What Are You Listening To Right Now? #26 NEW!!

This post is about more than just music, but since this is the Media forum, I hope it will fit. I had been interested in remembering the name of an ABC made for T.V. movie, I'd seen in 1975, when I was 10, starring Linda Blair (who was then 16) as a kidnap victim, who is taken to a secluded cabin by an escaped mental patient, after which, plays out a kind of love story. At the time, I didn't realize how messed up of a premise, this was. But nor, I guess, did ABC.

Hey, I am not for censoring anybody's artistic vision. I am just now musing, though, at the change in societal sensibilities, since the mid 1970s-- as I don't think this was all that shocking to viewers, back then; I'd watched it along with the rest of my family (& I am the oldest among my siblings). Oh, I should have mentioned, that the kidnapper was 35 years old (though I don't remember noticing that large of an age difference). In researching the title, which was Sweet Hostage, I discovered something else, I never realized before: the kidnapper had been played by Martin Sheen! Not only that, but apparently Sheen needed to speak publicly, at the time, to knock down rumors of his having an affair with the 16 year old Blair during filming, and of his planning to leave his wife for her. Ah, the rumor mill. While that was apparently nothing more, it should be noted that also having auditioned for the role, landed by Sheen, had been Blair's real-life boyfriend at the time, 26 year old Rick Springfield.

Anyway, these music videos are not about Sweet Hostage. They are about another Blair film, released the prior year, which I'd never known about, called Born Innocent. In this one, the 15 year old Blair is a troubled teen, who runs away from home & who the parents eventually just throw in the towel on trying to raise, so she ends up in a state run girl's reformatory, where a group of the other girls, gang rape her, in the shower! And only a year after being demonically possessed, in 1973's The Exorcist.

Wow. What a way for a fourteen year old to start her career-- going immediately from the societal sensation, of being a devil child, right into sexploitation flicks. Anyway, these are two music videos, put behind clips of Born Innocent. The first is a Lady Gaga song, of whom I've never been a fan-- but the film clips I think combine very well with the music. Ditto for the second video.

 

Today would have been the 79th birthday of one of the most influential and revered keyboardists in rock history. The late great Keith Emerson with his moog solo on Greg Lake's timeless masterpiece

 

This site’s software does not play nicely with my phone in music video threads. /rant!

 

Thank you for the kindness and sharing the things you create. I get it, because sometimes it isn't enough to just show up and go along you have to make your passions- actionable.

 

Here’s one that fits the bill for my daily dose of heavy metal:
Edited to post the acoustic version. Two birds with one stone

 

Today would have been Greg Lake's 75th birthday

 

Though I've long known this song, it isn't one I would normally think of; but after hearing it the other night, while grocery shopping, the groove stuck with me. I started playing the song in my head, except varying the style, to go with my moods. A fun one, had a zydeco beat, midway between polka & reggae. Since I have no videos of that, these will have to do:

 

so......my sister really wanted to see this when it first came out......so we both snuck out to the SKC Osnabrück having first scrounged a ton empty Coke bottles from the Sergeant's mess for the 10 pffenigs return on each bottle - we needed 40 bottles for the DM4.00 for the cinema tickets....loved the film then and still do now.....different times.....I miss the them....


...and I think this was the last film we saw at the SKC before my old man was posted back to the UK .... one of the best films every made....

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....and for just for shiites and giggles....never liked the Tomcat to big...too ungainly....gimme a Hornet anyday....

 

Happy 78th birthday to Neil Young

 

I'll second that. Unfortunately, the Hornet is about to go the same way as the Tomcat - Boeing is going to end production of the Super Hornet in 2025.

Here's a little music video of its replacement. The Lightning is also going to replace the paleolithic Harrier on our amphibs:



Zoom Zoom - Yours for only £86.2 million! Accessories not included.

 

I found the Cover Songs thread it is interesting and it has a lot of good posts in it.
http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/favorite-cover-songs-yay.404230/

 

Time flies - hard to believe Chris started that thread 8 years ago lol. I'll give it a bump - while I was in the car running an errand last weekend I heard Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va" that Santana covered many moons ago...

 

I am listening to rain. We'll be getting 10 inches of rain today.

 

Here’s one I don’t hear often but it sounds good enough to crank, lyrics are alright too.

 

Harriers' an absolute peach of a plane....Lightening on the other hand is simply incredible ....don't know why people witter on about it being useless....well I do...it's because they're clueless and stupid but hey we all have out cross to bear

 

....built me a nest of Hornets over the years and a few Growlers too....here's one of the early ones I built...a USMC A++

 

Zep 1 is not an album I care for, but that song is an exception: a classic.



Here is a good cover, by Great White, of another, from Zeppelin's 3rd album, which I'm sure you know:






And the original:







Here is a decent remake, by The Main Squeeze, with a little more Soul flavor. The guitarist is notably good.







This vinyl seems to more isolate the guitar, with a greater clarity than the other parts:





The best vinyl, with all the instruments boosted to a rich intensity, is this version, but you'll have to go to You Tube, to hear it:

https://music.youtube.coem/watch?v=42bDBDk3H_E&si=XF5W8h2aAb6qpFhei

 

Cool. I used to be big into building ships. I don't live too far from where they build the CVNs that Hornets and Growlers nest in - Newport News Shipbuilding. Here they are dropping the 588 ton island on the deck of one of our newest carriers, the new and improved USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79):



The old JFK (CVN-67) got decommissioned years ago and last I heard was headed for the scrapyard. Interestingly enough, our newest carrier, the USS Enterprise (CVN-80) is the latest in a long line of Enterprises going back to the 1770s, and in its previous incarnation (CVN-65) it was the world's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier. I was just a wee lad when they took this picture in 1964:



Here's a short music video (you knew it was coming) of the work being done on the new Enterprise - it'll give you an idea of how incredibly massive that shipyard is:



Needless to say, my shipbuilding was done on a slightly smaller scale.