Random Music Thoughts

[axolotl]

We have a thread for that.

But, since you started:

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

I've wondered about the phrase "I was educated at Woodstock" in Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" knowing full well the song was release 2 years before the Woodstock music festival. And yet, never looked the meaning of the line before....until today!
Thank you 10:45 am patient for not showing up and allowing me this liberty

SongCraft Presents: The Story of the Song Educated at Woodstock? David Porter Tells the History of “Soul Man”

Listen to the episode: “I was educated at Woodstock,” Sam Moore barks in the third verse of “Soul Man,” the 1967 pop and R&B hit he recorded with duet partner Dave Prater. The song became a massive hit for Sam & Dave and was revived again in 1979 when it was released as the debut […] More

americansongwriter.com

But what about Woodstock? Turns out it wasn’t referring to the town in upstate New York, but to an educational facility in rural Shelby County, outside Memphis. “Woodstock was a high school near where Justin Timberlake came from, from Millington, Tennessee,” Porter reveals. “That’s the humble beginning part of that….No one put very much attention on the Woodstock phrase until here comes the music festival and here comes Belushi and Aykroyd….It had everything to do with the context that the song was created in—humble beginnings, dirt road, getting an education…coming from the soil, so to speak, to build yourself up, to be all the man you need to be.”

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Doors are overrated.

 

[axolotl]

The Doors are overrated.

Did Nick mind-snatch Rick, again?

ETA:

Spoiler

I don't disagree, btw.

 

[Nickyboy]

The Doors are overrated.

way so.

 

[Ojai Sam]

“I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for those people who like country music, denigrate means put down.”

- Bob Newhart

 

[axolotl]

The Best Jazz on Bandcamp: June 2022

Our guide to the month’s crucial jazz LPs

daily.bandcamp.com

 

[Ojai Sam]

Carlos Santana collapses on stage due to a ‘severe’ medical emergency

Medical staff rushed to the stage and wheeled the 74-year-old guitarist off after about 20 minutes.

datebook.sfchronicle.com

Hope he’s ok.

 

[Nickyboy]

Happy Birthday, Ringo Starr!

(if Axo prefers this comment to be posted in the Beatles thread, feel free to move it, Ojai)

 

[axolotl]

Happy Birthday, Ringo Starr!

(if Axo prefers this comment to be posted in the Beatles thread, feel free to

I do not wish, prefer, or intend for this comment, remark, or statement to be moved, removed, or relocated in any form, shape, or way.

 

[Nickyboy]

The Beach Boys covered this song (changed the name, too). It never became a big hit. Who's song was it originally?

 

[axolotl]

 

[axolotl]

Pearl Jam abruptly cancels shows after heat, dust damage singer's throat

Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam performs live onstage at BST Hyde Park, in London, Friday, July 8, 2022. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali/Invision/AP) The longtime Seattle-based rock band Pearl Jam on Wednesday canceled a performance in Vienna, Austria, saying lead vocalist Eddie Vedder sustained damage to...

www.yahoo.com

 

[Nickyboy]

Joni Mitchell was in town yesterday: https://www.npr.org/2022/07/25/1113351769/joni-mitchell-brandi-carlile-newport-folk-festival-2022

 

[axolotl]

Joni Mitchell was in town yesterday: https://www.npr.org/2022/07/25/1113351769/joni-mitchell-brandi-carlile-newport-folk-festival-2022

Is the Folk Festival at Fort Adams every year?

 

[Nickyboy]

Is the Folk Festival at Fort Adams every year?

Yes.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Back in the day, I used to receive a lot of typed auction catalogs for vintage shellac and vinyl. The internet and the Grim Reaper have combined to reduce the flow to a trickle, but I still get a few. This note in a recent one from Long Island stopped me in my tracks:

 

[axolotl]

 

[axolotl]

Sign the Petition

Give Duke Ellington the Pulitzer Prize He Was Denied in 1965

www.change.org

 

[axolotl]

Sign the Petition

Give Duke Ellington the Pulitzer Prize He Was Denied in 1965

www.change.org

If everybody on MG 2.0 would sign the petition, we could give this 10 more upvotes.