Category: Music

The Thursday Morning Music Express Presents: Dave Brubeck

I will not lie to my readers, Jazz is really not my thing. I am a rock and roller. However, I always show mad respect to the great ones in music. Jazz is an American thing, and we invented it, and people overseas wanted to sound like us. This was back, when America was a great Nation and people around the world wanted to be like us.

Enjoy the music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJE92phKzI

Dave Brubeck, the pianist and composer who helped make jazz popular again in the 1950s and ’60s with recordings like “Time Out,” the first jazz album to sell a million copies, and “Take Five,” the still instantly recognizable hit single that was that album’s centerpiece, died on Wednesday in Norwalk, Conn. He would have turned 92 on Thursday.

He died while on his way to a cardiology appointment, Russell Gloyd, his producer, conductor and manager for 36 years, said. Mr. Brubeck lived in Wilton, Conn.

In a long and successful career, Mr. Brubeck brought a distinctive mixture of experimentation and accessibility that won over listeners who had been trained to the sonic dimensions of the three-minute pop single.

Mr. Brubeck experimented with time signatures and polytonality and explored musical theater and the oratorio, baroque compositional devices and foreign modes. He did not always please the critics, who often described his music as schematic, bombastic and — a word he particularly disliked — stolid. But his very stubbornness and strangeness — the blockiness of his playing, the oppositional push-and-pull between his piano and Paul Desmond’s alto saxophone — make the Brubeck quartet’s best work still sound original.

Outside of the group’s most famous originals, which had the charm and durability of pop songs ( “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” “It’s a Raggy Waltz” and “Take Five”), some of its best work was in its overhauls of standards like “You Go to My Head,” “All the Things You Are” and “Pennies From Heaven.” — Source

Others Remembering — Left and Right: BBC, Gothamist, Los Angeles Times, The Maddow Blog, Gawker, Truthdig, Stinque, The Week, Blazing Cat Fur, Balloon Juice and Althouse, The Atlantic Online, Los Angeles Times, Outside the Beltway, Gimme Noise, The Democratic Daily, The Reaction, Power Line and The Volokh Conspiracy, FIRST DRAFT

Talk about a throwback!

Just my reaction to the video in this posting here. 

Kerry Livgren was a founder of Kansas, in the 1980’s he was a part of a band called AD.

This is “The Fury” from AD’s album “Art of the State”.

Man, taking me back to my youth days in southwest Detroit. I used to jam this song all of the time.

*shakes head*

Sorry, got a little sentimental there. 😀

The Monday afternoon afternoon music club presents: Ted Nugent

This is dedicated to the Femi-nazi’s and other knuckle-dragging idiots on Twitter, who attacked me for having an opinion.

I am an anti-feminist. Sue me, you knuckle-dragging nimrods.

I present the greatest Conservative, and defender of the second amendment ever!

Ol’ deadly teddy.

I post this to stick it in the eye of the femi-nazi’s on the right. They’re not Conservatives, at all. Period, end of story. Tampon wearing broads, who want to be treated special. Not this white boy! 😀

The Saturday Night Music Express Presents: Steppenwolf

This is a song that I really never knew existed. It is from the late 1960’s. The lyrics are as relevant today as they were back when this song was originally recorded.

Also know this: There are some images in this video, as it was made by a fan, that I simply do not agree with. Some would consider them anti-Semite in nature and I simply think they’re silly really. But the message in the song is right on point, especially today with what is happening in our Government.

This is “Monster (America)”

Words and music by John Kay, Jerry Edmonton, Nick St. Nicholas and Larry Byrom

(Monster)
Once the religious, the hunted and weary
Chasing the promise of freedom and hope
Came to this country to build a new vision
Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope
Like good Christians, some would burn the witches
Later some got slaves to gather riches

But from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
But she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light

Then once the ties with the crown had been broken
Westward in saddle and wagon it went
And ’til the railroad linked ocean to ocean
Many the lives which had come to an end
While we bullied, stole and bought our a homeland
We began the slaughter of the red man

But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light

The blue and grey they stomped it
They kicked it just like a dog
And when the war over
They stuffed it just like a hog

And though the past has it’s share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it’s protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it’s a monster and will not obey

(Suicide)
The spirit was freedom and justice
And it’s keepers seem “friendly” and kind
It’s leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they were paying no mind
‘Cause the people “got” fat and “grew” lazy
now their vote “is like a” meaningless “Tune”
“You know they talk about law “about” order
But it’s all just an echo of what they’ve been told
Yeah, there’s a monster on the loose
It’s got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watchin’

Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin’ the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can’t understand
We don’t know how to mind our own business
‘Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who’s the winner
We can’t pay the cost
‘Cause there’s a monster on the loose
It’s got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching

(America)
America where are you now?
Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?
Don’t you know we need you now
We can’t fight alone against the monster

The Saturday Night Music Express Presents: The Dixie Chicks

That’s right the Dixie Chicks! Yes, I know what they were singing about, and you know what? They were absolutely right! 

This is dedicated to the atheist prick and his friends, who seem to believe that I should just die off the face of the earth or just get a job.

This is also dedicated to the a-hole buffoon liberals, who think that I ought to just forget about happened with the housing market, shut down my blog and “get a f’ing job” as they told me.

This is dedicated to the a-hole, who left me the comment saying, “F*** You you’re an idiot!”

This is dedicated to the so-called “Conservatives” who ignore this blog and still hold grudges against me, because I was once a Democratic Party voter and because I dared to take on one of your darlings who happens to be nothing more than an “affirmative action” mouth piece, who is, was, and always will be a bought corporate shill!

This is dedicated to those who call themselves “Conservatives” who hold grudges against me, for something I did, which I regret 6 years ago! Screw you all!

This is dedicated to the idiot, a-hole, Neo-Nazi, who pretended to be my friend, while all the while stabbing me in the back. You know who you are, you fedora wearing son-of-a-bitch! You’ll get yours, one day, bank on it!

This is also dedicated to that servile dog bitch ex-girlfriend of mine, who likes to read my blog and laugh about it with my cousin. You worthless hoe! I hope you take your husband for as much as you took ME for!

and Yeah…

I’M NOT READY TO MAKE NICE, NOR WILL I EVER BE!