This weekend's musical treat

[TwoTankAmin]

A New Year's Eve Special musical treat.


"The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show," performed by The Band at the Academy of Music in 1971, was recorded on Friday, December 31, 1971, as part of their famed New Year's Eve run...............
(The final 4 songs include Bob Dylan who was a surpeise walk-on after midnight.)
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

 

[TwoTankAmin]

This weekend I am posting a movie about and with music in it. It is a good story and a fun watch.

The Commitments

Jimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class. Based on the 1987 novel by Roddy Doyle.

Voted the best Irish film ever made in a poll sponsored by Jameson Whiskey in 2005, The Commitment’s charts the unlikely journey of Dublin soul band ‘The Commitments’. Ambitious Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins) takes control of his friend’s struggling wedding band and transforms them into ten-piece soul group ‘The Commitments’, recruiting new members from around his working-class community. From these humble beginnings the band achieves fame in Dublin until tensions and inflating egos threaten to scupper their chance at success. Based on the novel from Booker-prize winning author Roddy Doyle’s ‘The Barrytown Trilogy’, The Commitments mixes professional actors and musicians, including ‘The Frames’ Glen Hansard, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and the rousing vocals of Andrew Strong, putting the band’s performances at the heart of the plot. With a shrewd eye for the real attitudes of working class Dublin, The Commitments tells an often comic drama about people struggling to make their way in the world.

ENJOY- It is one of my favorite films and here is some really good music in it. You will enjoy it more if you watch it on Youtube in full screen mode if you have a decent size screen. Decent sound also helps a lot.

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[TwoTankAmin]

From the Google AI:

Abbey Road Medley (often referred to by the band as "The Long One") is a 16-minute suite of eight songs that concludes the second side of The Beatles' 1969 album, Abbey Road. It is widely considered the band's artistic "farewell" and a final display of their innovative collaborative spirit.

The Long One," was Paul McCartney's ingenious idea to stitch together unfinished song fragments and demos into a grand, symphonic-style suite, using producer George Martin's encouragement to create a cohesive B-side for the album, effectively tying up loose ends and offering a unique, reflective conclusion to the band's career amidst growing personal tensions. It transformed disparate bits into a unified, emotional journey reflecting the Beatles' artistry and their impending breakup, culminating in the iconic "The End".

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And for an encore from the A side of Abbey Road,

 

[gimme30]

This is such a great thread, my thanks to you @TwoTankAmin. That is my favorite part of my favorite Beatles album!

 

[TwoTankAmin]

You are welcome gimme30. On a competing forum to this one and which has faded a lot and before I became active here, I have a thread entitled Music from my generation and I started it in 2019. It was not limited to the weekend. A fair number of the vids no longer exist on YouTube. By the time I stopped adding to the thread it was 36 pages long. Here is one example:

This is a lady who died too young from cancer. She was an excellent singer/musician. Her career began in 1986 and she passed away just over 10 years later.


I may as well keep going as this is the weekend. No subject, just good music from the past. All the songs this weekend are ones from the thread mentioned above.

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From 1991
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The vid is poor quality, The sound is not great, but The music is amazing.

April 5, 2000. Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN , USA. Bass (and band leader): Dave Pomeroy; Guitars : Duane Eddy, John Fogerty, Peter Frampton,Vince Gill, Doyle Dykes; Sax:Randy Leago, Denis solee ; Drums : Steve Turner ; Keyboards : Tony Harrell.This was the finale of the Chet Atkins Musicians Day Festival in Nashville.




Oh no, not another Beatles tune.......

What can you do with the Beatles Abbey Road and 3 balls?

 

[fishorama]

I think I remember your "other forum" thread. I know we've done lots of music from a long time ago. Good stuff!

Just about past my bedtime, I'll have to catch up later, I don't recall all of those...