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Tom O'Brien
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12/7/2012 7:15:12 PM
What dead artist do you wish you had seen live?
Ella Fitzgerald used to play San Francisco a lot when I lived there. I always intended to see her, but never did. She was an amazing lady.
Also Sinatra used to play Tahoe. My older brother saw him once and was in awe.
Before my time, but my mom once saw Nat King Cole in a little lounge in Tahoe and was about twenty feet from the stage.
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Chandra Moon
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12/8/2012 1:41:16 AM
When I was young I saw so many of the greats - The Who, Santana, Led Zep and tons more but I never saw the late great Jimi Hendrix.....
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Richard Scotti
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12/8/2012 4:22:59 AM
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I've seen Sinatra and Hendrix and almost all the great artists live although I never saw Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, or John lennon live. I did see the other 3 Beatles live but I regret not being able to see Lennon. The song by Billie Holiday that you all should hear is "Strange Fruit." It's the most intense and haunting songs I've ever heard. I wish I had seen her sing it live. It's not only a song, it's a history lesson and a prayer, an amazing work of art. Here are the lyrics:
Songwriters: WIGGINS, DWAYNE P. / PEARL, MAURICE / ALLAN, LEWIS
Strange Fruit
Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
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Chandra Moon
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12/8/2012 8:41:36 AM
Those lyrics made me cry. I haven't even listened yet.
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Hop On Pop
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12/8/2012 7:03:28 PM
The Clash
(I saw Strummer solo, but it wasn't the same.)
Hendrix
Robert Quine (with the Voidoids)
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Bob Elliott
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12/9/2012 8:58:29 AM
I haven't seen anybody hardly, live or dead.
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Steve Ison
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12/9/2012 9:43:18 AM
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The Beatles ! Hendrix,T.Rex
Never really go to see 'famous' live bands...I go to see The Beat (who had a few bug hits in the UK late 70s early 80s) -but thats only 'cos my best mate's their current guitarist and he gets me in for free lol
Had a chance to see an incarnation of Love a few years ago -but due to circumstances couldn't go...Then Arthur Lee died and i really regret it :(
Yeh Richard...Strange Fruit's an amazing spine-tingling track
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Stoneman
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12/9/2012 11:54:02 AM
James Brown
Luther Vandross
Billy Preston
Jimi Hendrix
Charlie Parker
John Lennon
Michael Jackson
A word about Strange Fruit. I grew up listening to this song. My great grandmother use to always have tears in her eyes when she played it. She was 112 years old when she died. My great grandfather was tarred, feathered and lynched in the early 1900's. He was accused of land theft even though he held the title in his name. They took all the land from him and gave it the White people who lied and said he had stolen their land. Anyway, She never re-married and never got over it. I could always see the pain in her eyes. Consequently, my family always plays it at our reunions. We always cry...............
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Shoe City Sound
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12/9/2012 1:49:11 PM
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Stoneman, I have never heard of a person who's life was anything remotely like yours. I am dead serious when I say that if you haven't started it already, you MUST right a book.
Also, Strange Fruit is one of the most horrifying songs ever written and still it's beautiful. There are no words to describe the power of music.
Wish I had ever seen/heard Claude Debussy play anything he ever composed.
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Tom O'Brien
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12/10/2012 7:23:01 PM
Yes, Strange Fruit is a powerful piece of music. And Billie sang it so hauntingly. I almost can't imagine any other voice having the same impact. You could feel how personal it was to her.
Stoneman, Whenever I hear stories of lynchings, I am embarrassed for this country. We still have a long way to go. My own father, I'm ashamed to say, is a bigot. He's a wonderful man in many ways, but he's got some old school prejudices. I'm glad to say that my brothers and sisters all looked to him as a negative example in that way. The current generation of O'Brien's really do judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Dolores, yes, I would've loved to see Debussy play Gymnopedie #3. It is so brilliant in its straightforward simplicity.
I also would've loved to see Paganini play the violin. Or hear Caruso sing.
I've never been an Elvis Presley fan, but I'm sure that would've been a memorable experience to see him.
Oh, and what about Buddy Holly?
Now I'm thinking of so many others - what about Andres Segovia? He only died fairly recently.
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Shoe City Sound
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12/11/2012 10:07:14 AM
Tom I'm almost certain that the Gymnopedie were written by Eric Satie, but from your description, I'm sure we're talking about the same music here. I love that one too.
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Tom O'Brien
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12/11/2012 6:38:23 PM
You're totally right, that was Satie. My mistake. The early 20th century was a great era for classical music.
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Steve April
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12/12/2012 12:26:49 PM
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I find m'satisfactions from listening to a diverse group of artists/muscians, many here on IAC, whom I consider to be explorerers, and consciousness raisers, like the august assenblage on this thread, includin' stoneman, tom, dolores, richard, chandra, and all.
however, I've been pleased to see/hear live and up close in the 80s, richie havens, rick danko, john phillips, jerry jeff walker, dave mason, shawn colvin, maria muldaur, to name a few.
The opening act for many of them, was me. lol...
My friend owned a music club, in upstate New York, and asked me to comanage with him.
I met Shawn Colvin before she was famous, she'd ride up on a greyhound bus, and I'd meet her at the station, she was shivering cold, and barely wore a coat.
Shawn was so very talented, and I remember her playing songs like "I Don't Know Why" (on her first album a few years later) a the club to an audience of 8 or so. Tough times for Shawn, I'm glad good things came her way.
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Stoneman
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12/12/2012 12:34:26 PM
Wow Steve, that is an awesome list of artists that you have opened for.
Much Respect!
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Richard Scotti
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12/12/2012 9:42:28 PM
I saw Segovia play at Carnegie Hall in NYC. I was very young and it totally blew my mind. It inspired me to become a true guitar devotee even before the rock music bug bit me. The precision and the nuanced sensitivity behind every note was breathtaking
and just as amazing was the fact that he was playing a nylon string guitar without any amplification and the quietest notes rang out to the very last rows with ease.
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Jesse Adams
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12/13/2012 7:13:11 AM
Beethoven.
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Tom O'Brien
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12/13/2012 6:32:30 PM
Steve,
I've completely forgotten about Shawn Colvin. I think she was an amazing songwriter! And a great artist. I wasn't aware she had died! A friend made me some tapes of her stuff back in the 90's and I couldn't believe she wasn't a bigger name. She deserved to be.
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Steve April
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12/14/2012 7:37:58 PM
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hi tom,
yeah, shawn's very good.
dunno about all their wherabouts now, hopefully shawn's out there makin' music, rick danko and john phillips passed away, that i know.
i remember takin' a walk with shawn on a snowy winter night, after she did her set at our club, up to a kinda ol barn, where they did local rock'n roll. the place was packed. I told her, when she said she was depressed, "things will get better for you." she was havin' trouble findin' a place to live, gettin' gigs, she came up doin' folk music in n.y. city. the next day, we threw a football around.
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Tom O'Brien
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12/15/2012 8:06:39 PM
Thanks for the vid. I'd never even seen her before. Love that song. "If there were no music, then I would not get through." Right?
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Bob Elliott
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12/17/2012 4:29:22 PM
Sometimes it's hard for me to watch other people play on stage. If my and lived near me and we played out often it would not be hard.
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Tom O'Brien
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12/17/2012 6:41:38 PM
You and I are going to have to go to a show in San Francisco. Maybe we'll bring Jay and Greg along. They'll know where to hear good unknowns.
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Voodoohead Productions
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12/17/2012 7:14:23 PM
Used to hang with a buddy who loved trekking downtown and we went to concerts on a regular basis and managed to see a lot of rockers from Led Zep to Jackson Browne, Pat Benetar to Gary Numan many Canadian groups that you may not know of like April Wine and Trooper , and of course most know of BTO etc. so been fortunate to see just about every Genre there is,
But never got to see Elvis, that would have been cool
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