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geodeticman.5 · 08-15-2008, 01:21 AM

Dan has always been on my "Gord doesn't have a new album out and I've listened to each CD 200 times.... I gotta listen to somebody else that sounds or writes something like him...LIST" Thats how I discovered Dan Folgelberg in the 70's.

One very interesting album is all instrumental. Its called, roughly "Twin Sons of Different Mothers" and features Dan, and a studioMusician who now records solo successfully I believe "Tim Weisberg" - who plays, at least, the flute. The two did this album, and all the instruments in it, nary a word sung, and it is an impressive study of Dan's flamenco-like classical-guitar excellence, and Tim's modern pop-sounding use of the flute, not unlike

- who's that guy that plays the oboe-like smaller instrument, wears the hat, and dominated the light-jazz muzak-like stations for a year or two ? Not much to go on there I know duhhhh.. I keep thinking Yanni, but thats not it, and its not the Latino par excellence who plays the horn either, can't remember his name either. I can't remember my name. Who wrote this thread ? What am I doing..... LOL

Joke: its tasteless, shameless, sad, but funny: Do you know what you call having Alltzheimer's symptoms just some of the time ? - Partzteimer's disease lol I am SORRY.

Anyhoo - the album by Dan and Tim - is a great, instrumental experiment, had no radio-play, I don't think they expected it too. I think it was for the love of music. And THAT folks, is passion for what you do - I am impressed. I am saddened to hear of the loss of Dan, too.

First album by Dan I heard had the haunting song "Wysteria" on it, and had a hand-drawn charcoal-esque rendering of Dan's face. There was a beautiful song about a grove of trees, too.

Geez I sound like that SNL skit where the hefty fellow that died recently - who idolized John Belushi, and made the movie Tommy-Boy, well he's in this skit on SNL where he has a guest-star, and he tries to remember names and movie titles, etc, gets flustered, and says, for example, to Paul McCartney of the Beatles and Wings, "you know when the uhm, Beatles were like.... on Ed Sullivain and all the girls were screaming and crying.....? Paul looks quizically at him and says hesitantly - yesssss. and ..? To which he is told "wasn't that AWESOME?, did you see that?" And Paul responds again, with tolerance "yes... I remember... I saw it... I was...uhm...there"

Whats that hefty fellows name again ? He was AWESOME funny. You know ? Did you see that skit ? It was AWESOME. I can't remember his name.... and I feel real stupid. Which is why I am parodying the SNL skit. My memory is down the **it** tonight.

Dan and Tim were AWESOME. Very sorry to hear of his loss -seriously. I wish I could remember that jazz instrumentalist that played the woodwind instrument. He, and his signature song, became the calling-card for almost all light-adult-contemporary music or light jazz stations....the album cover showed a distorted photo of a circus-mirror-like stretch of his instrument, and it was called ( )-waves.. It was awesome... LOL.

Another musician who is noted for playing all the instruments on the album, each album, I believe, is Todd Rundgren, of "Real Man" fame. Great album , 8 or more instruments. Awesome.

~geo er....geo something...

08-15-2008, 01:21 AM	#9
geodeticman.5 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eastern Slope urban corridor, Colo. USA Posts: 1,007	Re: Dan Fogelberg Dan has always been on my "Gord doesn't have a new album out and I've listened to each CD 200 times.... I gotta listen to somebody else that sounds or writes something like him...LIST" Thats how I discovered Dan Folgelberg in the 70's. One very interesting album is all instrumental. Its called, roughly "Twin Sons of Different Mothers" and features Dan, and a studioMusician who now records solo successfully I believe "Tim Weisberg" - who plays, at least, the flute. The two did this album, and all the instruments in it, nary a word sung, and it is an impressive study of Dan's flamenco-like classical-guitar excellence, and Tim's modern pop-sounding use of the flute, not unlike - who's that guy that plays the oboe-like smaller instrument, wears the hat, and dominated the light-jazz muzak-like stations for a year or two ? Not much to go on there I know duhhhh.. I keep thinking Yanni, but thats not it, and its not the Latino par excellence who plays the horn either, can't remember his name either. I can't remember my name. Who wrote this thread ? What am I doing..... LOL Joke: its tasteless, shameless, sad, but funny: Do you know what you call having Alltzheimer's symptoms just some of the time ? - Partzteimer's disease lol I am SORRY. Anyhoo - the album by Dan and Tim - is a great, instrumental experiment, had no radio-play, I don't think they expected it too. I think it was for the love of music. And THAT folks, is passion for what you do - I am impressed. I am saddened to hear of the loss of Dan, too. First album by Dan I heard had the haunting song "Wysteria" on it, and had a hand-drawn charcoal-esque rendering of Dan's face. There was a beautiful song about a grove of trees, too. Geez I sound like that SNL skit where the hefty fellow that died recently - who idolized John Belushi, and made the movie Tommy-Boy, well he's in this skit on SNL where he has a guest-star, and he tries to remember names and movie titles, etc, gets flustered, and says, for example, to Paul McCartney of the Beatles and Wings, "you know when the uhm, Beatles were like.... on Ed Sullivain and all the girls were screaming and crying.....? Paul looks quizically at him and says hesitantly - yesssss. and ..? To which he is told "wasn't that AWESOME?, did you see that?" And Paul responds again, with tolerance "yes... I remember... I saw it... I was...uhm...there" Whats that hefty fellows name again ? He was AWESOME funny. You know ? Did you see that skit ? It was AWESOME. I can't remember his name.... and I feel real stupid. Which is why I am parodying the SNL skit. My memory is down the it tonight. Dan and Tim were AWESOME. Very sorry to hear of his loss -seriously. I wish I could remember that jazz instrumentalist that played the woodwind instrument. He, and his signature song, became the calling-card for almost all light-adult-contemporary music or light jazz stations....the album cover showed a distorted photo of a circus-mirror-like stretch of his instrument, and it was called ( )-waves.. It was awesome... LOL. Another musician who is noted for playing all the instruments on the album, each album, I believe, is Todd Rundgren, of "Real Man" fame. Great album , 8 or more instruments. Awesome. ~geo er....geo something...