ROT: Kids musical knowledge

If you work with your old man, exactly how old are you then?

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:25:09 -0000, "Otto Mann" scribbled the following nonsense:

not yet 29, but only just.....

You do realise that the Wall (1979) was released when you were about 2 years old......makes me feel really old at 50, cue the next post!!! Keep up the good work by the way & get those youngsters educated with *Proper* music

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:49:43 -0000, "Otto Mann" scribbled the following nonsense:

yep, but was raised on the Floyd...... also the dubliners, steeleye span,etc Probably accounts for my love of the Levellers....

Nowt wrong with that! :)

I reckon that i must have seen the levellers atleast once a year for the last 11 years or so :)

and modded.....

What annoys me most about my groups is that they claim it as their own and all new !!! Still at least they appreciate good music :-))

My Kids are eight and they listen to, among others Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and any old rock 'classics' which is fine by me as I grew up with that musical era - I'm 39. This is due to them taking music lessons in Drums, Guitar and Piano and having really good teachers. They appreciate the effort put into the music. They also like the modern proper bands like Coldplay, GreenDay and Muse who I'm quite partial to at the moment..

In article , Wolverine writes

All three of my lot have blagged, Dire Straits, Floyd, the Police Santana, Phil Keaggy, et al. for ipods. Have some difficulty tracking down 'my' CDs these days.

Did anyone see the Cream concert on BBC2 Ginger Baker is 67 this year! I think it was a 10 minute drum solo last night - superb (well they all were, really!).

I think rock/blues music does a lot to bridge the generation gap.

Regards,

Simonm.

...and SpamTrapSeeSig spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...

Oh no!!!! Missed that, damn and bugger. I have recently dug out the Wheels of Fire double album and have been playing Toad (live at the Fillmore) all week on the way to work*. Competition from the doompa-doompa coming from the lowered Corsa in the next lane - no contest!

What programme was it? Will it be on again, or might it be on the net somewhere?

Miknd you, Baker always looked 67, even when he was 27. My Dad reckoned it was all that marry-whatsit he was smoking.

Went to a Procul Harem concert in Hull in the late 70's ( good old Uni days ), drummer did a 25 minute solo non stop and went through 3 sets of sticks. Never seen anything like it since. Mind you I walked home all the way to Cottingham ( 4 miles or so ) completely deaf. In the end all I wanted to do was turn the key in my lock.

Reminds me of when the Shrek movie came out and all the really young (I mean under 10) kids were singing I'm a believer. I knew the words too, but that's from the first time round! That made me feel old!

Have you seen those adverts for Jameson's? Just who are the guys they have playing the drums and the harp. And what is that music the harpist is playing?

On or around Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:49:43 -0000, "Otto Mann" enlightened us thusly:

S.I.:

reminds me of a comment made by a taxi-driving friend of mine who had Abba playing in his cab while taking some kids to school.

"What's this music, drive?" (they're from brum...)

"'s Abba, innit."

"who're they?"

"well, they were a pretty successful group in the 70s and 80s."

"Were they as big as the Beatles, then?"

"Well, I dunno. pretty nearly. Here, how come you know about the Beatles, but not about Abba?"

"Ah, we learned about the Beatles in history".

The Guy on the harp is playing 20th Century boy by T-Rex .

The Guy on the harp is playing 20th Century boy by T-Rex.

"David G. Bell" came up with the following;:

The drums sound like Cozy Powell and Dance with the Devil.

Here take a look at these, you will need Quicktime installed.

I feel old ....

Karen

Maybe I should actually watch this film as we have a copy. I always manage to be out of the room when my daughter watches it. Sounds like I might actually enjoy the music if it's from my childhood!