I'm sure as others have said that we did have a music thread at some time - but this is actually getting some posts into the Nest which is good.. Had forgotten about Incredible String Band - got a few of their albums but never saw them live.
I guess I'm significantly younger than most on here.... I grew up listening to albums in the car of my dad. He would mainly listen to Dire Straits and the Who, with some Motown thrown in too. Although he did love Rick Astley for a short period. During the 90s it was Britpop for me. One regret is never seeing Oasis in concert. Have seen Rolling Stones, Weezer, Bush and a few others and off to see Foo Fighters in a couple of weeks - but more of a festival person really.
What a load of ex hippies we have on here ! I saw Robin Williamson and Mike Heron (from the Incredible String Band) many years later. Classic 70s rock is still very popular in Germany and when I lived in Hamburg I got to see many of the older bands in later years - saw Neil Young on the same stage together with Tom Petty, also got to see Santana, Jethro Tull, TYA, Steppenwolf, Crosby Stills and Nash and many others there - together with regular doses of the Hamburg blues festival - which Maggie Bell attended for many years. Also many more folky artists like Bert Jansch were there. It might sound strange given my politics but I love good southern blues/rock - beginning with the Allman Brothers but also very much like Lynyrd Skynyrd, who I have seen about 5 times. My first loves were the Kinks and the Small Faces. I was just too young to ever see Janis Joplin which is my biggest regret.
I did see Janis once... at isle of white I think... I saw Hendrix there about 15 days before he died... but feel asleep during his gig as it was in the middle of the night I used to really like the Doors too... and Dr John Maggie Bell once smiled and waved at me during a gig in st albans I was right at the front and going crazy!
Sæl öll. Cappuccino, coffee, tea donuts and fruit are on the bar. Frothy cappuccinos for al, HH, and W_Y Coffee and caramel frapachino for IB Coffees for COYH, Frenchie, Kev rob theo and vic-rijrode Strong coffee for Sandy Milky coffee for Yorkie Espresso for SuffolkHorn Irish coffee with special Cragganmore for aberdeenhornet Strong black coffees for Bragi Norway and zen Black coffee half hot half cold and no sugar for Charlie Peppermint latte for DanH Tea for Andytoprankin BHD Cornish Mark jsybarry kiwiQPR Lloydinio NZ and BCFCRed Tea with skimmed milk and no sugar for GG and Leon Hot chocolate with marshmallows for BBW Caramel latte for Hornette Scullion Canary Dave Fossefilberto and Maestro Una paloma for Mexican Hornet I might look and act like a hippy but if anyone says I am one I will pull their head off. I am more punk than anything else, in the way of the Australian band The Saints. Where punk was trying to rebel against anything The Saints were rebelling against the orthodoxy of punk, you don't need spiny hair, leather jacket and ripped clothes to be a punk. Everything is in your head.
Maybe if you look like a hippy and act like a hippy then ........................... ....... in denial maybe? Hippies are good - even if we do now draw pensions Please all stop with this nostalgia trip.... Kinks, Neil Young, Santana, Jethro Tull, Crosby,Stills Nash &, -- even Dire Straits,REM, Oasis and Pulp hold a place for me - on long car trips to the South of France Dire Straits, Tears for Fears and Fleetwood Mac kept the journey sane - and mean my kids now all have a liking for bands their friends do not understand
Kinks and CSN yes, the others not. Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, The Clash, Generation X, Celibate Rifles, Died Pretty and Radio Birdman to name a few of my bands.
so good on long car trips eh........ and a bit of Joni... ( still recovering from a brain aneurism). Songs for ageing children
Thanks for the frothy AK - great stuff in The Nest, brought me out of my summer hibernation! Cologne - good to see another Allman Brothers fan, not many of us about. Live version of Elizabeth Reed is one of my top 5 tracks of all time, this top 5 can vary a bit depending on my mood, weather, alcohol content etc. - but Elizabeth Reed never never gets substituted and would always be first on my team sheet.
So much of music is either mood enhancing or mood changing, and a lot of that has to do with associations. Even hearing the name Dire Straits takes me back to Egypt. Style Council transports me to a little leaky hut I lived in in Samoa during the rainy season in 1985. These days there are significant blank spots in my popular music knowledge, as there are in the eighties when I was travelling and living abroad (I note that no-one has mentioned Umm Kalthoum!) Now I seem to listen to a fair bit of contemporary classical. I like the Kronos Quartet and stuff by Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt. I only have a vague knowledge of popular artists, and those that I do tend to be local. Over the last 10 years I've listened to a fair bit of Pacific Roots music, which is a sort of South Pacific influenced reggae dub. I like Salmonella Dub. I don't think they made it to the UK.
Very hot out here already. Think I will retire to the cool of the house this afternoon with a and watch the tennis from Paris. We do love our sports and can get quite worked up about it, but it is only a game of course. Every now and again something happens that puts it into perspective. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/rugby-union/33017982
Jerry was a real charcter and something of a throwback to the amateur era. I seem to recall that he turned out for a team in Barnstaple a few times just for the fun of it. This is terrible news - that poor child.
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