The One Truth's Lounge Thread

**Dreamtimer** · 14th May 2017, 20:09

This one made me cry. It's beautiful.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXIPpF3FmNo

**Elen** · 15th May 2017, 12:17

This not a blatant statement of opposition to Dreamtimer's beautiful songs above. Be warned, this can be a bit of an "ear-full" experience.

In her latest film the three-time Oscar-winner portrays a historical figure of dubious note: "Florence Foster Jenkins," an amateur soprano who gained popularity for her absolutely horrible voice - and her unbounded enthusiasm for sharing her "gift" with the world.

I've seen the movie and it was a real tragedy, but also quite an eye-opener as to realizing how people can live in their "bubble" totally unaware of the outside world. When all that is said...I really enjoyed it!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDbdKjwIEnU

Meryl Streep as FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS sings "Adele's Laughing Song"

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX2YEwoWNrY

**Aragorn** · 15th May 2017, 16:10

Originally posted by Elen

[...]

In her latest film the three-time Oscar-winner portrays a historical figure of dubious note: "Florence Foster Jenkins," an amateur soprano who gained popularity for her absolutely horrible voice - and her unbounded enthusiasm for sharing her "gift" with the world.

The first person who came to mind when I read that was Kerry Cassidy. Have you ever heard her sing?

Originally posted by Elen

I've seen the movie and it was a real tragedy, but also quite an eye-opener as to realizing how people can live in their "bubble" totally unaware of the outside world. [...]

Yes, Kerry does actually believe that she can sing.

**Dreamtimer** · 15th May 2017, 16:17

Kerry sings? Her speaking voice isn't particularly lovely, I can't imagine her singing. Sometimes you can't tell...

**Aragorn** · 15th May 2017, 16:40

Originally posted by Dreamtimer

Kerry sings? Her speaking voice isn't particularly lovely, I can't imagine her singing. Sometimes you can't tell...

Yes, she sings... or at least, she tries to.

Her first husband was a producer, guitarist and songwriter, and she has recorded at least one album with him. The opening tune that she uses for all of her Project Camelot videos is a song from that album, called "Jaguar". She has also performed live on stage with a band at some of the Project Camelot conventions.

The original version of "Jaguar" didn't have her singing so much as that she was whispering, and it still sounded fairly agreeable — or at least, the small part that I've heard of the song. But then she re-recorded that song and she made an attempt at singing, and just like Meryl Streep in that movie, she has a horrible way of singing, not to mention that she also can't hold her tone very well. I cannot begin to describe the vicarious embarrassment I experience whenever she starts singing.

Sideways related, Kerry has many of the same mannerisms as my brother's ex-wife — who's a bit younger than Kerry — and even though my ex-sister-in-law used to play one of the flugelhorns in a concert band, she is absolutely tone-deaf. She only managed to play that instrument by rote matching of the notes on the music notation sheet to how one must place one's fingers on the pistons for bringing out those particular notes.

Whenever she attempts to sing along with a song on the radio, her pitch goes all over the place. And Kerry isn't all that much better.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXm5WCiI_Ag

**Dreamtimer** · 15th May 2017, 18:09

Stop...I can't stand it! (I feel guilty laughing)

He's a jag, he's a jag, he's a jag-u-ar.

I like the music.

**Elen** · 15th May 2017, 18:31

To be brutally honest with you...that was MUCH better than I had anticipated. Not too bad at all! I can listen to anything but angry music...that's when I find the OFF button.

**Aragorn** · 26th May 2017, 01:59

The best Boston song that never was a Boston song...

When Boston founder and guitarist Tom Scholz decided to focus his time and energy on his newly-founded music electronics company — as well as that he was involved in a legal dispute with his manager at the time — he told the other Boston members that they could go and engage in solo projects in the meantime if they wanted to. This is when Boston's other guitarist and co-founder Barry Goudreau decided to record an album of his own with a bunch of songs he had written for Boston but which had been rejected by Tom Scholz.

However, instead of hiring session musicians to take care of the drums, the bass and the vocals on his new album, Barry asked his Boston buddies to record the songs with him, and so with the exception of Tom Scholz, every member of Boston can be heard on this album. And that's where things went bad.

The record company that was producing Barry Goudreau's album started advertising the album as a kind of "Boston Lite", and when Tom Scholz found out about this, he went ballistic and immediately started suing all of his former band mates. The matter was eventually settled, but by that time, the record company had already lost interest in Barry Goudreau's album and stopped promoting it. Still, the album did produce two singles, this here-below being one of them.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlxu_OFKcLE

**Aragorn** · 27th May 2017, 18:55

Another oldie but a goodie. This is the live version which appeared on the "Watch" album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. At that point in time, they still had Chris Thompson on vocals and rhythm guitar, and Dave Flett on lead guitar — the best combo the Earth Band ever had.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGB4l87-024

**modwiz** · 27th May 2017, 20:01

Originally posted by Dreamtimer

Stop...I can't stand it! (I feel guilty laughing)

He's a jag, he's a jag, he's a jag-u-ar.

I like the music.

Laughing at clueless narcissists is the best medicine for having to suffer them. Very good production and musicians. It would have been a high quality product without the vocals. Man, I would love to see her Live At The Apollo in Harlem NY. Sandman Sims would be incapacitated by laughter. That aside, our sister gave it what she had.