Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 18, 2010 10:13:02 GMT -5
A musician named Dave Carroll recently had difficulty with United Airlines. United apparently damaged his treasured Taylor guitar ($3500) during a flight. Dave spent over 9 months trying to get United to pay for damages caused by baggage handlers to his custom Taylor guitar. During his final exchange with the United Customer Relations Manager, he stated that he was left with no choice other than to create a music video for Youtube exposing their lack of cooperation. The Manager responded : "Good luck with that one, pal". So he posted a retaliatory video on Youtube. The video has since received over 5.5 million hits. United Airlines contacted the musician and attempted settlement in exchange for pulling the video. Naturally his response was: "Good luck with that one, pal". Taylor Guitars sent the musician 2 new custom guitars in appreciation for the product recognition from the video that has
lead to a sharp increase in orders.
Here's the video ....
1
|
|
mickeyobe
Lifetime Member
Resident President
Posts: 7,280
|
Post by mickeyobe on May 18, 2010 13:35:48 GMT -5
I am starting to like country music.
Perhaps there should be a Feel Good topic on The Camera Collector.
Mickey
|
|
PeterW
Lifetime Member
Member has Passed
Posts: 3,804
|
Post by PeterW on May 18, 2010 16:40:52 GMT -5
Mickey,
I'm glad you are. I wish songs had never been pigeonholed into categories like country, folk, pop and so on.
To me there are only two kind of songs, good songs and poor songs. You can find plenty of each in any pigeonhole.
PeterW
|
|
|
|
Post by herron on May 18, 2010 21:32:55 GMT -5
Mickey, I'm glad you are. I wish songs had never been pigeonholed into categories like country, folk, pop and so on. To me there are only two kind of songs, good songs and poor songs. You can find plenty of each in any pigeonhole. PeterW Amen! ;D  |
|
mickeyobe
Lifetime Member
Resident President
Posts: 7,280
|
Post by mickeyobe on May 19, 2010 15:31:42 GMT -5
Mickey, I'm glad you are. I wish songs had never been pigeonholed into categories like country, folk, pop and so on. To me there are only two kind of songs, good songs and poor songs. You can find plenty of each in any pigeonhole. PeterW Amen! ;D Gentlemen, You must realize that I sometimes use sarcasm. So do not take what I say too seriously. Way back in a prior century when I was as kid there was a genre of music that we called Cowboy Music. It was served up to us by the likes of Gene Autry, Dale Evans, Roy Rogers and even some none cowboys like Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore. They sang usually happy songs with catchy melodies, and often mushy but clever lyrics. That music was, I believe, the forerunner of and has devolved into today's nasal, whining, caterwauling, joyless dirges of misery upon misery that is usually presented in phony western accents with uninspired, repetitious, lyrics in gutter English, which is pigeonholed as ----- Country or Country & Western Music. It is more often than not accompanied by twanging elctronic instruments that can only be set at molto fortissimo. Dave Caroll was inspired, despite his unhappy experience, to give birth to a humourous song with decent lyrics that he sings with a pleasant voice. Could this, hopefully, be the beginning of an evolution of the devolved back to the world of music? Okay. Go ahead. Give me h--l now. Mickey |
|
|
|
Post by herron on May 19, 2010 16:17:13 GMT -5
No h*ll ... not even a little heck. Gene Autry and Roy Rogers did indeed sing "cowboy" music. And the likes of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs sang nasal, twangy country. Somehow it evolved into the likes of folks like Garth Brooks, who sang such eternally popular lyrics as "I got friends in low places..." The rest of the C&W singers have spouses who ran off with truck drivers the day the dog died. ;D  |
|
PeterW
Lifetime Member
Member has Passed
Posts: 3,804
|
Post by PeterW on May 19, 2010 16:32:19 GMT -5
Aw, come on, Mickey.
You've left out people like Bob Lind, John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Diamond, Ralph McTell, Joe South ...
I agree with Ron about rubbish songs like Lucille picking a fine time to leave someone, warnings about the noo wearing off crystal chandeliers and some very *friendly* person who lived in Hickory Hollow but, as I said, you find good songs and poor songs in every pigeonhole, but sometimes the pigeonholes overlap or have connecting doors.
PeterW
PS: for "very *friendly* person" read schmaltz about a sl*t. Thank our built-in censor, whom God preserve!
|
|
|
|
Post by herron on May 19, 2010 16:45:44 GMT -5
Aw, come on, Mickey. You've left out people like Bob Lind, John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Diamond, Ralph McTell, Joe South ... I agree with Ron about rubbish songs like Lucille picking a fine time to leave someone, warnings about the noo wearing off crystal chandeliers and some very *friendly* person who lived in Hickory Hollow but, as I said, you find good songs and poor songs in every pigeonhole, but sometimes the pigeonholes overlap or have connecting doors. PeterW By the early 1950s a blend of Western swing, country boogie, and honky tonk was played by most country bands, but a new style was about to become popular -- one of those connecting doors -- that came to be called "rockabilly" -- which soon combined with blues to become rock-and-roll. Unfortunately, Peter, I don't see any of that going away to form the "beginning of an evolution of the devolved back to the world of music." If anything, it just gets worse.  |
|
mickeyobe
Lifetime Member
Resident President
Posts: 7,280
|
Post by mickeyobe on May 19, 2010 19:10:11 GMT -5
Aw, come on, Mickey. but, as I said, you find good songs and poor songs in every pigeonhole, but sometimes the pigeonholes overlap or have connecting doors. PeterW Unfortunately too many of those pigeonholes are full of guano.  There, censor, do your thing. Mickey |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 19, 2010 19:37:10 GMT -5
"joyless Dirges"?? Mickey that's just silly. The other day I heard a song called "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off." I don't consider that a joyless dirge.
Wayne
|
|
|
|
Post by herron on May 20, 2010 9:09:06 GMT -5
"joyless Dirges"?? Mickey that's just silly. The other day I heard a song called "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off." I don't consider that a joyless dirge. Wayne Hmmmm ... seems I've missed out on a lot ... all this time I've been a Scotch drinker. |
|
|
|
Post by herron on May 20, 2010 9:12:37 GMT -5
Aw, come on, Mickey. but, as I said, you find good songs and poor songs in every pigeonhole, but sometimes the pigeonholes overlap or have connecting doors. PeterW Unfortunately too many of those pigeonholes are full of guano. There, censor, do your thing. Mickey Overlapping pigeonhole guano! ;D LOL! |
|
|
|
Post by Randy on May 20, 2010 11:00:10 GMT -5
Vaughn Monroe, Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers. Ken Curtis who played Festus Hagan in Gunsmoke, also sang with the Sons of the Pioneers.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 20, 2010 14:02:46 GMT -5
Ken Curtis played in several John Wayne movies including my favorite "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon." Back in the 1970s he came to our community twice with Milburn Stone ("Doc" on Gunsmoke) to entertain at the Snake River Stampede (a big rodeo). You never met two more down-to-Earth guys. There is a definite difference between "county music" and "cowboy" or "western" music. But there are a lot of artists who cross over now and then.
Cowboy songs tend to me more about the job, culture and the history of cowboys while country music tends to be more Southern-based with more modern social themes.
Then there music that doesn't fit totally into either genre, like the old Charlie Daniels song, "Long-Haired Country Boy" (a long-time personal favorite) or the classic from the '70s, "Up Against the Wall You Rednecked Mothers."
In my younger years I was a real fan of some folk singers, especially Gordon Lightfoot, who did a lot of ballads, some of which had a real country flavor but also did some pop, as did Roger Miller, who I also met when he appeared at the rodeo.
Wayne
|
|
mickeyobe
Lifetime Member
Resident President
Posts: 7,280
|
Post by mickeyobe on May 20, 2010 14:27:06 GMT -5
Randy,
Thank you for the real music.
Anyone got a copy of "Cool, Clear Water"
or the classical
"Grand Canyon Suite" by Ferde Grofé?
Mickey
|
|
