Friday Morning subway blues
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Topic: Friday Morning subway blues
Posted By: Alucard
Subject: Friday Morning subway blues
Date Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:10
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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. Made my day |
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:11
| You are abslolutely right, Mr. Hellsing person. |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:16
I bet you take the tube in Paris maybe we'll meet one day inside |
Alucard wrote:Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:19
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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. ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:19
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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. ------------- '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 |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:29
You canīt hear the Buskers in London because the trains makes too much noise and you expect them to fall apart any second  ( The trains, not the buskers ) 
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 01 2005 at 09:49
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That's the cool thing about the Paris Metro 9the Mexico City one too) , they are much quiter because the wagons are mounted on rubber tyres (no rail joint noises). ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 01 2005 at 11:02
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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. ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: sorcerer
Date 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 |