[Rick Shefchik]

Gib --

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

Happy New Year.

Dan

Clairol certainly got their money's worth from that sponsorship. Even Tostitos don't get injected that thoroughly into the bowl games they sponsor. The '50s weren't as pure as I remembered them to be.

[Rick Shefchik]

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 could 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.

  

I was thinking exactly the same thing when I watched that clip. The guy with the biggest balls in the house was the lead guitar player in the tribute band.

I didn't watch the show when it aired because A.) I couldn't fathom what David Letterman had done to deserve a Kennedy Center Honor, except have the decency to give Darlene Love a featured segment every year to sing "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" (and probably for doing his damndest to help Obama get re-elected); and B.) I couldn't have imagined Led Zeppelin ever being honored by people in tuxedos, much less agreeing to wear them.

[Rick Shefchik]

So here is the final straw in the degradation of our once great culture:            

Oppa is Gangnam style

A girl who is warm and humane during the day
A classy girl who know how to enjoy the freedom of a cup of coffee
A girl whose heart gets hotter when night comes
A girl with that kind of twist

I’m a guy
A guy who is as warm as you during the day
A guy who one-shots his coffee before it even cools down
A guy whose heart bursts when night comes
That kind of guy

Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Now let’s go until the end

Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Oppa is Gangnam style

Eh- Sexy Lady, Oppa is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh

A girl who looks quiet but plays when she plays
A girl who puts her hair down when the right time comes
A girl who covers herself but is more sexy than a girl who bares it all
A sensible girl like that

I’m a guy
A guy who seems calm but plays when he plays
A guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comes
A guy who has bulging ideas rather than muscles
That kind of guy

Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Now let’s go until the end

Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Oppa is Gangnam style

Eh- Sexy Lady, Oppa is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh

On top of the running man is the flying man, baby baby
I’m a man who knows a thing or two
On top of the running man is the flying man, baby baby
I’m a man who knows a thing or two

You know what I’m saying
Oppa is Gangnam style

Eh- Sexy Lady, Oppa is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh

Daytime turns me off, And I don't mean maybe
Nine to five Ain't takin' me where I'm bound
When it's done, I run out to see my baby
We got groovin' when the sun goes down

I thank the Lord for the night time
To forget the day
A day of up, uptight time
Baby, chase it away
I get relaxation, it's a time to groove
I thank the Lord for the night time
I thank the Lord for you

I'll talk about plans now Baby, I got plenty
Nothing ever seems to turn out the way it should
Talk about money, girl, I ain't got any
Seems like just one time
I'm feeling good

I thank the Lord for the night time
To forget the day
A day of up, uptight time
Baby, chase it away
I get relaxation, it's a time to groove
I thank the Lord for the night time
I thank the Lord for you

[Tom Yost]

I thank god for XM radio, specifically Deep Tracks and Little Steven's Underground Garage, mostly because I can remain blissfully unaware of what passes for popular music on terrestrial radio. 

[RJ_Daley]

Jud says:

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.

Then, will you meet "Johnny Thunders" there and solve the mystery of who that masked man was as he rode through GCA.com some years ago?  

[Carl Nichols]

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.

  

Amen

[Jason Thurman]

I thank god for XM radio, specifically Deep Tracks and Little Steven's Underground Garage, mostly because I can remain blissfully unaware of what passes for popular music on terrestrial radio. 

I can't relate to most of the dadrock love on this thread, but I do love Little Steven.

[Scott_Burroughs]

Oh, c'mon, Gib, there are worse things around than Gangnam Style.  How about the show Jersey Shore?  If you think JS is bad enough, MTV has taken the JS model to a small, hick town in West Virginia (sorry, that's redundant  ) called Buckwild, premiering tonight.

http://www.mtv.com/shows/buckwild/series.jhtml

"BUCKWILD is an authentic comedic series following an outrageous group of childhood friends from the rural foothills of West Virginia who love to dodge grown-up responsibilities and always live life with the carefree motto, "whatever happens, happens."

Money might be tight in their neck of the woods, but whether they're throwing a dump truck pool party or building their own human slingshot, nothing stops them from making their own entertainment. Love and relationships come and go, but their bond with family and friends is always at the core for this eccentric group where anything goes!"


To hopefully restore a little more of your faith.....try this, it's a symphonic version of Pink Floyd's Us and Them.  London Symphony Orchestera did an entire CD of Floyd stuff in '95.....and this is the centerpiece (done by a Russian orchestra here).  This version has a few parts where some sections of the orchestra overpower the others (unlike the album), but it's pretty darned good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR0bDnNlAXM

[Gib_Papazian]

Dick,

Not to worry, if I'm finally driven to fling myself from this lofty lectern, my demise is unlikely.

To quote Yukon Cornelius: "Didn't I ever tell you about Bumbles? Bumbles bounce!"

I asked my Aussie sister-in-law if they had Rudolph back home and she looked at me as if I was daft. Tracey regards me as more idiot than savant, and a typical American - but it seemed like a fair question. I thought Wiggles Christmas with Mark Knopfler was more likely, but I guess not.

Your post piqued my curiosity as I had always wondered about Johnny Thunders myself. He left the Treehouse many years ago and unlike drifters like me, never came back. I miss his cheeky dirt clods, the bar had more personality in those days. But there is no way he's a member at NGLA any more than the mysterious Hamilton B. Hearst is a reclusive billionaire.

Jud,

The Wall "sucked live?" Are we talking 1980, 2011 or 2012? Wow, you are the only person I've ever known of who did not walk out absolutely stunned. Pink Floyd is not a jam band - their concerts are more like multimedia assaults on the senses. I saw Wish Your Were Here and Animals, which sort of changed the way I look at the definition of musical performance.

There are a series of recordings on You Tube called "Barn Jams" - it is Dave Gilmour's band with Rick Wright. It's mostly improv and to be honest, some of the best stuff I've ever heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lJ2skoRxxM

My sense has always been that the early Pink Floyd compositions were based on inspirations from their jam sessions. The Pompeii recordings are hypnotic.

My taste is a bit unusual, so my preferences are best taken with a pinch of caution. My favorite two Pink Floyd Albums are Mettle and Atom Heart Mother. Aside from their live albums, I've worn the grooves off the Grateful Dead's Wake of the Flood - which most critics dismissed as an amateurish mess.

I suppose my love for offbeat music comes from my father. He was good friends and an enormous fan of Stan Kenton; music does not get any more esoteric and inaccessible than that.

Scotty,

That London Symphony performance was one for the ages - proof that the music we grew up on finally infiltrated the stodgy orchestra world. In May of 2011, Bob Weir, Ratdog and the Marin Civic Orchestra put on a wondrous improvisational benefit show. The crowd was a mixture of young hippies, grown up Deadheads and elderly symphony goers dressed in ballgowns and tuxedos. Weir encouraged all the orchestra musicians to let rip whatever came to them - in the loose framework of different Dead/Ratdog songs. It still seems like a hallucination to me - three hours of absolute musical magic. I've never found anything but iPhone bootlegs, but if one pops up, you'll dig it.

The shock of seeing Gangnam Style (does this dweeb have anything else in his repertoire?) juxtaposed with Hammer struck me as the nadir of American culture. A horrific match of two disparate fads, forced together to create a diminutive sum of its parts. I didn't mind Arrowsmith and Run DMC doing "Walk This Way" for some reason. I've always loved Joe Perry's guitar work and I'll admit that video penetrated my skull far enough to finally grasp the allure of Rap Music. I'm not a convert mind you, but at least it no longer raises bile into my throat.

Please assure the studio audience you will not dignify a reality show starring a bunch of West Virginia hillbillies by adding to their viewership. Let us pray you don't have a Nielsen box on your television.              

[Jud_T]

Gib,

2011. I agree that those are probably my favorite Floyd albums as well at this point, but I can't tell you the last time I listened to 'em.  Frankly the Dead has stood the test of time better than Floyd IMO.  Wake of the Flood is Awesome.  And it definitely gets a lot more esoteric and inaccessible than Stan Kenton!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgfwM3-kAeQ

[Steve Lang]

   Gib,

Speakin of jambalaya, ever tried Joe Pass with a pinch of Roy Clark??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VoRq1JAwHJg

spent an hour in a class room with JP back in 1973 or so, maybe you should mello out with his Summertime,,,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jkinLvUrUYE

p.s. I've just taken to turning off the tv sound ... modern day cartoon time .. emanon ... get out the 60 strat and plug into the gascan and celebrate  BRIGHT MOMENTS, BRIGHT MOMENTS!  LIFE!

p.s.s.  UMMAGUMMA

[Tony_Muldoon]

The was a previous thread on music where someone posted words to the effect of:

Guys I’d love to play golf with all of you, but I’m only doing the road trip together if I control the music.



Gib, you can’t listen to the radio much if you get so offended by Gangham Style.

Don’t get too worked up about it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gangnam-style-death-prompts-warning-to-middleaged-men-not-to-attempt-the-vigorous-dance-8411905.html

[RJ_Daley]

Nice story, David.  

There is so much talent in this world.  Here is a rendition of "Stairway..." in a most raw state for Gib to pass a few minutes before he pulls the pin.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3AqnMsB_n0

Stay with it for the last 3 minutes of the near 7 minute performance.  The comments section says the player is Marcello Calabrese, playing in Piazza Novona in Rome.  Great players are everywhere in the streets in Italy.  On successive days I saw two Polish street players playing classical guitar in Piazza della Signoria that were flat out great.  I bought Lezjek's CD and listen to it often.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFfaLo-aYhU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdYcSf0PE6U

Ask Jason Topp about Robert Everest, playing the Brazilian 7 string, who we had play and sing in 3 languages at the ceremony and cocktail hour at my daughter's wedding last summer.  

http://www.youtube.com/user/rkeverest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf2N1yXkX3o&list=UUrjaSCtfhVEPfDAOS0wSB9w&index=7

Great talent everywhere...  If we reach the end times, hopefully talented street guys like these will play us out as we run naked in the streets.

[Bill_McBride]

Nice story, David.  

There is so much talent in this world.  Here is a rendition of "Stairway..." in a most raw state for Gib to pass a few minutes before he pulls the pin.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3AqnMsB_n0

Tough way to make a living.   Those are some tight-fisted tourists!

[Scott_Burroughs]

Scotty,

Please assure the studio audience you will not dignify a reality show starring a bunch of West Virginia hillbillies by adding to their viewership. Let us pray you don't have a Nielsen box on your television.              

Good, God, no, I don't watch that crap, but making fun of it is fair game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Sm6mcymRI

[Mike Hendren]

I don't know whether to be proud or embarassed by this thread.  Names mentioned so far that I have absolutely no idea who they are:

Cecil Taylor
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Hunter (assuming he's not the author of "The Links")
Phil Lesh
Waveya
Mickey Hart
Brent Mydland
Rick Wright
Roger Waters
Dolphy
Mingus
Ken Vandermark
Darlene Love
Little Steven
David Gilmour
Bob Weir
Joe Perry
Stan Kenton
Joe Pass
Kermit Ruffin
Marcello Calabrese

Not to mention what I assume are names of bands.

Lest I be kicked out of the treehouse, I have performed on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium three times (and don't particularly care for the new floor). So I have that going for me.  I also own a Fender Newporter acoustical guitar.

Bogey

[Jud_T]

Bogey,

please turn your guitar in to the proper authorities immediately...   

[RJ_Daley]

Bogey, you are being called out.  You are directed to set up your video camera in your room in the basement of your parents home where you learned your craft, get out your axe, and perform something demonstrable of your considerable talents that got you to Nashville. Then post it to YouTube for our merciless critique.  You will be given extra credit if you sing on your opus. 

[Mike Hendren]

Dick, read carefully - I never said I knew how to PLAY the guitar.

Jud, what if I just take the strings off?

Lord I hope Gib doesn't read my posts.

Bogey

[Steve Lang]

  Bogey, no dancing necessary

[Mike Hendren]

Dick, these will have to do:

Bogey in the green room, stage right of the Ryman Auditorium:


Bogey as Leno on the Ryman stage (backed up by The Valentines w/ White Chocolate):


Not pictured:  Bogey as Monty Hall.

[Tom Yost]

I can't relate to most of the dadrock love on this thread,...

 

[RJ_Daley]

From Bogey:

Lest I be kicked out of the treehouse, I have performed on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium three times (and don't particularly care for the new floor). So I have that going for me.  I also own a Fender Newporter acoustical guitar.

Bogey, you are a prize!      If only there were sound to go with those priceless photos.  But, I have to tell you, I searched high and low on Google images through 100s of pix, and couldn't find one legitimate cowboy singer that would wear such a get-up with so many white frilly tassles hanging all over their instrument.    But, you look good in it! 

The new floor makes an appearance at about 2:20 of the next piece.  Did you polish it or something, before the performance? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KF1NxXTEX4

[Gib_Papazian]

Bogey,

Since many of these obscure names emitted from my fingers, I'll fill in the ones I brought to the table:

Cecil Taylor
Robert Rodriguez - Filmmaker: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001675/  (Quentin Tarrantino's best friend)
Robert Hunter - (assuming he's not the author of "The Links")  Grateful Dead Lyricist - collaborated mostly with Jerry Garcia
Phil Lesh  - Bass Player, composer for Grateful Dead
Waveya
Mickey Hart - Percussionist for Grateful Dead
Brent Mydland - Keyboardist for Grateful Dead, RIP
Rick Wright  - Keyboard/Composer for Pink Floyd, RIP
Roger Waters - Bass Player/Composer for Pink Floyd
Dolphy
Mingus
Ken Vandermark
Darlene Love
Little Steven
David Gilmour - Guitarist/Composer for Pink Floyd
Bob Weir - Rhythm Guitar/Composer for Grateful Dead (collaborated often with John Barlow)
Joe Perry - Lead Guitar/Composer for Arrowsmith
Stan Kenton - Big Band leader, Pianist, RIP 1979
Joe Pass - Guitarist Genius, Teacher, Compose, RIP
Kermit Ruffin
Marcello Calabrese

Now Bogey, Wii Guitar does not count as playing an instrument. I'm quite interested to know what you performed at the Ryman Auditorium. Let's venture a guess: Motivational Speaker? Nice pictures BTW, is that really you?

Thinking it through, since I cannot think of anything more terrifying than putting the last decayed remnants of my golf game on display at KP  (i.e. "I remember when Gib didn't completely suck"), there is no reason not to juxtapose something silly next to these video recordings of great musicians at their apex.

Here is a 3am improv after a long night of shooting - which included having to chase off a family of raccoons and nightmarish difficulties trying to roll takes around the sound of thundering freighters taking off at SFO. Normally we get four or five cast and crew members jamming away, but this one night it was just me and one of our actors, who is also a Director/Writer from Brooklyn.

The only other person awake was our Scripty, who quaffs energy drinks like I do tequila. She snuck up on us with our A.D.'s 7D and posted it on You Tube:  http://youtu.be/W5aHkIEmFmk

Sorry that Neal - who is a damned good guitar player himself - was not jamming in this shot. His assistance was invaluable throughout the production, far above my contributions to his golf architecture.

Now, why don't we all post something equally embarrassing. Bogey went first. Call it group therapy here in the Treehouse. . . . .  

[RJ_Daley]

Wow, I'm beginning to see the thrill in voyeurism.   

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