Your Theme Song today

[Night Wing]

I've been listening to some old Santana music today while I've been surfing the internet and this song below is going to be my theme song for the day. And it is a studio version too.

Santana - "Put Your Lights On" (featuring Everlast).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSaXg19bj4

[somdcomputerguy]

Santana - "Put Your Lights On" (featuring Everlast).

Great song, and great lyrics. I love the song, and I love that it was fairly easy for me to learn and play. Here's another great Santana tune..
Oye Como Va ft. Carlos Santana & Cindy Blackman Santana | Playing For Change | Song Around The World - https://yewtu.be/watch?v=NJZW8U9bbmM

[Night Wing]

Here's another great Santana tune..
Oye Como Va ft. Carlos Santana & Cindy Blackman Santana | Playing For Change | Song Around The World - https://yewtu.be/watch?v=NJZW8U9bbmM

Great sounding video. I really enjoyed listening to that song. Thanks for sharing it.

[somdcomputerguy]

hurry up & wait ~ little charlie & the nightcats

[Moonchild]

Soundgarden - Been Away Too Long
...because I'm planning a trip to see an old, close friend I haven't seen for years now. And since he's in Seattle, Soundgarden was a good fit.

[Night Wing]

My next door neighbor called me up to tell me he had a customer standing in front of him in his computer repair shop who brought in a desktop tower computer with a two hard drive bay. It had 32 GB of memory in it, a nice graphics card and with a good sound card.

He asked me if I would come down to his shop and talk with the customer since the customer stated he wanted to have a different linux distro on each hard drive. I went down to the shop and talked with the customer. I made sure he understood that Windows only programs would not work (like Office 365) on Linux.

He told me he had a friend who quit using Windows 10 and I was the one who installed Mint on his friend's desktop computer. He told me he had used his friend's computer a few times with Mint on it and he liked it. I told him to keep his 3.5" hard drive which had 64 bit Windows 10 on it........just in case Linux was not to his liking and he could switch back. And if needed any help with his two linux distros to call the shop and I would come down to the shop and help him.

He told me he got tired of Microsoft undoing his settings and changing them back to not what he wanted when he did his Microsoft updates. He told me he was finally "kicking Windows to the curb".

Long story short, he bought two Samsong 500 GB SSD 2.5" drives, the kind which fit into a laptop. We had the cradles to fit the small laptop drives into his big 3.5" hard drive bay.

I installed 64 bit linux Mint 21.1 (Vera) Xfce on one hard drive and on the other hard drive I installed 64 bit MX Linux 21.3 (Wildflower) Xfce. Then I made the Mint distro the default drive.

After each drive was loaded with the distro, I went to YouTube to make sure his sound card was working with each linux distro. I have some "easy listening" instrumental songs so when a customer comes in and I work on their computers, I like to have some background music when I work on their computers while they wait.

So with the customer sitting beside me while I worked on his computer, we made "small talk". To make sure his sound card, along with drivers for it were working, I played a few of my songs which I use on YouTube and the instrumental song below is one which the customer really liked.

Zachariah Hickman - "The Beacon".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwHU22b1ukA

[ron_1]

Neil Diamond - I Haven't Played This Song In Years

Well, because last night was the first time I played it in literal years, probably over 20. And the feeling (not the lyrics) of the song fits the last couple years of my life.

[Night Wing]

I was surfing around on YouTube and I think I ran across an "illegal" movie which should not have been posted on YouTube, but it was. The movie, "John Wick 4).

Near the end of the movie JW is going to go for his duel with his antagonist and get back in the good graces with "The Table", but he had to win the duel and kill his protagonist. And he also had to be on time for the duel. If he missed being on time, JW's life would be terminated per the dueling agreement.

But there were a few obstacles in his way since he had a "bounty" on his head and the bounty could only be won by someone killing him. And a song in the background was starting to play as lots of "bad types" trying to collect the bounty.

A really old song from 1965 which has the unmistakable Motown sound from the Funk Brothers band on the musical instruments.

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - "No Where To Run".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQRIOKvR2WM

[Night Wing]

It was sad for me last night, Monday evening, when I heard one of my favorite songwriters/singers, Gordon Lightfoot, had passed away. The last job I had before I retired from the work force at the age of 60 was when I was working in the maritime industry. So I can personally relate to this song below.

I would have posted this song yesterday as a tribute to Gordon Lightfoot, but I had already posted a theme song for Monday. So I will be posting this song today, Tuesday, to make up for lost time.

Gordon Lightfoot - "The Wreck Of The Edmunud Fitzgerald" (with lyrics).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A

[Blacklab]

Gordon Lightfoot's - "The Wreck Of The Edmunud Fitzgerald"... is one of my favourites too.

Sadly an all true story with several recent documentaries looking at the wreck and trying to work out exactly what happened... how such a big ship "the pride of the American side" was overwhelmed... and apart from mechanical failure of the hatch covers also looking at modern wave generation theory regarding large, rogue, or eposodic waves.

[somdcomputerguy]

Stealers Wheel "Stuck In The Middle With You" (Larkin Poe Cover) - Invidious

[Night Wing]

I watched a movie on YouTube last night. A werewolf movie to be exact. It originally came titled, "Wolf Moon", but someone on the internet changed the title to, "Dark Moon Rising". It had a few songs in it and two of them caught my ear. One of them is below.

Geoff Gibbons - "Crying Down The Moon".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf4UV1xdMOs

[athenian200]

SirHamnet - Deathly Loneliness Attacks (Vocaloid)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZyOMZaOFRc

[Night Wing]

The other song which caught my ear in my last preceding post above is below.

Since I've got very poor eyesight, the human body responds by heightening other senses in the body such as smell, touch, hearing, etc. I say this because in the song belong, the singer intentionally made the lyrics very hard to hear clearly.

But even with my heightened sense of hearing, I had a little bit of trouble making out the lyrics because I have the volume turned down low on all of my computers. So if you have trouble hearing the lyrics clearly, you might have to increase the volume on your computer for this song.

Geoff Gibbons - "Ride".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG9Y-C-lvKo

[Night Wing]

Went to the grocery store where they play music, not too loud, but loud enough to hear the lyrics.

Anyhow, walking down the beer aisle looking for a six pack of Yuengling Traditional Lager amber colored (which I did find and added to the grocery cart), I heard this song which I recognized from the film, "Guardians Of The Galaxy: Vol 2.

And I'm quite sure most users on this forum will not recognize the song or the band. The song came out in 1971 because I was junior in college at that time. I can still remember this song since me and my girlfriend back then (who is now my wife) both liked this song. Good memories for both of us.

Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah - "Lake Shore Drive".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZGMJWG4CT0

[Tharthan]

I have always loved folksongs, as well as folktales, from the time that I was a young boy.

That love has not faded in the slightest, and recently I was reading up on the history (to the extent that it is known) of a particular folksong that has been found to be present in every single Germanic culture*.

That, naturally, includes English.

Now what is interesting about this folk song is that it wasn't originally a folk song, but rather a folk tale. However, that original folk tale no longer exists as such, and this folk song is the only means by which that old tale is preserved.

It's a folk song that is known in English as "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight." In the Netherlands, it is known as "Heer Halewijn zong een liedekijn" (lit. "Lord Halwin sang a little song"). In Germany, it is known as "Ulinger" or sometimes "Mädchenmörder". In Denmark, it is formally known as "Kvindemorderen," and in Sweden and Norway it is formally known by some variant of that same name (however, it is often referred to by other names, varying by the local version).

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Also, because the Franks—who were a Germanic people—once ruled in what is now France, and Frankish culture thus dominated there at one time, what would seem to be a remnant of be an old Frankish version of the tale managed to survive there even after Frankish died out. It survives as the French folk song "Renaud le Tueur de Femmes".

However, the French version has deviated in many very noticeable ways from the way that the original tale is believed by folklore experts to have gone, and I in my own personal opinion find the French version the least interesting.

It must be noted however that many regional versions of the British form of the song (not the Lady Isabel version, however) ended up coming under immense influence over the years from the French version. The versions in English that have been heavily influenced by the French version are usually titled "May Colvin" or "The Outlandish Knight".

Out of all of them, the Dutch version is held by those who study folklore to be the one that has best preserved the original tale.

And although I am extremely fond of the English version, I certainly do find the Dutch version very compelling.

This is the Dutch version.

"Heer Halewijn zong een liedekijn"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRJszzu-O_A

A translation of a shortened form of the Dutch version can be found here. The full form of the song, linked above, has a couple of parts in it that are not included in that translation. Specifically, 1. the hitching of the princess' horse to a tree, 2. the princess unbinding her hair, 3. Halewijn's head telling the princess to go into the cornfields and blow the horn so that all of his friends might hear, and to also get a magic salve from nearby to heal him, and the princess declining to do those things 3. the princess speaking to someone enquiring about what has happened to Halewijn before riding home. Other than that, it's a sufficient translation.

If you would like to compare how this all has been preserved between the different cultures, here is someone singing the English version, here is the text of the German version (I have been unable to find any modern day performances of someone singing the German version, but here is someone singing a song based off of the German version).

Here is the text of one of the oldest known forms of the Scandinavian form of the folk song. On the left is the text in Old Danish, and on the right is a transcription into Modern Danish.

[Night Wing]

I always like to play this march on every July 4th since I was a teenager.

John Philip Sousa - "Stars & Stripes Forever".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9o6412lwGA

[suzyne]

Evanescence are touring here next month, which reminded me of how much I enjoy the album Fallen, so I have been listening to it at least once each day this week.

[Night Wing]

While I was waiting for 64 bit linux Pale Moon to update to 32.3.0 to be released this morning so I put it on three of my computers, I was listening to some oldies music on YouTube while adjusting my 10.5 Donald Yakayama Halo fin on my CJ Nelson 9'3" Parallax surfing longboard in my garage, I ran across this song.

The album cover caught my eye since it depicted a barn owl which is the avatar I've used ever since I registered here on the Pale Moon Forum site which is now encompassing 11 1/2 years (at this time of posting). And the song is titled appropriately enough, "Night Owl" which is close to my user name.

Gerry Rafferty - "Night Owl".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDFK1Jdi8h4

[Night Wing]

Since MX Linux 23 (Libretto) was released yesterday, Monday, I installed it on my experimental laptop. After that was done; I got back on one of my two desktop tower computers since these are connected to a pair of good sounding speakers, to play around with 23 and also to take the linux Mercury browser for a "good test drive".

While I was on Mercury, I opened up two tabs where one tab was on YouTube. I located some good surfing videos with some good background music in them. One of surfing videos had a song I had never heard of before. It was originally done by the band, "Dirty Vegas".

The song was titled, "Walk Into The Sun". But this was a cover song by the band, "Isorash". So this song will be my theme song for today.

Isorash - "Walk Into The Sun" (Dirty Vegas cover).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vd8KrcAR8o