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[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Admiral8Q

This is the finally.



Cheers!

My daughter and seven other hand picked dancers performed the Riverdance Finale with Jean Butler (accompanying Michael Flatley in the above link) at a NSPCC (National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children) fund raiser in the city of Sunderland two years ago.

As the dance was approaching the climatic end, all 2000 of the audience stood cheering and clapping in rhythm to the beat.......all but one, her old man whose legs refused to function and was bubbling like a baby full of pride.

Man bubbling mind ya

[Sailor Steve]

Jim, that is way cool! Your kids seem to be accomplishing a lot.

By the way, has anybody figured out 'the rythm' yet?

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Jim, that is way cool! Your kids seem to be accomplishing a lot.

By the way, has anybody figured out 'the rythm' yet?

Nooooo please tell me.

I saw Riverdance when they first toured the US - it was awesome. Then Flatley started getting a lot of bad press and since then it seems like the whole phenomenon (at least over here) as become little more than fodder for comedians.

But watching that video reminded me of how cool it was to see it live.

[krashkart]

Bad press? Jeez, I'm out of tune on that one. What happened?

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by krashkart

Bad press? Jeez, I'm out of tune on that one. What happened?

Wish I could point to one thing in particular but I don't remember anything specific except after he was over here for a while with the show and was getting a lot of attention from the press, the subtext of the whole Riverdance "story" seemed to change from what an awesome spectacle it was to what a giant tool Flatley seemed to be offstage and in person.

Over the past couple of years I've rarely heard Riverdance or Flatley mentioned except as the punchline of a joke.

Still one of the best birthday presents I ever got though.

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Wish I could point to one thing in particular but I don't remember anything specific except after he was over here for a while with the show and was getting a lot of attention from the press, the subtext of the whole Riverdance "story" seemed to change from what an awesome spectacle it was to what a giant tool Flatley seemed to be offstage and in person.

I thought he retired some years ago after the success that his Lord of the Dance was.
Last I heard he has grown a belly of no small size since....

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Nooooo please tell me..

It's part of the drum solo from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It's part of the drum solo from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

Ah. That's one I've never listened to all the way through voluntarily. Altho having grown up with a drummer in my life I probably heard it involuntarily when I was quite young... which may explain my later aversion to it.

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Ah. That's one I've never listened to all the way through voluntarily. Altho having grown up with a drummer in my life I probably heard it involuntarily when I was quite young... which may explain my later aversion to it.

Drummers never grow up! What gives?

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Drummers never grow up! What gives?

The drummer is my sister's husband... she's quite a bit older than me and they were already a couple as young teens when I was a toddler. I don't remember him ever NOT being around, lol.

That was 40+ years ago. He's currently drumming every coupla weeks for the "contemporary" service at the Methodist church they go to, and the last time I heard was still trying to figure out a way to work "Wipeout" into the lineup. Which should answer any questions as to whether or not he's grown up yet.

I expect a owe a lot of my early and persistent musical preferences to their influence - still groovin' on a lot of the stuff I listened to in their company when I was very young. For a while, when they'd moved out of state, I was the "keeper" of a bunch of his old records from the 60s and early 70s. If Iron Butterfly was in there, I never listened to it... but he's definitely to blame for my ongoing appreciation of Grand Funk Railroad.

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Drummers never grow up! What gives?

Drummers always cause trouble
Especially those of a just-give-me-a-trashcan-lid-and-a-hammer variety

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Jim, that is way cool! Your kids seem to be accomplishing a lot.

By the way, has anybody figured out 'the rythm' yet?

Cheers Steve ....she's on crutches atm having underwent surgery recently on a damaged toe joint as a result of her dancing efforts

[Weiss Pinguin]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Cheers Steve ....she's on crutches atm having underwent surgery recently on a damaged toe joint as a result of her dancing efforts

Sorry to hear that, hope she can get through without much more trouble

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It's part of the drum solo from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

YouTube linky for those of us who are musically challenged

Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin

Sorry to hear that, hope she can get through without much more trouble

Cheers mate

Well I reckon she's milking the situation a little....just don't tell her mother what I said

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

YouTube linky for those of us who are musically challenged

You don't OWN the album? Philistine!

Drum solo begins at 6:23.


Of course they managed to cut it right before the end of the solo. If you sit through the second half, keep an ear open for Gojira.

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Ah. That's one I've never listened to all the way through voluntarily. Altho having grown up with a drummer in my life I probably heard it involuntarily when I was quite young... which may explain my later aversion to it.

It was released when I was 19, and it changed my life musically.