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I can't believe it.

 

 

I have a hard time believing this entire year so far, lots of artists and celebrities dying - not only famous musicians (Bowie, now Prince) but writers (Eco, Lee) and actors (Rickman), among others, as well. :(

No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.

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I played the Nyckelharpa a bit in high school. It's a lovely instrument but I had to stop since I couldn't afford to get on for myself at the time (was already into guitars).

 

I wish I wouldn't associate the instrument with In Extremo, but that sort of was my first exposure:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyaDuLHzj7o

 

And while that isn't so bad at all one needs to keep in mind that they also made this absoultely horrible Sisters of Mercy cover with an absolute terror of a music video:

 

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

 

Yeah. I know the end is missing, silly Vevo. But... just be glad it is over. ;)

No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.

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I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"*

 

*If you can't tell, it's you. ;)

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Hall and Oates

For Hall and Oates fans, this show is pretty awesome:

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/HallAndOates1984-12-17TheForumLosAngelesCA.asx

 

setlist: http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/HallAndOates1984-12-17TheForumLosAngelesCA.html

 

Not the absolute best of sound quality as it's low bandwidth, but still a really great listen (especially if you tweak it a bit with an equalizer).

 

When I stumbled onto this show some years back I had been a Hall and Oates fan, but I'd only ever heard their studio recordings. Somewhat to my surprise, they put on one hell of a live show with a lot more energy than I expected. Wish I'd been able to see them during this era.

 

Also, I may have mentioned this before, but I highly recommend sugarmegs.org, it's a great repository of bootlegs and other live show sources. Also happens to be one of the oldest such places on the net (I've been going there since the 90s), if not the oldest at this point.

 

Two other great repositories of live music:

http://bt.etree.org/index.php (torrents, some very high quality)

https://archive.org/ (also has some very high quality recordings)

 

Note, with archive.org, I've not found a single page that links to all the great music they have. For example, the etree link below has a whole lotta GD. But their links don't hold all that the other one below has. Same can be said of other bands. It can pay to spend time searching.

 

https://archive.org/details/etree

https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Live+concert%22

 

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Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuaG-TCpbtw

 

billy preston is one o' the numerous musicians 'bout whom we is conflicted.  

 

also wrote this:

 

 

why we is conflicted is 'cause o' preston's sexual assault o' a sixteen year old boy.

 

similar issues with rick james... though for some inexplicable reason am ok with leadbelly's issues.  seems that Gromnir is ok with murder, but draws the line at sexual crimes?  too much law & order: svu?

 

HA! Good Fun!

"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)

"Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)

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A great tribute that brought a tear, and a great cover that brought some smiles:

 

 

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Man, I am so tired of seeing Prince garbage. Living in Minnesota, you'd think he was the (previously) living reincarnation of Jesus or something - it just never ends.

 

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How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart.

In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

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Man, I am so tired of seeing Prince garbage. Living in Minnesota, you'd think he was the (previously) living reincarnation of Jesus or something - it just never ends.

Can't say what it's like in Minnesota, but in the rest of the U.S. it's not that bad, and has nothing on the buttworship that went on for years after Kurt Cobain checked out. MTV, Rolling Stone, et al sucked his dead shaft dry, pumped it full of something and sucked it dry again, and again, and again.

 

Also, it's somewhat ironic that you follow up the quoted with a song called 'Memphis', where the granddaddy of dead celebrity worship has his shrine.

 

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