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Post by lizardonarock on Feb 3, 2024 20:59:18 GMT -5
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Post by lizardonarock on Feb 3, 2024 21:01:34 GMT -5
Gives the words a whole new meaning with the right background story.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 3, 2024 21:20:15 GMT -5
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Post by trailboss on Feb 3, 2024 22:22:35 GMT -5
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Post by lizardonarock on Feb 3, 2024 22:44:40 GMT -5
That was a fun read Charlie and wow what a price tag for the 16 pages of the original song.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 3, 2024 23:16:02 GMT -5
That was a fun read Charlie and wow what a price tag for the 16 pages of the original song. I heard Don McClean being interviewed many moons ago. The Dejay was really searching on a deeper meaning of the song. “ When you get down to the depths of your soul what does Bye Bye Miss American pie mean to you?” Without batting an eye, Don said “ What that song means is that I will never have to work again” 😎
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Post by urbino on Feb 3, 2024 23:33:57 GMT -5
That was a fun read Charlie and wow what a price tag for the 16 pages of the original song. I heard Don McClean being interviewed many moons ago. The Dejay was really searching on a deeper meaning of the song. “ When you get down to the depths of your soul what does Bye Bye Miss American pie mean to you?” Without batting an eye, Don said “ What that song means is that I will never have to work again” 😎 I was watching a video the other day about "the death of the middle class musician". One of the guys mentioned that back in the 20th century, if you were a gigging musician/session player and played on one hit single or one song on a soundtrack for a big movie, you were basically set. You wouldn't be rich, but you'd never be broke, either. Steady middle class.
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Post by william on Feb 4, 2024 7:06:17 GMT -5
I heard Don McClean being interviewed many moons ago. The Dejay was really searching on a deeper meaning of the song. “ When you get down to the depths of your soul what does Bye Bye Miss American pie mean to you?” Without batting an eye, Don said “ What that song means is that I will never have to work again” 😎 I was watching a video the other day about "the death of the middle class musician". One of the guys mentioned that back in the 20th century, if you were a gigging musician/session player and played on one hit single or one song on a soundtrack for a big movie, you were basically set. You wouldn't be rich, but you'd never be broke, either. Steady middle class. My small experience with all this matches this observation. George Strait (or most probably Jesse Winchester who wrote this tune) seemed to understand. It always struck me as a fairly miserable existence.
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Post by lizardonarock on Feb 4, 2024 10:13:51 GMT -5
Time to wake up.
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Post by lizardonarock on Feb 4, 2024 11:39:36 GMT -5
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Post by urbino on Feb 4, 2024 20:54:44 GMT -5
I heard Don McClean being interviewed many moons ago. The Dejay was really searching on a deeper meaning of the song. “ When you get down to the depths of your soul what does Bye Bye Miss American pie mean to you?” Without batting an eye, Don said “ What that song means is that I will never have to work again” 😎 I was watching a video the other day about "the death of the middle class musician". One of the guys mentioned that back in the 20th century, if you were a gigging musician/session player and played on one hit single or one song on a soundtrack for a big movie, you were basically set. You wouldn't be rich, but you'd never be broke, either. Steady middle class. Guess I left out the punchline there: drum machines, at first, and then streaming ended all that. There are very, very few musicians who can make a living that way and have a "normal" home life, anymore. The money's all in the touring. You gotta go on the road.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 5, 2024 22:01:59 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 5, 2024 22:03:54 GMT -5
I was watching a video the other day about "the death of the middle class musician". One of the guys mentioned that back in the 20th century, if you were a gigging musician/session player and played on one hit single or one song on a soundtrack for a big movie, you were basically set. You wouldn't be rich, but you'd never be broke, either. Steady middle class. Guess I left out the punchline there: drum machines, at first, and then streaming ended all that. There are very, very few musicians who can make a living that way and have a "normal" home life, anymore. The money's all in the touring. You gotta go on the road. No touring musician ever had a "normal home life. Studio musicians can.
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Post by lizardonarock on Feb 6, 2024 9:24:55 GMT -5
When Bono hadn't sold out yet, Enjoy.
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Post by urbino on Feb 6, 2024 21:40:17 GMT -5
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Post by turbocat on Feb 7, 2024 2:27:24 GMT -5
I’m digging deep in my rare vinyl tonight. Listening to an obscure Dallas band from the late ‘80s, Loco Gringos. This was their only album that they self funded the pressing of in 1992, not many copies of this out there. Later music from a band with the same name is something different. Nobody has uploaded it to YouTube and I’m not industrious enough to do it myself, but I did find one song from this album on there.
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Post by turbocat on Feb 7, 2024 3:18:06 GMT -5
It’s a Texas Punk kind of evening. I’ve moved on to the Pocket FishRmen.
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Post by lizardonarock on Feb 7, 2024 13:34:43 GMT -5
The biggest story in the last fifty years.
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Post by william on Feb 7, 2024 17:54:42 GMT -5
Loved her. Too soon gone.....
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Post by urbino on Feb 7, 2024 18:02:35 GMT -5
Loved her. Too soon gone..... People always talk about her voice -- which is understandable -- but to me what she was really remarkable at was arranging and interpreting songs in her own way that really seemed to get to the heart of them. Her version of "Autumn Leaves", for example, completely changed that song for me. It's hard to listen to all those jaunty versions of it (like Cannonball Adderley's famous one) after hearing her get to its deep, deep sense of sadness, loneliness, and loss.
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Post by don on Feb 7, 2024 20:15:23 GMT -5
In the mood to plunder…..,
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 7, 2024 22:12:15 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 7, 2024 22:28:23 GMT -5
How did I never hear of her? I'm sick of discovering these singers until after their gone! I had only been listening to Stevie Ray a few months before he died. Rich Mullen one month. Buddy Holly 6 months.
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Post by turbocat on Feb 7, 2024 22:34:24 GMT -5
I’m continuing today with the Texas Punk/Noise/Dada theme, pulled out all of my Butthole Surfers vinyl. Starting with this:
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 7, 2024 22:46:38 GMT -5
Did anyone check out Hannah Stone after I posted about her in December?
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 7, 2024 22:48:12 GMT -5
I needed to change the tune.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 7, 2024 22:49:08 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 7, 2024 23:04:23 GMT -5
Got tickets for Hickory Hill Saturday night.
And Justin Johnson next month.
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Post by urbino on Feb 7, 2024 23:22:31 GMT -5
How did I never hear of her? I'm sick of discovering these singers until after their gone! I had only been listening to Stevie Ray a few months before he died. Rich Mullen one month. Buddy Holly 6 months. In your defense, hardly anyone had heard of Eva Cassidy before she died. She had put out a record or maybe two, but they didn't go anywhere. She was basically just known around the D.C. club scene. After she passed, a DJ in the UK ran across her version of "Over the Rainbow", played it on the air, and it went stratospheric. Suddenly, she was a posthumous musical phenomenon.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 7, 2024 23:28:50 GMT -5
How did I never hear of her? I'm sick of discovering these singers until after their gone! I had only been listening to Stevie Ray a few months before he died. Rich Mullen one month. Buddy Holly 6 months. In your defense, hardly anyone had heard of Eva Cassidy before she died. She had put out a record or maybe two, but they didn't go anywhere. She was basically just known around the D.C. club scene. After she passed, a DJ in the UK ran across her version of "Over the Rainbow", played it on the air, and it went stratospheric. Suddenly, she was a posthumous musical phenomenon. Yeah, I just read that. I've been listening to her on YouTube since I saw the post. Danny Boy at the moment. Amazon 6th best selling artist 10 years after she died. My wife gets upset because I tear up about these women who don't get the break they deserve. Hanna Stone killed herself at 16 because of a beef with a Tictoc rapper.
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