What are you listening to right now?

Thanks for the introduction. He kept some good company.

Another classic cd I found in my father's car. Country duets - here's one of my favorites. I've been listening to this all week- he's the father who just keeps on giving:

and yet another song I've learned and come to love because of my dad- love the harmonies on this one and I can do Marie's part note for note:

I am listening Album: Whazever it takes... of my favourite artist Bully Mouth from brainstormlive.

I'm listening to the Zombies - because I am SO excited to be going to see them at the Cheese and Grain in Frome!!! They're playing a PUB! Rod Argent too ( one of rock's most talented keyboardists)!
And they sing some of my favorite songs. I've loved them since I was six or seven years old and heard them when I was in the car with Annette Froling and her big sister. Annette was allowed to invite one friend to see a movie and go out to lunch at a diner - her big sister Cindy drove us. She had the radio on and I heard the Zombies singing 'Time of the Season' for the first time. I was wearing a big-girl's outfit I'd borrowed from my big sister and I got ketchup all over it because I dripped it when I ate my hamburger.





and another one of my favorite covers ever:

My son introduced me to these guys- I love it:

Just heard this today for the first time (must be living under a rock) and love it!!

What are you listening to right now?


Why do I have to be listening to anything?

Most times, I prefer silence, and my own thoughts.

Isn't the sound of silence nice?

Yes it is.

And my own thoughts are wonderful.

Neato random double play

I remember having heard that Gary Moore of Thin Lizzy had died, but it didn't compute that it was THIS Gary Moore until someone invited me to the High Voltage concert and I looked up the line-up and they mentioned his death.
Sad - he was still relatively young - heart attack.

First two randoms of the day, sublime to ridiculous:

I let my 15 year old see Woodstock yesterday (she loves the music of that time)
and this was her favorite song from it...

That is so cool/weird - can you imagine when you were 15 loving the music created 30 years before you were born? In my case I would be loving early Fats Waller and moaning the dissolution of Louis Armstrong's hot five and missing Sydney Bechet, while all my peers were getting into the new wave of XTC, The Cure etc.

Why do I feel there's a thesis in their somewhere? Is it because recording technology had got to the point by the mid 60s that the music itself isn't hampered by the reproduction technology and can stand on its own merits? Was rock n roll the last big music revolution? Was it a revolution at all?

Give me a Kiss to Build a Dream On

Hinge, according to my daughter, most of the artist today can't hold a candle
to them. When she saw Jimi Hendrix guitar solo, she nearly flipped - no one
is able to do these things today. I do think that recording technology is so sophisticated and advanced today that it allows the music industry to spit out all the Lady Gagas and Justin Biebers etc. etc. I was impressed with her answer and frankly I have to agree - music was just purer in those days and
the joy of making music and giving your all in a concert was pretty special too.

Today, it's all about the mighty dollar, younger groups just go out there
on stage and play almost without emotion, even the ones my daughter likes
like Paramore ...no substance really.