Monday, November 15, 2010
See the photos First of all, what are we even doing here? Anna’s dad had been sitting on a timeshare for years, and he finally concluded that he was never going to use it. So he offered it to us, and we thought, great, Hawaii. Anna’s been before, but I haven’t been anywhere remotely tropical, [...]
In keeping with my posts thinking of the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix as electronic musicians, I thought I’d round out the techno-hippie trifecta with the Dead. Their fans might lean to the crunchy granola side, and they did some of their most endearing work in unplugged mode, but for the most part the Dead were [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Here’s Brian Williams’ daughter doing a live mashup of “Nature Boy” with the Mad Men theme song. Hear my remix, electronica arrangement, whatever you want to call it, with beats from Duke Ellington and Ol Dirty Bastard: mp3 download, ipod format download Moulin Rouge! opens with Ewan McGregor’s character singing “Nature Boy.” Here’s the David [...]
Filed in Composition, Music, Sampling
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Also tagged classical, david bowie, dvorak, ella fitzgerald, jazz, john coltrane, memes, moulin rouge, nat king cole, nature boy, remixes, Sampling
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See also a post about the Dead and electronic music. Whenever I play guitar, it comes out sounding a lot like Jerry Garcia. I can’t help it. From the ages of fifteen to twenty, my guitar-learning years, there was no musician I cared more about in the world than Jerry. It’s not about drugs; I’ve [...]
Filed in Autobio, Emotion, Improvisation, Key Musicians, Music, Music Business
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Also tagged audience participation, depression, design, drugs, electronica, fashion, grateful dead, guitar, janis joplin, jerry garcia, midi, sixties, steal your face, tape trading, viral marketing
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