Liked her in my teens and early 20s when I was still an idealistic socialist hippy type that believed in romance, justice, fairness, and equality for all - same applies for CSN, Dylan, America, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, the byrds, Simon and Garfunkel. then military service opens your eyes and wakes you up to the realities of the world.
Some decorated US war veterans come back from (insert war of choice-plenty to choose from) and then become one of 13 charter members of an organization that eventually grew to 37,000 (Vietnam Veterans Against The War). They retain their socialist, hippie beliefs into old age, even if they were in combat.
Military service opened my eyes all right! Thank God or Darwin (take your pick) I still believe at 70 in all the things you blow off.
I won't live to see it, but it's patently obvious by the flow of events in this country that, albeit 50 years later, eventually the children of the 60s will leave quite a legacy behind.
No one should ever make a sweeping generalization about what the military experience is like.
IMHO of course.
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Please guys don't let politics take over this thread. I mentioned the word only because I thought it might interest you that JB appeared here on a current affairs program. I probably shouldn't have.
I still believe in all those things brother, I just woke up is all, and couldnt stomach the sugary sweet utopian naivety of a hell of a lot of the lyrics. Not blowin it off man, not at all. And my hair and beard are longer than yours anyway :-) 55 is round my next bend on the scoot! ,I'll brake when I get there! :-)
Thanks for that!Originally Posted by progeezer
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I just got home from the concert, which was most enjoyable.
Surprisingly, she did not sing The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, probably her best known song and biggest hit here. Surprising, but not really a problem. It's a good song, but with lyrics that never had much relevance to Australian audiences - nor, I suspect, to a great many Americans. She did some of the usual suspects: a couple of Woody Guthrie numbers, a couple of Dylan, Diamonds and Rust of course - plus quite a lot of songs I had never heard before, most of which were very good - and the dreaded vibrato was not much in evidence, it was only heard a couple of times briefly.
There was a very odd moment when she "performed" the Shane Howard song "Solid Rock". When I say "performed", she did not sing it because, as she says, she "is not a rocker"; rather, she recited the words over a didgeridoo accompaniment. I'm not quite sure what the object of the exercise was, except maybe to drive home the point that she knew what country she was in.
As expected, she got standing ovation encores.... for the first encore she sang Imagine, followed by The Boxer, two very crowd-friendly songs with good sing-along potential. For the second encore, I was sure she would do "Dixie", but instead she surprised everyone with "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", a song with far more relevance to the audience of the night.
Yes, she's an idealist, but I think the world could do with a few more idealists.
Last edited by bob_32_116; 09-30-2015 at 10:57 AM.
^^ Great review. Happy to hear that you enjoyed it and she can still bring it home.
I agree, we need more like her.
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