Thank you very much...

americanelmer said:
before you were even a cinder in your fathers eye.
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:cool:

Here, we would say "une étincelle", a spark.

Much more optimistic I think.

At 62 years of age, I guess I'm much younger than you are (?), but I've known for a long time, and I really love:


You know, we're the fruit of our diversity. After WW2, a lot of American musicians found it easier to live in a "liberal" (later "euroweenie") country than to be discriminated as second-class citizens.

And like many others before, they added something to our culture.

I remember going to my neighbour's house on Saturday, he was a rugby player and wouldn't miss the 30 minutes jazz programme on the only black and white TV in the neighbourhood. And we had to shut up and listen. 1959-1960 ;)

I rediscovered that feeling when I was in my 20s. The "Double Six" of Paris:


:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool: :D
 
No, I meant cinder, here we would say gleam.

You keep flogging the story about all the musicians that swarmed to europe for the "liberal" living.
How many were there compared to the many 1000's who didn't.

I heard Lester play it live on WEVD (oddly enough the yiddish language station during the day) many times. Yes I am older (and wiser) than you, I just had the 900 month anniversary of my Birth on Armistice day this past November.

A_E
 
Wow! :D

americanelmer said:
Yes I am older (and wiser) than you,
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1/ OK
2/ not sure about that :p

One thing I'm sure is that you are exactly the kind of person why so more and more people hate "Americans" as a whole.

americanelmer said:
the many 1000's who didn't.
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Well, you're right - for a few dozens: you perfectly know what I mean. there were people here in what would become euroweenieland that could be treated equal, as human beings, and who found here a place to develop thheir genius.

But I also do like a lot what country music slowly, slowly developped into when it became more colourful, more diverse.

1848 - 1863 : you seem to be a very cultured person, so you'll probably see what I mean.

And by the way, you know that Adam didn't ride a dinosaur on a pancake on the first Sunday, don't you? (Just to make sure I'm not wasting time talking to a retarded bigot)
 
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the musicians that swarmed to europe
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They didn't "swarm" to Europe, I never said that.

Some of the second-class citizens that were sent to Europe found it a place where they could be just "human beings", OK, do you understand that or do you want me to be more explicit?

Then, some of their kins heard about it, and found a place where they will be treated as men and women.

I think I've already told you when I was 6 years old, living next to a NATO airforce field, and how, apart from the language, we were, at least for some, different people, but all the same, aren't we?

 
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"One thing I'm sure is that you are exactly the kind of person why so more and more people hate "Americans" as a whole.

Thank You
I take that as a compliment.

BTW you French have a terrible reputation in your treatment of your colonies in Africa (and Asia- Viet Nam anyone), as well as the Germans, Belgians, Spanish (mainly in South America) and the Portuguese. The Italians do have a better reputation in this regard.

AlameK. why don't you just give it up. You are so self impressed, you are a perfect example of SPS - "Self Praise Stinks". Nobody wants to go to France to live except the lunatic muslims who only want to kill you. They want to kill you even though you are so civilized because you did away with the death penalty. Please don't come here. You will add nothing.

And before you tell me not to come to the EU you don't have to I won't. I was in Paris in 2000 when the EU announced that they were going to make the Euro the currency. I laughed then as I contemplated how all the different folks in Europe (who have hated and slaughtered each other for over 2000 years) were going to pull that off. It is not pretty.

Paris was a major disappointment to me, The food was overrated, the people were rude and it was very rundown looking - even the Champs-Élysées was pretty much a dump.
The Eiffel tower while quite beautiful is when you come down to it quite unless.

Here is a photo I took of it in Feb. 2000
 

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Filmmaker Bruce Brown passed away.....original surfing film, travelogue, give the world a slap on the fanny masterpiece....





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Remember queuing up for an intrance ticket for the swimming ppol - 1966, I was 11 years old and had a small transistor radio stuck to my ear :p
 
A piece of news pushes another away: a schoolbus was cut in at at railway crossing, 4 children died, 6 badly injured, at least one of them not sure to make it.

They won't have "national funerals" with "fans" sporting tatoos and paraphenelia for their "idol".

Hundreds of bikers won't pollute the capital. I don't think that our president will make a speech. I bet you don't givee a damn.

Only their parents, their teenage friends will mourn.

my nellie said:
Honestly and amicably, @AlainK please! refrain from giving others the chance to ruin this thread, too.
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I really don't care a ..."fig" about a millionaire who smoked about 30 cigs a day, was a drunk, avoided taxes, but I do feel sad for pre-teens that lost their lives in an accident.

I have other values.


PS: you who belong to a country that was not so long ago a military totalitarian fascist state, maybe you can understand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cría_Cuervos
 
@AlainK I was posting in another thread (my A. palmatum) and you have said there that :
And I would love to hear the music of the language too. You know, we all owe so much to the Greek culture, but hardly anyone here can speak ancient or modern Greek, except a couple of French/Latin & Greek teachers that
greet me saying |kalimera] (or smthg), and I reply with a smile smthg like [polykala] :p​
At first I apologize for being so rude as to not offer any kind of the music you have asked... I am sorry, lots of cares disorganize me... :(

Well, better late than never.
The singer writes, composes and sings his songs and he is one of my favorite Greek voices.
Here is to you @AlainK a song written for Greece (perhaps you would like me to post the verses...?)
 
One more from a female voice, very talented and well known.
The rhythm is following the byzantine 9/8 meter and can be danced as a "zeimbekiko" which is an old male dance (...not any more though) and is also called "the eagle's dance" because of the movements of the hands of dancers.
Enjoy
 
my nellie said:
(perhaps you would like me to post the verses...?)
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I'd love to, yes: post a link to the lyrics and I'll use an online translating tool. And I agree, he's got a great voice.

You know, it's like food: I like to discover new tastes, and I enjoy different tastes. This suits my palate, and my ears :cool:

my nellie said:
the byzantine 9/8 meter
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I even prefer that one ;)

I like the "syncopated" rhythm, and the sound of the bouzouki.

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate. And it's nice to hear music that retains the scents of the Mediterranean :cool:
 
AlainK said:
I'd love to, yes: post a link to the lyrics and I'll use an online translating tool.
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate. And it's nice to hear music that retains the scents of the Mediterranean :cool:
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Thank you very much for your kind words.
It is my pleasure to present you the verses in English (within my limited capability).
Of course you can try and translate it yourself using automatic translation http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?info=Lyrics&act=details&song_id=2543 but then I assure you will get something completely different than the real meaning.

For Greece

Vines and golden olives
Hellas of mine you resemble to anything you wish
fire and wind, in the light of the day.

One time European prostituting yourself
and then like an ancient bust
Why, Why?

Turn back and show me your way again
apple of my eye, pieces of mine
like a letter unfinished the time has faded away
with names and colours.

Bare are the trees, the branches
and away have flawn
birds and stars, into foreign hands.

It was like this you always laugh to me
we are children of oblivion
I hear you I'm lost, like dazed.

Tonight I want to climb to your sky
to find you
hug me so I enter into your darkness
sorceress, I have loved you.
 
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