A couple of mellow selections from Big Country - including their bluegrass interpretation of a Springsteen classic - to ease into the weekend. Whatever you're doing over the next few days my SKMB friends, be cool and be safe.
What artist/song are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
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Melissa Etheridge. I love her smoky, gritty voice.
I gotta disagree abut that. Dave has always been a supporter of punk / hardcore. He came from that scene in D.C. (Bad Brains, Scream, Fugazi, etc..). He was also championing Kyuss (which evolved into QOTSA) at that time. Tom Petty also approached Dave to play drums in the Heartbreakers after Cobain offed himself. To me, Dave always seemed to be pretty open-minded, musically.
Those comments about EVH sound more Cobain than Grohl. I can't see Eddie even approaching Nirvana to jam, considering Sammy had to convince Eddie to take out Alice in Chains as an opener on the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge tour. Eddie always has been a snob when it comes to punk alternative music. He never had anything good to say about it.
I have nothing but respect for Dave Grohl.
Makes sense as Lee Ving was the singer for Fear.
I love Dave Grohl and Eddie Van Halen is a classless diva.
All I know, is along with that article, Dave Grohl's support for metal and any old school alternative (Kyuss was a 90's band, firmly in the Nirvana era-zone) didn't show up in any meaningful way until well after the 90's was done and the music scene once became more open to different kinds of music besides corporate 'alternative'. Sammy had a song called The Two Sides of Love, and I have always seen the two sides of Eddie, because he did say, again in an article in Guitar World that he actually liked Alice in Chains, so Sammy must not have had to twist his arm too hard, .... he always seemed a bit bi-polar I suppose.
And that's cool that Fear lives on in a new incarnation, after a fashion.
And that's cool that Fear lives on in a new incarnation, after a fashion.
Getting my hair cut and I heard Lean On Me, Bill Withers. Great blast from the past, made me think of my vinyl 45's when I was young. Wish I still had them!
A tune from U2 when they didn't suck a**!
Extra bonus points for it being used on Miami Vice. The first 3 seasons of Miami Vice were pretty kick a**! Great music and a string of impressive guest stars.
From when Boston had a vibrant, diverse, strong local music scene. Miss those days
Miss them too. The thread might die if I share what I was just listening to (Native American Flute and Sounds of Nature). Give me a few
From when Boston had a vibrant, diverse, strong local music scene. Miss those days
Here! This is the most logical follow up to Judas Priest! Actually it is what occurred to me to play.
I'm not listening, just thinking. There have been any number of America's troubadours, Woodie Guthrie, Pete Seeger, John Denver, Dan Fogelberg. But for all the grief that he takes for being saccharine and simplistic, John Denver (okay, Deutschendorf or whatever) had wonderful poetic craft to his music, and I lately, I've been humming these things, in reminiscence, from the larger song that he wrote:
Talk of poems and prayers and promises and things that we believe in.
How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care.
How long it's been since yesterday - what about tomorrow?
And what about our dreams and all the memories we share?
Talk of poems and prayers and promises and things that we believe in.
How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care.
How long it's been since yesterday - what about tomorrow?
And what about our dreams and all the memories we share?
You tapped into a rich vein with that beautiful reflection.
I'll give you that and offer one I've been replaying.I've been thinking of this one quite a bit lately (again)
At the risk of redundancy- the next answers many questions, at least for me. Yes, it is a Yeats poem; therein lies a plethora of potential (answers).
Thank you. And as a father and a son, when I hear Dan Fogelberg sing, "And Papa, I don't think I said I love you near enough," it's enough to start at least a trickle of waterworks. Maybe just a trickle. But it's still there.
I read that in a Fogelberg concert, his father was in the audience when he sang that. Well... that just made it worse.
Back to John Denver. I loved his lyrics, mostly, but his piece that most impressed me was "Calypso." It was heartfelt, great lyrics, and in a sea shanty style that captured it perfectly, composed on the deck of the actual Calypso - and he donated all profits to Couseau's Calypso endeavors. He walked the walk, before it was popular.
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