The call of the open road (and what it means to be a free spirit)
By Old Grumpy Guy on January 12, 2009 at 7:30 AM in Open Thread
I haven’t uploaded any of my other “Painting with Music” videos on NQ from my Youtube channel, because I didn’t want to inundate NQ with music that had no commentary.
However, I thought that this particular video – the fifth in the series – might appeal to the more adventurous and freewheeling spirits I have discovered here on Youtube, and offer a change of pace (and a different kind of music) from my series on the Top Ten Composers.
Unlike the composer videos, this one features rock drums and a guitar solo from Martin Smith, former guitarist with the Electric Light Orchestra, mixed in with the symphonic work performed by the Polish State Philharmonic Orchesatra of Katowice, Poland.
It is intended for all those who respond to the call of the open road, with scenes of motoring and bikers on their way to Sturgis. The music is an excerpt from “The Triumph of Democracy” from The Millennium Suite.
Maybe it could stimulate a discussion about what it means to be a freewheeling spirit! One thing it doesn’t mean is to be the kind of impressionable kool-aid drinking bots we saw so much of in the recent elections, who remind me of soft cushions that bear the imprint of the last person to have sat on them.
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