I'D HAVE TO SAY THAT MY EARLY MUSICAL INFLUENCES WERE ALL PRE ROCK AND ROLL. MY MOTHER HAD A COLLECTION OF 78RPM RECORDS AND WE HAD AN OLD WIND UP RECORD PLAYER THAT I COULD OPERATE. SO WHEN I WAS JUST A TINY LAD I WAS HEARING HER RECORDS OF PERRY COMO, BING CROSBY, TERESA BREWER, FRANKIE CARLE AND HIS HONKY TONK PIANO,EDDIE FISHER, DINAH SHORE AND DOZENS OF OTHERS. I WAS FASCINATED WITH THE WAY RECORDS SEEMED TO "FREEZE TIME". AROUND THE AGE OF KINDERGARTEN I HAD ALREADY ABSORBED THAT VIBE OF "RECORDS APPROACHING IMMORTALITY"...A LITTLE BIT OF LIFE WAS CAPTURED FOREVER IN THAT TWO AND A HALF MINUTES.
I REMEMBER VIVIDLY WHEN ELVIS PRESLEY HIT...IT WAS LIKE A BOMB GOING OFF. I HAD A 78 OF "HOUND DOG B/W DON'T BE CRUEL". IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST RECORDS I OWNED MYSELF. I ALWAYS LOVED FATS DOMINO AND GENE VINCENT. A BIT OF JERRY LEE AS WELL. THEN CAME PEOPLE WHO BLEW ME AWAY, SUCH AS SAM COOKE, BOBBY DARIN, AND JACKIE WILSON. I LIKED ALL KINDS OF RECORDS. "ONCE IN A WHILE" BY THE CHIMES STANDS OUT IN MY HEAD, AND "ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK A HEART" BY GENE PITNEY.
THEN A BIT LATER....THE BEATLES....THEY DRASTICALLY CHANGED THE LIVES OF MYSELF AND THE OTHER GUYS IN THE DEVERONS. EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN THE BEATLES CAME ALONG. THE SONGS WERE FRESH AND DIFFERENT...AND THERE WERE TONS OF THEM.
I'LL MENTION OTHER INFLUENCES IN GREATER DETAIL IN SUBSEQUENT POSTINGS.
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PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME FOR YEARS THAT I DON'T SOUND LIKE ANYONE ELSE. THAT'S THE BIGGEST COMPLIMENT I'VE EVER BEEN GIVEN AS A SINGER.
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In his Nobel acceptance speech, President Obama offered a sophisticated—and controversial—perspective on war, peace, idealism, and realism in our complex twenty-first century world. Many media commentators, on the left and right, criticized his view. But EnlightenNext magazine's Carter Phipps found that most critics overlooked an important nuance in Obama's argument—that peace, as a political philosophy or a spiritual ideal, may no longer be enough in the year 2009. The following is from an essay Phipps wrote in response to the speech:
. . the interests of our species are best served not just by the noble hope for an end to human conflict or by the understandable desire for a cessation to human suffering but by participating in the upward surge, development, and evolution of human culture and consciousnesses at all levels. It is a new orientation to life, one that privileges the ongoing challenge of change and development over the psychological relief of inner peace and the political ideal of freedom from conflict.
With the full understanding that it is not enough, I will continue to wish all beings
Where would you like Sebastion to put it? Yep, hijacked on it's way to the White House. I speak several dialects of draft horse! Figured you could work it into the clubhouse show. Err..umm...and Merry Christmas!!
May you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I think 2010 will be a fantastic year, holding many surprises and delights, as well as some great music! I'm looking forward to spending some of it with you!
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