What are you listening to right now?

[Perelandra]

[Perelandra]

[Perelandra]

[Elvis]

< Music from a Tree | Diego Stocco

Bravo!!


Wow, so much in this thread. I actually avoid this thread at times, fearing overload. I'm always learning new songs to play and have found at least one here:

the songs are:
The Pharaos - “The Pharaos' Theme”

Drew, I love the video--very psychedelic, actually. Also love The New Pharaos; “The Pharaos' Theme” is going into my repertoire! And, you beat me to the Walker Bros./Wrecking Crew answer, and in much fuller detail with new tunes, thanks. Scott Walker now lives somewhere not far from me, in B.C. Canada I think; my drummer friend, who is a big Walker Bros. fan, met him a couple years ago.


Allegro, thanks so much for these:

Who was composer, John Stump (d 2006),
who “arranged by accident” words and music ?

Elvis posted


Of course, someone on an electronic keyboard
with I guess a midi attempted to follow the score


^ the result begins at mark 0.41, if you wish.

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The "Faeries Aire" sheet was something I found on the Internet awhile back. Then just the other day, I was looking at it and wondering if anyone had actually tried to play it---so thanks for answering that! And I knew nothing about John Stump, thanks for the link to his son's page---Stump sounds like a real character.

Elvis : What are you listening to right now?

I consult YouTube often when there's an old song I want to transcribe or learn on guitar. Sometimes I listen over and over, for big and little things that I might want to include in my own rendition. The latest one is this:



The story of that song and that group, the T-Bones, is interesting in itself. The tune started as an Alka-Seltzer TV jingle (which some of us will actually remember), then a pop producer thought it would make a good record. He hired some, yup, "Wrecking Crew" players and recorded an album. The single was so successful they had to create a 'real band' to 'be' the T-Bones of the otherwise anonymous single. (This happened with other studio-creation "bands" but the musicians on the records seldom wanted to tour, preferring their more varied and cushier studio work; other musicians would be hired to tour and appear on TV.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_T-Bones

My versions of songs are mostly instrumentals (when I get the nerve, I'll post some in RI Guitar Club), but I've been working with a singer on some tunes, here's one I've been listening to lately. Check that forelock on the bass player! Anyway, I love the energy of this:




So much more to comment on, so many great songs, so little time!

[justdrew]

I think that's Sandy Nelson on drums in that T-bones video...




and yeah, that Outsider's song has long been a favorite

a treat...

[yossarian]

[yossarian]

[Allegro]

What Elvis wrote.
I’m really surprised with how much pop and rock history so many RIers know!
Thank You, One and All.

BTW, Elvis mentioned The Outsiders band, "Check that forelock on the bass player!" Yeah, I saw it. I wondered if that had been one of his better hair days? !

Best of luck to both Elvis and justdrew in all of your music performances and video productions!

I’m enjoying Stocco’s work, particularly the numerous rhythms and chord progressions. He knows MORE THAN FOUR CHORDS, thank the Gods almighty, and he has a good ear for rhythms, too. The latter I think is particularly engaging. In his composition with sand, we can hear, when listening closely enough, the rhythmical intricacies he so easily performed. Another good sign of a thoughtful musician from where I sit; or, another way say it: his (heart and) brain and hand coordination is easy for him, musically speaking.

< Music From Sand | Diego Stocco

VIMEO NOTES. Update 06/10/09. Music From Sand is available as a longer and high-quality mp3 download, along with a new track.

I had some sandbags in the backyard that I used in November during a rainy day. I was moving them to a different spot when I heard the noise of the sand. I thought that maybe I could try a new sound design technique so I bought some piezo film transducers and started to experiment with them.

The entire track is created only out of tuned sand tones. No additional sounds or waveforms.

I emphasized the inner notes of the sand grains and mapped them on a sampler as a series of instruments. The grooves are all played live with various techniques, including taping two piezo films to my fingers.

I’d like to dedicate this work to Mike Oldfield. When I was a child I listened to his music and it opened my mind. That experience triggered my life passion to create the means to access sounds we’ve never heard before. If you have questions or you just want to say hi please write at info@diegostocco.com

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[Allegro]

justdrew posted this
in the Halloween thread.
Love. it.


^ SuperannuatedLPS's channel

[Allegro]

^ Appel Interstellaire (or Interstellar Call) | Olivier Messiaen

[barracuda]

Hmm, page 500... let's try this one...



That's about 500, easy.

[Allegro]

Okay, RI, lets go for 501.


^ Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin


^ Hey, Look Me Over! | Lucille Ball, Paula Stewart

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[justdrew]

Khun Narin Racing harp 8

The band is "khun narin phin sing", from ban sak ngoi in phetchabun province

also...

[Elvis]

http://www.cbc.ca/vinyltap/

Friday November 2, 2012
Leiber & Stoller #1

This week Randy Bachman puts extra money in the meter as the Vinyl Tap virtual taxi stops once again in front of the 11-story Brill building at 1619 Broadway in New York for the first of two programs featuring the music of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The first big hit they co-wrote was "Hound Dog", recorded first by Big Mama Thornton and then most famously by Elvis. Jerry wrote the words and Mike wrote the music completing the song in just twelve minutes.

With the success of that song, Leiber and Stoller were off on a wild ride down the rock and roll highway as one of the most successful and influential song-writing duos in pop music.

Their hit songs have been recorded by musicians including Elvis, The Drifters, The Coasters, Ben E King, Peggy Lee, The Exciters, Stealer's Wheel and many others.

Don't get stuck in the middle or in Kansas City or even in a riot in cell block #9...tune in to the Tap.

Randy Bachman (of the Guess Who) does this terrific weekly radio show---from his living room couch with a guitar in his lap. He plays old pop music, tells stories about the songs, artists, musicians, studios and tours etc, and plays the guitar to help explain things like musical hooks, rhythms and chord changes. If you like pop music (from the 1950s through the '60s, '70s and beyond), and like hearing interesting bits of its history, this program is a must-listen.

I'm lucky enough to be able to hear Bachman's CBC show on the radio. I can usually catch it, as it airs three times (repeated twice). Tonight I listened while I cleaned the cluttered shelves & cubbyholes around my desk. If you're too far from Canada to tune in, you can listen to the shows online.

[Allegro]

http://www.cbc.ca/vinyltap/

Friday November 2, 2012
Leiber & Stoller #1

Thanks, Elvis. I'm listening now.

Drew, Very Interesting page on that Thai group. Thank You.
Here are two more authentic expressions.