Piano man
Why am I still playing the piano? Why in the whole world am I still playing any instrument, I mean, I can’t even play a single one. Not even the triangle. I got fired by the school orchestra back in high school. But I love the music.
It’s a calm morning here in Coldspring, Texas. In my opinion (and the whole world) Coldspring is the most boring town in the whole world, but here I am, my 30th year of living here. I’m a big mess, 13 years of working at the local radio/tv-shop and I haven’t got a single promotion or a salary raise. Even the 15-year-old prick got a raise after 2 weeks of working here. So why am I still living (read: dying) and working (read: working as a slave) here? Oh boy, you want to know that. You are a curious little
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You see Travis, the world was different. I won’t tell you all the clichés, blah blah life was better before. We go back to Woodstock, our crew were pretty drunk rocking hard to Jimi Hendrix into the evening. At the peak of our trip into the night, Elton John got onto the stage, the mighty Elton John… The only song I remembered was “Tiny Dancer”, and especially the part with “Piano man, he makes his stand”. That night where the beginning of the most classified case in the U.S.
When I was entering my van there was a peculiar noise, we searched the whole van multiple times. But I didn’t find anything, not a single clue. So I just ignored it.
Hours later a large, tall man with small black glasses, so you never saw his eyes, approached me. He grabbed me by his arms and walked me to his creepy white van, just like those ones the pedophiles uses. So I was anxious. The name of the large man was Agent Smith, he never told me his first name. I always thought of him as a Donald, his face reminds of one Donald I knew. So when we went into his van, he started to question me.
For how long have you known about this program? Smith said to me
I told him I didn’t know what he was talking about, but he didn’t believe me.
Alan, have you ever stood and stand while watching the rain pour down the streets and wondering why the world is so exceedingly bad? Smith said
No, I haven’t done that a single time, I said
Jimi Hendrix is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer who is widely considered to be the most important electric guitarist in the history of music. Although Hendrix is known for his outstanding ability to play the guitar, he is also a very famous name in Blues music. He played the acoustic guitar but is known for his outstanding ability to play the electric guitar. With songs such as Red House, Here My Train A Comin', and Born Under a Bad Sign, Hendrix is considered to be in the Chicago category and quickly made his way into the history of Blues music.
Jimi Hendrix is one of the greatest and influential guitarists in rock history. During his career, he revolutionized the sound of rock, and changed it greatly. Hendrix was a major influence in music and with his beliefs. Jimi Hendrix was a positive influence on the world, and his music and views continue to inspire many people.
This two articles that I picked was Jimi and Janis. Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix?
Climbing into the back of the mysterious truck I notice that the metal thing has moved so I scanned the compartment to find it and it is nowhere to be found and I’ll be damned if I am waiting around for this thing to find me. I run back to my truck and decide to take off before anything else can go wrong. I made it about five miles out of town and then I hear a loud BANG! and all I can think is that this metal thing got into the back of my truck. Nervously, I pull over to the side of the road and run to the back of my truck and yank the door open…and there it is. In that moment, I saw that it was a robot. This is something I’ve only heard of in books and I had no idea what to do. “Hello, Reginald. How are you? How may I help you today?” WHAT THE HELL IS THIS THING, I scream in my head, HOW DOES IT KNOW MY
Riffs and Rhymes are only part of the amazing life of Johnny Allen Hendrix (AKA, James Marshall Hendrix.). I have found the key aspects in his life to make a complete connection of how his outside life affected his music and lyrics. The master guitarist lived a life of drugs as well as music. Did the LSD have a part in his musical harmonies and riffs? My research shows that ever little aspect of his life, including early childhood, drug use, and society had a great impact on his exquisite taste and guitar play. All of these aspects have made for one of the greatest rock and rollers ever that you will now read about.
“Many commentators have since claimed that peace and good will arose not in spite of disaster, but because of it. The hunger, rain, mud, and unserviced toilets conspired to create an adversity against which people could unite and bond” (Cooke 178). Most of the fans present expressed how they felt about the war in riots and violence. “Woodstock Ventures retained its exclusive rights, but the memory of Woodstock Nation belongs to the world; it is irrevocably imbedded in American culture” (Cooke 179). Not only was the war an influence, but the gathering itself influenced the historical outcome. “The most common feeling among all parties-producers, musicians, audience, town, and nation-was the sense of history in the making. It was the largest group of people ever gathered, and the greatest roster of musicians ever assembled, and it became the defining moment of a generation” (Cooke 178).
Louis Armstrong was born on August 4th 1901 in New Orleans. He lived in a bad area called “The Battlefield.” His family was very poor and he dropped out of school in the 5th grade to start working. He sung as a street musician, sold coal, collected junk, and more. He worked for a Jewish family, the Karnofskys, and they became friends. The Karonfskys often invited him over for meals and encouraged his singing. In 1912, on New Years Eve, he fired his stepfather’s gun at the sky and was immediately arrested. Armstrong was sent to Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. There he received his first official cornet lessons. He started to play with small bands in local clubs, at funerals, at parades, and more. He earned a reputation as an excellent musician
In particular, the American musician Jimi Hendrix’s legacy is enduring. His music was revolutionary, for instance, the message of his "Star-Spangled Banner," remains as one of the most fundamental and rebellious songs in American rock music. Through his music, Jimi Hendrix’s managed to call into question issues of race and blacks presence in a music scene dominated by white musicians and audiences. He established new musical styles and techniques that helped set a base for future coming musical genres. Hendrix difference in genre also gave start to important discussions that have changed the way people view race in music. Specifically his legendary rendition of the nation’s anthem, the “Star-Spangled Banner,” and how his solo is a symbolic
Late one night just as the sun began to set behind the distant hills a piercing scream was made out in the distance. Could this be the reappearance of the psycho man that dematerialized ten years ago that went around and conked on children’s windows and would scream until he made them cry many years ago? The man’s name was Jeff Reddy , he was supposed to be transported off to a mental asylum. When he was a child, he was dropped on his head and his parents and siblings were mean to him. The psycho man did not graduate high school because he was always petrifying people in school until one day a girl named Mary told the principal and he was suspended and they put a 350 foot restraining order from Mary.
Jimi Hendrix’s melody isn’t exactly the easiest to remember simply because it’s very jumpy in the sense it doesn’t focus on one piece, it keeps changing the beat but that’s just my opinion. "Fire" is an activity in soul, hallucinogenic shake, and jazz-enlivened drumming. One of the champions on the introduction collection, the melody and recording displayed the really crude vitality that the band was prepared to do. Set in an up-beat soul base, the tune's bass and guitar riffs are compelling and played dangerously fast. Melodiously, the tune is based around Jimi Hendrix's awesome style, and the sexual risk in the tune radiates through noisy and clear. A few live forms are in presence, yet the March 1968 form on The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set is decidedly crushing. This harmony is dissonant.
One of the most influential figures in modern music to this day, Jimi Hendrix, was a complex and unusual man for his time. Being most well-known for his eccentric performances and style, both in fashion and in music, Jimi stood out in the western world 's very uniform Rock’n’Roll scene. Playing with his teeth, burning his guitar, rising to fame in a matter of weeks all contributed to his remarkable life. Jimi Hendrix’s life and rise to fame were exceptionally unordinary and extraordinarily influential. Filled with curiosities from the day he was born to his tragic drug-related death, Jimi was unusual. Accordingly, these curiosities are what makes Jimi Hendrix such a notable figure in history.
Richard Starkey,[2] MBE (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English drummer, singer, songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. On most of the band's albums, he sang lead vocals for one song, including "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine" and their cover of "Act Naturally". He also wrote the Beatles' songs "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden", and is credited as a co-writer of others, such as "What Goes On" and "Flying".
My life has always been tied to the piano in some shape or form. I can remember the first notes I ever produced. They came from a large Cable upright piano that had sat unused and out of tune for decades. From my early childhood and on my relationship with the piano consisted of nothing more than fleeting encounters. Some days I would sit down and simply play notes I thought sounded nice, but mostly the piano acted as a decoration in my home. It wasn 't until moving to Oklahoma to be with my mother 's family that anything serious developed concerning the piano. I had always been far away from my family, so when I met up with my grandmother we took the time to catch up. She mentioned that my mother used to play the piano quite well. Up until that point I had never given the piano much thought, but I began to think about my mother and all the old piano books she had accumulated from her adolescence. That set in motion my desire to learn how to play and an eventual reappraisal of the way I looked at music and the world around me.
Well, here’s the thing. I explained all of that to him but he’s being very persistent.
In third grade I was introduced to an orchestra program at my school district. This program was designed for students who have no experience with the violin, viola, cello, and bass. Although I already played the piano since age five, I thought learning the violin would be a fun experience. At the time I was unaware how committed I would be to the violin, my impulsive 8 year old self was simply intrigued with stringed instruments. 10 years later, I own my very own violin and continue to improve my music skills. Why I have continued to play through all these years sometimes baffles me; What are the benefits of playing a musical instrument?