Abba The Music
I worked the Abba The Music concert the other day. And the heat was horrific. It reached 104 with a 111 heat index. It was bad stepping out for just 10 to 15 min. let alone having to work all day in the heat or cook…I can’t even think about that. The crew had to set up the stage in that heat. I don’t think I could have taken that kind of heat. Even with the air it was hot inside the trailers.
The group Abba the Music was awesome. They were all from Sweden like the original Abba and had two members who played with the original Abba. I thought that was neat. Seeing them on stage was like a blast from the past with their 7os outfits and sound. And just like the 70s the girls were there to sing and dance and not play instruments. The guys played the instruments. One girl played a tambourine.
Abba’s music really has influenced a lot today. Madonna used a little of Gimme, Gimme, Gimme in Hung up and I hadn’t realized they did a song called Fernando, which is a name mentioned in Lady Gaga Alejandro.
All in all I enjoyed the concert and was glad I could see it, even in the sweltering heat, unlike that Earth, Wind, and Fire that I missed. And I think everyone’s favorite song of the night was Money, Money, Money, because everyone had that stuck in their head and were singing it. Me included. Sunday’s the Counting Crows. I’m looking forward to it. Maybe it’ll have cooled off by then.
Kagehime
Bat for Lashes
Bat for Lashes new album, Two Suns, was released on the 6th of April. I haven’t bought it yet, but definitely want to. The songs on this album have a raw element of music in them that I think has been lost. The 60s and 70s were great for songs with real emotion. The 80s had some good ones too. As time wore on the “real” songs went somewhere. I’m not talking about that emo crap people seem to think is emotion now. I’m talking about emotion from the depth of the soul, not not that weepy stuff. An important part of showing emotion in music is real music. After synthesizers came into affect, music became softer and when voices became more electronic it became more robotic with less emotion, realness. Our music has become really fake and overworked. It was refreshing for me to hear such “real” music.
Kagehime
Going down to Texas
Well I’ll be going to start my journey down to Texas tomorrow. I’ll be gone about a week so no blog for a little while. It’s going to be a road trip in a time of high gas. How smart is that?
For the trip I downloaded some new songs from i tunes. I had a little problem with downloaded because of some confusion between the old and new versions, but once it was completely updated there were no problems. Here’s my list:
Viva la vida Coldplay
Violet Hills Coldplay
All along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix
Purple Haze Jimi Hendrix
California Dreamin’ Mamas and Papas
A Hazy Shade of Winter Bangles
Eternal Flame Bangles
Falling Down Duran Duran
Jumper Third Eye Blind
Four Minutes Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Timberland
American Boy Estelle and Kanye
Island in the Sun Weezer
No Rain Blind Melon
Jealousy Gin Blossoms
White Room Cream
Dirty Little Secret All American Rejects
What I noticed from my list is a lot of 90s music sounds like it came from either the late 60s or 70s while music now kind of sounds like 80s. Like these are the children of those generations playing music now.
I am also hoping to be lucky enough to get my hands on a copy of Breaking Dawn from the library today since it just came out today so I could read it on my trip, but I’m starting to have doubts that my hold on it will let me get it today. Oh well… I have other books to read.
Kagehime
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