February 20, 2008
Air on Bottles
Bach's Air on G String BWV 1068, as played by Eskilstuna revyn, a comedy show group in Eskilstuna, Sweden, on 31 bottles, all in different tunes. Performed live on stage in January, 2003
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February 14, 2008
♫ Gymnopédie No.1 ♫
Nick Crump's unusual music instruments
The Wall Screenplay (pdf)
Transcending horrible: Total Eclipse of the Heart (YT) as covered by Legion of rock stars, a cover band that does “such lousy job with the source material that it becomes oddly hilarious”. (Choice of 179 videos. Via The in-between)
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January 19, 2008
Clapton is God
Jamba - Mr. Chaos (Figaro)
Search for words or phrases in Grateful Dead and related songs at The Grateful Dead Lyric And Song Finder
For J-Walk: Jozin z bazin Mladek & Banjo Band. (From Szanalmas)
World's Oldest Guitar has been attributed to Belchior Diaz, a Portugese builder who probably made the instrument around 1590. Also, oldest extant Gibson Harp Guitar
Clapton is God - The phrase was spray-painted by an admirer on a wall in an Islington Underground station in the autumn of 1967
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December 16, 2007
Music from the Beard
Thomas Lang chair solo - Some intense drumming (YT)
Hermeto Pascoal is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. Here he plays Music from the Beard
The archive of all the places mentioned in Tom Waits songs
The Wet Riff (Some submissions not work-safe)
Slate’s Ron Rosenbaum on the Best Song Ever by Joni Mitchell
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December 05, 2007
A wound that will never heal -
Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon did
Got what I paid for now
See ya tomorrow, hey Frank can I borrow
A couple of bucks from you?
To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go a waltzing Matilda with me
I'm an innocent victim of a blinded alley
And tired of all these soldiers here
No one speaks English and everything's broken
And my Stacys are soaking wet
To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go a waltzing Matilda with me
Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cab's parking
A lot they can do for me
I begged you to stab me, you tore my shirt open
And I'm down on my knees tonight
Old Bushmill's I staggered, you buried the dagger
Your silhouette window light
To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go a waltzing Matilda with me
Now I lost my Saint Christopher now that I've kissed her
And the one-armed bandit knows
And the maverick Chinaman and the cold-blooded signs
And the girls down by the strip-tease shows
Go, waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go a waltzing Matilda with me
No, I don't want your sympathy
The fugitives say that the streets aren't for dreaming now
Manslaughter dragnets and the ghosts that sell memories
They want a piece of the action anyhow
Go, waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go a waltzing Matilda with me
And you can ask any sailor and the keys from the jailor
And the old men in wheelchairs know
That Matilda's the defendant, she killed about a hundred
And she follows wherever you may go
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
You'll go a waltzing Matilda with me
And it's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace
And a wound that will never heal
No prima donna, the perfume is on
An old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey
And goodnight to the street sweepers
The night watchman flame keepers and goodnight to Matilda too
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November 25, 2007
Wife Swapping Party Music (1971)
Chopin, Nocturne, opus 27 #2, with harmonic interval types shown with colored lines. (YT)
The fading footprints of Billie Holiday's in Baltimore and in Washington, DC
Wife Swapping Swinger's Orgy Porgy Party (Audio Stag, AS1004, 1971)
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November 20, 2007
Water drumming
An Insider's Look at the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound
The YouTube page of 78Man with 505 videos of 78 records playing
Guinness World Record Todd Taylor Fastest Banjo
Stig Pedersen and his crazy two string basses
The art of matching Album covers
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September 23, 2007
The Sultan of Smooth Soul
Another version of this Barry White tune on YT
Real Time speed portrait of Pavarotti
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September 10, 2007
The Cat's Meow
Behind the photo shoot that created the impossible 1978 Grace Jones image by her husband-to-be Jean-Paul Goude (YT)
A cat piano or Katzenklavier is a hypothetical musical instrument consisting of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard. Nails would be placed under the keys, causing the cats to cry out in pain when a key was pressed. The cats would be arranged according to the natural tone of their voices. (wikipedia)
The lyrics to "Around The World" by Daft Punk (Previously seen Charleston Style)
The Real Tragedy Behind Larry Craig's Men's room arrest: The Death of The Singing Senators (With a YouTube clip)
Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham - Monkey drummer
Jimi Hendrix Made Out Of Matches
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August 25, 2007
O Fortuna
A gallery of analog audio tape cassette tapes
Earl Scruggs & Doc Watson play John Hardy (YT)
The complete Carmina Burana, in MIDI file format
A German baroque composer with a ridiculously long name. (From Swiss Miss)
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August 11, 2007
"I have a fridge full of pork chops"
Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast from Atom Heart Mother (YT)
See Emily Play
Besides the music, arguably the most important and certainly the most elaborate part to any Pink Floyd live show is the special effects
The many versions of Ravel’s Bolero, at "Frogsmok"
Just what every white suburban pre-teen wants, Mexican Folk Songs that they can sing along with. There's something almost disturbing about how much fun these kids seem to be having. Maybe the photo was cropped just enough to hide the bottle of tequila they've been sharing throughout side 1
Historic postcards with motives from Wagner's Tannhäuser
(Ooops, I pre-publish all my posts nowadays, and this one was was pre-posted with the wrong time stamp...)
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August 04, 2007
Shine on
Tom Rush’s Remember Song. (Also on YouTube. Thank you, Mika!)
The Ultimate Leonard Nimoy Music Site
Is there anybody out there? (Also, Us And Them). Pink Floyd Trivia
A disturbing musical instrument (You may have to scroll down)
Keith Richards throwing a TV from a hotel balcony
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July 31, 2007
Blues compendium with madamjujujive
The Roots Music Listening Room. (Out of consideration for others, please only download/listen to about 35-40 songs in one day)
Flip the Frog in Killing Floor. A mashup of Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" with Ub Iwerk's "Fiddlesticks". Also, Moosin' Around with Skip James
Everyday I have the Blues, hosted by Paul Fields. Daily shows are four hours and feature diverse blends of blues: Chicago, Texas, Memphis, St Louis, West Coast, and Acoustic, with knowledgeable, insightful commentary and critiques. Shows start at 8 AM Central and loop for 24 hours
You're about to take a trip inside the places where the blues began. I'm not talking about white people blues bars filled with college students. I'm talking about edge-of-a-cotton-field juke joints filled with real Delta folks. Junior's Juke Joint
Shack Up Inn - Shotgun shacks in Clarksdale Mississippi
Surreal Kid Koala in Basin Street Blues
Sold my soul, sold it to the Devil and my heart done turned to stone
I sold my soul, sold it to the Devil, he won't let me alone:
Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo. (From Lucky Mojo)
Take the free tour at the Sun Studio for some blues and early rock & roll music clips & lore
The men who invented the Blues Harp Sound, Blues Harp Legends
The Wah-wah foot fashion show. Also, a gallery of Hottie Amps
George Bush Blues and The Talkin George W Bush Paranoid Blues
Honky Tonks, Hymns and the Blues
A Virtual Tour of the Final Resting Places of Blues Musicians
Learn the blues lingo
Trail of the Hellhound - Delta Blues in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Photographs by Terry Cryer. Also, Dragan Tasic’s Jazz and Blues Photogallery
Stones in my Pathway, photographs of the North Mississippi areas by Bill Steber
Bunnie Bass - Amusing bass guitars gallery
Some YouTube Clips:
Billie Holiday - Fine and Mellow, 1944
Sonny Boy Willimiamson - Keep it to yourself
Lightnin Hopkins - Mojo hand
Big Mama Thornton w/Buddy Guy - You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog
Howlin Wolf - Shake It for Me
Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call
The trailer to The Blues Brothers
Etta James & Dr John - I'd Rather Go Blind
John Lee Hooker - I'm Bad Like Jesse James
Miles Davis - Red China Blues. (The music and image doesn't have direct relation)
Eric Clapton - Driftin' Blues
Booker White - Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
B.B. King & Shemekia Copeland - Everyday I Have The Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood
This is another post that I am “co-blogging”, this time with madamjujujive who blogs at Everlasting Blort and MetaFilter, and who provided (just about all) of today’s links. Thank you, Madam! (All previous co-bloggers archived here.) If other creative types are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.
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July 18, 2007
Bach Partita No.6
About Glenn Gould's Eccentricities
Ibrahim Ferrer at The “Mi Sueño Tour”. (Also YT)
The world's greatest LP album covers, 45s too
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July 06, 2007
Ray Charles in colors
More of Dan Dunn's Improvisational Painting Performances
Double Bohemian Rhapsody on the new "YouTube Doubler" Beta
The Israeli Adler Trio are considered to be one of the leading harmonica trios in the world
"Absolutely under no circumstance, you are allowed to play Stairway to Heaven while trying out guitars..."
A rich collection of swing and retro scenes around the world, at “Heptown”
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