Quote from: JimmyJ on July 11, 2024, 09:35:42 AMDon't tell anybody ok?

That's a big 10/4, good buddy!

Bill, tgo

Aaron Copland: Suite from Appalachian Spring / Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra

Wonderful performance, great sound quality (lots of mics in the orchestra), nice camera shots; and when they get to Simple Gifts it's quite moving.

"Simple Gifts" was/is one of those pivotal musical benchmarks in life. I decided to take up the cello because of it. It remains one of the few recognizable pieces I can play on the blamed thing...

Thank you for sharing, Jimmy. 


Your courage in admitting your problem makes it easier to deal with the guilt and shame of having spent the 1st quarter of 1980 doing sound, pyro, and follow-spot for "Holidaze, Featuring Doc & Linda Holiday", playing 6 sets a night, 6 nights a week on the Midwest hotel lounge circuit; Fri & Sat the 5th & 6th sets being a "Las Vegas-Style Floor Show" (meaning Doc wore a chartreuse-and-orange sequined jumpsuit &  Linda wore a matching do-me dress, and did the pyro-and-spot part of the job).....  Yeah, it was a crappy gig - but it was a gig.
We all have skeletons.........


Peter

I just looked it up.  Rolling Stone lists Convoy as #98 of the all-time top 100 country songs!

Bill, tgo

Quote from: JimmyJ on July 11, 2024, 09:35:42 AM
OK, I have an admission to make.  Although the linked "movie" version above is a rerecording, I actually played on the original release of this awful novelty song.  So I might be the reason the bass part (mostly under the CB radio chatter) has some active moments.      Drummer Bill Berg and I occasionally travelled from Minneapolis to Omaha and St. Louis in the mid-70's to work for a jingle company and this was one of the sessions we played on.  Usually 3-songs in 3-hours so we probably made about $30 each on it and figured we'd never have to hear it again.  But no.  Pop music can be fickle!  Eventually they sent me a framed Platinum Single (!!) but I couldn't decide if I was happy or just embarrassed. 

Don't tell anybody ok?

Jimmy J

That is so cool. I will keep it a secret.

Quote from: lbpesq on July 12, 2024, 01:34:16 AM
I just looked it up.  Rolling Stone lists Convoy as #98 of the all-time top 100 country songs!

Bill, tgo

Jeez - what's #1, "Achey Breaky Heart"?

Peter (who can hear Buck and Merle whirling like dervishes)

Fleetwood Mac's 'Songbird', Christine McVie would have been 81 years old today. This was one of my favorites among her last recorded work.

Another highlight from that record. (I still can't listen to Songbird. )

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on July 12, 2024, 05:02:39 PM
Fleetwood Mac's 'Songbird', Christine McVie would have been 81 years old today. This was one of my favorites among her last recorded work.

I hadn't heard this before.  To me, her voice sounds better here than on any of the previous recordings that I've heard.  Very nice.

I haven't played that CD much since Chris died... but I put it on yesterday evening just to noodle along with John's bass parts and unwind. She really sounded great.


It's unfortunate if what I believe is true, but I have wondered for several years if the release of that album was the final undoing of Fleetwood Mac. The absence of Stevie Nicks, in the stark presence of the other four links of The Chain. What happened afterward was not the happy ending I was waiting for. Oh, well indeed.


It's still a good record.

This time of year, we start kicking around ideas for the upcoming Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax, Virginia next month. Everybody has favorites, but Brian and I just let Caleb and Jess pick what feels best. It's really all about that envelope that they play in... I swear they have this freakish ability to hear and interpret melody and rhythm the same on their instruments...the result is that Caleb's fiddle part comes out sounding like there is a percussive quality...because there is. Jess' banjo notes line up so perfectly with them that it creates that illusion. Brian and I just put the chords and roots under them.


Today's suggestions are Belle of Lexington-

...and Five Miles From Town

FLOW MY TEARS written by John Dowland in 1596
Imagine this having Bass guitar, drums , keyboard and 2 guitars !
A nice slow legato lead guitar solo ,drenched in sustain somewhere  in there as well .

Came upon an oldies tv station tonight.
I forgot how much this theme song bangs,