The Conservative Cave
The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Chris_ on February 03, 2013, 12:36:04 PM
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So, bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
Them good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing...
This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die
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I remember when that happened.
Geez, I am really getting old. :old:
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I was 4.
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I remember when that happened.
Geez, I am really getting old. :old:
I was 4.
Damn y'all are old!
:rotf: :tongue:
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I was in my Junior year of high school.
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I was 4.
I was 2 and change.
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I was on my way to Laos courtesy of the USAF. 'Scuze me while I get my cane.
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My mom was a teenager when it happened. :tongue:
Waylon Jennings almost died on that plane. (He was Buddy Holly's bass player at that time) Gave his seat up I believe to Richardson.
My generation's version of this was the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash. It happened on my sister's birthday. I was 7.
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I remember reading about this in a history book.
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I remember reading about this in a history book.
:rotf:
You have learned well young one!
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I was -4.5 years old. :-)
My brother was born at the end of that month.
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My father would have turned 18 a few months before, but he prefers Perry Como to Buddy Holly.
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:rotf:
You have learned well young one!
Even I had to H^5 the young whippersnapper for that smart assed remark.
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I was 12.
http://www.ritchievalens.com/the-day-the-music-died-50-anniversary.html
http://www.ritchievalens.com/wherewasrr.html
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPa_xSt_wP8[/youtube]
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I was 12.
http://www.ritchievalens.com/the-day-the-music-died-50-anniversary.html
http://www.ritchievalens.com/wherewasrr.html
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPa_xSt_wP8[/youtube]
Damn...You're old.
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I was 4.
So was I.
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I was barely 12 days old when that happened. I was born Jan. 22 1959
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I was barely 12 days old when that happened. I was born Jan. 22 1959
Prolly not a good idea to post your birthday, AW. Identity theft and all....just sayin'....
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Prolly not a good idea to post your birthday, AW. Identity theft and all....just sayin'....
Um, we have birthday threads on here for everyone's birthday.
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Um, we have birthday threads on here for everyone's birthday.
Not the same thing - or rather, if you post your actual birthday for God and the world to see, don't be surprised if you have a problem.
I see that on FB all the time and it amazes me. I think birthdays here (if you elect to show it) are somewhat entrenched within your profile, right?
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I was -6 :-) :-).. I am just a young whippersnapper!!!
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Um, we have birthday threads on here for everyone's birthday.
That's why I don't list my B'day in profile. :-)
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Not the same thing - or rather, if you post your actual birthday for God and the world to see, don't be surprised if you have a problem.
I see that on FB all the time and it amazes me. I think birthdays here (if you elect to show it) are somewhat entrenched within your profile, right?
Well, if anyone tries to steal my identity, they will sorely disappointed. :lmao:
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Karen Carpenter died 30 years ago today. I was 2.
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Karen Carpenter died 30 years ago today. I was 2.
Yeas, she died of Anorexia Nervousa
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Yeas, she died of Anorexia Nervousa
What a shame, too. IMO, that is.
I liked her and the Carpenters' music.
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What a shame, too. IMO, that is.
I liked her and the Carpenters' music.
Yes i have one of their abulms!!! I love it...
The Cave always reminds me of Top of the World!!
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Yes i have one of their abulms!!! I love it...
The Cave always reminds me of Top of the World!!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1u6628Rdqs[/youtube]
Her brother Richard was supposed to have been such a perfectionist that 10 - 20 takes of a song was not uncommon.
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What a shame, too. IMO, that is.
I liked her and the Carpenters' music.
My mother loved The Carpenters. I got sick of them after a while.
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Yes i have one of their abulms!!! I love it...
The Cave always reminds me of Top of the World!!
Karen had the perfect voice. Karen rarely had to do a second take in the studio.
(Every year, it's not Christmas until I hear a Carpenters carol.)
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Karen had the perfect voice. Karen rarely had to do a second take in the studio.
(Every year, it's not Christmas until I hear a Carpenters carol.)
Richard would MAKE her do multiple retakes. If even one note or phrase or intonation wasn't done the way he liked, he insisted the whole set be retaken.
Richard was a prick. What is he now, without Karen?
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Richard would MAKE her do multiple retakes. If even one note or phrase or intonation wasn't done the way he liked, he insisted the whole set be retaken.
Richard was a prick. What is he now, without Karen?
Well, he may have been a prick (I'll have to take your word on that -- having been in a few dozen recordings myself, there's always somebody who wants "just one more take"), but he was a successful prick - with Karen's voice.
You can't knock his arranging skills. He did all of those himself and while the lead singer carries the torch for the rest of the group, his arrangements were clean, perfectly executed, and musical.
Karen's demons were her own, as were Richard's (he apparently had a quaalude problem). But the two of them were a breath of fresh air in a decade characterized by one hell of a lot of shit music.
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Prolly not a good idea to post your birthday, AW. Identity theft and all....just sayin'....
It's ok. Its happened twice already by different means. The local bank has caught both of them when it happened. The last incident happened when someone got a hold of the information to my BAnk account and made fake checks in Colorado. It might have worked with another bank but not mine. Funny thing is I haven't been in Colorado since 1978 and I called the local wal mart were one check was cashed to let them know someone was doing bad things with the information after I closed the account.
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Well, he may have been a prick (I'll have to take your word on that -- having been in a few dozen recordings myself, there's always somebody who wants "just one more take"), but he was a successful prick - with Karen's voice.
You can't knock his arranging skills. He did all of those himself and while the lead singer carries the torch for the rest of the group, his arrangements were clean, perfectly executed, and musical.
Karen's demons were her own, as were Richard's (he apparently had a quaalude problem). But the two of them were a breath of fresh air in a decade characterized by one hell of a lot of shit music.
I didn't know that he done all of the arrangements. I've always loved Karen's voice, but I've also loved their music. Their music had the subtle little riffs and turnarounds that would catch your ear. Never overdone like a lot of the music today. If he's responsible for that he deserves some kudos even if he was an asshole.
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I didn't know that he done all of the arrangements. I've always loved Karen's voice, but I've also loved their music. Their music had the subtle little riffs and turnarounds that would catch your ear. Never overdone like a lot of the music today. If he's responsible for that he deserves some kudos even if he was an asshole.
And no matter how many times Richard would change the arrangement -- Karen was perfect each time. She was a stunning instrument.
What made the "Carpenter Sound" was that they did their own back-up parts layered over and over however many times it was needed.
Fortunately, Karen could harmonize with a dial tone if needed.
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Another interesting factoid about Karen Carpenter.
She was a drummer. Good enough to win Playboy's "Best Rock Drummer of the Year" in 1975. Granted, that was a popularity contest in which the readers voted their candidate, but she won it.
That little fact pissed off Keith Moon so bad he got drunk over it. :rotf:
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Yeah, I knew she was also a drummer. And a great drummer.
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That little fact pissed off Keith Moon so bad he got drunk over it. :rotf:
What didn't Keith Moon get drunk over?
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What didn't Keith Moon get drunk over?
'Zackly. :-)