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By Janet Evans
Monday, Nov 17 2008, 11:58 AM
Wasn’t that what the Beatles were in the first place?
Avant-garde?
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band? Magical Mystery Tour? Abbey Road? Not avant-garde?
I can’t wait to hear “Carnival of Light.” Just some warming up of instruments perhaps?
Paul…we liked you…just the way you were. Just tell us you found a jam session.
"I said it would be great to put this on because it would show we were working with really avant-garde stuff," McCartney told Radio 4's Front Row culture show in an interview to be broadcast on Thursday.
[...]
"Hit a drum then wander on to the piano, hit a few notes, just wander around. So that's what we did and then put a bit of an echo on it. It's very free."
Read the complete article HERE
Looks like the divorce and the economy may have given McCartney a reason to need a few bucks.
I call this avant-garde...
The Beatles ~ I Am The Walrus
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jun 29 2008, 07:05 PM
This was edited with captions as a birthday gift greeting for someone named April. So, it's a joke.
I always liked Joe Cocker; he's an original, alright.
I thought he was much harder to understand when he was younger, but it didn't matter so much to me when I used to listen to him a lot back in the early 70s.
But after seeing this video I just have to laugh.
I didn't realize it was that bad!
All I can say is, WoW!
Joe Cocker, "With a Little Help From My Friends." Woodstock
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jun 8 2008, 01:00 AM
The Beatles – Rain 1966
When Ringo was asked which song featured his best drumming, he said “Rain."
Rain (Lennon/McCartney)
If the rain comes they run and hide their heads
They might as well be dead
If the rain comes, if the rain comes
When the sun shines they slip into the shade
(When the sun shines down)
And drink their lemonade
(When the sun shines down)
When the sun shines, when the sun shines
Rain, I don't mind
Shine, the weather's fine
I can show you that when it starts to rain
(When the rain comes down)
Everything's the same
(When the rain comes down)
I can show you, I can show you
Rain, I don't mind
Shine, the weather's fine
Can you hear me, that when it rains and shines
(When it rains and shines)
It's just a state of mind?
(When it rains and shines)
Can you hear me, can you hear me?
Sdaeh rieht edih dna nur yeht semoc niar eht fI
(Rain)
naiR
(Rain)
enihsnuS. Gene Kelly in “Singing In The Rain." 1952
Neil Sedaka sings “Laughter In The Rain. 1975
The Everly Brothers – Cryin’ In The Rain 1962
Tina Turner - I Can't Stand The Rain 1973
Early Morning Rain – Peter, Paul & Mary 1965
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jun 1 2008, 10:04 PM
Rolling Stone did a fantastic piece on rock 'n roll guitar sound and what has made it great through the years. You just have to check this out. Below I have samples of three of their selections…Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, who's featured twice (how could he not be...could anyone play the guitar like Hendrix?) and The Rolling Stones.
Rolling Stone says, “This is what makes a great rock & roll guitar sound: an irresistible riff; a solo or jam that takes you higher every time you hear it; the final power chord that pins you to the wall and makes you hit "play" again and again."
I remember seeing Chuck Berry in concert, in Florida, in 1972 singing Johnny Be Good. He was much older than in the video below, but he sounded just the same. Check out the videos on this page (and the Go-Go dancers in Berry's video) and then go to Rolling Stone and enjoy the 40 pages of great sound and memories.
Great Rock & Roll Guitar Sound
Rolling Stone ç here
Chuck Berry Photo: Getty
1 "Johnny B. Goode"
Chuck Berry (1958)
"If you want to play rock & roll," Joe Perry told Rolling Stone in 2004, "you have to start here." Recorded 50 years ago, on January 6th, 1958, at the Chess Records studio in Chicago, Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" was the first great record about the joys and rewards of playing rock & roll guitar. It also has the single greatest rock & roll intro: a thrilling blast of high twang driven by Berry's spearing notes, followed by a rhythm part that translates a boogie-woogie piano riff for the guitar. "He could play the guitar just like a-ringing a bell," Berry sings in the first verse — a perfect description of his sound and the reverberations still running through every style of rock guitar, from the Beatles and the Stones on down. "It was beautiful, effortless, and his timing was perfection," Keith Richards has said of Berry's playing. "He is rhythm man supreme." Berry wrote often about rock & roll and why it's good for you — "Roll Over Beethoven" in 1956, "Rock and Roll Music" in '57 — but never better than in "Johnny B. Goode," a true story about how playing music on a guitar can change your life forever.
2 "Purple Haze"
The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
The riff is pure blues — the same kind of guitar figure Hendrix played nightly back on the R&B-club grind, as a sideman for Little Richard and the Isley Brothers. But in "Purple Haze," Hendrix's second British single and the first track on the U.S. version of his debut album, he declared himself a free man — "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" — and unveiled a new guitar language charged with spiritual hunger and the poetry possible in electricity and studio technology. "Guitar — you can play it or transcend it," said Neil Young when he inducted Hendrix into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. "Jimi showed me that. I heard it, felt it and wanted to do it." Hendrix wrote "Purple Haze" backstage at a London nightclub in December 1966 and recorded basic tracks with his band, the Experience, two weeks later. But the galactic travel came in overdubs recorded on February 3rd, 1967: Hendrix's solos, swimming in echo and sparkling with harmonics, were put through an octave-boosting effect and played back at twice the speed. In less than three minutes, Hendrix opened a new age of expression on his instrument.
5 "Brown Sugar"
The Rolling Stones (1971)
"Satisfaction" may be the Rolling Stones' most recognizable riff, but this Sticky Fingers hit — based on a gutbucket guitar part devised by Mick Jagger — is the band's raunchy guitar pinnacle. Keith Richards' secret weapon: He's playing a guitar that's missing its lowest string.
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Jan 22 2008, 08:15 AM
With my friend Kevin Fischer announcing it was my exciting day yesterday (thanks, Kevin!), I thought I would ponder the question....
Do people still ask, "What's your sign?"
You know, like a guy in a bar using it as a conversation ice breaker?
Are there those of you out there who look at your horoscope everyday?
Do some of you really live by those words?
When I was a teenager, which according to Kevin wasn't that long ago (thanks again, Kevin, I'm flattered) I did have an interest in that kind of thing. I even went so far as to learn how to map out a horoscope (took a class). Just a fun thing to at the time. I can't remember how to do it now.
I'm an Aquarius...the Water bearer:
Aquarians basically possess strong and attractive personalities. They fall into two principle types: one shy, sensitive, gentle and patient; the other exuberant, lively and exhibitionist, sometimes hiding the considerable depths of their character under a cloak of frivolity. Both types are strong willed and forceful in their different ways and have strong convictions, though as they seek truth above all things, they are usually honest enough to change their opinions, however firmly held, if evidence comes to light which persuades them that they have been mistaken. They have a breadth of vision that brings diverse factors into a whole, and can see both sides of an argument without shilly-shallying as to which side to take. Consequently they are unprejudiced and tolerant of other points of view. This is because they can see the validity of the argument, even if they do not accept it themselves. They are prepared to learn from everyone.
Both types are humane, frank, serious minded, genial, refined, sometimes ethereal, and idealistic, though this last quality is tempered with a sensible practicality. They are quick, active and persevering without being self-assertive, and express themselves with reason, moderation and sometimes, a dry humor.They are nearly always intelligent, concise, clear and logical. Many are strongly imaginative and psychically intuitive. When some cause or work of philanthropy inspires them, they are capable of such devotion to it that they may drive themselves to the point of exhaustion and even risk injuring their health.They need to retire from the world at times and to become temporary loners. Even in company they are fiercely independent, refusing to follow the crowd. They dislike interference by others, however helpfully intended, and will accept it only on their own terms. In spite of the often intensely magnetic, forthcoming and open personality of the more extrovert kind of Aquarian, and of their desire to help humanity, neither type makes friends easily. They do not give themselves easily - perhaps their judgment of human nature is too good for that - and are sometimes accounted cold. But once they decide that someone is worthy of their friendship or love, they can exert an almost hypnotic and irresistible mental attraction on them and will themselves become tenacious friends or lovers.
Aquarians work best in group projects, provided that they are recognized as having a leading part in them.
Okay…I can live with that.
I think most of it rings true.
How about yours?
Check out your Sign
Sun Sign Characteristics ç here
I always wondered what it would be like to put a room full of one "sign" together.
Have they ever tried that at an Astrology convention?
Separate "sun signs" in each conference room for Be Heard! sessions.
This room is all Taurus ..... a whole room full of stubborn people.
That would have to make for interesting conversation.
Video Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine and variety of other songs - The Fifth Dimension - 1971
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