What changes can we make to our lives to deal with the economic and energy crises ahead? Have you already started making preparations? Got tips to share?
biffvernon wrote:I suppose people not in love should not sing love songs, or land-lubbers sing shanties.
Well to a degree yes if you've never been in love, or never been to sea I don't think you can be a spokesman on the subject .
But singing a song is not the same as being a spokesman. This was Bob Dylan's complaint. He wrote protest songs but never wanted to be or claimed to be a spokesman for the protest movement. He just liked writing and singing songs. That was what he was good at.
Of course there's no excuse for singing cowboy songs.
biffvernon wrote:I suppose people not in love should not sing love songs, or land-lubbers sing shanties.
Well to a degree yes if you've never been in love, or never been to sea I don't think you can be a spokesman on the subject .
But singing a song is not the same as being a spokesman. This was Bob Dylan's complaint. He wrote protest songs but never wanted to be or claimed to be a spokesman for the protest movement. He just liked writing and singing songs. That was what he was good at.
That's a matter of opinion
[runs for cover]
"We're just waiting, looking skyward as the days go down / Someone promised there'd be answers if we stayed around."
mobbsey wrote:
What's really sad is that the people who do bring instruments to our workshops are getting increasingly old and grey -- does anyone under 30 jam anymore?
mobbsey wrote:
What's really sad is that the people who do bring instruments to our workshops are getting increasingly old and grey -- does anyone under 30 jam anymore?
LOL, trust me, yes!
Yes, you're going to the wrong workshops, Paul.
I'm pretty sure there are as many, if not more, up and coming young musicians as ever. We have a long established folk club in town that is inhabited by centenarians and long dead zombies but just round corner is a pub where there are regular open-mike sessions and gigs frequented by folk who are well under 70, or even 20.
Talis Kimberley sings The Steps of St Paul's
Some pretty clever lines keeping up the ancient tradition of topical protest and comment in a ballad of the moment.
Talis Kimberley sings The Steps of St Paul's
Some pretty clever lines keeping up the ancient tradition of topical protest and comment in a ballad of the moment.
"Woke up this morning/Got on the train/Picked up a coffee/ Dum-da-dum-dum/AND SAT AT MY DESK AGAIN..../I got RSI/ I got RSI REAL bad...."