Camila Cabello joins Jimmy Fallon and The Roots in the Tonight Show Music Room to perform her international hit “Havana” with classroom instruments.
https://youtu.be/P6K9Y6FWo74
David Bowie’s Press Conference Promoting 1. Outside, London, 1995
1. Outside is a concept album first released in September, 1995 by David Bowie and was his reunion with Brian Eno, whom Bowie had worked with on his Berlin Trilogy in the 1970s. Subtitled “The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper-cycle”, Outside centres on the characters of a dystopian world on the eve of the 21st century. The album put Bowie back into the mainstream scene of rock music with its singles “The Hearts Filthy Lesson”, “Strangers When We Meet”, and “Hallo Spaceboy” (remixed by the Pet Shop Boys).
This press conference features a bit of insight into the making of the record, as Bowie and Eno visited the Gugging psychiatric hospital near Vienna, Austria in early 1994 and interviewed and photographed its patients, who were famous for their “Outsider art”. Bowie and Eno brought some of that art back with them into the studio as they worked together in March 1994, coming up with a three-hour piece that was mostly dialogue. Late in 1994, Q magazine asked Bowie to write a diary for 10 days (to later be published in the magazine), but Bowie, fearful his diary would be boring (“…going to a studio, coming home and going to bed”), instead wrote a diary for one of the fictional characters (Nathan Adler) from his earlier improvisation with Eno. Bowie said “Rather than 10 days, it became 15 years in his life!”, and became the basis for the story of 1. Outside.
https://youtu.be/cL23CRklTi0
Pat Boone, Richard Pryor, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys And More Discuss Psychedelia On CBC TV Show, 1968.
The CBC television series Let’s Go was filmed in Vancouver and aired from 1964 to 1968 aimed at teens. The program mainly shows performances and interviews with musicians. This episode looks at the psychedelic hippie culture in the city, and is hosted by a 22-year-old Bill Good
People interviewed include Pat Boone, Richard Pryor, Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Timothy Leary, Ray Charles, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and The Beach Boys.
How Much Money Would It Take To Get R.E.M. To Reform? Ummm…
REM announced their end in 2011, and this was one of three previously unheard tracks that featured on a compilation that tied in with their split. Michael Stipe says, “We had fulfilled our contract and it had become evident to us that it was time to either let it devolve into silliness, which none of us wanted, or make the difficult decision of walking away from it on our own terms and let that be that. And then spend the rest of our lives saying, ‘No, we are not going to reform, no, there’s not going to be a return concert or a tour.’ Some guy said to me last night at a cocktail party: ‘I book things for private parties. How much money would it take to put the band together for three songs? No one would ever know about it.’ I said: ‘There’s not enough money in the world.’ And he said: ‘Thank you – I’m a huge fan, and I wanted to know you couldn’t be bought.’ And I thought, that’s cool, and that’s manipulative, and fuck you. As much as we love each other and love what we did, it just shouldn’t happen.”
How INXS’ Michael Hutchence Inspired R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe
R.E.M.’s Strange Currencies, found on their Monster album came from Stipe’s ascension into rock royalty: it was inspired by Michael Hutchence of INXS. “He raised the bar for both myself and Bono. The middle eight of that is completely taken from INXS and from Michael. He was such an amazing rock star. I’m really a little embarrassed by the term rock star. When I met Andy Warhol, he called me a pop star. I said: ‘No I’m the singer in a band.’ He said: ‘No, you’re a pop star.’ ‘No, I’m not.’ OK, well, he won. As it turned out, I’m a pretty good pop star. I’m not a very good rock star – I don’t have the voice for it. I think it’s an odd thing to reach for, to be a rock star.”
Marching Band Does A Killer Cover Of Disclosure’s “You & Me”
Berlin, Görlitzer Park: Techno Marching Band MEUTE getting ready for summer with a live performance of their new version of Disclosure and Eliza Doolittle’s track You & Me, originally remixed by Flume.
Buddy Holly’s Recording Of The Telephone Conversation Between Him And His Record Label
In 1955, after opening for Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly decided to pursue a career in music. He opened for Presley three times that year; his band’s style shifted from country and western to entirely rock and roll. In October that year, when he opened for Bill Haley & His Comets, he was spotted by Nashville scout Eddie Crandall, who helped him get a contract with Decca Records.Holly’s recording sessions at Decca were produced by Owen Bradley. Unhappy with Bradley’s control in the studio and with the sound he achieved there, he went to producer Norman Petty in Clovis, New Mexico, and recorded a demo of “That’ll Be the Day”, among other songs.
But first, he had to get his songs back into his personal ownership so there wouldn’t be any confusion in the marketplace. Wait until you hear this recording Buddy made of the phone call.
https://youtu.be/qiGlIQE1AXI
System Of A Down Played On Ukuleles
The Melodicka Bros. cover System of a Down’s classic B.Y.O.B., performed entirely on a pair of ukuleles.
“Spheres”, The Short Animation Film By Norman McLaren and René Jodoin Uses Bach Played By Pianist Glenn Gould
This animated short by Norman McLaren and René Jodoin is a play on motion set against a background of multi-hued sky. Spheres of translucent pearl float weightlessly in the unlimited panorama of the sky, grouping, regrouping or colliding like the stylized burst of some atomic chain reaction. The dance is set to the musical cadences of Bach, played by pianist Glenn Gould.
“There’s No Other Way To Say It” Is A Hilarious Spoof On The Voiceover World
Director Tim Mason pulls the curtain back on the glamorous world of advertising in this short comedy about a voiceover actor trying to nail the right tone for a pair of indecisive ad creatives selling a fictitious children’s ice cream brand. Or is it a short tragedy about a pair of ad creatives trying to coax the right tone out of a distracted voiceover actor? Either way, watch as the Hog Butcher team captures the gritty reality of advertising. A can’t miss for anyone thinking about going to portfolio school or applying for a bachelor’s in Radio and Television.
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