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What 🎶music are you listening to at this moment?

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How 'bout some old school high energy?


Guy and gal friends used to pogo all night to this stuff!

I doubt any of us could do it anymore.
 
Miguel said:
I like that guitar at the beginning but i prefer this guitar:
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Awesome stuff! Reminds me a bit of the late Paco de Lucía (I have some LPs of his).
And of course he was part of the perhaps most awesome guitar trio in history:
"Friday Night in San Francisco", Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucía. Probably my favorite guitar album across all genres.
And get this:
I … SAW … THEM … LIVE … IN … (WEST) BERLIN … IN … 1983!!!!! That venue went into orbit!
 
Squint-eyed Southerner said:
Angelina!
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*returns lower jaw from ankles back to as-built anatomical position*

When I saw the song title “I Put A Spell On You” I thought “that’s almost brazen, there are some real screamer versions out there!” – including the one I have by Creedence Clearwater Revival, sporting one of Rock’s great male voices, John Fogerty.

What’s this awesome kid gong to do when she grows up – shred plate-glass windows?!?
 
Squint-eyed Southerner said:
Oh, boy. . .
I can see this thread going down some strange paths. Especially with me on board!
You want lively? How 'bout some good old German Uber-Lebhaftigkeit?

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*SHRIEK!!!*

OK, granted, there are probably Festivals in Germany where that kind of stuff still gets played, especially if it's being taped for a TV show gunning for the lowest common denominator (usually full playback).
But in our city's beer and rides festival originating in 1755 (and thus 55 years older than that weak copycat "Oktoberfest" in Munich), that kind of stuff was limited to small niches in the more than 40 years I've known it. Probably because it's a university city, most of the music was more along the rock / pop lines.
 
Those two were recorded when Angelina was 9 and 10, respectively. Screamin' Jay is an idol of hers -- that's his picture she's holding at the beginning of the video.

You'll find a more recent piece from age 12 on page 3: her single, "Shield", and another one from a few months earlier on page 9. As you can hear, her voice has deepened and matured -- if you can call a 12-year-old "mature". In her case, I think you can.

Some background, if you want: she entered "Norway's Got Talent" age 7, won at age 8. You can see her audition here:


Lots more on youtube. Careful -- you might get addicted. I have to say she gives me chills.
 
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Right, Comet TV is running consecutive episodes Thursdays.

Hmm. What to say? It was a mid-70's show, with all that entails. Pre-Star Wars, so owes much of its look to 2001, its stories to Star Trek. But most of all to the Gerry Anderson puppet shows: Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, and others, so the acting can be a bit wooden. Barbara Bain is especially inert; I don't know what happened to her between Mission Impossible's Ginger and this.

The consensus seems to be that Season 1 was pretty interesting, but Season 2 ran off the rails. I'd say check a couple of episodes, and see how you like it. Some people have very fond memories; I don't know how much of that is nostalgia.

It was certainly better than Buck Rogers!
 
Squint-eyed Southerner said:
… Some background, if you want: she entered "Norway's Got Talent" age 7, won at age 8. You can see her audition here:
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Seven. There are people at 17, 27, 37 … 77 … whatever who should make a fast exit from the music industry so as to escape comparisons.
I mean, there are music industry artist zillionaires who can't hold a candle to her.
And all that with her being in the second teething period, I found that so sweet.
 
I actually plopped in a music DVD into my notebook (laptop), specifically Eric Clapton's "Crossroads Guitar Festival" of 2013, and listened (more than once) to the twos performances by Jeff Beck for this DVD. Disc 2 songs 15 and 16. In song 15 "Going Down" Beth Hart lets it rip on the vocals (this ain't Shakespeare, but it's lava!!).
Song 16 is an instrumental titled "Mná Na Héireann", without Hart's vocal pyroclastics. But both titles have the female violinist (whose name I have not been able to find) who did some awesome playing, especially on song 16, and a "kid", or "girl", on a Fender Jazz bass. Name is Tal Wilkenfeld,, by now 32, then 26 (but hardly looking 17 as she is very much on the petite side). She let fly some bass riffs that, I'm certain, made the old (now 75, then 69) geezer let fly with some stuff like he hadn't had for decades. What being surround by three young (and severely talented, and definitely very far from ugly) females can do for an old codger. *sigh* *envy* etc. 🥴

And just BTW, between the three Yardbirds guitarists, Clapton, Beck and Page (in chronological order, I own an album with just that title) Jeff is certainly the one with the broadest spectrum musically; and I say this as an absolute Clapton fan.
 
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A link would be nice.
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To my notebook's DVD player? I told you elsewhere that I'm a ten-thumber in things Internet! And I shut down my notebook (laptop) every night before I go to bed, never mind that I've removed the "Crossroads" DVD from the player. I did mention both of the Jeff Beck titles in my above post. So going to YouTube seems to be your only viable possibility.
 
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