MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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People keep saying it’s the last Beatles song. Perhaps it is.
Or not. Surely there are some more unfinished songs somewhere, and technology hasn’t stopped in the meantime.
It sure does sound like John though, doesn’t it? In the vocal, and the song itself.
And maybe the story about it as well.
It’s sad. A sad story.
https://genius.com/John-lennon-now-and-then-lyrics
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One of my all time favorite musicians is Jan Hammer. I found him via Jeff Beck in the ’70s, but he was a Prague prodigy, and later a huge name in jazz rock fusion. First with Mahavishnu Orchestra, and as great as that band was, I really like the Jan Hammer Group that came later too. He has always had a very singular style, so you could tell it was him right away.
In the ’80s he got noticed in America by writing the weekly music for Miami Vice.
Here’s a nice interview with Jan about the show.
This clip is one time he actually got in front of the camera too.
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All star backup band, and serious blues tunes. This movie gave a boost to careers of some great musicians.
Belushi and Akroyd are the amateur musicians, they’re comedians. A lot of the other actors are HOF level musicians, including James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker, Matt Guitar Murphy, Steve Cropper, Cab Calloway, Chaka Khan, Pinetop Perkins, Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Lou Marini, Calvin “Fuzz” Jones, Steve Lawrence – who I don’t think sang anything, and I don’t think Joe Walsh did either. Who am I forgetting? And lots of cameos by other famous non musicians too.
https://youtu.be/o5xexv-dMrM?list=PL4sfVCWR8nGJ0iZTaheuqSoZ2JC16JEBp
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My grand nephew went out trick or treating tonight dressed as Gordon Ramsey.
Very scary.
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Of all the gin joints in the world, she has to show up here.
Casablance is what I wrote on the Profile questionnaire as my favourite movie.
Ilsa was right, that’s as good a version of that song as you’ll find.
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Jürgen,
While that movie is a caricature, of course, I’ve been in places in the middle of nowhere that look like Bob’s Country Bunker, minus the chicken wire and most, but not all, of the beer bottles flying through the air. I live on the blues trail, so I see guys like Matt “Guitar” Murphy, who was in the movie, play where I live. For me, that makes the movie even better.
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I saw Mission: Impossible, It’s this one that I was too young for. It started around 1960 or 61. It was first in Europe and called Danger Man. Secret Agent Man was the American version that came after, around mid-’60s, and that’s the one which had the Johnny Rivers song.
A couple guys in the Brill Building wrote the short theme, then later fleshed it out so Johnny Rivers would have a full song to play.
There are episodes of it on YT and elsewhere.
forbes.com
Songwriter Steve Barri On How 1960s Hit ‘Secret Agent Man’ Came To Be
It started out as a 30-second opening jingle for a CBS summer replacement TV show from Great Britain, and ended up a No. 1 hit song in the U.S.
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Chicken wire?
So I’m thinking that there may be people here who don’t watch many movies, so maybe I should add a few more details. I can think of 2 people in particular.
And then you post this. I guess I haven’t historically watched many movies either, and I don’t remember this movie.
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This one has to be on the Wien greatest hits list. Johann Strauss.
An der schönen blauen Donau.
The Blue Danube waltz.
On YT, you can either see part of the video from 2001, which is what’s below, or you can hear the whole tune without the video. I think they want to sell you the movie. I wanted to see the whole scene, with the music, but they said “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”.
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I’m thinking it’s more of an archeological dig than a crime story.
I forgot it had been painted. If it said the maker’s name on the outside, it doesn’t any more. I also forgot that it originally was a player piano. You can see some buttons and levers below the keyboard. But we never had all the pieces for it to work as a player piano.
Some keys are broken. I push the key down, and that’s where it stays. I recall the action had a strip of leather as part of it, so it may have weathered enough to break, Idk. In the pic of the insides, if you zoom in you can see near the middle and down near the bottom, a little reddish tab sticking out towards the camera. I think that’s the leather.
I could reach in with one hand and play chopsticks, so I’m guessing it could still be made about as good as it was when I first used it 60 years ago. Which is not very good.
When was the last time you saw a real ivory keyboard? One of the keys had come off completely, so you can see it up close. If you look near the bottom of it, there’s a horizontal line across it. I’ve read that ivory keys were laminated together from multiple pieces, and that looking at that bottom is one way to validate that it’s ivory.
So what do you think? I know my brother would sell it cheap, like $0, although my sister seems to think it’s a family heirloom. Lol.
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Now you know why they called him Screaming. That’s great.
I never saw that before.
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Jürgen,
That piano may not be gone. It sounds like it’s at my brother’s house.
So I might be able to tell you who made it and get a pic. It might take a few days.
As I recall, it’s so old it has real ivory keys. Some of them anyways.