I always wonder what old-timers like Ozzy and AC/DC think when they hear their music arranged for marching or pep bands. It's pretty funny to hear Crazy Train played anemically by the half-size Valparaiso University Pep Band at a women's basketball game!
And the last two years, my wife's church's Christmas Eve service has opened with a younger college age member playing the instrumental medley Christmas Eve / Sarajevo from Dead Winter Dead, er um, I mean from Christmas Eve and Other Stories. This year, it got a nice round of applause. When this happens, I do a Barry Horowitz and pat myself on the back because I know the longer history of the tune beyond, "It's a cool Trans Siberian Orchestra song!" I wonder how many people in the church who applaud when the song is done would do the same if they knew its real origin on Dead Winter Dead, by the same band who featured a character called "DT Jesus" on a different record.
Just stuff I thought about the last couple of weeks...
Ken
And the last two years, my wife's church's Christmas Eve service has opened with a younger college age member playing the instrumental medley Christmas Eve / Sarajevo from Dead Winter Dead, er um, I mean from Christmas Eve and Other Stories. This year, it got a nice round of applause. When this happens, I do a Barry Horowitz and pat myself on the back because I know the longer history of the tune beyond, "It's a cool Trans Siberian Orchestra song!" I wonder how many people in the church who applaud when the song is done would do the same if they knew its real origin on Dead Winter Dead, by the same band who featured a character called "DT Jesus" on a different record.
Just stuff I thought about the last couple of weeks...
Ken