OT: Music Thread

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This is true! Randy Rhoades started Quiet Riot but ironically they didn't take off until he died. I agree the harmonics that Zakk rips are just FN sick!! I dated a girl in high school who thought the guitar in that song oozed sex.

OK

This next link is what is referred to as Austrailia's UNOFFICIAL national anthem.

This story literally gives me goosebumps...


From Wikipedia....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltzing_Matilda


"Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's best-known bush ballad, and has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem".[1]

The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" (swag) slung over one's back.[2] The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or "swagman", making a drink of billy tea at a bush camp and capturing a jumbuck (sheep) to eat. When the jumbuck's owner, a squatter (landowner), and three troopers (mounted police) pursue the swagman for theft, he declares "You'll never catch me alive!" and commits suicide by drowning himself in a nearby billabong (watering hole), after which his ghost haunts the site.

The original lyrics were written in 1895 by Australian poet Banjo Paterson, and were first published as sheet music in 1903. Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, to the extent that it has its own museum, the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, in the Queensland outback, where Paterson wrote the lyrics.[3] In 2012, to remind Australians of the song's significance, Winton organised the inaugural Waltzing Matilda Day to be held on 6 April, the anniversary of its first performance.[4][5]

The song was first recorded in 1926 as performed by John Collinson and Russell Callow.[6] In 2008, this recording of "Waltzing Matilda" was added to the Sounds of Australia registry in the National Film and Sound Archive, which says that there are more recordings of "Waltzing Matilda" than any other Australian song.[4]


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Tell me you don't feel that.

BUT

Get this.....

Military history of Australia during World War I
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A group of soldiers walk across wooden duckboards that have been constructed over a waterlogged and muddy field. Shattered trees dot the landscape, with a low-lying haze in the background.
Soldiers from the 4th Division near Chateau Wood, Ypres, in 1917
In Australia, the outbreak of World War I was greeted with considerable enthusiasm. Even before Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, the nation pledged its support alongside other states of the British Empire and almost immediately began preparations to send forces overseas to engage in the conflict. The first campaign that Australians were involved in was in German New Guinea after a hastily raised force known as the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force was dispatched from Australia to seize German possessions in the Pacific in September 1914. At the same time another expeditionary force, initially consisting of 20,000 men and known as the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF), was raised for service overseas.

The AIF departed Australia in November 1914 and, after several delays due to the presence of German naval vessels in the Indian Ocean, arrived in Egypt, where they were initially used to defend the Suez Canal. In early 1915, however, it was decided to carry out an amphibious landing on the Gallipoli peninsula with the goal of opening up a second front and securing the passage of the Dardanelles. The Australians and New Zealanders, grouped together as the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), went ashore on 25 April 1915 and for the next eight months the Anzacs, alongside their British, French and other allies, fought a costly and ultimately unsuccessful campaign against the Turks.

The force was evacuated from the peninsula in December 1915 and returned to Egypt, where the AIF was expanded. In early 1916 it was decided that the infantry divisions would be sent to France, where they took part in many of the major battles fought on the Western Front. Most of the light horse units remained in the Middle East until the end of the war, carrying out further operations against the Turks in Egypt and Palestine. Small numbers of Australians served in other theatres of war. While the main focus of the Australian military's effort was the ground war, air and naval forces were also committed. Squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps served in the Middle East and on the Western Front, while elements of the Royal Australian Navy carried out operations in the Atlantic, North Sea, Adriatic and Black Sea, as well as the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

By the end of the war, Australians were far more circumspect. The nation's involvement cost more than 60,000 Australian lives and many more were left unable to work as a result of their injuries. The impact of the war was felt in many other areas as well. Financially it was very costly, while the effect on the social and political landscape was considerable and threatened to cause serious divides in the nation's social fabric. Conscription was possibly the most contentious issue and ultimately, despite having conscription for home service, Australia was one of only three combatants not to use conscripts in the fighting. Nevertheless, for many Australians the nation's involvement in World War I and the Gallipoli campaign was seen as a symbol of its emergence as an international actor, while many of the notions of the Australian character and nationhood that exist today have their origins in the war, and Anzac Day is commemorated as a national holiday.

"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is a song written by Scottish-born Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle in 1971. The song describes war as futile and gruesome, while criticising those who seek to glorify it. This is exemplified in the song by the account of a young Australian serviceman who is maimed during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War. The protagonist, who had travelled across rural Australia before the war, is emotionally devastated by the loss of his legs in battle. As the years pass he notes the death of other veterans, while the younger generation becomes apathetic to the veterans and their cause. At its conclusion, the song incorporates the melody and a few lines of lyrics of the 1895 song "Waltzing Matilda" by Australian poet Banjo Paterson.

And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda is in my opinion the finest written war song ever. It eclipsis by far any American war song. Even Over There. My wife will tell you I have cried while listening to this song....



And then we have this twist and boy! There has been a lot of debate about the connection this song has to the first two...



Many Americans confuse the title of this song, thinking it's called Waltzing Matilda.

Many of you will know Tom Waits. A brilliant artist in the truest sense. Some worthy of the esteem that you would give David Bowie or Freddie Mercury or Steve Vai!

Well he is also known for how well his songs are covered....



Here's another song that Rod Stewart had a hit with....



And guess who the songwriter was???



Yep! Tom Waits again!

Tom Waits also wrote and recorded this....



Which was featured on The Walkind Dead....



And of course that brings us too....



White Zombie

Which is interesting because guess who has been cast to star in the upcoming blockbuster zombie film to be released on June 14th?

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/mov ... lm-814352/

Tom Waits and Iggy Pop in a film together about zombies!

But Hang On Saint Christopher! What's going on here?



And who else likes this tune?



And these guys came on strong at the end of the hair band days....



But I have to say....of all the casualties of Alternative/Grunge music....poor Jackyl really was left high and dry!



These guys were staged to be big and just got steam rolled by this guy.....



Who was emulating another brilliant artist...



Who recorded a song with this beaver teethed operatic rock singer!



Ok folks!

See how that works?









Ok...

I floated the next one right over the plate.

Who's gonna pick up the thread?? I feel a British Vibe coming on. Speaking of being left High and Dry?



Ok....there's one british link!

Who's up with the other obvious Marley link?

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Slick I'm Just A Vampire For Your Love!

And I'm gonna suck ya!

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BEATING THE DEVIL FOR WILLIE BROWN

Oh Yes! I have met Jack Butler!

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I'm in..

Just nuts!

Literally!
I still remember Chuck laughing and telling me about Blackie Lawless being interviewed on VH1.

He had pyrotechnics in his crotch that would shoot sparks while he was singing.
One night it just blew up!!

The band was almost down one "member" that night.

When he finally came to as the band and roadies stood around him he just looked at them and said, "You know? If we could write songs that were worth a shit I wouldn't have to blow my junk up."

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GOOD BYE LEON, YOU STIRRED MY SOUL TILL THE END, I LOVE YOU BROTHER.