Everyone gets into!

Layla, Miss You, Azulito !

Introduction: I live in the same year in which you live now

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Layla and the orchestra version in 1991:

I am contemporary to Eric Clapton much more than people who were born around 2000 are. Clapton has been regarded as one of guitar demigods. In my life, it took a bit of time, though, for me to self-recognize how much I love string instruments to listen to. I’m truly fond of J.S. Bach’s violin concertos as well as most of the 17th century northern Italy violin and cello stuff, Vivaldi in particular. As for Rocks, even today, Keith Richards’ guitar entry of Gimme Shelter gives me a chill. The go-enter of Layla is the other heart-beating effect for me.

This 1991 live in The Royal Albert Hall in England is a must-see video in my view. The live was held with an orchestra, so it’s different from ordinary rock concerts. And there are lots of things, really and truly many things to see in this live, because there are many amazing things going on there.

Not chronologically I’ll go. My first mark to note here is around 5:30 onward. The still-screenshot below the video is at 5:32. I believe the energetic performer can be described as a cymbal drummer in the orchestra. He must be the same one who is tambourining earlier.

Oh, wow for the pair of ladies who’re singing. At mark 0.44, they appear and onward. You have to have your own living experiences in the 80’s as real to nod yes to my claim. The ladies have the aura of the era, which we don’t see today. 1991 was not far from the 80’s, evidentially.

I love also all those members of the National Philharmonic orchestra, who are stoically and professionally playing their roles as absolute experts. On the other hand, the conductor must be a die-hard rock fan.

If I can be a time traveler, I’d fly back into the time to be in the dancing crowd in this scene of the Royal Albert Hall. Mark with me at 1:48 and 2:04. Oh, truly! All of them get into! Now know the power of music is the spirit!

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Miss You:

The below inserted is the official promo video of Miss You (the Rolling Stones). At this time, the band member were Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts (1941-2021), and Ron Wood.

I can easily, very easily, get into this video, which tells a tremendous amount of you-have-to-know-about-Stones. I don’t mean it to be informative. Rather contrarily, one can get a gut and intuitive sense of what they were, have been and are.

In this video, each gets into what’s happening in each way, I see.

Mick Jagger: Unique and singular. Weird, could it be, possibly, also as a description. Nevertheless, powerfully rebellious against the norm, whatever the norm might have been in that time. I used to think that jugglers and street performers/musiciens in the medieval era must have been like Mick Jagger whom we see in this video. Spectators are happily challenged for their naïveté facing the unknown. Mick Jagger is insanely good. Miss You was released in 1978.

Keith Richards: In my sense, he knew in his quiet resignation he’d already dived into his fate with the Stones with no return as just go and go.

Ron Wood: In my view, he sensed and strongly understood it was too late for him to get it out.

Bill Wyman: Somewhat distanced.

Charlie Watts: Whatever happens, I’ll keep up my beat seemed to be his never-changing stance. In fact, Watts had not been changing even in his appearance and looks, much at all, all through during the 80’s, 90’s, and the 21st century. All fans miss you.

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Because I want you so hard, my heart is injured as if hit by an arrow:

The song is properly taken as a dance song. My confession is such that I’ve never watched the music video of Azulito. Listening to it is marvelous enough for me now. The musicians are Yan The One, Henry Mendez, and Negro Juanda. Their origins are Spain, Dominican republic, and Colombia, respectively. I understand their base is currently in Barcelona. The song’s release date is 2021. I have a huge difficulty to imagine any other music which would be in the get-into-spirit more than Azulito. Besides all marks, be hit by the series of exuberance in utterances.

This is a love song for passion and yearning. Longing for love’s touch and wooing for the union are keen, lively, painfully strong and ultimate canto from the heart and soul cannot help but crying out toward the cielo. The lyrics are simple, punchy, and beautiful. The singers are more than wonderful. The tune and rhythms are alive as if living by themselves. I feel ridiculous when trying to discuss this song being so much as a life singing for a life to live. The chica ideal sung for is figuratively longed for, such as, oh! the aroma of her piel (skin)! I also quote something else from some other source.

Beauty wounds, but that is precisely how it awakens man to his ultimate destiny.

(On The Way to Jesus Christ by Joseph Ratzinger; trans. by Michael J. Miller; Ignatius Press; San Francisco; p.35)

Nothing more to say, I have here. Oh, except one. If I can be introduced in the same manner in which Henry Mendez’s name is called up numerously in Azulito, I’ll be surely happy dying.

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