rainee
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Hi!
yes, I just saw the post of Town's not too long ago and now see yours!
And maybe we'll see how strong that commonality between you and Frank is when you start naming your children, yes?
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Hi!
yes, I just saw the post of Town's not too long ago and now see yours!
And maybe we'll see how strong that commonality between you and Frank is when you start naming your children, yes?
A well respected drummer who shall go nameless called him a classical composer masquerading as a rock musician. I think that about as close to accurate a description as I have heard. When he was dying of prostate cancer the preeminent classical group in Europe put themselves at his disposal for a project as a gesture of respect for a guy that wasn't long for this earth.
Hi!
yes, I just saw the post of Town's not too long ago and now see yours!
And maybe we'll see how strong that commonality between you and Frank is when you start naming your children, yes?
Yes, it likely ends there but ... how many kids get to work with their dad?
It's a line or two from a Zappa song.
Though it should read, "Movin'" and not "Going". Just a nod to people who know Zappa.
Like, "And his hair was perfect" would instantly clue in Zevon fans.
rainee
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And we know why you liked that line don't we, TH?
Oh and was that you dressed up this Halloween??
Great costume!
musterion
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I can recite most of the 1974 Apostrophe' album from memory. I'm not proud of the fact and wish I no longer had his nonsense in my skull, but it is a fact.
Exsqueez me ? When he died I grew out a Fu Manchu in his honor. You risk an eye full of the deadly yellow snow ...
I feel that way about Abba ...
Whatever can you mean, rainee.
PureX
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He was an extremely intelligent guy, and an artist's artist. But I like music; clever and innovative wasn't enough for me.
PureX
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Springsteen's a great song-writer. I just wasn't a fan of his cacophonous orchestration.
Having spent no small part of my life in pursuit of music I can't say I am any closer to understanding it and its effect than I was when I started. As someone who holds Beethoven and Hendrix in similar esteem I can only say, "To each their own."
P.S. I have noted that I am drawn to the innovators much more than the practitioners.
P.P.S. Though most of us suffer from that malady that finds us thinking we are the smartest person in any given room we are in ... F.Z. usually was. The reflection from that vantage point is seldom appealing to others.
PureX
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As I get older, I care less about innovation (nothing new under the sun and all that) and more about music that touches the spirit in me, in a good way. Courage and authenticity matter to me more than clever innovation. But that's probably just an inevitability of old age. When I was a teen, music was all about the freedom, and lust, and breaking the rules. Now I wouldn't listen to most of that music. I'd be embarrassed by it.
I think there are those that understand the power and influence of music and used it to sell drugs (FZ was rabidly anti-drug) and cultural disintegration for profit and worse. It started in earnest with the Hippy movement and seems to have found a final resting place with rap/hiphop/whatever the latest cool name for this garbage that refuses to go away is. It's why I got out of it.
Speaking of "The Mothers of Invention" I was on NY when they played Filmore East, I though the "Mud Shark' song was bit weird, but the end redone Turtles song was good.
I like Abba.
My favorite song, hard to say, after spanning three generations of pop-rock-metal music
Mainly I like jazz and classical.
I like Abba.
My favorite song, hard to say, after spanning three generations of pop-rock-metal music
Mainly I like jazz and classical.