Lee Greenwood performing at the Commons on Military Appreciation Day Game Nov 5th vs Tulane! This is a much bigger name than I would have expected.
Lee Greenwood Performing at the Commons!
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Plain White T’s and Lee Greenwood to Perform at TU Football Chapman Commons Concert Series
10/11/2022 09:00:00 AM | FOOTBALL
Which'll be bigger, game attendance or the show. Hope there is some bleed over.
Their first hit,(Hey There Delilah) and some of their other ballads sound a lot like Simon & Garfunkel.
I thought the song was something new by Paul Simon when it came out. Here's a parody of their lyrics for the song. I like the song, but it's really imitative. Had to be intentional.
You can't hear the similarities? My first time hearing it, maybe a third of the way through the song, it popped into my head that it must be Paul Simon, or they got together for a reunion song.
A lot of art (including music) is imitation or inspired by previous artists and songs and there is a fine line between wanting to sound like Simon and Garfunkel and using their songs as inspiration and plagiarism (see Hammer, MC; Ice, Vanilla). Yes Hey There Delilah has some Bridge of Troubled Water, The Boxer, and some other S&G song elements but not straight up plagiarized in terms of melody and lyrics.
So if a jazz saxophonist played it, I could identify who it is right away. Like I said, I’m uncool.
A lot of it is based on chord changes/structure, and how it interacts with the vocals & cadence of the lyrics. So a jazz saxophonist would be harder to hear the similarities. Piano would be easier to hear it.
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Hardly, you mention jazz saxophonist, so you are cool in my book.
I like to pull something out of a hat, and play sacred music at a party followed by Tom Waits. That wins me lots 'o friends.
I just figured this was the first ITS thread about Art Garfunkel
Waltzing Matilda with Diamonds on her Ave Maria windshield, in Requiem to Small Change.
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I am telling you that Brad Carson is trying to make a big change!
We can bring in Weird Al...pretty sure he can do both of those things! And anyone who hasn't seen Weird Al in concert...you should do so not because his music is hilarious but he is a tireless worker and great entertainer. High energy show. We saw him a few years back at the Brady (or whatever they're calling it now).
I saw him at the Brady but it wasn’t a few years back it was about 25 years back lol
Is there a way we can extend our “stadium fence” & require a TU football ticket to enter the concert/tailgate area? Our attendance would go up dramatically if we did.
The whole point of the improved tailgate is to tear down the fence between the school and the community. If folks want to stay for the game, great. If not, getting them on campus for the first time in decades, or perhaps first time ever, is the point. They will buy tickets eventually.
Yeah you can't force the issue. The attendance of the concerts would be minimized greatly if you charged a ticket price for the game to attend the concerts. The attendance of the game would be increased even less. Let those who want to come to the game be voluntary. The increase would for the most part be a one time event, if mandatory. This way it has a chance to increase ticket sales and attendance long term.
TU's Gail Farrell was a long time merry music maker on the Lawrence Welk show!
As a clarinet/sax player, Buddy DeFranco from the Welk orchestra was one of my heroes. Serious chops.
Thank you, and I mean that. Everyone in my life hates the music I listen to. It’s kind of a lonely musical existence.
This may require a thread on the General board.
I'm guessing you don't listen to much Albert Ayler, or Ornette Coleman tho? Definitely getting into general board territory.
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