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Buddha12 said:
In The Arms Of An Angel

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...bXgagL&usg=AFQjCNHZa_XQWN3bSiVM2Ob3O9dVQxlJLg
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It’s a beautiful song, isn’t it, Buddha12 ? It’s one of the top ten funeral songs, but did you know that she used the word “Angel” as a metaphor for drugs. She’s an atheist. The song is about the Smashing Pumpkins touring keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin, who overdosed on heroin and died in 1996.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_(Sarah_McLachlan_song)
 
Trooper said:
It’s a beautiful song, isn’t it, Buddha12 ? It’s one of the top ten funeral songs, but did you know that she used the word “Angel” as a metaphor for drugs. She’s an atheist. The song is about the Smashing Pumpkins touring keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin, who overdosed on heroin and died in 1996.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_(Sarah_McLachlan_song)
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I didn't know that , thanks for the information. The words are so beautiful and heart warming that I have enjoyed listening to it for many years now. I've always enjoyed the blues and other sincere tunes as I have posted many here already.
 
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A song for today Saturday: Drive by (Train).


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White Rabbitt

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=..._oC4AQ&usg=AFQjCNE2ML4fgSJieJb-XuraG6pN6m_6Qg

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Here's a macabre interpretation of Season of the Witch by those hideous freaks, Vanilla Fudge. Bwa ha ha ha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=xwxMVV_EdTM

And here's a scary thought: stab your own organs. Hammond B-3s, Moogs, that kind organ. But hey, it's permitted this time of year. This is Keith Emerson in Belgium (where just about anything is permitted year 'round :cool: or so I've heard ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=player_detailpage&v=X6PPoXTdQos#t=1350s

it's a parody on the once-radical Blue Rondo a la Turk, from that earlier Cold War relic, Dave Brubeck (who taught a lot of young musicians how to groove on asymmetrical meter). I think Emerson is maybe bringing home the way he loves to massacre mainstream and even radical music. He goes right into a jaunty circus sounding rendition of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker (Nutrocker) evolving into a little Mapleleaf Rag leading to a rock style 16 bar blues jam which I think gets you from one circus to the other which seemed to be concept back in the day.

If you make it through a few minutes of this, to where Emerson strums the piano strings like a harp, you'll get the more pensive ballad Take a Pebble featuring that distinctive sound of former King Crimson vocalist Greg Lake, but Emerson tears this up at the break with a solo that has Keith Jarret written all over it. I wonder. It drifts into a hillbilly sound, and after several migrations they get a jazz fusion sound going - finally converging back to the Lake singing the last verse or two of Take a Pebble.

And so on. Bwa ha ha.
 
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