Posts Tagged ‘Musical’

Simply Red - Live In London

March 9, 2010 - 4:56 am No Comments

Filmed at the legendary Lyceum Theater in London, these Simply Red performances from 1998 display Mick Hucknall’s soul vocal mastery. Backed by a set of 12 pieces, including a smoking horn section presents classic Hucknall of Simply Red, along with new material. Topics include: “Sad Old Red”, “Picture Book,” “Mellow My Mind,” “Air That I Breathe,” “It’s Only Simply Red - Live In London Love, “” Broken Man, “” So Beautiful “,” Say You Love Me, “” Stars, “” Thrill Me, “” Come to My Aid “,” To Be Free, “” The Right Thing, “” I Do not feel bad, “” Red Box “,” To Be With You, “” If You Do not Know Me By Now, “” Money’s Too Tight (To Mention) “,” Holding Back the Years “,” Something’s Got Me Started “and more.

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ABBA - The Definitive Collection

February 27, 2010 - 5:28 pm No Comments

ABBA - The Definitive Collection I find it difficult to define much of the music of ABBA. Sold as pop, but then it is not. It has a depth that pop music is not real.

This music is timeless. There is an undercurrent of sadness and life in the music of ABBA, that the basis of that reality.The videos are excellent. Of course they are dated and sometimes little awkward - not the slick pop videos face today - but that adds to it.

Agnetha still looks as sexy now as it did 30 years go when I was in my music 20s.The, well what can you say? Just listen and enjoy …

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Ambrosia - Real Artists Working

February 25, 2010 - 11:49 pm No Comments

I feel that I could not write responsibly about jazz’s cry for the simple reason that I have received during a particular (unexpectedly week) busy for me and I only saw the first five minutes. I guess I should have remained all week. However, something that was tipped Ambrosia - Real Artists Working by one respondent was that, apart from containing great jazz, politics had any influence on the narrative.

This affect me, like music of any kind for me is the purest expression of the human spirit. Therefore, any conscious use and utility of which is a kind of perversion of that spirit.

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Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

February 25, 2010 - 11:00 am No Comments

The band members of Queen would signal the death of Freddie Mercury with something that could raise awareness about AIDS and at the same time, giving fans the opportunity to celebrate the life and work of the sensational singer. This concert is both these things and more.

It is unlikely they ever will be a better tribute concert in our lives. Although this is a very diverse mix of performers ‘Roses (Guns N’, George Michael, Elton John, etc), the show really gelled with no problems. Do not get me wrong, there are some ropey moments - Roger Daltrey’s voice not to mention one, and some songs obviously work better singers than others.

But there are plenty of aspects that should make you want to see again and again. Lisa Stansfield’s “I Want To Break Free ‘and Gary Cherone (Extreme) belting out” Hammer to Fall’ stand out in particular.

The second DVD is very informative and all the band members talk about how the concert came together. This, along with some test sequences to complete an excellent DVD release.

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Live 8

February 23, 2010 - 6:34 am No Comments

For the most part, Live8 was a complete pigs ear of an event. It was badly organized, with a very questionable policy (several times I was subjected to images of starving children while she was walking in a deluge of discarded chips and fried chicken) and consisted mainly of acts of shit.

Enjoy Mariah Carey, for example - a plastic person not even exist in the same dimension as the rest of the human race (except sometimes when he returns to Earth to have a nervous breakdown), he managed to beat out a piss-poor performance of its portfolio of new litter and remain resolutely ignorant, naive and patronizing all at once. Child Joss Stone was equally poor - a croaking tone deaf with both advanced and toilet attendant, moaned his way through an incomprehensible couple of numbers dressed like Janis Joplins disabled, destitute cousin.

It was worth the wait for that, though - who took the stage and totally blew the likes of The Scissor Sisters (garbage), Coldplay (deaf) and Madonna (pretentious, chameleon-GAP-threat with teeth) completely off stage. The guitarist Pete Townshend announced his arrival on stage with a deafening roar from his Stratocaster, and then tore and Who Are You Will not Get Fooled Again (one million children watching shouted ‘hey!

Those old are doing a CSI theme tunes! . My advice - Four disc rental and treat the other acts with the contempt they so rightly deserve.

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Kinks, The - One For The Road

February 22, 2010 - 10:31 pm No Comments

Kinks, The - One For The Road It is almost impossible to overestimate the influence of British band The Kinks on modern rock. Brothers Ray and Dave Davies and their bandmates formed in 1964 in London, and soon cultivated an inventive, after the Beatles pop sound that helped define mod ‘England’ movement and youth culture was an important part of called ‘British invasion’. During the following decades of constant music production, the band continued to innovate and change their sound.

One For The Road is a fantastic musical album of the musical influence of the Kinks and growth. The video presents the songs of his long career, and includes classics like ‘Lola and Victoria, as well as some great live versions of songs by others.

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The Music Of Turlough O’Carolan

February 21, 2010 - 11:11 pm No Comments

Carolan seems to embody the image of the bards age at which was the residence of the last vestiges of old music, and the lost art of improvised poetry. His music is often seen as a link between traditional Irish melodies and baroque music, but more important is that it includes some of the most striking melodies he has composed.

Originally written for harp, these compositions are ideally suited to fingerstyle guitar. DVD In this lesson, Duck Baker teaches a wide variety of parts Carolan, from folk-like air Blind Mary to the stately Hewlett.

The mysterious and deeply melodic Planxty Kelly “The Fairy Queen was present, and Carolan’s Concerto, a complex array of popular baroque style of composition most famous bard. Titles include: Planxty Irwin, Blind Mary, Planxty Kelly, Hewlett, The Fairy Queen, and Carolan’s Concerto.

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B.B. King - Sweet Sixteen

February 15, 2010 - 4:22 pm No Comments

In 1974, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman met in Kinshasa, Zaire to fight a heavyweight championship that became known as the Rumble in the Jungle. Leon Gast was there making a documentary of the event (called When We Were Kings it s fascinating, available here and highly recommended). BB

King played for 80,000 people as part of a three-day festival of music which led the fight, Gast and captured all 45 minutes all those who only know set.For BB King in the past 15 years, prepare to be surprised . In his t ‘, the king Do not sit for the B.B. King - Sweet Sixteen show, t Do not miss their vocal signals, t Do not hang constantly in the root note for themselves.

He was passionate, expressive, inventive. The guitar is extraordinary, but really s vocal power that stands out here. , Cries, whispers, growls, sings in falsetto, and generally the belts of the song lyrics like a man on the edge.

The set list is: To Know You Is To Love You, I Got Some Outside Help I Don t Need, Why I Sing The Blues, Ain t Nobody Home, Sweet Sixteen, The Thrill Is Gone, Guess Who, and I like to live on love.

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Onedotzero - Select DVD 3

February 15, 2010 - 12:21 pm No Comments

This compilation will be appreciated by all lovers of Soul music, OK some of the video production styles seem outdated now (in particular, the flirtations) and the quality of some of the recordings are not great, but close your eyes and Music is as fresh and valid now as it was then. The compilers of this type of DVD we should be grateful, because where else can we see The Appollo Onedotzero - Select DVD 3 for example, or in fact some of the Motown acts on tape, or Major Lance, etc. This type of release is of great historical reference of a great musical genre of music and culture of the time. I have not seen Volume 1, but if the quality of the choice of acts is similar, then congratulations to all concerned and well done, and for people to think about the choice, do it now.

Now, right at

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