March 01, 2003

A brief surfacing

Just a shout-out from work here: the restaurant next to my office is hosting some sort of party (I think it's a wedding). They've got a piano-playing lite-jazz kind of guy doing the music for the thing. He just finished doing a smooooth jazzzz version of "Wind Beneath My Wings." Kill me now.

PS: Back during the first Gulf War they played that song on tv every time they had some sort of thing on the troops. I think that more than anything explains why so many alterna-hippies are so anti-war. We seem to have forgotten the necessity of having good music to accompany the bombs and guns. I mean, World War II had Glenn Miller and the Andrews Sisters. What did we have in 1991? Bette Midler in her soppy, Post-The-Rose Phase. Ugh.

Okay, enough fooling around. Back to work.

Posted by Andrea Harris at March 1, 2003 06:03 PM
Comments

Isn't that spelled "smoooooooove jazzzzz?" ;-) Yuck. Screw "Wind Beneath My Wings;" the first thing Armed Forces Radio broadcast when the air war started was The Clash's "Rock the Casbah." Methinks that's something to listen for sometime fairly soon.

Posted by: David Jaroslav at March 1, 2003 at 07:42 PM

Freebird!!!!

Posted by: Dean Esmay at March 2, 2003 at 04:55 AM

No, they need some "Music to Rumble To".

I suggest "Rebel Rouser". Duane Eddy rocks.

Posted by: Ken Summers at March 2, 2003 at 10:33 AM

My vote's for "Rock the Casbah," although the lyrics may need retuning, since the Clash version has the Muslim king ordering his pilots to drop their bombs between the minarets.

Posted by: Kevin McGehee at March 2, 2003 at 01:44 PM