So I’m watching friends, and as it ends, this music starts playing. And I recognize this music, but it’s been a long time since I’ve heard it, so I’m riffling through my brain like it’s a card catalogue, and I pull out:
Song:Embryonic Journey
Composer/Performer: Jorma Kaukonen
Album:Surrealistic Pillow
Group: Jefferson Airplane
Year: 1967
And I was stunned. Am I that much of a music geek? Apparently so.
Anyone else suddenly realize they were something they didn’t know they were?
Anyone else recognize that music?
The second I heard it! Its one of the greatest 12 string pieces ever written,IMHO.
Do you get that information in a sort of Robocop-Terminator vision with green letters flashing up the relevant data?
Well unless your friends were dying, we kind of knew with ‘and as it ends’.
I know where Rufus Xavier (Sarsaparilla) comes from. What kind of geek does that make me?
I am a geek with quotes from books and movies. When I hear a word aloud, like the first time I heard cardigin (Yes it was very recently, I know…sad…) I immeditly thought:
Book: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phonix
Place in book: Harry is at the feast, new teacher welcomings
Character that wore it: Professor Umbridge
Character that said it: Lavender Brown, when Professer Umbridge said “I hope we can all be friends” Lavender said “I’ll be her friend if she doesn’t make me wear her cardigin” Or something like that. Yes, I have read it more then once.
:smack: I can’t spell today, and I can’t let these go.
**immediately
**Phoenix
Thats better.
He found a kangaroo that followed him home and now it is his…
No, I actually brought up a picture in my head of the album cover, then flipped it and found the name of the song on the other side.
Although I went from Led Zeppelin (is this White Summer/Black Mountain Side?) to ‘oh yeah, it’s Hot Tuna!’ to, ‘waitaminute! Embryonic Journey! Jorma and Jack, when they were in the airplane.’
Rust never sleeps. I must be rusty.
The first time I heard Celine Dion sing “It’s All Coming Back To Me Now” I thought, you know, that really sounds like a Jim Steinman song…
Whaddaya know. It was a Steinman song.
(Admittedly, once you’ve heard a few Steinman songs, it’s kinda hard NOT to recognize them, but at the time I thought I was pretty impressive.)
That is really impressive. You must have an excellent visual memory, too.
Then he killed his kangaroo and now he is making himself a nice kangaroo sandwich. With pickles.