What I see in different shades of gray, from behind my reading glasses
David Gerard educates the enforcers:
Record companies complain the Internet will destroy music. Musicians complain that they can’t make a living any more. The unsympathetic public, feeling the squeeze themselves, tell them to get a proper job.
The problem isn’t piracy — it’s competition.
There is too much music and too many musicians, and the amateurs are often good enough for the public
Blast from the past – George Formby’s When I’m cleaning windows.
A touching story of a 95-year-old man who wrote a song for his wife of 75 years.
Just a song that caught my attention – a 1965 single by The Impressions, called People Get Ready
Just a neat song with a bunch of kids. Listen to Gone Gone Gone
Young adults have strong positive memories of the music their parents loved when they were the same age, a study finds. That flies in the face of the cultural stereotype that children reject their parents’ taste in music.
“One day Lenny Kravitz was sitting with some friends on a terrace in New Orleans when he heard a familiar sound. A group of high school students from a baptist church in Texas was performing Kravitz’s hit “Fly Away” on the steps across Decatur Street from Jackson Square in the French Quarter.
Kravitz decided he wanted to join in. One of his friends went down and asked the group’s director if that would be alright. He said yes, it would. So when the famous musician arrived, the group started playing the song again from the top. “
Another great song from Lou Dillon – Devil or Angel