Comments on: Weekend Song – Edgar Meyer

By: Len G

Len G — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:55:27 +0000

Other than it being a common sounding name, I can’t say I recall the person.

Chad Beck sounds familiar.

Pretty cool, though, to go from the KD Markley school band to playing with the Mighty Might Bosstones, huh?

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:10:26 +0000

Incidentally, I found out a couple of weeks ago, that Brian Dwyer played trumpet on the weekend song from January

http://www.thisisthis.org/2008/01/26/weekend-song-the-mighty-mighty-bosstones/

I am an avid reader of sleeve notes, and I recognised the name, googled him and recognised his picture (and confirmation he’s from Malvern), even though he was 10 when I saw him last, but a good trumpet player even then. Brian was in my class in at school, and was on the same baseball team as me, along with Chad Beck and Marshall Hoffritz (good soccer player, now assistant principal at Great Valley). You may remember Brian – he was taught by Mister Miller and that’s just another coincidence that plagues my life and reinforces the very wierd feeling that everything I have ever done has a connection with this site.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:58:43 +0000

Hey Len – all over the place. This last one was on KAJX in Aspen, Colorado on a show called the Bluegrass With Mustard Show, presented by a DJ who calls himself Pastor Mustard. I have been listening to that for a couple of months on a regular basis, but it could just have come from anywhere. Maybe I should be more discerning, but I have sluts for ears.

I recommend the Bluegrass with Mustard show, which you can find here:
http://www.kajx.org/podcasts.php

I have my dad to thank for the various kinds of music I like. He used to make sure that we got to listen to a lot of things, so one day it would be Chuck Mangione, and the next it would be Miles Davis or Rodrigo’s Concerto de Aranjuez or Chicago or Helen Reddy. He’d make sure we got to listen to a lot of different stuff in the car and around the house and I’ve kept that with me. The internet makes that easy now, but I got a head-start from him, especially with jazz and classical stuff.

A lot of the songs I’ve known for years, some just pop up literally at a week’s notice, like the one this week. Thanks for asking!

By: Len G

Len G — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:14:36 +0000

cliff – where do you first hear these songs? You have very wide ranging tastes, and I wonder how you get exposed to all this various music?

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:34:17 +0000

Thanks Clair, glad you enjoyed it.

Ed, I hear it. Don’t get me started on my theories of similarities between Celtic and traditional American folk music.

By: Clair

Clair — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:14:41 +0000

I like that.

By: Ed R

Ed R — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:07:20 +0000

SOunds like ‘Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond’.