Hi Donald,
Wow ... you heard Steeleye Span as the opener for Jethro Tull live ... and at the Finchley Odeon in London in 1970.
We're lucky these days to be able to be picky (e.g. with Pandora and Spotify) about what great music from the 60s and 70s we can listen to by both those groups, as well as, for example, the Grateful Dead :) Your mentioning the Finchley Odeon (which I had never heard of, but would probably have enjoyed hearing a concert in if I was around 15 in 1970, - which would have been around 1975 ... only found the Hammersmith Odeon in Google search)
... made me wonder about the Ode as poetry form, and particularly beautiful ones, or even how one might write one through engaging the poetry (some I've written) and music I enjoy these days, and why the "Ode" achieved form status - was this in ancient Greek times?
I'll probably likely read some by Wordsmith and Keats since they are most likely to 'rock' for me ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode :)
I'm wondering how to bring a folk rock 'program' (computer programming metaphor) in contemporary Internetity (Information Age) parlance, to Scottish Country Dance sheet music with the Open Band and a core group of musicians in Berkeley who probably may of all enjoyed this music in the 70s - and particularly Steeleye Span's morphing into our own, for me. Who knows, but we may explore this with time. How to make old song (English, Scottish?) and ballads 'rock' and with particular SF Bay musicians, and for dancers and dancing, too :)?
What's the "Hair: the Tribal Love Rock Musical" musical program applied to Scottish Country Dance music? {A lot of interesting tribes emerged out of the 1960s and 1970s ... in British Isles, in the States, e.g. Rainbow gathering, and all over the world ... }
Pandora lists key aspects of different groups and musicians musics, as a beginning answer to this, in their notes to each song that play on one of their free radio stations that listeners can create.
Great and different and free (with sometimes too much advertising) ...
Pandora -
Spotify -
...'programs' for folk rock ... hmmm ... that people can play in musical groups? Musical scores and sheet music, now in creative and generative digital forms ?
There's a beginning sheet music section here at the wiki Music School at WUaS, which we all can add to ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School ... as well as at other Music subjects at WUaS.
What might be the best way to talk further with you and other Friends about the FJ article, SFFM and WUaS, in a way that might benefit all of SFFM with time, and even as a kind of f/Friendly/NtF ministry?
Heading for releasing meditation soon, after editing my Harbin book a little further ...
A new name for myself came to me after SCD music-making last Monday: Friend Edward Planetlight Planetflight :)
Friendly regards,
Scott
Enjoying this right now as I edit away ...
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