The older I get, the more
I move back in time for the music I favor. Generally, I move back to
well before rock and roll. However, the Nite Kings playing the
Orleans from 4-8 PM ( they also play Sam's Town on Sunday nights)
sang all the old 50's and 60's early rock and roll and Motown. I
enjoyed them completely.
The music that annoys me
most is the newer nasal sounds with indecipherable lyrics. If that
dominates the piped in music when I'm playing or swimming, I'm
annoyed.
Lately at restaurants at
home I've been annoyed at the latest sounds piped in there. It is
not dinner music at TGIF.
The Orleans does fairly
well. Early morning when the old folks are out they pipe in older
music. Much of it is rock, but it is old rock, songs I know and
enjoyed in years gone by.
I do still think that the
selections should be more eclectic. There is hardly a country song
included, yet plenty of gamblers like that music. There is nothing
in Spanish, yet the buffet has a “Mexican” section and offers
Cholula on every table. There is nothing much from the Ratpack era,
yet impersonators of those guys are Vegas favorites in shows all over
Vegas. A Sinatra impersonator is the feature of the El Cortez
Parlour bar.
I
should have spent more time listening to this fellow. I watched him
http://elcortezhotelcasino.com/entertainment/sinatra-sensation/
and listened for a time. He was very good. He did not look like
Sinatra, but he did a good voice and style imitation.
In the hotel rooms, on my
computer I listen to John Pizzarelli
whenever I was able to
download it onto my old and very slow computer. Were I in charge of
casino music, it would be more like this radio show; I'd at least
toss in a few Jazz vocalists.
The best overall music was
at The Plaza. There a three piece jazz group performed every night.
I could hear them while I played inexpensive poker tournaments across
the casino. When they took a break, old songs I knew and liked were
piped in. That ambiance appeals to me, and it may entice me to leave
the Four Queens for The Plaza as my main gambling casino.
The pool is another place
where music can be a delight or an annoyance.
In the Monte Carlo pool
area the music was very modern, but not blasting, except for one song
that kept repeating, “They call my name” Some strange hip
hop number.
The music in the hallway
while walking to the Aria was modern ,but clearly European and not
bad. If there was music in the Aria buffet, I missed it. But then I
was so very taken with the food choices.
LINK to Aria buffet.
The Planet Hollywood pool
music was very modern, pretty much percussion based. It reminded me
of old disco music. The sound system was very good, so I found the
music more tolerable than in places where it is just some radio show
broadcast perhaps with commercials.
The Gold Coast music was
very lightly presented. I think it was radio as well, but it was
easy to ignore.
My second day at Monte
Carlo I had a fine music experience.
I
was on my way to see if the half priced ticket booth had a deal on
Jimmy Buffet tickets, when right outside the Monte Carlo was a Jimmy
Buffet cloned band, and they were very good.
So
I saved myself the price of a ticket and managed to get back earlier
for some poker by just sitting there on the steps and listening to a
couple sets.
I
don't have the bands name, but Rick, the lead, was very personable
and relaxed in a Key West sort of way although he lives in
California where he is also a boat captain.
Included
were these lyrics:
It's
those changes in latitudes,
Changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same.
With all of our running and all of our cunning,
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
Changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same.
With all of our running and all of our cunning,
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
The
was a song about going to Paris.
There
was some Elvis too and Buddy Holly's “Oh, Boy.”
The
drummer did a good voice imitation of John Fogarty when they sang
Credence's, “Pale Moon Rising”
Much
of the music had that island escapism theme so popular in island
music which promises happiness if we simplify and move away from the
stresses that are bothersome.
I
can feel that.
There
was a great song “Live, Laugh Love.”
During
the first set two young people danced an incredible swing. She was
petite and he was wiry but in great shape. He wrapped he up and
unrolled her in multiple turns. One time there were so many swirling
turns that it drew applause from the crowd.
It
was all graceful and fun to watch, especially when he picked this
tiny girl up and turned her head over heals, her long hair flowing
behind.
I
don't much like improvements, but the redo of the front of Monte
Carlo was very nice and allowed eating and drinking outside. Part of
me missed the old European look of the place. The columns are still
there, but it is not the same. But
in general I saw this a great improvement.
This
little theater formed by a small fountain and circular stone steps
that become seats was brilliant. What a treat to hear all this fine
music while watching the strip change from daylight to nighttime and
seeing the parade of people whooping at a song or two.
The
Key West flavored music was perfect. It felt like a little Key West
band had been plopped down in the center of the Vegas strip.
The
air was delightful. What a treat!
And
just about the time the stone seats were beginning to wear on me, I
headed back into the poker room.
And
I loved again the Latin sounds of Claudine Castro in Marilyn's Lounge
at the Eastside Cannery every Monday from 10 PM until after midnight.
Such great music and such a great community of people dancing.
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