Category Archives: Music and concerts

Family, Friends, Life, Local, Music and concerts

Fireworks from the Riverbank

Nashville always has a free concert and fireworks show on the Fourth of July. We have the Nashville symphony that plays during the fireworks – a whole list of classical patriotic songs. But we also have 3 or 4 other types of music before the show.We all just meet up down by the river and spread out blankets on the grass to watch the shows and drink beer.

The free concerts last all afternoon and up until about 9:30, then the family drag their tired asses home and the young people hit the bars to keep on keeping on. Good times!

Business, Music and concerts, Trips

Summer Concerts

We just got over the big Bonnaroo festival for this year. It had a record setting attendance again – not a surprise. Ever since it start, each year it has grown. Bonnaroo started out with with a lot of unknown and Indi bands. Now it attracts headliners from all over the world and features, country music, rock and roll, rap, Americana and even comedy shows. There is nothing else like it. Tennessee’s own version of the old-school Woodstock Festival from the 70’s.

At the same time Bonnaroo is going in in southern Tennessee, there is a big music festival here in Nashville. It used to be called Fan Fair for the country music artists, and a lot of the locals still call it that. But some corporate suits decided they wanted to fuck it up and add some rock and rap stars into the mix to get more bang for their buck.Nobody likes that but the labels almost never admit that they fucked up and they like ramming shit down our throats, so we don’t have Fan Fair anymore except for the holdouts who have taken it underground.

I think it is really stupid that they put both festivals on at the same time. It is causing a huge conflict for the performers and the fans. I really don’t see why they don’t move the Nashville festival into July. Its not any difference in the weather around here between June and July, and having a month between events would give more people the chance to attend both and enjoy the music.

Music and concerts, Opinion

Rock n roll

I was just listening to Kid Rocks newest CD and it is almost all country. Not that I mind, but I have to wonder what happened to the fucking Rock in Kid Rock? I guess he grew up – as we are all apt to do – but it is kind of sad at the same time.

Ah well…there is plenty of Rock out there to go around and I still enjoy his shit, just not as much as before. And if he’s not a kid anymore and not rock anymore – maybe he needs to get a new name.

Life, Music and concerts, TV and Movies

Composers

How many composers can you name? Do you immediately think of the guys who have been dead for 200 or 300 years? Like Mozart or Beethoven? Or do you think of the guys who are creating the fabulous soundtracks for today’s movies? Guys like John Williams and John Barry? You know, the themes for Star Trek and Band of Brothers and Indiana Jones were all written by today’s composers. Don’t dismiss the work of the modern day composers – they are creating some really awesome stuff.