I am Music

[Tzara]

This one evokes a lot of different feelings in me. Like, fr'instance, the Twin Towers in the background about twenty seconds in.

But what I really love about this vid, besides its wonderful dorkiness, is the fact that these guys are like seventeen years old. The drummer is now a New York state Supreme Court Justice, the rhythm guitar player is a Yale professor and world-renowed artist, and the lead guitarist worked for Apple creating QuickTime.

I mean, I was there. Well, not in Brooklyn, of course, and not on the Supreme Court or even working for Apple (geez, I wish), but we all like wanted to play and formed bad, but loud, bands and then went on with our lives.

So, I've been there, sorta.

Vive la naïveté.

 

[Angeline]

This one evokes a lot of different feelings in me. Like, fr'instance, the Twin Towers in the background about twenty seconds in.

But what I really love about this vid, besides its wonderful dorkiness, is the fact that these guys are like seventeen years old. The drummer is now a New York state Supreme Court Justice, the rhythm guitar player is a Yale professor and world-renowed artist, and the lead guitarist worked for Apple creating QuickTime.

I mean, I was there. Well, not in Brooklyn, of course, and not on the Supreme Court or even working for Apple (geez, I wish), but we all like wanted to play and formed bad, but loud, bands and then went on with our lives.

So, I've been there, sorta.

Vive la naïveté.

Indeed. I can't think of any video I see with the Twin Towers that doesn't make me stop and think something like vive la naïveté myself.

I've got R.E.M. music in my head, specifically Exhuming McCarthy with that sooo sexy bass line.

I hear the new R.E.M. is very good. Here's a tiny sample. Sounds good. Think I may have to acquire this very soon.

Mr. Eyez looks so much like Mr. Stipe they could be brothers!

 

[Tzara]

I've got R.E.M. music in my head, specifically Exhuming McCarthy with that sooo sexy bass line.

Hmmm. Now I have R.E.M. in my head, though it may be 'cuz of Kate Pierson. (swoon)

Yes, yes. You can sing the chorus for me with the words shallow, shallow.



Hey, Michael. Ditch the hat. Makes you look like Huntz Hall. Not a good look, bud.

 

[Angeline]

Hmmm. Now I have R.E.M. in my head, though it may be 'cuz of Kate Pierson. (swoon)

Yes, yes. You can sing the chorus for me with the words shallow, shallow.



Hey, Michael. Ditch the hat. Makes you look like Huntz Hall. Not a good look, bud.

We just got the new cd, Accelerate, today. It's great. Get it.

 

[Anschul]

Indeed. I can't think of any video I see with the Twin Towers that doesn't make me stop and think something like vive la naïveté myself.

Hi,
I guess you saw my sonnet about the twin towers? I was just there a couple of weeks ago for the first time since the thing. Having lived in NY once, it was really shocking to me to see them not there. I guess my brain still saw them. Had to write something.

Two giants looming present although gone,
Cast shadows longer than their shadows were.
They darken the horizon at the dawn
In our minds. One looks, still expecting there
To see the columns reaching to the sky
Above the bleak surrounding cityscape.
Still a collective emotional high
Grips our consciousness. We watch the tape
Again, again, yet trying to make sense
Of what was done. The images remain
Stamped in our mind's eye. Voices make us tense
And turn; we hear a strange mystic refrain,
The lost beg visitors: "Please don't forget
The price we paid." Their absence is our debt.

A

 

[Angeline]

Hi,
I guess you saw my sonnet about the twin towers? I was just there a couple of weeks ago for the first time since the thing. Having lived in NY once, it was really shocking to me to see them not there. I guess my brain still saw them. Had to write something.

Two giants looming present although gone,
Cast shadows longer than their shadows were.
They darken the horizon at the dawn
In our minds. One looks, still expecting there
To see the columns reaching to the sky
Above the bleak surrounding cityscape.
Still a collective emotional high
Grips our consciousness. We watch the tape
Again, again, yet trying to make sense
Of what was done. The images remain
Stamped in our mind's eye. Voices make us tense
And turn; we hear a strange mystic refrain,
The lost beg visitors: "Please don't forget
The price we paid." Their absence is our debt.

A

My daughter was in third grade on 9/11/01. One of her classmates is the daughter of the pilot of the first plane that hit the towers. That day is a horrific memory for me, even though I lived about 60 miles away at the time. I was driving to work when the story came over the radio news, and when I got to my office no one believed it at first. We had a little tv in the office and we hooked it up and watched the news get worse and worse. I tried to call my kids' school and couldn't get through. It was very frightening. I left work and drove there (normally a 45 minute commute) in about half the time, and arrived to total confusion at the school--parents milling around, kids not knowing what was going, really chaotic. For about a year afterward, my daughter would cry whenever we heard a plane over our house because she was afraid it would crash. Yes, I have a few poems about it too....

 

[tungtied2u]

Birds of a feather

Joan Jett

The Beatles

The Crying Game

Ian, Mick and Bowie

Melissa E

Sir Elt

Love is too precious to waste...no matter the person...the persuasion...

 

[tungtied2u]

I love Annie Lennox

Many Rivers

 

[Tzara]

I was working on a poem that used Pavement as a metaphor. No, not the band. No, you can't see the poem.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

Fun with Boba Fett

For you Star Wars Geeks. (You know who you are.)

If you are like me, you're going to catch yourself chanting,
"My backpack's got jet . . . I'm Boba, I'm Fett."

 

[Tzara]

I'm not quite sure what to say about this, other than the pianist must have had his corpus callosum severed, so he can do the two independent tempi and keep the whole goddam thing straight.

Just an amazing piece of musicianship. The piece is Steve Reich's Piano Phase.

Do not attempt this at home.

 

[tungtied2u]

From my old San Francisco days....

You Got It

Fujiyama Mama

and a sad bit of history behind it....

(drop down the more info note on the right hand side)

 

[Anschul]

I, too, am music.

I just have to add my two cents.
This is, to me, the most meaningful--and my favorite--rock and roll song of all, and the treatment is astounding.

It is my favorite rock and roll band, and one of the few ever with a conscience.
This is important music, and I challenge you to (A) find the message, and (B) do something.

Pink Floyd:

On the Turning Away

On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we wont understand,
Don't accept that whats happening
Is just a case of others suffering,
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away.

Its a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow,
And casting its shroud
Over all we have known.
Unaware how the ranks have grown,
Driven on by a heart of stone,
We could find that were all alone
In the dream of the proud.

On the wings of the night,
As the daytime is stirring,
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord,
Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerized as they light the flame,
Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night.

No more turning away
From the weak and the weary,
No more turning away
From the coldness inside,
Just a world that we all must share,
Its not enough just to stand and stare,
Is it only a dream that there'll be
No more turning away?

On the Turning Away



Anschul

 

[bluerains]

I think the message in the song was don't drop out,,,,drop in and shower the people

James Taylor
You can play the game and you can act out the part
Though you know it wasn't written for you
But tell me, how can you stand there with your broken heart
Ashamed of playing the fool
One thing can lead to another; it doesn't take any sacrifice
Oh, father and mother,and sister and brother
if it feels nice, don't think twice (yes)

Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be just fine if you only will(do as i say, yeah)
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will

You can run but you cannot hide
This is widely known
And what you plan to do with your foolish pride
When you're all by yourself alone
Once you tell somebody the way that you feel
You can feel it beginning to ease
I think it's true what they say about the squeaky wheel
Always getting the grease.

Better to shower the people you love with love
(Yes and) show them the way that you feel
(I know) Things are gonna be just fine if you only will
(what i'd like to do to you)
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will

Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel

They say in every life
They say the rain must fall
Just like the pouring rain
Make it rain
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine oh
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine yeah
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody


QUOTE=Anschul;26875359]I, too, am music.

I just have to add my two cents.
This is, to me, the most meaningful--and my favorite--rock and roll song of all, and the treatment is astounding.

It is my favorite rock and roll band, and one of the few ever with a conscience.
This is important music, and I challenge you to (A) find the message, and (B) do something.

Pink Floyd:

On the Turning Away

On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we wont understand,
Don't accept that whats happening
Is just a case of others suffering,
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away.

Its a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow,
And casting its shroud
Over all we have known.
Unaware how the ranks have grown,
Driven on by a heart of stone,
We could find that were all alone
In the dream of the proud.

On the wings of the night,
As the daytime is stirring,
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord,
Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerized as they light the flame,
Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night.

No more turning away
From the weak and the weary,
No more turning away
From the coldness inside,
Just a world that we all must share,
Its not enough just to stand and stare,
Is it only a dream that there'll be
No more turning away?

On the Turning Away


shower the people
but, maybe those who have killed should
[
newworld

 

[bluerains]

qp

this I leave you in peace
secretofmapsguy

 

[Guest]

...........

 

[Tzara]

The Raconteurs. Yes, that is a cow.

Where the hell does Jack find these guitars?

 

[sassynyc]

Music

the first song that pops into my head when i see this thread is "music" by Erick Sermon. it features a sweet sample of Marvin Gaye crooning his heart out on the hook. Marvin even has a posthumous cameo in the video.

 

[bluerains]

I am a rock...S & G

love the images in the video..caught my mind singing this tune this morning ....
saysitall

 

[tungtied2u]

Blues Evolution 1- Death Letter

OK- for you blues and rock n'roll lovers....

Son House

to

White Stripes

Please- feel free to show your roots....

 

[tungtied2u]

Blues Evolution 2- I Just Want to Make LoveTo You

Muddy Waters

to

Foghat

 

[tungtied2u]

Blues Evolution 3- Back Door Man

Willie Dixon

to, of course

The Doors

 

[Anschul]

The Raconteurs. Yes, that is a cow.

Where the hell does Jack find these guitars?

I'm not sure, but I think that Jack's guitar in that clip was a vintage Silvertone, known for its resonance after the strum. Silvertones were very popular with the California surfer bands in the sixties (usually used by a rhythm player--the lead players in surfer bands almost ALWAYS played Fender Strats). But the Silvertones had a very distinctive sound, one that really defined the surfer music of the period.

 

[bluerains]

omg...

yes

can it get any better....

 

[swallowedscream]

~

Although I am a music freak, it's always gimme more,don't stop, ever!There are three songs that tend to be in my head at any given moment (alternating of course, well,most of the time heh) and this has gone on for years now.


I love the Violent Femmes, when people see me walkin with a beat,it is generally one of these two songs putting the strut in my All Stars...(sorry for the horrible vids, I picked the ones that had the best audio quality)

Kiss Off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fGrZskQCII&feature=related


I take one one one 'cause you left me
And two two two for my family
And 3 3 3 for my heartache
And 4 4 4 for my headaches
And 5 5 5 for my lonely
And 6 6 6 for my sorrow
And 7 7 7 for no tomorrow
And 8 8 8 I forget what 8 was for
And 9 9 9 for a lost god
And 10 10 10 for everything everything everything everything




Add It Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDcY6CjdtuM&feature=related

Words to memorize
Words hypnotize
Words make my mouth exercise
Words all fail the magic prize
Nothin' I can say when
I'm in your thighs


The third would be from the oh so kick ass, Nina Simone. It almost always pops into my head in the first spring days when the everything is coming back to life...


Feeling Good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJA69C6SlRk

Birds flyin' high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel
Its a new dawn, its a new day, its a new life for me