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NATIV ANGLI / Conversations / Re: The Sde Boker soundtrack
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on: October 01, 2006, 05:11:48 AM
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Started by Susan Casper | Last post by Marc Vromen
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Thanks to all for the suggestions. Yes Lila it is awkward to have Mary write in my forum section. I was called away by my son Noam and Mary took advantage of the situation. Some other obscure music that was played reminded me very much of Norm when he suddenly found out about the gay musicians. First it was with Queen "Night at the Opera" (Your my Best friend) then it was Day at the Races and then he found Lou Reed (not Transformer but I think it Sally something) and then the famous comment from Norm "I don't like these fags but they can sure sing some great songs". Then Norm started to play ELO El Dorado especially Shoreline and Boy Blue. Then the year after us brought Supertramp "Crime of the Century". Boy everything is coming back to me. I suppose for me it still revolves around Norm. The music I used most for solace was the tape I kept borrowing from Glenn Fleischer which was George Harrisons "All Things Must Pass". CSN & Y were also prevalent purely because the songs were harmonics and singing. So we got to hear beautiful singing by Tali mostly. .... Love the memories. Hope this adds another dimension to the debate
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NATIV ANGLI / Conversations / Re: The Sde Boker soundtrack
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on: September 18, 2006, 12:48:24 PM
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Started by Susan Casper | Last post by danfeld
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As usual, when it comes to music and how it played such an intrergal part in our tiome at Sde Boker, everyone has an opinion! As far as L+M goes, I did not see them during thier reunion tour and they played only about an hour north of me at the Santa Barbara Bowl. I could kick myself but as memory serves, we were still in Israel for the reunion. Coincidence? Anyhow. a couple videos can be found at: http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/more/0,,459838-5,00.html#more
As far as CSN+Y is concerned, yes I agree about their being the preminent influence for us. When I think of CSNY at SB, I always associate it with 4 Way Street. It sounded as if these four guys were in the room with you, acoustic guitars in hand, singing and playing their asses off. There was a certain raw quality to the recordings. Imperfect in many ways but it still really captured the era. You know, they were not that much older than we were and I think that is why we related to them so well. I think I have said this before but they felt like the cool older brothers that all of us wish we had had.
My son Jake and I saw them a couple on months ago and I was somewhat disappointed. They left the stage and we were all ready for the encore of Woodstock (every set list from their website had them closing the show with this) but lo and behold, the house lights went up and they never came back on. Needless to say, there were some boos and I was left with a very unpleasant taste in my mouth. No it wasn't the pot, which I did not have since Jake was with me, but the feeling that these guys are somewhat hypocritical.
They sing about love, peace, stop the war, impeach the president, take back our government and yet they condone a $275.00 concert ticket. And then to top it all off, they leave the audience hanging. No explanation just thanks for your money folks, time to go. Really, really disappointing way to end an evening.
You can stick a fork in Stills. He is done. He did not sing the majority of his harmony parts during the concert. I heard him on the radio (Rockline) and evidently, his hearing is shot so his speech sounds almost like he is drunk. He said that he has been sober for the last 5 years but still, what a waste. He can still play guitar like nobody I have ever heard but I think his singing days are over.
At least we have the music and the memories of where it takes us. CSNY's music kept most of us alive at Sde Boker and for that I will always smile when I hear their songs.
Hey, another album that was nearly played to death at school: Derek and the Dominos Live at the Fillmore East. Originally released as "In Concert", it is widely overlooked but it is one of the great live albums of its era. Clapton is at his drunken, sloppiest best. His guitar playing is fast and loose and his vocals are just now becoming unmistakable. Clapton was as important to us if not more than CSN+Y
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NATIV ANGLI / Conversations / Re: The Sde Boker soundtrack
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on: September 17, 2006, 08:16:30 AM
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Started by Susan Casper | Last post by ls_night
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I have to take issue with Loggins and Messina and Steely Dan being the most influential in our year. The most played & influential music was hands down CSN (and sometimes Y). The next most played after them....? BOY! McCartney & Wings, Doobie Brothers (remember the class song Black Water?) Steely Dan (Yes, specifically Royal Scam. I wonder why we didn't hear anything else by them? They are really good), Elton John, Pink Floyd and Loggins & Messina. There were others of course that I can't remember right now. But the case for CSN (&Y) is that we played them the most, not just on our turntables & tape decks, but also on guitar. Most of the "sheet" music I have left from school is CSN&Y. Probably because they were the easiest to play and to figure out. And now I really don't care for them! I like Steely Dan, especially since I have listen to a lot more of their music. Even though I still like The Royal Scam, I much prefer their other albums. I like Loggins & Messina, but I don't find them to be all that great.
I am wondering why we didn't listen to the Moody Blues. I don't recall hearing even one album from the during school. They are really good and I really enjoy listening to them.
Yes Marc, it is probably not a good idea to let a 10 year old post on your behalf. Who knows what they will come up with!
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NATIV ANGLI / Conversations / Re: The Sde Boker soundtrack
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on: September 16, 2006, 07:55:11 PM
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Started by Susan Casper | Last post by Marc Vromen
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Well G'day everyone
It has been a long time since I ever wrote in this forum. I found out that i like eggs. laughing my guts out. I love my family and i love my daughter the most i will buy her everything :Don't ever let your 10 year old write in your forums. Trust me on that one.
Anyway a friend of mine gave me the DVD of the Loggins and Messina reunion of last year. I found that I was singing along to all of the songs and it was sending me back to my time at school. So to answer this universal old age question, I feel that our year was most influenced by Loggins and Messina and of course Steely Dan (Royal Scam).
Back to my point, listening to that music seems to have such a profound influence on me and I feel it probably will influence others. Has anyone else seen the L & M reunion concert or even better did anyone go to it?
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NATIV ANGLI / Conversations / Re: Last Song
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on: September 01, 2006, 12:30:08 AM
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Started by Susan Casper | Last post by David_A
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David, I don't even remember what the last bagrut was, let alone the order we went in but if the music was coming from your room, wouldn't it have had to have been Eric Clapton?
For some reason they flipped the order for last test so I was last rather than first as I was in all other tests.
I am surprised you can’t remember the song as I pumped it out full volume – I think they heard it in Yeruham.
Of course it was …..
Schools out by Alice Cooper – It just seemed like the right song.
DA
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NATIV ANGLI / Conversations / Re: The Sde Boker soundtrack
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on: August 09, 2006, 02:07:59 PM
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Started by Susan Casper | Last post by Laura Bulkin, 1974
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Well I am way late getting here, the last post was a year and a half ago, but can't resist the topic!
Music that takes me right back to our little cardboard dorm room -- before it burned to the ground (with most of our records and all of our clothes) in the Great Inevitable Friedman-Stove Fire of '73:
Anything by Donovan (all of us sitting there swooning over Sos singing Atlantis or Catch the Wind)
King Crimson (Moon Child reminds me of Mae especially, z'l)
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, everything on the Woodstock LP.
Jesus Christ Superstar -- Janice and I singing it beginning to end for hours. I played keyboards for a local production here a coupla years ago, the producers couldn't believe someone would come in knowing every note of it by heart! We did four shows a week for a month, great money and totally fun. Thanks Janice!
Pink Floyd -- Echoes in Jack Sofer's room, and of course Dark Side of the Moon everywhere, THE perfectly-timed soundtrack of our 70's sex lives.
3 Dog Night, Neil Young, Elton John, Doors, Cat Stevens, Stones, Nilsson, Traffic, Blind Faith, Clapton (especially Layla and Cream Disraeli Gears), Grateful Dead, Airplane, Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull, Beautiful Day (White Bird).
Emerson Lake & Palmer (Trilogy, the first "fancy" thing I ever taught myself on piano -- I play that or ELP's "Still" or "Lucky Man" in a bar sometimes late at night and everyone our age gets crazy sentimental.
Somebody with a Greek name -- something like Hajidakis? -- doing a beautiful song, maybe called First Time Being in Love, anybody remember? It started "Feels like I'm getting older, I'm not afraid..." Maybe I can Google it 
Awesome sounds of Stevie Wonder and the Temps in Ellen Garber's room, she was ahead of her time trying to get some soul into our musical lives
I'm sure I'm forgetting something....
Led Zep (omigod, the THRILL of Whole Lotta Love zinging back and forth on the headphones -- discovered this the first night I ever got seriously drunk, Matty gave me a giant goblet of vodka & coca-cola that was 99% vodka, and all I remember after that is that song and then walking around full-on plastered asking people if they get what they want or want what they get, which I thought was a very profound question for some reason -- and then, alas, the "technicolor yawn" as the Aussies used ta say -- seemed like them boys from Oz had more different words for drunk ralphing than Eskimos have for snow Still can't listen to Led Zep without feeling a little queasy, and pretty much stayed away from vodka ever since!).
Some incredibly morbid song-poem called "Chops" that we had learned from Bonnie -- class of 73, she had an amazing voice -- and we all played it on the guitar all the time, great song for wallowing in teenage angst
What I've listened to since:
Went thru a jazz-oriented music curriculum in college & had a snooty phase in the late 70s of nothing but the most avant-garde jazz and neo-classical. In the 80s mostly quiet storm music -- old R&B, Smokey, Stylistics, Marvin Gaye, etc etc, still love that stuff. Love opera too, especially Wagner -- used to edit & write for the programs at Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center in NY in the 80s so we had free tickets to everything. Love Brazilian music, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Simone, everything by Jobim. Couldn't even begin to list all the various stuff I listen to or play now and then.
These days, I play piano in clubs and for parties, church, funerals, weddings etc, I'm the human jukebox here & play every show tune & standard from 1920s to now, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Beatles, Billy Joel, Seal, Chris Isaak, Angelo Badalamenti, whatever. Amazing how many 20-something kids request Cole Porter tunes lately, I think it's cause it's the perfect background music for drinking cosmos & martinis. Plus a lot of canticos en espanol cause we're very bilingual out here in NM.
But on my own time, what's on the car stereo or in the headphones at the gym just now is nearly always Red Hot Chilis (my favorite band on earth right now, they get better and better & I actually met Anthony Kiedis & Flea at an organic co-op restaurant I was working at when they hung out in Taos for a few weeks in the 90s), Nirvana, Lenny Kravitz (went to hear him & Pink in Albuquerque a while ago, fantastic show) Nine Inch Nails, Outkast, Prince (made my ex drive us all the way to Denver to hear him, not knowing he'd be in Abq two days later -- totally worth the drive tho), Rage Against the Machine, and Boxing Gandhis. And, oh yeah, I know it's cheesy but gotta confess -- Aerosmith. Especially for running on treadmill, Dream On is flawless. Stones Gimme Shelter has a great treadmill/stairmaster beat too.....
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NATIV ANGLI / Missing Sde-Bokerian Search / Class of 73????
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on: August 05, 2006, 06:46:49 AM
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Started by Laura Bulkin, 1974 | Last post by Laura Bulkin, 1974
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SO many people missing from the '73 class list -- Sos, Scotty, Paula, Bonnie, Jack, Paul, Marilyn -- where you is?????
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