Chicago (the band)

[John Bridge]

Jay F. was kind enough to tip me that Chicago is going to be on PBS tomorrow night. Thought some of you youngsters out there might like to tune in. ;)

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[jjwq8]

If you cleave me tile you'll take away the very art of me :shades:

[John Bridge]

"Does anyone really care?"

:D

Do you get any decent TV in U.A.E.?

[kemguru]

More of a Charlie Daniel’s sort of dude myself, which BTW, will be performing 2 weeks from today just down the road from me. The good ol' Douglas County Fair....lotsa beers, bulls and brawling. :D

[flatfloor]

If you like Bluegrass at all or are just curious Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson are on PBS next week. Check this site for local times and channels. Show is called "The Three Pickers"

Interesting site for other stuff too.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/bluegrass/essay1.html

[Bri]

Robz and KW like the song 92 or 3 to 5.;)

[jjwq8]

John,

Loadsa stuff,

Really cool programmes advertizing Islam from Saudi Arabia. Watch their TV you will know why they are socially screwed up, and no I won't apologize to the PC police.

It is however a better cure for insomnia than a truck-load of barbiturate.

Then we have the local channels where one may watch all 47 years of the Bold and the Beautiful at once. Someone please tell me how the dame playing Sally Spectre got on the show?

And then you got the satellite channels. At home in Q8 we are tuned to Hotbird, Arabsat, Nilesat and Amos and that gives us something close to 700 channels of digital TV. And two or three of them are actually in English!

[John Bridge]

Got the Sunday paper this morning which contains the week's scheduling, and cannot find Chicago on the programming for tonight, so it is apparently a regoinal thing. Oh well . . . :)

[jay f]

JB,et al, it should be listed under the show title of Soundstage on your local PBS station. In fact it was on last night on my local PBS station WTTW. It was fun seeing those guys again after not seeing them for about 15 years.

[John Bridge]

I think the local stations pick and choose what they show and when they show it. I found the Soundstage schedule, but they don't have Chicago on there. I did see a Chicago concert on PBS several months ago. I wonder if it might be the same one. :)

[jjwq8]

Last weekends foray home produced a handful of really ratty looking cassettes pulled from cupboard corners and beneath car seats. Couple of Beauts. Double Album of Kansas - Point of no Return and Leftoverture and a compilation I put together in 1970 that included The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (SAHB)- Next. I have serious difficulty telling Kansas and Yes apart at times.

The SAHB now sounds like it was recorded on a ball of string but was still just audible enough to let me screech along to it. Local Virgin megastore got immediate instructions to find a CD for me.

But as I listened I realized just how much pleasure we derive from old friends and acquaintances that take the form of literature and music. Hell, I was 14/15/16/17/18 all over again, and behaving like an adolescent behind the wheel of my Expedition, which by the way has a fair sound system as standard (loud enough to prevent me hearing my mobile when it rings and with enough base to negate the vibrate function too).

Best of all, roun here weall got blacked winders so it doan matter what kinda eejit behaviour you get up to. No-one can see ya anywayz. ;)

[John Bridge]

Why the blackened windows?

[jjwq8]

Cool man, cool. Darkened windows mean less heat gain.

And privacy. To do with the veil and covering up. If you are a family then you are entitled by law to privacy within the confines of the bit of road you happen to be occupying.
Makes for real fun at night when you are trying to locate a new address and navigating in the traditional manner utilized in these here parts since the advent of the infernal combustion engine, WPS. aka Wreck Positioning System. ;)

[jjwq8]

Just caught the news about Bob Hope.

Farewell dear friend though I knew you not.

[John Bridge]

I haven't turned on the TV. Guess that means he passed on, eh? Quite a guy, he was. :)

[flatfloor]

Just caught that Bluegrass Show. Great music, so good I called John and stuck the phone into the speakers.

Even if you don't normally like that genre try it made me fell just plain good! :D

[John Bridge]

After you called I flipped over to our PBS station, but there wasn't anything good on there. I suppose they had old Earl and Lester, didn't they? I mean archives, of course. Do you know there is actually a recognized method of picking called "Scruggsing"?

Did I tell you I have a banjo?

Did I tell you I don't know how to play it?

:D

[flatfloor]

John it was a taped show with Lester, Earl and Doc Watson.

I watched and listened to that man play the banjo and at first it looked like his thumb was doing all the work then they did a close up of his hand. Man! all five fingers were working and working hard.

[tomtuttle]

I guess it's time to reassert The Canonical List of Banjo Jokes (http://bluegrassbanjo.org/banjokes.html)

including one of my personal favorites...

Q. How can you tell if there's a banjo player at your door?
A. They can't find the key, the knocking speeds up, and they don't know when to come in.

:D :D :D

[John Bridge]

Boy! Sure glad I don't play the banjo.

:D

[flatfloor]

Me too! :p

[jjwq8]

If you ever get the chance, try and catch William J. (Billy) Connelly play the Banjo. Remarkably good and remarkably to boot. ;)

[JTG]

Saw Neil Young and Crazy Hourse the other night in a new outdoor venue here in Auburn area. Very good show. Almost all new material that will be out on a CD soon and a few of the old tunes at the end of the show.

[fishinfarmgirl]

I love Neil Young! He makes me cry though. "Thinking about what a friend had said I was hoping it was a lie."

I've been thinking of him all week! Funny!

Think I'll go toss on his CD!

This one still always makes me bawl! Times aren't all that different are they!?

L

DON'T LET IT BRING YOU DOWN

Old man lying by the side of the road
With the lorries rolling by,
Blue moon sinking from the weight of the load
And the building scrape the sky,
Cold wind ripping down the allay at dawn
And the morning paper flies,
Dead man lying by the side of the road
With the daylight in his eyes.

Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning,
Find someone who's turning
And you will come around.

Blind man running through the light of the night
With an answer in his hand,
Come on down to the river of sight
And you can really understand,
Red lights flashing through the window in the rain,
Can you hear the sirens moan?
White cane lying in a gutter in the lane,
If you're walking home alone.

Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning,
Just find someone who's turning
And you will come around.

Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning,
Just find someone who's turning
And you will come around.


:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Sonnie Layne]

Pretty cool banjo used in melodic mode on Shania Twain's "UP" album. Not anything to compare to Scruggs, but all keyboard specialists can't be Bach's, huh?

She's cute, great voice, yadayada... her hubby writes lame lyrics but terrific music. Just listen, close your ears to the lyrics... Magic with steels as well as banjo.

C'est la Vie is a good example. Muted banjo, fiddle (2) cool. give it a listen. Headphones, as usual. I truly think there is musical genius taking place. They just need a good lyricist,,, hrummmph :D

sorry, ain't got nothin' to do with tile, but if you have a headphone and appreciation of musical composition, this is a find for sure. Just don't try to get lost in the lyrics. The rest is really fun.

Oh, Nel Young, Crazy Horse in Dallas this weekend.

[fishinfarmgirl]

Did you take note that Neil Young and the Crazyhours tour are doing ALL NEW MUSIC??? And apparently it's ALL new. I heard he didn't do any of the oldies while touring our state out here where the tall firs grow.

Lyricist huh??? Hmmm...I fit that bill! Singer/Songwriter here! Used to sing professionally. Maybe I'll have to give that there country stuff a listen. ;)

L

[jjwq8]

L,
Yet again I refer to Billy Connelly, who wrote and sang "The Ultimate Country Song" in which evrything goes wrong, everyon dies, including the gerbil, and every form of transport crashes. It actually sounded quite good too. ;)

[kemguru]

How'd the gerbil die? :shades:

[jjwq8]

Run over by a horse drawn buggy avoiding a car wreck going to the rail-head to collect the coffin delivered from the aircraft that crashed bringing home the body from the shipwreck. Jeez yaneedta ask?:D

[fishinfarmgirl]

Sounds PERFECT! Could you hum a few lines for us???

L

[flatfloor]

Johnny Cash says the perfect Country song is about jail, mommas, cheatin, dyin, a train wreck, a dog and something else. ;)

[John Bridge]

Traditional Mexican music is about the same as country. There's usually a three-way relationship, a lot of lamenting, shooting or stabbing ocassionally, thoughts of home and the good old days. The language is different. That's all.

What passes for country nowadays isn't really country. It's just more of the same old R&B, only the guys wear big hats and tight genes, and so do the girls. :D

[Sonnie Layne]

Jim, ya got JC mixed up with David Coe, but still the thought's the same.

Looking for the perfect country song, he quoted...

"Well, I was drunk the day my mom got outa prison......
and I went to pick her up in the rain.

But before I could get to the station
in my pick-up truck,,,,


She got runned over by a damned ol' train"

There you have trucks, drunks, prisons and trains all together in one verse. Perfect country song :)

[kemguru]

Tight genes huh? :D

You talkin 'bout folks related in more ways than one? Tennessee style? Sorry Bob;) I got kin that owns a hill out there, bunch of trailers at the base, old uncle Erl's white cabin mid-way up, fridge at the end of the drive. It be's my routs. ;)

[fishinfarmgirl]

YOWZA!!!!! :eek:

L

[flatfloor]

Sonnie no way I mixed up JC with David Coe. Who the hell is he? i'll bet he's younger than Mr Cash and stole that from JC. ;)

[Davy]

David Allen Cole, he is younger than Johnny. I think David wrote that song.;)

[flatfloor]

I'm sure he did, it's the concept I meant. Actually I wrote something similar but I got locked up for shooting someone who ran over my dog while he was asleep on the train tracks waiting for my mother to come home from the county jail so I couldn't promote it properly. (couldn't sing it very well either.) :p

[John Bridge]

You know I meant levis. :)

Sonnie, That's it, buddy. David A. Coe. :D

[jjwq8]

Medically defined as splicing dna with a bottle of tequila and waiting for the result to worm its way out.:loaded: