Favorite Rock or Near Rock Groups and Musicians

[Blaise (imported)]

Miles Davis

The Beach Boys

Bob Dylan

James Brown

The Kinks

Otis Redding

The Velvet Underground

The Band

Joni Mitchell

Janis Joplin

The Byrds

Leonard Cohen

The Grateful Dead

Jefferson Airplane

Cream; Derek and the Dominos; Eric Clapton

The Rolling Stones

Frank Zappa

Kris Kristofferson

Elvis Costello

R.E.M.

Nirvana

P. J. Harvey

Tori Amos

Neko Case

[Blaise (imported)]

My experience of rock music is inadequate. I heard little of it until after the sixties. During the sixties, I heard rock, of course, but I rarely knew what I heard. Some of it struck me as powerful. Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Band was the most impressive of rock albums. It made me take rock music much more seriously than I had taken it.

I did not know who Otis Redding was until he died. Then a few weeks later, I was in San Francisco drinking (taking a swig) with the old men at the pier at the end of the cable car line.

I watched a performance by James Brown from above his performance at the University of Georgia. A roommate had satied my interest in Brown’s music but the performance fascinated me. I have the CD of Live at the Apollo and an album that Showtime released. His tour bus once passed me in Pensacola. I consider How Do You Stop a favorite album.

I have enjoyed in performance the local Baton Rouge band Better Than Ezra. They impress me. I don’t recall whether I heard them before or after Joel Rundell killed himself.

My favorite performances include one by The Grateful Dead long ago in Portland, Oregon, and an R.E.M. concert several long years ago in Baton Rouge. The Dead concert cost five dollars. The band played for five wonderful hours. I collected most of their albums. I also have most of the albums by R.E.M.

I have heard Eric Clapton perform twice. The second time was the week that Stevie Ray Vaughn died on tour with Clapton in a helicopter crash. Clapton’s music varies in style. I think that I heard him with Delaney and Bonnie during the summer 1970 at Harvard Stadium. I know that I heard Delaney and Bonnie!I have concert album, Crossroads 2, which I consider one of my very favorite rock albums.

I have heard Baez only once—in Portland. She gave a fantastic recital. I have many of her early albums. I gave away all of my rock vinyl several years ago. A couple of friends used to hear when she was very young and sang in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Surrealistic Pillow is probably one of the albums Clapton had in mind when he said that members of Bay Area bands had listened to the wrong music, but I love it lucid rhythms, harmonies, and lyrical lines. However, I enjoyed even more After Bathing at Baxter's. My theologian friend Paula Cooey introduced me to the band’s song “Lather.” That might have been the first time I heard the band.

I probably ought to confess that my two favorite albums by Elvis Costello are The Juliet Letters with the Brodsky Quartet and For the Stars with Anne-Sofie von Otter, though everything he does is wonderful.

I am a devoted fan of Leonard Cohen. I first heard his songs in March 1968 in San Francisco in covers by Judy Collins. My jazz musician friend Bob bought the album. His initial album Songs of Leonard Cohen defines my memories of the late sixties. His poem “It was only when you walked away I saw you had the perfect ass. Forgive me for not falling in love with your face or your conversation," from The Energy of Slaves is exactly how I remember my first (post seminary) lover.

He wrote two of the most beautiful contemporary hymn, “Hallelujah” and “If It Be Your Will.” “Bird on a Wire: has a hymn cover by Aaron Neville. Cohen revision of a poem by Lorca “Take This Waltz” is the most beautiful and true love song I know.

[Riverwind (imported)]

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I have heard Baez only once—in Portland. She gave a fantastic recital. I have many of her early albums. I gave away all of my rock vinyl several years ago. A couple of friends used to hear when she was very young and sang in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Today Joan lives in Santa Cruz California and is often at this coffee shop on the strip that has tables outside. She is there with her friend and loves to chat with people walking down the street. She is a nice lady and I am still a fan and have many of her albums.

River

[Blaise (imported)]

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I have heard Baez only once—in Portland. She gave a fantastic recital. I have many of her early albums. I gave away all of my rock vinyl several years ago. A couple of friends used to hear when she was very

young and sang in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Today Joan lives in Santa Cruz California and is often at this coffee shop on the strip that has tables outside. She is there with her friend and loves to chat with people walking down the street. She is a nice lady an

d I am still a fan and have many of her albums.

River

Wow, thanks for the update.

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

Long ago and far away, at the coffeehouses near the university, I came to know Dylan. A high school friend and I used to sing at the coffeehouses and hang out with the bluesmen there ( Koerner, Ray and Glover, Poor Howard and others). Dylan used to drift in and out of that scene pretty regularly. I didn't have a clue he was destined to become an icon of music. Mostly he was just known as Bob or Bobby.Also it is good to know someone else appreciates Leonard Cohen. --FLO--

[Blaise (imported)]

Long ago and far away, at the coffeehouses near the university, I came to know Dylan. A high school friend and I used to sing at the coffeehouses and hang out with the bluesmen there ( Koerner, Ray and Glover, Poor Howard and others). Dylan used to drift in and out of that scene pretty regularly. I didn't have a clue he was destined to become an icon of music. Mostly he was just known as Bob or Bobby.Also it is good to know someone else appreciates Leonard Cohen. --FLO--

Wow, again. Thank you!

[A-1 (imported)]

I like them all,

BUT, there is NONE great than Louis 'Sachmo' Armstrong.

Without him, music as we know it would not exist. Louis was to music what Albert Einstein was to physics.

For those of you who have never had the pleasure, start here. (http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Son ... _id=110919)

Next, pick up this (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 ... nce&n=5174) CD and unwrap it and play track #13 FIRST. Notice especially the short wrap at the beginning of it. If it doesn't bring tears to your eyes, you may be DEAD...

You may sample it at the web site...

Get the Ken Burn's Jazz documentary which says...

If you have heard the names of the giants of 20th Century Jazz before, but don't know all that much about them, Ken Burns will fill in all the gaps in your knowledge by showing a holy pantheon of Jazz saints in apostolic progression down through the decades. He advances that Louis Armstrong is the most influential of the 20th Century. After going seeing the whole series it's hard to argue. Hell, who would want to? Satchel Mouth, (who knew that's where "Satchmo" came from?) not only revolutionized the trumpet's place in music, but he also pioneered scat singing and the whole idea of swing arrived with him. Music was never the same.

You may find the documentary here. (http://www.cosmik.com/aa-february01/everything68.html)

A-1

[Blaise (imported)]

I like them all,

BUT, there is NONE great than Louis 'Sachmo' Armstrong.

Without him, music as we know it would not exist. Louis was to music what Albert Einstein was to physics.

For those of you who have never had the pleasure, start here. (http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Son ... _id=110919)

Next, pick up this (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 ... nce&n=5174)CD and unwrap it and play track #13 FIRST. Notice especially the short wrap at the beginning of it. If it doesn't bring tears to your eyes, you may be DEAD...

You may sample it at the web site...

Get the Ken Burn's Jazz documentary which says...

You may find the documentary here. (http://www.cosmik.com/aa-february01/everything68.html)

A-1

You speak the truth.

[n3rf (imported)]

Thanks for ref to L Armstrong.

In Stockholm Sweden is a restaurant call LOUIS and for many years my brother and his band (s) plays there that type of JAZZ that is very popular in Sweden. It is just amazing how such music lasts and lasts through the Ages. N3RF

[Blaise (imported)]

Thanks for ref to L Armstrong.

In Stockholm Sweden is a restaurant call LOUIS and for many years my brother and his band (s) plays there that type of JAZZ that is very popular in Sweden. It is just amazing how such music lasts and lasts through the Ages. N3RF

My former wife taught at a school in the Vieux Carre in New Orleans. Nicholas Paton was a student there as was Benjy Jaffe, who now manages Preservation Hall. Benjy’s father Alan founded Preservation Hall. Walter Payton, the Jazz bassist, taught music at the school. During summers, he performed in Scandinavia. No kinder or better men lived than Alan and Walter. Living in New Orleans did have the boon of being able to enjoy wonderful jazz music.