[Steve Okula]

Gib affects the airs of a curmudgeon, and pretends to be above such drivel, but he actually likes "Gangnam Style", why else would he be sharing it?

And, mind you, this posture coming from Gib, who's an admitted Dead Head.

Is "Gangnam Style" not intellectually stimulating? Try this from Gib's own Grateful Dead:

http://youtu.be/qGt0TFPLdsg

And here' a sample of the lyrics:

My grandma and your grandma
Sitting by the fire
My grandma says to your grandma
"I'm gonna set your flag on fire"

Talkin' 'bout
Hey now
Hey now
Iko iko an nay
Jockomo feena ah na nay
Jockomo feena nay

Look at my king all dressed in red
Iko iko an nay
I bet you five dollars he'll kill you dead
Jockomo feena nay

CHORUS:
Talkin' 'bout
Hey now (hey now)
Hey now (hey now)
Iko iko an nay (whoah-oh)
Jockomo feena ah na nay
Jockomo feena nay

My flag boy and your flag boy
Sitting by the fire
[ From: http://www.elyrics.net ]
My flag boy says to your flag boy
"I'm gonna set your flag on fire"

They don't write 'em like that anymore, do they, Gib?

[David_Tepper]

This will restore your faith in humanity and give you reason to live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK_DOJa99oo

[Gib_Papazian]

Iko Iko was originally written by Sugar Boy Crawford - circa 1953

I can think of 25 or so bands that have recorded a cover of it.

You might as well sneer at "I Wanna Hold Your Hand."


If you want a GD original, here is one:

Grateful Dead - Words by Robert Hunter; music by Phil Lesh

Look out of any window
any morning, any evening, any day
Maybe the sun is shining
birds are winging or
rain is falling from a heavy sky -
What do you want me to do,
to do for you to see you through?
this is all a dream we dreamed
one afternoon long ago
Walk out of any doorway
feel your way, feel your way
like the day before
Maybe you'll find direction
around some corner
where it's been waiting to meet you -
What do you want me to do,
to watch for you while you're sleeping?
Well please don't be surprised
when you find me dreaming too

Look into any eyes
you find by you, you can see
clear through to another day
I know it's been seen before
through other eyes on other days
while going home --
What do you want me to do,
to do for you to see you through?
It's all a dream we dreamed
one afternoon long ago

Walk into splintered sunlight
Inch your way through dead dreams
to another land
Maybe you're tired and broken
Your tongue is twisted
with words half spoken
and thoughts unclear
What do you want me to do
to do for you to see you through
A box of rain will ease the pain
and love will see you through

Just a box of rain -
wind and water -
Believe it if you need it,
if you don't just pass it on
Sun and shower -
Wind and rain -
in and out the window
like a moth before a flame

It's just a box of rain
I don't know who put it there
Believe it if you need it
or leave it if you dare
But it's just a box of rain
or a ribbon for your hair
Such a long long time to be gone
and a short time to be there

[Gib_Papazian]

Brent:  GREAT STUFF!!!!!!!!

[Steve Okula]

I never thought Brent was a good fit for the band, what with that croaking voice and harpsichord tone he evoked from the piano. I always wished they could have enlisted Dr. John or Leon Russell, someone with some real flavor, but probably just as well for those guys, given the curse of the Dead keyboards.

Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

[Dan Kelly]

Gib --

This will make you feel better -- or much worse: http://tinyurl.com/1957-guy.

Happy New Year.

Dan

[Dan King]

Gib I have gone my whole life having no clue what people were talking about with Gangnam style. I liked being the last person in the world to know what it is. Then I go and click on your link, and my ignorance is gone. I sort of liked it.

For a better version than the Dead, here is the Neville Brothers, Dixie Cup and Dennis Quaid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ4ECThZ_2o

Cheers,
Dan King

Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies to the territory. So, noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time, and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that.
 --Psy

[Mike Nuzzo]

Gib
It is all about perspective
Without Psy there is no Waveya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpZhZAr1cQU
Dan - the above video is better for your 2nd viewing
Cheers

[Gib_Papazian]

Dan,

I saw the Neville Brothers a few times - they opened for the Dead on New Year's. Their version of Iko Iko was really something; sometimes when a band opens up for the main act, the audience response is a bit tepid. When the Neville Brothers came on, it was instant energy . . . . the two bands fit together, both culturally and musically. Mickey Hart could sit in with them without rehearsal.

Steve,

Brent was an odd fit - I agree. I've never quite understood why Keith and Donna moved on because in terms of style and the overall organization of the sound, I felt the Godchaux era was the zenith. Brent had a great voice and was a terrific organ player, but when Hornsby joined the band that one year, it became obvious how much the Grateful Dead needs the delicacy of a piano to go along with the Hammond.

I'm anxious to see all these links above. I'll either have my sour-ass attitude improved, or it will provide confirmation we have reached an irretrievable tipping point from where there can be no escape.





         

[Jud_T]

I've never quite understood why Keith and Donna moved on because in terms of style and the overall organization of the sound, I felt the Godchaux era was the zenith.

Uh, because Donna couldn't sing her way out of a wet paper bag?  Actually caught them at the Masonic Temple in Detroit when Donna had already split but Keith was still around.  One of the best shows ever...

[Gib_Papazian]

Mike Nuzzo: Amusing and kinda fun to watch, I suppose I've been a bit hard on PSY - but all my touchstones are slowly drifting away. I guess my biggest objection is that the footage from our music video is 134 times better than Gangnam Style nonsense and this PSY drip (who makes nasty remarks about America) has harvested over a billion hits with something that is no better than a marginal student film at USC. Jealousy? Maybe, but I'm not in a self-reflective humor lately.

Dan Kelly: Awesome. AWESOME!!!!! I watched it twice. In retrospect, it feels like the last gasping moments of the Big Band era - but captured with incredible elegance and respect. Back when chicks were chicks and liked it. Guys were not expected to be androgynous automatons and everybody sort of knew their role. This reinventing of human culture is not working out all that well. If somebody wants to argue that point with me, lace up your spikes good and tight.

Dan King: Pretty tough to compare the Neville version with the Dead - one is a showcase of guitar virtuosity and one is a bunch of super-talented performers doing a party-band number. Both are great, but as a guitar player, I'll still take the Dead. At a Halloween bash or Bourbon Street nude-up, you know the answer.

Dave Tepper: I actually sat there with tears running down my cheeks watching that. Thank you, sincerely. It has been a fucked year in more ways than I can count, but that turned my mood around. I cannot imagine standing on that stage with THOSE three watching . . . . . and if I had to play the solo to Stairway to Heaven in front of Jimmy Page, I couldn't stop my hands from trembling long enough to tune my guitar.

A bit like hitting balls on the driving range in front of Ben Hogan.

Here is one that nearly brought me to my knees. I only have two guitar heros in life and here is the other one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgjBTI81NaA

Maybe there is hope . . . . .        

  

[Dan King]

Watching Waveya makes me feel like taking a shower. I'm a little too old to be looking at girls that young dancing.

I've seen the Neville's numerous times, but one time with my elbows on the stage at Tipintina's. That was every bit as comparable as seeing the Dead on New Year's Eve. The Neville's worked every bit as hard as the Dead on NYE. Good times.

Cheers,
Dan King

Don't be a collector of more than you need, got a lot of things growing, but keep watching your seeds.
 --Grateful Dead

[John Kirk]

My opinions are as follows:

1.  "Gangnam Style" is unlistenable.  I hate shrieking synthesizers.  I must be getting old, or modern pop music is unlistenable.  Or both.

2.  My favorite version of "Iko Iko" is the Dixie Cups by far.  Only hand claps, drumsticks and bass drum for accompaniment.  Maybe a stand up bass.  The song's lyrics may be opaque - the author admits he does not know what the words mean.  Nevertheless, these are American lyrics, and I relate to them better than the Korean lyrics and sentiments.  Take your shot of hot coffee, PSY, I'll take the Dixie Cups singing 'he's not a man, he's a loving machine'.

3.  My favorite Grateful Dead music is the earlier stuff.  Actually, I'm very fond of the music where keyboard playing is nonexistent or barely evident.  Give me 1965-76, anywhere I can hear Bob, Jerry and Phil popping those guitars.  I like the Skull Set a lot.  Not a Brent Mydland fan, though I have friends who love him.

Favorite two rock guitarists? Duane Allman and somebody else.  Can't decide.

Everybody's picking a Dead song.  I like this one, "Franklin's Tower" from a San Francisco performance in 1975.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP7dDCeR3rQ

[Grant Saunders]

Gangnam Style doesnt float my boat but its bringing a lot of fun and enjoyment to a bunch of people the world over and Im all for that.

Sure its a fad and will be forgotten in 12 months but if it helps give people a lift for now in the face of all the shit the world over then why deny that.

When it comes to video clips that give you chills (the good kind) this ones well up there on my list.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUYzQaCCt2o

[Gib_Papazian]

My 14 year-old's favorite song is "The Monkey and the Engineer" - but he grew up hearing daddy sing it to him at night. Once Nick turned around 11, his very favorite song is this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnlgdwdN5lA

You can play that at my funeral I suppose. Nick brings me his baritone Uke and my favorite old Takamine 350; we play Jack Straw together - he sings Jerry's part. I play and sing Bobby . . . . . but then again, I've always wanted to be Bob Weir.

My daughter's favorite song - aside from "The Monkey Song" for sentimental value - is "Wasted on the Way." The kid is a whole lot more perceptive about the madness than everybody thinks. 'Cept me . . . . . she is dad with a skirt.  

[Gib_Papazian]

Grant,

I saw The Wall twice (alternate nights) in 1980 - and again last year. No matter what anybody says, there is no combination of replacement musicians that can make Pink Floyd sound EXACTLY RIGHT.

The guy who played Gilmour's part did a very nice job, but I'm sorry, Roger and a group of good studio musicians can make it sing, but only that particular foursome can levitate the entire stadium . . . and Rick Wright has left us. I still listen to "Wet Dream" at least twice a month from start to finish. He - like Tony Banks of Genesis - is/was unbelievably under-appreciated. The one album (Final Cut) without Wright was a C-. 

[Steve Lapper]

Does anyone here know what and where occupies the majority of Roger Waters non-musical summertime??
Hint: it's a GCA fav.!

My young daughters (7 & 10)  proposed singing a karaoke medley of Iko-Iko, Sugaree and Scarlet Begonias (sans Fire) for their school's recital.     When asked by their Lower School Music teacher how they choose that,  they replied we listened to, like, and learned the Dead on their Old Man's XM Radio." Charming little rug rats ...

When asked what they thought of Psy, a few weeks back,  one replied....." He hops like Kung Fu Panda!," and the other asked: "does he really knew how to play any instrument?   "Regular Einsteins I'm raising!!!

[Sean_A]

Gib

While I always have a hard time getting behind The Dead or the Nevilles, its not reasonable to bring up a band like Pink Floyd in a conversation about a run of the mill fad.  

Few things please me more than to be surprised when hearing a standard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etSg-JxnSp4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiub38ys-FA

Ciao  

[RJ_Daley]

Sean, given your offering link, do you also like this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx0IL_QawJc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXRR_jw6AYM
the full album
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IobGNxWB0qE

Believe it or not, same bassist as on this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tigZaEoIaQM

This dude....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZo4bWYttbo

enjoy....  

My old neighbor in Madison... our daughters used to play together.

[Peter Pallotta]

Dan - I wrote a television biography of Guy Lombardo for the CBC's Life and Times Series. No one alive today can know how popular that band was in its day (from the mid 1920s - their high point -- and then for decades afterwards) -- I mean, in their hey day, Guy and his brother Carmen (also sax player, signer and songwriter of hits like "Boo Hoo") and the band seemed to work 365 days a year, and only in "the best hotels" (as Guy was fond of pointing out). And while the "sweet" style was never a big hit with the critics (and was swamped by the emergence of the swing bands and their "hot" sound by 1935), no less a luminary than Louis Armstrong used the praise the Lombardo and say he used to go listen to them in Chicago because they always played so pretty and you could always hear the melody. Guy was an interesting cat - a good guy, yes, but tough as nails as the boss -- and then set speed records in his power boats. A London, Ontario boy.

Peter

[RJ_Daley]

Oh yeah, those links are for you too, Pietro! 

[Peter Pallotta]

Thanks, RJ - just watched the first two...ahhh, lovely.

I think I'm a bit narrow minded, musically speaking.If they'd stopped making music in 1970, I'd be fine with that. Actually, if they'd stopped in 1960 - no, wait, 1950....Actually, if they started and stopped making music between 1942 and 1942, I'd still have enough musical pleasure for a life time.

Peter

[RJ_Daley]

Of course we are all here just trying to talk Gib off the ledge, and give him examples of why it isn't actually the end times.  YouTube is a great thing...   

[Sean_A]

Sean, given your offering link, do you also like this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx0IL_QawJc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXRR_jw6AYM
the full album
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IobGNxWB0qE

Believe it or not, same bassist as on this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tigZaEoIaQM

This dude....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZo4bWYttbo

enjoy....  

My old neighbor in Madison... our daughters used to play together.

RJ

Summertime is at its essence a blues number.  There is no need for tons of added notes on the guitar.  This is something loads of people in music are guilty of.  Its the music version of too many bunkers - tee hee.

I'm a fan of Dolphy with Mingus, maybe because nobody was going to out-weird Charlie.  I also like some of Dolphy with Coltrane on the Village Vanguard gigs.

I am have been totally sold Astral Weeks for years.  The build-up of the album without a final crash is great and very off-beat for the period. The early to mid-70s is a tough period musically for me, Astral Weeks is one of the few bright spots.

This too is a highlight - maybe my favourite album of the 70s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu_C4qQcJKU&list=AL94UKMTqg-9BDxNZOybRbK_np1W_t39Ml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktCocv-bBDg&list=AL94UKMTqg-9BDxNZOybRbK_np1W_t39Ml

Waits' 80s Trilogy is a very high point in the 80s for me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv8IM_-Bam0&list=AL94UKMTqg-9BDxNZOybRbK_np1W_t39Ml

Ciao

[Jud_T]

1.  The Wall sucked live.  These guys don't improvise.  At least they haven't since Sid stared into the void and fell in.  They make great albums in the studio and perform them note for note on stage.  Sort of like Radiohead IMO.  Of course if Roger would like to invite me out for a game at the National to discuss it I'm willing to keep an open mind.

2.  There's plenty of great music being made today.  You just don't hear much of it on popular radio.  Go see Ken Vandermark live if you ever get the chance.

3.  Here you go Sean:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXTij2srvQ8

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