"The [animal] is much more content with mere existence than man; the plant is wholly so. . . ." Arthur Schopenhauer
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp (Remaster)
A music major from the University of Tennessee visited us on the peninsula during vacation. We played a game. He played the first few bars of a song and we were asked to identify the piece, based only on a few introductory licks, whereupon the music guy would interrupt the song by lifting the stylus from the vinyl disc.
He played the first few bars of Bron-Y-Aur Stomp. I raised my hand and identified the the piece. His response: "Whoa, deep Zeppelin dude!"
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Great cover of Walking on the Moon, by one of my favorite bands, the Police. This is a great song about falling in love.
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NPR did a piece called "This I Believe" a few years back. Listeners were invited to recite their core beliefs about anything...