103bls1.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by broadsword on May 15, 2009 22:24:56 GMT
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Post by tullistray on Jun 21, 2009 19:55:39 GMT
The Sea is our point of reference today Non Rabbit. Excellent. A chance to foist my tired and predictable musical beliefs on the class. Firstly a song by that very title from Fotheringay with Gerry Conway on drums, priceless vocals by Sandy Denny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gchJNflLoI And Fairport Convention has often scored big in this category, two of my favorites are these, the Wounded Whale, (composed the same time as Whalers Dues, wonder a tiny bit if their was any cross polinization going on) and Honour and Praise. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPETE0ggvL0www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bQXZeksEhEAnd P.S. Non Rabbit, re the Coke ad maybe they had the right idea? Would you please look how delighted both Mother and Child appear to be? Pinch that kids cheeks while the pinchins good.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 21, 2009 22:33:47 GMT
i41.images obliterated by tinypic/124fxnq.jpg[/IMG] Beautiful choices Tullistray!! Pat on the back all round if I say so myself those sea shanties started the theme and your choices were the icing on the cake. Sandy Denny The Sea and then Fairport - sublime!
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Post by tullistray on Jun 22, 2009 3:03:12 GMT
OK that silver kilt guy is unnerving me a little bit, better have another mcbong bong. Well I appear to have gotten away with those other 3 I posted, possibly not for the first time since I love all 3 so well, and since the subject is the sea, here is Fairport Convention's likely penultimate moment in the genre, as well as the moment when they changed from a kind of USA west coast influenced band, to a band that in the 41 years since has always to some extent explored their English roots, a similar change in sound as between This Was and Stand Up. To Fairport fans this is not really pointed as they will have heard it many times, but if you have not heard it, it is a golden gem, A Sailors Life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpF0MoyS0cwww.youtube.com/watch?v=OUcJEgyzTJs
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 22, 2009 7:58:28 GMT
The Sea is our point of reference today Non Rabbit. Excellent. A chance to foist my tired and predictable musical beliefs on the class. Firstly a song by that very title from Fotheringay with Gerry Conway on drums, priceless vocals by Sandy Denny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gchJNflLoI And Fairport Convention has often scored big in this category, two of my favorites are these, the Wounded Whale, (composed the same time as Whalers Dues, wonder a tiny bit if their was any cross polinization going on) and Honour and Praise. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPETE0ggvL0www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bQXZeksEhEAnd P.S. Non Rabbit, re the Coke ad maybe they had the right idea? Would you please look how delighted both Mother and Child appear to be? Pinch that kids cheeks while the pinchins good. I went to see Fairport at the time of The Wounded Whale (1990?) at the Beck Theatre in Hayes, Middlesex. They used a backing track to augument the live stage playing and they got out of sync and had to stop and start again to much amusement from the audience. Somewhere I have a tape of it
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 22, 2009 8:24:50 GMT
I love sea shanties ( doesn't everyone) ;D ;D Many years ago I was in a folk group called Garden Party and we were one of the resident bands at the Croydon Folksong Club. Also in the band were Mick Longhurst and Dave Greenough and over the years we lost touch after the band split up in 1972. Years later, when I moved to Cornwall, and by a series of coincidences, we met up again. It turned out that Mick lived in Callington which is only 10 miles down the road from us here in Launceston and I learnt that they still perform sea shanties in a group called Hanging Johnny Their web site is hj.englishfolkmusic.com/Mick is holding the mic and Dave is playing guitar. Oh the stories I could tell about our antics of our youth, mainly to do with copious amount of beer and singing shanties when we were in Garden Party. OK, one story . We were playing at a folk festival in Goudhurst in Kent and we were walking back from the stage to the performer's accomodation and Mick was walking beside me when he disappeared. He'd actually fallen down into a cess pit and spent the next couple of hours, in an extremely drunken state, trying to clean himself up and washing his clothes so as not to stink of human ordure Health & Safety considerations were not on the aggenda back then ;D
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 22, 2009 9:05:06 GMT
I love sea shanties ( doesn't everyone) ;D ;D Many years ago I was in a folk group called Garden Party and we were one of the resident bands at the Croydon Folksong Club. Also in the band were Mick Longhurst and Dave Greenough and over the years we lost touch after the band split up in 1972. Years later, when I moved to Cornwall, and by a series of coincidences, we met up again. It turned out that Mick lived in Callington which is only 10 miles down the road from us here in Launceston and I learnt that they still perform sea shanties in a group called Hanging Johnny Their web site is hj.englishfolkmusic.com/Mick is holding the mic and Dave is playing guitar. Oh the stories I could tell about our antics of our youth, mainly to do with copious amount of beer and singing shanties when we were in Garden Party. OK, one story . We were playing at a folk festival in Goudhurst in Kent and we were walking back from the stage to the performer's accomodation and Mick was walking beside me when he disappeared. He'd actually fallen down into a cess pit and spent the next couple of hours, in an extremely drunken state, trying to clean himself up and washing his clothes so as not to stink of human ordure Health & Safety considerations were not on the aggenda back then ;D What a great picture Bloody 'ell Mick was lucky !! what a sight (and smell) that must have been !! You know (on research - shanties not cesspits) it struck me as quite amazing how music is so part of the human psyche. Sea shanties or work songs were the human response to repetitive physical labour as sung through the ages by sailors, farm workers and slaves in the plantations. I've done it when I worked long hours (although not as harsh as the above) on a repetitive job once and it sort of happens naturally without thinking. I'm sure it also helped my co-worker get through the long hours too ;D ;D
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 22, 2009 22:44:26 GMT
since the subject is the sea, here is Fairport Convention's likely penultimate moment in the genre, as well as the moment when they changed from a kind of USA west coast influenced band, to a band that in the 41 years since has always to some extent explored their English roots, a similar change in sound as between This Was and Stand Up. To Fairport fans this is not really pointed as they will have heard it many times, but if you have not heard it, it is a golden gem, A Sailors Life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpF0MoyS0cwww.youtube.com/watch?v=OUcJEgyzTJs Absolutely stunning!! Night all and Sweet Dreams
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 25, 2009 9:27:29 GMT
FINLANDi35.images obliterated by tinypic/es2gew.gif[/IMG] i38.images obliterated by tinypic/r888ra.jpg[/IMG] i38.images obliterated by tinypic/ycjs4.jpg[/IMG] continuing all things Nordic Interview around 1974 with Finnish TV - I hope Finnish folk/rock band Korpiklaani and video! love the props! The band have been influenced by Tull and in particular the bass player,quote, by Glascock.
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Post by admin on Sept 25, 2009 21:09:21 GMT
Bit of a culture mix here, but one that pushes all the right buttons for me! Manooghi Hi: Seattle rock band + Mehnaz Indian pop star & Bollywood actress =
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 26, 2009 14:10:19 GMT
Bit of a culture mix here, but one that pushes all the right buttons for me! Manooghi Hi: Seattle rock band + Mehnaz Indian pop star & Bollywood actress = That was good I like the fusion if thats the right word. Her voice sounded at first a bit like Eivør Pálsdóttir but with an Indian mix. It worked really well. I take it you were too busy concentrating on the music to see the stage outfits Ps Great name for a town - Bumbershoot
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Post by admin on Oct 6, 2009 9:01:40 GMT
I take it you were too busy concentrating on the music to see the stage outfits Of course not, I couldn't help but get distracted by the fact that the keyboard player has great trousers on in the Kismet clip, gotta get myself a pair of those!
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 13, 2010 23:52:52 GMT
ARMENIA i39.images obliterated by tinypic/24g7hw8.gif[/IMG] i44.images obliterated by tinypic/2vmbmdd.jpg[/IMG] How cool is that? I'd get a bit of sight-seeing in if I was them DOGMA featuring the support act for the concert -Zara the vocalist. edited Daduk - "The duduk is a traditional woodwind instrument of Armenian origins" beautiful sound Isabel Bayrakdarian - Armenian/Canadian opera singer beautiful voice in LOTR Ian Anderson interview Armenia
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Post by tullist on Mar 14, 2010 5:17:58 GMT
Hi, just popping in to say hello, formerly known as tullistray on this board. After having a man who I had had a nasty online disagreement here six months show himself to be a better man than me, that we know as Tommie, I have decided to end my self imposed exile. Hello to those I know here, at risk of forgetting anyone may I merely say u all know who u are. Re the above video while not precisely my cup of tea, I must say if this is what metal has come to these days, I might need to re open my ears to a genre I have long held to be without merit. Their musicianship and level of attack is of deep merit, very much the superior of other hard rockers i have seen open for tull in the seventies and eighties the last one being it bites who simply did not register with me whatsoever. I have always been in favor of high quality opening acts as I feel it challenges the headliners, of course i believe a deeply aged tull is more than up to the challenge. Yeah i saw those videos too, simply feel that the day ian anderson feels he is embarrassing himself or the bands revered name is the day it will be dry docked for good. Could that day be at hand? I dunno, maybe, but i still remain resolutely confident in his stewardship, wish i could say the same for myself! hope everyone has seen those recent wiltern videos, i would have to say they are frequently dancing very close to being utterly brilliant, and coupled with the gdead guys red rocks videos from a year and a half ago, and the switzerland dvd, shows a tull very capable of providing a brilliant nights entertainment, and i believe at the very least it might be getting towards the time to submit a thank you and we love you statement to tull and specifically ian anderson, it would so gladden my heart to see a response such as i saw for brick in 72, a five minute standing ovation that seemed it would not end, wave after wave, an ovation of this caliber simply for services rendered. well and truly i can say i love u ian anderson, u have been a rock of a singular vision that cannot be dissuaded, will always be grateful for your mission to excellence in all facets of life. see ya later everybody
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 18, 2010 9:21:56 GMT
Update on the Cornish shanty singers mentioned further up the thread (coast) They are getting a record deal and appearing at Glastonbury. Here they are in beautiful glorious God I miss it Cornwall news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8572962.stm
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 11, 2010 0:12:03 GMT
going on from Col's earthy post CELTIC FESTIVALSi43.images obliterated by tinypic/33c6hzc.jpg[/IMG] ;D ;D ;D It's funny the traditional celtic festivals that occur in UK/Ireland that you don't really know much about unless you live in that part of the country or got to Glasto There's many a wild and weird one up and down the land and at this time of year it's generally to do with fertility. Maddog has a fair few in Cornwall - the Obby Oss in Padstow where I believe the obby oss goes down the street looking for virgins. ;D i42.images obliterated by tinypic/eitmxl.jpg[/IMG] Strangest one I've ever seen is the one that happens here in Fermanagh - the Mummers. I know some people who are in it and they don't seem to know what it's all about either ;D I had a visit one evening from them and it's weird and very "kitchen prose and gutter rhymes" (see 2.05)
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