I love music. I have been involved with music all my life. Growing up, my two constant companions were my dog and my radio....the two best friends a boy could ever have. I listened to AM top 40 stuff, didn't have FM yet. Rock 'n Roll and I grew up together. Elvis was shakin' and hearts were breakin'. My family listened to country, so I got a fair share of that too. There's a Tear in My Beer with Hank and Patsy Cline and Willie writing and singing all those songs. Yep.
Then the Beatles and the Stones invaded the radio and blew us all away. Then came the most powerful music I had ever heard...the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and all them Southern rockers...and then Led Zep...kick butt music. Toin it up!
My Grandmother played the harp and taught me how to play. I got into the Blues early and left the violin to collect dust. That decision made my family very happy and generated a giant sigh of relief from everyone within screeching distance. Have you ever heard really bad "music" from a violin? It's painfull. We never had problems with mice or cockroaches when I played. Family members that I hadn't seen for months started coming around after I laid down the violin. There is an old saying: those that can play, play. Those that cannot become DJ's. So I did my music thing as a DJ at a couple of radio stations and did a couple of gigs in clubs. It was all about the music, and I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of music in my life. I even got into classical music thanks to Rock 'n Roll. Vanilla Fudge...Beethoven's Fur Elise and Moonlight Sonata. (video link below).
There is one type of music I could never understand: Opera. I just didn't get it. I always had this image of
this fat lady in a toga and horns on her head singing in a strange language and so high and shrill that it could shatter my beer bottle. It's like she had a major hidden and extremely painful wardrobe malfunction. Get off that Lady's foot and stop all that screaming! I have been there, done that and hope to never go there again. Same as learning the violin. It would be a fate worse than death. If I am going to be tied to the chair and forced to listen to Opera, I would hope that my tormentors would be kind enough to at least torture me humanely with Tommy or Ziggy Stardust. That's as close as I ever wanted to get to Opera.  |
| Sarah Brightman |
For those of us that are still culturally deprived, Sarah Brightman was the bright and shining star of The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber. She was totally in character in this video and totally blew me away. I am forever in love! Let's get this strait now...in love with Sarah Brightman, NOT opera.
The Fat Lady has just left the building.
I hope you enjoy. J.Osprey
Sarah Brightman Video
Sarah Brightman
Vanilla Fudge Video
http://youtu.be/GQP02PWR0Ds
Next week:
An interview with Royce Wilson - "Bruce Lee's 1 inch Punch"
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