Great Concert on PBS Last Night

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Postby jim sanders » Tue May 22, 2007 6:25 pm

8) caught a local show last night on PBS.. Filmed here inSt.Louis... a blues deal.. with Billy Peek... WC will know who i'm talking about.... A big girl started the show singing some Areatha Franklin tunes before singing some of her own tunes.. then Billy did some of his standards including Can A White Man Play The Blues... the drummer in the first act had the same name as a guy i went to hi-school with allthough i didn't reconize him. Kevin Gianino.... I guess i don't look the same as hi-school either.... jeeez......
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Postby Grabber1 » Wed May 23, 2007 6:50 pm

Saw The Moody Blues a few weeks back. I'm Just a Singer In A Rock and Roll Band, Nights In White Satin, Your Wildest Dreams.

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Postby jim sanders » Wed May 23, 2007 6:56 pm

8) yep i watched that deal a few times Mike.... hard to change the channel after stopping by... 8)
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Postby WildcatOne » Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:18 pm

They have these classic country stars doing a show...right now it's footage of early 60s Johnny Cash...Luther Perkins on Telecaster and Marshall Grant on bass, I suppose W.S. Holland was on drums...he did "I Walk The Line"...Cash wasn't about being so much of a great musician (he just kind of slid his hand up and down the guitar neck but wasn't really playing anything), he was about being JOHNNY CASH and that was more than plenty for the world. The guy had the greatest charisma I ever saw. Now they got videos of 60s-era Tammy Wynnette, Loretta Lynn...the guys playing live are in their 90s and they can't sing anymore; they shouldn't even try but they're all out there singing their hits off-key, wearing wigs and using teleprompters to remember their lyrics with. The band is great. Roy Clark's rug makes him look 30 years younger...at first...Crystal Gayle is singing, she can still knock 'em dead. The clips of Eddy Arnold were interesting, showing him recording "Make The World Go Away". BJ Thomas, Glenn Campbell (he can play and sing better amd more creatively now than he did in his heyday), The Bellamy Bros, The Browns (the lead singer still has it, but his backup lady singers ain't on key no more) I'm getting mixed feelings about this show. It has the ones who are still living, they really don't have their stuff like they did when they made their hits, but the classic footage (I am in love with Patsy Cline) is worth the watch, ya know. I wasn't much of a country music fan but I grew up around it here in Southeast Texas...they played country music on the pop radio station...but I just appreciate good music. To hear the old guys screw up their hits, even with a great band and singers backing 'em up, makes me think that when I do eventually lose a step, when my vocal range and control starts diminishing, when I can't play guitar as good as I used to, I will know it and I will voluntarily and permanently hang up my show-biz shoes. I don't want to end up ruining a reputation I worked all my life to build. I ain't famous like those guys are, but around here they know me. I just wouldn't want to mess up what I've been able to accomplish at this level. Meanwhile, Roy Clark is kind of taking a stab at "Yesterday When I Was Young"...not too swift...Cheers, WC1
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Postby Gator » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:29 am

Recently watched a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald...incredible!

Last night Paul Simon...GREAT

PBS is so great. We support it..we find ourselves watching PBS a lot.
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Postby WildcatOne » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:45 pm

Ella was the queen, no doubt about it. I was over at my Dad's place recently and I listened to an album of her stuff with Benny Goodman and she was flat-out awesome. They don't make singers like that anymore. Her voice was sexier than all of Madonna's videos combined...and I like Madonna...but Ella had a musical instrument in her throat that was as good or better than most folks who have to pick one up and play it...

I just tried something with my internet connection...I unplugged the wireless connector and plugged it back in and here I am! Will miracles never cease? Cheers, WC1
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Postby jim sanders » Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:01 pm

8) caught the Paul Simon deal friday night.... great show !!
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Postby WildcatOne » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:09 pm

I'm watching the Doo-Wop deal on PBS, we finally got it here out in the Boondocks...it is GREAT...Gene Freaking Chandler knocked my socks off with his concert hall-covering dance as he sang "Duke Of Earl"...unreal, man. He sounded better than ever, and I thought he was the best of 'em all back in the day. I even bought his disco album back in the 70s. I never stopped being mesmerized by that man's voice...his performance (seeing him is twice as good) brought a tear to my eye...The Diamonds did "Little Darlin'" but what was a touch of real class, before they started the song, the lead singer acknowledged Maurice Williams, who was playing keyboards for the backup band, as the man who wrote the song and originally recorded and performed it with the Gladiolas...the Diamonds, a white group, covered it and it went to #1 in '57...that was common back then (Pat Boone, one of my favorite 50s singers, covered several songs that had already been recorded by black artists, including Little Richard, and he took heat for it...but I'm glad he did, because otherise I would have never heard those songs. It was segregated back then, and segregation was TOTAL down here in Dixie...) but these guys brought Maurice to the front (He resisted...he was busy playing...) and got him to sing the song with them...Wow...then Maurice's band, the Zodiacs, came up and they did "Stay"...great show, man. The Tokens...The Cadillacs...Little Anthony! Jerry Butler and Betty Everett...makes me want to donate $250 to PBS, but I need the dough. Cheers, WC1
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Postby jim sanders » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:21 pm

8) my rabbit ear tv is adjusted to our local pbs channel....
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Postby pro70z28 » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:33 pm

Got PBS on myself. Sierra Center Stage - Roy Rogers & the Delta Rhythm Kings. 8) Been listenin' as I alternate between typin' & cuttin' vynle. :lol:
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