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275 sats \ 18 comments \ @siggy47 14 Dec Music

The old days

Last night

I'm betting most stackers have never heard of this band. I saw the show and really enjoyed it, but I'm really posting to pick @jasonb's brain about Steven Bernstein, who is a slide trumpet player: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Bernstein_(musician)

Hot Tuna really is just Jorma Koukonen and Jack Cassidy, original members of the Jefferson Airplane, together with whoever they feel like playing with. I have been a fan for years, although I missed them in their heyday during the 1970s.

Now the two octagenerians are playing with a slide trumpet player. The music is acoustic fingerstyle blues, so the mix with the trumpet was unusual, but it really worked.

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43 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Dec

Great music! I heard them in the ‘70s and ‘80s when FM was just getting going and usually called “Underground radio”. They were good music that I would describe as “drafty” because you could fall into it and loose yourself in the totality of the music.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 15 Dec

You were listening to music on the radio in the 1970s? Maybe the SN demographic skews older than I thought. 😀

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Dec

I was listening to the “new” FM Underground radio then on those little pocket sized transistor radios that had both AM and the new fangled FM on them. They all had monaural earphones with only one bud. Yeah, I guess that it was primitive. Maybe the SN demographic is well mixed. It would explain some of the commentary or lack thereof.

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb 14 Dec

Steven Bernstein is awesome! His band Sex Mob is basically avant garde jazz packaged as dance music. I’ve never met him personally.

There’s nothing quite like making unconventional pairings work!

43 sats \ 13 replies \ @grayruby 14 Dec

You aren’t giving us enough credit Siggy. I have heard of Hot Tuna.

Sounds like a fun show.

50 sats \ 12 replies \ @siggy47 OP 14 Dec

You're old enough to be most stackers' father. I can be their grandfather.

63 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Dec

You can’t be that old can you? That would make you a silver back if you were a gorilla or a white beard as a human and had a beard.

53 sats \ 10 replies \ @grayruby 14 Dec

That might be a slight exaggeration. I am just a connoisseur of the classics.

I was boasting about the greatness of Gen X yesterday though so point taken.

40 sats \ 8 replies \ @siggy47 OP 14 Dec

I'm exaggerating about myself too. At least a little

43 sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby 14 Dec

I like to stay connected with the youth though. I was telling Undisciplined that I will randomly throw some gen Z lingo at my son. The first time I did it I ran around the house boasting about how young and cool I am. My wife said to my son "is your dad driving you crazy" and he said "yes, he is using gen Zisms to try and sound cool and the worst part is he used them correctly".

90 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 OP 14 Dec

Ha! The other day I floored my daughter by casually tossing in a reference to an NPC while we were watching tv. She was amazed. I said it's because I hang around with all these SN kids.

63 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Dec

NPC?? Isn’t that a pretty well known situation to anybody online? I see it everywhere. I love the NPC memes that use the regular keystrokes for features.

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 15 Dec

Maybe my daughter thinks I'm even more out of touch than I am.

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53 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 14 Dec

I think if you are heavily online you are bound to pick up some of the cultural elements and lingo of the younger generations.

I have a limited set list. I have a few classics I can go to but my catalogue is not extensive.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Dec

I only try it on my sons, now-a-days. It doesn’t work well for me anywhere else.

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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Dec

I won’t try that any more. They take one look at me like I am speaking Japanese to them and give me that look that says, “Whaaaaaaaat? What are you trying to say? Are you speaking some foreign language at me?” At that point, I just give up with the jargon and newspeak.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Dec

Hot Tuna wasn’t exactly a classic unless you were listening to those great old whispery, gruff voiced DJs on the “Underground Music” FM stations! I went to a Jefferson Airplane concert once. It was really an all day festival with several other bands of like music, Acid rock.