Check out this impromptu dressing room rehearsal with Mos and his horn section. Mos is one of my favorite working hip hop artists, and this is a really great sounding bunch of horn players. I like this kind of stuff caught on video, it’s cool to see behind the scenes sometimes. I guess that is one positive thing about DVDs, when they don’t get bogged down with too many stupid useless features.
Check out the kids of 1984! This is a great clip of Black Flag, and a good example of how funny it can be when you just take audio off the mixing board. I’ve had this happen in a few bands, usually when we played on the local access cable TV channel (never a good idea, never a good idea, never a good idea, although it does usually make for good late night humor). the end result in this case is you get quite a good bit of Henry “singing”, and unfortunately not nearly enough of Greg’s guitar…which if you ever saw Black Flag, was never the case. It’s still fun to watch them all, they were around the top of their game here. Being a novice bass player at the time I had much love for little Kira up there, toughing it out amongst all that testosterone, thumping away like the champ she is.
Here is a good quick video which attempts to explain just one of the modern techniques used to suck up modern music. Of course there are quite a few reasons why music sounds shittier these days and someone with more time than me can go ahead and write a thesis on it. I’ll take this opportunity to plug Waterworks Recording Studio in Tucson AZ. I’ve worked with Jim for many years and he can be an opinionated pain in the ass, but I mean that in the most flattering manner of course. He knows his shit, and he hates recording bands that suck, hell I am pretty sure he’d love to just retire altogether at this point, but he recently told me he was “cool again” and busy as hell. So call him today and get yourself a GOOD recording, from the coolest guy in hell AZ.
The Loudness War-
Seems like everyone is talking about this HBO show Flight of the Conchords. The show is a musical situation comedy featuring a band from New Zealand in NYC trying to make it. For those of us living without the benefits of HBO we’ll have to make due with the freebies…It looks great, can’t wait for it to hit DVD, or my buddy’s file server. This is my favorite clip so far.
More clips and short review from The Plugg- Flight of the Conchords
Here are a few of the great posts from around the audio Blogosphere this week-
Mashup- 90+ Essential Music Websites (I’m sure not listing Etherbomb was a simple oversight). These kind of big lists are sometimes a tad overwhelming, I prefer when they take some time to find the best of something and then write a solid review…However if you have some time to kill there is some great stuff here.
Create Digital Music- Awesomeness of Daft Punk A great post from CDM covering the goings on in the Daft Punk world of modern helmets and excellent dance music. (thnx for the return link!).
I know I am a cynical bastard, but this whole Live Earth thing just seems flat out insulting. I glanced at it as I was channel surfing and witnessed (with horror mind you), Phil Collins? Lenny Kravitz? and numerous other corpses I hoped never to see again…I mean when I think “environment” I sure think Lenny Kravitz and the Recording Industry…The only surprising thing here really is it took this long for them jump on board the “Global Warming” profit train to organize this monstrosity…oh wait it’s the Recording Industry.
Boing Boing- Live Earth music industry benefits… Big surprise here…
Templar Knight- Live Earth, Dead Naive or Just Stupid This guy sums it up rather well.
Daily Kos- Live Earth: The Posession Charge (Stupid Media Tricks), the Pledge and the Music Some point of view from the left, including an interesting note on the arrest of Al Gore’s son, and how specifically it was reported…Even they acknowledge the music sucks.
We close with this incredibly lame video from Madonna…The “Official Live Earth Video”. How fucking appropriate…Do you think she fancies herself a prophet or a poet?
Hey! Check out (click on graphic below) this nice page from “Slacker Up!” featuring a plethora of really great TV Theme songs. Way back in time, in a Galaxy far far away (soon to be even further), I played bass in a super fun combo called Cortex Bomb, and we used to do a cover of the Quincy Jones theme for Sanford and Son…damn great little tune that one.
Slacker Up- TV Theme Songs
“Streetbeater” (Sanford Theme) by Quincy Jones-
