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What song at your funeral?
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When I was young I worked as a roadie touring nationally with some of Australia's best known bands at the time. That experience really helped shape me as a person and Jackson Brown's "The Loadout" still resonates with me, so that's what will be played at mine.
My buddy plays guitar for that band. I joke with him about having to play that everyday until he dies
This question has made me really think. First of all I probably won't have much of a "funeral". My only surviving family is my daughter. My wife's only surviving family is her brother and his wife and two daughters. So if anyone attends and plays anything I would ask that it be "Carry On My Wayward Son".
all of my grandchildren call me "papa," so this one is a no-brainer, and it makes sense to my kids/family/friends:
I think I would like this one of mine called "It's Good to Be Alive". Seems fitting.
Funny, I was just jamming on it today. I have literally requested that, should something happen to me, this be played, hopefully live by my church's worship team.
My sister jokingly said she'd like this played at her funeral and thought it would be a nice touch if mourners gestured to the casket when it came to the lyrics, "Something inside has died and I can't hide it, I just can't fake it"
I have a few listed in my will. I can’t recall them all to choose one, but the first one that comes to mind is Clapton’s ‘Hello Old Friend’.
Can’t seem to attach the itunes file that I PAID FOR, but you can hear it on YouTube (couldn’t use that one either), arrg.
Can’t seem to attach the itunes file that I PAID FOR, but you can hear it on YouTube (couldn’t use that one either), arrg.
All right, the JW FUNERAL TOP FIVE !
At number Five on our list:
The Master, Artur Rubinstein, playing Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata'. When I see him again, maybe I'll talk him into playing it live for me. He was still concertizing into his 80's. Finish the performance, and two younger paramours were waiting to whisk him into the night after his backstage martini. My Man !
Number Four, for shore:
The Gold City Quartet, 'When I Get Carried Away'. I spent a little time in Southern Gospel quartet music, and Gold City in the 80's and 90's was a powerhouse, featuring Brain Free and Ivan Parker who went on to have huge solo careers later. This was produced and arranged by my nephew Garry Jones, their long-time pianist, and a master at this particularly Southern adaptation of gospel quarter singing. I suppose I need some 'church music' at my funeral, and this will surely do just fine.
Number Three for me:
A musician simply is incomplete without some appreciation of JS Bach. Here, the 2nd Brandenburg Concerto in F Major, recorded by the Orchestra Mozart in Italy.
Most musical instruments in Bach's day had very little control of dynamics. Pipe organs were driven by men on bellows or farm animals turning a compressor. The Pianoforte was in the future, so clavichords and harpsichords were of that time. Bach's genius was to write in dynamics in the note values and clever performers: The time is pretty rigid, but the slight variations of touch and very slight retards or accelerations and tempo variations between the movements added life.
Number Two:
I've continuously owned a copy of 'Live at Fillmore East' since originally issued on the value=priced, pink label Capricorn original(I actually burned through two of them). Then 8-track, cassette, CD, then Finally the Tom Dowd remastered CD set. They'd been listening to Miles and Coltrane for months prior to these Fillmore dates in 1971, and you can hear it. 'The Mountain Jam' is always like the black plynth in 2001, towering over my musical life all these years. 'Jam bands' have come along since then, the Dead, Phish, etc., but for me NOBODY had the red-hot creativity that the original Duane Allman-led lineup, and the cues for Southerners like me of gospel, blues, jazz, and R+B spoke deeply to me in 1971 and still does today.
And Number One on the Bye Bye JW list?
You can't have been born in coastal East Texas and lived my life and NOT known about those rainy days.
But Wait, There's More: A Bonus Track !
Of Course ! I will be. Every time I hear this, I see some giant ocean liner steam engine with those giant connecting rods going up and down at those low RPM's sync'd perfectly to this song.
I'd actually prefer a 'Nawlins Jazz Funeral or an Irish wake. Too late to change my mind ? ? ?
At number Five on our list:
The Master, Artur Rubinstein, playing Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata'. When I see him again, maybe I'll talk him into playing it live for me. He was still concertizing into his 80's. Finish the performance, and two younger paramours were waiting to whisk him into the night after his backstage martini. My Man !
Number Four, for shore:
The Gold City Quartet, 'When I Get Carried Away'. I spent a little time in Southern Gospel quartet music, and Gold City in the 80's and 90's was a powerhouse, featuring Brain Free and Ivan Parker who went on to have huge solo careers later. This was produced and arranged by my nephew Garry Jones, their long-time pianist, and a master at this particularly Southern adaptation of gospel quarter singing. I suppose I need some 'church music' at my funeral, and this will surely do just fine.
Number Three for me:
A musician simply is incomplete without some appreciation of JS Bach. Here, the 2nd Brandenburg Concerto in F Major, recorded by the Orchestra Mozart in Italy.
Most musical instruments in Bach's day had very little control of dynamics. Pipe organs were driven by men on bellows or farm animals turning a compressor. The Pianoforte was in the future, so clavichords and harpsichords were of that time. Bach's genius was to write in dynamics in the note values and clever performers: The time is pretty rigid, but the slight variations of touch and very slight retards or accelerations and tempo variations between the movements added life.
Number Two:
I've continuously owned a copy of 'Live at Fillmore East' since originally issued on the value=priced, pink label Capricorn original(I actually burned through two of them). Then 8-track, cassette, CD, then Finally the Tom Dowd remastered CD set. They'd been listening to Miles and Coltrane for months prior to these Fillmore dates in 1971, and you can hear it. 'The Mountain Jam' is always like the black plynth in 2001, towering over my musical life all these years. 'Jam bands' have come along since then, the Dead, Phish, etc., but for me NOBODY had the red-hot creativity that the original Duane Allman-led lineup, and the cues for Southerners like me of gospel, blues, jazz, and R+B spoke deeply to me in 1971 and still does today.
And Number One on the Bye Bye JW list?
You can't have been born in coastal East Texas and lived my life and NOT known about those rainy days.
But Wait, There's More: A Bonus Track !
Of Course ! I will be. Every time I hear this, I see some giant ocean liner steam engine with those giant connecting rods going up and down at those low RPM's sync'd perfectly to this song.
I'd actually prefer a 'Nawlins Jazz Funeral or an Irish wake. Too late to change my mind ? ? ?
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I want my grave surrounded by bass players playing along to the song while I'm being lowered down
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I saw Garrick Ohlsson play it as an encore this past Tuesday evening when he performed with the Cleveland Orchestra. I am pretty certain it was the first time I've ever heard "Moonlight Sonata" performed live in front of me, with the possible exception of Stu Hamm doing it a few years ago.
