The marching band across the highway is currently practising a song that sounds like Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence", but I know full well it's not actually that piece; it's a religious song I've heard in Catholic churches here, which uses the same melody as this famous Western number about existential estrangement... but with lyrics very much about Christianity. We're a funny species, aren't we?
(Still beautiful, and a nice change from the Indiana Jones theme song!) #CoSoMusic
years ago, a friend of mine had me record a christian 'rock' band he knew... It was an odd evening. I'm not a believer and the session took place in a pastor's home with young people's prayer groups meeting. On the drive home we had a good conversation about christians co-opting popular music, once deemed the devil's music, for their own purposes.
I still have the 2 songs from that night.. One was used as the intro to the pastor's weekly radio show for a while.
In other news, we lived in Mpls most of my life and for a while we were near Edison High School in North East. The marching band would practice in the fall by marching through the neioghborhood and everyone would come out and sit on the steps or curb and cheer them on. I don't know if any of those schools have bands like that any more... Budgeted out of existence.
@MLClark
When I lived in San Diego I was a block away from a Mosque.
The music was OK but the guy who woke me up every Sunday screaming over a loudspeaker, Him I could do without.