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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 10, 2005 - 09:17pm PT
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I was born in California and have never seen his volume of rain save in New Guinea.. When I got home this evening it felt right to lay down and listen to a CD given me by the guy who runs the music department at our company.
Ever hear of an Italian singer named Andrea Bocelli? The songs on this particular disk (Cieli di Toscana, or, The Tuscany Sky), all in the classic Latin Romantica style, are shamelessly maudlin and overproduced, and couldn't be farther removed from my normal jazz fare. But this man's voice is genius and I was immediately won over by the beauty and emotional power of the Italian, who as it happens, is totally blind. I'm not sure I've ever heard a finer, more authentic voice, an opinion apparently shared by Pavaratti.
Even though he could never see it, if someone could ever sing the sun setting over Half Dome, it would be Andrea Bocelli,
JL
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Bishop is DEAD, long live JT
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Jan 10, 2005 - 09:25pm PT
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I always liked my Italian with a bit more of a bend towards Dean Martin. Nothing like those Ragu crooners for bringing out the best in a rainy day. Pass the Gallo.....
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Melissa
Big Wall climber
oakland, ca
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Jan 10, 2005 - 09:26pm PT
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Cesaria Evora
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Wade Icey
Social climber
the EPC
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Jan 11, 2005 - 12:40pm PT
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Largo and Russ-
highly reccomend Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine-
Their lounge covers of Insane in the Membrain and Brittney Spears' Crazy should not be missed. A must have addition to any cheese aficianados' Rainy day rotation.
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macgyver
Social climber
Oregon
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Jan 11, 2005 - 01:10pm PT
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I totally hear ya about Andrea...his voice just hypnotizes even if the music is overdone and made for easy listening.
My make-me-cry-no-matter-what song for rainy days or that feeling after a long fought after goal where everything is really quiet and serene is
Pie Jesu on Andrew Lloyd Webber's requiem
It is absolutely mindblowing and I would buy the disk just for that song. For a nonreligious man it is about as close as I possibly can get to heaven.
Rock on rainy days.
M
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dmitry
Trad climber
Chita, Russia
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Jan 11, 2005 - 01:18pm PT
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John, check out Hayley Westerna: she just had a US release "Pure".
Lot's of shlock in music arrangements (like Boccelli), but what a voice!
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dougs510
Trad climber
Nashville, TN.
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Jan 11, 2005 - 03:13pm PT
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DOORS: "Riders on the Storm" OR "This is the End"..... I think Cal. is getting ready to slide off into the pacific??? Damn, I wonder if TM will open this summer, what's there like.. 20 feet of snow up there?
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Jan 11, 2005 - 08:13pm PT
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how can we slide into the ocean when we have soooo much snow holding all it in place. Taken between Mammoth and June Lake last Tues. (1/4/05) just after we passed the snowplow
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