I noticed that in the "Little Drummer Boy" performance after I wrote my reply, and with regard to the Amadeus Electric Quartet, I save my envy for the cello, but then it's just a matter of taste, I suppose.
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I'm flexible, I could go either way :flip:
Like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDLrpG0DCqI
Since this is my real name, I think I shall exercise an appropriate amount of discretion with respect to any further comment on this particular issue :peace::tiptoe:
Added in edit: Mike, my first thought on watching that video was how long must it take him to get into that rig---then I wondered how long it took him to develop that rig :omfg:
Moved from another thread:
..... this has made me think about some of my earliest memories of anything other than church music--which for us was mostly sung in German. We were not allowed TV or radio---but my father said he needed to be able to get the weather so he knew when he could cut hay and not have it rained on. We had an old combination radio and 78 record player in a wooden cabinet. It had turned legs and a bow shaped stinger between each front and rear leg. Between the center of each stringer ran another connecting one side to the other. I would lay under there on the stringers and listen to the few records we had---and this was my favorite.
....and from my player the Band Played Waltzing Matilda.
Some ballads demand the listener take an active roll in listening--and this is one.
I grew up sitting at the foot of our big console radio/record player in the early fifties too. Oddly, my first recollection of that experience is "Ghost Riders In The Sky" also (but the Burl Ives version), plus the one below — Peggy Lee's Maņana.
https://youtu.be/7ikUCavp2yA
Of course, that song is highly politically incorrect now.
Thanks for listening Mike.
While we are in that mode I have another one of these ballads that haunts me---I guess because of my own demons. I posted this a long time ago but I think it is worth doing again.
I first heard this at a Clancy Brothers concert years ago. I was reduced to a basket case---it caught me completely by surprise. The people with me (wife and one very close couple) know very little of what you now know and were understandably confused by my reaction. I still find it difficult to get through without my emotions coming out.
The last part which says:
Still gores me til this day.Quote:
And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride,
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?"
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.
Please take a few minutes to listen and reflect.
I wonder if we will ever learn.........
I pray that we will but fear that we won't.
As long as we are exploring the more morose ends of music —
https://youtu.be/RzJXr8kuefY
(Dave Matthews — "Gravedigger")
Well, that ought to end that little foray into reflection :rolleyes2: