Friday, November 16, 2012

HEY ALL!! Get your YA YA's out! You'll catch on. Let's talk music today. I have no working knowledge of music, never took any classes or lessons. I did have the fantasy of wanting to play the base, the BIG BASE, the one that sits on the floor when you play it. But never did. Still I am amazed that in about three and a half minutes a song can go from telling us have amazing the new found love is, to how sad it is when the love leaves. Those are some good lyrics. I am a big fan of the 60's, found love, lost love songs. One of the first ones that come sto mind is the Stories, [ lead singer from Seattle ] "Brother Louie". (Not Louie, Louie by the Kingsman, the unofficial song of the State of Washington), but the remake of a Hot Chocolate original. It tells of a love " She was black as the night, Louie was whiter than white". And how love lost. There have been plenty of bands that have used this formula. Stories reached  #1 with their remake. Of course "The worlds greatest rock and roll band" The Rolling Stones had plenty of these songs. I even used one of them for a paper in Phsycology. The professor never caught on, although most of the class knew. I used the lyrics and described a troubled young man who had lost his true love. Good enough for a "B+", although the song "Paint it Black" did reach #1 in 1966, should have done more justice to the song and gotten an "A". The Stones had plenty to write about along those lines with the way Jagger and Richards were going through girl fiends, Ruby Tuesday, Time is on my side, Wild Horses, As Tears go by, Angie, etc, etc you get the picture. NOW can you tell me the female vocal artist who is credited with singing back up on a Rolling Stones song, AND back up on a Metallica song???? I can give you one hint, she is featured in the Metallica video for the song. OK AND she dated Jagger at one time. CHOW MOI

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