1. "in the car a song by janet came on" In response to Reply # 0
pops asks.."is this Michael Jackson?"
I say "No, it's Janet Jackson."
He goes, "Figures..she sound just like him."
lol
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Mon Jul-16-12 04:50 PM
2. "My dad's a musician so his opinions all make sense. But my best " In response to Reply # 0
friend's dad, LMAOO.
We were in HS when Mystikal "Shake ya ass" came out, and we were in the car with his dad who was driving. It came on, and he started to nod his head a little bit.... His dad: Who's this? It sounds like James Brown My friend: It is James Brown, he raps now! His dad: Really?? Wow...I like it though! *Hook comes back* His dad: James Brown cussin now huh? I guess you gotta keep up with the times! *Few seconds pass by, verse is back on* His dad: Haa! SHAKE A ASS!!!! I like it!!!
3. "RE: funny musical opinions from your DAD" In response to Reply # 0
>Dad: "This is such a beautiful song until it gets loud." > >I shot him a sideways look and we both cracked up, because >even though he believes it, he understands the absurdity.
lol, that reminds me of seandammit and his critique of squarepusher
27. "'it sounds like a record skipping'" In response to Reply # 5
------------------------- “The other dude after me didn’t help my case. It was just like…crazy nigga factory going on.” Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. “I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,” he says. “Never did.”-- Andre B
7. "My daddy was drunk one nght..." In response to Reply # 0 Mon Jul-16-12 07:35 PM by Jakob Hellberg
...and he put on one of my tapes with Coltrane's "Transition" on one side and Organized Konfusion's "Stress:the extinction agenda" on the other. He obviously wanted to hear Coltrane but put on the wrong side and in his drunkenness started to nod his head and go "This is really good! It's like modern Jazz but with voices!". He hated Hip-Hop so I found this really amusing at the time and still do. Not sure it would have worked with any Hip-Hop though...
Also, Carcass became a running joke in my family. I was jumping around and playing airguitar to the "Symphonies of sickness"-album some time in 1990 or so and my mom opened the door to my room to tell me that food was on the table. I didn't notice at first, I just saw mom *and* dad staring at me a while later and saying "What is this shit you are listening to? Are you insane?". After that, they always used Carcass as a reference-point of wackness, like "This is almost as bad as Carcass" or "Well, at least it's not as bad as Carcass" when there was music on the TV or radio...
8. "My dad on jazz (Miles, Coltrane, etc.)" In response to Reply # 0
"I respect it but I don't wanna listen to someone playing at me for 10 minutes".
And on a related note, he loves smooth jazz and whenever a tune comes along that he likes, he always says something like "boy, that sound good" (*closes eyes/snaps fingers to the lame smooth jazz beat*) __ I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!
Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno
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>And on a related note, he loves smooth jazz and whenever a >tune comes along that he likes, he always says something like >"boy, that sound good" (*closes eyes/snaps fingers to the lame >smooth jazz beat*)
15. "He called frantic like, you HAVE to hear this." In response to Reply # 0
He came down for my b-day and was like, "Have you ever heard of this guy DJ Jazzy Jeff?!" Some record store guy had hipped him to The Magnificent. The guy that gave me Southernplayalistic without realizing it, was floored by Jazzy Jeff.
16. "I was talking to my pop recently about when he snuck in to see" In response to Reply # 0
Harry Belafonte at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Looking at Belafonte's career, this was probably 1957 or so, about when he was a senior in high school. His buddy was an usher and they arranged to meet at some back alley service door and get let in.
What sticks in his mind about the concert isn't the music, or Belafonte's persona or charisma or anything I'd expect. It's the way, in his words, 'the Black women in the audience, and there were lots of them, were going absolutely apeshit for him, throwing stuff at him, screaming the whole time.'
It's funny b/c -it reveals a lot about my pop & the context of the times; -I don't tend to think of Belafonte as having a large and screaming Black audience, rather a somewhat bougie mixed audience with refined tastes & behavior
Anyhow, I've been meaning for the longest to find some time to sit down with my pop and record a conversation with him where we're just talking about music, an oral history of sorts. I think it'd be a lot of fun and a cool document to have... guy's in his 70s and while he's going strong, he clearly won't be around forever.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79574 posts
Tue Jul-17-12 03:00 PM
21. "RE: I was talking to my pop recently about when he snuck in to see" In response to Reply # 16
that some cool shit... Prince and the Time used to come to Pittsburgh all the time and my dad took my sister to see him back in the early 80's.
"I always thought that boy was a faggot but damn, he got some bad bitches..."
My dad still thinks he is a pimp.. scratch that.. my Dad is still a pimp. He has green eyes and can spit some good shit to the lady's. I found a book "Iceberg Slim" under his bed when I was 9... shit changed my life.
------------------------- “The other dude after me didn’t help my case. It was just like…crazy nigga factory going on.” Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. “I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,” he says. “Never did.”-- Andre B
28. "my dad swore frankie beverly outsold p*****" In response to Reply # 0
smh
------------------------- “The other dude after me didn’t help my case. It was just like…crazy nigga factory going on.” Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. “I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,” he says. “Never did.”-- Andre B
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