Tea leaves?

Discussion in 'Political Discussions' started by nosborne48, Aug 24, 2020.

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  1. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    I'm sure there are a few 80+ year-old piano teachers I'd get along fine with (I'm almost their age) ...
    But the ones I like best are mostly in New Orleans bars, Mississippi juke joints and East Texas roadhouses .... and I'm here. :(
     
  2. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Oh, now, Johann, the Moose Jaw jazz circuit is FAMOUS!
     
  3. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    I get the joke, Nosborne, but the players I'm talking about are mostly blues, New Orleans R&B, boogie etc. Anybody named Pinetop. I like jazz too, of course and jazz is alive and well here - and not only in our big cities.

    If you want a sample, go to the JazzFM website - that's CJRT 91.1 - the Toronto jazz station. My radio is welded onto the station and besides jazz, they have a blues show with Danny Marks on Sat. night (5 hours) and "Gumbo Kitchen" - everything Louisiana on Fri Night, about 4 hrs. Cajun, Zydeco, New Orleans jazz & Blues, Swamp Blues, Zydeco, Brass bands, Mardi Gras music, etc etc. Live broadcast of all shows is avail. 24/7 on the internet site.

    One remarkable jazz pianist you'll hear there is Robi Botos. He's a Hungarian Rom (Gypsy) who's been in Canada a long time. Roma have had their own take on Jazz and quite a few have been justly famous over the last 80-90 years. E.G. Django Reinhardt, Guitarist. Robi Botos is a very versatile player - and composer. Yesterday, I heard him play a song titled "Violet" - a tribute to his wife. Good bio. info on Robi here: https://www.robibotos.com/index.php?page=biography

    About connection with the instrument: I have 4 guitars and I love 'em all. The personalities of the instruments help me connect with the music when I play. Now I'm constructing a fifth and I'm hoping the process of making it will add to the connection. I know the connection will be there, just hoping to accentuate it. The guitar itself is a "Partscaster" a solid-body electric - a clone of a Fender Telecaster - made from both Fender and aftermarket parts. Many well-known Fender players, particularly country players, have taken to building copies of their favourite models. I'm beginning to suspect Fender has seen a light on this. Thy're selling a lot of parts, retail, that they don't have to put together. Good money in it, I'd think. Maybe GM will sell assemble-your-own Buick kits someday. :)

    I'm looking forward to playing this one. I have professional help if I get stuck or have problems. Don't recommend you try this with a piano. :)
     
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  4. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    PS. Fender has learned the value of licensing parts too. Mine will have a licensed-by-Fender neck. They don't even have to make things to get money! "Money for nothing - Chicks for Free." (Apologies to Mark Knopfler & Dire Straits).

    Speaking of elderly piano teachers - I have a nice electric keyboard and maybe I should have called Little Richard - but he left us, unfortunately, last May. He was 87. Hugely influential -for seven decades. He was really a piano pounder rather than a player - but I liked him and his style, since I was about 12 years old. I can remember him appearing (and sometimes hosting) on Johnny Carson's Late Show in the 70s. Outspoken, funny, a true original and an exciting performer. He put everything into his performances.

    Farewell, Richard and G*d Bless. You brought a lot of people joy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Richard
     
  5. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    He claimed he invented rock-and-roll. He didn't, but I never minded his claiming credit of it. Close enough.
     
  6. Bill Huffman

    Bill Huffman Well-Known Member

    Someone has been arrested for threatening to murder and use the body of the Wichita mayor's body for fertilizer. Why did this person want to murder the mayor? Because the mayor wanted everyone to wear a mask and got such a mandate enacted. Trump hating on Democrats that want to protect us from Covid19 had a bunch of crazy Trump supporters planning on murdering the Michigan governor.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/us/wichita-mayor-masks-threat.html

    Unfortunately this is not a joke instead it seems to be a trend. :-(
     
  7. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Right - and Ferdinand J. Lamothe (a.k.a. Jelly Roll Morton) claimed to have invented jazz. He didn't - and I don't mind his claiming credit either. Jelly Roll was an original too and what he actually did for jazz more than makes up for the hyperbole.

    A bio. of Jelly Roll was (I think) the first book on a musician I ever bought, around 1960. I was 17. I bought a lot of jazz and blues-oriented books in 1960 and the years following; I still have every one of them. :)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton
     
  8. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    I'd like it very much, Bill, if the trend would go away completely, when the man goes away - i.e. leaves the Presidency and hopefully, politics.

    How much can a beleaguered nation take of this guy? I'm not at all sure what I want to happen will happen, though, i.e. Trump to stop "stirring" once he is defeated - as I believe he will be. I live in hopes for ALL our neighbours to the south to enjoy some peace. It'd be nice - for a CHANGE! ....Wouldn't it?
     
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  9. SpoonyNix

    SpoonyNix Active Member

    The amount of divison and hatred being stirred up by the Left these last 4+ years has amazed me. I first became aware of big media bias around 1993. What I did not recognize until 2016 was how over the top the Left's actual HATRED was. I am not a Trump supporter. I hoped Hillary Clinton would win in 2016, because I thought she was what the USA deserved, even though I expected her election to result in disastrous foreign policy in the short term. This time around, I think Joe Biden is what is deserved and feel it would probably be the best thing long term for people who value liberty. My hope is the sooner the balkanization takes place the less bloody it will be.
     
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  10. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    This is very funny. Posts like that usually end with an "/s" though.
     
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  11. SpoonyNix

    SpoonyNix Active Member

    Haha, that's pretty clever. /s
     
  12. Lerner

    Lerner Well-Known Member

    I think Fender, Gibson, and Hammond reinvented the Rock.
    When I was a teenager I dreamed of owning a Fender Stratocaster. While officially studies Piano for 4 years in Soviets musical school.
    My parents got me a replica called Prima, it looked like the Strat but the sound was rough.
    With my good friends, one owned a real Hammond C2, the other had a set of Ludwik drums, We became a Rock trio that terrorized the neighbor's nerves.
    With our Led Zeppelin, Hendrix style noise we dreamed of fame and obviously girls.
    It ended when my friends went to the army and me to the university. We are still friends all living in different countries and cherishing the good memories.
     
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  13. Lerner

    Lerner Well-Known Member

    Here we are in agreement, unfortunately, violence is a vicious circle and needs to be stopped from all the sides.
     
  14. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I don't pound a piano if I can help it but I get your point. Wow, building a guitar yourself! Pretty impressive!
     
  15. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Both Team Blue and Team Red have plenty of haters, including many of their most vocal cheerleaders. But neither is composed entirely of haters.

    As for what the USA deserves, I'm reminded of H. L. Mencken's comment that "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
     
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  16. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    There was a good, solid rock culture behind the Iron Curtain - I got to hear some of it years ago. The powers-that-were could never keep a lid on it. Although it's not my biggest thing, musically, I've also heard some very good (underground) heavy metal from enthusiasts in hugely-repressed Iran. There are Iranians who are highly talented in EVERY kind of music - Western and Eastern. Generally fun-loving folks too - at least those I've met here.

    Maybe now is a good time for you to go Strat-shopping, Lerner. I'm sure you could get your chops back and then some. It brings joy. :)
     
  17. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    A solid-body electric, from parts, Nosborne - not as impressive a job as it might sound. Just take your time and try to do things right. An acoustic guitar is way more difficult. There are kits and people do them --- but I don't think it's for me. Now, a DIY Buick --- that's a whole 'nother level of difficulty! :)
     
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  18. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    I guess there are even kits for people to make airplanes at home. But anyone who's ever seen me assemble IKEA furniture wouldn't ride in my kit plane for love or money.
     
  19. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Maybe if the FAA had to certify each home IKEA assembly, the general standard would be better. :)
     
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  20. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    A friend of mine, an experienced private pilot, built a kit plane. I am very happy to report he survived the crash with only minor injuries.
     
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