Often, when I read about the lawsuits where one musical artist accuses another of stealing something from their song, I cannot begin to understand how the original artist concluded that a theft occurred. After all, there are only so many chords and so many words and sooner or later one song is bound to sound [...]
Tag: music
Metaphorical sunshine re-framed…
The sunshine and lovely temperatures today have me humming a old classic from my youth by The 5th Dimension - Let the Sunshine In. I always knew the song as it was coupled with Aquarius as a medley. Aquarius was a much more ethereal piece that heralded the changing times. An upbeat segue from Aquarius [...]
The Beat Ambassador…
A couple of weeks ago when I walked out of the South Engineering building on campus I was surprised to hear MC Hammer's iconic song U Can't Touch This electrifying the air. It immediately made me smile. I looked around to see where it was coming from. I assumed it had to be coming from [...]
Like looking in the mirror…
Today I had an awkward realization. It happened while I was sitting in the turn lane on Main at 45th waiting for the light to change. It was then that I looked in the rear view mirror and saw the woman in the car behind me. The woman was a well-coiffed, seemingly innocuous white-haired older [...]
Heed the chair dancing woman’s advice…
Just when I thought Facebook was the biggest threat to people who lean toward procrastination (people like me), here comes my son Cory to introduce me to an infinitely bigger threat - Spotify. Spotify is a free internet music site where you can assemble play lists of darn near any song or musician you can [...]
Dazed and confused…
Today, while all my windows were open in the house, I heard the wafting sounds of 70s and 80s rock from a neighbor's house. This is a neighbor that I would guess to be a bit older than me (but let me emphasize "guess" as I am not all that great at estimating folks' ages). [...]
God bless the music teachers…
Tonight was Cheyenne's last 8th grade orchestra concert. The final orchestra concert of each school year in West Fargo is always the all-city concert. Grades 6-12 come together at the high school and play a few pieces individually as a grade grouping (6th, 7th, 8th, and 9-12) and then they play one piece all together. [...]
THE NEW FORTY 