Comments for Retroflections http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections Go down memory lane with Retroflections Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:41:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Eric Burdon and the Animals by Bill http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2012/01/31/eric-burdon-and-the-animals/#comment-9085 Bill Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:41:19 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/?p=703#comment-9085 Vietnam "66,'67,'68,'69----- "We Gotta Get Outta This Place" was the song- still gets to me Vietnam “66,’67,’68,’69—– “We Gotta Get Outta This Place” was the song- still gets to me

]]> Comment on Eric Burdon and the Animals by Jensen Lee http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2012/01/31/eric-burdon-and-the-animals/#comment-9084 Jensen Lee Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:45:00 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/?p=703#comment-9084 There was brief but productive break between Eric Burdon's stints with the Animals. After Burdon split with the group in 1969, he joined the California funk rock band War. Burdon & War’s hit “Spill the Wine” got its title after a bottle of red was accidentally dropped into a console during a recording session. On Rockaeology at http://bit.ly/eneE86 Burdon says the track, intended as a B-side, was recorded lying on the studio floor after a nap. There was brief but productive break between Eric Burdon’s stints with the Animals. After Burdon split with the group in 1969, he joined the California funk rock band War. Burdon & War’s hit “Spill the Wine” got its title after a bottle of red was accidentally dropped into a console during a recording session. On Rockaeology at http://bit.ly/eneE86 Burdon says the track, intended as a B-side, was recorded lying on the studio floor after a nap.

]]> Comment on Etta James by Ernie McCray http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2012/01/26/etta-james/#comment-9079 Ernie McCray Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:58:52 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/?p=700#comment-9079 Oh, I loved that woman and her voice. She came to Tucson a couple of times when I was in high school and at the U and my buddies and I would drool listening to her get deep into a song with pain that was real as she fought her demons. We wanted to protect her and hold her and we'd play her songs on the jukebox during our lunch break at Tucson High at a little cafe. She was our age and that made it all the more exciting. My wife and our kids and I got to see her just a few years ago here in San Diego and she let it go, singing a duet with her little granddaughter during one moment in her show. My love for her over the years, through all her trials and tribulations, never waned. As we used to say: "That girl can SANG!" Oh, I loved that woman and her voice. She came to Tucson a couple of times when I was in high school and at the U and my buddies and I would drool listening to her get deep into a song with pain that was real as she fought her demons. We wanted to protect her and hold her and we’d play her songs on the jukebox during our lunch break at Tucson High at a little cafe. She was our age and that made it all the more exciting. My wife and our kids and I got to see her just a few years ago here in San Diego and she let it go, singing a duet with her little granddaughter during one moment in her show. My love for her over the years, through all her trials and tribulations, never waned. As we used to say: “That girl can SANG!”

]]> Comment on Soap Operas by CindyC1951 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2012/01/15/soap-operas/#comment-9020 CindyC1951 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:47:11 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/?p=692#comment-9020 No we are not tired of , my late mother law called it her stories,me my soaps,my daughter did you watch OLTL her daughter Mom is our shows on.We talk about them like they are part of the family (wait they are our TV family),information for todays world, joy,romance ,tears and fun.Cost to much well what kept prime time going for over forty years (loyalty from a company any more) never mind that.Wait how about what the viewers(care about them hahaha) So now we turn off TV during the day except for Y&R,B&B,DOOL and GH but wait we have dvrs that is right we people who aren't home are watching it.Let us get a soap network not owned by Disney (hey Bob Iger did you get your start on soap Ryans Hope).By the way look at prime time see any shows remind you they are scripted TV a soap!! No we are not tired of , my late mother law called it her stories,me my soaps,my daughter did you watch OLTL her daughter Mom is our shows on.We talk about them like they are part of the family (wait they are our TV family),information for todays world, joy,romance ,tears and fun.Cost to much well what kept prime time going for over forty years (loyalty from a company any more) never mind that.Wait how about what the viewers(care about them hahaha) So now we turn off TV during the day except for Y&R,B&B,DOOL and GH but wait we have dvrs that is right we people who aren’t home are watching it.Let us get a soap network not owned by Disney (hey Bob Iger did you get your start on soap Ryans Hope).By the way look at prime time see any shows remind you they are scripted TV a soap!!

]]> Comment on Carlos Santana by Ernie McCray http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2012/01/03/carlos-santana/#comment-9002 Ernie McCray Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:42:01 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/?p=689#comment-9002 I hear you; I've never been that big on teen idols either as my musical tastes are far and wide and I like really good music - but a kid listening to bubble gum music, if you will, might just go on to appreciating other music. And you're right, if there was any backing up it was Beiber backing up Carlos. Last note: Justin so far seems to have his head on straight and it doesn't always work like that for teen stars. Kids need to see someone maintain while they're enjoying their fame. I hear you; I’ve never been that big on teen idols either as my musical tastes are far and wide and I like really good music – but a kid listening to bubble gum music, if you will, might just go on to appreciating other music. And you’re right, if there was any backing up it was Beiber backing up Carlos. Last note: Justin so far seems to have his head on straight and it doesn’t always work like that for teen stars. Kids need to see someone maintain while they’re enjoying their fame.

]]> Comment on Carlos Santana by tunkashila http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2012/01/03/carlos-santana/#comment-9001 tunkashila Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:43:39 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/?p=689#comment-9001 Love Santana-just wish the Grammys he won for his Supernatural album hadn't inflated his head to the point where he abandoned Tucson as a regular concert stop.  I know he was here a few months ago, but his last concert in Tucson before that was over a decade ago.    Come back to the Pima County Fairgrounds and give less-affluent Tucsonans the chance to show their kids why you rock, Carlos!  And for god's sake, let's deport that mutant McKenzie brothers' spawn Beiber back to the Canuck hellhole that spewed him... Love Santana-just wish the Grammys he won for his Supernatural album hadn’t inflated his head to the point where he abandoned Tucson as a regular concert stop.  I know he was here a few months ago, but his last concert in Tucson before that was over a decade ago. 
 
Come back to the Pima County Fairgrounds and give less-affluent Tucsonans the chance to show their kids why you rock, Carlos!  And for god’s sake, let’s deport that mutant McKenzie brothers’ spawn Beiber back to the Canuck hellhole that spewed him…

]]> Comment on Carlos Santana by Jim Gressinger http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2012/01/03/carlos-santana/#comment-8996 Jim Gressinger Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:05:29 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/?p=689#comment-8996 Santana rocks! Always has. Has it really been 40 years? jg Santana rocks! Always has. Has it really been 40 years? jg

]]> Comment on Carlos Santana by Tyler Woods http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2012/01/03/carlos-santana/#comment-8992 Tyler Woods Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:17:22 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/?p=689#comment-8992 Yeah Ernie I am trying not to put the Beiber down too much, I am trying to understand his youthful music. Even when i was a kid, I avoided teen idols, just not a huge fan of them...but I still believe that Beiber backed up Carlos ......lol Yeah Ernie I am trying not to put the Beiber down too much, I am trying to understand his youthful music. Even when i was a kid, I avoided teen idols, just not a huge fan of them…but I still believe that Beiber backed up Carlos ……lol

]]> Comment on Carlos Santana by Tyler Woods http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2012/01/03/carlos-santana/#comment-8991 Tyler Woods Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:13:56 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/?p=689#comment-8991 You are so right. I played in a band and a member was much much younger than I. I decided to do a Beatles song. I said you know who did this right, and they said Yeah Abby Road right? LOL I will never forget that because I could not imagine a musician not getting the Beatles, also it was the day I realized, I am getting older:::::::::::sigh You are so right. I played in a band and a member was much much younger than I. I decided to do a Beatles song. I said you know who did this right, and they said Yeah Abby Road right? LOL I will never forget that because I could not imagine a musician not getting the Beatles, also it was the day I realized, I am getting older:::::::::::sigh

]]> Comment on Carlos Santana by leftfield http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/2012/01/03/carlos-santana/#comment-8990 leftfield Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:13:02 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/retroflections/?p=689#comment-8990 "Carlos started a band in the late 60s called Santana..." This strikes me as supremely funny, sad and oddly surreal at the same time.  The notion that it would have to be explained to younger music fans in very simple terms who Carlos Santana is leaves me feeling very old and very sorry for those younger music fans.  I would have thought this was a piece of universal knowledge, like the fact that the sun rises in the East.  It reminds me of the time someone I know expressed surprise at discovering the knowledge that Paul McCartney played in another band a long, long time ago. Abraxas is also my favorite by Santana.  I played it just last Sunday while making breakfast. “Carlos started a band in the late 60s called Santana…”

This strikes me as supremely funny, sad and oddly surreal at the same time.  The notion that it would have to be explained to younger music fans in very simple terms who Carlos Santana is leaves me feeling very old and very sorry for those younger music fans.  I would have thought this was a piece of universal knowledge, like the fact that the sun rises in the East.  It reminds me of the time someone I know expressed surprise at discovering the knowledge that Paul McCartney played in another band a long, long time ago.

Abraxas is also my favorite by Santana.  I played it just last Sunday while making breakfast.

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