Ranch dip you say?
What are your favorite Dylan songs?
Ranch dip you say?
What are your favorite Dylan songs?
While not my favorite musician, Dylan's talent,influence and legacy cannot be denied so I say congratulations to him and his fans.
Looking at the list of Winners, I've only read about 12 of the 113 winners. The last one I am very familiar with is Toni Morrison.
From one legend to another:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...nap-story.html
Forget all those upstarts who just spent the last two weekends at Desert Trip in Indio: In conjunction with his 90th birthday today, rock ’n’ roll pioneer Chuck Berry has announced the release next year of his first new album in nearly 40 years.
Titled “Chuck,” the album consists largely of new songs written and produced by the man considered one of the founding fathers of rock music.
“It is a great honor to be a part of this record and the broader legacy of Chuck Berry, said Paul Roper, president of Dualtone Records, which plans to release the album at an unspecified date next year. “This body of work stands with the best of his career and will further cement Chuck as one of the greatest icons of rock and roll.”
As a singer, songwriter, guitarist and performer, Berry helped create the template for the rock ’n’ roll star still widely emulated 60 years later.
In a statement, Berry said, “This record is dedicated to my beloved Toddy,” the nickname for his wife of 68 years, Themetta Berry. “My darlin’ I’m growing old! I’ve worked on this record for a long time. Now I can hang up my shoes!”
He is backed for the album by two of his children-- guitarist Charles Berry Jr. and harmonica player Ingrid Berry. Other players include bassist Jimmy Marsala, pianist Robert Lohr and drummer Keith Robinson.
Berry has been telling interviewers for years that he was working on a new album, and he has finally completed it, having recorded in various studios around his longtime home in St. Louis. His most recent studio release prior to “Chuck” was “Rock It,” issued in 1979.
He and his band for years had a residency at the St. Louis club Blueberry Hill.
“What an honor to be part of this new music,” Charles Berry Jr. said in the same statement. “The St. Louis band — or as Dad called us, ‘The Blueberry Hill Band’ — fell right into the groove and followed his lead. These songs cover the spectrum from hard driving rockers to soulful thought provoking time capsules of a life’s work.”
Berry was among the original 10 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when it opened in 1986, and he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy in 1984. He also was a Kennedy Center Honors recipient in 2000.
Perhaps most revealing of the broad-reaching impact of genre-defining songs such as “Johnny B. Goode,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Maybellene,” “Sweet Little 16” and “Rock and Roll Music,” it was “Johnny B. Goode” that NASA chose as the only rock recording to be sent into outer space on the Voyager space probe in 1977.
“Saturday Night Live” famously poked at the idea of what response Berry’s music would have if encountered by an extraterrestrial civilization, and created a mock Time magazine cover with their message back to Earth: “Send More Chuck Berry.”
Good for Chuck!
Glad to see this. Thank you pablo!!
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
I love lyrics. The Nobel panel honoring one of the greatest lyricists for his literary contributions to the arts is fantastic.
Is he going to accept though?
Nobel panel gives up knockin’ on Dylan’s door
"The Swedish Academy says it has given up trying to reach Bob Dylan, days after it awarded him the Nobel prize in literature.
“Right now we are doing nothing. I have called and sent emails to his closest collaborator and received very friendly replies. For now, that is certainly enough,” the academy’s permanent secretary, Sara Danius, told state radio SR on Monday.
So far the American troubadour has responded with silence since he won the prize on Thursday."
"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."
I love lyrics. The Nobel panel honoring one of the greatest lyricists for his literary contributions to the arts is fantastic.
Is he going to accept though?
Nobel panel gives up knockin’ on Dylan’s door
"The Swedish Academy says it has given up trying to reach Bob Dylan, days after it awarded him the Nobel prize in literature.
“Right now we are doing nothing. I have called and sent emails to his closest collaborator and received very friendly replies. For now, that is certainly enough,” the academy’s permanent secretary, Sara Danius, told state radio SR on Monday.
So far the American troubadour has responded with silence since he won the prize on Thursday."
"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."
I just realized the other day how much a song's video can affect how much I like the song itself or at least enhance my enjoyment of the song.
There are plenty of songs that I like and can listen to on the radio or mp3 or whatever and that's fine. But the song "Sail" by Awolnation came on the radio and I recognized it but wasn't exactly sure why. Then I realized that I had watched a unofficial video of it on Youtube.
This one:Spoiler:
The song is ok, but I really like the video. I'm not even sure why. Then there are other songs where the video seems to give the song much more feeling. Johnny Cash's Hurt is one. Say Something by A Great Big World is another. I like the songs but they seem so much better watching them with the video.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Yes... there was some discussion of this as it pertains to Gee Kelly's Singin' in The Rain. It just isn't the same without the dance sequence from the movie.
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
In honor of Leonard Cohen's passing, his last hit:
Another beautiful tune.
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
http://www.factmag.com/2016/11/16/va...ectus-box-set/
Synthesizer pioneer and Blade Runner composer Vangelis has announced a huge box set that collects up some of his most important work.
Delectus will be released on February 3, 2017 and features many of his best known recordings: Earth, L’Apocalypse Des Animaux, China, See You Later, Antarctica, Mask, Opera Sauvage, Chariots of Fire, Soil Festivities and Invisible Connections, plus his collaborations with Jon Anderson of Yes (as Jon and Vangelis) – Short Stories, The Friends of Mister Cairo and Private Collection.
Sadly, some of our favorite recordings have been omitted. The release has been assembled by Polydor and Vertigo, so classic albums like Heaven & Hell, Beaubourg and of course the Blade Runner OST are conspicuously absent.
It’s far from the definitive collection, but still worth a look for Vangelis fans, not least because the reclusive genius has personally overseen the remastering. “I always welcome remastering my old work, for two basic reasons,” he explained. “Firstly, I get the opportunity to bring the sounds to today’s standards. Secondly, it gives me the chance to go through the experiences and memories of the time.”
The set will be presented in a deluxe box with rare photographs, essays and a bumper booklet about his Polydor/Vertigo career. There are also four remastered bonus tracks provided.
Delectus will be released on February 3 and can be pre-ordered now.
And speaking of Vangelis, here's a new-ish video with another electronic pioneer:
That's kind of awesome. Although I already have all his albums on CD. The bonus album of previously unreleased tracks is intriguing though.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Sweet! Are you going Pablo?
Definitely. He's only been here once and it was a huge show. This won't be anything like that, but here's what that was like:
Sweet, wish I could go but he's coming nowhere near me.
I may get to go to this though...
Moogfest 2017
Got my tix!Originally Posted by Tommy
I scored very cheap tickets to The Doobie Brothers with Chicago and Foreigner with Cheap Trick as well as Green Day and ??!
But as usual, I am more excited about the opening acts than the headliners.
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
http://www.goldenglobes.com/articles...-and-hollywood
For years, fans of Jean-Michel Jarre would have little options - other than boarding a plane for Europe - to attend one of the musician’s live concerts, celebrated for their lights and fireworks. Even though his largest to date was in Houston in 1986, attended by 1.5 million people, the creator of popular albums such as Oxygene and Equinoxe never played in America again. That's why meeting him at Amoeba, the music store in the heart of Hollywood where he came to present his latest album, Oxygene 3, felt a bit strange. But there was a reason behind it: that day, Jarre announced a tour in the USA that will start in Toronto in May 9th and will take him to Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Denver and San Francisco, to conclude in Los Angeles on May 27th. Previously, he will go back to his giant concerts playing in Masada, Israel, on April 6th. Being in Hollywood, the conversation touched on his relationship with his father, the famous composer Maurice Jarre, who was nominated to 11 Golden Globes, winning four, and his reluctance -until now- to work on his own soundtracks.
Your concert in Houston was your only American experience. Why are you coming to America now? Why did it take so long for you?
Each time we were planning to tour in America, for different reasons it was not fitting the right schedule. So on two or three occasions I was about to do it and I had to cancel it, because I was involved in some other things. And I am really happy to finally be in this country, because I love America for lots of different reasons and also my father became an American citizen and being the great soundtrack composer we know. The relationship with him had been a bit difficult through the years and it became much better at the end of his life. California and soundtracks was a little bit my father’s territory. I think psychological reasons made me postpone.
What does Hollywood mean to you?
Actually, it’s very strange, because Hollywood means to me what it means to everybody, I mean, the center of the entertainment in terms of movies and music. But also for me, it’s something quite different. My father passed away six years ago now and I feel very close to him these days, it’s a little bit like as if he was with me and just with the idea of coaching me, we are together. I spent a lot of time with this Electronica project in Hollywood, and it’s like a part of my homeland in a very strange way. I was born in Lyon, in France, but I almost feel the same kind of thing when I am in Hollywood. It’s very strange because it’s very familiar, like something close to my family actually, because this is something that is very personal and I would say even enhancing my desire to work closer to Hollywood, maybe doing soundtracks or different projects and spending more time here in Hollywood. And that’s what I am planning to do for the next two or three years.
You started by writing film music years and years ago but you haven’t done it as much once you became famous. Why did that happen?
Actually for the same reason. It’s that I always considered my career as a recording artist, by doing concerts and shows. Soundtracks, they were really my father’s territory. Actually I refused a lot of soundtracks in my life, saying okay, I leave this to my father in a sense. And I don’t know if it was a good or a bad thing, but it’s what happened. I refused lots of soundtracks actually in my life and now all that has changed. The way we are doing soundtracks these days is different, where we can see that more and more composers for current movies are using electronic music as a serious style for soundtracks and maybe that was not the case back in time, where even for Sci-Fi movies, I have always been amazed by the fact that systematically, these big movies, they were using strings and orchestras and apart from Blade Runner, most of them were conceived with a symphony orchestra. Now things have changed and I think that I have things to bring and I feel that, and I am saying this in a humble way, but I think that today, my involvement in potential soundtracks would probably be more relevant than it was before.
How was the musical relationship with your father? Because for years I thought, he is the son of Maurice Jarre and that is why he is a musician. And then I found out that it was your maternal grandfather the one who influenced you. When you met with him, did you talk music?
You know, it’s strange, almost not. We met very few times in my life. My parents split up when I was five years old and he went to America. I grew up in Europe really far away from his influence. And that was when soundtrack composers were mysterious. We are not talking about soundtrack composers as we are talking about them today. So it was really abstract what he was doing. I really grew up far away from his influence, even from a musical point of view. And because we never saw each other that much, when we were meeting, I don’t know if it was because he was a bit shy, but we never really talked about music, which is something obviously today that I regret.
Your Grammy nomination came on top of your reconnection to America. Do you feel overlooked? I mean you got another nomination before, but you have been working in this for more than fifty years. Did you ever ask yourself before, why aren’t they paying attention to what I am doing?
No, not at all. And you know, you have so many talented actors and directors who have never won an Oscar in their life and when you are thinking about Charlie Chaplin or Orson Welles, it makes you very humble. Or Ennio Morricone, who just got his first Oscar last year, so that makes you very humble. So I am not thinking like this. I mean obviously a Grammy nomination is a great honor and it’s also for me very important because it’s regarding the collaborators and the whole team working with me. But, obviously if I can get this Grammy back home, it would be a great achievement. But I am doing like lots of artists, where I am not necessarily doing music or movies to receive Oscars or Grammys and obviously if it happens that would be a good thing. But I never felt any kind of frustration before, and we know the business and it’s really a mixture of so many parameters.
I watched that video you posted of him Pablo, he's quite the entertainer.
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