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Post by jhar26 on May 28, 2016 8:41:54 GMT -5
I have a feeling his wife, Diana Krall, may have something to do with his change of heart about Linda. Or Emmylou Harris. Didn't he tour with Emmy a few years ago?
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Post by jhar26 on May 16, 2016 5:04:35 GMT -5
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Post by jhar26 on May 3, 2016 11:47:53 GMT -5
Not bad at all young lady.
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Post by jhar26 on May 1, 2016 8:35:05 GMT -5
Agreed, but if this is just a hobby for her she probably has no such ambitions. I think playing Linda gives Holly a chance to be with her dad, who's a musician and that's great, but she claims to be a songwriter and is trying to be her own artist. I watched videos of her last night and the resemblance to Linda is not even close. But, her photos are being used to represent Linda and that's laziness on the part of those who post the photos. At the very least, Holly should contact these sites that are doing that and ask them to use Linda's actual photos and not photos of her. Well, she's pretty and she sings well. If she's a songwriter it would perhaps be better for her to sing her own songs and do perhaps a Linda-tribute segment in her shows rather than to build the whole show on impersonating someone else. The photo thing I don't really get. There's also a Linda DVD (a bootleg probably) with Holly on the cover. Holly looks somewhat Linda-ish, but nowhere near enough to confuse one for the other.
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Post by jhar26 on May 1, 2016 4:08:45 GMT -5
If I were Holly Aprecio, I'd be demanding royalties for them using her likeness on that bootleg "A Party Girl in Dallas" recording that is being sold everywhere from Amazon to Barnes & Noble with her picture on the cover, not Linda Ronstadt... But who knows, maybe she consented to the use of it... If I were Holly Aprecio, the one thing I would want to be is be an artist in my own right, and not as a Linda impersonator doing a tribute act to Linda. Paying tribute to Linda is fine but Holly is not Linda and while there's a resemblance, it's not that close. I would have no trouble telling Linda from Holly and vice versa. And I don't mean any disrespect of Holly at all, just think that she should be herself. I'd like to see what she is capable of doing as Holly Arpecio, and I believe she could do much just being herself. Maybe not as successful as Linda but I have to think that would be more rewarding for her. Agreed, but if this is just a hobby for her she probably has no such ambitions.
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Post by jhar26 on Apr 29, 2016 17:15:13 GMT -5
You even see this chick on the cover of (semi-bootleg) Linda albums.
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Post by jhar26 on Apr 27, 2016 1:37:06 GMT -5
Van Jones talk about Prince the humanitarian. Wow I really had no idea. Me neither. I thought of him as a very gifted artist but also as pretty vain and a bit of a naughty boy. Not evil persé, but a bit of a rascal. Turns out from what I've heard that he was one of the most 'awake' artists out there. Completely up to par with the things I often talk about. And now it turns out that he was a great humanitarian as well. Prince was a remarkable person. I hope that he will be richly rewarded for it all in his new reality.
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Post by jhar26 on Apr 25, 2016 8:34:09 GMT -5
yes, consider the source.. but it is true opiates are highly addictive to some people. I don't blame people who are mostly suffering and in pain. Not their fault.. everybody deserves to feel good and be pain free. there should be a diversion to alternative medication or herbs from doctors that give the same relief with no side effects or harm.. so you would think.. Yes, but the countless trillions of dollars big pharma industry doesn't want any competition. and so they will continue to buy politicians to outlaw alternative medicine and alternative ways of healing. And big pharma suits will continue to brainwash the masses that medicine isn't medicine unless you get sick from what they call the side effects, which in truth are the effects. No worries, we've got another poison to treat those side effects. Money, money, money.
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Post by jhar26 on Apr 23, 2016 7:59:25 GMT -5
Sign O' The Times is probably my favorite album of the 1980's. I also especially love the 1999, Purple Rain and Parade abums.
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Post by jhar26 on Apr 21, 2016 13:04:02 GMT -5
This must be the most terrible year in pop history in terms of lifes lost of significant artists. Prince was perhaps the greatest artist of the 1980's, if there is such a thing. RIP.
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Post by jhar26 on Apr 16, 2016 5:28:29 GMT -5
Another video from the same guy where he interviews a singer/songwriter about the slutification of pop.
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Post by jhar26 on Apr 11, 2016 9:36:45 GMT -5
Well good for him. I did not expect the big pic of Linda in the background! Her version of the song is still safe, though. Indeed. Costello's version here is pretty mediocre imo. Still, nice gesture from him and he clearly tries to make up for his past comments about her. Her version of his Allison is better than his version of "her" Willin' though.
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Post by jhar26 on Mar 11, 2016 17:30:36 GMT -5
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 29, 2016 16:32:44 GMT -5
It is interesting in the bottom photo to see that Linda is wearing a cross around her neck. Given the statements she has made when touring for her memoirs about The Catholic Church and nuns, etc., I find it interesting that she was wearing a cross back then. I am wondering if as she got older she started to have more bitter feelings toward the Catholic church. And I am saying this as someone born and raised Catholic and who attended Catholic school and I have no affiliation with the Catholic church any more. It just struck me seeing Linda with a cross. No, I don't think it means anything other than something ornamental. Mostly tradition. It's like so many of us celebrate Christmas, love the season but aren't Christians. I think Linda is more pagan than anything. Even the Mexican Catholics aren't traditional Christians but have a paganistic bent to their beliefs. The other reason she is wearing that silver cross is that Dolly is a werewolf.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 27, 2016 3:56:06 GMT -5
Not so sure I agree with everything here. For one thing in the 1960's we had a similar thing with the Wrecking Crew basically making everyone's (almost) recording hits for them as those kids couldn't play worth a crap. It wasn't until the 70's when you had band members able to play their own music and sound like the Wrecking Crew themselves where music stepped up a notch. Things did start getting crappy in the 80's but there was still a lot of variation and originality. The 90's seemed to be more like the 70's but something happened after 2000 to homogenize music into an "out souling" competition which is just awful. Mariah Carey tried to outsoul the queen Aretha and those that followed stood on Mariah's shoulders going extreme. TV music shows made it worse, even more exaggerated. Somewhere along the line just singing a song "straight, clear and with a built in emotion" like Linda Ronstadt stopped. And the subtle souling of say an Eva Cassidy died with Eva Cassidy. I do however think there are islands of great music out there you just have to look for it and some individual songs by the artists this guy is crapping on aren't all that bad either. I think we are just inundated by technology and don't appreciate or even know how nice silence can be. Yes, but here's a short summation of what the 1960's had to offer: -Jazz continued it's staggering 1950's peak with classic hard bop and post bop recordings from the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, Duke Ellington and many others. -Vocal jazz and traditional pop also continued it's artistic peak for at least the first half of that decade with people like Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Mel Torme, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney and many others. -The 1960's gave us the folk revival with people like Joan Baez, Peter, Paul & Mary, Judy Collins and of course the incredible Bob Dylan and the early Joni Mitchell. Later on this morphed into folk rock under the leadership of (again) Dylan and the Byrds. -The 1960's introduced the blues in a big way to a white audience thanks to the Brits (Stones, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Yardbirds, etc) as a result of which many of the old black blues guys got the opportunity to record proper albums under much more professional conditions than before. -Phil Spector! -SOUL. Virtually EVERY Motown single was a classic. Although this (and the Spector stuff) was also music mostly produced by the same people, the difference with the Babyface's of the world is that these guys were like Mozart and Beethoven in comparison. -SOUL. Stax, Atantic! Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, the incredible Aretha Franklin and many others! Even the flops of these labels are unmentionably superior to any hits we get today. -The birth of funk with James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone. The British invasion. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Dusty Springfield!!!!!!!!! -The hippie/psychedelic rock movement. Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors! Some of these categories produced more great music on their own than all the music combined of any decade from the mid1980's put together imo.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 27, 2016 3:18:23 GMT -5
I think that the 1960's WERE great actually, but I agree with everything else that's being said here. Jahr, you're right and I'll back-off my assertion some and say musically and culturally the sixties were a little bit schizophrenic. The early part was a continuation of the fifties, then in '64 or so the Beatles and the British invasion hit but even that consisted of a lot of recycled R&B that (white) Americans ignored originally because it was "race music" In the later sixties things really took off (about the time the Vietnam war also took off) again led by the Beatles and other innovative folks. But I still think the whole thing hit its peak in the seventies and began to decline in the eighties with the advent of disco. I would trade one year (ANY year) of music from the 60's or 70's for an entire decade of what we got from the mid-80's onwards.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 26, 2016 14:59:25 GMT -5
I think that the 1960's WERE great actually, but I agree with everything else that's being said here.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 26, 2016 5:18:38 GMT -5
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 23, 2016 13:15:23 GMT -5
Quote by jhar26 re. Kanye/Salieri/Mozart: No, and actually Kanye makes Salieri seem like Mozart (IMHO). Indeed. Salieri wasn't as awful as mythology has made him out to be. He was no Mozart or Haydn of course, but his music was perfectly decent. That's a whole lot more than we can say about Kanye's juvenile sexist crap.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 23, 2016 11:25:46 GMT -5
Mozart is supposed to have said, "I'm not the only composer out there. But I am the best." Kanye West is no Mozart. In fact, he's not even anywhere close to being a Salieri.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 23, 2016 9:36:06 GMT -5
If I knew she was on the way I would make sure that I had a t-shirt on, but that what was on it would be half covered by my jacket. Linda would walk in and see my t-shirt which to her eyes seems to say, "Linda says: Vote for Trump!" She would walk up to me and give me a big punch on the nose. Then I would take off my jacket allowing her to see the complete phrase: "Linda says: DON'T vote for Trump!" She then would spend the rest of the evening trying to make it up to me.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 21, 2016 13:37:32 GMT -5
I'm 31 so I'm nowhere near old (although I'm sure some people would consider 31 old ) but I remember the days when I used to check the singles and albums chart every week and I do that very rarely these days, only when an artist/band I like has a new album out do I actually bother looking. The only artists I was interested in seeing win at this years Grammy's were Björk and Faith Evans, neither won. The only good thing for me about the Grammy's this year was seeing Adele's vocals finally being considered poor. I find this to be the case with her in general but "technical errors" showed it at the Grammy's. I read that she was "crying all day" after what happened, man up Adele and get on with it the way Mariah Carey has had to with her criticisms. The reason why Adele's vocals were considered poor is because people are used to better from her. Other pop-ettes fucking up is as expected and thus not a story. It's a bit like Elvis Costello said when he compared himself to Madonna, "When my latest album isn't as good as the previous one I get criticized. When Madonna's latest fart stinks just a tiny bit less than the last one it's declared a masterpiece."
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 21, 2016 13:31:28 GMT -5
I think Adele is a good vocalist, although her material is not really my thing. She was interviewed a few years ago on 60 Minutes and she seemed likable and down to earth, and had lots of words bleeped out which made me like her more. She's a sweetheart and a very good singer imo. At the grammys she just had a bad day at the office. It happens to the best of them. Nothing to worry about.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 21, 2016 13:27:37 GMT -5
I think Adele is a good vocalist, although her material is not really my thing. She was interviewed a few years ago on 60 Minutes and she seemed likable and down to earth, and had lots of words bleeped out which made me like her more. It is amazing how the songs a singer chooses to sing not only creates fans but can create the singers success. Imagine Linda singing disco and funk or just opera. Would any of us be here? Well, in the case of opera, "yes, I probably would be here." I like funk, but I doubt that Linda would be any good at it and disco I just don't like, leaving aside the odd exception here and there.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 20, 2016 6:38:22 GMT -5
Well, Blackmore IS Deep Purple. Well, he and the deseased Jon Lord who played the organ. Blackmore's Night, his project from more recent times with his wife on vocals is pretty interesting as well. Not at all like Deep Purple musically speaking. It's a more folky, zen like new age type of thing. But often with beautiful results. Anyway, inducting Deep Purple without Blackmore would be like inducting the Stones without Keith.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 19, 2016 5:24:30 GMT -5
ugh he is disgusting. My niece said.. his new album. The Life of Pablo?? is supposed to be a gospel album.. here are some lyrics (but it's a gospel album) “Father Stretch My Hands” Now if I f**k this model And she just bleached her a*****e And I get bleach on my T-shirt I’mma feel like an a*****e Cole Porter eat your heart out...
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 18, 2016 18:28:03 GMT -5
Hi Jhar26, I'm not a big fan of rap music either.... but there are some rap artists and songs I do like and you can pretty much tell who's gifted/talented and who isn't... IMO Eminem is a very gifted writer and rapper. so is Snoop Dogg IMO. also they both have a pleasant sound/tone/voice .. Since I am not "in the know" of the current rappers I ask my 21 yr old niece and she has agreed with the 2 I mentioned. Kanye West is not that great of a writer nor are his lyrics/rhymes clever IMo and his voice sucks. very out of tune off pitch . all over the place bad.! Very over rated kanye sings w/o autotune That makes the reaction to that new Kanye West album even more bizarre. The way some are talking about it you would think that he has just created the rap equivalent of a Sgt Peppers or a Dark Side of the Moon.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 18, 2016 17:27:09 GMT -5
Truth be told I honestly don't have any clue whatsoever if he's any good or not. Rap fans consider him one of the greats, or even THE greatest one of all of them. But I "don't get" rap and if those in the know about the genre would play me one great rap album and one awful one without telling me which was what I wouldn't be able to hear the difference myself. That's not to say that the difference in quality isn't there, but I just don't hear it. I guess that it's safe to say that rap is just not my thing. Perhaps I'm indeed "too white." Even so I love "black music" - soul, funk, afrobeat, blues, reggae, etc. But rap is the big exception.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 18, 2016 14:54:15 GMT -5
Bjork and PJ Harvey have my vote, neither one of whom will get much love here, I'm sure. I guess that I'm the weirdo of the forum in more ways than one. And Lucinda Williams is another one I rate very hghly. But there's no denying that both Tift and Regina are very talented ladies as well. happy birthday Regina.
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Post by jhar26 on Feb 18, 2016 14:44:56 GMT -5
It would be best if ALL publications would stop writing about him, no matter if the're black, white, pink, yellow, purple, red, blue, red or green.
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