Comments on: Glenn Miller Orchestra Scandinavia – American Patrol https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/glenn-miller-orchestra-scandinavia-american-patrol/ Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:20:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: janyuary https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/glenn-miller-orchestra-scandinavia-american-patrol/#comment-1113420 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:20:59 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=73313#comment-1113420 Brings back memories of cramming into packed auditoriums, even sitting on the concrete floor of a large former WWII army base auditorium (that was for Stan Kenton’s band, holy cow did we baby boomers truly ROCK that night, those guys were smokin’ hot), for the Big Bands that would tour our little cow towns on the California coast. Big Band was such a relief from the daily grind of adolescent whining and wailing and grousing that dominated the music scene, mostly three-beat two-chord missives requiring little skill or thought. Big Band, on the other hand — those guys were working men.

That music was why we won WWII. It was grown-up music, sophisticated, gutsy, and eloquent as hell. That was that generation. But as the old potheads say, “Time keeps on slippin’ slippin’ slippin’ … into the future ….” !!!! {^)

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