DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Merry Christmas all, Ho Ho Ho, Let's Go!
Friday afternoon music
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Picked up my trumpet after 20 years and played in the church Christmas program this year. YouTube was a great help in getting me going again!
This is one of my new favorite guys, enjoy his Christmas multitracks!
https://youtu.be/lNz1Qm8UiwA
This is one of my new favorite guys, enjoy his Christmas multitracks!
https://youtu.be/lNz1Qm8UiwA
:crickets: did I kill the thread? 
Anyway, doing taxes tonight. Yesterday on the radio happened to hear a bit of this: Billy Joel, Just the Way You Are from The Stranger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaA3YZ6QdJU
And it reminded of me that I got The Stranger album as a White Elephant gift in Boy Scouts, and I ended up listening to it over and over again during high school as study music and really really liked (like?) it. So when it came on the radio I was jamming out.
Funny (?) story - in high school, 10th grade I took a drafting class. Drafting is all about making very clear, legible lettering by hand for engineering drawings. My teacher was very strict - you basically either got an A or an F, and the difference between the two was a couple of crooked letters or using the wrong pencil weight to make them. One of our assignments was to write the lyrics of our favorite song, and it couldn't be Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Of all songs I chose this one: Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, from The Stranger. I bet I still have that assignment somewhere, I'll have to look. I really liked that class and that teacher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx8IWIvKg0
A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
We'll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I, face to face
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
In our Italian Restaurant
Things are okay with me these days
Got a good job, got a good office
Got a new wife, got a new life
And the family's fine
We lost touch long ago
You lost weight I did not know
You could ever look so nice after
So much time
Do you remember those days hanging out
At the village green
Engineer boots, leather jackets
And tight blue jeans
Drop a dime in the box play the
Song about New Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights
My sweet romantic teenage nights
Brenda and Eddie were the
Popular steadys
And the king and the queen
Of the prom
Riding around with the car top
Down and the radio on
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the
Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more
Than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would
Always know how to survive
Brenda and Eddy were still going
Steady in the summer of '75
When they decided the marriage would
Be at the end of July
Everyone said they were crazy
Brenda you know you're much too lazy
Eddie could never afford to live that
Kind of life
But there we were wavin' Brenda and
Eddie goodbye
They got an apartment with deep
Pile carpet
And a couple of paintings from Sears
A big waterbed that they bought
With the bread
They had saved for a couple
Of years
They started to fight when the
Money got tight
And they just didn't count on
The tears.
They lived for a while in a
Very nice style
But it's always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter
Of course
And they parted the closest
Of friends
Then the king and the queen went
Back to the green
But you can never go back
There again
Brenda and Eddie had had it
Already by the summer of '75
From the high to the low to
The end of the show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn't go back to
The greasers
The best they could do was
Pick up the pieces
We always knew they would both
Find a way to get by
That's all I heard about
Brenda and Eddie
Can't tell you more than I
Told you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda
And Eddie goodbye
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
In our Italian Restaurant
Anyway so back to tonight and taxes, I'm listening to The Stranger all over again, and I remember every word over a decade later: Billy Joel, The Stranger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtL8vWNZ4o&list=PLeHgkkY2CqfYISzGKUoyXNkkIeLKJiFqK
Anyway, doing taxes tonight. Yesterday on the radio happened to hear a bit of this: Billy Joel, Just the Way You Are from The Stranger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaA3YZ6QdJU
And it reminded of me that I got The Stranger album as a White Elephant gift in Boy Scouts, and I ended up listening to it over and over again during high school as study music and really really liked (like?) it. So when it came on the radio I was jamming out.
Funny (?) story - in high school, 10th grade I took a drafting class. Drafting is all about making very clear, legible lettering by hand for engineering drawings. My teacher was very strict - you basically either got an A or an F, and the difference between the two was a couple of crooked letters or using the wrong pencil weight to make them. One of our assignments was to write the lyrics of our favorite song, and it couldn't be Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Of all songs I chose this one: Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, from The Stranger. I bet I still have that assignment somewhere, I'll have to look. I really liked that class and that teacher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx8IWIvKg0
A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
We'll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I, face to face
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
In our Italian Restaurant
Things are okay with me these days
Got a good job, got a good office
Got a new wife, got a new life
And the family's fine
We lost touch long ago
You lost weight I did not know
You could ever look so nice after
So much time
Do you remember those days hanging out
At the village green
Engineer boots, leather jackets
And tight blue jeans
Drop a dime in the box play the
Song about New Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights
My sweet romantic teenage nights
Brenda and Eddie were the
Popular steadys
And the king and the queen
Of the prom
Riding around with the car top
Down and the radio on
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the
Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more
Than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would
Always know how to survive
Brenda and Eddy were still going
Steady in the summer of '75
When they decided the marriage would
Be at the end of July
Everyone said they were crazy
Brenda you know you're much too lazy
Eddie could never afford to live that
Kind of life
But there we were wavin' Brenda and
Eddie goodbye
They got an apartment with deep
Pile carpet
And a couple of paintings from Sears
A big waterbed that they bought
With the bread
They had saved for a couple
Of years
They started to fight when the
Money got tight
And they just didn't count on
The tears.
They lived for a while in a
Very nice style
But it's always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter
Of course
And they parted the closest
Of friends
Then the king and the queen went
Back to the green
But you can never go back
There again
Brenda and Eddie had had it
Already by the summer of '75
From the high to the low to
The end of the show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn't go back to
The greasers
The best they could do was
Pick up the pieces
We always knew they would both
Find a way to get by
That's all I heard about
Brenda and Eddie
Can't tell you more than I
Told you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda
And Eddie goodbye
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
In our Italian Restaurant
Anyway so back to tonight and taxes, I'm listening to The Stranger all over again, and I remember every word over a decade later: Billy Joel, The Stranger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtL8vWNZ4o&list=PLeHgkkY2CqfYISzGKUoyXNkkIeLKJiFqK
simps80
Rising Sun Member
omg
I Love italian restaurant. I have watched this concert from 1982 so many times...
good stuff!!
I Love italian restaurant. I have watched this concert from 1982 so many times...
good stuff!!
PabloCruise
Hard Core 4+
I have not been in here for a while, but I did not realize how long it had been!
Trumpet?!? You never cease to amaze me Matt!
Good stuff...
PabloCruise
Hard Core 4+
:crickets: did I kill the thread?
Anyway, doing taxes tonight. Yesterday on the radio happened to hear a bit of this: Billy Joel, Just the Way You Are from The Stranger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaA3YZ6QdJU
And it reminded of me that I got The Stranger album as a White Elephant gift in Boy Scouts, and I ended up listening to it over and over again during high school as study music and really really liked (like?) it. So when it came on the radio I was jamming out.
Funny (?) story - in high school, 10th grade I took a drafting class. Drafting is all about making very clear, legible lettering by hand for engineering drawings. My teacher was very strict - you basically either got an A or an F, and the difference between the two was a couple of crooked letters or using the wrong pencil weight to make them. One of our assignments was to write the lyrics of our favorite song, and it couldn't be Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Of all songs I chose this one: Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, from The Stranger. I bet I still have that assignment somewhere, I'll have to look. I really liked that class and that teacher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx8IWIvKg0
A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
We'll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I, face to face
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
In our Italian Restaurant
Things are okay with me these days
Got a good job, got a good office
Got a new wife, got a new life
And the family's fine
We lost touch long ago
You lost weight I did not know
You could ever look so nice after
So much time
Do you remember those days hanging out
At the village green
Engineer boots, leather jackets
And tight blue jeans
Drop a dime in the box play the
Song about New Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights
My sweet romantic teenage nights
Brenda and Eddie were the
Popular steadys
And the king and the queen
Of the prom
Riding around with the car top
Down and the radio on
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the
Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more
Than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would
Always know how to survive
Brenda and Eddy were still going
Steady in the summer of '75
When they decided the marriage would
Be at the end of July
Everyone said they were crazy
Brenda you know you're much too lazy
Eddie could never afford to live that
Kind of life
But there we were wavin' Brenda and
Eddie goodbye
They got an apartment with deep
Pile carpet
And a couple of paintings from Sears
A big waterbed that they bought
With the bread
They had saved for a couple
Of years
They started to fight when the
Money got tight
And they just didn't count on
The tears.
They lived for a while in a
Very nice style
But it's always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter
Of course
And they parted the closest
Of friends
Then the king and the queen went
Back to the green
But you can never go back
There again
Brenda and Eddie had had it
Already by the summer of '75
From the high to the low to
The end of the show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn't go back to
The greasers
The best they could do was
Pick up the pieces
We always knew they would both
Find a way to get by
That's all I heard about
Brenda and Eddie
Can't tell you more than I
Told you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda
And Eddie goodbye
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
In our Italian Restaurant
Anyway so back to tonight and taxes, I'm listening to The Stranger all over again, and I remember every word over a decade later: Billy Joel, The Stranger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtL8vWNZ4o&list=PLeHgkkY2CqfYISzGKUoyXNkkIeLKJiFqK
I love that song. I think it resonates with so many people b/c he captures the feelings and emotions of so many growing up...
A favorite Billy Joel of mine:
I don't think it got much air play, but I always thought it was cool.
Too funny, I spent the weekend working on taxes as well.
This is great, thanks for sharing!
PabloCruise
Hard Core 4+
Today I came into work to find someone had dumped an old, crappy sofa in our parking lot.
I was standing there looking at this old, crappy sofa and another guy came up and told me a story about his hometown how his buddy dumped a bunch of old crap in the local holler (yes, he did use the word "holler") and years later the EPA found something that tied the guy to the litter.
I said, "Wow, just like Alice's Restaurant!"
I could tell by the look on his face he had not ever heard Alice's Restaurant. I confirmed this fact with him and then sent him the YouTube link.
So I had to listen to it today. On the chance that you have not heard Alice's Restaurant in a long time (or ever), you should:
I was standing there looking at this old, crappy sofa and another guy came up and told me a story about his hometown how his buddy dumped a bunch of old crap in the local holler (yes, he did use the word "holler") and years later the EPA found something that tied the guy to the litter.
I said, "Wow, just like Alice's Restaurant!"
I could tell by the look on his face he had not ever heard Alice's Restaurant. I confirmed this fact with him and then sent him the YouTube link.
So I had to listen to it today. On the chance that you have not heard Alice's Restaurant in a long time (or ever), you should:
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
"Yes sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie. I put that envelope under that garbage."
kurtnkegger
Rising Sun Member
I downloaded Alices Restaurant years ago, and burned it to CD. Every Thanksgiving, on the way to Grammas house I would play it, and force the kids to listen...they were pretty little then...Now at 30, my Daughter will mention how she liked the tradition of listening to it Thanksgiving day...
Is there any overture as great as this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEMx8eqMYE0&list=PLpuoM9nnFnuoEim9tYOk7t8JKwDpRMYgR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEMx8eqMYE0&list=PLpuoM9nnFnuoEim9tYOk7t8JKwDpRMYgR
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
The overture to Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, now that's a classy way to kick the evening off.
Or Mendelssohn's Trumpet Ouverture
Strauss' Die Fledermaus
Or just about any Bach or Wagner.
Or Mendelssohn's Trumpet Ouverture
Strauss' Die Fledermaus
Or just about any Bach or Wagner.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Speaking of which, that reminds me of something.
You may remember these kids bringing forth the rock a few years ago. They are all awesome but I still maintain that drummer is going to be somebody.
Anyway, Led Zeppelin is covered often in untraditional (often silly novelty) ways but it can be done interestingly, too.
You may remember these kids bringing forth the rock a few years ago. They are all awesome but I still maintain that drummer is going to be somebody.
Anyway, Led Zeppelin is covered often in untraditional (often silly novelty) ways but it can be done interestingly, too.
simps80
Rising Sun Member
yacht rock anyone?
no?
ok fine
La canción de Danny it is then
no?
ok fine
La canción de Danny it is then
yacht rock anyone?
no?
ok fine
La canción de Danny it is then
Simps, where you at tonight? Smooth cruisin' sounds like to me.
As for Wagner, his music isn't as bad as it sounds. Or so I've heard.
I don't know, those didn't bring out the emotion quite the same, IMO. They are certainly classy. I like less strings and more brass, that's why I'm a trumpet player
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
It's all about what moves you. I'm not a musician and this has remained despite attempts to rectify it. But I had a friend many years ago who was a reasonably talented guitarist. Not professional but as good anyone else in high school. He used to want to be absolutely perfect and worked and worked at it but hated Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin because he was "sloppy". It was a little later that I realized he didn't really hear the music, he heard the notes and could replicate them, but the emotion just wasn't there. Now what he *did* get was being able to play in a band in high school is where it's at. He kind of turned out to be, well, a loser later in life, but in high school, oh yeah, you betcha.I don't know, those didn't bring out the emotion quite the same, IMO. They are certainly classy. I like less strings and more brass, that's why I'm a trumpet player
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Came across some old Pointfest ticket stubs the other day, got me to thinking about the 90s. Pointfest probably doesn't mean anything to anyone other than maybe, just maybe, Hulk. So just a playlist of alternativepoprockprotopostpunkgrunge that I kind of remember. Whatever.
Not an exhaustive list or even all that good, but just bands that I think represent and could only have existed then, in that it made sense at the time.
Interesting note, Jim Ellison, the lead singer in Material Issue, committed suicide by running his car in a closed garage. I never knew that actually could happen, just thought it was something you see on TV.
Not an exhaustive list or even all that good, but just bands that I think represent and could only have existed then, in that it made sense at the time.
Interesting note, Jim Ellison, the lead singer in Material Issue, committed suicide by running his car in a closed garage. I never knew that actually could happen, just thought it was something you see on TV.