Mandolin? That reminds me -- have you managed to find out anything about the
folk music of Estonia yet? Do they play pipes? something along the lines of
the balalaika? or maybe some sort of zither? Would love to know what sort of
tones they use -- major, minor, modal scales, even quarter-tones. I do hope
the national folk tradition hasn't been displaced utterly by Dylan etc.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: Poem by other: Randy Newman
and no Bowie after the Serious Moonlight tour - they should stop
making music when I don't like them anymore:-)
ok, for Dylan, I'll stretch as far as 76, but no further, no direction
home and all that (aarrgh, I've just regurgitated the name of the
scorsese biopic...if I could make a documentary it would have to be
'don't look back'). Street Legal was the first disappointment.
I've been trying to recover the early folkier Dylan.
off to play me Mandolin
Roger
On 17/07/06, MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Always knew you were a purist. One had these discussions with folkies
> back in the late 60s who called Highway 61 a betrayal. No Miles after
> Kind of Blue! Duh...
> mj
>
> Roger Day wrote:
>
> > more songs to multilate!! I saw him in concert a, ahem, couple of
> > years ago and he was growling and a-moaning like a good'un then.
> >
> > I accept no dylan after 1970.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> --
> Lorsque le ciel s'obscurcissait, ta victoire toujours, lampe des signes!
> La chair moins nue de se savoir écrite et partagée. (When the sky
> darkened, always your victory, lamp of signs! The flesh less naked for
> knowing itself written and shared out.) - Claude Esteban d.10 Avril 2006
>
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