On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:13:15 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Greg
quickly quoth:

Larry Jaques said:

On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:22:21 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm,
Robatoy quickly quoth:

In article ,
"Stephen M" wrote:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...3542625/sr=2-2
/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/002-4548948-7774456?v=glance&s=music

That'd be the one..'cept I ripped from the DVD, which is a hoot. Cindy Lauper's
contribution alone is worth the price of admission.

Amazon's short audio track doesn't do it justice, I guess.
I was curious how she was doing (I adored both her and Liz Peña
in "Vibes") and hit www.cyndilauper.com . The first song
(automatically loaded with the website) is a bit loud but the second,
Above the Clouds, is GREAT! It doesn't have nearly as much of that
sharp edge she sings with, KWIM,V? She still looks great, too, doesn't
she? Fun gal, that.

She Sure Is. The hair is a bit tamer these days, however...

Dat's OK by me. Then again, I always wanted to find out if she was a
natural orange. ww,nn,snm


I actually went to the site you pointed out and listed to the 3 tunes.
I could swear I heard Sarah McLachlan in the background, and a few

DAGS "Amazon lauper" and listen to tidbits of the entire album. The
one I like has Jeff Beck playing. The ones we both like have Sarah in
duos
with Cyndi.


lines where the voice sounded eerily reminiscent of Marianne Faithful.
It's funny how the mind remembers voices you haven't heard in almost
20 years. They are each truly unique... And Sarah's no slouch in the
looks department either...

Quite true! (times 4)


Don't buy many albums anymore, since loosing my earlier collection,
and gaining a few years, but she looks like a keeper.

I'm still collecting CDs when they move me, and still finding CDs to
replace the old vinyl I can no longer get (or want.)


--
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient
while nature cures the disease. --Voltaire (1694-1778)
--
www.diversify.com - Medicine-free Website Development

Hi,
Being new, my first ever post, I'll try to make it short.

When Clapton is good, it is a wonderful thing.
When he's not, well, he's not.
I suspect anyone who can combine two different styles of woodworking or
music,
has the potential of beautiful work. In my own experience though, if I
don't stay focused on the overall end product, I lose my place and
either end up making a mistake or abandoning
a project all together.
Could Clapton have been just filling out his obligations to a record
deal or his debtors when
he was obviously not up to his regular high standard?
Sometimes the old tools give me a chance to escape the noise and the
pressure of tight
scheduling commonly associated with my real job in the construction
industry. Likewise,
Unplugged music gives artists like Clapton a chance to express the
evolving of his soul
through the relaxed atmosphere created by the lack of tails and
switches and control
boards, etc.
Less pressure = more time to be creative and reflective. Isn't that why
artists of all sorts go far away from their normal living conditions to
get focused? Is my shop out back far enough
away to bring out the best work I am capable of? I guarantee you when
the dust collector is on or the shop vac is screaming in my ears. I am
not aware of the person who is about to touch me and scare the living
$#!+ out of me!

..02 from a new guy.




mac davis wrote:
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 21:19:41 +0000 (UTC), John McCoy
wrote:

mac davis wrote in
:

It's an easy one for me... if it's Clapton, it's all good...

Surely you're joking. The Phil Collins produced albums are pure
drek, not worth the energy it takes to throw them in the trash.

John

It's a subjective thing, John.. that's why they make stain in more than one
color...


mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

Tom Watson wrote:

So, my buddy asked me to burn him a CD and specifically asked that
both versions of Layla be on it.

I had not listened to them back to back in a long time.

Being a WoodDorker, I became enamored of the differences between the
two.

You have the Normish Layla, which depends on huge amounts of
'Lecktricity and brute force - and then you have the Galootish Layla,
which depends on subtlety and expression.

As a concept, it was working for me pretty good.

So, I'm thinking to myself - Normites are more like Rock and Roll and
Galoots are more like Folk Music.

Nah, that couldn't be right.

I couldn't imagine Patrick Leach singing Kum-Ba-Ya anymore than I
could imagine Norm singing almost anything from Cream (maybe the
Grateful Dead - workingman's dead album).

So, where does that leave me?

I have come to believe, through the salvific power of music, that
Galoots and Normites are the same people, as Clapton is the same
person when he sings either the Electric Layla or the Unplugged Layla.

It is worthy of note that Clapton took a good long time to become
unplugged, as do many confirmed Normites, as they age.

But, they are the same being.

So, we not be not either Normites or Galoots, as Clapton does not need
be either a Rock and Roller or a Folky - we may enjoy the multiplicity
of our expressions of WoodDorking, without fearing that we need to
fall in one or another of the major camps.

If Clapton can handle it, so can we.


Damn, I'm glad that we finally settled that.



Tom Watson - WoodDorker
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/ (website)

Speaking of Eric Clapton, he and his cohorts of Cream are showing up on my
local PBS weekly pledge drive. When I listen to Cream I have say those
three guys,(Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce) were the best at
their craft. The music it timeless!

Rich
--
"you can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"

In article .com,
wrote:

And there are so
many others that hammer (or hammered) away on those damn electrics
their whole long lives(feeling their teenage angst?) like Keith
Richards, George Benson, Slash, Joe Perry, Sonny Boy Rollins, T Bone
Walker at least part time... maybe not full time... so there could be
hope for them, too if they are still with us.

Looking for:
Klug
Vaughn J
Vaughn SR
Dale
Beck (Jeff)
Vai
DiMiola
Knopfler
Moore (Gary)
a few Johnsons
the list is endless.

Oh... and there are a few people who aren't sure Sarah McLachlan can
play. Listen to her covering Beatles' Blackbird.

Robatoy, if you are still following this, my first company was house
framing and cornice work. I had worked for a commercial contractor for
about 2 1/2 years on restaurants, office finish outs, and some
residential work before starting out. I thought I would get
opportunities at better jobs, but apparently a 21 year old in bidness
for himself wasn't awe inspiring to many of those with work. House
framing/cornice/trim outs were all I could find.

But it was good. I felt free and alive to be on top of a 2 1/2 story
roof finishing by the deadline for the week's draw cutoff, a cigarette
hanging out of my mouth, tan, in great shape, shirtless, and screaming

"I'm Rael!! And I, I'm not full of ****!!"

every time it struck me to do so.

No money, no business experience, no women problems, had to skip a few
meals which meant no gut, no phone, and damn few worries. Put the
speakers out on the hood of my old truck, fired up the Craig, and went
to it. Sigh. Those were the days.

Like the ref to Al Dimeola. Saw him in Austin in '76, and could SWEAR
he had an extra hand somewhere playing with him. I have never heard
before or since an guitarist play so many notes so accurately. It was
mind boggling.

Robert

Robert

you left out Joe Satriani! And a much overlooked
Pat Simmons of the Doobie Bros. Peter Grant,
an unheralded studio musician who can play
anything with strings on it AND get sounds you
didn't know existed this side of heaven - tailed
or untailed. Montoya and Segovia?

Must admit, I bless AND curse Les Paul. It's
very rare to find an artist and an engineer
in the same brain.

charlie b