Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
26 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
20 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IxUsnG_sko
Everything changed the moment Dylan went electric at Newport. Dylan’s own music, folk music, rock ‘n’ roll — they all moved in new directions. And the guitar at the center of the controversy, it went silent for almost five decades … until now.
The PBS program History Detectives aired an episode that tried to determine whether Dylan’s electric axe may have wound up in the hands of Dawn Peterson, the daughter of a pilot who flew planes boarded by Dylan and other folk musicians. The forensic evidence suggests that it’s the real deal. But Dylan, through his lawyers, insists that he’s still in possession of the history-making guitar. It’s another layer of controversy that began 47 years ago.
(reprinted from Open Culture)
19 Jul 2012 1 Comment
Robbie Fulks does a moderately amazing Jerry Reed impersonation on a song Jerry would have been proud to have written.
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16 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
(Source: Open Culture)
Just four days ago, the Rolling Stones celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their first concert, which happened on July 12, 1962 at London’s Marquee club. Articles have quoted lead singer Mick Jagger as describing the crowd that evening as the kind of audience they’d expected as a band: “college students having a night out,” an “art-school kind of crowd” who “weren’t particularly demonstrative, but they appreciated and enjoyed the set.” But the Stones’ demographic would soon both shift and expand dramatically: “A few months later we were playing in front of 11 year olds who were screaming at us.” You can witness this very phenomenon in the 1964 newsreel above; perhaps all of the kids lined up outside the theater aren’t quite that young, but we’re definitely not looking at a collegiate crowd. Still, what this full house (“in fact,” the narrator says, “it could have been filled ten times over”) lacks in maturity, they make up for in raw enthusiasm.
04 Jul 2012 Leave a comment
(Reprinted from Paste magazine)
People do some crazy things while they’re in traffic; shaving, putting on makeup, reading a book, curling their hair — you get the idea. But a couple of Russians have taken what’s possible to do on the highway to an unprecedented new level with their mobile rock band.
Observe as the guy who took the video, driving down the Russian highway, comes up on a motorcycle with a rather large passenger pod attached to its side. As he moves to pass it, it turns out, lo and behold: There’s a guy playing a full drum set and a guy playing an amplified electric guitar on the platform, rocking out in hardcore fashion as they speed down the freeway.
They don’t sound all that incredible as far as technical chops go, but if what they’re doing isn’t rock ‘n’ roll, I don’t think anything is. (By the way, we’re not sure this is legal, so we don’t necessarily recommend trying it yourself.)
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