Happy Birthday, Johann!

J.S. Bach, born March 21st, 1685. Originator of the heavy metal grimace-of-disdain.

 

The original trance artist too!

Bach in black? 

We're just seeing it now (starting around 4am here - it's 4:20am as I post this).
 
It appears to be some retribution for Belgium turning over one of the Paris shooters.  One suicide bomber at the airport (about 30 killed and even more injured), then another at a Metro station about an hour later (no casualty tally shown yet).
 
Is that pretty much what you're hearing over there?

They are subhuman Stone Age savages and it's only going to get worse. What I have to say in full about this entire religion and its associated culture of death would get me banned 10 times over so I'll just leave it at that.

Maybe the interesting thing about history is that you can learn from it. Sad to say that some religions missed out on Enlightenment.

Come enjoy the hype over here in Brussels!
Anyway, wish Bach was back.

bitflipper
Which contemporary musicians do you think folks will still be listening to and playing 300 years from now?

The Forum Monkeys?

SvenArne

sharke
What I have to say in full about this entire religion and its associated culture of death would get me banned 10 times over so I'll just leave it at that.

Well, okay now I'll go and risk getting banned but there's nothing inherent in their religion that makes Islam more of a "culture of death" compared to Christianity or Judaism. The "honor" in dying and killing for a cause is something that's repeated through almost every religion and culture since the beginning of recorded history. But terrorism always comes from something more than just religion and the death toll spread is still thousands to one in "our" favor over the last two decades...
 
Sven

+1
 
If you get banned for that, then I'm going with you. I know we're not supposed to discuss religion or politics on this board, and you didn't. You spoke to terrorism. There are Christian terrorists. Jewish terrorists. Muslim terrorists. Atheist terrorists. Probably no Buddhist terrorists. Terrorists hide under the umbrella of something convenient, a means to an end, nothing more.
 
I have Muslim neighbors. I even have one who wears a burka, immaculately laundered and pressed. She's never spoken to me, but her children have. Very nice kids. I'm not the least bit threatened by their presence.
 
What's going on in Europe is scary. I've lived and worked there. I spent a LOT of time in Paris and lived in Germany. My nephew just spent the last 5 years in Paris studying chiropractic. My brother and his wife (French) are retiring from Chicago to Marseilles in 2 years, and taking the nephew and his new wife (French) with.
 
I am concerned. We need peace, love and understanding, not conventional war against an unconventional enemy. We, and I mean ALL of us, have a common enemy: anyone who uses fear and personal harm to achieve their ends.
 
This gives new meaning to the old traveler's acronym for the defunct Belgian national airline, SABENA: Such A Bad Experience Never Again.
 
I'm hurting.

I think it's established that "Orphaned At Birth" is a troll anyway. 

Not JSB...Beethoven. I was fortunate to be able to attend the 200th birthday performance of his Missa Solemnis outdoors at the Carmel Mission in 1970. I wondered if there was any online record of that performance, and found this bit buried within a borked optical scan of an October, 1970 issue of a Tuscon, AZ newspaper.
 
Beethoven Music Festival Slated in Calif. City CARMEL, Calif. – In celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven’s bicentennial birthday, an outdoor festival of his music will be presented Oct. 17 at the historic Mission Basilica here. Seating is limited to 3,500 for the one-hour-forty-minute presentation of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Opus 123, conducted-by Haymo Täuber, conductor and director of the Monterey County Symphony Orchestra. The concert will feature the 70-piece Monterey Symphony Orchestra and the 90-member Monterey Peninsula Choral Society, augmented by the Sacramento Chorale. Part of the Old Monterey 200th birthday celebration this year, the festival focuses attention on Carmel Mission Basilica, the beautiful stone church erected between 1793 and 1797 at the direction of Father Junipero Sena.
 
The conductor's wife was one of my German professors at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. She got me EXCELLENT seats! The four soloists were fantastic. Täuber rebuilt the Vienna Boys Choir after WW II, and then built a boys choir for Iran, for which he was awarded their highest civilian honor. The guy was brilliant!

bitflipper
Which contemporary musicians do you think folks will still be listening to and playing 300 years from now?
 

Not going to be an issue.  After WWIII, the survivors will be back to sticks and stones anyway.  

I feel that this thread was totally hijacked, but that's OK. 
 
I feel that the sins of the OP have been overlooked - he posted a picture of D. Trump right next to N. Young, as if they were in the same room, on the same stage? I don't think Neil's gonna cotton to that. :)
 
I feel empathy for innocent victims of all nationalities and all religions.
 
And, 
 
Why did Beethoven hate his chickens?
 
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 . . . because all they ever said was "BACH!  BACH!  BACH!"
 
 
 
serves you right.