The Old Folks Home

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

Oh, those youngun's have NO idea what we old folks can get into

..........and..............my lips are sealed.

 

[chickadoodles]

Oh, those youngun's have NO idea what we old folks can get into

..........and..............my lips are sealed.

mine 2

 

[ChickenCanoe]

While we're on the subject of music.

Musicians/bands I'm sorry I never saw.
Frank Zappa
Jimi Hendrix
Donny Hathaway
Janis Joplin
Bob Marley
Queen
Pink Floyd
the Who
It's a Beautiful Day
Procol Harum
Any or all of the Beatles.

I went to a 2 day outdoor thing at the Festhalle in Frankfurt that had a huge number of acts scheduled but it rained both days and many didn't show - Paul McCartney was one of the no shows. Rod Stewart played for hours on Saturday and Rory Gallagher played for hours on Sunday which made up for lots of the no shows. Sly Stone played one song and walked off the stage.


Some of the stuff I love.. - Since it's too cold to do anything outside, enjoy...

Rickie

B.B.

Carlos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17bY15YWTg
I remember 10 feet away stage right, amazing.
Modern stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28E8WKZ614w

Rory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPNWQ6EOoKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Jaodra7AY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iypw6ZPAPo&list=PLF772930BA4037FA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z3ule2Ugbg The Stratocaster, the only instrument he ever played.

Jimi - ~~Can you believe he taught himself to play?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqvU5CVHHmk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPtv14q9ZDg
when asked, "How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world?" Jimi said, "I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher."

Bob
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a_4EKLBs9M

Alvin Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBAwv49slC8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdltHgMMrqc

It's a Beautiful Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnCLk1CPFTo

ETA
I just realized I'm talking about a lot of dead people.

 

[Wisher1000]

Wow, Canoe, what is your age? If you don't mind me asking........

 

[ChickenCanoe]

62 in April.
I used to listen to my brother's (he's 72) albums on our Hi-Fi when he wasn't home and didn't know.
That's when I immersed myself into Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and The Platters. Eclectic mix, don't you think?

I actually heard Ike and Tina Turner play several times a week in the summer. Across the street from my house in North St. Louis was The Club Imperial. No one had AC in the 50s and all the windows to the club and our house were open so it was like I was in there, just couldn't see them.
I did see them much later though.
Chuck Berry still plays about once a week in University City (St. L. burb).
Billy Peek once played guitar for Rod Stewart. He grew up across the street from Chuck Berry who taught him guitar. When Billy moved back to St. L. he would play at local clubs and Chuck Berry would always show up and jam to a few songs with Billy's band and do the duck walk.
Not bad for an 87 year old guy.

 

[Arielle]

FINISHED!!!

SCG!! I truely beautiful peice of art. Well chosen binding, which is the hardest to co-ordinate in my opinion. Well done!!

Pork tacos followed by a lavender bubble bath and off she goes to bed.



Time to catch the last half of the Spurs game. GO SPURS!!!!!!!!

Tooo cute!!!

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[IttyBiddyRedHen]

I was born in 1962, but one would almost think I grew up on another planet. My sister was the one old enough to have Beatles records to play. She had the posters and all, and we 3 girls shared the one bedroom. Mom and dad had the other bedroom.
My dad listened to the radio in the mornings, before going to work. Mom and Grandma listened to it at night, kept it going all night long. But they were like garden talk radio shows. Jack Tobin was the name of the one garden guy. I don't remember the others. But no one listened to music stations at our house.

When I was older, like 12, I found some Bluegrass records somewhere, as well as the classics. My oldest sister had piano training, and every night after supper she would play beautiful classical music pieces. Then, she went to college at the local community college. That was when her drama class she was in, their department would put on for free, all of the musicals out at a local park, on summer evenings. 1776, Princess and the Pea, Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Sound of Music, and many more. Mom would take us 2 younger girls out there on warm summer evenings, to enjoy musicals in the park. Also, the neighborhood I grew up in, was designed after Seville Spain, and down by the creek that ran through it, would be several small groups of musicians playing mostly classical pieces for the summer crowds. Our school also took us kids to the Symphony Orchestra for our field trips. I loved going there. As well as field trips to the local art gallery and museums.

I have never been to any kind of rock concerts, or country music type concerts. I guess I have had a somewhat quiet youth and childhood. We always had celebrities coming and going through Kansas City, but they were just a passing thing. Nothing big was brought to KC till I was grown and gone, when a large ampi theater was built west of KC. I have never been to it.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

As soon as you said the neighborhood was designed like Seville and the concerts at the creek, I knew it was the Country Club Plaza in KC. That is Brush Creek, a tributary of the Blue River.
I saw some concerts there. I saw Rickie Lee Jones at the Starlight Theater in Swope park.

The promoter hired a biker type group for security. When fans rushed the stage they got roughed up. Rickie stopped the show and called out the head of security. She said "Keep your gorillas off of my people". He said, "We're just trying to keep control". She said, with her fist raised, "I've got control right here". It was pretty cool.

 

[Wisher1000]

62 in April.
I used to listen to my brother's (he's 72) albums on our Hi-Fi when he wasn't home and didn't know.
That's when I immersed myself into Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and The Platters. Eclectic mix, don't you think?

I was born in 1962, but one would almost think I grew up on another planet. My sister was the one old enough to have Beatles records to play. She had the posters and all, and we 3 girls shared the one bedroom.

This is so interesting to me. I am going to be 52 this month. I felt that I should have had the same exposure to the bands that Canoe has but now realize that there is a ten year difference, plus a huge difference in the geography. I grew up in a college town, but without any siblings that were close to my age. I am the youngest of four, but the closest in age is nearly 10 years older.

I was more influenced by my parents, who were much older than my friends' parents, growing up than by peers. I loved bluegrass because my grandfather played Gospel songs on the banjo and I would sit on the floor for hours and listen to him. He actually made banjos, and I have a couple that he made. When I heard bluegrass, I loved the banjo and came to appreciate the other instruments. Then, I was exposed to the music my parents liked, and learned to love that. That is the 40s and 50s stuff I like, as well as the big band stuff. I was also listening to 60s, 70s, and 80s pop and country. I pretty much missed completely the pop music of the 90s and 00s due to adult life, but now am getting some exposure to new music from my teens.

It is interesting to me that the music we like is so dependent on the environmental influences and circumstances we happen to be born into. Moxie was born the same year as me, in an area like Canoe, yet the music appreciation is completely different from either. Cool.

Alright, I have to ask, did anyone watch/listen to the video I posted of Fun.'s song "Some Nights!" I got no comments so I am not sure if you didn't check it out (which is okay, I didn't check out all of Canoe's links

) or if you were offended by the cuss word (understandable, it is a vile word,) or if it didn't affect you like it does me. Like SF9 said, it seems to somehow mirror my own internal rhythm's.

 

[Wisher1000]

Oh, those youngun's have NO idea what we old folks can get into

..........and..............my lips are sealed.

I know, right? I once again shocked and amazed one of my sons (the 14 year old) by suddenly breaking out in song. Now, I do that often, and they are used to it, but this time it was the full version, every word, acapella, of Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby," the only rap song I know by heart. My son was confused and speechless!

Exactly the response I was looking for.............