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Just a suggestion.
I like wind instruments mixed with tympani and this became one of my favorites.
I Agree! EXCELLENT! Thanx RP!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfWMoHKZzfY
I wish there were video to see too, but the audio is fascinating. A master at work.
But it does rock. Actually, it flows. To the sea.
Bill, we're of the same generation, and have similar music tastes and sensibilities, and I so appreciate your mixing of genres here, because that's how my brain works as well. Too cool!
Our high school band played this semi-regularly in the mid-1970s. I played cornet; first trumpet, first chair. Brass sections would blow this with every ounce of strength we had. Max volume, max brightness, max power. It produced an aura far beyond our collective abilities.
Still brings tears. Thanks, BillG.
I was more like late 60's, but yeah, it was quit an experience I'll never forget.
Now, if I could just set this as my alarm.
On an iPhone, you can. under Alarm, edit, click Sound and you should get a drop down menu with "Pick a song" as an option.
I'd assume this is also achievable on Android
Bill,
You are just too cool.
Say what? That's the first time in multiple years of music I can recall him playing a partial piece of music. What's next, hot mixes?
I fell in love with this song from the Telarc record, played through a pair of Klipschorns at volumes the gods could hear. For more than a decade, this song was used to demo sound systems in Omnimax theaters, from record players kept far away during play lest something very bad happen. It made my brother and I smile every time, it was soaring. Then I decided to play it to honor and welcome my brother home from the hospital. I saw him smile when the first notes played out and the ambulance crew were a little puzzled. That was his last day and now the song brings me to tears every time. But don’t stop playing it, I’ll keep remembering those times when the new bosses got their first taste of “oh wow” when that song blasted from many-kilowatt multi-channel soundsystems.
Those Telarc Classical recordings managed to be a *lot* of reference and test recordings for sound systems. I remember a sound engineer showing off before a mid-1980's show at the Red Barn in Louisville using Telarc's recording of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. The Call was the headliner for the show. The cannon blast sampled at 8 Hz actually surged circuits enough to bring in both the University's Physical Plant and Police to find out why the north end of campus was tripping brownout alarms.
Those of us working tech crew for the show were thankful that they were using their own PA for this show. That and overly amused for quite some time at the whole event. On a negative note, I'm not completely sure my tinnitus has completely faded from the show that night.
I remember this was what played when we stood up on the hillside overlooking the beaches at Normandy, 76 years ago today.
If this is not the most epic comment in RP, I don't know what is
Thank you for your sacrifice, sir! #RPlove
Best fanfare ever! (former solo French horn) Godlike final note.
Still brings tears. Thanks, BillG.
Must have been amazing to be part of that.
Good timing
Still brings tears. Thanks, BillG.
Touching...
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American Net'Zen
Epic! <3
Love that too. I can only expect that the 13% who voted less than a '7' don't like instrumental or classical music. At any rate, I don't care!!! *10*
To be followed by the Les Miserables track "Can you hear the people sing"!!!
Just shows what an unecudcated freaking idiot he is..."FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN" ???
He is a "common man"? Yeah right!
He hasn't got the foggiest about being "common".
Stupid idiot!
Yes, well, you've surely proven here that you're very common.
Agree! MAGA!!!
mgkiwi wrote:
Just shows what an unecudcated freaking idiot he is..."FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN" ???
He is a "common man"? Yeah right!
He hasn't got the foggiest about being "common".
Stupid idiot!
The music I will think of when I'm driving a bullet into Trump's head.
Damnit, beat me to it.
No. Just no.
Comment of the day.
I think you will find that there is plenty of brass in Comfortably numb, another RP fav.
Absolutely. Appropriately adjusting volume now.
reading your comment with this amazing piece brings goose bumps!
Not only are you not the only person, but I did a Google search this morning, as that same comparison occurred to me, and found your post on this site... :-)
C'mon dude, come up with your own material.
Flawless Bill.
Perhaps an intentional juxtaposition to highlight the vast chasm of talent between the two.
I'm hovering over PSD.
<edit>Aaaaand..... relax.</edit>
I loved today's segue from Copland's Fanfare to The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again. Surprised me how well that worked.
This time it was Chicago's "Listen" to this. Also well done.
Birdman wrote:
I loved today's segue from Copland's Fanfare to The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again. Surprised me how well that worked.
I was hoping this would be a repeat from last month... :) So many around me had no clue when I turned up the sound so they could hear Fanfare for the Common Man!
Always awesome! Thank you Bill!
I loved today's segue from Copland's Fanfare to The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again. Surprised me how well that worked.
And has influenced numerous, countless other pieces and soundtracks. Saving Private Ryan. The Magnificent Seven. Star Wars.
Agreed! Maybe too bombastic. But then I hear the Who.
Nope, I'm right there with ya.
(And TNG theme is very Rhinegold.)
Reweth wrote:
Oh how I hate the dull "I'm too cool for all of you petit bourgeois who like fanfares and brass and their country and whatnot."
Fanfares are common to all ages. That you're ignorant of that fact is . . . unsurprising. But then you're probably too 'cool' to bother actually learning anything. Like where the volume control is.
oh, how i hate the dull "if you don't like it here - then leave" automatic responses. leave to where? every single country is ruled by idiots.
i absolutely loooove the "cool" people in EVERY country. unfortunately they're not in power. anywhere.
considering the song: I don't detest it. But I do have a brass (and fanfare) allergy. i only can take brass in really very tiny doses. full blast brass sounds: I collapse. My ears quit. Maybe americans dig it more, because it lets them dream of european castles and middle ages stuff? Weren't fanfares common in that age?
Fuck castles. This song takes us to the moon.
Now...having stated that...it's friday afternoon...where's the RnR?
I've heard their version more than enough. I do not need to hear it anymore.
I like wind instruments mixed with tympani and this became one of my favorites.
Until you heard it from E.L. & P.(Emerson, Lake & Palmer)