What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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In summary, some of the best songs are "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty, "Guns N Roses, Sweet Child O' Mine." by Axl Rose, "Bruce Springsteen - "tunnel of love"" by Led Zeppelin, "Honor thy Father" by Dream Theater, and "Octavarium" by Dream Theater.
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ZapperZ said:
Then has Tsu heard the "orchestral" version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now"? She re-recorded this for her "Both Sides Now" album, and man, this tune, in my book, has to be THE best song of all time. I heard it for the first time a few months after Sept. 11, and somehow, the lyrics took on a new meaning all of the sudden.

Zz.

I didn't mean to exclude myself on Levon. That is easily in my top five.

Do you mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqQlfFuQFXo&feature=related
 
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  • #529
ZapperZ said:
That's the one.

Zz.

I see what you mean about it taking on an entirely new meaning.

Very nice!
 
  • #531
Hmm

Piano Man - Billy Joel - it's just a classic

I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues, and Your Song - Elton John

Stadium Arcadium, Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Hotel California - Eagles

Escape (that pina colada song) - Rupert Holmes

Redemption Song, Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley

As pump-up music: In the End - Linkin Park (their only good song imo)
 
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Traffic - Rainmaker (live) - 1972


Traffic - Rainmaker



Unfortunately, several videos on Youtube have been removed for copyright violations. I don't know how long these will be active.


I used to download free mp3's back in the days of Napster and some precursors, but I eventually went out a bought CD's of most of the groups - mostly classic rock. So I have the same music on LP and CD - i.e. I paid twice for the same piece of music. The record companies need to be more reasonable in their pricing.
 
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  • #533
Astronuc said:
I used to download free mp3's back in the days of Napster and some precursors, but I eventually went out a bought CD's of most of the groups - mostly classic rock. So I have the same music on LP and CD - i.e. I paid twice for the same piece of music. The record companies need to be more reasonable in their pricing.
I have over 300 albums and well over 400 CDs, and there are LOTS of duplicates. We're at the point where record companies could release entire catalogs of artists on one or two DVDs with liner notes, cover art, extras, etc, but it's never going to happen.
 
  • #534
I came across a Hang Drum - interesting. That lead me to several examples of the hammer dulcimer.

New Song on Hang Drum (2005 "melog" scale)


Sunset Hang Drumming Jam #2



hang drum and hammered dulcimer jam



Rakes of Kildare Hammered Dulcimer



folk jig medieval hammered dulcimer girl 2


Mermaid Medieval Hammered Dulcimer



Fast Hands - Max ZT (This guy is great!)


Great Lakes Medieval Faire Vince Conaway 07 (This guy is also very good!)



Hammered Dulcimer Duo Cosmic Sister. FIRST PERFORMANCE!


Bonnie Doone/Going Home Medley on mt..dulcimer



Hammered Dulcimer to Replace Electric Guitar


Dan Landrum hammered dulcimer



Hammered Dulcimer 17/16 (slow - mellow)
 
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  • #535
My favorite piece by Ralph Vaughn Williams, and perhaps one of the finest pieces of classical music, certainly one of the finest out of England.


The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams



The Lark Ascending (Rare Version)
 
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  • #536
Vince Gill with Patty Loveless and Ricky Skaggs. "Go Rest High on that Mountain"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRyKg5xMaXA&feature=related

BTW, I have seen Ricky live, and he stayed behind for hours (and I mean hours!) after his family and crew were gone, talking to fans, hugging them, signing their mementos, etc. He's the real deal.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
If not mentioned already, this one has to go down as a classic.
Puff the Magic Dragon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVxBVI3Rx_Y&feature=related

This is probably the second song that I learned as a young child.

Another classic from PP&M
If I had a hammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKvpONl3No&feature=related
I remember PtMD. My father listened to PP&M and Pete Seeger, so I heard it quite often. Seeger lives nearby, and I've met him a few times. He sung at memorial service of a mutual friend. Quite a guy!


Seeds of light...from Sun The Ra to afriKA
- cool video. A different way of looking at the galaxy, the Earth and the sun.
 
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Somewhat of an obscure group - Armageddon (from 1975). Silver Tightrope was a favorite tune from that year.

Keith Relf (Yardbirds) was a member, but unfortunately he died tragically the following year ('76) after the release of their only album, Armageddon. In 1976, Relf was electrocuted by an impropertly grounded electric guitar! That still puzzles me, since I've been electrocuted several times, and I'm still around. :frown:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(Armageddon_album)
http://www.alexgitlin.com/npp/armauk.htm


Armageddon - Silver Tightrope


Armageddon - Paths and Planes and Future Gains


Armageddon - Buzzard
 
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  • #542
Astronuc said:
In 1976, Relf was electrocuted by an impropertly grounded electric guitar! That still puzzles me, since I've been electrocuted several times, and I'm still around. :frown:
The route of the current is critical. It doesn't take much current to stop your heart when you're getting the shock hand-to-hand, and a guitarist touching grounded strings on a guitar and reaching to reposition a mic is in a nasty situation. (Been there!)

I wrote the medical standards portion of an electrical safety training program that General Physics presented to DuPont's electrical supervisors, and presented the entire program in a week-long session in Tampa. It's been a lot of years, but IIR, the hand-to-hand jolt that can stop your heart was on the order of maybe 12-20 milliamps. Not a lot of current, but if it has to traverse your chest, it's enough.

"No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for
me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
 
  • #543
turbo-1 said:
The route of the current is critical. It doesn't take much current to stop your heart when you're getting the shock hand-to-hand, and a guitarist touching grounded strings on a guitar and reaching to reposition a mic is in a nasty situation. (Been there!)

I wrote the medical standards portion of an electrical safety training program that General Physics presented to DuPont's electrical supervisors, and presented the entire program in a week-long session in Tampa. It's been a lot of years, but IIR, the hand-to-hand jolt that can stop your heart was on the order of maybe 12-20 milliamps. Not a lot of current, but if it has to traverse your chest, it's enough.

"No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for
me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
Well, if Relf had the guitar in hand and was sitting on something metal or perhaps had strings or metal in one hand and was ground through the other hand - perhaps I guess.

I give grounded through one hand and through my feet. Once on a running lawn mower and the other time on a car engine. Both times, I removed the spark plug cable with the motors going - and I got blasted. OUCH! But the current/voltage was a brief pulse.

The worst event was where I grounded a 440 V motor (seveal kW) - and probably got at least 10 amps. There was a bright blue-white flash, a loud bang (like lightning), I blacked out momentarily and came too leaning backward against the wall behind where I had been working on the motor. Didn't help that I had been squatting in a puddle of condensate while working on the motor, which supposedly had been isolated. I think my partner had selected the wrong switch. :rolleyes:

I was rather weak from that and barely managed to walk up a flight of stairs to where I could be transported the shop office. I rested for a while and drove home. It took several days for the smell of singed tissue to wear off, and for me to regain full strength.

I just realized that event was back in 1976, a few months after Relf died.
 
  • #544
The voltage is key, here, too. Low voltages channel through human tissue effectively, while higher voltages tend to self-repel and to propagate along outer surfaces (skin effect).
 
  • #545
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Neil Diamond held onto the secret for decades, but he has finally revealed that President Kennedy's daughter was the inspiration for his smash hit "Sweet Caroline."

"I've never discussed it with anybody before — intentionally," the 66-year-old singer-songwriter told The Associated Press on Monday during a break from recording. "I thought maybe I would tell it to Caroline when I met her someday."

He got his chance last week when he performed the song via satellite at Caroline Kennedy's 50th birthday party. [continued]
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iImzT2JPyXzkkHcKCIP6bpuei9sQD8T1GVH01

 
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  • #547
I just heard this line from a song and really liked it:

"In my dreams you're blowing me...









...some kisses."
 
  • #548
Did you like the way it began or the way it ended?
 
  • #549
Gokul43201 said:
Did you like the way it began or the way it ended?

:smile: That depends on how you look at it!
 
  • #550
Battle of Evermore is a great song, great lyrics, great vocals. Sandy Denny did an excellent job on backup vocals.


Hahaha, I might not know anything like you guys about calculus or physics or whatever, but I'd bet I know more about Led Zeppelin. I love Zeppelin though.

Best songs?...hmmm, I'd say All My Love, by Zeppelin great vocals, great bass/keyboards, great song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BkgMlrGXB5c

Tales of Brave Ulysses, Cream... Love that song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=u8hLc_nqx8g

A classic is Ramblin' Man, by the Allman Brothers Band
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Bodp4M0ymA

And my two favorite Clapton songs, Layla sorry its live
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-j-pf5LykQ

And Wonderful tonight
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gi24BdDZCJk

Yep those are all classics
 
  • #551
Another one is Knockin' On Heavens door by Bob Dylan. Thats a classic, don't have a link though...And its better than all the covers, even Eric Claptons.

Billy Joel Piano Man, and We Didnt Start the Fire, Downeaster Alexa (Is that how its spelled?), and Captain Jack and the Entertainer are all great songs as well. Shes Always a Woman to Me and Leningrad are also great ones.

And I am sure somebody has already mentioned...but Led Zeppelin stairway to heaven is of course a classic, and I DO have a link for that one, haha
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CFC0zfrJxR8

And Train Kepta Rollin by the Yardbirds..

I could go on and on and on. Best if I stop I guess, haha.
 
  • #552
Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt - Salty Dog Blues
Tony Rice Unit - Midnight on the Stormy Deep
 
  • #553
Smokestack Lightnin' by Howlin' Wolf and also the Yardbirds did a good version of it as well
 
  • #554
The_Z_Factor said:
Smokestack Lightnin' by Howlin' Wolf and also the Yardbirds did a good version of it as well
I love the Yardbirds's version, but it's not on Youtube.

Aerosmith's version of Train Kept A Rollin' is great!
(Studio version - Ignore the video images if you not a railfan :biggrin:)
 
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Pythagorean said:
Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt - Salty Dog Blues
Tony Rice Unit - Midnight on the Stormy Deep
A lot of Tony's stuff is killer! At times, he has collaborated with some of the best in the business.
 
  • #556
Very nice classical guitar

ARANJUEZ 1mov, Joaquin Rodrigo.Guitar:Jose C.Puertas


RODRIGO, Aranjuez 2mov (1/2). Guitar:Jose C.Puertas


RODRIGO, Aranjuez, 3º mov. Guitar: Jose C.Puertas
 
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  • #557
Annie Lennox has an incredible voice. She does a nice job with Neil Young's

Don't let it bring you down
 
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  • #558
Jasperina de Jong, Dutch stand up comediene and actress with a technically extremely difficult representation of the Minute walz of Chopin with very funny lyrics (if you understand Dutch of course).

 
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  • #559
Nominating for the title of the thread

"Vanmorgen vloog ze nog" (this morning she was still flying) of prominent Dutch singer Robert Long who died last year

Lyrix

the other performers are Simone Kleinsma, Robert Paul and Martine Bijl
 
  • #560
A search did not indicate anyone else has posted Donna Summer.
Hope some of you enjoy this.
 
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