Music to Ride By

[NoCage]

Muskrat Love... Captain & Tenille... or a bitchin' polka. :blink: Oh yeah, and Zamfir... master of the pan flute.

 

[sparky3008]

Like I said, most folks don't appreciate sheer genius.

Sorry but he is not the only song writer that has something to say.

Many groups from Black Sabbath to System of a Down have meaning in their lyrics.

Ozzy sang of the cold war, struggling with alcohol and drug addiction.

Just because people hear them wrong!!

A friends group called "The Obsessed" had songs such as Concret Cancer that spoke of our destruction of the earth and turning everything into cities.

Much Hard Rock Music speaks of more than just Satan and killing children

 

[yanktar]

I can just see you blasting down the road, watching for LEOs, with Zamfir in your helmet! :lol:

In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Kirk describes the writings of Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Suzanne and Spock solemnly intones "Ah. The giants." Only if THEY are remembered as giants will Ozzy Ozborne.

Lots of forgettable poets and musicians have written about troubles and trials. Doesn't make them memorable.

Bet most of you never heard of the Weavers. But here are a few songs they wrote or made popular before being blacklisted in the 50's:

Goodnight, Irene

I Never Will Marry

The House of the Rising Sun

The Wreck of the Sloop John B.

Kumbaya

Wimoweh

If I had a Hammer

This Land is Your Land

Michael Row the Boat Ashore

Where have All The Flowers Gone?

Midnight Special

Rock Island Line

Kisses Sweeter than Wine

That's all I can remember off the top of my head. They were the inspiration for Peter, Paul and Mary. They were friends with LeadBelly and Woody Guthrie (you all know his son Arlo for The Motorcycle Song and Alice's Restaurant). 3 of the original Weavers are still alive, but all are older than dirt. One of them, Pete Seeger, also wrote "Turn! Turn! Turn!"

 

[drc32-0]

The instant that I read the title of this thread I remembered the feeling I had riding through Montana last September listening to Bob Marley.Strange combination,but man what a feeling.

 

[snowmonkey]

I think Elvis will be remembered for his historical significance--the All-American White kid who could sing like the Black singers before him. Didn't Big Momma Thornton do "Hound Dog" first? Elvis did covers--brilliantly, but he didn't write nuthin'.

Elvis was todays Microsoft equivalent. The black people he stole the songs from got nothing and they made him what he was...

Elvis didn't sing like black singers and he did not steal songs from black people. The King made it OK for whites to like black music.

Who else but Elvis couid substain a thousands strong worldwide legion of devout impersonators? Ozzy? Stevie? Frank? The answer is no one but Elvis.

 

[Bustanut joker]

Red Barchetta, moving pictures from Rush.  I get goosebumples singing that when I ride.

Good one odot, lotsa good rush out there. Did you ever read the write up in cycle world last year about Neil Peart? great story. He wrote a book also but damned if I remember the title. anybody?

Zappa,Skynerd,Metalica all good too.

:jester:

 

[sparky3008]

I think Elvis will be remembered for his historical significance--the All-American White kid who could sing like the Black singers before him. Didn't Big Momma Thornton do "Hound Dog" first? Elvis did covers--brilliantly, but he didn't write nuthin'.

Elvis was todays Microsoft equivalent. The black people he stole the songs from got nothing and they made him what he was...

Elvis didn't sing like black singers and he did not steal songs from black people. The King made it OK for whites to like black music.

Who else but Elvis couid substain a thousands strong worldwide legion of devout impersonators? Ozzy? Stevie? Frank? The answer is no one but Elvis.

Nope, and Microsoft didn't steal anything either "technically" but what they came up with was not of their own doing. They bought DOS, got the idea of "windows" from Apple and the mouse too. It wasn't the same but the idea wasn't theirs and they marketed it better.

Elvis did the same thing but of course this is the American way. Take someone else's idea and just improve on it after someone else spent all the R&D to figure the stuff out.

Good job!!

 

[grnarrowe]

Red Barchetta, moving pictures from Rush.  I get goosebumples singing that when I ride.

OK, this is weird, Red Barchetta is playing on the radio right now!

 

[JimLor]

Who the heck is Red Barchetta!? My reason for starting this post came to fruition, now I have someone new to look up!

 

[Bounce]

Geeze, you people can't even talk music without bickering. It's expected that different people will like different music. That doesn't make on person righ and another wrong. It just adds to the diversity that is at the heart of music.

I like jazz, blues, bluegrass, metal (including death metal and wall-of-sound), rock, and classical. It's all good and depends on the mood and what type of riding I'm doing. I usually don't listen to classical, blues or jazz at 3am in the middle of nowehere with 3 days behind me and 4 ahead of me. But listening to NIN while on a group ride with a bunch of Wingsters is like trying to store a lightening bolt in a 30 watt bulb. Rides have moods that different music can compliment.

Except for country. That shit sucks crusty ass cheese.

 

[JimLor]

Communist! I've got pretty eclectic music library and it included Country AND Western! Particulary the "outlaws" old and new. Hadn't thought about classical though - I can see listening to that during a fall ride down Skyline Drive...

 

[dcarver]

I think 100 years from now very few rock musicians will be remembered: My guess: Lennon/McCartney, Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, and probably nobody else.

nay nay oh buffalo breath... the BEAT FARMERS will be remembered long after rank amatuers like Lennon/McCartney, Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix are forgotten!

How can a classic like 'Happy Boy' not live forever?

 

[yanktar]

nay nay oh buffalo breath... the BEAT FARMERS will be remembered long after rank amatuers like Lennon/McCartney, Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix are forgotten! 
How can a classic like 'Happy Boy' not live forever?

Who?

What the hell is "Happy Boy"? didn't even live long enough for me to have a clue!

Next, someone will say that the Sex Pistols and The Dead Kennedys will be all that's remembered.... :dribble:

(and tell me---How do YOU know what a buffalo's breath smells like?????? :bigeyes: :blink: :beee: )

 

[lawinter]

Except for country. That shit sucks crusty ass cheese.

Horseshit and Gunsmoke.

Down to the Bone for some Groove Funk Techno Jazz

Good Stuff!

 

[Tim05fjr]

Joker,

The title of Neil Pert's book is " Ghost Rider " Travels On The Healing Road.

It's a great read for any LDR. It's about his personal expirience of a 14-month 55,000 mile motorcycle journey on his BMW R1100 GS to help him get over the greif of losing his wife and daughter.

For those of you who don't know. He is the drummer of the pogressive rock band.

RUSH.

Tim

 

[Bustanut joker]

Thanks Tim, I found it on Amazon, an' It's on the way

:joker:

 

[yanktar]

Reading it on a long-distance ride, eh?

I prefer to look at the road--I'm just kinda funny that way.

 

[zorkler]

theres some good punk a rama dics out there and there dirt cheap , i burn my own a mix of clutch, madball, rancid,sabbath,pantera, terror and some other very hard stuff . also a very wide mix of jazz and blues.

 

[BlueBear06]

Who the heck is Red Barchetta!? My reason for starting this post came to fruition, now I have someone new to look up!

JimLor-

Red Barchetta from Moving Pictures (1981) by Rush.

 

[drc32-0]

Bustanut

You might want to check out-Purple Mountains by Notch Miyaki.I think I saw on another thread that you are going to be camping?That's the way he did it.The postscript and his definition of a journey is worth the price of the book.

Everyone else-sorry,wasn't trying to highjack the thread.