Pretty much sums up my adolescence/early adulthood/current state of existence (I’m so old I remember when being black and playing rock/punk/metal was a radical, disruptive act, etc): Bonus: Interview w/ James Spooner, director of Afro-Punk: The Movie: Also, too: Live performances (because AGGRO): Filed under: music, Uncategorized Tagged: Afro-Punk, music,
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Scripturient: Blog & Commentary: Dave Clark Five
We’re sitting on the front deck listening to British Sixties Radio, an internet radio station we like and listen to a lot, and they just played the Dave Clark Five doing Glad All Over. That song came out on the UK charts in January, 1964, reaching North America a bit
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Simon and Garfunkle
It’s true. I love them. I wish I could have had the means to go see them perform live while they were still together. But, we can make do with the magic of youtube. Filed under: Music Tagged: Simon and Garfunkel, Sound of Silence, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Everything is Carbon
Everything is carbon. Everyone's fooled when you're part of Shell's team, everything is dying, when you're living big oil's dream. #Lego— Saskboy K. (@saskboy) July 09, 2014 A little spill happens now and then, destroying life. Eerie, but awesome ad targeting LEGO's partnership with Shell: Everything is NOT awesome –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Music Trivia Interlude – Album Covers
Never noticed those before. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Album Covers, CBC Music, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Queen City Ex 2014
Buffalo Days is on in Regina, and I went on the opening day in large part because Lonestar was the headline band in the evening. The iFlip acrobats at #QCX2014 youtube.com/watch?v=yAbJ2D… You should check them out, there are very cool tricks. #Humanjuggling— Saskboy K. (@saskboy) July 31, 2014 Lonestar last
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Sonata No. 7 in D Major Op. 10
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10, No. 3, was dedicated to the Countess Anne Margarete von Browne, and written in 1798. This makes it contemporary with his three string trios of opus 9, the violin sonatas of opus 12 and the violin romance that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – “Word Crimes”
Wow, talk about turning something bad into something good. 🙂 I love this song. Thank you Weird AL. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Parody better than Original, Weird Al, Word Crimes
Continue readingwmtc: tommy ramone, and how can it be the ramones are gone from this world?
Back-to-back obituaries again. Obits are taking up a large percentage of wmtc real estate these days, yet another indication of how little I’m writing. The passing of Thomas Erdelyi this week, better known as Tommy Ramone, brings an uncomfortable reminder of mortality for people my age and younger: the last
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Ombra Mai Fu – Handel
Next on the list of pieces that I’m learning. Super extra challenging aria because of the recitative in the beginning. But, as they say, nothing worth doing is ever easy. “Ombra mai fu” is the opening aria from the 1738 opera Serse by George Frideric Handel. In the
Continue readingcartoon life: There is always one gem at Sunfest
http://youtu.be/OPFmMlzD7t0 Filed under: video Tagged: music
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Disservice – Rachmaninoff Op.3 Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, No.2
Prelude in C-sharp minor (Russian: Прелюдия), Op. 3, No. 2, is one of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s most famous compositions. It is a ternary (ABA) prelude for piano in C-sharp minor, 62 bars long, and part of a set of five pieces entitled Morceaux de fantaisie.[1] Its first performance was by the
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Fifty Years Ago
In mid-August, 1964, a modest-budget, British black-and-white comedy movie hit the theatres. And instantly exploded to being the most popular film of the year. It was the Richard Lester flick, A Hard Day’s Night, starring the young Beatles in their debut on the silver screen. It was a paradigm changer
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Dies Irae – CBC Music
Popular music? Feh! Call yourself popular when you have remained in rotation for forty human generations. Yes, this is the same CBC that our government wants to eliminate. I suggest you take action and let Harper know that CBC is a valuable Canadian institution and needs more support, not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Dies Irae – CBC Music
Popular music? Feh! Call yourself popular when you have remained in rotation for forty human generations. Yes, this is the same CBC that our government wants to eliminate. I suggest you take action and let Harper know that CBC is a valuable Canadian institution and needs more support, not
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: All By Myself – In An Airport
Here’s a very clever music video made by a Dion fan, in Vegas airport. There is some smart use of the moving sidewalk, and escalator, along with some nice video editing. Take a pair of Canadians, mix with @Vegas and @LASairport and magic ensues. Keep 'em coming south, @WestJet. vimeo.com/97634383—
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach Invention No.2 in C minor
again with Harmonic and Imitative Analysis. Filed under: Music Tagged: Bach Invention No.2 in C minor, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingThings Are Good: Band of the Month: O’Hara
Here it is, just in time…. May’s Band of the Month! O’Hara is a Montreal band that is gentle yet poignant with delicately sparse melodies, and memorable vocal hooks delivered with a wistful strength. Placed over slowly blooming, hypnotic progressions of effected guitar and violin, their songs aren’t short but
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Bach’s Invention No.1 in C Major
Listening to music is awesome. Listening to music and understanding what makes it amazing is ‘double-plus’ awesome. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Bach, Invention No.1 in C Major, Music Analysis, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: WWHWWWH
WWHWWWH is one of two formulae I need to keep in mind when working through my scales on the ukulele and guitar. The other is 2122122. I see the musicians among you already recognize what these mean. I still need to have these written on a sticky note so I
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