What are you listening to right now?

[American Dream]

[justdrew]

[justdrew]

[barracuda]

[barracuda]

[Mask]

[Allegro]

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• Study in A Major | Julian Bream
  — composer, Francisco Tárrega
  
  
  
  Valse in D Major | César Amaro
  — composer, Francisco Tárrega
  
  

[Allegro]

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You already know, BDazzling, that I’m little by little catching up on happenings and personalities in pop music’s culture. It wasn’t until writing a response to a recent post of yours that I went to wiki to read up on Sinéad —I read the whole page that time. I understood more about her, and was reminded of the SNL moment demonstrated by the later video you posted. So, you and several other RIers are waaaay ahead of me, i.e., as you so well spoke in your post to tensions and emotional adjustments out of which pop musicians manifest music with one another. So, I thank you for writing!

If all pop music-minded RIers —I know they know that I know WHO they are— could reach out and shake hands; if everyone could somehow transfer a copy to my brain of all they know about pop history, I’d shake all hands in an instant! I mean, I’m not writing a book or attending classes of any sort. I’m just a rookie, and likely for a long while to be one.

The other day, I searched RI for posts wrt McLaren, and among those found, there were notes about other pop culture personalities I didn’t remember reading. My. Goodness. RI is really full of knowledgeable people. RI is a library. Many thanks to Jeff for making it so.

One of my favorite quotes has been recorded to have been spoken by Johannes Brahms. Evidently, he was chatting in a room with a group of contemporaries, whose techniques of composing music in Johannes’s way of thinking were sounding too much alike, as if others’ compositions hadn't evolved enough. (Are we performing artists ever satisfied?! ) His vocal, instrumental and orchestral pieces had already proved entirely distinctive to anyone else’s of the time, and he wasn’t about to succumb to others’ impartial ways of thinking and composing, so he politely added an elaborated chide:

• If there’s anyone in the room I’ve not insulted, I beg his pardon.

Brahms had a uncompromised wit, apparently. As a youth, I played and LOVED Brahms’s piano pieces long before understanding his single-mindedness for composition.

Thanks, again, BDazzling and All. (You know who you are !)

~ A.

[Twyla LaSarc]

ZOMG! Saw the Nuns once, opening for Iggy Pop @ Wolfgangs. Great show!

I've lately been enjoying a group called "The Dining Rooms".

[Six Hits of Sunshine]

[American Dream]

[seemslikeadream]

[Bruce Dazzling]

[Mask]

[Allegro]

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• True Blue | The Last Poets
  — 1980
  
  
  
  When We Come Together | The Last Poets
  — trailer