Sociological commentary optional.
Yeah, and whatever, define "old" however you want. I hate that shit, like "eh bleh this is *my* thread I'm so special!" After all, isn't it forbidden to forbid, in an egalitarian society?
Yeah, so what I was thinking about....I got home early today and after loading up on about four hamburgers on my new favorite trip, english muffins (srsly, at least at my grocery store, which is the "premium" [or one of] branch of the Kroger family of stores) are like about same price as the bunny-bread (no, I didn't just make that term up....I know I've heard someone else say that, therefore I'm not just, in this case, making some stuff up, just kind of appropriating it) burger buns. so, like, might as well, right?
The more you know!
Well, at least if you like the texture of English muffins, which I, evidently, do.
Oh yeah, so when I got that happening on the grill I was like....shit, how long has it been since I played something on my real (cheap but good, to my ears) stereo, as opposed to just whatever off my computer?
I don't know why I decided to look up the redbook Duke *Far East Suite* off the shelf...for a long time I thought the CD was missing, but apparently I found it again sometime in the past year.
Yeah, so like the breakthrough was hearing the tune "Isfahan." I mean, everyone knows the tune because everyone plays it (including a bunch of piano players) and it's always, always in all the fakebooks.
Kind of "clicked" for me on this time through -- I don't think I'd given the Duke album a spin for maybe 15 years.
Jesus effing X, masterful performance whole band, great Duke piano picking, obviously great melodic tune, and, more importantly, great arrangement.
Times like this one half of me wishes I knew more about which of his crew did the writing(melody)/harmonizing/orchestrating, and the other half says, don't care, that's good the way it is.
Oh, fine, I likee the rockee-rollee teenager music, I just didn't necessarily want a bunch of people calling the MC5 or early boots of The Stooges "old" -- it's really not, even though I don't know what old is supposed to mean. Pre-1959? Yeah, I guess that's good.
And even though to illustrate a point I do like the embedded youtube, I think it can sometimes be distracting, so as a point of courtesy, I'd suggest maybe a link is good enough.
Anyway, it's not my place to say -- this thread no longer belongs to me, so do whatever, as I know you will, being a group of adults up for some adult fun and not merely sensitive, not merely new Age, people. I hope some people will have some amusing anecdotes about 2nd testament Basie band (Kid from Red Bank, amirite! yeah, corny metareference, but not at all a corny tune or recording) or one of the Duke suites. but I have no expectations, just make a little thread.