tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post115098453137745677..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: People Get ReadySippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1151067389047155972006-06-23T08:56:00.000-04:002006-06-23T08:56:00.000-04:00Hi Pogo- It seems more to me that as the various t...Hi Pogo- It seems more to me that as the various technologies and delivery systems for entertainments develop, everyone has access to more of less, if you catch my drift. <BR/><BR/>By "more of less," I mean that if you really wanted to, you could listen to nothing but one thing all the time. That just was not possible thirty years ago. <BR/><BR/>Everything jostled cheek by jowl on radios and jukeboxes because that's all there was. Now, you decide. It's atomized shared experience to a degree. <BR/><BR/>It takes a certain amount of sophistication to root out Freddie's Dead or People get ready, but that's why I write about such things. Nostalgia is only of use to those that shared the experience. <BR/><BR/>But it is possible to point out what was good in a certain time period to those not already in the know, or remind those that knew and might have had it slip their mind. It's not mindless slavishness to a dead era. <BR/><BR/>We don't burn the books after the authors die. We just winnow to the best over time.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1151066096622943132006-06-23T08:34:00.000-04:002006-06-23T08:34:00.000-04:00Off-topic, but the huge number of TV commercials s...Off-topic, but the huge number of TV commercials selling music from this era tells me there is a market for this music. So why isn't there a music video channel <I>showing</I> these clips, even if only intermittently? <BR/><BR/>A grown man can abide only so much rap. (P.S. The cure for any ubiquitous rap song is, in my house, for me to sing along and get <I>funky</I>. Sez my eldest girl <I>Eeew</I>.KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1151004875467058972006-06-22T15:34:00.000-04:002006-06-22T15:34:00.000-04:00melinda- You could do a lot worse, playlist wise. ...melinda- You could do a lot worse, playlist wise. <BR/><BR/>Beefheart would be "Trout mask replica;" Zappa- "Apostrophe," I bet. Funny. <BR/><BR/>One thing about all those records I never tire of: everybody is playing real instruments. It sounds so breathtaking sometimes to hear the sound of real persons playing real instruments coming out of the radio. It's really rare nowadays.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1150989321255532272006-06-22T11:15:00.000-04:002006-06-22T11:15:00.000-04:00I hope XWL gets that song up for his Friday Funk l...I hope XWL gets that song up for his Friday Funk lyrics.Ruth Anne Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01936054116421006847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1150985964525362252006-06-22T10:19:00.000-04:002006-06-22T10:19:00.000-04:00Hey, that's the playlist on my iPod!My high school...Hey, that's the playlist on my iPod!<BR/><BR/>My high school had a canteen that was open after school hours, where kids could go to hang out if they didn't have an after-school job or another activity. It didn't have a juke box, but it did have a stereo and a good selection of records, including "album rock" like Led Zeppelin. They even played Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa.<BR/><BR/>The surprising thing was, it was a Catholic high school. And the teaching brother who ran it was gay, in sort of a "don't ask, don't tell" kinda way. (Okay, the drama and art majors knew it.)Melindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17864948768716523522noreply@blogger.com