What 🎶music are you listening to at this moment?

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

That was made up from different clips. Here's the original Wednesday dance:

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I mean, the rest of the music is like drinking too much kool-aid lol.

Wait -- is this from the guy who posted Orange Caramel?! If. MAMAMOO is kool-aid, those girls are a 5 pound bag of sugar!

Not that MMM can't kawaii it up with the best of them, when they want to:

Though I'd note they're obviously making fun of it, along with themselves -- and their beagle image, that they've been trying to get away from, the past couple of years.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

At this moment Roundabout by Yes (one of my favorite bands) is playing on my Spotify mixlist. I saw them live last year for their 50th anniversary tour and they were amazing.

 

[Olorgando]

Out of my vinyl collection:
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, 1974 LP "Rags to Rufus" (originally ABC records, ABCX-809), the song "You Got the Love".
Now that is a funky rhythm! 🎸 That guitar intro (and the rest of the guitarwork on the song) really grabbed my attention. 🤩

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I've been watching Amy Turk on YouTube lately. She plays harp amazingly and has been covering Legend of Zelda (one of my favorite game series). Here she is doing Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins

 

[Miguel]

Wait -- is this from the guy who posted Orange Caramel?! If. MAMAMOO is kool-aid, those girls are a 5 pound bag of sugar!

Not that MMM can't kawaii it up with the best of them, when they want to:

Though I'd note they're obviously making fun of it, along with themselves -- and their beagle image, that they've been trying to get away from, the past couple of years.

Uh?. Nay!. Video popped in recommendations after watching ea's metal video 😂

Now this tune at 6:36 is too good:

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Uh?. Nay!. Video popped in recommendations after watching ea's metal video 😂

Hah! Lame excuse! Just admit you like kawaii girls -- go on -- I do! 😍

I had that Bach piece on lp decades ago; though it may have been the E flat major -- it's been so long, I'm not sure. Used to get some eclectic mixes, in those days -- that one had a Vivaldi, IIRC, but also Le Merle Noir and Hindemith. Try this, if you want to give your fingers a workout:

I think I got it from a cutout bin for 69 cents. Quite a deal -- and education: I'd never heard either Hindemith or Messaien.

Heh. That reminds me -- I also had this, bach then:

And that made me remember these guys-- catch the soloist at 1:20:

They made Bach cool, bach in the day -- not that he wasn't already!

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Wait -- is this the Watching or the Listening thread? I'm getting confused!

Well, anyway, here's more anime harp:

That should bring forth childhood memories -- and perhaps a few tears -- for members of a certain age! And for others, here's the source:

(Sniff!) 😢

 

[Olorgando]

That Cream 2005 Royal Albert Hall reunion concerts DVD set is definitely heading for the player.

R.I.P. Ginger Baker.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Hoo boy, am I feeling old -- "my" generation is dropping like flies. Cream had a large footprint on my youth, though perhaps not as intimately as another group of the era, Traffic, who's early music sometimes seemed Middle Earthly -- to me, at least. Now Steve Winwood is 71! Dave Mason 73, Eric Clapton 74! Two founders of Traffic are gone. Here's Winwood on Ginger Baker:

Official Site

The Official Website of Legendary Musician Steve Winwood, whose compositions include “Gimme Some Lovin’“, “Higher Love”, “Roll With It”, “Valerie”, “Back In The High Life Again”, “Can’t Find My Way Home”, “Dear Mr Fantasy”, “While You See A Chance”, “I’m A Man”, and “The Low Spark Of High Heeled...

stevewinwood.com

And here they are together, in 1969:

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I saw that he died. I like Cream a lot so will definitely be listening to them a bit today.

 

[Olorgando]

… "my" generation is dropping like flies. ...

I'm old enough for that quote to immediately conjure up The Who; surviving members Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74), two of four. The Beatles down to (Sir) Paul McCartney (77) and Ringo Starr (Sir Richard Starkey!!! 79), also two of four. The Stones (against all bets of the 1960s and 1970s) holding up better at three of five: Mick Jagger (76), Keith Richards, the wonder of wonders (75), and Charlie Watts (78) . I could go on and on, but it's not really cheering to do so ...
But then the comment on our TV videotext during the weekend that the Beatles' 1969 Album "Abbey Road", in a 50th anniversary re-release (I have a 2017 50th anniversary 2-CD re-release of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", to date Album of all time …), unceremoniously kicked the current g...... , er, stuff off spot 1 on the album charts in Great Britain (or England?). The currents now have a grace period until 2023, when the Beatles' first 1963 album "Please Please Me" hits 60, and they then must suffer through another seven years of being humiliated by ancients with only two surviving members - if that.
These musical heroes of my youth have now taken the place (for me) of the "ancients" of the same time (of my youth), which I know about due to my father having been a Jazz fan: Armstrong, Goodman, Ellington, Basie, Herbie Mann … and (now) being ancients doing what ancients inevitably do … 😢

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Larry Junstrom from Lynyrd Skynyrd died too

38 Special and Lynyrd Skynyrd Bassist Larry Junstrom Dies at 70

Larry Junstrom, who played on every 38 Special album and was also the founding bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, died at the age of 70 in October 2019.

ultimateclassicrock.com

I'm only 32 but I enjoy your generation's music more than mine. I listen to Pink Floyd, Yes, The Who, all of them. I absolutely love old rock music from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I'll take a good Stones song over Miley Cyrus any day. Not to say that people like her aren't talented but I definitely prefer vintage rock music.

 

[Olorgando]

Larry Junstrom from Lynyrd Skynyrd died too

That had me go "ehwot?" very seriously. I have LS's first 1973 album (and the next six, to 1978, too) on vinyl, and Leon Wilkeson is named as bassist there.
Wikipedia provides the relevant in formation: "Junstrom was the bass guitarist of Lynyrd Skynyrd from its formation in 1964, until being replaced by Leon Wilkeson in 1971 …"

I'm only 32 but I enjoy your generation's music more than mine. I listen to Pink Floyd, Yes, The Who, all of them. I absolutely love old rock music from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I'll take a good Stones song over Miley Cyrus any day. Not to say that people like her aren't talented but I definitely prefer vintage rock music.

I have a personal prejudice that in the time frame of about the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s, popular music hit a plateau that it has never reached since (as grumpy old geezers have probably snarled for decades before …). Some fraying into earlier times (Elvis!) and later ones. But practically anything I have heard since then (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Popa Chubby, some German bands) that I have liked sounded like a (good) re-tread of that time. Techno and Rap / Hip-hop have just bored me into a coma … 😴

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

yeah, I was wrong. He was a founding member but left the band before their debut album was released, my fault 😅

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I definitely prefer vintage rock music.

Vintage rock music:

And, speaking of the Addams Family (among others):

 

[Olorgando]

yeah, I was wrong. He was a founding member but left the band before their debut album was released, my fault 😅

One of those bad choices, apparently.
Like Stuart Sutcliffe, original bassist of The Beatles (what was Paul doing then???). Or Pete Best, pre-Ringo drummer.
If memory serves (a doubtful proposition) then both the The Beatles and The Rolling Stones achieved their huge success after taking on the (in both cases already known for proficiency) drummer who would be the drummer of the respective band.

 

[Olorgando]

Vintage rock music:

… Some fraying into earlier times (Elvis!) ...

Some Zeppelin, Sabbath, Purple pleeeeeeeeeeease?!? 😢

 

[Miguel]

Some Zeppelin, Sabbath, Purple pleeeeeeeeeeease?!? 😢

 

[Olorgando]

I have every of their studio albums up to 1975's "Come Taste The Band", then three more after that.
Their first five live LPs (including the one with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1969 / 1970).
And several compilation albums
23 titles in all (counting double LPs as one).
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