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CONTINUE PART 2 OF 2 FROM STEVE'S POST OVERHEAD
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really a Q for
Sunshine since my Jeep Wrangler
has only cassette - despite the anachronistic year warranting a CD, did
Songbook come out on cassette ? Or did you - more likely- 'dub' your
own - cassette parlance as I recall ? . And
Yuri
- I could not agree more - a person who has never
experienced the unique 'listen' of Album format - and know the original
song order - and intent as to what
follows what -eg the loon and
'Whispers of the
North',
'Gotta get Away' et al, is ibdeed missing
something, and the randomized downloaded CD's may very well satisfy
the listener's classifications or themes as they enjoy - I DO THAT on-
hard-drive...and intend to burn them...yes... but I 'know' the album order
and that can be a surprisingly unsettling sensation as we seem to
agree.... and the $$$$ man-o-man, from buying a canoe paddle to have
the Man sign it, to concert tickets, to all releases I couldever get ny
hands on, multiple thereof as they wear out, or I want an 'emergancy
back-up' lol...should it go out of print...or..just in case their is indeed
a 'pole-shift' or 'equatorial shift' lol.... I'll
have my back-up systems.....lol I think I paid for his flight to Brazil with
Sting and (I can only hope) part of the $ that went to insurance
premiums that in turn covered Gord in the hospital this decade...and
brought him back...to his family...and US.... yes.... money I'd spend in a
heartbeat if he were broke and needed help....its been known to happen
with celebrities of course....not el Gordo', I am quite sure...but I'd chip in
every dollar I had....
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jj -
re:
Quote:
jj Re: You Know You Are A Serious Gl Fan If...
...every other song you attempt to compose ends up sounding almost exactly like a pre-existing GL tune (for some reason not evident until final playback)
yeah, there's a fine line between 'influence' and 'plagiarism'
....you're mom's a doll, steveo....does she like not like Buble?
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lol... yes the first thing IS a strong sign lol....but I have to admit as a
drummer way back.. I am not a songwriter..but I DID pick out a song
I 'wrote" - thought up in my head and never knew how to write it down....
made up almost exclusively of miner 7's - as my old 18 yr old longg black-
haired guitar teacher told me GORD'S music was rife with.... she played a
few..and I reckognized 'Beautiful ' instantly......as I stared at her.....-sigh-
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jj -
and my Mom - yes, she is amazing at 83 - alive,
strong healthy and vibrant...clear minded....straighten's
my wagon out and cleans my plow still as needed since Merry was gone,
and had kept me honest...lol.. yep - well you asked if she has heard Buble
from me .... He is not quite within my musical taste as a vocalist - though
I applaud anyone that does old standards...sorry to put i this way but it
is honest - he sounds to me like an anemic version of Harry Connick Jr.,
bereft of testosterone version, sounds like Harry if her were kicked in
the 'nads - sorry ladies.... lol.... NO jj, I am
sorry. I do like his music and choices... I just have to able to hear myslef
so to speak in the voice I listen to when a male vocalist - yes I have to
be able to sorta....here my self in say alter-ego - but me still in the
music's protagonist - in sound and in ....character maybe - dunno how to
put it...BUT- when I listen to Lightfoot, I can hear the strength of being
corporeal and incorporeal - from , or while, paddling those sub-arctic
waters for 500 miles....take a lot of fiber-of-being......and during notably
his BBP - period allegedly '72 - '75 I hear it strongest, despite his
battle.... indomitable will and endurance..bursting through his
Hudson'sBay/Sheffield Co. 'Malone-grizzly cloth' vest and all as he'd
exhausted...pull his canoe up shore for the night with compadres....and
barely creak down low enough in pain to light the fire to start camp.... I
don't hear that in Buble' - with all due respect owed his talent...and yes -
Mom
would probably like him... good thought, though I still gotta
say maybe not- cause... she and DAD BOTH thought 'men should sound
like men' - consequentially (and take that however it hits ya) - they liked
deep bass voices like Bing Crosby- now there is enthusiasm for life - the
gusto ! not...the favourite uncle, maybe lol) and EdAmes - the Native
American singer that sang 'My cup runneth over' - and played -i forget his
name - the indian scout on Dan'l Boone... man he COULD he sing - and
that hilarious footage of him throwing the axe into the silhoutte of
a man on a wood board on the Johny Carson Show...lol...pricless...
And BTW - My parents OWNED Gord records....he made the
grade ..lol...."now THAT sounds like a man yessir.." lol... - but I know
what they meant -Dad had a deep Bass voice and he wanted to listen to
someone that he could relate to...and Mom - liked to listen to a man
that sounded like...well...DAD. - NOT a case of MYSOGENY on Dad's part
or Chauvin creepin' in, or male idolatry or paternalism - she simply..liked
the sound...
They, and I too, simply celebrate the 'viva la
difference'! A totally
parochial attitude indeed. -Thats all ..
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My story is a little different, along with the above principle I stand by,
with me.......I do like in some fashion to be able
to hear myself in A
male vocalist - Lightfoot is the closest that ever struck me in most ways
think of myself....imperfect..not afraid to speak of a flower- secure
enough to do so, and yet strong enough to paddle those mad rivers he
did...and strong enough to beat alcoholism - not spoken of much about
Gord - but I've seen a family member who beat that...and it took every
ounce of strength in his STRONG being....admirable..
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Amd
FEMALE vocalists - I like 'em to melt
me with chanteuse oldies - give me a good -ole nightclub-style lady-who-
sings standards songstress' in 'Jessica Rabit'-type - say- a long red
dress -Morticia-adams style - to the floor, but alive and vivacious.... -
...-not crawling in a demeaning to themselves fashion on the piano
top...lol....but VERY female.... singing oldies ...take me back
sweetheart.... eg Canadian primarily Jazz -export-
Nancy Lamott....oh Lordy... unfortunately she passed a few
years back from Breast cancer..., and Natalie Cole -Oh Lord what a
beauty - and a voice that makes me melt down in my snake boots... her
two oldies albums - each with one duet with digitally-revived Dad - ole
Nat King Cole.......genius... tastefully done...even in one song she says
quietly AT THE END 'I love you, poppa' - to his memory. A good
Dad, 'Nat' sounds like... an inspiration to Natalie.
On tracks... the rst of her oldies- are absolutely stunning..as is she...
AND Linda Ronstadt - oldies again trilogy of releases - with the great
Nelson Riddle Orchestra - singing in homage (there it is again) to HER
father's memory....oldies like STARDUST...on man sing it Linda....same
story...
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Seems I am going back in time in music...as I grow older - though 50 is
not older lol... I have through life's event IMHO earned not only my grey
hairs at the temples.... and peppered in the beared....BUT also -a rare
Cigar on the deck - that smells like Pipe smoke- in homage to DAD. (there
it is again), and the right of manhood some say to listen to and really
appreciate Sinatra and Tony Bennet.... as in my playlist in Myspatial
hooey list -
that needs a lube.oil,and filter boyz..lol....
So my favourite make vocalists - Lightfoot - Connick, Willy Nelson-
(Stardust oldies too from Willy!), Bennet, Sinatra, Taylor - JT -, Bryan
Adams...Rod Stewart (even more oldies!) - I've GOTTA be able
to hear some part of myself - again corporeal or incorporeal...in them I
do... and
female ?- I freely admit it - it is
to whom I am
attracted. and melt when I hear them..and when I
see them peforming....preferably oldies....it is beyond my loquacious
capacity... -phew-...-sweat-.....-sigh-..lol.....sorry... !
OK ok RATINGS CENSORS STOPPED ME.....LOL
sorry
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RM -lol - yes....
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TC - I HIDE -EM - so when I come back with the bux they are still there lol....
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Bo-Stone - gGREAT list lol I love it !
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Brian and
Char
- I think this oughta-be-a-law should be the etched in some
VERY old stone tablets....lol....
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And, finally -
Yuri- once again you have expressed
yourself in a tour-de-force method of conveying thoughts
and feelings that is incomparable, my hats off to
you sir....
geo steve