I have been sharing my fave bands and songs with private messages.
being a generous type thought i’d share with you all.
so Red Hot Chilli Peppers with the added advantage of Anthony Keidis being the sexiest man to grace a stage.
please add to this.
Carole
I have heard of the Red Hots, but not seen any videos…I`ll have to google Anthony Keidis.
A man I think is tootally delish (or was…time takes it`s toll) …Teddy Pendergrass. He sang with Harold Melvyn and The Bluenotes. Sadly he has passed now, but a song I really love watching him sing on you tube is Wake Up Everybody.
If you watch it, listen to the words…very fitting for covid times.
I also love The Drifters songs.
Boudsx
Well I`ve just been for a very lovely google of Mr Pedergrass and ooooo…job done!
Boudsx
Dead sexy musicians: David Bowie (obviously), Michael Hutchence (totally gorgeous), Phil Lynnot (who wouldn’t love Phil?), Prince (His tiny purple regal sexiness). There must be more, just loads (Tom Petty, Kurt Cobain, Gram Parsons). And that’s without the women!!
Obviously from the living ones there’s always Anthony Keidis…
Sue
Ooooh…for emotion, I cannot resist Dream On by Yngwie J Malmsteen and Ronnie Dio - it actually makes my hair stand on end as I love a bit of dramatic electric guitar!
Also love Heart…
One of my absolute favourites is Don’t Stop Believin by Journey - always lifts my spirits!
I tend to like particular songs by virtue of their lyrics or how they make me feel rather than loving everything by any particular band. Nothing like music for transporting you back to moments in time, whether they be good or bad.
For emotion you can’t do any better than the late lamented John Martyn, who is one of only two musicians I’ve shed tears on the death of…(the other was Bowie). For other things - when I met Mary Byker (Gaye Bykers on Acid) backstage after a particularly sweaty gig, I realised what pheremones were all about - he’s not the greatest looking, but honestly, I wouldn’t have cared!
yes Fracastorius, Bowie was my first love along with Marc Bolan.
John Martin lovely songs although when we went to see him live he was stoned out of his gourd, kept forgetting the words and dropping his mic!
had never heard of Gaye Bikers but googled them and Yes!
Mozart, Bach, Bartok
Leonard Cohen
There’s so many, but Queen are 1 for me, we saw them live at Wembley, kind of magic tour in the 80’s, absolutely fantastic.
Jean x
Not bothered what a musician or band look like, so locals to me, The Climax blues band, (couldnt get it right), Robert Cray and Ian Dury and all his bands!
…and Boz Scaggs!
Maude,
Ian Dury - what a guy!
in 6 inches of snow one winter (about 4 years ago) I was putting my wheelie bin out when i started to slip.
managed to save myself by hugging the bin.
muttered to myself to stop being such a spaz, then broke into a rendition of Spasticus Autisticus, luckily no neighbours around.
I think he has to be the hardest working singer I’ve ever seen! Support acts (2 plus John Cooper Clark) both had 8 or 9 in their bands too! Must have been a raucous night)
I think i saw that combination of bands.
It was the Stiffs label.
Good memories of Good times!!!
We are lucky, today’s covid generation are missing out on so much.
Ooh John Martyn. Solid Air, truly one of the best albums in the world. I saw him do an acoustic set. He didn’t seem stoned, but then maybe …
I cried when Bowie died and Prince too. I still have tears in my eyes when I hear Sometimes it Snows in April.
Sue
I saw Queen at Wembley in 1986 too. One of the many thousands all singing.
Sue
I’d have loved to see Ian Dury. What a man. A character. And Spasticus Autisticus such a song.
I totally agree Carole, the people now growing up never being able to get hot and sweaty in company with others. There’s often been such a feeling of ‘oneness’ about a crowd at a gig. The closeness I felt with the whole audience (and Patti herself) at a Patti Smith gig at the Forum in London about the late 90s was incredible.
Sue
Your musical experience has been so very different to mine. I feel rather envious at never really learning to listen to the great classical music, let alone play. I do hope your fingers are still able to play your violin! That would be a tragedy worse than losing the ability to walk I’m sure.
Sue
I am sure it would never be the same at some humungous arena! Saw some good and has to be said not so good bands at the county showground pre the NEC and the like! 2 to 3 thou tooo big but better than the O2etc!