"She will never learn the most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time, because from childhood she has designedly cultivated the habit of ignoring the beat." Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 October 1777)
Bruce peaked with this song in 1984. Gary and I got into a D.C. show with, uh, V.I.P. tickets, though we were not the original people scheduled!
Fantastic tour, Bruce in 1984.
Simply Red’s “Holding Back The Years” is recorded at 86 1/3 beats per minute.
Simply Red’s “Holding Back The Years” is recorded at 86 1/3 beats per minute. It was one of the classic hits of the 1980s, and remains popular.
There is an enthusiasm throughout that song that though Bruce and his love interest aren’t what we would call today “rich”, life was pretty damn good driving around freely on hidden backstreets at night just being with people you liked.
Yesterday the writers at the Young and the Restless used the American suburb term “backstreets” in a way Bruce Springsteen did when he wrote about the streets of New Jersey.
There is an enthusiasm throughout that song that though Bruce and his love interest aren’t what we would call today “rich”, life was pretty damn good driving around freely on hidden backstreets at night just being with people you liked.
When Nirvana plays this song on MTV’s UNPLUGGED, Kurt Cobain says in plain language – “[This is a song of ours], most people don’t own it.”
Ownership and music and the downfall of the creatives hears an argument here.
Matherton
The song Grey Street was performed by the Dave Matthews Band in Central Park New York City only ONE time.
The diagram as a median tempo guide is pretty accurate, but you have to listen to the rhythm section groove to “get” the rhythm as a whole.
Eleven years plus since LeRoi died and this song makes me appreciate hime almost more than any other.
matherton coffee and cream staff
To me this song has a feeling of deep bittersweetness – an America hiraeth.
What do you think the Eagles are trying to express?
MY CITY WAS GONE by The Pretenders features the beast groove that has been featured on at least Rush Limbaugh’s broadcast every day for 30 years.
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