lol some bike dude is going off in my apartment complex in the parking lot at someone on his phone. Â he's up to about 40 fbombs so far. while listening to him is funny (I don't know why i find it funny hearing somebody cuss, but it is), the clint eastwood geezer side of me wants to go ask him what his problem is and squint fiercely at him. we do have kids in our complex, they don't need to be hearing his bs
man, feeling incredibly mortal today - my dad passed yesterday. godspeed dad, i'll miss ya
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Subject: Re: geezers Mon May 14, 2018 12:34 pm
Sorry to hear. My condolences Zaph
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Subject: Re: geezers Mon May 14, 2018 12:35 pm
Zaph, I'm very sorry for your loss. Both of my parents are gone, my mom just passed away in November. It's very tough but remembering and sharing the good times with family will get you through.
thanks guys - ours was a very rocky relationship. he passed while on meds so at least there was no pain for him. not my cup of tea, but dad loved Alabama, so here's to you dad
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thanks Mo and all, he is gone and good spirits gone with him
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Subject: Re: geezers Mon May 14, 2018 10:57 pm
I was in a maudlin mood myself after a bizarre day full of blessings and curses and reminders.
Some days i think i actually think i suffer from survivor's guilt. I'll curse that i still live while betters of my generation whom i knew and loved have spent decades decaying. But i wouldn't trade places with the best of them and if i could she'd probably just die again, still too soon.
My own father was on my mind today too, Zaph. Dead now ~2 1/2 years, he was borderline geezer material a few weeks shy of 69 but looking ten years past it and acting his age for the first and only time in his life that i ever saw. The Alabama song you posted was oddly touching, and i've been listening to some of my dad's old faves ever since, specifically Van Morrison's Hard Nose The Highway and Astral Weeks albums.
Galveston is one of the earliest songs I remember hearing on the car radio. Great history on that song, originally sung by Don Ho!!
man i miss vinyl scratches/pops
pre icon Cher was way cooler than current Cher
and now...DJ from Roseanne
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Subject: Re: geezers Fri May 18, 2018 2:19 pm
18 year old Cliff Richard & The Drifters (later to become the Shadows) in 1958
70 year old Sir Cliff Richard & the Shadows Final Reunion Tour
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Subject: Re: geezers Fri May 18, 2018 4:04 pm
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Subject: Re: geezers Sat May 19, 2018 8:29 am
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Subject: Re: geezers Sun May 20, 2018 1:55 pm
His Royal Dorkness wrote:
i've been listening to some of my dad's old faves ever since, specifically Van Morrison's Hard Nose The Highway and Astral Weeks albums.
There are stories involved. Maybe another time.
It's another time. I'm bored and catching a buzz early on a Sunday. Why not?
The story of the making of the album Astral Weeks is one of the most compelling Rock N Roll stories i've ever heard, at least in my own sterling opinion. Legend has it that Van wasn't thrilled with his bandmates from Them and his solo career was launched under the direction of Bert Bearnes with the release of the single Brown-Eyed Girl, and that Van took Bert's subsequent death so poorly that he wound up in an asylum in Belfast. However, he was still under contract with Warner Bros, and an album was due. Legend has it that Astral Weeks was written entirely in the asylum and there is documentation that the entire album was recorded in three sessions with musicians he had never previously met, who hadn't seen so much as a note of Astral Weeks before showing up at studio for the first session, and who expected to record a pop album. Fortunately somefuckingbody at Warner had read at least some of the sheet music for the album and made it clear that jazz musicians were needed. So at least they were able to perform the music even though it was a bit more demanding than they'd been expecting.
Speaking of expecting, and expectations....
When my father was 7 years old, he played 3rd base. One day he wasn't watching a pitch, and the bat took the ball straight up the hot corner at just below belt level. Spectators in the stands, according to my paternal grandfather, worried that my father's athletic supporter might have been broken, based on the sound of the ball hitting his. He wasn't wearing a cup that day. At 7 years old, he was told that he would never father a child. Many years later, Astral Weeks...
When Van got his shit back together not too long after, he embarked upon a tour of the States, including a stop at SPAC, where (on the lawn, no less) it turned out that what had been declared impossible was merely extraordinarily improbable; during the lovely cello work during Madame George, according to both my parents. My father's name was George, which is almost certainly just a coincidence.
OH omg Mo I'm sorry, i totally misread that post. I mean awesome you were conceived and what a great place to get conceived at. I'm 99% sure I was an accident and something my parents should have erased, but that was their decision and the planet now suffers the more for it. BUT if i understand correctly, way cool having parents into good music. MY stupid parents were into country or tone deaf, and just refuse to understand the joy music brings to people - and obviously if it's not in their realm of appreciating, it just isn't important to the planet at all.
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Subject: Re: geezers Sun May 20, 2018 5:29 pm
No worries Zaph. My mom doesn't give a shit about music anymore and my dad, to whom i rec'd Kanye's first album, is passed now.
He's better off not knowing where Kanye has gone since then.
some days you just want to listen to the cure all day
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Subject: Re: geezers Fri May 25, 2018 1:39 pm
There are some ancient Bluesmen, probably in their 90's still performing.
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Subject: Re: geezers Fri May 25, 2018 2:04 pm
John Mayall 2 years ago at 83
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Subject: Re: geezers Fri May 25, 2018 3:20 pm
I got to see John Mayall at The Egg in Albany back in '95 or '96. Absolutely phenomenal show. Iirc he had Jon Mark and Johnnie Almond with him as well, two of my favorites of the Blues Breakers.
MrBill60 wrote:
There are some ancient Bluesmen, probably in their 90's still performing.
Ernie Williams made it to 87. BB King made it to 89. There may be others, i'd be interested to know.
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Zaph, i still love that whole album, Disintegration.