Green Room - Week 2- Day 7

[clauderainsrm]

 Voting is off to a slow start this week. But then again, the posts were the same way.  ;) 

If that is any indicator, there will be a rush of votes at the very end!!! 

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I usually watch all of the political conventions - and write commentary on them. But this year, I'm not sure I have it in me. I will say this though from the brief bit I've seen (so far) of the RNC, that the two times that I've seen Brian Wilson he was in his late 70s. He couldn't hit all the notes anymore but surrounded himself with backup singers who could. It was a smart way of doing it for people who wanted the Brian Wilson experience. 

No, Brian Wilson wasn't at the RNC (that would have been a huge shock if he had been) 

Who was there though was Lee Greenwood, who has managed to make an entire career out of being an one-hit wonder.  (I checked and he had 20 songs that charted, so he doesn't actually qualify as an "one hit wonder",  but come on, we all know him from one song.  :D) 

I mentioned Wilson because Greenwood also has lost the vast majority of his vocal fastball. But based on what I saw/heard, he's not acknowledging that.  His voice is still OK, but wow, time is rarely kind to any of us. He may want to consider getting some more backup singers around him for these important/high visibility moments. 

Considering the two major candidates for US political office, I'm wondering how Biden is going to top Greenwood.... any non-relevant singers out there in their 90s available?  ;) 

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Note, I say all of this having recently seen Bob Dylan earlier this year!  But at least he was never known for having a great vocal range.  :D  
I also saw Pinetop Perkins, who needed assistance getting on and off the stage. But in his case blues artists are SUPPOSED to be really old and weary. It's kind of weird to see young blues singers.  It feels like they haven't quite earned it yet.  ;) 

Comments

[chasing_silver]

First?

Man, so many of these artists are getting old. Tony Bennett at the end was just sad, though I mean, kudos to him for performing as long as he did.

Today I have therapy (check my Idol entry for why this is so exciting!) and we are relaxing since I'm not nannying today. Only 5 more nanny shifts and I'm back to school!

[reidharriscooper]

In the world of being old, i am spending my morning at the Imaging center with mom as she gets a special CT scan to start radiation treatment on a lesion (as well as some spots) happening from multiple mylenoma. Yesterday we met her ostomy doctor, everything is looking good there but nothing can also be done till September.

I didn't watch the RNC but I am 100% betting that they have enough conflict with cease and desists and artists banning their work. I honestly don't think the DNC will have the same issue and will be able to do the star studded extravanganza they usually do since its not going to convert or divert anyone either way. For the record I have zero clue who Lee Greenwood without looking it up and since I don't care I won't. You know who probably won't perform at the DNC even though they would if invited? Tenacious D.

[murielle]

I still have my Nancy Sinatra/Lee Greenwood LP. Don't have anything to play it on anymore, but I still have it. :-D

[bleodswean]

I feel lucky that the musicians I reverently followed in my teens are still (for the most part) around and creating music. But yes...many of them are beginning to lose their voices. I think this happens to a lot of folk and rock musicians who aren't formally trained vocally.

[clauderainsrm]

For a genre that embraced "live fast/die young" so many of them failed at the second part of the assignment! ;) (I'm glad they did! But some of them definitely tried their best and are showing the scars to prove it)

Except of course people like Keith Richards and Iggy Pop. Who yes, show the scars from it... but it just makes them seem even more indestructible. :O

[bleodswean]

There's a lesson in that for certain! LOL! Being Gen X I do look at the Boomers from time to time and wonder at how they all had a sea change when they became the adults that they had convinced themselves not to trust.

[halfshellvenus]

Aren't you the same age as me? I think of myself as a Boomer, though I'm right at the tail end of it (about 1-2 years before the cut-off).

Of course, I always identified more with late 60s-70s music than 80s music, so that could be part of it.

[bleodswean]

I don't know! I'm the oldest of four and I know that makes a difference. Everyone came of age in the 80s. And the 80s are MY decade for music, lol. I like some 60s / 70s like obscure Brian Eno or Bowie or early Stones or the entire Zeppelin catalogue. Who are some of your musical faves, K?

[halfshellvenus]

I always liked the Beatles (especially mid to late Beatles) and most psychedelic rock, and I liked The Guess Who, The Doors, CSNY (not their really late stuff, though), Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac (2 of their middle albums), Boston (side 1 of album 1), ELO, Aerosmith, and some 1-hit wonder stuff like "Radar Love" and "Brandy".

It wasn't until later on that I started to appreciate Led Zeppelin (I had to make my peace with Robert Plant's voice, which can get kind of nasal) and The Who. REM was a late arrival (I'd turned the radio off for a lot of their years), and OMG was I all over grunge. Whoo!

I was thinking just this week that I used to like Steely Dan more, but now it kind of annoys the crap out of me-- except for something I discovered last year, "Don't Take Me Alive." I don't like the lead singer's voice (or his love of melodic noodling), but the chorus on that is pure ear candy. :D

[roina_arwen]

I’m Gen X too (born late 1967). I’m at that point where I don’t feel my age mentally, but I’m starting to physically! Blah.

[bleodswean]

It starts to happen, huh? Aches pains and strange diagnoses. I bought a Vitamix and daily green smoothies have made a big difference in those age-related "issues" such as high this or low that.

[pixiebelle]

I haven’t had a chance to read anything yet. I had a medical test done yesterday. Nothing serious or bad but I have medical PTSD so I asked them to put me out. And boy, did they. I slept all day yesterday, woke up early this morning but slept all afternoon. Anesthesia and whatnot really knocks me out. I’m hoping to get some reading in tonight.

[roina_arwen]

Honestly, I’m not a fan of politics. It’s one of those necessary evils, but I don’t see the point of listening/watching debates and whatnot. To the best of my knowledge, everyone is going to either lie, stretch the truth, or twist the “facts” to best suit their needs/agenda/what their followers want to hear. Bleh. I have better uses for my time, like Idol.

I should probably recognize the name Lee Greenwood but it’s not ringing a bell.

[clauderainsrm]

"God Bless the USA"

[halfshellvenus]

Still doesn't sound like a song I know! I'm relieved, now. :D

[roina_arwen]

Aha!! Thanks!

[murielle]

You are SO right!

[erulissedances]

Hey - just wanted to let you know that the link for yamyam_kat's story leads to yachiru's story. I'd probably love to read yamyam_kat's entry, but it seems an impossible task. Thought you should know.


- Erulisse (one L)

[tigrkittn]

I think yamyam_kat took a bye this week, and the poll just has a coding error (which can't be fixed once it's posted or the whole thing goes kerblooey)

[erulissedances]

Ah, that would explain it and makes sense. I just didn't want YamYam to miss out on any votes he/she might be getting because of a broken link.

- Erulisse (one L)

[kizzy]

I'm temporarily mentally checked out at the moment because of RL stuff going on. I hate bothering my husband when he's onsite but I sent him a short email full of eff this/that/these/those. Venting because I'm dealing with it, but he won't take it that way.

I'm so happy our town shelter posted about why they're not participating in the "adoption fees waived" week which is going on right now. Their main reason is not, surprisingly, because they lose at least half that fee because vetting the dogs/cats to get them ready for adoption costs twice as much as the fee, even with a discount. It's because time and again people who can afford the fee end up not being able to either take care of them and/or their housing situation. They call landlords on behalf of a potential adopter, and 3 times out of 4 the potential adopter has no idea that the landlord won't accept any kind of pet. The upshot is that there are dogs/cats who've been sheltered for more than a year. Most of the shelters here are no-kill, which also means that shelters elsewhere tend to send all their "surplus" up this way.

Sorry for the dissertation but I'm VERY agitated right now.