#classical music: 🥰

[rhpsdys]

raine had to play so many violin concertos while they were in school && they hated every second of it

[omg-hellgirl]

Angie Bowie for Lecturas Magazine, 1975.

[jarofalicesgrunge]

Mike Inez - Alice In Chains 1993

[not-from-amazon]

Have a random edit of Beethoven that I've made last year on one of capcut's templates lol..🗿

Btw sorry for being dead lol🥲

[kulturegroupie]

Jimmy Page, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 23, 1985.

📸 Jim Steinfeldt

[daisychainsandbowties]

do you write on your phone casper ??

only sometimes. i usually write on my laptop but i like to have my wips with me in case i want to poke at them while i’m out. also screenshot reasons to torture and otherwise upset and emotionally compromise various people. but i find the quality of my prose on my phone (and my output) is worse so it’s definitely not how i write 98% of my fics.

poetry is always written on my phone, however. the way i can chop and space and delete and cut things works excellently for that medium. paper is too permanent, too… embarrassing? my laptop is too much space, too formal. but my phone is just a guy. i can tell the guy about my feelings

[zenruu]

alistair baby please call me, i would treat you so right. i would take you to olive garden for unlimited soup salad and breadsticks and i won't even complain when you want to listen to nothing but hoobastank for the entire drive there and back.

[pianistbynight]

have you listened to liszt Un sospiro?

if you haven't you should its beautiful

yessss!!! it's so beautiful 💗 whenever i listen to it, i feel like i'm floating 🥰☁️

[old-memoria]

[natasha-barton]

“Mozart is overrated” “Mozart is overplayed” shut the fuck up Mozart is so slay you just don’t get it 🙄🙄

[mrschwartz]

69, 72, 84 for spotify

69. rêverie by debussy

72. the suburbs by arcade fire

84. nuvole bianche by ludovico einaudi (he was one of the artists who left a message and it was really cute lol)

[death-by-mercury]

Rory in Cork based Fontana Showband, early-mid 60s. Rory joined Fontana at age 15 in 1963, but was later changed to The Impact in 1965 as Rory's prominence as a guitarist grew.

[omg-hellgirl]

Keith Richards at the Altamont Free Concert on December 6, 1969.

[rosicheeks]

4. what are you looking forward to?

20. what is your favourite song at the moment?

33. something you want to learn

😊

4. Not much right now tbh. For my life to turn around and get back on track.. does that count??

20.

^^ I just found this song tonight. Had no clue owl city was still making music.

^^ another favorite song

33. Something I WILL learn is an instrument (probably either piano or guitar but I’m open to any)

Also want to learn and be fluent in another language.

[not-from-amazon]

Oshi No Ko

but it's Mozart instead of Ai-

This is meant to be a joke lol

[kulturegroupie]

Jimmy Page and the Rolling Stones: 60 years of musical flirtations

Certainly, not all blues enthusiasts of the early 1960’s can claim to have become some of the most influential musical artists of all time. But that’s one thing that Jimmy Page and the members of the Rolling Stones have in common.

The first encounter between Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Jimmy Page occured in 1962, just a few months before the formation of the Stones. The three English boys travelled all the way from the South to attend UK’s first American Folk Blues Festival in the city of Manchester. They met at a blues collector’s house, and together they listened to Howlin’ Wolf’s masterpiece album commonly known as ‘Rocking Chair’—then newly released. For a blues fanatic back then, meeting someone with the same interest was something almost extraordinary. Most people weren’t interested in what was still a rather obscure music genre and preferred rocking and rolling to the songs on the radio. For this reason, if you liked the blues and met someone alike, you were going to remember them.

By the end of the same year, Jimmy was spotted during a gig at the Marquee Club in London and asked to play regularly on record sessions. This was the start of a short but prolific career as a session musician for the young man, who would soon encounter Mick and Keith again, this time with the rest of the Rolling Stones. He played on a number of demos for the band, three of which were officially released on Stones records:

These sessions were a great opportunity for Page to develop an understanding of how records were produced: he spent hours in the control room, and soon he was employed as house producer and arranger at Andrew Oldham’s Immediate Records. In 1968, the record company released Blues Anytime Vol 1-2-3, a series of records containing works by various British blues artists. Jimmy featured in two of these, producing a few songs on which Mick Jagger (harmonica), Bill Wyman (bass), Ian Stewart (piano) and Eric Clapton (guitar) were the musicians.

Around this time, Jimmy also gave a helping hand to Brian Jones on the soundtrack for the cult classic movie A Degree of Murder (recorded late 1966-early 1967), also using his now notorious trick of the violin bow. He recalls:

“Brian knew what he was doing. It was quite beautiful. Some of it was made up at the time; some of it was stuff I was augmenting with him. I was definitely playing with the violin bow. Brian had this guitar that had a volume pedal – he could get gunshots with it. There was a Mellotron there. He was moving forward with ideas.”

—Jimmy Page, from issue #1171 of Rolling Stone

Legend has it that the Stones had previously asked Page to join the band in order to throw Jones out, but he declined.

The group was again looking for a guitarist in late 1974, to fill the spot left by Mick Taylor’s sudden goodbye. Jimmy had recently jammed in the studio with them on a fun session which birthed the track Scarlet, but it was highly unlikely that he would leave the then biggest band in the world—even for the Rolling Stones. The track remained in the vaults for 46 years, and was finally released in 2020 as part of the expanded edition of Goats Heads Soup.

“I had completely forgotten about it. Someone told me it was Ginger Baker on drums. And I rang Jimmy Page up — I didn’t remember anything — and Jimmy Page remembered everything! This person played on it, it wasn’t Ginger Baker … he seemed so certain about it.”

— Mick Jagger on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, July 22, 2020

Jimmy Page and the Rolling Stones would cross paths again in September 1983 when both Jimmy and Bill Wyman played on the ARMS Charity Concert, later embarking on an American tour with the rest of the musicians involved.

As a result of this, several of said musicians were invited to take part of Wyman’s latest project, Willie and the Poor Boys. Inspired by the music of the early 1950’s, they congregated at Jimmy Page’s home studio, the Sol, and recorded numerous tracks, twelve of which were officially released on a 1985 self-titled album. Jimmy can be heard on two of them:

The Eighties were a time of turmoil for the Rolling Stones as its two principal songwriters, Richards and Jagger, had been feuding over the band’s direction for most of the decade. Nonetheless, right after the Willie and the Poor Boys sessions commenced the recording process for Dirty Work. Jimmy took part of another jam session with the band, immortalised on the hit single One Hit (To The Body).

In 1992, the 7th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame took place, and among the chosen legends to be honoured that year were the members of the Yardbirds. Keith Richards also attended the ceremony, being assigned the role to induct Leo Fender, one of his idols and legendary creator of the Fender Stratocaster. Later on, an All-Star Band was formed for a one-off performance and Keith and Jimmy found themselves merrily jamming together once again on classics such as ‘Green Onions’, ‘Soul Man’, ‘Big River’, ‘Dust My Broom’, ‘Shout’, ‘All Along the Watch Tower’, ‘Purple Haze’ and ‘Something Is Wrong With My Baby’.

After sharing much of their success over the past six decades, Jimmy Page and the members of the Stones remain close friends, now having earned a well deserved title as rock and roll legends.