What are you listening to? (2023)

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Awesome Mix Vol. 1.

[Natsinpwc]

https://abc7chicago.com/bruce-springsteen-in-philadelphia-tour-postponed-illness-e-street-band-citizens-bank-park/13658502/

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https://abc7chicago.com/bruce-springsteen-in-philadelphia-tour-postponed-illness-e-street-band-citizens-bank-park/13658502/

Covid went through the band last year, hopefully it's not back.

[Natsinpwc]

Covid went through the band last year, hopefully it's not back.

Yeah. Lots of stuff going around now.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

so yesterday at work we had introductions for recent hires during which we go around the room with a fun fact. Yesterday was to name your favorite band or performer. That's really tough because mine shifts over time and it's hard to pick one. I did it scientifically yesterday, looking at my Touchtunes app for my most frequently played songs. 3 out of the 4 were Billy Gibbons's - Quiero Mas Dinero; I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide; and La Grange - so I went that way. TBH, could have been Clapton, especially Derek and the Dominoes with Duane.  Could have been Duane, too. With those latter two, I tend to play a wider playlist.

[imref]

so yesterday at work we had introductions for recent hires during which we go around the room with a fun fact. Yesterday was to name your favorite band or performer. That's really tough because mine shifts over time and it's hard to pick one. I did it scientifically yesterday, looking at my Touchtunes app for my most frequently played songs. 3 out of the 4 were Billy Gibbons's - Quiero Mas Dinero; I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide; and La Grange - so I went that way. TBH, could have been Clapton, especially Derek and the Dominoes with Duane.  Could have been Duane, too. With those latter two, I tend to play a wider playlist.

"My head's in mississippi" didn't make your list?

I saw ZZ Top in the late 1980s on the Afterburner tour. The concert was kind of meh as they just seemed to be going through the motions and didn't interact with the audience at all. The cut-over during intermission of the stage set from the ZZ Top mobile to a space ship was pretty cool though.

[tomterp]

Surprised nobody has posted this yet.  This song was posted 2 weeks ago and has 39 million views, from a previously unrecorded artist.  He did a few cell phone videos, two guys in WV went over and recorded him with better equipment (radiowv.com) and the rest is history.

There's a whole lot of political crap happening around this song and artist, but I would suggest you just listen, maybe also listen to some of his other works and his commentary on his political views and make your own judgement.  No question, is a passionate singer, and his ability to turn a phrase is really impressive.

This is "must listen" music.  The song debuted on Billboard's Hot 100 at #1, the first time in that list's history that a song has hit the chart at #1 from an artist who had never before had a song on the charts.  It's reported he's already turned down an $8m contract offer.

[imref]

interesting. Musically it reminds me of Jelly Roll. Politically, this song has become an anthem for the right-wing (I know, wrong forum).

If you like this from a musical standpoint, check out Jelly Roll's "Save Me" (very dark lyrics but a fantastic song).

[Natsinpwc]

For Natsie and his new best mate.

[English Natsie]

Top of Wander F's playlist...    

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I've listened to 3 versions of Angel from Montgomery this morning - Bonnie Raitt solo, a young John Prine solo, and this one.

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Springsteen postpones all September concerts indefinitely (including Nats park). He's dealing with a peptic ulcer.

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saw James Taylor last night at Wolf Trap. Great show, especially considering that he's 75. He spent almost as much time telling stories and jokes at the beginning as he did performing songs. He told the story of playing "Something in the way she moves" for Paul McCartney and George Harrison as his audition for a deal with Apple Music (which he got). He said that George liked the song so much he went home that night and wrote his own version of it. He is playing again tonight and Sunday at Wolf Trap.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

saw James Taylor last night at Wolf Trap. Great show, especially considering that he's 75. He spent almost as much time telling stories and jokes at the beginning as he did performing songs. He told the story of playing "Something in the way she moves" for Paul McCartney and George Harrison as his audition for a deal with Apple Music (which he got). He said that George liked the song so much he went home that night and wrote his own version of it. He is playing again tonight and Sunday at Wolf Trap.

well that's Something.

[Natsinpwc]

Heard that story about ten years ago when we saw him at Jiffy Lube. The outdoor.theater not the oil change place. Pretty funny. Yea he likes to talk to the audience. Puts on a very good show.

One of my favorite JT songs.

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setlist from last night. Only disappointments were that he didn't do "How Sweet it Is" and there was no Buffett tribute (he did one at the previous show).

"Blue" Lou Meroni (at 77) was on the sax.

Set 1:
Something in the Way She Moves
Rainy Day Man
Copperline
Everybody Has the Blues
Mona (with a long story about his pet pig)
Some Days You Gotta Dance (The Chicks cover)
Sweet Baby James
Country Road
Steamroller
Mexico
Up on the Roof

Set 2:
Secret o' Life
You Make It Easy
You've Got a Friend(Carole King cover)
Carolina in My Mind
Raised Up Family
Fire and Rain
Shower the People
Your Smiling Face

Encore:
Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran cover)
Shed a Little Light
You Can Close Your Eyes

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I ushered a 1980 fundraiser he did for John Anderson at Walter Brown Arena in Boston. He told the Mona story then as well.

[English Natsie]

'...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.'

[JCA-CrystalCity]

[Natsinpwc]

Thanks guys.  Hard to believe has been 22 years.

[HondoKillebrew]

Thanks guys.  Hard to believe has been 22 years.

Definitely.

[Dave in Fairfax]

September 12, 1683. The Siege of Vienna by the Ottomans is broken. The largest cavalry charge in history takes place, led by the Polish heavy cavalry known as the Winged Hussars. The video below incorporates footage from a 2012 film about the battle. There's also a little bit of footage from a Polish TV movie showing the Winged Hussars fighting Swedish troops in the Thirty Years' War, which seems a little out of place, but stock footage is stock footage.

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Margaritaville is currently #38 on the billboard top 100. It last charted in 1977.

[Natsinpwc]

Heard this the other day of the first time. Apparently this was the original version before he made it into Let It Rain. Stephen Stills supposedly plays on this also.

[Dave in Fairfax]

Sabaton's cover of Motorhead's "1916", about the Battle of the Somme, and a tribute to soldiers in general. As a former infantry officer and as someone whose father enlisted in 1918, so I might not have existed if the war had lasted longer, this one really gets to me.