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The Scorpions treat us to their performance of Loving You Sunday Morning. In so doing, they also become our Week #114 tour guides thru the wide world of Sunday titled songs.
Either view the clip above or over @YouTube (offsite option to benefit anyone experiencing playback probs).
Our next musical adventure embarks seven days from now. Hope you’ll be back. Till then…
CommonSenseTom
2:45 pm on September 18, 2020 Tags: Archy Jay (The Snake Charmer), Black Sabbath, BlogCasts ( 53 ), blogging ( 1,077 ), Chelsea Joy (Dame of Drones), Dropkick Murphys ( 2 ), Enter Sandman (song), Gamazda (keyboardist), heavy metal, I'm Shipping Off to Boston (song), Jane Espie (The Pantom Piper), Metallica, Paranoid (song), WordPress ( 1,066 )
As Black SabbathAMPLY proves, above, Heavy Metal, typically, has all the subtlety of a herd of rampaging, stampeding dinosaurs, that is, if… in the beginning… dinosaurs had ever, actually, herded, rampaged and stampeded. Hey… don’t ask me for proof… I may be old but I wasn’t there! And… re my above op-ed… I’m not complaining… just paying a compliment.
That duly noted… how about atypical Heavy Metal? Huh? Can such an art form even exist, let alone, actually, rise to avant-garde magnificence?
Well, I do believe the two clips, below, will “A” that “Q” with a resounding YES!
That both musical scores showcase womankind, exclusively, does meld well with this man’s contention that the XX chromosome configuration enhances the intellectualism, sophistication and vibrancy of any endeavor. Not slamning XY’ers, per se. Just expressing my eternal gratitude for the positive female influence upon society.
That both of this BlogCast’s selections feature the, unconventional to Heavy Metal, classic keyboard, bagpipes and the snake charmers’ flute… a.k.a. the pungi, the been and the murli… also proves instrumental to such transcendence.
All discussions of instrumentality / mentality set aside, let’s let the musicians’ performances validate my thesis.
Gamazda (Keyboard Extraordinaire – Russia) covers / breathes a new life force into Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid”