My motto: "Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it."

Ok, here goes - "A smack in the head."

Settle for biting your lip till it draws blood.

ooh...new topic in screwed...you can already question the Almighty Pasquina...maybe we should now be able to question the Frugal Autumn...

Simplicity is my master!

I hear ye, Oh Frugal Autumn, Whose wisdom is abundant as a Spring! (especially ON the Spring...)

The afternoon DJ on KHWI-FM (K-Hawaii Rock and Roll), Tommy "the Polynesian Pirate" Ching, just polished off a six-pack of classic James Taylor. Love it: 1) Fire and Rain 2) Sweet Baby James 3) Country Road 4) Steamroller Blues 5) Traffic Jam 6) Honey Don't Leave L.A. And I love that live PBS JT special that Terry alluded to earlier.

I'm listening to Schostakovitch's 5th Symphony on Netradio. Think I'll change to Baroque, though. Now into quiet classics and they are playing Mendelssohn's Spring song.

While Ray watches a TNN documentary on--as you put it--hillbilly music? Don't tell me I don't understand the concept of irony!

ha-ha!!! Listening to Texas right now.

I'm listening to Enya's "The Celts" (the very best Enya CD.) By the way, this background really rocks!

hiya Amy! I listened to the same CD last night... am listening to Paula Cole's Harbinger right now

Hi, Stacey! Now I'm listening to The Smith's "Singles" (God, I love "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now"!) It's the proper listening material for Colin Firth fans! (Yes, I'm a "drooler"!)

I Listen to the new Stereo Total-LP (yeah, I bought the vinyl on the concert!).

Beethoven's "Fidelio" (op. 72). Frankfurt Opera Orchestra.

Oh, John...How glorious!!! I was listening to you and now listening to college fight songs played with great enthusiasm at football games on boradcast.com

Boola Boola!

Sumpthin' li'dat. Can't hear good enough to tell, but i think that was Yale's big song, and they hardly ever televise Yale out here or even put them on NetRadio!

It was. It was written in the early 1900s by a Yalie from Honolulu who was quite the Hawaiian songwriter, Sonny Cunha.

You are kidding! Unreal! Not Sonny Kunha? Interesting as all get-out. The stuff you learn here...*lol* Mahalo plenty!

Amy, where in Ireland do you live?

Woo Woo! Don Henley's on the Spring Cam...!!! babalicious... gotta run over to the appropriate topic!

New record out, don't he?

WHO IS DON HENLEY????

Uuummhh, Eagles? Looooong ago.... Hihi, generation gap in music, I love to talk about this. Last weekend I got somebody REALLY pi��ed, when I told him I don't care about the Beatles AND the Stones. Gawd, I thought this discussion was closed many years ago. This guy got really angry, I tried to explain, that I wasn't even planned when the discussion about which one's the most greatest band was on, and when those bands were hip, but he couldn't accept how this music couldn't play an important role in ones life....

I was a wee thing when the Eagles were hep but some of my fondest memories are belting out the tunes with my dad while driving in the car!

Yeah, early music memories will never leave you. I know this one, cause I have an elder brother who listened to 60s and 70s rock music, when I was little I loved his music, some of it still today.(...and some not) What made the guy really angry was, that I didn't accept their historical IMPORTANCE and their being above all ( best bands ever was and ever will be...) Times they are a'changin', aren't they!?

Yes! I'm still in the A-HA! stage. My kids think I'm an old geek! They say my music ain't cool. Isa is into DJ Bobo, heaven forbid!

Ree, in case you didn't get my post in male babes and didn't quite catch Stacey's glossed over reference, Don Henley was the Eagles' drummer and (sometime) lead vocalist. He has had a decent solo career. Some of his hits--you may recognize one or two: "Boys of Summer," "Sunset Grill," "End of the Innocence," "(Sit Down) You're Rocking the Boat," "All She Wants to Do is Dance." He is possessed of a powerful, clear, seemingly limitless upper-range rock-and-roll tenor voice. Decent acoustic guitarist and accomplished songwriter as well. Has abilities like Phil Collins, but is taller and better looking--and American.

'glossed over'? what did i gloss? did i dis Henley inadvertantly?

No, you just mentioned the Eagles without mentioning that Henley had been in the group...

I really thought this whole discussion with this guy being a generation conflict - everybody has it's own favourite stars - musicians - bands, but nobody believed me then...You can't tell a fourteen year old that e.g. Bob Dylan was the greatest musician there ever was and ever will be - they have their own idols, and would't accept this.. and then such discussion always go on with - "times are getting worse - look at the youth today" How I hate this! I'm not youth anymore (long, long time ago), but I woul feel very old, if I couldn't accept that times and favours are changing...and this is no disaster - at least not for me, because I can't bear stagnation...

how old are you Isabel (If you don't mind sharing)

I will always stay 29!

*grin* I was born in 68. This century!

*laugh* you are still quite young! Brandon (my fiance) loved turning 30... I'm not sure what my reaction will be!

I hated it. I feel VERY old sometimes, try to cope this with ignorance and rattling my cage bars....

I have wrinkles older than you.

You're teasin'! You can't be THAT old!

I'm 29, born in 53 this century.

:-) So you got your first wrinkles with FIFTEEN??????

I did! I'm 25, and wrinkled as hell! Seriously! Like my sister says, we are so wrinkled, if we cry whe have to wipe our ar$es, 'cos that's where the wrinkles make the tears go.

children!

I was born wrinkled. Back to the subject. I'm listening right now to Tchaivkovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, op. 23" Peter Toperczer on piano, accompanied by the Slovak National Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Bystrik Rezucha.

Ah, uhum....

*laugh* still cracked up (forgive the pun!) over the wiping arses comment!

I laughed at the wiping arses comment as well, but I don't think I understood it

�sigh� The wrinkles make the tears run down your back, and into your buttcrack of course! Tschaikovsky's piano concertos are great. Who is your favourite classical composer, John?

Listening to some vintage country, freshly reissued by the biz's saints, Bear Family: Roy Hogsed, "Cocaine Blues". Very informative booklet, full discography. This is the real stuff, before country rock, outlaw country, and pop with a cowboy hat.

Pop with a cowboy hat?! HA-HA!!!! Care to explain the difference between country rock, outlaw country (??) and pop with a cowboy hat?

Mozart is my favorite classical composer, although I also love Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, Rimsky-Korsakov, some Wagner, and America's own Aaron Copland. I used to work for a hip classical station in Los Angeles many years back. We actually said things on the air like "All dead guys, all the time..." Country rock is artists like New Riders of the Purple Sage, Hank Williams Jr., Charlie Daniels Band, Marshall Tucker Band, J.J. Cale, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, Sawyer Brown... Outlaw country (also sometimes called Armadillo music) is the Austin stuff that started some 20 years ago like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, David Allan Coe, Steve Goodman (deceased and actually from Chicago), Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys (I'm not kidding). Waylon and Willie started the movement by leaving Nashville and setting up shop in Austin. Willie had been a Grammy winning mainstream Nashville songwriter in the late 1950s to early 1970s ("Crazy" by Patsy Cline, "Hello Walls" by Faron Yo ng). Waylon, who started off as a DJ in Waco, was an unofficial "Cricket" in the late 50s, sometimes playing with Buddy Holly as a second guitarist. He has an amazing baritone voice, both speaking and singing (he was the narrator from "The Dukes of Hazzard") Pop with a cowboy hat is the stuff you said you liked from "Urban Cowboy." Artists include, but are not limited to: Barbara Mandrell, Steve Warriner, Glen Campbell, Alabama, Brooks & Dunn, Sweethearts of the Rodeo, Highway 101...some people would also lump Garth Brooks there, but I basically consider Garth a rock star who sings country. "The Dance" is my favorite country song from the past 20 years. I also love George Strait. I knew him in the 70s when he was in the Army and I was in the Navy in Honol lu.

Great! At least now I never have to admit to having ever liked any country music again. I'll just say that recently I like a few pop songs - all with cowboy hats on...oink.

Hmh. I used to have serious prejudices against country. What made me reconsider was (a) realising how much stuff like Violent Femmes owe to country (the OLD school), (b) having a passing crush on Hazeldine from New Mexico (which I was cured of after I saw them live again, but the second time with the then new lineup...), and (c) Dead Moon. Yeah, right. Dead Moon. Best live rock band there is. Fred Cole is now over fifty, but rocks harder than most youngsters, and he's been at it since early 60s (he's been in Lollipoppe Shoppe, knew folks like the 13th Floor Elevators and Janis Joplin, etc.), and if you ask him about his influences, his fave was Johnny Cash. And I never understood why! I mean, yeah, they did cover versions of Cash-songs, and that was hot stuff, but then, they even got Elvis-pieces to be really meaningful... (like Toody, bass player and Fred's wife, singing "Can't help falling i love"...). Then somebody played me one of Johnny Cash's jailhouse records, and I saw the light! See, he's been about, had ups and downs. And went sober and religious, and recorded spiritual stuff in a church... But he also went into jails to perform for the inmates, and picked songs that rocked them (though everybody had to stay seated), and had lyrics they could relate to. Two of these gigs were released on LPs, and are available on one CD "Live At Folsom Prison/San Quentin" from Columbia now. (One of them was also broadcast on TV) Here, he's going really at it, and you grin and smile at the witty texts, the drama and anguish of the characters, and of course of the atmosphere this stuff was recorded in - about what the prisoners laughed, and how he made fun of the guards, and the whole situation. Wow! Those are great performances! And they made me aware there is more to country than the hat-acts, coumntry-charts and the industry tells us these days. Who cares if it's rock, or country, or singer/songwriter-stuff, if the songwriting meets your standards of quality, and the music suits it perfect! (I mean, my buddy Sonny went from NYC's punk scene to Nashville on his last bucks in late 70ies to record a song inspired by Hank Williams - there you go!)

Right now I am listeneing to John Burnett on his weekend show on KWXX - but not the music...just his golden tones between sets. http://www.webradio.com/kwxx/

Thank you. I'm home now. Sorry I can't play Shostakovich for you...

Violent Femmes is cool stuff. You're right, Alexander. My old friend, Hutch, a very hip country musician and disc jockey who introduced me to punk other than Velvet Underground, the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols, called it "punk country."

Welcome home! Actually, Shostakovitch is not my favorite composer - far too dissonant for me, but better than nothing classical...But thanks for the sentiment. I appreciate it!

Willie and Lobo

Hawaiian Music of all sorts.

haven't been here in a long time, but am listening to sting's brand new day cd. love desert rose!

I am rediscovering The Moody Blues. Is there anything they have done which does not send me into raptures? I think not! "Question" in particular... "Funeral for a Friend" Elton John. "Layla" - Derek and the Dominoes (Eric Clapton)

Sting's Desert Rose reminds me of "The English Patient" and Colin Firth losing the girl again to another Feinnes!