A week ago, we took a drive over to the Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown to see a very different kind of concert.  Windy and I went to see the Battle Of The Big Bands, featuring The Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra  What a great venue, music and what a great time!

Clearly, since Dorsey and Miller's heyday was the 1930's and 1940's the members are not original, but it makes no difference.  These incredibly talented musicians and singers are a joy to watch.  And the simply flabbergasting accoustics that the Stambaugh owns, made this a night worth remembering.  It's the Severence of Youngstown.  Both of these bands were incredible to watch, and we were successfully transported back to a different time, and that felt really good.  The only way to learn why you are the way you are, is to learn why you were they way you were.  I love on occasion, going back in time, musically or by visiting somewhere that sends me there. This trip did both, with music of an era, in a place built in the 1920's.

Both of these bands are a very important link in the chain of even today's popular music.  They were the "pop" music of their day. And with thier swing, and swagger, they certainly are an early precurser to what eventually became "Rock and Roll"  and "Pop" years later.  I love all kinds of music, and I always respect people that can really play, and I mean "really play."  Not just the basics of 4 chords that many know.

This is worth considering the next time something like this comes through. It was a great time!