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[therealjohnny]

A friend from Las vegas sent me this

Bono embraces Elvis, shouts to McCartney in game-changing Sphere opener

Legends abounded, including Bono, at the Sphere launch.

www.reviewjournal.com

Supposed to be a great show


I was walking along today thinking About how great Mozart was and had the shining insight that Mozart was the Beatles - could do everything better than anyone - and Beethoven was the Stones - less of a genius, but rocked harder. Very happy with myself and my ongoing ability to pull theories together based on knowing very little about the actual subject.

Anyway, then I read this from Bono, and realise I'm the same cunt I always was

Paul McCartney was there, in fact. Performing for “Macca,” as Bono called the knighted Beatle, was like performing for Mozart.

Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls: ‘I’d like to collaborate with Mozart. I know chords he’s never used’

The bass player legend, played by Harry Shearer in the film This Is Spinal Tap, talks facial hair, courgettes and how to break out of a cocoon

www.theguardian.com

 

[Deadmanposting]

Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls: ‘I’d like to collaborate with Mozart. I know chords he’s never used’

The bass player legend, played by Harry Shearer in the film This Is Spinal Tap, talks facial hair, courgettes and how to break out of a cocoon

www.theguardian.com

Ok, I am entering into a shame spiral here

Thanks, Johnny!

 

[therealjohnny]

Ok, I am entering into a shame spiral here

Thanks, Johnny!

I fairness a friend was posting on Facebook recently also comparing McCartney to Mozart. It seems to be something in the air. Like the covid

 

[Deadmanposting]

I fairness a friend was posting on Facebook recently also comparing McCartney to Mozart. It seems to be something in the air. Like the covid

I was reading how Mozart's Dad was a music teacher and teaching the older sister how to play minuets
Mozart (5-years-old) hears this and comes down after hearing them and says he wants to play.
The Dad is all "fire ahead" and Mozart learns these things in like 30 minutes, but then once he's learned them and understands the form, he is then improvising new ones on the piano. Basically mastered a from of songwriting in an afternoon. Fucking 5 years old.
The Dad actually gets what is happening, and is furiously scribbling down what the kid is playing
So we actually have music that Mozart wrote on the fucking fly when he was five.

I can't stop thinking about it.

Listen to the first piece that Mozart ever wrote… when he was FIVE years old

The charming first keyboard work by a little boy who would rapidly become the classical era’s greatest talent, and change the history of music.

www.classicfm.com

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Probably unfair to compare it to Blackbird or Hey Jude, but people will be listening to these pieces/songs as long as there is people.

Apols if this is common knowledge.

 

[therealjohnny]

This venue is incredible but the four men playing music seem insignificant against this sensory overload

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[ann post]

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What's the bets there's one of these in Dublin before the housing crisis and cost of living cricis and definitely not a recession crisis have resolved

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Looks like an awful way to see a band.

 

[Deadmanposting]

I've long divided my gigs into ones I go to so I can (for want of a better phrase) worship the songs, and then bands I am curious about

This is an entirely different thing. It seems like it's for the new age of Instagram tourism. A true taunt-your-mates experience, if you have those kind of mates.

Still, I'd go see this, if I was in Vegas.

 

[ann post]

Thumped christmas party idea.


Lots of acid in this thing.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I'm not a fan of big stadium, arena gigs but I have to admire U2 (& their lighting & set designers) because they do it better than anyone else. They do try and raise the bar of the big concert experience. So fair play to them.

 

[nuke terrorist]

I was reading how Mozart's Dad was a music teacher and teaching the older sister how to play minuets
Mozart (5-years-old) hears this and comes down after hearing them and says he wants to play.
The Dad is all "fire ahead" and Mozart learns these things in like 30 minutes, but then once he's learned them and understands the form, he is then improvising new ones on the piano. Basically mastered a from of songwriting in an afternoon. Fucking 5 years old.
The Dad actually gets what is happening, and is furiously scribbling down what the kid is playing
So we actually have music that Mozart wrote on the fucking fly when he was five.

I can't stop thinking about it.

Listen to the first piece that Mozart ever wrote… when he was FIVE years old

The charming first keyboard work by a little boy who would rapidly become the classical era’s greatest talent, and change the history of music.

www.classicfm.com

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Probably unfair to compare it to Blackbird or Hey Jude, but people will be listening to these pieces/songs as long as there is people.

Apols if this is common knowledge.

So little Moza was better than U2 when he was 5.
Mozart's sister was apparently very talented but nothing she composed survived.

That joint in Las Vegas is half decent but ain't a patch on The Hut.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

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What's the bets there's one of these in Dublin before the housing crisis and cost of living cricis and definitely not a recession crisis have resolved

well DCC do need a stupid project to pitch to replace the whitewater rafting at George's dock idea.

George's Dock swift rescue village 'not white water rafting by stealth'

The 'proposed scheme includes a rescue village with a water course - the segment which has drawn concern from councillors about a repeat of the last project - and a mock village

www.dublinlive.ie

 

[magicbastarder]

owen keegan is gone, i suspect no-one wants to revisit that idea.

 

[seanc]

That venue looks like a massive pain in the arse.
They want to do something similar in Stratford, as the area is apparently not soilless enough.

 

[ann post]

Hyped for the Dublin one being permanently looping rugby players selling Audi's and insurance.

 

[ernesto]

A friend from Las vegas sent me this

Bono embraces Elvis, shouts to McCartney in game-changing Sphere opener

Legends abounded, including Bono, at the Sphere launch.

www.reviewjournal.com

Supposed to be a great show


I was walking along today thinking About how great Mozart was and had the shining insight that Mozart was the Beatles - could do everything better than anyone - and Beethoven was the Stones - less of a genius, but rocked harder. Very happy with myself and my ongoing ability to pull theories together based on knowing very little about the actual subject.

Anyway, then I read this from Bono, and realise I'm the same cunt I always was

Paul McCartney was there, in fact. Performing for “Macca,” as Bono called the knighted Beatle, was like performing for Mozart.

It looks like the most distracting over-the-top substitute for entertainment. A beacon for capitalism. And if I was a terrorist, I would bomb the fuck out of it

 

[rettucs]

It looks like the most distracting over-the-top substitute for entertainment. A beacon for capitalism. And if I was a terrorist, I would bomb the fuck out of it

thats what I was thinking. Are they going big on the visuals to distract from how shit they are?

 

[chris d]

you lads are just jealous because it shits on your beloved vicar street quarter.

 

[Deadmanposting]

It looks like the most distracting over-the-top substitute for entertainment. A beacon for capitalism. And if I was a terrorist, I would bomb the fuck out of it

Do you mean the U2 show, the Sphere, Las Vegas, the USA, or humanity itself??

 

[Deadmanposting]

So little Moza was better than U2 when he was 5.
Mozart's sister was apparently very talented but nothing she composed survived.

TheRealMoz was better than anyone before or since

My understanding is that the sister was being taught minuets on sheet music by her father
They could both read music, Mozart could not. He did all this by ear.
She was learning, not to compose, but to entertain. That's what folks with a few bob did then.

Again, far from an expert.