Morning earworm: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Gary Moore. A scorching cover of the old Zombies classic, from his early days.
I once again made the mistake of stopping by Facebook before coming here, and was rewarded by yet another idiotic post by a bunch of my supposedly enlightened flaming Liberal friends. I can respect that we don't share some core beliefs, but there are times when it still pisses me off to no end, especially when one of them has the cojones to invoke "fiscal responsibility". $14,000,000,000,000, and he's only halfway through one term - but then, this is exactly the sort of fiscal responsibility one should expect from a bunch of people with six figure incomes and unlimited expense accounts. F***ing Communist pinheads - AARRRGGGHHHH!!
Sorry ... where was I?
Guess I'll be working on the heavy song today - lol. This has been a challenging week, having two totally different pieces vying for brain space. Definitely feast or famine. I need to enjoy this while I can, as band work resumes either tonight or tomorrow, occupying the next six weekends. It will be an interesting gig tomorrow, having largely purged my system of country music over the last few weeks. Then again, it might actually be easier than it is now, divided between a capella folk music and cinematic tribal metal - juggling three balls is not nearly as difficult as juggling only two.
Speaking of cinematic - part of my admittedly weird listening habits includes old movie soundtracks. I had quite a few of these in my record collection as a kid, and every now and then their influence shows up. One particular favorite was Michel Legrand's soundtrack from The Three Musketeers (1973), partly just because it was such a great movie. I also had soundtrack albums from most of the James Bond movies, Connery / Moore era; educational in many ways. While most of these were scored by John Barry, I think my personal favorite was Sir George Martin's work on Live and Let Die - but one would expect no less from him. There are even some hints of that particular work showing up in one of my current songs - no telling what one might assimilate over the years :)
If nothing else, at least I am in a better mood now - thanks, Morning Pages! =))
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This is why I don't talk politics....gets you all wound up and still nothing changes. One of the great things about Bugs Bunny was all the great classical music. Ah..yes....way back when....
ReplyDeleteIndeed :D I had mentioned earlier and elsewhere a CD I have - Bugs Bunny on Broadway; a few years back Warner Bros. put together a special show, featuring a dozen or so old cartoons which had been digitally restored and remastered; the original Carl Stalling scores were located, and as the cartoons were shown in the theater, much of the accompanying music was performed live by the WB studio orchestra. That stuff was great, but hearing it in full glorious stereo is truly epic.
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