Thursday, November 19, 2009
Gonks Go Beat
"Drum Battle featuring Ginger Baker, Bobby Graham, Alan Grindley, John Kearns, Bobby Richards, Ronnie Verrell, Andy White, Ronnie Stephenson and Arthur Mullard.
The late Bobby Graham was a top English session man. He played on thousands of records including early Kinks and Pretty Things hits. The late Ronnie Verrell was the drummer for Animal in the Muppets.
The late Ronnie Stephenson played with many top jazz stars and also did many pop sessions.
Andy White is best known for playing on the Beatles first single 'Love Me Do'."
Monday, November 16, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
The Midnight Special 1978
"The Midnight Special TV Show was hosted by Ted Nugent. Ted the Cat was introducing talkin´ with Steven Tyler from Aerosmith about the "new band" AC/DC who did support Aerosmith on their latest Tour. The Band down under did this 1978 gig with a cool Sin CIty Live performance and a few weeks later AC/DC did no more supporting tours for other bands, they were supported from this time on."
Monday, October 5, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Next on Upbeat...
Funkadelic - 'I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody's Got A Thing'
"Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications
of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!"
-George Clinton
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Headbanging While Making Fire
"Algonquin park... the music is coming from a headset close to us but the camera
hasnt picked it up.
for natural perservation of the vid we didnt edit it to put the song on it, but for ppl
interested it was "Decade of Therion" from Behemoth."
Monday, June 29, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
4 Little Girls
John Coltrane - "Alabama"
“On the Sunday morning of 15 September 1963 a dozen sticks of dynamite
were planted by white racists in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church
in Birmingham, Alabama. At 10.45am the bomb went off, killing four young
black girls aged between 11 and 14.”
“Coltrane wrote the song ‘Alabama’ in response to the bombing. He patterned
his saxophone playing on Martin Luther King’s funeral speech. Midway through
the song, mirroring the point where King transforms his mourning into a
statement of renewed determination for the struggle against racism,
Elvin Jones’s drumming rises from a whisper to a pounding rage. He wanted
this crescendo to signify the rising of the civil rights movement.”
Monday, June 1, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Dead Ant, Dead Ant
Henry Mancini with the Terry Gibbs Band - "Pink Panther Theme"
The soloists are Plas Johnson on sax, Gus Bivona on flute, and Frank Capp on Drums.
Ye-Me-Le
Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 - "Ye-Me-Le"
The brunette with the pipes is Chicago native Lani Hall (she learned Mendes' Portuguese material phonetically), who later became Herb Alpert's wife.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Dr. Who
"The original 1963 recording of the Doctor Who theme music is widely regarded as a significant and innovative piece of electronic music, recorded well before the availability of commercial synthesizers. Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop used musique concrète techniques to realize a score written by composer Ron Grainer. Each and every note was individually created by cutting, splicing, speeding up and slowing down segments of analogue tape containing recordings of a single plucked string, white noise, and the simple harmonic waveforms of test-tone oscillators which were used for calibrating equipment and rooms, not creating music. The swooping melody and pulsating bass rhythm was created by manually adjusting the pitch of oscillator banks to a carefully-timed pattern. The rhythmic hissing sounds, "bubbles" and "clouds", were created by cutting tape recordings of filtered white noise.
Once each sound had been created, it was modified. Some sounds were created at all the required pitches direct from the oscillators, others had to be repitched later by adjusting the tape playback speed and re-recording the sound onto another tape player. This process continued until every sound was available at all the required pitches. To create dynamics, the notes were re-recorded at slightly different levels.
Each individual note was then trimmed to length by cutting the tape, and stuck together in the right order. This was done for each "line" in the music - the main plucked bass, the bass slides (an organ-like tone emphasising the grace notes), the hisses, the swoops, the melody, a second melody line (a high organ-like tone used for emphasis), and the bubbles and clouds. Most of these individual bits of tape making up lines of music, complete with edits every inch, still survive.
This done, the music had to be "mixed". There were no multitrack tape machines, so rudimentary multitrack techniques were invented: each length of tape was placed on a separate tape machine and all the machines were started simultaneously and the outputs mixed together. If the machines didn't stay in sync, they started again, maybe cutting tapes slightly here and there to help. In fact, a number of "submixes" were made to ease the process - a combined bass track, combined melody track, bubble track, and hisses. Eventually, the piece was finished.
Grainer was amazed at the resulting piece of music and when he heard it, famously asked, "Did I write that?". Derbyshire modestly replied "Most of it". Unfortunately, the BBC — who wanted to keep members of the Workshop anonymous — prevented Grainer from getting Derbyshire a co-composer credit and a share of the royalties."
from wikipedia
Cooking by the Book (lil' Bigger Mix)
Cooking by the Book (lil' Bigger Mix)
Lazy Town feat. Lil Jon
Mixed by Mastgrr
Book Cooks
Booker Ervin - tenor sax
Nathan Davis - flute
Jimmy Woode - bass
Edger Bateman - drums
Pony Poindexter - alto sax
Kenny Drew - piano
Ted Curson - trumpet
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Fuckin' Slayer!
A collection of every time Slayer has said "Satan" and "Hell" in their self-written studio albums (does not include covers). "Satan" and "Hell" are said 88 times, not including the times they are repeated, such as in choruses or verses.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
i will always love you (edit)
by the awesome Ray Fenwick
Uses cuts from Youtube users Elora, j00ntje and missbeccymay singing "I Will Always
Love You" as performed by Whitney Houston.
Phil Harmonics
The Phil Harmonics performing Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse"
check out Larry Adler killing it on the mouth organ
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Good Vibrations
When somebody plays music, you listen. You just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. The point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself.
In exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences, because all experiences of any kind are vibrations coming at you. As a matter of fact, you are these vibrations, and if you really feel what is happening, the awareness you have of you and of everything else is all the same. It's a sound, a vibration, all kinds of vibrations on different bands of the spectrum. Sight vibrations, emotion vibrations, touch vibrations, sound vibrations -- all these things come together and are woven, all the senses are woven, and you are a pattern in the weaving, and that pattern is the picture of what you now feel. This is always going on, whether you pay attention to it or not.
In exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences, because all experiences of any kind are vibrations coming at you. As a matter of fact, you are these vibrations, and if you really feel what is happening, the awareness you have of you and of everything else is all the same. It's a sound, a vibration, all kinds of vibrations on different bands of the spectrum. Sight vibrations, emotion vibrations, touch vibrations, sound vibrations -- all these things come together and are woven, all the senses are woven, and you are a pattern in the weaving, and that pattern is the picture of what you now feel. This is always going on, whether you pay attention to it or not.
-Alan Watts
Saturday, April 11, 2009
That basketball was like a basketball to me
"Cheech and Chong - "Basketball Jones featuring Tyrone Shoelaces"
Cheech Marin - Tyrone Shoelaces (voice)
Darlene Love - Cheerleader (voice)
Michelle Phillips - Cheerleader (voice)
Ronnie Spector - Cheerleader (voice)
George Harrison - lead guitar
Klaus Voormann - bass
Jim Karsten - drums
Jim Keltner - percussion
Carole King - electric piano
Nicky Hopkins - piano
Tom Scott - saxophone
Billy Preston - organ
Friday, April 10, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
キャンディーズ - 暑中お見舞い申し上げます
Candies - "Syochūomimaimoushiagemasu" (Midsummer Greetings)
Ran Ito, Yoshiko Tanaka and Miki Fujimura
Hey, Christmas Tree!
Dynamo (Erland van Lidth) - "Vedro mentr'io sospiro"
from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro
The Prince of Soul
Marvin Gaye - "I Want You" - Ostend, Belgium 1981
more footage of the rehearsal
voice - marvin gaye
guitar - gordon banks
bass - deon estus
drums - doni hagan
keyboards - william bryant
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The Return of the Thin White Duke
David Bowie - "Station to Station" (feat. Adrian Belew shredding on guitar), live in Tokyo, 1978.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Everybody Skank!
How to Skank by Tony Verity with Byron Lee & The Dragonaires
Club Sombrero, Jamaica 1964
Toots & The Maytals - "Treat Me Bad" and
"She Will Never Let You Down"
Club Sombrero, Jamaica 1962
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Neil Young vs. Devo
Neil Young & Devo
Neil Young & Devo - "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)"
from Young's movie "Human Highway" (which is truly awful, but worth watching once maybe, if you're good and high), 1982
Neil Young & Devo - "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)"
from Young's movie "Human Highway" (which is truly awful, but worth watching once maybe, if you're good and high), 1982
Thursday, February 12, 2009
"...it isn't a noise, it's my language."
Miriam Makeba - "Kilimanjaro"
Bern's Salonger
Stockholm, Sweden 1966
Makeba breaks down the Xhosa language in this rad 1979
version of The Click Song.
Friday, February 6, 2009
King Jammy at the Controls
King Jammy vs Johnny Clarke - "None Shall Escape The Judgement"
Johnny Clarke live in the studio, full version.
King Jammy vs Junior Reid - "Jailhouse Rock"
"None Shall Escape the Judgement" Dubwise!
That's Bunny Lee giving advice and then busting some slick moves.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Lux Interior, R.I.P.
The Cramps - "Can Your Pussy do the Dog?"
Amsterdam, Holland - 1990
The Cramps - Napa Mental Hospital - 6.13.78
The Cramps - "Garbage Man", 1980
Monday, February 2, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Shammi Kapoor
"Dekho Ab To Kisiko Nahin Hai Khabar (Tumse Hai Dil Ko)"
Lyrics by Shailendra
Music by Shankarsinh Raghuwanshi and
Jaikishan Dayabhai Pankal (as Shankar-Jaikishan)
Sung by Asha Bhosle and S. Balbir and Shiv Dayal Batish and Mohammad Rafi
Friday, January 23, 2009
Sorry
Easybeats - "Sorry" 1966
George Young, the rhythm guitar player, is the older brother of Angus and Malcom Young and produced the first six AC/DC records.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Spice It Up, Gwon
The drummer is Gwon Sun-geun who used to play for the band Add 4 in the 1960s together with the Korean rock legend Shin Joonghyun. He has since emigrated to Canada, this particular clip is from the outtakes of recordings made for a Korean-themed program shown by a Toronto TV station in 1990. Gwon said in an interview that as there was no bass, the song sounded weak and boring, so he decided to spice it up.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Sunday, January 4, 2009
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