Nick Offerman shares his advice for surviving 2017 in a new series for Vanity Fair, “Common Sense.”
Playing some Red Hot Chili Peppers song using an actual red hot chili pepper… and a bass guitar!
Musician Davide Biale used a red hot chili pepper to play an impressive medley of Flea‘s genre-bending bass lines from a variety of Red Hot Chili Peppers songs.
The Monkees’ “33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee” Is VERY 1960s
33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee is a television special starring the Monkees that aired on NBC on April 14, 1969. Produced by Jack Good (creator of the television series Shindig!), the musical guests on the show included Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Little Richard, the Clara Ward Singers, the Buddy Miles Express, Paul Arnold and the Moon Express, and We Three in musical performances.
Although they were billed as musical guests, Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger (alongside their then-backing band The Trinity) found themselves playing a prominent role; in fact, it can be argued that the special focused more on the guest stars (specifically, Auger and Driscoll) than the Monkees themselves. This special is notable as the Monkees’ final performance as a quartet until 1986, as Peter Tork left the group at the end of the special’s production.
The story follows Brian Auger and his assistant (Driscoll) as they take The Monkees through various stages of evolution until they are ready to brainwash the world via commercial exploitation.
https://youtu.be/uI1V9RmFX8I
Jack White Wrote A Children’s Book Based On “We’re Going to be Friends”
We’re Going to be Friends is one of The White Stripes most enduring and loved songs. With the help of illustrator Elinor Blake (aka April March), the perennial favorite feels right at home on the page as a children’s book. Coming this November, children, adults, and you, too, can join Suzy Lee as she goes to school with her books and pens, looks for bugs, shows and tells, and finds a friend.
We’re Going to be Friends is the first book by twelve-time Grammy winning musician, actor, and producer Jack White, while Elinor Blake was an animator for The Ren and Stimpy Show, Pee Wee’s Playhouse & more. As a musician, she is known as singer APRIL MARCH, who’s song “Chick Habit” was featured in Quentin Tarantino’s movie Death Proof.
The book will be released on November 7, 2017, just a few months after The White Stripes’ 20th anniversary as a band (July 14, 2017). You can pre-order it here.
Meet Christopher Hart Whose Hand Played Thing In The Addams Family Films
Christopher Hart is a professional magician who, thanks to his advanced dexterity doing sleight-of-hand tricks, landed the part of Thing in “The Addams Family” movies, as well as several other projects throughout the 90s. In nearly every film or TV show he was in, he acted only with his hands.
https://youtu.be/m9HMK5GqYhM
Jesus and Mary Chain Belgian Interview From 1986 Is The Strangest Talk You’ll See All Week
A pretty amusing interview where Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain slags off the Sex Pistols and Joy Division, Douglas Hart says very little and Bobbie Gillespie plays um….
Photos – Bush and The Kickback at Rebel in Toronto
All photos taken by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Joe Strummer’s Isolated Vocals For The Clash’s “Rock The Casbah”
The Clash’s Rock the Casbah was released in 1982, the third single from their fifth album, Combat Rock. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US (their second and last top 40 and only top 10 single in the United States) and, along with the track Mustapha Dance, it also reached number eight on the dance chart.
https://youtu.be/96dgKSHaviA?
There’s Now An App That Helps You Create A Performance Of John Cage’s 4′ 33″
4’33” was John Cage’s most famous and disruptive composition, and now it can be performed by you! Cage’s work, which teaches us that there’s no such thing as ‘silence’ (and that there’s joy to be found in paying close attention to the sounds around), is available in this official release with an app from the John Cage Trust and Cage’s long-time publisher, C.F. Peters.
Users are able to capture a three-movement ‘performance’ of the ambient sounds in their environment, and then upload and share that performance with the world. They’re also able to listen to the performances of others, and to explore a worldwide map of ever-growing performance locations.
As a bonus, the 4’33” app features a recording of the ambient sounds at play in John Cage’s last New York apartment, which he found a source of constant surprise, inspiration, and delight.