Thread: What are you listening to?

We have a winner!

Originally Posted by 32t

How many guitarists do you see with sheet music in front of them?

I have only seen that in an orchestra. However, writing songs and learning new ones makes it handy I would think.
Glen would just play it as he thought of it or heard it.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

We have a winner!

George Jones was one of my favourites from Hee Haw.
Shhhh White Lightnin'

Originally Posted by onimaru55

George Jones was one of my favourites from Hee Haw.
Shhhh White Lightnin'

I loved so many skits on that show, Roy Clark popping up from behind the hotel desk, where oh where are you tonight, gloom despair and agony on me were all great ones but one of my favorite bits was when Nurse Goodbody comes in and says to the doctor (Archie Campbell), "Doctor, doctor it hurts when I do this!" and gives him the shimmy. He looks at the camera and responds, "Do that again!"

Plus, let's not forget how much killer music there was.on there. I just watched an episode from 1973 with Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty and Johnny Bench...yep. Johnny Bench singing, not to mention Buck Owens, Roy Clark, Hager Twins, Stringbean and the other regulars.

Shane McGowan RIP


The Irish Rover - The Dubliners & The Pogues / The Dubliners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAEFKjqPtlU

So drunk to hell I left the place
Sometimes crawling sometimes walking
A hungry sound came across the breeze
So I gave the walls a talking
And I heard the sounds of long ago
From the old canal
And the birds were whistling in the trees
Where the wind was gently laughing


The Pogues - A pair of brown eyes (live) / efectotunel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-3CxYV3BqY

I see that he had many drug issues but overall he looks like a methhead to me.

Alcohol and heroin, was the main culprit. I think he spent most of his life battling drugs and alcohol. Luckily we don't really get meth over here.

I read up and it seems he got some choppers later in life. Kind of pitiful story.
Didn't figure he would last to 65.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I read up and it seems he got some choppers later in life. Kind of pitiful story.
Didn't figure he would last to 65.

I saw a photo of Shane in hospital a couple of weeks ago and was shocked a) that he looked to terrible, b) that as Tom said, he had teeth!, and c) that he was in fact still alive. He was an absolute musical genius and (especially on the early Pogues albums) a truly gifted writer. Many obits focus on him as the guy who wrote "Fairytale of New York" but he was so much more than that. Here's one of his lesser-appreciated gems.

"For it's stupid to laugh and it's useless to bawl
'Bout a rusty tin can and an old hurley ball"

RIP you crazy bastard of a musical genius.