Poetry, drama, painting, dance, MUSIC. The energy on this thread proves that art is indeed powerful.. (and can even be dangerous.) Music
in particular can stir up our emotions to point of confrontations. Plato warns us of the good and bad influences of music.
Lennon and the others discussed here? I'd say we can thank History for music of the 60's & 70's. (with drugs and war as a close second, of
course.)
I'm thinking of beating rocks together, the first monkey to beat a hollow tree with a stick, or the first aborigine to whirl a Bullroarer in
Australia. The oldest bone flute was made from a vulture's wing and is dated to 30,000BC.
Don't know what happened. I thought the early sound was quite good. I like to imagine baja's early native americans playing this instrument in that
cave I once showed here.
Originally posted by Barry A.
Barbara "Babs" Streisand a good example------devine voice (best of the century, IMO) but very flawed in her personal beliefs, but so what? Her
talent is her contribution.
I am a KINGSTON TRIO guy, the original 3, that is. And a SINATRA fan also.
Originally posted by Barry A.
Barbara "Babs" Streisand a good example------devine voice (best of the century, IMO) but very flawed in her personal beliefs, but so what? Her
talent is her contribution.
I am a KINGSTON TRIO guy, the original 3, that is. And a SINATRA fan also.
Barry
Barry,
you're allowed five.
Perhaps, but my memory is too shot to just come up with the other 2 off the top of my head..
I loved the EAGLES, and somebody mentioned Madonna (she is amazing). And, second to Babs for tone-control has GOT to be Emma Lou Harris for her first
25 years----getting a little rusty now, but still good well into her '60's. She still gives me tingles in my body when I hear certain songs of her's
(maybe that is because she is beautiful to watch, too).
Then there is Andrea Bocelli-------tough to beat HIM.
For me it is ALL about the tonal-quality as I can seldom make out what they are saying.
I only took exception to the comment that "nothing was happening" except the Beatles and the BB's.
OK poor choice of words. Let's not forget Traffic, Jeff Beck, Dave Mason, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, Clapton, Blind Faith, Airplane, Big
Brother & The Holding Company, The Dead, Moby Grape, Charlatans, Steve Miller, Boz, Quicksilver, Santana, Sly and Janis. Steward Brand, Chet
Helms, Big Daddy Tom Donahue, Haight before the hippies, Castro St. before the gays. Man those were the days.
US Marines: providing enemies of America an opportunity to die for their country since 1775.
What I say before any important decision.
F*ck it.
Jeez Lee, how about Grant Street before Ferlinghetti. It really hasn't been the same since Emperor Norton died!
Yes I do remember sitting in a chicken wire cage at the Fox and the Hound listening to jazz before I could buy a drink. The summer of love and the
transition of the HA may not have been the best example of progress, but it was the best we could do, and it was history making. If this was a bad
thing, how much better a thing was if for Nixon and Kissinger to swear on their Bibles that we weren't in Laos, when we now know they were in process
of dropping more bombs on that country than fell on all of Europe for all of WWII. Others Americans were doing that while we were letting our hair
grow. I know where I heap the shame. IMAGINE.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
Lee sparked me. I don't think the hippies screwed-up the Haight Ashberry any worse than Nixon screwed-up Laos. Lennon was an anti-war icon, and
although that wasn't what got him killed, I never seem to tire of comparing hippie transparency to Nixonian deceit. I never forgave Merle Haggard for
"Okie from Muskogee" either!!!!
I'm sure glad politics isn't like that any more.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
One thing about music are the memories often triggered by associating a song heard with a memorable event in life.
Although I'd heard the Joni Mitchell song many times before then, whenever I hear it now I remember sailing off St. John in the USVI looking at a
hillside being carved up with new homes.
Along the same line (sort of), "Spirit in the Sky" will forever bring forth pleasant memories from the many Topless Bars we
used to visit after work at North American Aviation in El Segundo.
"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen.
The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others
cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn
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