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🎶 The Official TTF Music Thread! 🎶
Persephone said:
Have been one since 1994 - LOL! (WOW, that aged me).
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Have you seen a picture of Keith Richards's face in say the last 40 plus years? I own his 2010 autobiography (in German translation, in case my wife would like to read it too), which is my guess for about the time that his biological age caught up to his face ... 😁

You're Pippin compared to him.
 
Finally found four songs from that 2021 DVD of Joe Bonamassa's live-stream concert "Now Serving Royal Tea Live From The Rymann" that I bought recently.
I'll just dump 'em on you without comment, not being a musician myself - and slack-jawed ... 😲




 
... to be fair to Mr Richards, women in music pay more attention to their looks than their male counterparts, especially as we age, we become more conscious. Take a look at Amy Lee, Avril, Nancy Wilson, Gwen Stefani, and Tina Turner ... they all look younger compared to the men of music of their generation. Could be botox or fillers - or just genetics.

I have an insane skin-care regimen and avoid food that can affect me in any way shape or form. So far I have not gone under the knife, but, who knows, I may have to at some point.

I listen to this sometimes... when writing or doing the dishes
 
Persephone said:
... to be fair to Mr Richards, women in music pay more attention to their looks than their male counterparts, especially as we age, we become more conscious.
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... to be fair to "Keef" - I'm quoting from his autobiography, in which he appears to be quite candid about his drug abuse, especially heroin and cocaine - for perhaps the first half of his life what he did was quite the opposite of paying attention to his looks and health. He does comment wryly that he'd been to the funerals of quite a few doctors who, during these wild years, predicted that he had at most X years (months?) left to live if he kept up that destructive behavior ...
Persephone said:
I listen to this sometimes... when writing or doing the dishes
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Thanks for the link, but I'm currently not up to listening to almost 76 minutes straight. And orchestral music generally - in my non-musician's book I lump it into the "classical" category, possibly to the horror of musicians - is not high on my list of favorites.
In "classical" music, as in every genre that I listen to occasionally, I'm a guitar nut.
In college in the US between 1973 and 1975, I had the good fortune to attend a concert by virtuoso guitarist Christopher Parkening.
I have four of his vinyl albums, all between 1968 and 1973. Here's a piece from the 1968 album "In The Spanish Style" that I definitely remember:


And here's a version of the same piece by Parkening's teacher and mentor, who thought quite highly of him - possibly the classical guitar giant of the 20th century, Andres Segovia.

 
LOL!! He has outlived a lot of people, come to think of it. On that note, drug use will destroy anyone's physical appearance. Women in music who also did drugs look just as worn out. As for Doctors, I developed a deep mistrust of them over the years. Many are "drug dealers" and not actual healers.


LOL! I have tons of music in my playlist that go on for 5 hours straight - almost all are ambient. I listen to these while writing - puts me in a mood and in the right mindset. But I do love me some guitar music.


My favorite guitarist is JOE SATRIANI

 
Ahah -- speaking of Ghibl, the first Miyazaki movie I ever saw was Nausicaa; loved it then, love it now.

And I wasn't the only one. It affected one guy so much he decided to try to make a working mowe -- and he did. I posted his test flight, and the Nausicaa suite on the old music thread, then serendipitously discovered what happens if you hit the "Play" icons simultaneously. Try it! 😃
 
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Persephone said:
My favorite guitarist is JOE SATRIANI

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I don't really have one favorite guitarist, as the vinyls and disks I own cover so many genres and styles that it's apples and oranges territory.
I do have a favorite guitar trio, though; Di Meola, McLaughlin, and de Lucia (the latter sadly passed away over 8 years ago).
One reason is probably that I saw and heard them in West Berlin in 1983, playing the set from their legendary album "Friday Night in San Francisco" of 1981.
The first three titles of the album actually were a round-robin of duets, the fourth and fifth actual trios.

This is the fourth title, the trio actually recorded in San Francisco


Memory dims, but it might have been after this title that the audience of 2000 exploded, jumped to their feet (with a lower ceiling we'd have all been hanging in the rafters ... ) All five titles of the whatever are utterly mind-bending ... 🥵
 
I'm sure it's in there somewhere.

Meanwhile. . .your mention of classical music earlier made me recall the first "classical" record I bought under my own power. I'd been listening to classical music for a few years, discovering some old records in my parents collection, after seeing "The Magnificent Rebel", a biopic about Beethoven, on TV at age 12.

Later, a local FM station played classical, as well as other music, in the days before rigid playlists. One day I turned them on after school, and heard a piano piece, accompanied by what sounded like a child's ratchet. It was odd enough to make me call the station to ask who it was. In my ignorance, I heard "Darius Mio".

After some searching of bins in a couple of discount department stores, I came across this:

Nonesuch Records was a budget label, popular with college students in the sixties -- $1.77 at the store where I bought it.

Le Boeuf Sur le Toit is from 1919, made up of French music hall tunes and songs the composer had heard while serving as assistant to Paul Clauel, ambassador to Brasil at the end of the Great War. He intended it for use as "soundtrack" music for a Chaplin film. It was never used, * but Jean Cocteau liked it so much that he produced a ballet for it.

Here's a performance; I don't believe it reproduces the original, but it does provide some entertaining nonsense to look at while listening. (The sirens and car horns at the end of part one aren't part of the music -- although I believe there was a police raid in the original ballet -- and the policemen ended up dancing with the dance hall girls):


* The only time I know it was so used was when I made a tape rrecording of it for the use of a local theater that was running a Chaplin film.
 
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