Comments on: Open thread 8/27/21 https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/27/open-thread-8-27-21/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 28 Aug 2021 20:18:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/27/open-thread-8-27-21/#comment-2573759 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 20:18:45 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109902#comment-2573759 Yes huxley, it is ironic but the British “blues revival” of the 60s had the effect of giving tremendous publicity to blues musicians that a lot of American teenagers did not know until then were in their own backyard. It certainly inspired me to search out Muddy Waters when I heard he was a major influence on the Rolling Stones.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/27/open-thread-8-27-21/#comment-2573747 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 19:08:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109902#comment-2573747 FOAF:

Wow. You subbed into Chris Cain’s band and talked to Muddy Waters! Thems bragging rights.

I can’t find the quote, but as I recall James Brown was asked about blues players being exploited by “The Blues Brothers” film.

Brown replied to the effect, A whole lot of black musicians made money and got more work because of “The Blues Brothers.”

John Belushi genuinely loved the blues and shared it with Dan Ackroyd. There’s real joy in that film, though I could have gotten by with fewer car wrecks.

–“James Brown – The Old Landmark (feat. The Blues Brothers)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCF_xzxhxME

Weirdly, though perhaps not too weirdly, the Vatican declared “The Bllues Brothers” to be a “Catholic classic.”

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/289839/Blues-Brothers-Deemed-Catholic-Classic-By-Vatican

]]> By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/27/open-thread-8-27-21/#comment-2573739 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 18:24:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109902#comment-2573739 “I had heard the Isley’s [Twist and Shout] a couple of years earlier and the Beatles’ seemed like theft.”

No more than any other cover version of a song, e. g. much of the Beatles’ and Stones’ early work. Back in the 1960s I saw Muddy Waters play and actually got to talk to him. I asked him what he thought of groups like the Rolling Stones playing his music and he said “They made me a lot of money”.

]]> By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/27/open-thread-8-27-21/#comment-2573736 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 18:21:13 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109902#comment-2573736 Wow, amazing to hear about Chris Cain here. He is a great guitarist and singer. He is from around here (SF Bay Area) and I know him. In fact a couple years ago I subbed on bass at one of his local gigs.

]]> By: Copperdawg https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/27/open-thread-8-27-21/#comment-2573666 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 05:41:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109902#comment-2573666 A ‘72 album not widely known; Jammin With Edward. At 20 I enjoyed it a lot! This track showcases some Charlie Watts. A very bluesy jam session album with Ry Cooder and Nicky Hopkins. https://youtu.be/UVShrQyKG5c A gas gas gas

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/27/open-thread-8-27-21/#comment-2573660 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 04:43:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109902#comment-2573660 @Bryan Lovely:

Now that you mention it, one of the attractions of Band Camp was actually getting to play something new for a change.

]]> By: Bryan Lovely https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/27/open-thread-8-27-21/#comment-2573656 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 04:36:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109902#comment-2573656 AesopFan–

Speaking of high school band concerts, “Sleigh Ride” was one of the standard four or five pieces we always played for the Christmas concert.

All the young kids in the audience were invited to come up and “conduct” for ten or fifteen seconds each, which meant that the band would just have to repeat the body over and over and over and over… I played clarinet, and by the end could barely hold my lips on the mouthpiece to be able to play.

Love the song, but always with a little shudder. 🙂

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/27/open-thread-8-27-21/#comment-2573616 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 01:21:46 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109902#comment-2573616 Looks like Carbon-spewing Trump is directing a Big Ass Cat 4 Hurricane right at NOLA. I’m already sensing a disturbance in the Ooga Booga. As we speak, brave women of color are marching out to man (err) the levees.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/27/open-thread-8-27-21/#comment-2573614 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 01:14:05 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109902#comment-2573614 From the No Shit Sherlock I also Went to Engineering School and got taught to think critically and do back of the envelope calculations:

https://humanevents.com/2021/08/26/study-finds-sun-may-be-leading-cause-of-global-warming/

Make the world a better place: Bring back Zoroastrianism.

And teach our rulers the difference between Billion and Trillion; they seem to have real trouble grasping Orders of Magnitude.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/08/27/open-thread-8-27-21/#comment-2573612 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 01:09:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=109902#comment-2573612 Those Pesky Pritzkers spreading yet more Perversion:

https://www.breitbart.com/education/2021/08/27/illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-signs-sex-ed-bill-requiring-kindergartners-to-define-gender-identity/

Do they ever sleep?

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