Bruce Springsteen played in Brisbane Thursday night. A teenager held up a sign that said he was missing school for the concert, and could he play Growin’ Up? Springsteen called the young man up on stage to play. Fifteen-year-old Nathan Testa knew the song well enough to ask The Boss, but here’s the even stranger part. This was the second time he’s been pulled from the audience. While attending a Brisbane concert with his family in 2013, Testa, then 11, was pulled on stage to play Waitin’ on a Sunny Day.
Mind-Blowing Video Of Robotics, Projection Mapping And Software Engineering Will Make You Go “Whoa”
This video was made with the help of large-scale robotics, projection mapping, software engineering. Bot & Dolly’s technology is an integrated software/ hardware platform providing innovative control of 6-axis industrial robots, and other things I am completely at ease to say I don’t understand. All the more impactful like a magician’s trick at the end of the evening, and more questions than before I started watching.
Brothers Perform Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” In Jerusalem
Brothers Aryeh and Gil Gat turn in a superb cover version of Pink Floyd’s 1975 classic Wish You Were Here on the streets of Jerusalem. One of the band’s most-loved songs, done in a style you would have never thought of.
Danish Blues Band Performs “Minnie the Moocher” In The Streets Of NYC
Danish blues rock band Brothers Moving perform an acoustic cover of Cab Calloway’s classic scat hit Minnie the Moocher at New York City’s Union Square.
Watch Rage Against The Machine’s Very First Show Back In 1991
On October 23, 1991, four men in baggy pants introduced themselves to the world, calling their band Rage Against The Machine, with a nearly hour-long set at California State University, Northridge. Within a year, their self-titled debut album would go triple platinum a year after this show.
How Harry Connick, Jr. Got His Clapping Audience Back On The Correct Beat
Have you ever been to a concert where the audience is clapping during the song, but on the wrong beat? While performing “Come By Me” during a live performance, musician Harry Connick, Jr. used a clever trick to get his audience to clap along on the correct beat. The video explains how clapping on 1 & 3 makes the song feels like it drags, because it matches the intensity of the notes that are played. When you clap on 2 & 4, though, that intensity is more even throughout the song and so it feels like it flows better rather than a stop-and-go type of feel.
https://youtu.be/–qv9SI6vws
A different explanation of the same process.
James Brown Drummer Clyde Stubblefield Dies; Take Another Listen To THAT Drum Break That Built Hip Hop
The funkiest drummer who ever lived, Clyde Stubblefield, who drummed on many of James Brown‘s most important recordings, has died. He was 73. His recordings with James Brown are considered to be some of the standard-bearers for funk drumming, including the singles “Cold Sweat”, “There Was a Time”, “I Got The Feelin'”, “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud”, “Ain’t It Funky Now”, “Mother Popcorn”, “Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved” and the album Sex Machine.
His rhythm pattern on James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” is among the world’s most sampled musical segments. It has been used for decades by hip-hop groups and rappers such as Public Enemy, Run-D.M.C., N.W.A, Raekwon, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys and Prince, and has also been used in other genres. Stubblefield was featured in the PBS documentary, Copyright Criminals, which addressed the creative and legal aspects of sampling in the music industry.
Funkadelic bassist Bootsy Collins, who played with Stubblefield in Brown’s band, wrote on Facebook, “We lost another Pillar Stone that held up the Foundation of Funk. Mr.Clyde Stubblefield has left our frequency. I am lost for words & Rythme right now. Dang Clyde! U taught me so much as I stood their watchin’ over u & Jabo while keepin’ one eye on the Godfather. We all loved U so much. (SENDOUT YR LOVE TO HIS FAMILY & FRIENDS)! Then share yr stories about this Fire breathin’ Drummer, (THE FUNKY DRUMMER)! R.I.P. From all yr Funkateers…”
Here’s THAT drum break, the beat that built hip-hop:
Why It Took Garbage’s Shirley Manson A Long Time To Call Herself An Artist
Strange Little Birds is Garbage’s latest album, released on Stunvolume, the label it collectively founded in 2012. It comes just ahead of Manson’s 50th birthday, and she says that her 20-plus years of performing have had a profound effect on both her instrument and her outlook.
“I mean, when I first started out, I didn’t even think of myself as an artist: I just thought of myself as a lucky girl who got a lucky break,” she says. “It took me a long time, arguably a decade or more, before I thought, ‘Actually, I am a musician, and I need to make music in order to be happy.’ And once I figured that out, I realized that I was a creative artist, and that changed the way I approached making music. It changed my intent, for want of a better word.”
The Function of Music, As Explained By Radiolab Host
Jad Abumrad, one of the hosts of Radiolab, explores the function of music. Produced by Mac Premo, it takes a pretty good stab at a question that would confound a lot of people.
The Function of Music with Jad Abumrad from mac premo on Vimeo.
Remember The Gong Show? It Had A Big Canadian Connection Involving Tommy Hunter
The Gong Show, which premiered on June 14, 1976, was an irreverent response to years of strait-laced variety talent shows from the likes of Ed Sullivan and Lawrence Welk. The singular Chuck Barris hosted most of the episodes of both the daytime and primetime versions of the show, where contestants had 45 seconds to impress celebrity judges before being in danger of getting “gonged” off the stage.
The idea for The Gong Show came after Tommy Hunter, “Canada’s Country Gentleman,” told producer Chris Bearde about a guy who had auditioned for his show. The idea clicked with Bearde, who then pitched the concept as a series to the CBC.
“Hunter was telling me about these guys that juggle and throw bowling pins up and they bang them on the head and they never catch them,” Bearde recalled. “Then they take four bowling pins and they throw them up in the air and they miss every one of them, and then the guy turns to them and says ‘Now I would like to do it blindfolded’ … Let’s get Hunter and dress him in a nice tuxedo, and after we get him in the tuxedo he’ll introduce all these people.” When the CBC said no, Bearde joined up with Chuck Barris to create it in the United States.