by Claude Debussy, played on a guitar
I am addicted to You Tube. And specifically one micro-genre of films contained within -
sung in Winterland, 1978. (Thank you, )
(Who are those people?
!)
January 21, 2007 in | : Drum kit + audio triggers > Nord Modular G2. (YouTube).
. "Playable", but two persons are needed. One for pressing the valves and one for blowing
Lou Reimuller’s invention: Teenar, The - a vintage mannequin transformed into an electric guitar
December 9, 2006 in | While working at the music and neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel/Harvard Medical School in Boston, I developed a quick online way to .
It actually turned out to be a pretty good test to check for overall pitch perception ability. The test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct. Give it a try.
(From )
Beethoven’s No. 3 in E-Flat Major
Btw, It ain't cool being , so close to Thanksgiving
November 22, 2006 in | . A series of cards featuring blues performers, illustrated by Robert Crumb.
(From )
9 indications that was a lousy soldier. 9 reasons was a waste of time, effort money
. Other musicians: (very basic), , (?
). Over 200 other at “The Smoking Gun”
The recreated in MIDI, from notes that Also, a MIDI of the
Scanned images of JS Bach’s musical scores (From the Loeb Music Library - Harvard College Library – Framed.) Also, for your reading and study, here are facsimile copies of the believed to have been made by Bach's second wife Anna Magdalena.
And,
Elsewhere: and 3 other played by Canadian guitarist . (Thank you, Kim). Also,
(Non profit organization.
From )
by Jack Hall, "The Matchstick Man"
was born after three cellists from Sheffield read about the sport of "Extreme Ironing", in which contestants iron clothes in locations such as up mountains, up trees and under water. The progression of this idea to playing the cello seemed like a natural step…
In the song Steely Dan song ‘Your Gold Teeth’ the lines are followed by a single flat note on the keyboard. I am familiar with CB and a roulade but that flat note is driving me to distraction.
Why is it there?! (A MeFi thread)
This is another post that I am “co-blogging”, this time with musician Patrick Crosley of Ottawa, Canada, who blogs at , and who provided most of today’s links.
( here.) Thank you, Patrick! If other bloggers are interested to share the forum here on , please contact me for details.
Musical score above is by John Cage: Sixty-two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham No.51. Many More Here /// ///
July 17, 2006 in , | Top fifty .
At No. 1: "Won’t Get Fooled Again," by The Who
Gallery of at Burnt Earth. (From )
Sing Along.
(Click on KFA symbol)
Repost: The music score for by John Stump. Based on a Cro-Magnon skinning chant.
May 29, 2006 in | This is the day of the expanding man,
That shape is my shade, there where I used to stand,
It seems like only yesterday, I gazed through the glass
At Ramblers, wild gamblers, that's all in the past
You call me a fool, you say it's a crazy scheme
This one's for real, I already bought the dream
So useless to ask me why, throw a kiss and say goodbye
I'll make it this time, I'm ready to cross that fine line.
..
…Obscure and sometimes teasing have given rise to sometimes considerable efforts by fans to explain the "inner meaning" of certain songs… And what does the name Steely Dan mean?
Find out in this and report below
How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?
Baka Beyond Rhythm Tree. (Site designed by ).
More at Baka Beyond, The original
The , and other Worth 1000’s creations, including these
From Cuba, The Buena Vista 2
, as performed by the two upside chins of Dustin Terrance. Other
If I Had Shot You When I First Wanted To, I'd Be Out Of Prison By Now, and some other titles
by the Japanese group Kuzu. Who are they and ?
Move over Weird Al, here comes Green E - The loving momma nature forever
Today’s “Blog of the Day” is - A Blog by Joel Sax. If you’d like to recommend an excellent, fresh blog for consideration, please email me.
April 23, 2006 in | I went to see a couple of weeks ago, and enjoyed it very much
I should be back from my vacation any day now.
If not, please call the cops. This item had been pre-posted for your enjoyment. Many More Here
January 5, 2006 in | Miro - Animated music short commissioned by MaGiC Studios, based on the Target audience are children from 3 to 5 years old
Honey, Where You Been So Long?
- . ‘Put some sugar in my bowl’
Did you know that when Brian Jones died, the Rolling Stones first offered his place in the band to the then-unknown Michael Palin? Other that you know (that are 100% false)
Coverpop, a .
An interactive mosaic, made of tiny images, such as magazine covers
. March 2, 2004, was the 100th birthday of Dr. Seuss.
On that day, I went into the production studio at Jazz90.1 with a copy of Green Eggs And Ham and a recording of the Thelonious Monk tune "Blue Monk."
Plaque marks , 30 years ago.
(From )
The Official Website, instrumental surf music
November 11, 2005 in | "How can you have your pudding if you won't eat your meat?"
There's someone in my head but it's not me; , the official homepage of the worlds No.1 Pink Floyd Tribute Band.
(From )
Explore The Miner Museum of Vintage, Exotic Just Plain
Even in New Orleans, a city known for its tolerance for the exotic and eccentric, was impossible to ignore. For more than twenty years she roamed the French Quarter, dressed in a nurse's uniform - her mission was to heal the sinners; the Word of God was her medicine. Planted at some street corner, she shouted or sang the Gospel through her megaphone and kept time with a tambourine - or, more accurately, battered Time itself with rhythms that intensified as the spirit took her
, a response to the problem of noise pollution.
The concept started as a half-baked idea, ending up in
October 13, 2005 in | Generate new compositions, with .
, ca. 1964
A , ca.
1986
September 19, 2005 in | How To Make a for $5. Also: - A pathway to a nearly forgotten world of musical magic for musicians, historians, instrument makers, collectors and all who are enchanted by bagpipes
Funky Do Morro - . Also, tells the stories behind four people living in or around the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
The Glasses used to make Finkenbeiner are made from Pure Quartz (fused silica) and contain no lead.
Instruments are completely assembled with motor and speed control
Twink, a . It's a challenge to take anything involving a toy piano seriously, but here are some . (From )
Sometimes fewer than it takes to screw in a light bulb.
Most well-known operas happen to have seven or more solo roles. Here, to satisfy the curiosity of the would-be impressario with a limited payroll, or the small group of singers wondering what they can do all by themselves, is a list of operas requiring six or fewer solo singers
Some Wikipedia’s Lists: "Am I The Only One?" List of , List of (Think "Love Shack"), List of - Note the compositions of Klaus Schulze.
(And of course, List of following the September 11, 2001 attacks; Think Pink Floyd's "Mother" and "Run Like Hell")
by Jimi Hendrix. (From - Source is often NS4W!) so he would be discharged from the army
And that's that.
Ta-da! The Aristocrats! Many More Here
August 15, 2005 in | Amazing , Calliopes Player Pianos, including Peter Jackson's new contraption
of Thelonious Monk.
(From )
, by Fredo Viola. (From )
may take the form of art, games, generative music, interactive environments, shockwave movies, etc. They could be described as "new audio visual experiences" , or multimedia experiments which explore the parameters of our new media world.
They might be described as the fusion of audio and visual output through new technologies made available for the internet. (Thank you, Michael)
from 1974 until their last show in Chicago in 1995. (From )
.
A self-reference song is a song that refers directly to itself. A song must directly refer to itself, rather than just describe a song that could fit the current song
Han Bennink wears wooden shoes, plays a Possibly the Dutchest thing ever
June 25, 2005 in | and Trans MP3s from Finland, hosted by MBAR. by Thorrific Secret Music Download
400 operas.
(From )
by Don "Buck Dharma" Roeser, Danny Miranda, and Eric Bloom. (Source is NSFW, but the only one I could find that hosts the original. If you know of a better quality copy, please let me know.
) Correction: This is Will Ferrell in a live performance with Queens of the Stone Age. How the Blue Oyster Cult parody became
(Widow? From .
This source is not safe either)
Tens of thousands of tapes, CDs and records from The
Rineke’s . Dana Countryman was the editor and publisher of “Cool and strange music” magazine. Here are the worst from his collection
.
.. For the bohemians and iconoclasts.
.. Hypnotic downtempo.
.. In The Clouds.
Everything but the . Jay C Easton and his unusual . (Thank you, Michael)
reviews - Wouldn’t it be better if the old rockers all died young?
(From ). Yes, some of the artists of the '60s are revising their hits with new lyrics to appeal to aging baby boomers. They include:
"What I Would Be Thinking About If Driving Toward a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Was Going to Be a Piano?
"
From the suburbs of Kinshasa - , African trance music made on homebuilt Instruments.
A series of The songs are analyzed note-by-note. At each note, a line is drawn.
The angle at which the line is drawn is determined by the pitch of the note and the length of the line is determined by the volume of the note. The result is a series of playful, doodle-like, linear drawings
" is, quite frankly, the best song that there ever was." Here are 32 versions of it.
(From )
exotica. A large LP collection of mostly
The Anti-Bush songs. (Thank you, Greg L.
)
The actual, maybe the original, music video of
May 8, 2005 in | : "Table Five!"
The Following tracks are orchestral and cinematic music for the by Justin R. Durban
!
How Hitachi increases memory storage
, video by Beck. (Slow loading)
April 14, 2005 in | The folks behind the album, has a blog, , containing many other winning combinations
Great , and many other at the “Great Song Stylists”. Found on the original, and NS4W, )
Enter The Super Group Portal; Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Ric Grech, and Stevie Winwood.
(From )
I need more !
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is . Gokurousama means "Thank you for your troubles" in Japanese and it is also the name of this blog.
Gokurousama celebrates and recognizes the hard work of others. Found at . I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish
March 31, 2005 in | The William P.
Gottlieb Collection, comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the , primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C. (From )
.
Everywhere you looked in the 30's. 40's, 50's and early 60's, you found singing Cowboys
A folk version of , sung by Nina Gordon (Brilliant, and comes with language warning)
Rev. Charles Martindale, known professionally as has been entertaining on the duck call since 1960
a directory with links to over 1500 free to download classical performances, sorted by composer and work
“One by one the guests arrive, The guests are coming through…”
February 26, 2005 in | Right now you can hear Playing Ennio Morricone on his homepage: The Mission, Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in America, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables, more
Someone asked Mr.
Sun if he wanted to go see The Eagles when they come to North Carolina. He almost did a scalding Starbucks spit-take. The Eagles?
They've been around for 32 years. So he got to thinking, now?
Jay-Zeezer's Mesh up - “99 Red Balloons" and "99 Problems and the bitch ain’t one.
" (From )
Most people can remember a handful of girl groups: perhaps the Supremes, the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las. But there were actually hundreds of artists, both groups and solo singers, who were part of the girl-group era from 1960-1966
Hello! Surprise!
A guide to : 195 bands listed
Windmusic by Roger Winfield, the only person in the history of the world to take an on tour
Another . “A benefit concert last year raised $36,000 for Spencer Dryden, who was facing hip replacement and heart surgery at the time and whose home had been destroyed by fire. He was diagnosed with cancer later last year”.
Why can’t they all die young?
, they were cute little kids. Including: Janis Joplin, Marilyn Manson and Courtney Love
Cole Marcus, the amazing .
Another child prodigy, 10 year-old
Tiny Tim sings , as the B-side of a single that also featured the heartwarming song "She Left Me With The Herpes". (Btw, the webmaster of “Empty Handed “ is married to who ‘Vishnu a Hare Krishna’ for the holidays, and so do I)
Like Tex-Mex, but with Yugoslavians in Sombreros instead
Taking out the leftovers - "This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song ..
."
Miqel’s hard-to-classify and : The Yokohama Knights, Gay and Straight Together- Vol.1, Korean Childrens Choir, many more
Welcome to , home to the frantic sounds of Hasil Adkins, Link Wray, the Pretty Things, the Flamin' Groovies, the Alarm Clocks, the Sonics, the Wailers, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Dale Hawkins, Ron Haydock, the Rockin' R's, Esquerita, Andre Williams, Jack Starr, the Flat Duo Jets, the Untamed Youth, the Phantom Surfers, King Uszniewicz, the Hentchmen, Wade Curtiss, Jackie the Cedrics, the Church Keys, The Dictators and loads more wildies
: On the one year anniversary of it's release, these British folks are calling for a boycott of Outkast's 'Hey Ya'
LGCMA, The , a non profit, 501-C3 organization.
(From )
, new in music. The
November 27, 2004 in | 
On a whim, I went to see Puccini’s at the Orange County Performing Center this weekend. Strangely, exactly a month ago, without any pre-planning, I took this photograph of the composer outside the home where he was was born, in Lucca.
.. I need to listen more to operas again…
Here you can hear the beautiful aria from 'Turandot', as sung by Jose Carreras, on an infinite loop, until you had enough.
A nice site of . (From Bohemian Opera, )
Elsewhere:A large resource of contemporary Louisiana,
The - Words by Robert Hunter; music by Garcia, Lesh, Weir
Stairway To Heaven – Listen to forward and in reverse, and decide for yourself
(I used to know when I lived in San Francisco in the mid-80’s. She just started as a published poet.
Now she’s a performing singer. Hello there!)
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is , vaguely inspired by Richard Brautigan and Woody Allen's 'Take the Money and Run'.
If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
(Thanks, Chau V. for the ticket!
) Our Large archives of Here
November 9, 2004 in | 
from “DrummerWorld”.
Also, a large number of detailed biographies in the sidebar. from Purdue University. How does one go about
is a band that looks like a religious sect or a hippie commune and sounds like a flowerpower musical or an updated Mamas and the Papas.
(From )
Is Pink’s ? You be the judge
Tom Waits sings on some TV show. (Long download!
) More at , I mean, “Tom Waits Fan”. By the way, you remember Tom Waits acting in “Down By Law”, “Mystery Train” and “Coffee and Cigarettes”, right? Did you know that he played in 21 movies, including Stallone’s Paradise Alley, ?
Michael Jackson has 5 of the top of all time. Total sales - 54 million copies
Rare Live Songs by . (From .
) Coincidently, last week I randomly pulled an old copy of “The Spice-box of Earth”, and started re-reading Cohen's poetry from 1968:
looking back at me,
and write this down.
October 31, 2004 in |
October 20, 2004
Many versions of the by Johann Pachelbel, collections of MIDI and MP3 files, some better than other. You have heard it first as “Rain and Tears” by Aphrodite's Child (1968 or so)!
Listen to (No last name, above. From )
Music That Americans Loved 100 Years Ago - , Broadway Show Tunes, Ragtime (and Related "Coon Songs"), and Sousa Marches. (“Note: This article may be duplicated without my permission.
”)
How to , from a person who know,
E-bay item: You are bidding on a beautiful Arp 2500 Vintage Analog : All modules work and have been calibrated. There are no scratchy pots, switches, bad bulbs, missing or loose screws, bad connectors or anything else wrong that we can find. No missing slider covers or knobs.
It truly looks and works excellently. An owner’s manual is included.
October 20, 2004 in | 
Hej henkie, you must listen to this (Dutch?
) children sing-a-long - It’s awesome, no matter what they say. (Anybody can provide some English translation or explanation below? From .
The text )
While we’re on the subject of songs in languages that are not spoken well in America, here’s
The Smile Shop is a website dedicated to Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks' , recorded in 1966 and 1967 with the Beach Boys, but never released
Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead The Band in the new documentary
September 10, 2004 in | would have written it, not to mention Glen Miller. (From )
Camp Records - The Most Outrageous (and Queerest) of the 60s. (From )
A musical tribute to a great Dutch painter, as played by the .
Also by the same band, . (Found on the one-of-a-kind - Please help him , people)
You surely always wanted to have the list of all . Now you can find out.
From
August 9, 2004 in | The complete , played by Artur Pizarro. (From )
The newly-re-designed IMDb for music,
July 19, 2004 in | Some photos of in Italy, circa 1982, and of at the home of Christopher Columbus in Santo Domingo
Wop bop a lu bop ba lop bam boom - . Repeat after us.
(From ). Also there, a charming collection of
As some of you know, was the official Rolling Stones newsletter (or "fanzine") for many years. It was founded in 1978 by a 16-year-old fan from New York named Bill German.
The Stones took him under their wing and declared Beggars Banquet their official newsletter. (From )
Two of are played at the same time, and they sound almost exactly the same
The Fresno Scene was a happening place to be in the 80's. is a photo history of 80’s Fresno hardcore
Okemah, Oklahoma.
(Photograph by Walter Smalling, October 1979)
is a gospel singer, preacher and third-generation African-American Jew. He is the
by Jan Vermeer. And a traditional music (From a )
(How many can you identify?
)
Big or small, popular or not, one thing was clear: all the way
June 5, 2004 in | - worth $3.5 million. But, who was See many of his
On March 23, we linked to the amazing “Vintage Brass Bands” site.
From the same site, here is a large
May 16, 2004 in | 
The official , and , the home of and the official (Bob Weir Band) website. Lots to discover there!
, designers of lightning, set video projections for the Grateful Dead concerts
It was 1978, and the Grateful Dead's all-night show lives on in memories, flashbacks...
The excellent blog writes about Susana Baca, an Afro-Peruvian Jazz singer (See 3/24/04 posting). He has some beautiful temporary MP3’s there. Listen to "Cardo O Ceniza".
More and some
And It`s a great day to be alive!!" (From the )
March 28, 2004 in | are Russian wooden dolls with smaller dolls stacked within the bigger ones.
Russian Legacy.com has over 1,000 different Nestling Dolls styles, from Stevie Wonder to "All the President's Dolls".
. (From ).
Sheet Music - from the University of Colorado.
And you've got no place to go...
February 28, 2004 in | . In the early 70's, Mattel devised this OPTIcal orGAN to play back the sounds of REAL instruments, encoded on celluloid discs like concentric rings of movie soundtrack..
.
Visit the rest of our here. And see how elegantly did move the and collections from the old "Grow-a-Brain" into this blog.
.. What a great job!
February 14, 2004 in | 100's of within R R, Country, Jazz, Blues Roots
20 rules for , for example, No. 2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line, like " I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town".
.. - 11/10/03
(From ) - 9/21/03.
Listen to
or Malcolm ("Alex") McDowell, after a dose of spiked Moloko ? - 7/14/03
- The complete works ! (From "The Art of the Fugue" site, which advertises itself as !
)
- Album cover spoofs, goofs and send-ups
, by Mark Guerrero, his son - 10/15/03
, a new music video from "Futureshock". Found at Eric S. Piotrowski's - 1/19/04
- 8/31/03.
Box
Many horrible album covers are making the rounds right now, but none is as terrible as the . Especially bad: Millie Jackson (Hopefully she after the photo session) and Freddy Gage's "All My Friends Are Dead" - 11/23/03
: Did they really sing "I wish they offered free California girls"? - 11/15/03
- Straight-faced or ironic?
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