I don't see a problem DFF as both you two have a great online presence that odds are you'll have your answer and pick well before it was taking picks from the lower half of the bracket *cough cough*
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With our 11th round pick, #221 overall, AliceLoveGarden is proud to select in the category of CANADA, from Halifax, Nova Scotia.... April Wine!
April Wine is a Canadianrockband formed in 1969. According to the band, they chose the name 'April Wine' simply because members thought the two words sounded good together.[1] The band went on to release more than twenty albums and forge a live performance reputation that still sees them drawing devoted crowds across Canada and around the world thirty-nine years after taking their first steps into the hard rock spotlight.
April Wine began in late 1969 in Waverley, Nova Scotia (a suburb of Halifax). The original members were brothers David Henman on guitar and Ritchie Henman on drums. Their cousin Jim Henman joined in on bass, and Myles Goodwyn completed the sound on lead vocals and guitar. In early 1970 the band relocated to Montreal.[2] Shortly after arriving in their new home the band was signed by Aquarius Records. They recorded and released their debut self-titled album April Wine in 1971. The album spawned their first single, "Fast Train", which received fairly steady airplay on radio stations across Canada and established Myles Goodwyn as the band's main songwriter. The single's success gave the band's label confidence and work began on a second album, but not before a change in the line-up (the first of many over the course of the band's career). Jim Henman left the band in the fall of 1971, and was replaced by Jim Clench.
Elton John's "Bad Side of the Moon"
For the record, I got the OK from Girly Sports on my other selection in this category but after further research I couldn't make the pick in good conscience.
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With the 222nd pick, Dr. Fünke’s 100% Natural Good-Time Family-Band Solution selects Brad Mehldau in the keyboard/piano category.
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Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. He has worked primarily with the same trio since 1995, featuring bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy. Between 1996 and 2000, they released a series of five records on the Warner Brothers label entitled The Art of the Trio, and in 2003 released the album Anything Goes. In 2005, drummer Jeff Ballard joined Mehldau’s trio. Mehldau also has a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle, and a record called Places that includes both solo piano and trio songs. These latter two recordings might be called “concept” albums. They are made up exclusively of original material and have central themes that hover over the compositions. Outside of the piano solo or trio format, Mehldau collaborated with the innovative musician and producer Jon Brion on Largo, released in 2002. His first album for Nonesuch Records, the solo recording Live in Tokyo, was released in 2004, and his most recent release is with the new trio with Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard, entitled Day is Done.
Mehldau is first and foremost an improviser, and greatly cherishes the surprise and wonder that can occur from a spontaneous, directly expressed musical idea. But he also has a deep fascination for the formal architecture of music, which informs everything he plays. In his most inspired playing, the actual structure of his musical thought serves as an expressive device. As he plays, he listens to how ideas unwind, and the order in which they reveal themselves. Each tune has a strongly felt narrative arc, whether it expresses itself in a beginning and an end, or as something left intentionally open-ended. The two sides of Mehldau’s personality—the improviser and the formalist—play off each other, and the effect is often something like controlled chaos.
Mehldau has performed around the world at a steady pace since the mid-nineties, with his trio and as a solo pianist. His performances convey a wide range of expression, and he favors juxtaposing extremes. Often, the intellectual rigor and density of information in the abstraction of one tune is followed by a stripped down, emotional directness in the next. Over the years, he has attracted a sizeable following, which has grown to expect a singular, intense experience in his performance.
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Weird.. not much else for him to pick that's Foo Fighters related I guess.. seems to have lost interest.
Hahaha. Its not quite that. I've been traveling and don't have internet at home right now. I've been doing what I can to keep up.
My next one will be up by morning
With our selection in Round 11 of the CP Music Draft, Team Phlegmp3 selects Imogen Heap in the UK category.
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Look up British singer/songwriter Imogen Heap on the online music forum Myspace.com and scroll down to the ‘Sounds Like’ box. Sounds Like No other – reads the pithy, but accurate description.
In fact, truer words have never been written about the hypnotic vex of songs on her stunning second solo albumSpeak For Yourself. From her earliest memories of improvising at the piano “it was the biggest toy that made the best and most noise” at home, hour after hour in the sleepy village just outside of London where she grew up to the electro-zen-like fugues she hears in her head when riding her bike through the streets of England’s most fabled city, the classically trained, techno geekess, Imogen has always preferred a left-of-kilter soundtrack of her own making to any by-the-book-coda of pop music.
The stirring current of songs flowing through Speak For Yourself ripple with an alluring intimacy rarely found in the electro-inspired genre. “That’s because, I like to believe I’m genre-less!” quips Imogen “I want for music to stimulate, excite and surprise me all over again” Whether it’s the punctuated sounds, and halting breath filled silences in songs such as the angelic Hide And Seek, or the bouncy Goodnight And Go, or the subtly drum-tinged Headlock, or the whispery The Walk, it’s clear Imogen is a slave to nothing but her own muse.
Guess I still need to catch up. So for my latest pick I will go into the Song category and pick up Freebird
When asked about the latest pick for Temporary, FooFighter15 was very ecstatic.
"This was the pick I wanted the whole draft. I noticed that the song category wasn't going very fast, so I took my time with it, but I felt it was about time I snatched up the bird that cannot change"
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The song was written early in the group's history. RoadieBilly Powell was unknown as a piano player to the band but was discovered when he played the intro piece to "Free Bird" at a high school musical. Powell became a member after Ronnie Van Zant noticed his talent and invited him to join.
The lyrics came about when Allen Collins' steady girlfriend, who realized that the music always came first with Allen, asked him the question: "If I leave here tomorrow would you still remember me?" Allen jotted the line down for future use. This question became the opening line of "Free Bird".[3]
When Allen first showed the song to Ronnie Van Zant, he scoffed at it, saying it "had too many words." Later Van Zant had an idea for a melody, asked Allen to play him the song again, and "Free Bird" was born." Link
Freebird! King of redneck anthems! But it is awesome, admitedly!
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
I'm going to have to go on hiatus. I've moved, and I probably won't be able to get internet access for about two more weeks. Girlie, if you want, you can either put me to the side for now, or you can offer my team to another person, it's up to you. If I can get back sooner than I expect, I'll let you know.
I'm going to have to go on hiatus. I've moved, and I probably won't be able to get internet access for about two more weeks. Girlie, if you want, you can either put me to the side for now, or you can offer my team to another person, it's up to you. If I can get back sooner than I expect, I'll let you know.
Thanks guys.
We'll just move you back and in 2 weeks you can catch up.
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I will always contend that Hotel California only sounds good if Don Henley sings it. Something about that song and his voice is magic.
Ooooooooh. I like that mexican sounding horn in the beginning of this version! SWEET!.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
I have yet to follow the thread to see if you got a response to this but all I know is a 14 yr old down the street from me has 37 Black Flag t-shirts..none of them from his parents as they were never fans I could go on and on about the "surprising" tastes of teenagers..to me saying Steely Dan wouldnt make it today is knda silly..considering there are so many definitions of "making it" and so many avenues. I was shocked to find out that a band I worked with in the 80s which was never even remotely "famous" has over 250 friends on MySpace....go figure....
Just look about 3 responses below.
It's a movie quote.
And since when did everyone with "surprising" musical taste qualify as a teenager?
No I just said that since so many people stereotype musical tastes as being age-related. I certainly dont agree. If you're a music freak you OF COURSE know it's got nothing to do with it. I know a 60 yr old guy who is a HUGE Killswitch Engage fan.. and he gets flack from some his pals like oh, why do you listen to that are you trying to appear young...ridiculous in my book. At work the other day a guy in his 50s was describing a band I cant recall to a coworker and said "oh you wouldnt know this band..they're from my day ..before your time". What kind of sense does that make? No one from Mozart's time is alive today but we know of him..it's all part of history.. Part of what makes going to, say ,a Metallica concert so enjoyable is that ,there are like 4 generations of fans there..and that's the way it SHOULD be. In the thread about racism people mentioned the ignorance of "oldsters".. sure some fit that description, but older people are often stereotyped without reason and I'm sure alot of them just give up and say yeah, I'm old just shoot me!!! ALSO I was just surprised that my 14 yr. old neighbor is such a huge Black Flag fan...I thought a teenager might think they're just a bunch of "old men" lol my bad...when Henry Rollins came to West Palm Bch Fl recently he was sold out for 2 nights
Truly I wasn't trying to stereotype anyone...just giving my observations...I sing in a heavy metal band and am probably old enough to be the average CPers momma..when I tell women my own age that I get a really bizarre reaction sometimes. God forbid you should try to live your dreams when they have given up on theirs. Sorry I was misinterpreted..the worst part of getting "older" is "older people" trust me on that..but I'm saying IN GENERAL..based on my experience..Here I go stereotyping again LOL
