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Completely disagree on the thread but you get complete exemption for the above............ :-)Derek and the fuckin' Dominoes.....
The Scouse chancers the beatles.....
What a shite thread
Completely disagree on the thread but you get complete exemption for the above............ :-)Derek and the fuckin' Dominoes.....
The Scouse chancers the beatles.....
What a shite thread
Absolutely brilliantly worded this bit - I wouldn't have been able to quantify in words and yet I know exactly what you mean.Put this on whilst doing this and that, with the idea of giving it a first crack. Seems like standard fare in general. Though Layla is a classic track. But what I want to write about is the song whose lyrics I misheard, whose title i then ridiculously misread. ‘Keep on growing’ had become ‘Keep on rolling.’ Yet this was an apt decription of what I was experiencing. One of those tunes where there is a palpable sense of waves of sound rolling - of energetic shapes playing and dancing within. One of those times when it feels like folk have stopped trying to be musicians and just let the music flow instead. Jammin‘ in joyous celebration and communion. Literally stopped what else I was doing - an involuntary foot tapping, smile cracking listen. ‘This,’ for me, is a beautiful example of what music is capable of evoking. And then back to ‘as before.‘ Through this song and that. Layla appeared, then left. Eventually got to the point where i was thinking that the album was getting a bit long and tiresome, but just as the last track was coming to a finish, so not such bad timing. Overall, it’s ok and would give it a 5.5, though don’t much feel to give it another listen - but then with Keep on growing and Layla, I’d add another point…and a half, so that makes 7.
Yes, well said, I know what you mean very very well, I try to explain sometimes to people that this is what Jazz does to me, as did Progressive Rock. But Jazz is all about improvisation, you play the main theme of the song and then away you fly to improvise land, somewhere else, into the void, into the sky....the listener hopefully flies away with the musicians, another world and a complete other worldy experience, like an acid trip, your mind leaves your body behind....Catatonia haha. It transcends the mind.Put this on whilst doing this and that, with the idea of giving it a first crack. Seems like standard fare in general. Though Layla is a classic track. But what I want to write about is the song whose lyrics I misheard, whose title i then ridiculously misread. ‘Keep on growing’ had become ‘Keep on rolling.’ Yet this was an apt decription of what I was experiencing. One of those tunes where there is a palpable sense of waves of sound rolling - of energetic shapes playing and dancing within. One of those times when it feels like folk have stopped trying to be musicians and just let the music flow instead. Jammin‘ in joyous celebration and communion. Literally stopped what else I was doing - an involuntary foot tapping, smile cracking listen. ‘This,’ for me, is a beautiful example of what music is capable of evoking. And then back to ‘as before.‘ Through this song and that. Layla appeared, then left. Eventually got to the point where i was thinking that the album was getting a bit long and tiresome, but just as the last track was coming to a finish, so not such bad timing. Overall, it’s ok and would give it a 5.5, though don’t much feel to give it another listen - but then with Keep on growing and Layla, I’d add another point…and a half, so that makes 7.
That was a lovely piece of writing Bill, from the heart.Yes, well said, I know what you mean very very well, I try to explain sometimes to people that this is what Jazz does to me, as did Progressive Rock. But Jazz is all about improvisation, you play the main theme of the song and away you fly, somewhere else, into the void, into the sky....the listener hopefully flies away with the musicians, another world and a complete other worldy experience, like an acid trip, your mind leaves your body behind....Catatonia haha. It transcends the mind.
It feels vaguely familiar to countless other moments in your life where you were absorbed in a zone, lost in thought, enthralled by bliss, or perhaps simply zoned out of the everyday...meditating.
Theres been times when my wife has asked me a question and I dont really hear her, I think she knows when not to ask!
But the musicianship has to be first rate, like a John Coltrane Sax solo, like Hendrix at Woodstock, he could do things on his Sax that you didnt think were possible.
But this is the power of music. What I would have given to be a part of something like this.
But as I listen, maybe I am part of it.
Anyway please forgive my ramblings, I think I could talk about music all day long :)
Haha, cheers mate, thats a lovely thought, and a situation I would very much like to find myself in.That was a lovely piece of writing Bill, from the heart.
wow, it felt like we were in the same room sharing a scotch or 2 chewing the fat and putting the world to right.
A pleasure to read that.