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Most Over Rated Musician

Posted on 04/05/2013 7:20:30 PM PDT by MNDude

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To: JoeProBono

Curse you!

That’ll be stuck in my head all night!


361 posted on 04/05/2013 9:46:42 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: FredZarguna
"Oh, Good Lord."

I had the same response to your remark, "I seriously doubt Barry even knows who he’s talking to."

The night Barry O presented them with a Kennedy Center Award, he had no idea who they were. I guess he just hands those out to strangers all the time.

Gotcha.

362 posted on 04/05/2013 9:47:11 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: FredZarguna

Kravitz can rock out when he wants to.


363 posted on 04/05/2013 9:47:45 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: FredZarguna

There will be blood!


364 posted on 04/05/2013 9:48:37 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: doc1019

Frankly, I don’t care for the Grateful Dead either. Not too crazy about Phish either. Some Primus I love, other stuff, just not too sure about. But Col Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains ROCKS! - Les Claypool, Buckethead, Bernie Worrell, and “Brain.” Amazing funk/rock jams.

Mark


365 posted on 04/05/2013 9:49:32 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Salamander

366 posted on 04/05/2013 9:50:11 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: pnz1

Don’t think she’s really a “musician, but Taylor Swift
++++++++++
BINGO! I’m amazed that it took 67 posts for someone to finally get it right.


367 posted on 04/05/2013 9:50:26 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Salamander
Yeah, but ... you cannot cover Whole Lotta Love, any more than say Whippin' Post.

Some numbers are just owned.

368 posted on 04/05/2013 9:51:13 PM PDT by FredZarguna ([Use pure Sodium to keep the flames going in the acid bath.])
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To: vladimir998

You might appreciate this.

My favorite singer over the past few years has become Polish legend Czeslaw Niemen....He recorded an album of Russian and Ukrainian Folk songs, and when I saw this video the first time, it literally brought tears to my eyes, it was so hauntingly beautiful...It’s a cover of the Ukrainian folk song, Chorniye Browi, Karii Oczi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfJgfWZsQZM


369 posted on 04/05/2013 9:51:36 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Joe 6-pack

Obozo is a freaking sock puppet missing its hand.

He’d say he loved whatever gets him applause.

Do you seriously think he’s groovin’ to When The Levy Breaks or Over the Hills And Far Away in the oval orifice?

*Really*?

He probably only listens to “Mao Redbooks On Tape”.


370 posted on 04/05/2013 9:52:48 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: FredZarguna
any more than say Whippin' Post.

Zappa could.

371 posted on 04/05/2013 9:53:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

****It’s so funny in this video, because he looked like something from out of Lord of the Rings.****

LOL he looks like that narrow-eyed dwarf from the new Hobbits movie.


372 posted on 04/05/2013 9:53:16 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: Joe 6-pack

He doesn’t select the honorees, any more than he selects people who win the Medal of Honor. And, in both cases, he probably doesn’t know who they are until his prep team tells him just prior to the ceremony.


373 posted on 04/05/2013 9:54:07 PM PDT by FredZarguna ([Use pure Sodium to keep the flames going in the acid bath.])
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To: JoeProBono

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ARRRRGGGHHH!!!!

Make the voices stop!!!


374 posted on 04/05/2013 9:54:37 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: FredZarguna
Yes, I do. He's awful. His technical skills as a musician do not in any way compare to the great 60's and 70's guitarists, his voice has practically no range or expressive power. He started his career as a cheap Bob Dylan imitation and finished it doing badly disguised pop/top 40 crappola that is unworthy of anyone who claims to have inherited the legacy of Rock Music. He's a worthless hack and I've said so for decades before his obnoxious politics confirmed my opinion of this thoroughly amateurish poseur. He has not produced a single memorable lyric in his entire career. He wasted his talent: he should have been a jingle writer for Garden State roofers and fuel oil salesman; at least then he and his following of pretentious drones would not be inflicting their hideous "taste" on airwaves outside of New Jersey.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I feel bad for you. So ignorant, so hateful, so closed-minded. You can hate his politics, but don't let that impact your objective opinion of him.

Admittedly, his voice is now a shadow of what it used to be. I would suggest listening to songs like Jungle Land or Thunder Road. Start with the studio versions available on Youtube, and follow the lyrics available online.

I suppose if you grew up in rural Oklahoma or the like, Springsteen may not be for you. Peace.

375 posted on 04/05/2013 9:55:03 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Revolting cat!

****If “Dylan can’t sing” y’all, then you oughta lissen to Ivan, who can!****

Post a youtube mate.


376 posted on 04/05/2013 9:56:50 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: dfwgator
Just saw Zappa plays Zappa with my son a few months ago. I loved Frank. Saw him many times. He was a great musician and probably the most underrated ever (although I think Leslie West is up there pretty high, if you have not heard his recent stuff, you should.)

But, nope. Even Zappa could not cover Dickey Betts and Sky Dog when they were playing off each other in their primes.

377 posted on 04/05/2013 9:58:36 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Which, sadly, Duane did not get to live to see.)
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To: FredZarguna

Indeed.

Even Reznor conceded that when Cash covered “Hurt”.

Back in my misspent youth, there was a year in which, every time I walked into a bar, the first thing I heard was the current bar band’s intro to “Immigrant Song”.

Seriously.

It was weird.

Now that’s been replaced by hearing “Crazy Train” every time I go to my doctor.

[I think somebody’s trying to tell me something]


378 posted on 04/05/2013 9:59:26 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.....)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Funny. I never owned a Led Zepplin album, but the music was played so ubiquitously that I never needed to.

But the fact is, their music was good, at least some of it. I came to that conclusion at, of all places, the Bolton Fair in Massachusetts. (they have been doing that fair for something like 130 years)

Anyway, I was there a few years ago and I heard a guy playing "Stairway To Heaven".

I know, I know.

Thing is, the guy was playing it on a homemade hammer dulcimer. He had just finished a song, and had two or three people standing nearby, when he began playing again. I stopped to listen, and after a few seconds I realized what song he was playing, and kind of inwardly raised my eyebrows. It just seemed like a weird choice.

But the more he played, the more amazing it got. And the crowd watching got bigger and bigger in a very small time frame. It seemed like musical flypaper. Nearly every person from the age of eight to eighty that walked by, stopped in their tracks to listen. In the space of a few bars, a small crowd of about twenty formed up.

It was amazing. I found myself grinning as I listened, as nearly everyone else watching was, too.

He got a vigorous ovation when he finished, and people lined up to buy his homemade CD. I didn't and often wished that I did.

It may be that nearly every song played on a hammered dulcimer may sound celestial, but that version gathered people of all ages.

Since then, I realized that music is like food. If you don't have good basic ingredients, you can't have great food. If that song, "Stairway To Heaven" wasn't good, no matter how well that guy played it on his homemade hammered dulcimer, it wouldn't have grabbed people like that.

379 posted on 04/05/2013 10:00:52 PM PDT by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: FredZarguna
"He doesn’t select the honorees, any more than he selects people who win the Medal of Honor."

You may want to look at the composition of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees. You may be technically correct that Barry doesn't personally select them. But his first lady, his Secretary of HHS, Secretary of State, NPS Director and Secretary of Education all have a hand in it.

It's kind of like saying, "Harbaugh didn't win the superowl, his players did."

It just makes your assertion that, "I seriously doubt Barry even knows who he’s talking to," nothing but silly.

380 posted on 04/05/2013 10:01:20 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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