Is Rock n Roll Dead?

[Charles Drago]

Rock and droll is alive and, well ...

[Dawn Meredith]

Rock lives!

Back around about a thousand years ago, the band I was a Roadie with fronted for these guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTmNf_a6xAM

And then dial up the volume to near full, sit back and thrum with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYN74ZW4k_E

Rock lives! :rockandroll::rockandroll::rockandroll:

AND drummers never die.

Their sticks just grow brittle...

Wow David, you had a fun life. I love that song too. Cream, I mean. They were a great band. And being a roadie...you probably met some high end folks. (Pun intended )
Dawn

[David Guyatt]

Sadly not Dawn, although the band did front for other big name stars of the time.

But I wasn't always sober enough to converse, even if I wanted to. And very often I had other things to focus my thoughts on. :dancingman:

But it was awfully useful as a chat up intro.

[Ed Jewett]

Rock lives!

Back around about a thousand years ago, the band I was a Roadie with fronted for these guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTmNf_a6xAM

And then dial up the volume to near full, sit back and thrum with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYN74ZW4k_E

Rock lives! :rockandroll::rockandroll::rockandroll:

AND drummers never die.

Their sticks just grow brittle...

Before or AFTER Eric Clapton? Did a gig with CREAM many moons ago, Philadelphia, I think... LMAO :peace:

Oh yes, Clapton was there alright, in the dressing room playing a silent guitar (unplugged in), Ginger Baker was throwing up in a corner from his (I suspected anyway) heroin intake, and Jack Bruce was just quiet.

I was never a roadie, the only musical instruments I ever played (mercifully for a short while) were the accordion and the tuba, but I did get to sit on the small stage inside the Student Union ballroom next to the keyboardist for these guys and this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aWFaZgwerY .

And I did get to party with these guys (yes, Mary was in attendance too):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbQMHJFFh-s .

But none of it holds a candle to sitting in the audience at Saunders Theater and listing to Bobby Millitello chant over the mouthpiece of his flute during a rendition of Brubeck's Koto Song.

[Dawn Meredith]

Rock lives!

Back around about a thousand years ago, the band I was a Roadie with fronted for these guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTmNf_a6xAM

And then dial up the volume to near full, sit back and thrum with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYN74ZW4k_E

Rock lives! :rockandroll::rockandroll::rockandroll:

AND drummers never die.

Their sticks just grow brittle...

Before or AFTER Eric Clapton? Did a gig with CREAM many moons ago, Philadelphia, I think... LMAO :peace:

Oh yes, Clapton was there alright, in the dressing room playing a silent guitar (unplugged in), Ginger Baker was throwing up in a corner from his (I suspected anyway) heroin intake, and Jack Bruce was just quiet.

I was never a roadie, the only musical instruments I ever played (mercifully for a short while) were the accordion and the tuba, but I did get to sit on the small stage inside the Student Union ballroom next to the keyboardist for these guys and this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aWFaZgwerY .

And I did get to party with these guys (yes, Mary was in attendance too):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbQMHJFFh-s .

But none of it holds a candle to sitting in the audience at Saunders Theater and listing to Bobby Millitello chant over the mouthpiece of his flute during a rendition of Brubeck's Koto Song.

Ed I love The Association and never heard this song before. I saw them here in Austin about two years ago and their harmonies had me in tears throughout the concert. (And Mary was all around as well). Now I have to find more of their hits.
Dawn

[Dawn Meredith]

Just posted "Cherish" on facebook. I challenge even CD to say this is not a GREAT song, vocally.

Dawn

[Charles Drago]

Just posted "Cherish" on facebook. I challenge even CD to say this is not a GREAT song, vocally.

Dawn

So that I can avoid just a bit of agony today: Are you referring to that Harold Arlen-esque tune that begins, "Cherish is the word I use to descri-ibe ..." ?

[Charles Drago]

[quote=David Guyatt]But none of it holds a candle to sitting in the audience at Saunders Theater and listing to Bobby Millitello chant over the mouthpiece of his flute during a rendition of Brubeck's Koto Song.

With Desmond:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ohyd0EDVKA

[Keith Millea]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aWFaZgwerY

Ed,awesome find!That's the great rock drummer Carmine Appice back there twirling dem sticks.Great band,but I think they only made 2 albums.

[Dawn Meredith]

Just posted "Cherish" on facebook. I challenge even CD to say this is not a GREAT song, vocally.

Dawn

So that I can avoid just a bit of agony today: Are you referring to that Harold Arlen-esque tune that begins, "Cherish is the word I use to descri-ibe ..." ?

Yes that is the lyric. The song is posted on my fb page. Have a drink and take a listen. :peace:
Moi