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[Don Wassall]

 

[Don Wassall]

 

[Rebajlo]

CANDY HARLOTS - SISTER'S CRAZY:

Sydney, Australia, 1992...

 

[Quiet Speed]

 

[Freethinker]

We truly live in an "upside down kingdom where the broken are crowned".

Disclaimer: This one's for the metalheads. Good for working out and lifting. Also, may induce heavy headbanging. Not for everyone.

 

[BoxingSpecialist2]

As far as straight-up trance tracks go, I think this is one of my faves, it is "Reflections" the track that inspired the album "Reflections" and "Re:Reflections" from East German Paul Van Dyk. How can you not love it if you appreciate electronic music?

I've been a PvD fan for years, seen him live in Toronto a number of his times and he usually opens with this track!

 

[FootballDad]

As far as straight-up trance tracks go, I think this is one of my faves, it is "Reflections" the track that inspired the album "Reflections" and "Re:Reflections" from East German Paul Van Dyk. How can you not love it if you appreciate electronic music?

I've been a PvD fan for years, seen him live in Toronto a number of his times and he usually opens with this track!

I'm sure that Dixie Destroyer has added this track to his playlist already.

 

[Rebajlo]

FIREHOUSE - REACH FOR THE SKY:

 

[DixieDestroyer]

I'm sure that Dixie Destroyer has added this track to his playlist already.

Ha! I've made better "music" in an outhouse. ;-)

 

[Don Wassall]

I've always liked this song and video:

 

[Don Wassall]

To our brothers behind bars in America's barbaric prison system:

 

[Don Wassall]

 

[Don Wassall]

RIP Ian Stewart, 1957-1993

 

[DixieDestroyer]

RIP Ian Stewart, 1957-1993

Those lyrics are just as applicable (for the Western world) as they were 25 years ago. WPWW!

 

[The Hock]

 

[Thrashen]

Even though Jim Morrison died 15 years before she was born, my wife is a big fan of "The Doors." She owns a book about Morrison in which there are several accounts of him hurling humorous racial abuse at blacks and Hispanics, using the N-word, and defying the Civil Right Movement of the late 1960's. I remember one story in the book in which Morrison was running down the streets repeatedly screaming the N-word with civil rights activists in the vicinity. There's also a Doors song called "The Wasp" that has been describing as having "racist" lyrics...

I wanna tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Comes out of the Virginia swamps
Cool and slow with plenty of precision
With a back beat narrow and hard to master

Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance
Others, mean and rueful of the Western dream
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft
We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping
This is the land where the Pharaoh died

The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered
They are saying, "Forget the night.
Live with us in forests of azure.
Out here on the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned - immaculate."

Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache
I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the lose of God
I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
The meager food for souls forgot
I'll tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul

I'll tell you this
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn

I'll tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Soft drivin', slow and mad, like some new language

Now, listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the Texas
I'll tell you 'bout the Texas Radio
I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
Wandering the Western dream
Tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul

 

[The Hock]

Did not know that about Morrison. He was one of a kind. Too bad he flamed out like he did with his don't try this at home kiddies lifestyle.

And by the way Ray Manzarak was not given enough credit for his role in creating the Door's distinctive sound.

 

[Average American]

by the way Ray Manzarak was not given enough credit for his role in creating the Door's distinctive sound.

yeah, Manzarek was a great musician & songwriter.. Morrison was a great poet & showman. Their partnership was productive & creative, but too short. Their respective roles in the Doors probably fit their different personalities well. And to your point, Manzarek should really receive as much attention as Morrison, if not more, when it comes to the Doors' product.
Alice in Chains had a similar dynamic, where the high-profile lead singer Staley wrote some good lyrics & had interesting, tragic personal demons.. but it was Jerry Cantrell doing a lot of the underappreciated songwriting.

When I think of the times we live in now, I think about the Doors' lyric: Strange Days have found us..

 

[Quiet Speed]

Manzarek does deserve credit. My only problem with Manzarek is he used going around making the statement, and I've seen him do it on talk shows and the like, that if wasn't for black people, white people would be stuck doing minuet dances on their tippy toes. That's cuckish.

 

[DixieDestroyer]

Classic from T.G. Sheppard about one Inspectator Harry Callahan (SFPD). ;-)

 

[Rebajlo]

Manzarek does deserve credit. My only problem with Manzarek is he used going around making the statement, and I've seen him do it on talk shows and the like, that if wasn't for black people, white people would be stuck doing minuet dances on their tippy toes. That's cuckish.

Doesn't that kind of talk from prominent White musicians just drive You nuts?

A propagandist's most useful tool is the ignorance of his audience.

Perhaps the most preposterous yet stubbornly persistent "popular culture" myth about the genesis of rock and roll is that the genre was single-handedly "invented" by Chuck Berry. This is easily disproved and I always enjoy providing the following iron-clad facts to anyone who subscribes to The Great Chuck Berry Myth.

Berry's debut single Maybellene was released in 1955. Maybellene was based on a specific version of the traditional Appalachian folk song called Ida Red that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys recorded in 1938. This little tidbit handily scuppers the doggedly tenacious untruths which claim that Negroes were the creative leaven of early rock and that only White artists covered and modified songs written by blacks and never vice versa. Smarmy leftist hipster wimps delight in accusing Elvis Presley of "stealing" That's All Right from the black Arthur Crudup but conveniently remain silent about the original version of Chuck Berry's first single.

Bill Haley had already composed and released Crazy, Man, Crazy in 1953 in addition to reworking Rocket 88 (a rhythm and blues song written by the black Ike Turner) into a "proto-rockabilly" piece a few months after the original was released by the black Jackie Branston (and his Delta Cats) all the way back in 1951. Of course, Elvis had released That's All Right (whose B-side was Blue Moon Of Kentucky, a rockabilly cover of Bill Monroe's 1946 bluegrass composition) in 1954. So much for the trailblazing role of Chuck Berry. Oh, but I forgot: every rockabilly artist had seen, heard, and been profoundly influenced by Berry's club performances from 1953 onwards...

One final comment about Chuck Berry and the suppositious contention of Negro originality and White imitation. Berry's Roll Over Beethoven appeared in May 1956 and featured the lyrics "Well early in the morning, I'm giving you my warning, don't you step on my blue suede shoes". But wait - this cannot be! Carl Perkins had released Blue Suede Shoes four months earlier on New Year's Day...

Enough from me. Here's Elvis with Blue Moon Of Kentucky...

ELVIS PRESLEY -BLUE MOON OF KENTUCKY:

 

[DixieDestroyer]

Here's the 'proper' version Rebajlo. ;-)

 

[blackstarline]

Real guitar playing, something that will be talked about centuries from now.

 

[Ambrose]

Real guitar playing, something that will be talked about centuries from now.

Do you see yourself as a transvestite like these?

 

[FootballDad]

Real guitar playing, something that will be talked about centuries from now.

I generally don't feed the trolls, but I can acknowledge that the freak Prince was genuinely an outstanding musician. He often played every instrument in his studio recordings (not all at once, of course.) His Super Bowl performance posted by blackstarlinesupertroll was one of the best big game halftime performances ever.