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geodeticman.5 · 08-15-2008, 08:15 AM

Thats it ! Kenny G. ! And Chris Farley ! And his motivational speaker character, who lived in a "van down by the RIVER ! - seemed to be his definative character that just made audiences die laughing - and apparently him . Poor guy looked like a heart-attach waiting ti hit him. I always wondered of his name was a take-off on the Beavis & Butthead comedy level flame of Charles u. Farley, or "Chuck U, Farley" - the at-the time in junior high name joke was hilarious in its less-than-sophomoric level of wit... but all teen-age boys were there at one time..and I suspect girls, too.

KennyG. - I can hear those riffs of that signature song of his... so many FM stations need only play that for 5 seconds to get listeners to think they know what they'll get and turn to the radio. Guy was a live billboard; a characiture of an ad for the "serioud Starbucks and al fresco crowd in wifi cafe's with piped-in vanilla muzak off the shelf. Got to admit the tune was pleasant, but somehowlacked soul and consciousness. I can almost hear the dentist's drill and smeel the tooth being drilled into when I hear that song, too. Its like musical laughing gas, but danged of it isn;t genre-defining and good. Just ......somehow too generic. And why do that kind of Jazz musician feel the self-conscious nedd to be different and where eclectic clothing with the hat, the black tennies and the twee sport jacket over a t-shirt.... and in the process of trying to be different, comically wind-up dressing like every other light-jazz musician in the same get-up, defeating the attempt to be different by creating a de rigeur uniform ?

Thanks for reviving my flailing memory tonight. At least someone did not call it a "senior moment" at age 50 !! like another time I was displaying apparent partzteimers.....lol

~geo steve

08-15-2008, 08:15 AM	#11
geodeticman.5 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eastern Slope urban corridor, Colo. USA Posts: 1,007	Re: Dan Fogelberg Thats it ! Kenny G. ! And Chris Farley ! And his motivational speaker character, who lived in a "van down by the RIVER ! - seemed to be his definative character that just made audiences die laughing - and apparently him . Poor guy looked like a heart-attach waiting ti hit him. I always wondered of his name was a take-off on the Beavis & Butthead comedy level flame of Charles u. Farley, or "Chuck U, Farley" - the at-the time in junior high name joke was hilarious in its less-than-sophomoric level of wit... but all teen-age boys were there at one time..and I suspect girls, too. KennyG. - I can hear those riffs of that signature song of his... so many FM stations need only play that for 5 seconds to get listeners to think they know what they'll get and turn to the radio. Guy was a live billboard; a characiture of an ad for the "serioud Starbucks and al fresco crowd in wifi cafe's with piped-in vanilla muzak off the shelf. Got to admit the tune was pleasant, but somehowlacked soul and consciousness. I can almost hear the dentist's drill and smeel the tooth being drilled into when I hear that song, too. Its like musical laughing gas, but danged of it isn;t genre-defining and good. Just ......somehow too generic. And why do that kind of Jazz musician feel the self-conscious nedd to be different and where eclectic clothing with the hat, the black tennies and the twee sport jacket over a t-shirt.... and in the process of trying to be different, comically wind-up dressing like every other light-jazz musician in the same get-up, defeating the attempt to be different by creating a de rigeur uniform ? Thanks for reviving my flailing memory tonight. At least someone did not call it a "senior moment" at age 50 !! like another time I was displaying apparent partzteimers.....lol ~geo steve