Music: Your flavor of the month?

Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin

 

I found this wonderful live version. Enjoy.

 

...Lanny, you forgot to add this;

 

I remember that one.
When I was in the Army and close to the end of my service they selected me as a guard for a couple of prisoners. The first one was a sergeant accused of raping his daughter. He caught pneumonia and they stuck him under guard 24 hours a day in the nearest military hospital. That was short because he recovered and soon was acquitted and assigned as the supply sergeant in my unit. The next guy was a conscientious objector who refused to go to Vietnam. They stuck him in the stockade and he had to endure some verbal and mental abuse. He went on a hunger strike. So they put him in a Ft. Lewis clinic and placed him under guard 24 hrs. a day. I was selected as one of his guards. He had this fabulous Akai tape recorder and he would play hours and hours of the Moody Blues which I loved and then we would just shoot the shit. I still remember those times nostalgically. That was a little over 50 years ago.
By the way, they placed a Levine tube up his nose and down to his tummy and force fed him with some sort of liquid nourishment. He refused to go for so long that someone else in our unit told me that he was forced onto an airplane kicking and screaming and sent to Vietnam. Haven't heard from him since.

 

Stand By Me, Ben E King

 

Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison

 

Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man

This was the opening music to a fabulous hour long news show at least 50 years ago.

 

I had an Akai reel to reel back in the 70's...incredible reproduction.

 

Yeah, I had a Teac reel to reel for awhile years ago. Best sound quality from a good reel to reel but it was a bit of a hassle though. kind of reminded me of the old 8mm movie projectors. I actually had a Sony 8 track recording deck that was a pretty decent machine for 8 track tapes for the car but fortunately that soon gave way to the cassette recorder.

 

If I remember right Akai built a Teac reel to reel and placed a label on it saying Teac and delivered lots of them to Teac for sale to the public.

 

RIP to an Oakland legend...Bonnie Pointer of the Pointer Sisters...she was 69...saw them many times live...part of the East Bay Grease Music Scene..I think June died awhile ago but Bonnie was the lead singer on the best material....what a band!

 

Say what you'd like about Dolly Parton. She does write good songs....

 

She made one of the greatest bluegrass albums ever recorded with the A list players of the genre....The Grass Is Blue.....check it out!

 

Love this guy's work...saw him with Silvertone his trio in North Beach before he hit....great cross of Orbison, Ricky Nelson, Elvis, Marty Robbins....this guy is classic ..just learned Wicked Game this winter...simple tune and really fun to crank the reverb and use a strat on

 

orbison was who i first thought of too

 

Chris Issak is a class act.