Emailer into Malloys show tuesday feb 27th

[blues90]

A emailer named Kim sent Mike an email , Basically bringing up pink floyd and everytime Mike plays this music he remembered years ago with friends sitting in the dark listening to pink floyd all with the same dreams of a cosmic and powerful future of grand design .

If yo can archive the Malloy show on Nova M listen to the show from 1:25 on to get the full email .

It struck me because of the times and how we felt back then and how did we let the dream die and look at where we are now .

It to me is heart breaking because we did have alot of music in common and shared feelings of hope and a future where music held up together in so many ways .

We just don't have music of those times anylonger , nothing like it now . Sure we can listen and remember but in a world like this it is only a great loss I feel .

[SoFlaJet]

1. As a songwriter myself

I've noticed how I haven't been able to write good music since 9/11-I don't see a lot of creativity or hear much music out there that stands the test of time.

[ret5hd]

2. I think it has to do with finding a voice that fits our new psychology...

May I suggest these for a little inspiration (they seem to fit different aspects of the worlds mood for me):

Ane Brun "Song No. 6"
Austin Pitre "La Danse De Mardi Gras"
Leonard Cohen "Closing Time"
Neil Young "Be The Rain"

peace.

[blues90]

3. As a long time boomer guitar player .

And song writer I have found it difficult to even pick up guitar in the last six months . I run through songs I have written and songs I have learned and everything depresses me since it brings back such better times .

I seem to be trapped in a state of depression . My wife and I went to see CSN&Y on July 31st 2006 and we enjoyed it , mainly because of the older music and a few newer songs but a few days later I was looking at this country as a lost cause . Impeach the president was a grand ideal but still we live in the horror and it gets worse by the day .

I guess I just do not fit with these times and never will , it is such a different world with such disconnect and chaos with horror and darkness with the addition of the high tech drum-beat pounding and pile-driving us into full on trauma . Ah , the uncaring world of the machine . I wonder often has the machine helped man or has man become the machine .

[ret5hd]

4. Madmen and Sedatives: Inside the Iron Theater:

http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2006/09/madmen_and_seda.html

[SoFlaJet]

6. and also

I mean I love Neil Young but Impeach The President is not the kind of songs I wanna write-that's the thing about topical or political songs-they're as old as yesterday's papers the minute you write them.And usually not very good songs either...

[northofdenali]

5. As an aging boomer/hippie/anti-war protester -

There are days I can't even bear to have "my" music playing in the background. Too many tears, too many years. :cry:

[Pyrzqxgl]

7. You people amaze me with your lack of musical taste

there is so much good music in the world and with the internet you have more access to music new and old than ever before. Plug in some blues, or cajun music, or bluegrass, or old time mountain music (from what ever mountains you like: Appalachian to Urals to Andes). Try old vaudeville music from the early part of the last century (you know they started recording music in the 1890's). Try Celtic music from Ireland, or Scotland, or Breton. Ethnic music from around the world or right here in the USA. Get out and listen to someone else LIVE at a concert or festival. Listen to something you've never heard before. You might find out you like it. Hell, it might inspire you to write a song. Although there are so many good songs already in the world, why must you write a bad one. The world's already got enough bad ones. You know I sit in front of this screen and vow to find and listen to at least one new song every day that I've never heard before. Try that for a week or two and see if it doesn't become a habit.

[blues90]

8. Music is only a apart of it .....

It's the feeling of the past that the music brings back .

I don;t listen to the variety you do but I am into blues and other sorts of music . It's still more about the times .

[ret5hd]

9. Can I have mayonnaise on that white bread and bolgna sandwich please.