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Musical Moments

I need to learn French.  This is lovely. Who is this girl? Here's one clue. Another. Look for more. Never heard of her before today.

Hello, I still love you. The Doors are 60 this year. Or would have been. Good and legendary as they were, I think they are woefully underrated. Manzarek, Densmore, and Krieger were great musicians. Morrison wasn't a great poet, but he was a damn good one, and a helluva performer. What too few remember, or respect, is The Doors' melodies. Wintertime Love, for example, is a sweet waltz. Dig around the oeuvre. Lotta good stuff there.

Apparently, he did. I didn't know Elvis played piano.

Hard to beat. That song from The Man Who Would Be King. My second-favorite movie of all time.

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5 responses to “Musical Moments”

  1. Dave Winer Avatar
    Dave Winer

    I loved Man Who Would Be King. 😀

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  2. Dave Winer Avatar
    Dave Winer

    Also loved, from same timeframe — The Ruling Class.

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  3. Laurence Brevard Avatar
    Laurence Brevard

    Turning 77 this month.

    At age 19, Light My Fire was my “gateway drug” into non-classical music.

    I was a French Horn playing snob who disdained “top 40” music. [That even included The Beatles – made up for only recently.]

    In summer 1967, after my freshman year in college, I worked 35+ miles across town (on a rotating shift) and carpooled with a “frat boy” from Georgia Tech who insisted on having KILT, the big top 40 station in Houston playing.

    Hearing Light My Fire, I remember thinking… that’s NOT BAD.

    The next school year everything hit with “underground rock” on FM stations and I was off and running.

    BTW… there is a fascinating Rick Rubin podcast discussion with Krieger and Densmore that was published July 6, 2022.

    https://youtu.be/X58jzqrfD1U?si=P02eiZrnJVI4fTXz

    Meanwhile, I still am a completely Beethoven freak with the 7th Symphony still reliably able to reduce me to tears, especially in a remixed Dolby Atmos release of Von Karajan’s recordings of all 9 symphonies.

    There are some spectacular young musicians now that I enjoy immensely, especially in smaller venues such as Antones here in Austin – The Lemon Twigs and Tele Novella.

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  4. Laurence Brevard Avatar
    Laurence Brevard

    s/completely/complete/ga

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  5. Laurence Brevard Avatar
    Laurence Brevard

    :s/completely/complete/g

    … actually works in ‘vi’ – although I’m more of an Emacs guy normally!
    😉

    Don’t see any way to edit a post and should have tested before posting the first comment.

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