[Meh Concert Series] What Are You Listening To Live This Summer?

@Cerridwyn googles “filk”

@jouest gasp

@Cerridwyn @jouest I googled too and still don’t know what it is.

@jouest @sammydog01
Filk is (mostly) fan written music that celebrates fantasy and science fiction movies/television/literature. It is often extended to the music of the SCA that is written just for that (as opposed to Ren Faire music, although the musicians overlap) and includes space related music as well such as one I played during my goat time

some examples, not my playlist
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPwAAszigTmmhzRDzuZvaEEtKQJ5Y3NJz&si=mDhiwjqtV8CvA_1H

Leslie Fish is probably the most famous of the filk artists and there are people who make most of their living on it now.

Someone on Redit made a spotify playlist of every filk and filk related piece that they can find. It has something like 3k different ones.

Wikipedia entry on the subject
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filk_music

@Cerridwyn @sammydog01

@jouest @sammydog01 if you have direct questions feel free to ask. If you’re in the Seattle area come to worldcon and listen to music in addition to everything else they do.

@jouest @sammydog01

/youtube Leslie fish
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMcc62K9ZvEYt1v3CD-5zxg

Let’s see what YouTube does with that

@sammydog01 my town is very cover band centric.

@jouest @sammydog01

@ItalianScallion @jouest @sammydog01
That reminds me of a group called Hayseed Dixie. Another fun bluegrass/rockabilly style cover of AC/DC songs.

@ItalianScallion @jouest @sammydog01
Birmingham also has a group called black jacket symphony which is an amazing project. The band is fluid and changes members based on who they’re trying to sound like. Their concerts typically are a single album by a famous group or person which sounds like you’re playing it on a turntable live in front of you. It’s amazing. I’ve seen them do concerts from Led Zeppelin (Zoso) and they sound spot on. They’ve also done Prince (purple rain), Eagles (hotel California), Beatles (abbey road) and a few others that escape me at the moment. Currently they’re doing a bunch of Jimmy Buffett/yacht Rock stuff including the changes of latitude album. Always a great show at the local performing arts center.

@pmarin how are those guys not 75 years old

EDIT: oh they are

@jouest @pmarin Crack that hip…

@jouest @pmarin They are not men - they are Devo.

@jouest the plastic bucket hat must have protected them from aging.

@macromeh buzzzzzzzzzkill

@macromeh How is it legal for them to start that early?!?

@Kyeh

1. Located out in the (rural, low density) timber lands and
2. Early is probably preferred due the (somewhat) smaller chance of starting a forest fire during the cooler morning hours

I should note that the logging operation is on a hillside maybe 1/2 mile away, but there is a valley between them and me (i.e., not much to block the noise).
And someday in the near future, I will likely log my timber too (and neighbors will have to put up with the disruption).

@macromeh Oh. Still annoying, I’m sure. Around here it’s houses getting remodeled (right next door, since last fall, not TOO noisy, but intermittently very loud.) Or scraped and completely rebuilt. There’s a lot behind me that’s sat empty for about a year but there are now orange marker sticks around the yard sooooo … 🫤

@Kyeh @macromeh
Guess it’s also light enough to see WTF they are doing at that time or do they have big-ass lights blazing as well?

@chienfou @Kyeh They do have big lights. Fortunately, there are enough obstacles between us and them that they don’t shine in our bedroom window. A few years ago, another nearby section was logged and the lights (mounted on the moving vehicles) did shine in the bedroom windows pre-sunrise. We resorted to sleep masks then.
I guess it is extra annoying because we are used to it being peaceful and quiet out here in the sticks.

@chienfou @macromeh I hope they’re not cutting all the trees down around there.

@Kyeh @macromeh
Are they “managing”, or clear cutting?

@chienfou @Kyeh It’s a clear cut, but it is second growth on a multi-hundred acre tree farm owned/managed by the timber company (Weyerhaeuser). They replant soon after harvesting.

@Kyeh @macromeh
Back in the days when I used to burn a fair amount of firewood I would frequently haunt the clear cut areas and police up the hardwoods that they had piled up to burn. Most of the stuff around here was logged for pulp though.

@kittykat9180 Wow, how did you score VIP tickets?

@kittykat9180 @Kyeh
and why were you in Dublin and Warsaw???

@chienfou why not?
I spent 3 weeks in Poland and two weeks in Ireland.
I was going to go to Poland in 2020 but Covid. So I finally made it in 2023. I also went back to Poland in January of this year for my nephew’s graduation present. I told him I’d take him anywhere in the world and he chose Poland.

@Kyeh I bought them. They were something like $325 each.

@kittykat9180 Wow!

@kittykat9180
That’s cool. It’s awesome that you choose to go places like Ireland and Poland. So many Americans do so little traveling. I was mainly curious if it was work related or purely on your own. Bravo… You go, girl!
Also kudos for traveling with your nephew. We’ve been doing that with our grandkids when it became evident that buying stuff for them was basically a waste of money. The memories we make traveling will be with them for the rest of their life. Good, bad, or otherwise.

EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!

@chienfou I love traveling, and I work remote for a company that lets me work from anywhere in the world.
I went to six countries last year and five the year before.
I was going to go to Chile for two months this summer, but there’s some economic uncertainty with my employer and I figured I should save money in case I get laid off. Also, I’ve spent an ungodly amount of money on landscaping my backyard this year.

@kittykat9180
That’s super cool. My son is currently in London helping one of his girlfriends set up a new apartment. He has work from home as well and so he’s been able to put in his hours over there. WFH has been a game changer for so many people.
My wife and I were in six different countries last year as well.

@chienfou your son must be a ladies man to have multiple girlfriends.

@kittykat9180
yeah… who knew polyamorous was even a thing…?

@chienfou @kittykat9180 I tried that (briefly) between marriages. Fun and exciting for a short time, then kind of exhausting. Soon followed by 35 years (and counting) of happy monogamy.

@chienfou @macromeh I’ve known a few polyamorous couples but they all end up divorced. Although most monogamous couples I know end up divorced too.
Personally, I prefer to not date at all. I’ve been single for years.

We have gone a bit astray from talking about concerts.

@chienfou @kittykat9180 @macromeh eternally single people leading the pack with 0 percent divorce rate, many years running

@Thumperchick

And because I’m a masochist an amazing parent, I’m taking my kid to Kidz Bop.

There…FIFY!

@chienfou @Thumperchick can be both

@chienfou @jouest @Thumperchick I went to a concert with my 24 year old and they played the Knight Rider theme. I asked if she recognized it, she said kind of. Crazy Frog was a car pool staple back in the day.

She also knows a lot of songs from Weird Al, another car classic. His stuff is probably still on my iPod.

Well, now… I was recently wondering if our new local connection to Primus meant they would come through town, and I just discovered they are having a show here Tuesday next week. I had no idea.

But I’d rather see Weird Al. Don’t think I can pull off two concerts in one week. Hopefully we’ll get Primus regularly and I’ll catch 'em next time.

@djslack Primus will find a way