Blast from the Past - 60's, 70's, 80's,90's Music (2023)

[LeungKen]

 

[Tippaporn]

Mark Knopfler and The Dire Straits perform Calling Elvis live off of their '93 Live On The Night DVD.  Featuring a dual drum set up.

 

 

Edited September 30, 2023 by Tippaporn

[Tippaporn]

I love me live Dire Straits.  Sultans Of Swing performed at Hammersmith Odeon, London in '83 off of Alchemy Live.
 

 

[Tippaporn]

6 hours ago, LeungKen said:

 

Most excellent choice, LeungKen.    Your serve, my volley.  Orinoco Flow off of her '88 Watermark album.

 

 

[Tippaporn]

Enigma with I Love You... I'll Kill You off of the excellent '94 The Cross Of Changes CD.  My then 16 year old daughter had bought this in a record shop on our trip to Austria back '97 and turned me on to it.  I stole the CD from her. 
 

 

[Tippaporn]

One more for today.   Beware, though, I've been known to lie in the past.

 

From Dutch DJ and record producer Armin Van Buuren I'm selecting the entire electro house music '99 Boundaries Of Imagination CD.  Mostly due to the fact that all the tracks more or less blend together.

Back in the early 2000's my then girlfriend and I used to party at Hollywood Awards disco in Huai Khwang on Ratchdaphisek between soi 6 & 8.  Soi 6 & 8 formed a "U" with Hollywood at the bottom.  Dance Fever was right next door.  Soi 6 & 8 were lined with small clubs and restaurants.  It catered to Thai clientele.  You'd see some farang, but not too many during those years.

It was a large club with two levels.  After 10 PM it would be wall to wall people, almost to the point where if you passed out you'd probably never hit the floor.  The raw energy in the place was palpably felt.  Featured shows were staged with both all female casts and a mix of guys and girls.  A DJ filled in between shows.  They had multiple restrooms, the ladies next to the men.  Every time I went I'd hang off to the side at an empty table and simply watch the flow of females going in and out.  I don't think I have to describe to anyone here what Thai lady's all dolled up on a night out look like.  But the shear volume of drop dead gorgeous ladies going in and out was always staggeringly jaw dropping.

Since my girlfriend was a party animal she knew a lot of the help so our party would always receive first class treatment.  Of course that was also due to regular tipping.    I don't know if it still works the same these days but we would always be drinking whiskey, soda and coke.  We'd purchase fifths of Johnnie Walker Black Label and what we didn't finish in a night would get labeled and put on a shelf until our next return.

Again, it's been quite a while since that time but I recall celebrating one of our friend's birthday and as a group of 12 we arrived at 10 PM and stayed until the 2 AM closing.  Four hours of non-stop drinking plus snacks and the grand total came out to a mere 8k with an exchange rate of USD 1 : THB 42.5.  I have no idea how many bottles of JW we went through.  Ah, the good old days.

Ratchadaphisek was broad with 4 lanes in each direction.  When all of the clubs shut down at 2 AM, and that was a prime area of Huai Khwang Thai night life with soi 4 hosting another massive cluster of bars, only a single lane was open.  Ratchadaphisek would turn into a car park for taxis.  But we'd be off for a bite to eat and then hit some more bars for a few rounds of pool afterwards.  Sunrises were always beautiful. 

Anyway, the whole point of this story was that this particular Armin Van Buuren CD would remind me of Hollywood as the music was very similar to that played by the DJs.  When I had to return to the States once for a 6 month stretch I would listen to this CD many times with a heavy sense of sad nostalgia, only wanting to be back home once more.  I think everyone here knows what that feels like.

@bannork had at one time mentioned that music always brings back certain memories.  I never realised that before    so I blame him for instigating this lengthy accounting within me. 
 

 

Edited September 30, 2023 by Tippaporn

[Tippaporn]

I've a clock at home.  Does anyone here know how to turn back the hands?  If anyone does please PM me.   
 

 

[bannork]

Tippers, don't worry about a clock. So long as the music gets the feet tapping and the heart singing, it's impossible to get 'old'.

Look at Mick, a face of a thousand crevasses but still dancing.

Reminds me of one of the greats. 2 strokes, 11 minor strokes but still singing, fragile yet strong!

 

 

[Tippaporn]

7 minutes ago, bannork said:

Tippers, don't worry about a clock. So long as the music gets the feet tapping and the heart singing, it's impossible to get 'old'.

Look at Mick, a face of a thousand crevasses but still dancing.

Reminds me of one of the greats. 2 strokes, 11 minor strokes but still singing, fragile yet strong!

 

 

Mick?  Keith made an artform of a craggy face.    I hear he didn't even need any make-up when he was cast in the Pirates of the Caribbean.

[MJCM]

 

[MJCM]

 

[MJCM]

 

[Tippaporn]

56 minutes ago, MJCM said:

 

Been digging through your piles of old 45's, MJCM?  Thanks for all your hard work! 

[STALINGRAD]

https://youtu.be/KTVrsKHXdhg?feature=shared

 

[STALINGRAD]

https://youtu.be/hUmXscq9p_s?feature=shared

 

[xtrnuno41]

 

 

Some Irish, give you this one, you can search riverdance and then you have a lot of shows from them.

There is even a complete show 1.5 hours. Amazing how synchrone, impressive shows. My legs would be gone after 30 seconds, if I could. Already since 1994.

 

 

 

Sing a long everybody. Yohoho and a bottle of rum.

 

Well just an easy song from Flogging molly, as they are normally very loud and fast.

Your beer ready? 

 

 

[bannork]

 

[LeungKen]

 

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[LeungKen]

 

[Tippaporn]

2 hours ago, LeungKen said:

 

That one's kinda a sleeper for me.

Brian Eno with Put A Straw Under Baby off of his '74 Taking Tiger Mountain album.  Had I been born as an adult this would have been the lullaby my parents would have put me to sleep by. 
 

 

Edited October 1, 2023 by Tippaporn

[LeungKen]

35 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

That one's kinda a sleeper for me.

Brian Eno with Put A Straw Under Baby off of his '74 Taking Tiger Mountain album.  If i was born as an adult this would have been the lullaby my parents would have put me to sleep by. 
 

 

Roxy Music had great talent, i loved songs like "Love is a drug" and ''In the Midnight Hour" etc. Their version of "Jealous Guy" is perhaps even better than John Lennons original.

 

 

[MJCM]

 

[MJCM]

 

[bannork]

 

[MJCM]

 

[bannork]

I saw Roxy in 72 at a festival in Lincolnshire. They really were something special.

A shame Eno and Ferry couldn't get along.

 

[MJCM]

May I ask? How long ago was that you heard this one??

 

For me it has been ages, my player said last time listened to was 22/08/2020 ???? WOW

 

 

Edited October 1, 2023 by MJCM

[xylophone]

Try the 50s, along with some great dancing!!

 

You might think you've seen this before, at least for the first couple of minutes.

But then for the next eight minutes we're treated to a whole new compilation,

done by a genius. In these insane times, this is so fabulous.....turn up the volume,

get ready to tap your feet and enjoy.

CLICK HERE TO RE-LIVE YOUR YOUTH

 

[Mutt Daeng]

17 hours ago, MJCM said:

 

Great song.