Cancer Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 Re: The Last Word Well, we're not to the chainsaw parts yet. That's rotational kinematics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 Re: The Last Word okay learn something new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Re: The Last Word Off to see Cold Chisel live tonight. They are playing live in Sydney and the concert is being simucast around Australia to selected cinemas. So I'll be watching a "film" that is a live concert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Re: The Last Word Doesn't seem that exciting to me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Re: The Last Word A concert can only be enjoyable if there's a mosh pit. I like those at the opera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Re: The Last Word Are there Valkyries? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word Tall blond women who lift weights. Close enough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word Doesn't seem that exciting to me... You're not Australian or a fan of Aussie Pub Rock i take it. for LM he might have heard of Rose Tattoo who came from the same era as Cold Chisel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word Nope, I have sadly outmoded and pedestrian tastes in music. Varied, but outmoded and pedestrian. And the closest I've been to Australia was nearly 20 years ago (20 years ago in June, in fact) when we honeymooned in Rarotonga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word I bet you listen to both Country and Western! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word Actually ... from that whole milieu, I only listen to old stuff, almost exclusively. I have some Johnny Cash; I have some Flatt & Scruggs; I have some Bonnie Raitt; I have a couple of odd collections which have country artists on them, but the collections are not categorized as country (one is/was found in the New Age bin, in fact). I have some k.d. lang and the Reclines, and while they sometimes fall in the country bin, lang by her own admission says they change styles a lot. As someone who has lived a majority of his life on the West Coast, I was always bemused by the "Western" label. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word ... Johnny Cash is art, not C&W. I like his late covers, like Soundgarden's Rusty Cage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word When you heard him on US Armed Forces Radio's C&W show back in the early 1960s, he sure does too count as C&W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word C&W sux. Johnny Cash does not. Ergo, Johnny Cash is not C&W! Logic -- it is awesum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word I stopped saying C&W sucks a while ago. Now all I say is that I don't like nearly all of the newer stuff of it that I've heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word Ummm, Cash is C&W, if not then surely folk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word Cash transcends such petty things as genres! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word sort of agree, still assign him in a folk label. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 Re: The Last Word There are people who would be offended by putting Johnny Cash into any bin other than C&W, but I have no particular feelings about that. It's not where I would go to find him in all the stores around here, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Re: The Last Word Folk music is generally, "of the people" which traditionally is traditional music of a bygone era that is part of the cultural heritage of a country. This has been reclassified as "the folk genre". By any stretch, Cash is an artist "of the American people" hence a folk musician, just as The Beatles and Led Zep are modern folk artists of Britain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Re: The Last Word Seems a little early to make that reassignment, though in another fifty to a hundred years you will certainly be correct. Right now, the compositional and thematic details of the recently-deceased artist matter enough to the population that the subclassification into a musical genre remains important. Once more or less everyone who was alive while Cash was still producing is dead, then yes, those distinctions will cease to be important except to historians of music. The celebrations of other getting-on-in-years musicians whose heyday is now long past ... here in the US, that would include people like Dave Brubeck, Harry Belafonte, Pete Seeger, Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, and others ... indicates the kind of collective cultural consciousness you describe, but for now people are still keenly sensitive of and revel in the stylistic divergences. Choosing to dismiss those differences misses some of the greatness for which the artists are celebrated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Re: The Last Word oh i still have not replied. Getting there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 Re: The Last Word S'ok. I've been busy too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister E Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Re: The Last Word Google: do a barrel roll =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Re: The Last Word How about an Immelmann? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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