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    Dan Fogelberg has died

    Alright Mr. Jay Jay. You just sent me a private message that you would not allow me to respond to, accusing me of "praying to the Beatles". You told me all sorts of stuff bragging about your mission trips and whatever, and without asking me anything about my personal life, you just start...
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    Madonna and Mellencamp in the Rock Hall...???

    Oh well...I have my own rock and roll hall of fame in my mind, and it only inducts worthy artists.
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    Dan Fogelberg has died

    If that's how you feel, then I'm quite sure I'll meet you there. I tell you what...you bring a refrigerator and some good food and cold drinks, and I'll bring an air conditioner, a stereo, and a lot of good CDs.
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    xmess, profit or pest?

    I vote that we do the merciful thing and inform Dick Cheney that he's an Islamofascist and a threat to national security...
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    Dan Fogelberg has died

    As for xmess' comments, I just want to say, as Bruce Cockburn once said in concert..."I'm a Christian, but I'm not one of them."
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    Madonna and Mellencamp in the Rock Hall...???

    It would be interesting if that new prog band ended up being Akron/Family...but I'm not sure if they're quite prog enough.
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    Madonna and Mellencamp in the Rock Hall...???

    Yeah, eccentric, we agree again. That's twice in a day (see serious discussion and debates)...
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    Madonna and Mellencamp in the Rock Hall...???

    Heck, Martha, at this rate, you and I will get in there in the next year or two!
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    Madonna and Mellencamp in the Rock Hall...???

    OK, I know that very few of us around here take the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame very seriously...but when I heard tonight that Madonna's going in, that really took the cake. Now, I'm not really an anti-Madonna person like a lot of folks. I actually have enjoyed a fair amount of her music, and...
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    Eagles - Long Road out of Eden

    Re: Long Road Out Of Eden I haven't bought it yet, but recently I was visiting my older brother who has it. He really preferred the second CD. I like both. What you basically get is classic Eagles, with a little more emphasis on their older country-rock style on the first CD and something of...
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    Songs that no one knows

    Emitt Rhodes--"You're A Very Lovely Woman"
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    Hendrix live at Monterey 1967

    Re: Hendrix at Monterey OK, I guess we understand each other now. I think I can agree with you that it's been moving in the direction of an exclusively youth-oriented market for a long time. Once MTV had been on for a few years, it did really begin to be youth-obsessed all over again (as...
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    Hendrix live at Monterey 1967

    Re: Hendrix at Monterey Baloney. If that were entirely true, then Peter Gabriel, Sting, U2, and Paul Simon couldn't have had hit singles in the 80s. A lot of the music of that time was about very adult concerns, and teenage angst or rebellion has never been the sum total of pop music...
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    The World According to David Brooks

    To me, '67 was the year that music began to be marketed to young adults as opposed to either teenagers or their parents. The album rock that began developing in earnest that year pretty much created a market that I suppose would later be known as the "college radio" crowd. A whole new...
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    The World According to David Brooks

    The technology isn't the problem. In fact, it may become part of the solution. On the other hand, there is something greatly missing in most of even the best independent music I'm hearing these days. Sometimes I can put my finger on it and sometimes I can't. But at least I have found one...
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    Hendrix live at Monterey 1967

    Re: Hendrix at Monterey You've got some good points there. Interestingly enough, the new instruments are there, but nobody's trying to use them. What about the chapman stick? That should have completely supplanted the bass guitar, but why didn't it? I don't get it. I thought world...
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    The World According to David Brooks

    He's hit the nail on the head, not just about music, but about pretty much all the ills of our world. That's one of the greatest heartbreaks of my life. I grew up when it looked like, for a brief, shining moment, that "Get Together" was going to be not just a pop song, but a universal ethos...
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    Hendrix live at Monterey 1967

    Re: Hendrix at Monterey I don't even think that we've come anywhere close to exausting the genres that could exist in the future yet. I just think we're in a bit of a rut. It may not change that much in my lifetime, but I believe that at some point it will change.
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    Hendrix live at Monterey 1967

    Re: Hendrix at Monterey I wouldn't know about Miles, but he was already planning to work with Gil Evans. I think he would have either led the jazz/fusion revolution to being the "next big thing" or would have moved far beyond that and created something else entirely, perhaps an entire new...
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    Hendrix live at Monterey 1967

    Re: Hendrix at Monterey From Axis to Ladyland was also a quantum leap. And the First Rays sessions (as well as other studio tapes that have been released) show that he was far from washed up, was exploring all sorts of new directions that would have doubtless helped shape the music of the 70s...
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    Hendrix live at Monterey 1967

    Re: Hendrix at Monterey You know, it's the live performances that make me wonder if we really know the truth about Hendrix's death. Let's face it, he simply was not performing like a man who was destroying himself in those last months. The more I'm aware of how vital his last year of work...
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    Hendrix live at Monterey 1967

    Re: Hendrix at Monterey It's a legendary performance. How does it compare to Woodstock? I don't know. It's certainly a lot more passionate. At Woodstock he was a little older, a little more polished and profesional, but still an unbelievably exciting and creative musical giant by any...
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    Refugee from Fogerty Board

    Well, hihat, I think you can say just about anything you like here, because people don't show up for days. I check this place most days, and whole weeks can go by without any new discussion on any topic. Even the political debate threads are going dead at this point. But yeah, it's always...
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    What is todays music??

    No, this is different. I can tell, at least in these two artists that I mentioned, that the capability to be more is there, and they're not fulfilling that potential, because now and then there's a track that stands heads-and-shoulders above and beyond most of their work. Honestly, it's the...
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    What is todays music??

    Honestly, from what I hear in the indie stuff, there seems to be a determined effort to be "low-fi" as opposed to "polished", and "untrained" as opposed to "well-trained" or the idea of "excelling at one's instrument". And in a lot of cases, it seems to be a matter of posturing and image rather...

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