20 Years Later April 18, 2013
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Harmonica in Carnegie Hall. [VIDEO] March 17, 2013
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Virtuoso Buddy Greene elevates the lowly harmonica to classical status. Thanks to Jr Datzman.
What If Robots Designed and Played Guitars? January 30, 2013
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Thanks to Guitarist Dave Bryan. Could he be concerned that guitar players will be out-sourced to machines?
11 Obscure References in Classic Songs—Explained! January 13, 2013
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We’ve all heard these classic pop and rock hits a thousand times. But even if you know all the words, do you know what they were about?
“Hotel California,” The Eagles
“Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air”
According to the Eagles’ then-manager, “colitas” was explained to Don Henley and Glenn Frey as literally meaning “little buds” by their Mexican-American road manager, and further as Spanish slang for “marijuana.
“Bohemian Rhapsody,” Queen
“Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango?” … “Bismillah! No!”
Scaramouche is a traditional clown character featured in Italian commedia dell’arte. He is a stock character in Punch and Judy shows and often gets his head knocked off of his shoulders by Punch. The fandango is a lively couples dance usually accompanied by guitars, hand claps and castanets.
“Bismillah” is an Arabic word that means “in the name of God.” It is used at the head of almost every chapter in the Holy Quran
Pink Floyd “Dark Side of the Moon” Illusion January 12, 2013
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Originally titled “Here comes another seizure“, the disturbing background pattern used in this tremendous optical illusions comes from Tautvydas Davainis’s digital studio.
via Pulsating Nightmare Optical Illusion | Mighty Optical Illusions.
Stairway to Heaven For Led Zeppelin January 6, 2013
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If you haven’t already had the pleasure of seeing this performance at this year’s Kennedy Center Honors,, please go ahead and indulge.
Thanks to Dave Bryan for this additional insight
The wonderfully inauthentic art of America’s most vital singer-songwriter – Dylan September 15, 2012
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You can’t touch this Dylan guy. He’s not there, he’s gone, as Dylan once sang of himself. Then again, he’s easy to find: This summer, for instance, he toured state fairs across much of the U.S., at last the ramblin’, gamblin’ man he pretended to be as a clean-cut kid hanging in Greenwich Village 40 years ago. Dylan knew all along, if often only instinctively, that nothing fresh, new, or startling comes from being “authentic.” It comes from change, growth, evolution, electricity, and “selling out” to the wide world that exists beyond any blinkered, limited conception of proper culture.
Video – 5 Guys Play 1 Piano August 26, 2012
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American Wins Air Guitar World Championship August 25, 2012
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Justin “Nordic Thunder” Howard won the 17th Air Guitar World Championship in Oulu, Finland. The event drew 5,000 people to the city center to watch 18 contestants from around the world battle for the grand prize — a real guitar.
8 year-old Piano Blues Prodigy April 22, 2012
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Frankie “Sugar Chile” Robinson playing in the 1946 movie ” No Leave, No Love”, starring Van Johnson. Not only did Little Richard also record “Caladonia”, he even copied the fist and elbow showmanship. After playing for president Truman and touring Europe ,Frank Robinson would go on to get his PhD in Psychology and became a therapist.
Why a Song Can Bring Tears to Your Eye. February 13, 2012
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Why does Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ make everyone cry? Science has found the formula.
Twenty years ago, the British psychologist John Sloboda conducted a simple experiment. He asked music lovers to identify passages of songs that reliably set off a physical reaction, such as tears or goose bumps. Participants identified 20 tear-triggering passages, and when Dr. Sloboda analyzed their properties, a trend emerged: 18 contained a musical device called an “appoggiatura.”
An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. “This generates tension in the listener,” said Martin Guhn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who co-wrote a 2007 study on the subject. “When the notes return to the anticipated melody, the tension resolves, and it feels good.”
Last year, Robert Zatorre and his team of neuroscientists at McGill University reported that emotionally intense music releases dopamine in the pleasure and reward centers of the brain, similar to the effects of food, sex and drugs. This makes us feel good and motivates us to repeat the behavior.
Measuring listeners’ responses, Dr. Zatorre’s team found that the number of goose bumps observed correlated with the amount of dopamine released, even when the music was extremely sad. The results suggest that the more emotions a song provokes—whether depressing or uplifting—the more we crave the song.
via Why Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ Makes Everyone Cry – WSJ.com.
Humboldt County Hound Dog January 13, 2012
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Thanks to Bluesman from Vegas
Lennon Became a Right-Winger June 29, 2011
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John Lennon was a closet Republican, who felt a little embarrassed by his former radicalism, at the time of his death – according to the tragic Beatles star’s last personal assistant.
Fred Seaman worked alongside the music legend from 1979 to Lennon’s death at the end of 1980 and he reveals the star was a Ronald Reagan fan who enjoyed arguing with left-wing radicals who reminded him of his former self.
In new documentary Beatles Stories, Seaman tells filmmaker Seth Swirsky Lennon wasn’t the peace-loving militant fans thought he was while he was his assistant. (more…)
Video – Bach Played On Wine Glasses March 10, 2011
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Singing Hands November 12, 2010
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iPhone Band on NYC Subway Video October 16, 2010
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All of the instruments used are iPhones plugged into a sound system. The performance was on Friday October 8, 2010 aboard the New York City B Train, over the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn and edited from 3 iPhone cameras.
We Didn’t Start the Fire August 25, 2010
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We Have Traded Sound For Convenience May 11, 2010
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“People used to sit and listen to music,” Mr. Fremer said, but the increased portability has altered the way people experience recorded music. “It was an activity. It is no longer consumed as an event that you pay attention to.”
Instead, music is often carried from place to place, played in the background while the consumer does something else — exercising, commuting or cooking dinner.
The songs themselves are usually saved on the digital devices in a compressed format, often as an AAC or MP3 file. That compression shrinks the size of the file, eliminating some of the sounds and range contained on a CD while allowing more songs to be saved on the device and reducing download times.
via A Musical Revolution, With a Cost in Fidelity – NYTimes.com.
Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead February 23, 2010
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The Grateful Dead Archive, scheduled to open soon at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will be a mecca for academics of all stripes: from ethnomusicologists to philosophers, sociologists to historians. But the biggest beneficiaries may prove to be business scholars and management theorists, who are discovering that the Dead were visionary geniuses in the way they created “customer value,” promoted social networking, and did strategic business planning.
via Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead – The Atlantic (March 2010).
“Pants on the Ground” Vs. Susan Boyle January 25, 2010
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I just find it interesting that what goes viral from England is Susan Boyle singing a lament about their Lost Empire, while Brett Favre is celebrating a football play-off win with his teammates with a round of this viral song from the American version of Idol.
Les Paul & Listerine August 14, 2009
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Thanks to Dave Kalish for this gem
Why Dogs & Cats Can’t Dance, But Parrots Do April 30, 2009
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In lab studies of two parrots and close review of the YouTube videos, scientists looked for signs that animals were actually feeling the beat of music they heard.
The verdict: Some parrots did, and maybe an occasional elephant. But researchers found no evidence of that for dogs and cats, despite long exposure to people and music, nor for chimps, our closest living relatives.
Why? The truly boppin’ animals shared with people some ability to mimic sounds they hear, the researchers say. (Even elephants can do that). The brain circuitry for that ability lets people learn to talk, and evidently also to dance or tap their toes to music, suggests Aniruddh Patel of The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego.
via Boogie birdie: Animals shown to ‘dance’ to music – washingtonpost.com.
Search For The Best Grateful Dead Show April 10, 2009
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THE GRATEFUL DEAD’S live recordings represent a special order of surfeit. Nearly 2,200 Dead shows exist on tape, of the 2,350 or so that the group played. Most of those are available online — either for free streaming on Web sites like archive.org and nugs.net, , or for download on iTunes, like the “Dick’s Picks” series and the more recent “Road Trips” archival series, which uses master-tape audio sources.
Deadheads have often been polled about their favorite show, through fanzines and Web sites. The answers have stayed fairly consistent. May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall, Cornell University. The pairing of Feb. 13 and 14, 1970, at the Fillmore East in New York — perhaps the first widely traded shows.
via Music – Dissecting the Grateful Dead, Forever Live – NYTimes.com.
Serious Threats to Sirius Radio March 31, 2009
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Web outfits like Pandora, Foneshow, Stitcher, and Slacker broadcast portable and mobile content that makes Sirius look overpriced and stodgy.
Companies like the Web radio service Pandora, Foneshow, Stitcher, and Slacker—as well as traditional content providers—are broadcasting portable and mobile content that is cheaper or even free. Moreover, these upstarts can often replicate Sirius programming. One example: On Mar. 30, MLB will release an iPhone (AAPL) mobile application that will stream games live from all 30 teams—which is what Sirius customers get now—and offer video clips and live score updates for $10 for the entire season. Sirius’ subscriptions that include MLB games start at $10 a month. The new app doesn’t violate baseball’s contract with Sirius XM, which covers rights to stream games only on satellite radio.
For Sirius XM, this competition over price and content comes at the worst possible time.
Why Dogs Dig Holes, Not Music October 24, 2008
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Anyone with normal hearing can distinguish between the musical tones in a scale: do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do. We take this ability for granted, but among most mammals the feat is unparalleled.
This finding is one of many insights into the remarkable acuity of human hearing garnered by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, reported in January in the journal Nature. (more…)
