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Alucard
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Topic: Friday Morning subway blues Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:10 |
I have to take every morning one of these overcrowded subways to go to work. This morning it was a little bit less crowded and I was dozing when I heard some really nice music. ( You got quiet a lot of musicians playing in the parisian metro, but the most of it is really awful out of tune accordeon music) So it was a couple, she was singing lead and he was playing guitar and sung harmony vocals. They were starting with "One of us" (Joan Osborne/Prince?) I love this song and the woman got a beautiful voice.The guitar player has put his Kapodaster quiet high on the fretboard and the guitar sounded like a mandolin. Then they sung "Revolution" from Tracy Chapman, another on of my favourite songs and to finish a Sarah Mc Lachlan song. I listen mainly to Prog, but a nice tune, decent guitar work and harmony vocals are really the best.
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:11 |
You are abslolutely right, Mr. Hellsing person.
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oliverstoned
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:16 |
Alucard wrote:
I have to take every morning one of these overcrowded subways to go to work. This morning it was a little bit less crowded and I was dozing when I heard some really nice music. ( You got quiet a lot of musicians playing in the parisian metro, but the most of it is really awful out of tune accordeon music) So it was a couple, she was singing lead and he was playing guitar and sung harmony vocals. They were starting with "One of us" (Joan Osborne/Prince?) I love this song and the woman got a beautiful voice.The guitar player has put his Kapodaster quiet high on the fretboard and the guitar sounded like a mandolin. Then they sung "Revolution" from Tracy Chapman, another on of my favourite songs and to finish a Sarah Mc Lachlan song. I listen mainly to Prog, but a nice tune, decent guitar work and harmony vocals are really the best.
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I bet you take the tube in Paris
maybe we'll meet one day inside
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Sean Trane
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:19 |
Last time I took Metro in Paris , there was some guy singing my fave Lennon tune Working class Hero. I was travelling for work and changing station from Gare Du Nord to Montparnasse.
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let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword
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Syzygy
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:19 |
I remember many years ago hearing a beautiful acoustic rendition of 'Brain Damage' by a couple of girls on the Paris Metro. I think Parisian buskers are generally of a higher standard than the ones we get in London, apat from those out of tune accordionists.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Velvetclown
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:29 |
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Sean Trane
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:49 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword
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Man Erg
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 11:02 |
There seem to be fewer buskers on the London Underground now that they have to have a licence.
The only saving grace about that is that you don't hear Ralph McTell's Streets of London and Radiohead's Creep at every station.
The best busker that I have ever heard played at Tottenham Court Road.He would play Sandy Denny's beautiful Who Knows Where the Time Goes and Pink Floyd's Pillow of Winds.
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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sorcerer
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 11:13 |
coming in from Heathrow a few years back i encountered two bimbos who thought they were the Indigo Girls. unfortunately, the train was too crowded and i couldn't throw them off without losing my seat
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