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While surfing Youtube, I ran into this band.....they do pirate metal.....lol......(you have to listen to the whole song.......great bar theme song).
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0

Goodness ... these guys gonna give metal bad name!
 
Enjoyable!

jamesg1213
Here's one of those 'boring' 'rock' 'songs'. Love it.
 

Is this band opening for "The Allman Brothers Band"? Very enjoyable ... 

As it's Sunday..
 

 

this is my biggest complaint in rock music ... not using the synthesizer as an instrument on its own, and using it as a replacement instrument in the song that is being done. 

 
Always liked Billy Currie's synth sounds in Ultravox, very distinctive.

Gorgeous mix, beautifully sparse arrangement and one of those perfectly recorded vocal performances that you feel like you can just reach out and touch. 
 

Moshkito
Way back when Berlin had some amazing instructors in their music schools. Many of them became well known electronic composers (Stockhausen, Housemann --spelling), 

Hmm, never heard of Spelling, is he any good? 

Ann-Marie Helder again - this time as part of Luna Rossa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLCZh-jW7eY
 
Off to see them in Welsh Wales next month!
 

Rain
Funny coincidences... Today, Facebook dug out a picture I took in Madrid in 2011 as a suggested "on this day" memory. I really didn't like Spain much. My own temperament doesn't agree with this type of culture. 
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There are only three Spaniards I can deal with ... Luis Bunuel. Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso ... all the others were way too self-absorbed for my tastes. Of all the writers, even Cervantes does not do it for me, but many films have been taken from some great novels ... The Fencing Master, The Cradle Song, Ay, Carmela ... and a few other things. I kinda think that the Spanish Civil War kinda destroyed everything, and only a handful made it through in one piece. Bunuel escaped to Mexico, Dali to France and Pablo to the US and other places.
 
Of all the movies, in the past 20 years, you got a director or two that stand out, but Pedro Almodovar has become strange and the stories are getting rather boring and insipid. After "High Heels", and "KiKa", I kinda think that he slipped a little, although the film about the girl in a comma is something else ... the guy that ends up saving her, is the one that loses, and that is the mentality of the Spanish ... there is no poetic justice in Spain.
 
Bunuel's writing continuity with Jean Claude Carriere (specially) is fabulous and very well done ... his Oscar film "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" goes from mind to mind all the way to the end! And I happen to really like one of his last films, "The Phantom of Liberty", because it is just that. And to see him use paintings as a set is insane ... and he did this several times during his career. The famous picture of Jesus laughing came from "Nazarin". He had a version of the Last Supper that will floor you when it happens. And many other paitings. It's almost fun to look for them. Dali is a bit on the boring side as a person, but his art work speaks for itself well. Pablo is the ultimate irreverent artists, and he didn't care what people thought of his work, and sometimes you need that to continue doing what you see.
 
It's just people being people. Hollywood is not better or different than any of these! You can't put up with the Spanish temperament, but you can with Kardashian temperament? ... hmmmm  ... see what I'm saying? ... same thing!
 
The last one is Carlos Saura, who has spent his whole life doing dancing films of the unreal kind. You must see his "Carmen" (modern dance Carmen against old style in this version), and later his incantation of "Tango" ... and these are not even his best ... his Garcia Lorca trilogy is even better, but not available in America with subtitles.

Watching the "Live at the Boerderij" DVD by Mostly Autumn
Post Heather Findlay line up, with Olivia sharing lead vocal with hubbie Bryan Josh. Anne-Marie Helder taking a back seat on flute, backing vocals and keys.

They are one hell of live band.

Listening to Gilmour doing Fat Old Sun as I read this...

Hadn't heard of this guy until 2 days ago. I like his style so far.