OT: The Music Thread: Part IX

[Gordon Lightfoot]

YES! I freaking love this album.

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

 

[GordonHowe]

Ladies and gentlemen, the very great Emmylou Harris.

Last Date (1982, freshman year @ Emerson),

Last Date (Emmylou Harris album) - Wikipedia

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Bruce,



Neil,

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

^^^She’s awesome

 

[GordonHowe]

^^^She’s awesome

She sure is.

BTW, I hope you are feeling better.

A good friend is learning "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on acoustic guitar and appreciates the chord progressions. Great song,



Do you remember when this happened? 1977. November, I believe. I grew up in Michigan, so I remember it well.



"Sit Down Young Stranger" (aka "If You Could Read My Mind," 1970),

 

[JAD]

Dire Straits
Fade To Black


Your Latest Trick


Twisting By The Pool

 

[aguineapig72]

Jeff Lynne was under the influence

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

She sure is.

BTW, I hope you are feeling better.

A good friend is learning "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on acoustic guitar and appreciates the chord progressions. Great song,



Do you remember when this happened? 1977. November, I believe. I grew up in Michigan, so I remember it well.



"Sit Down Young Stranger" (aka "If You Could Read My Mind," 1970),

Feeling great, thanks. Testing negative now.

Post just shows how phenomenal Lightfoot was.

 

[GordonHowe]

Jeff Lynne was under the influence

I'm not a live music person for several reasons, but I noticed "Jeff Lynne's ELO" will be playing TD Garden. I'm sure it will be a fine show.

Now, there are three things I will say about Mr. Lynne and ELO.

1] He's a tremendously talented musician, songwriter and producer.

2] Lynne and ELO had a reputation, earned in my opinion, for what I can only call an airless, pneumatically sealed sound. Those records are great, but they have a strangely compressed, over-produced feel.

Granted it was 1980, but the theme song for Xanadu is a typical example,



That's less the case in Lynne's work for George Harrison, Tom Petty and others.

Given what he had to work with -- half baked, home recorded demos -- this tendency is prominent in Lynne's treatment of Lennon's "Free As a Bird" and "Real Love" from the Anthology release.

3] Jeff Lynne has not changed his "look," such as it is, in, like, ever. Not your typical "rock star," he's the shy, nerdy type. He's almost anonymous and appears to prefer it that way.

Rock on, Jeffrey,











Hyde Park,



Wembley,



But wait, there's more!

If you're not too lazy to click the YouTube link,

 

[Terrier]

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

 

[Ladyfan]

Jeff Lynn is great.

 

[GordonHowe]

Reminder: Chocolate and vanilla. That's why they make 'em.

Even so, why do some enjoy jam bands en general, and the Dead en particular?

 

[JAD]

Luke Bryan
Drunk On You


Light It Up


Strip It Down

 

[Orr Fourever]

 

[Terrier]

 

[08SeaBass08]

Reminder: Chocolate and vanilla. That's why they make 'em.

Even so, why do some enjoy jam bands en general, and the Dead en particular?

I love the Allmans, but noodly 14-minute jams otherwise don’t really appeal to me, either. It’s also why I don’t like much prog rock or post-Bebop jazz.

But as much as the Dead were kind of the ultimate jug band, I’ve grown to appreciate their musicianship over the years. I just don’t dig the tunes. The fact they improvised their set list nightly is a strong testament to that musicianship. And the whole traveling village thing their fans did was really an awesome thing.

But again, I just don’t dig the tunes.

 

[RoccoF14]

She sure is.

BTW, I hope you are feeling better.

A good friend is learning "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" on acoustic guitar and appreciates the chord progressions. Great song,



Do you remember when this happened? 1977. November, I believe. I grew up in Michigan, so I remember it well.

I grew up in Wisconsin and remember it very well. I also remember when they found the wreck, too. I thought it was cool that Lightfoot made a song about it.

Here's a pretty decent cover, by a Canadian band....

 

[bruinsfan1968]

This was on the soundtrack of The Frighteners a Micheal J Fox movie.

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

I almost can’t believe how good this album is.

 

[bruinsfan1968]

 

[McGarnagle]

YES! I freaking love this album.

I'm really getting into their stuff. Another of pop music's tragic "what could've been" stories

That album is good, and they've even got some covers they did with Liz Phair shortly before Jim Ellison died.

 

[JAD]

Pink Floyd
On The Run


The Happiest Days Of Our Lives


Another Brick In The Wall Pt2

 

[aguineapig72]

Even so, why do some enjoy jam bands

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[Dennis Bonvie]