All you need is love! : )

Happy anti-bullying day everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I hope you're all wearing pink today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Today I chose a song that, in a way, supports anti-bullying.  Here's All You Need is Love by the Beatles:

Love, love, love,

love, love, love,

love, love, love.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.

Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game

It's easy.

Nothing you can make that can't be made.

No one you can save that can't be saved.

Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time .

 It's easy.

All you need is love,

all you need is love,

All you need is love,

love, love is all you need.

Love, love, love,

love, love, love,

love, love, love.

All you need is love,

all you need is love,

All you need is love,

 love, love is all you need.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Nothing you can see that isn't shown.

Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

It's easy.

All you need is love,

all you need is love,

All you need is love,

love, love is all you need.

All you need is love (all together now)

All you need is love (everybody)

All you need is love,

 love, love is all you need.

Is it strange I should change?

I've always loved this song, I can't believe that I've never made a post about it!  Well here you go, Mr Soul by Neil Young. (please take into account that this was 1967)

Oh, hello Mr. Soul,

I dropped by

to pick up a reason

For the thought that I caught

that my head

is the event of the season

Why in crowds just a trace

of my face

could seem so pleasin'

I'll cop out to the change,

but a stranger

is putting the tease on.

I was down on a frown

when the messenger

brought me a letter

I was raised by the praise

of a fan

who said I upset her

Any girl in the world

could have easily

known me better

She said, You're strange,

but don't change,

and I let her.

In a while will the smile

on my face

turn to plaster?

Stick around while the clown

who is sick

does the trick of disaster

For the race of my head

and my face

is moving much faster

Is it strange I should change?

I don't know,

why don't you ask her?

Another Challenge, Gladly Accepted

Hello... It's been a while... I've been really busy lately and I have completely frogotten about my blog.  My music teacher decided that he no longer wanted a Baritone Saxophone in the band nnd has decided that a Baritone B.C. is needed.  He asked me if I wanted to learn it and, seeing his desire, said yes.

      

Not only have I only ever played woodwinds, I've never read off bass clef music (yes, I'm sure it sounds tragic to those of you who don't speak music-lingo, but trust me, it takes getting used too).  The reason he wanted me to switch is beause he felt the band needed a baritone voice in the song Hounds of Spring.  So far i'm doing quite well for someone who picked up a new instrument less than a week ago.  I'm (sort of) keeping up with the rest of the band.  Here's Hounds of Spring:

There goes my Saturday night

I love a lot of artists (as you've probably noticed), but I have to say that the Pretenders are one of my absolute favourites.  While listening to these lyrics, I can picture myself as her, so bored that she's intrigued by the laundry going round and round and round...  Wasting away her Saturday night, here's Watching the Clothes by the Pretenders.

Oh, Saturday night,

Mmm, everyone's having fun.

I'm at the laundromat,

Trying to get my washing done.

Like I've done before,

Time and time again.

Watching the clothes go 'round,

Another week sees its end.

Watching the clothes go 'round (x4)

Oh, I've been working hard,

Mmm, trying to make some money.

Would you like sour cream,

On your potato, honey.

I've been kissing ass,

Trying to keep clean.

Serving the middle class,

Yeah, it's a clean routine.

Watching the clothes go 'round (x4)

The dirty whites,

Mmm, getting whiter.

The dirty colors,

Getting brighter.

The dirty delicates,

Do the final rinse.

There goes my Saturday night,

I go without a fight.

Watching the clothes go 'round (x4)

It never really showed, you kept the secret deep inside

Here's Killer's Eyes by  the Kinks. (I know the video is weird, but I think it makes a huge impact when put with these lyrics)

I see so little hope in you,

So much despair,

As I look in your eyes I wonder,

What thoughts linger there.

Life means nothing to you,

At least that's what they say,

But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

How were we to know what was going on inside your mind.

You never let it show what was going on behind

Those killer's eyes

Killer's eyes

You've seen your picture in the paper.

You're little sister's pinned it on the wall.

She thinks you're in some kind of movie.

Imagine her surprise when she saw you on the news.

Reporters came around and asked for interviews.

So little compassion, so icy cool.

They say you were a poor boy, you know that life can be cruel.

Hate builds up from childhood, your world was a slum

But you haven't got the right to blow it to kingdom come

How could we know what it was like inside a killer's mind

It never really showed, you kept the secret deep inside

Those killer's eyes

Killer's eyes

You say the world is full of bullshit,

So you kill just as you see fit.

They say that you're a fanatic with a mission.

We all go through hell in some kind of way,

Can you tell me what it's like to be there every day?

When you were young you had a vision

Why'd you go and do a thing like that?

And now we see you on the television.

Imagine our surprise when we saw you on the news,

And reporters came around and asked for interviews.

I see so little hope in you,

So much despair,

As I look in your eyes I wonder,

What thoughts linger there.

Life means nothing to you,

At least that's what they say,

But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

When you were just a child

You'd hide away when other children cried

But how were we to know

These tears that flowed were from a killer's eyes

I see so little hope in you,

So much despair,

As I look in your eyes I wonder,

What thoughts linger there.

Life means nothing to you,

At least that's what they say,

But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

Those killer's eyes

See the whites of their eyes

Those killer's eyes

See the whites of their eyes

Challenge Accepted

Remember when i did a post about the solo song I did for my jazz band?  The song was Moanin' by Charles Mingus.  For our spring concert we're doing another song by him that also features the Bari Sax.  I wanted to share the song with you, here it is, Fables of Faubus by Charles Mingus.

I'm very excited to play this piece of music.  It is very challenging, but I'm sure that by the concert I'll have it mastered!  I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE MR P!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Also, we will be performing Gimme Some Lovin' by the Blues Brothers at the Valentine's Day concert.

If you don't know who they are, please feel obliged to find out.  WATCH THE MOVIE!!!!!!!