My fondness for travel, music and friends- Part II ( music)

Leaving things in the middle, and hopping on to something else is not a very good idea. It takes ages sometimes to come back to same state, and to start over where u left from. I had to stop my earlier blog, and took a 2 day halt before writing this. So I had to write all this to get into the flow, aligning with the same stream I was flowing into.

I guess, I have a habit to put out my conversation with myself whenever and wherever I get the chance!

Continuing with my fondness for music.

How I see it is, it’s an art that has infinite power.

Power that can put silenced grief out loud and clear. A power that can numb the anger of resented mind. A power that can pacify even the most fearful heart.

I love all kind of music, all kind of genre but my favorites are classic rock and blues.

Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Dire straits are few of my most admired ones.

But I like Floyd and Led zeppelin the most. They are the gods.

Few tracks from them. …

“Learning to fly”

A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled

The soul intention is learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try.

This is a song that has kept up my spirits in darkest hours. The spirit to try. The spirit to stay put. The video has an amazing vision, bringing out the meaning in most beautiful way.

Another one is “breathe”. It gives a sense of life. A Life into an ordinary. Elevated.

Long you live and high you fly
and smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

Another by Floyd that I really enjoy is “Time”, a brilliant piece that has a sense of time elapsing in every line. “High hopes” is another that I Enjoy for its melody and the childhood rhyme and essence.

The list is huge, from 1960’s to 1990’s the music of Floyd has taken tidal flow. The base, and essence has remained the same, but every new album has a new fresh side of the band. Some of the videos and the stage performances by floyd are so magnificent, that it completes the circle of art. These crazy diamonds, they’ll shine forever bright.

Led zeppelin has more of instrumental enigma. The perfect band, with most talented guitarist, drummer and vocalist. All packaged into one great band.

The echoes, the rhythms, the irony, and the sarcasm in lyrics are truly spell-bounding. There’s a signature of led Zep one can identify in the pace of their songs and the singing style.

One of the classiest numbers I like is “When the levee breaks”.

Has great drums and guitar solo, along with lyrics filled with sarcasm. Plant did splendid lyrics in Battle of evermore which talks about the everlasting battle between

the bad and evil, , with influences from JRR Tolkien’s Return of the king.

Few of the more popular ones I Enjoy “Stairway to heaven”, “Achilles’ Last stand”, and “Whole lotta love”. Brilliant pieces of work!

I wish I could get to be in any concerts of these artists some day. Classic rock has an enigma that I don’t see at least in the present bands. That brilliance shone once, and sadly was before I was born.

Thanks to all the music, and all the artists, my life has been rocking because of them.

“Had I not been a Software Er, Who knows, maybe I would have been a rock star! “

LOL.