@starseedastro@ClubShayShay@neiltyson While I don’t put my faith in the stars I came here to say this, human patterns are based on conditions on Earth not the literal location of constellations in the sky
It is good to hear Kobe Bryant’s testimony about Michael Jackson. He was shocked when MJ told him that when practicing, he usually dances until he can’t dance 🕺 anymore. That’s how the legend was working so hard, and that changed Kobe’s mindset!
Reggie Miller and Jamal Crawford true company men, denying what everyone can clearly see by calling it a narrative.. what a spin. People say SGA flops because he flops, and does it in a disgusting fashion, no other reason. @ReggieMillerTNT@JCrossover
"[My housemate] Clem walked in one afternoon with that first Beatles album, Meet the Beatles!. He put it on, and I just didn't know what to think. It absolutely floored me — 'Those are folk music changes, but it's got a rock and roll backbeat. You can't do that, but they did! Holy yikes!'
"I ate it for breakfast. Most new musical forms are created that way; the synthesis takes place by two disparate streams of stuff, you know, hitherto unrelated, being mushed together. They did synthesize a new music. ‘Cause rock 'n' roll didn’t have those kinds of chord changes and melody-to-chord relationships prior to the Beatles. It just didn’t.
"Up to that point, rock 'n' roll had been pretty much four chords — almost entirely, as a matter of fact. That was the standard thing that came out of the Brill Building. Well, here were these guys from England, they were playing much more complex chord changes — much better musically, but with that backbeat. And there was room to do harmonies. Good ones, interesting ones. That was a mixing of two streams that created a new thing.
"I was amazed by the sheer musicality of it, and also the Beatles' ability to project what a confident, joyful and beautiful band they were. I'd never seen anything like them before — or since.
"You know, it's always about the music. Those guys could really play and sing. They had the goods. And they really had the songs. Up till then, I was a devotee of Pete Seeger's, bless his soul. I wanted to be a folkie. But seeing the Beatles made something else click. It changed my life. They changed my life. Let's be very specific about that."
--#DavidCrosby
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