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Waterfall said:
And now Glen Fry from the Eagles....RIP
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Like Bowie, I really can't remember ever not hearing The Eagles. They started in 1970, when I was 5, and even during their various breakups their music was all over the radio. Plus, of course Frey, Don Henley, and Joe Walsh all had successful solo careers outside the band. Their sound was influential in both country and rock and they likely get a lot of credit for modern alt-country (e.g. Blue Rodeo). Great band and, between Glenn and Don Henley, they had some of the best songwriting of any band in the 70s.

One of Glenn's best compositions (co-written with another legend, Jackson Brown):


A solo effort from the TV series Miami Vice (Frey later guest starred in an episode based on his song "Smuggler's Blues")


And perhaps the greatest of the Eagles' songs, for which Glenn co-wrote the lyrics with Henley.


RIP, Glenn. Keep on rockin'
 
Waterfall said:
And now Glen Fry from the Eagles....RIP
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Yeah, that was a bit of a shocker...all in one week. RIP Glen.

Glen Frey was a good rock musician, and he died too young.

Bowie was a multi-level, multi-talented true artist - modern, but of the calibre of Beethoven or Michelangelo or, Mozart as Mendalla says - he even made an art of his incumbent death, which is weird and stunning, just like him! He's immortal. I don't remember an artist, since Michael Jackson died (like him or not he was strange and brilliant in his own right), who still had people talking about and paying tributes to after over a week. Usually it's a short story, and people move on.
 
look up into the sky and you'll see a constellation in honour to the risen Ziggy

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[image source: the above linked Guardian article]

google sky is joining in as well -- share your fav song in the constellation

(fun quantum mechanical reality note: all of this is courtesy of our new human telepathy called social media -- there have been blurts from the Constellation Governing Body, the International Astronomical Union said it has heard of no such thing, they have got no such request -- so, again, it is a case of 'it is true & not true & meaningless'--and if enough people believe in it, then it becomes real in some sense...another beautiful example of seeing the formation of myths, how they travel...)
 
So, my church's announcements email just came out and there is a special sung postlude planned for Sunday. You see, the monthly theme is "Transformation" and the sermon this coming Sunday is "Change - Like it or Not". Anyone see where this is leading?

Yep, the pianist and choir are going to lead the congregation in singing "Changes.". (y)
 
Kimmio said:
I sure like the "hymns" at the UU. :)
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I have a devil of a time to get Amazing Grace sung to the House of the Rising Sun ... whereas someone learns of the plus's and minus's of love ... usually after they been scroo 'd ... the Hebrew would call that a population of phoqah ... ףהיף although the spell can be ambiguous ... can affect either side of the sect and leave someone sort of whetted!
 
Kimmio said:
I sure like the "hymns" at the UU. :)
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Actually, other than me using popular songs in my services, it isn't as common at the London fellowship as it was in Hamilton. I remember hearing a couple who were folkies singing Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game", "Imagine" at least once, and the choir singing "We Rise Again" (a Rankin family song) for a child dedication.

Best popular music moment in my fellowship though was a Christmas service (might have been one of the Christmas Eve services we did during that period) when the pianist, quite unannounced, busted into Vince Guaraldi's music from A Charlie Brown Christmas for the postlude. He was actually primarily a classical, rather than jazz, player but he nailed it.
 
Lol. God gets to hear congregations droning out bad songs to high heaven, every Sunday, across the Western world, all time zones. And in the case of SDA's, even Saturdays. I betcha he's glad about the gospel choirs, with a bit of soulful instrumental accompaniment ("Oh, thank myself...somebody understands what good music is!...and those UU's, well they're not singing it to me specifically...But it's music to my ears. Love that Joni.") No wonder God gets grumpy. "Hey you guys! Would you keep that racket down?! this is my day of rest. You're supposed to give me the weekend off...that was the deal ever since some Roman added Sundays. Don't you know you're out of tune?! Especially that lady...who is that?...Gladys, is that you with the blue hat on? You know I love you, but you're driving me to distraction!"
 
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Here's a really cool article I found on a site called "The Uncool" - it's a 1976 Playboy interview with Bowie (Hey! The articles really are good!:ROFLMAO:)...he's all over the place, his brain is firing at warp speed, half of what he's saying is full of sh*t and he knows it but he doesn't care...and he's genius at the same time. So quick witted. He remained genius but he mellowed/ humbled with age...a bit anyway (maybe because he was clean and sober in later years) as is evident in this article vs. later interviews.

http://www.theuncool.com/journalism/david-bowie-playboy-magazine/


Love the quote at the end, that he believes in and stands by everything he's said. "Everything but the inflammatory remarks.":ROFLMAO:
 
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Kimmio said:
:) I like to think God appreciates good music, not really bad music sung in his name Over and over, ever Sunday for a hundred years or more. Poor God.:oops::rolleyes:
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"But you don't like music do yah" --- Le Cohen and thus the desire for alternate lyrics, lyre Hicks? One in a while a small unidentified truth buried there ... a real AUM'r!
 
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