I used to play hooky from my elementary school in Queens, take the subway into the city and hang on 6th Ave. I think it was the CBS Headquarters and hang out with Moondog, listening to him talk and play his instruments. I guess it was 1968-69. He seemed other worldly and captured my imagination.

@Yourmomma568

2 жыл бұрын

that's a lake trout, bud.

One of the greatest forgotten music minds ever to have lived

@vinylvillain3232

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Thank you so much for checking this out

When I was 4 or 5 years old 1956, '57 Moondog often sat outside the Greenwich bank on 6th ave. and 14th st in Manhattan, when I went to the bank with my mother I would stop and talk to him, he always remembered my name.

@jodawgsup

5 ай бұрын

beautiful

I remember visiting with Moondog on the street when I worked in NYC during the summers of 1969 & 1970. He was a fascinating man. I cherish my memories of those conversations and have come to realize what a privilege it was to spend even a few moments in his presence.

I came to the states in 1974. My aunt had her studio on 21st and 6th av. She was an abstractionist and would take me up to MOMA for lunch. I was a wide eyed kid from england who soaked up everything and I specifically remember seeing Moondog on one of these luncheons with my aunt. NYC was something else.

Moondog's music connects on a level most never achieve .

Most underrated artist ever. Bird’s Lament...impossibly beautiful, ominous, decadently rich.

Whenever I pass moondogs corner here in Recklinghausen I think of him. It's the city where he lived in Germany. He is not very known in Recklinghausen, There is a club with his name but beside this and a little sign on this place where he stand there is not much attention on the unique music genius.

Thats a great channel idea you had, good production quality, good pace and very interesting, sadly it look like this channel is dead. Super underrated channel, a gold mine.

In the early 70s (70-72) Moondog used to hangout on the corner of St. Mark's Place and 2nd ave. I used to see him just standing there while on my way to the Fillmore or to buy some records. He never bothered any body. I don't even remember him asking for money. He was just there.

Amazing.! Thank you for this. Woke up with his music running through my head after not hearing it for nearly 50 years.! What an inspiration to everyone to not let a potentially catastrophic disability stop you from being a creative genius.

Watched the movie "beach bum" now I'm here. Good vid👍

Moondog is my spirit animal

Very cool video man. I discovered this guy about year or 2 ago i was so blessed an out of my mind when someone put this on exactly the German Years "album" so damne good

I was quite a fan of Moondog in my college years. I was a music major and was fascinated by his various styles. It's great to hear some of his music again.

Thank you for putting this together. I'd see Moondog often when I was growing up in NYC. Thanks for his story.

loved this, more please

more like this please! such good content you make!!

this is amazing. please keep making videos

Amazing video man, hope to see more like it

very informative! thank you!

Super interesting dude. Fascinating journey.

This is really cool, thanks man

Moondog songs in this video, in order: Stamping Ground Symphonique #6 (Good For Goodie) Lament 1 (Bird's Lament) Witch Of Endor Viking (I hope I got them all, and got them right. I already knew Bird's Lament and Stamping Ground from movies. Most of these appear on his 1969 self-titled album.)

What happens to this channel? I love this kind of video! More please!!!

@vinylvillain3232

3 жыл бұрын

I just gained access back to it so watch out for more

awesome work! I just read about him, and it's so cool ot be able to see a video presentation before actuzlly listening to his music :) you got a new subscriber, keep creating content :D

He was on 6th avenue right down the street from my elementary school PS 69 on west 54th st in NYC. All the kids and I used to talk with him all the time.,talented and very kind person.

Thanks for the history! I read about Moondog just now reading about Wolfman Jack and where his name came from. BTW @:11, I lived there, off Minneta Lane and MacDougal Street.

I remember seeing him as a young adult. There was also a drummer with black shoe dye in his hair.

excellent👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great story of moondog 😊 !

Brilliant musician!

LOVE MOONDOG

Legend

But you did do a good job loved it.

oh my god thank u, for some reason there is no info on him on google

Buen video

Matthew McConaughey sent me here.

@40mmmm23

3 жыл бұрын

How did he post something

I ❤️Birds Lament

@davidcopson5800

2 жыл бұрын

Me too as well also.

Does anyone know what the last musical track of this video is called ?

Moondog may have allegedly had some odd beliefs but to put his music with Trump is an insult

what is that whole section with Trump doing there? Baffled

What was the last and second to last song in the video? Great video!

Don't know how I got the album with him on the cover in Seattle when I was about12 thought my mother would take it away he was way too weird for most parents I thought just a great guy when I did end up playing music in New York I had forgot to go look for him I beleive I figured he had died or I couldn't find him in New York I turned down an interview with the head of music in the white house I did not want to live in NY or play crap music in the white house lololo

Real different

I think he died wise and contempt with his life, if not truly happy

@jakenconor

3 жыл бұрын

Content *??

@davidcopson5800

2 жыл бұрын

@@jakenconor You beat me to it.

What’s that last song

3:05 nice 😂... I mean, I'm laughing but, you know...

How many of the 80 symphonies that he wrote were recorded?

@davidcopson5800

2 жыл бұрын

85

How can he write a symphony if he is blind ? Does musical notation come in Braille ?? I don't understand how he did it ??

@offbeatmusic2638

3 жыл бұрын

I believe he went to a school for the blind and learned to write music in braille.

@Garbhan51

10 ай бұрын

And I believe he dictated music to an assistant who notated it.

That was a photo of Aaron Copland, not Stravinsky.

@davidcopson5800

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, no. That is a photo of Stravinsky taken in New York city in 1959.

Wow! Debbie Harry speaks of him in her new bio.

Did some disc jocky try to rip him off thinking he was a bum?

🔔

yeah but, what's the meaning of life, if I may ask, mr. Moondog?

he worked with Julie fooking Andrews....i tell ya!!

:)

What’s the last song ?

@ciupenhauer

4 жыл бұрын

it's Moondog - Viking 1

*accomplishments

Rick Rubin took his style foshö..

Seb

Jamie Briton

why should there be a moral of the story?

what symphony what that under donald trumps inaugiration (idk how to spell srry)

(cuore

Oh, great. More politics out of nowhere.

@Moodboard39

2 ай бұрын

just like that brain eno dude, involed in politics shit

Wow this was terrific until you had to grind your AXE regarding Trump. If he had some relatable relevance it would be one thing. Surely as a New Yorker he would have seen Moondog. We all did. Moondog was a fixture that we could expect in the city where there were all possibilities and at a time of artistic experimentation and expression in NYC. I still like to think of New York as a place where people can escape mundane America. A place where a person is free to be their authentic selves. That is what led Moondog there.

Instant down-vote for ANY video that features those atrocious double images, with the out-of-focus sides.

Should have put his music to Obama's record setting troop send-off to the middle East.

Why do I feel like this is bullshit

@owenwswain

3 жыл бұрын

Because you failed to research anything before adding your (-) comment.

Donald Trump was an amazing president and will be again I'm hoping