piisfish 135 #1 December 4, 2012 41 years ago today, some loonie set fire to the Casino in Montreux, switzerland, during the Frank Zappa concert. This event marked the writing of one of the greatest moments of rock n roll. Thanks looniescissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 135 #2 December 4, 2012 About the song by Deep Purplehttp://montreuxmusic.com/mmm/content/view/96/136/lang,english/scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 6 #3 December 4, 2012 Some St000pid with a flaregun! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpZ3fCwDEw Ahhh the memnories a song pulls ya back to!! Driving to H.S. senior year in a 69 Mustang fastback pullin' gears while listening to S.O.T.W. in the 8 track! What a way to start a day!! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 8 #4 December 5, 2012 Quote 41 years ago today... FORTY ONE years ago!!! FUCK! I'm getting old... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #5 December 5, 2012 Quote Some St000pid with a flaregun! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpZ3fCwDEw Ahhh the memnories a song pulls ya back to!! Driving to H.S. senior year in a 69 Mustang fastback pullin' gears while listening to S.O.T.W. in the 8 track! What a way to start a day!! You were a Highway Star.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Namowal 0 #6 December 5, 2012 Quote Some St000pid with a flaregun! I was gonna post this, but you beat me to it.My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Namowal 0 #7 December 9, 2012 Quote 41 years ago today, some loonie set fire to the Casino in Montreux, switzerland, during the Frank Zappa concert. This event marked the writing of one of the greatest moments of rock n roll. Thanks loonie Just heard it playing on the radio. It occurred to me that if it had been sung in a language I didn't understand, I'd probably misinterpret it as an upbeat "Wow, something cool is going on!" tune. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snowwhite 0 #8 December 10, 2012 And for the next 30 years everyone who played in a band had to play it at every gig they ever did. Which I don't understand because it is totally impossible to dance to.skydiveTaylorville.org [email protected] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigBUG 0 #9 December 10, 2012 Quote Quote 41 years ago today... FORTY ONE years ago!!! FUCK! I'm getting old... lol, 8 years before I was born and I could play solo note-to note and sometimes do this in a jam sessions :) DP was my biggest inspiration is music and reason why I pick up guitar. Later I discovered Led Zeppelin and my all-time favorite Mark Knopfler with Dire Straits and there was no way back :) I feel really jelous to older generations - you guys had all the best music inb the world and you had it live. And all we got crappy Nirvana (let the sh@tstorm begins :) and all these uninteresting nu-rock band where noone could really play guitar (please find me at least one really cool guitar solo from a popular rock song after the year 2000!) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snowwhite 0 #10 December 10, 2012 I feel really jelous to older generations - you guys had all the best music inb the world and you had it live. And all we got crappy Nirvana (let the sh@tstorm begins :) My grandson got 'guitar hero' for Christmas a couple of years back, and it was loaded with cool old songs. After he had been 'playing' one of the songs over and over on the pretend thing that isn't a guitar, my son finally pulled out his REAL guitar and taught him the song. My son said "heck, if you're gonna spend this much time learning something, it might as well be the real deal'. There are so many ways to make 'music' that I fear a lot of instruments will become a thing of the past. I credit the Beatles with making 'learning music' an interesting thing again for that generation. Until Eleanor Rigby and Lady Madonna, no one wanted to lug around a cello anymore, and schools were crying for kids to learn how to play it. Enter the Beatles, and suddenly, the manufacturers couldn't keep up with production. No one in the Western music field had ever heard of a Sitar, and suddenly, everyone wanted one. We definitely need some new blood.skydiveTaylorville.org [email protected] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Namowal 0 #11 December 10, 2012 Quote [ I feel really jelous to older generations - you guys had all the best music in the world and you had it live. And all we got crappy... As someone old enough to remember the 1970s, let me assure you that for every beloved classic rock song in the era, we had to endure dozens of songs that are so awful that you almost never hear them today. Sylvia's Mother, The Night Chicago Died, Seasons In the Sun etc... The line from Smoke on the Water: "They burned down the gambling house/it died with an awful sound." Makes me suspicious an American top 40 am radio station broadcast somehow made it to the Geneva shoreline that night...My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigBUG 0 #12 December 10, 2012 oh, I know it very well. I did a major research in history of rock music. Actually working as a dj assistant on a rock radio station and even considering of writting the book (it was before wikipedia and there was not much information of American/English rock music in Russia back then). but I am talking about the style and mood, not about particular bands. Back then, if you are a lead guitar in a band, you must play solos. Yes, they produced a lot of awful solos, but also all the things that really inspire new guitarists were born in this period. People learned from each other, from first generation on geniuses like Hendrix or Paige who learned from old bluesmans, to SRV or Malmsteen or Bettencourt who leaned from Jimi or Ritchi and inspire thousands of new musicians. And now this tree is dead, no more fresh branches - all cut by Nirvana's 3-chord wannabees. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
