Ein wenig licht musik. Take two…and action. Schön und weich

Last year Dave Mustaine of Megadeth thanked me for boosting sales of their records when I brought the band to the attention of members of Boadicea’s Chariot. This year I’d like to do the same for Avenged Sevenfold.

I could, of course, be banging my head against a wall trying to convert some of you into head bangers. You really should try it, head banging is therapeutic. I also understand that just because you’ve got this far doesn’t mean you’ve pressed the play button on the video. Shame on you.

Avenged Sevenfold have had their Spinal Tap moment. In 2009 their drummer, James “The Rev” Sullivan died. Despite this the band continued and their last album went to number one in the Billboard chart. They’re not an out and out thrash metal band as they can slow it down from time to time.

Heavily tattooed rockers can be obnoxious at times and admittedly intelligence is lacking in some. One thing you can’t deny them is their talent with a guitar. This admirable quality is sometimes forgotten. You could say though, and you could say this about anything, if the only thing you do is play the guitar all day- you will become proficient with your axe.

This chance to master an art form could have happened to me if I didn’t have to work. It always gets in the way, doesn’t it? With careful coaching and diet, if I had the time to play tennis for six hours a day you would never have heard of Andy Murray.

19 thoughts on “Ein wenig licht musik. Take two…and action. Schön und weich”

  4. Could be. Destroying the bat when I hit the wrong chord doesn’t help either.

    BTW (acronyms, acronyms, everybody’s got acronyms) where’s Bilby? Haven’t seen her in ages. She now qualifies for a MID. 🙂

  5. Chuckle.

    Bilby will be delighted to be MID, I’ll pass it on. She pops in occasionally, but last seen photographing sheep. I think she misses Australia. 😉

  6. The title of this makes me chuckle. This is rather too dark to be “light” music, don’t you think?
    Avenged Sevenfold are one of my guilty pleasure bands. I actually like them, even though this isn’t typical for my music.

  7. Good morning Christopher,

    Learning German is one of the things on my bucket list. I will have to hurry up and get round to it, especially after Mrs Osborne’s diagnosis. Had to google for the translation, hope it’s correct.

    My sons give me pointers to the newer rock bands on our planet. I was stuck in a time-warp for a while and dismissed the newbies as second-rate. After a few listens I have come round to some of them. Will strive to convert, or more likely harass, fellow authors with a series of uploaded videos of the new kids on the block at selected times. I’m not one for hogging the home page, although, paradoxically, I‘ve just double-posted.

    Avenged Sevenfold are one of my current play list bands. The members have great stage names and A little Piece of Heaven is pure pantomime magic, in my opinion.

  8. Royalist: well, it’s not quite correct. One would have to speak English as well as German to understand it. “Wenig” means “few” and “Licht” is the type of light that comes from the sun or, prior to the banning of incandescent bulbs, from lamps.

    Avenged Sevenfold are good. They’re loud, but they have good lyrics and they still sound like something.
    A number of younger bands lack this, hence my tendency to listen to music from generations before mine.

  9. Bei Gott! (Sic- possibly/moglicherweise). You just can’t trust Google now can you? I expected something Mozartian along the lines of- Eine kleine lichtmusik. Oh well, you takes your chances. Christopher, as a fellow Sevenfolder fan the correct translation would be appreciated before the rest of our distinguished colleagues wake up. I’ll edit and none will be the wiser. As they will have ignored the play button there’s no chance they’ll have noticed the read more link.

  13. When I arrived to start my job in Graz, my new boss – a Sudetenlander – aked me: “Essen sie Deutsch, Herr J?” And we went to ‘first’ lunch.

  14. My Austrian colleagues and customers in Vienna introduced me to the “Mahlzeit” salutation, which was used as a general greeting at all times of the morning – not just before lunch as asserted by Wiki. Well, in the Vienna Upper Airspace control building it was. 🙂

  15. Bearsy, in deepest Graz, ‘Mahlzeit’ was uttered willy nilly throughout the day and evening, eating being the major pastime.

  16. Bearsy, I thoroughly enjoy your avuncular corrections when they are needed. Let us dissect my #9.

    “I expected something Mozartian along the lines of- Eine kleine lichtmusik.”
    The key in this sentence is the dash. In writing dialogue, the dash is used to show breaks in thought and shifts in tone. Eine kleine nachtmusik would make sense without the dash. However, I was trying to put across the point of what I thought would be the translation of a little light music.

    Extremely beaming from ear to ear smiley thing

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