My daughter is 7 going on 8 and loves music. LOVES music. Good. She loves to sing and has had a real amp and microphone since she was about 5. We put on mini concerts all the time (to HER music, not mine, although her voice could probably do a good Geddy Lee) ) She can easily identify a song as being "the Blues" when she hears it, but her favorite artists to listen to right now are Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Hannah Montana, Hilary Duff and The Cheetah Girls. Like I said in the previous post, TV sucked tonight so I was spending some time surfing YouTube for music clips. I wasn't even done with my first song (Pearl Jam & U2 together live) when she came bopping around the corner and wanted to search for Muppet clips. Fun as that sounded (and I mean I LOVE it when she thinks the same stuff that I think is funny, is funny) I was in the mood for music and decided to try a new game with her: we would watch a clip of one of my favorites and then I would watch one of hers. She asked me to see the first concert I ever saw so I dialed up Whitesnake for her. "Ooooooooooh gross, look at their hair!". Ha. Funny. "they look like GIRLS!". I was forgetting that she usually just hears my music. When Tawny Katain shows up for the first time with her hair that would fill a small football stadium, she shrieked even louder......"Eeeeeewwwwwwww!". If she only knew how hot her daddy used to be for that same woman! Little did we know she would end up attacking her 17th famous boyfriend/husband with a shoe! Anyway, we watched some live clips as well and then we watched Carrie Underwood - her choice - which I didn't mind one bit if you get my drift. She asked me who my first favorite band was.....so I had to roll out "You wanted the best, you got the best - The hottest band in the world..........K-I-S-S........". She couldn't believe that I liked them. If you think she thought David Coverdale's hair was offensive, you should have heard her when Gene Simmons started wagging his tongue around! It was hilarious! We saw some Kelly Clarkson, we saw The Cure, then she wanted to find some Green Day. I had to watch the lyrics as she is only used to When September Ends and Good Riddance. We BOTH love Wake Me Up When September Ends. Her birthday is in September and I think thats what started it. Anyhoooo, it's outstanding to have a song that you can dig with your daughter and you both actually like it. I like it so much that when I got involved with a band over the internet with Still Moor Cowbell (regular poster Kevin), I suggested we do that song and I volunteered to both sing it and play drums. It didn't turn out too bad. If Still Moor Cowbell can upload it somewhere and pass me the link - I'll pass it on if anyone wants to check it out. I'm not sure you can grab it off our site where we upload our tracks to be mixed if you aren't a member. Anyway - she has us on her iPod singing it and likes to show it off. Funny she does that since she told Still A. Dad something to the effect of "him and his music that he thinks is so great....". Precious, isn't she? To get back to my reason for posting this - she was trolling for a Green Day song and came across a mash-up of Green Day and Kelly Clarkson. It flat out rocks. I'm very impressed with some of the mash-ups I come across. This is one of the better ones. I saw a great movie mash-up the other day between Star Wars and Boogie Nights. Instant classic. If you saw both movies, you would really like it. That was a stupid statement. I guess I should have said "If you saw Boogie Nights" you will really like it. Enjoy the mash-up. Pass it around. Found this one later, but didn't show it to her. TV Sucks. YouTube Rules.
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I love some of Kelly Clarkson's stuff - especially "Since U Been Gone".
"When September Ends" can be streamed from
http://dieketzer.co.uk/kevin/SeptemberFullMix.mp3
I've let my older son listen to my ipod a few times. A couple of songs that he has taken a liking to are "Godzilla" by Blue Oyster Cult, "The Eyes Of The World" by Rainbow and "For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)" by AC/DC.
Keep your kids interested in music. Let them listen to what they like. We all remember listening to pure junk when we were little without knowing it. Kelly Clarkson and the American Idol drivel is just today’s Captain & Tenille if you get my drift.
That’s OK. Just keep them interested and as they mature so will their taste in music. As they grow their curiosity will drive them beyond what is popular to what is good and great. Their taste will expand in all different areas.
With your help they may even find out that true recorded American music, jazz, country, & blues, was born at the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865. The fusion of all these has given us Rock and Roll, Bluegrass, R&B, Western Swing, Rap, Hip Hop, etc. I’m not discounting the European influence of marches, waltzes, and classical either. Nor am I in any way saying that country and blues did not exist prior to the war. But with the abolition of slavery, the genres began to blend together to form jazz which did not proliferate until post-war.
Today’s kids have so much to choose from in music. Whereas I was limited to 78rpm records of Stephen Foster and John Phillip Sousa songs at their age. And if I was lucky I could walk over to my Uncle’s house to hear Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (that cigarette). Better than Still A Dad who was limited to those paper player piano rolls he had to play on his family’s upright player piano! I’m pretty sure he had the Beer Barrel Polka on one of them.
But I think it’s great that Kevin lets his kids check out Blue Oyster Cult and Fan’s daughter listens to Green Day. How old does she have to be before American Idiot is OK? That’s the good stuff.
Remember: People still listen to Neil Young, and nobody cares about Neil Diamond.
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