Old musicians / performers

[StarCruiser]

Speaking of which

Probably my most favourite track on a live album (pre Pink Floyd's Pulse of course).

http://youtu.be/QN43LX3Pu8k

 

[Chas]

I heard a name yesterday I hadn't heard for a long time, Philip Glass, so I had a look.

I don't dislike this and the images are fabulous, so hear's one (I hope) for you Chas.

http://youtu.be/Wkof3nPK--Y

I think he had some connection with Mike Oldfield back in the 70s, early 80s.

Yes Rich I do like Phillip Glass, I can't access YouTube at the moment none of the links will take me there, even if I go to my bookmarked link it won't work, I can't even get onto YouTube via Google either. I'll try again tomorrow.

 

[clivehorridge]

Yes Rich I do like Phillip Glass, I can't access YouTube at the moment none of the links will take me there, even if I go to my bookmarked link it won't work, I can't even get onto YouTube via Google either. I'll try again tomorrow.

Like this too, just read the looooong biog on wiki, a well accomplished lad by all accounts....

 

[StarCruiser]

Then there's this, for a bit of chill out:-

http://youtu.be/zfjr2wV_KB0

And this one, always sends shivers…

…oh, duracells in the pacemaker for the video BTW.

http://youtu.be/vvvX5QM4z3Y

 

[clivehorridge]

Wish there was more than one thumbs-up available!!

 

[Chas]

I heard a name yesterday I hadn't heard for a long time, Philip Glass, so I had a look.

I don't dislike this and the images are fabulous, so hear's one (I hope) for you Chas.

http://youtu.be/Wkof3nPK--Y

I think he had some connection with Mike Oldfield back in the 70s, early 80s.

Aha! got YouTube working now, yeah I like that one Rich, I didn't know about the connection with Mr Tubular bell (Mike Oldfield) though.

 

[StarCruiser]

Mike Oldfield link edited to the right one. [emoji35]

 

[Pumpy]

if we're tickling the ivorys we'll have to have a bit of Scott Joplin, it's a 2 hour album, click up the timeline til you find something you like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFeF_yFtssk

 

[Shayne]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_a2-Pve4g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oohFGOmcxuo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvCvsRp5ho

And one i had all but forgotten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYxCIr-Byo jeez i was just telling Helen the story behind my like of this song , me and my mate Alex both fancied Julie Canipa who was about 10 years older than us and dating a mountain of a man on leave from the marines . We were drunk in a bar trying to goad him into a fight by singing wo oh oh wo Canipa christ he is an awful big marine , the remaining versus can go without repeating imagine my shock to realize i must have been about 14 at the time

 

[clivehorridge]

Mm mm, that Paul Young track brought back some...

It's always a bloody woman isn't it....?

hey ho...

 

[StarCruiser]

Great ones there Shayne, always liked the last one as being a bit different.
Interestingly YouTube offered up this one which is another one I haven't heard in a long time.

http://youtu.be/OKDYyFf1s0I

 

[clivehorridge]

Enjoying this in the truck, at high volume, with the windows down....

Songs of Innocence

 

[StarCruiser]

Hmm. Powerful, thought provoking video that. I was with a Belfast girl before I met Lynn and she remembers being dragged out into the street to bang dustbin lids on the pavement without really knowing why.

Great track there Clive.

 

[clivehorridge]

Hmm. Powerful, thought provoking video that. I was with a Belfast girl before I met Lynn and she remembers being dragged out into the street to bang dustbin lids on the pavement without really knowing why.

Great track there Clive.

Not always "good old days" were they Rich.

Like the whole album....

 

[StarCruiser]

Another that surfaced on the radio the other day that I can't seem to get out of my head at the minute is this one.

 

[StarCruiser]

Not always "good old days" were they Rich.

Like the whole album....

Not for some Clive. We almost went to see her sister in Belfast one year until one of her neighbours in the Falls Road was shot dead on his doorstep. We went to Canada instead to see the rest of the family that got away and settled many years before. Visited Belfast a few years ago on business and there seemed to be a sort of feeling you couldn't quite put your finger on that it wasn't over. Maybe the fences, the barracks with huge high fences, or the murals. People were great, there was just an uneasy feeling at times for me anyway. Perhaps it was just me.

 

[clivehorridge]

 

[StarCruiser]

Can't remember if I've posted this but it's prompted by the U2 track.

The whole album, Street Fighting Years has to be one of my favourite albums of all time as there's so many incredibly well crafted, thought provoking songs on there. I was looking to post the title track and Biko but there only seems to be live versions on YT.

 

[Chas]

Visited Belfast a few years ago on business and there seemed to be a sort of feeling you couldn't quite put your finger on that it wasn't over. Maybe the fences, the barracks with huge high fences, or the murals. People were great, there was just an uneasy feeling at times for me anyway. Perhaps it was just me.

I went to Belfast a few years ago too Rich and I know exactly what you mean, mind you it wasn't helped by a bloke I had gone to visit who insisted on showing me round all the bars that had been bombed and places where people had been shot. There is an air there though sort of summed up by this song.

 

[Chas]

Another little tale about Belfast, I was there in the 70's during the 'troubles' just passing through from the ferry when I passed the entrance to a shopping mall where big fences and gates had been erected to prevent car bombs being driven in, I got held up at a red light and was sitting there when this bloody machine gun went off, well, I dived for the floor and cautiously raising my head I saw a squaddie laughing his head off, I had stopped beside some roadwork's it was a pneumatic drill. My cleaning bill was large that week.