Posts Tagged “I Hate Music”
Tell Me Why refers to the song as “harmless” and Beatleongs mentions it was inspired by George’s then wife Patti. It’s a simple song, pretty much a love song. It’s been released twice, originally on the soundtrack album Let It Be and then again on Let It Be… Naked. The more recently released version is truer to…
Beatles Week is a wonderful tradition I look forward to every year. I wish I could claim to have come up with the idea, but it was Mark Zwolanek who started it back in…. what … 2008? He hoped somebody else would also do the same thing, and I did starting in 2009. It’s a…
Today started off with the offer of a few free MP3 downloads from Amazon. Usually they are by artists I don’t know or don’t care that much for. This time, it was a mix of 5 different artists, one of which was Rick Springfield. The songs were all Christmas themed. A free Christmas song by…
There seems to be a stereotype about Seattle residents, and I’ve found it to be true for the most part. By and large, IPA (or India Pale Ale) is the preferred beer. Sure other people outside of Seattle drink it, but it seems virtually everybody in Seattle does. And Pearl Jam. Everybody here loves Pearl…
The performer with a very long history gives an intimate performance
One of the musicians my wife and I discovered we mutually liked when we first started going together was Johnny Clegg. On his album Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World there is a song, “Déla” which is a love song. The title is a Zulu word meaning “content” as in satisfied with life now that you are…
Johnny Clegg and Ladysmith Black Mambazo were playing at the Woodland Park Zoo. Laura and I were determined to see Johnny Clegg, and it would be our first concert at the zoo. For years the Woodland Park Zoo would host concerts as part of a summer series, and despite living just a mile away, we…