Blues on a bagpipe
File this under something you don’t see every day – Gunhild Carling rocks a bagpipe in a way that no Scotsman ever experienced.
BritFloyd
Do you feel you were robbed because you were born too early to catch Pink Floyd live concerts? Brit Floyd is probably the closest you’ll ever get to experiencing them live. The sound is nearly perfect. I hope I can see them.
NearHear
NearHear is a very cool way to find out about music in your area. You tell it where you are, a date range, then it lists all the upcoming bands/singers on that date. Not only that, but it has a direct link to their spotify account so you can sample their music without having to leave the site.
You can also select the venue/genre you want and send that playlist to your Spotify account. Pretty darn cool.
Puddles Pity Party mashups
I have twice now missed Puddles’ visits to Portland. The first time because I didn’t learn about the concert, the second due to COVID safety measures.
I personally find his mash-ups to be some of my favorites. You’d be surprised how common song timings match random lyric selections. How about mixing Stairway to Heaven and Gilligan’s island?
Or try Folsom Prison Blues using the lyrics to Pinball Wizard:
Glass instruments
Dennis James shows us around 2 of the more unusual musical instruments – ones that require wetted hands that make their glass parts sing. The Cristal Baschet and Glass Armonica are fascinating historical glass instruments.
The Glass Armonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin and was purported to be dangerous to both players and listeners by driving them mad or even killing them.
The Cristal Baschet was developed by the French brothers Bernard and Frncois Baschet as a sculpture that could be played to produce music. They also invented an inflatable guitar and an aluminum piano.
It Must Be Him
No auto-tune, no post-processing, just wow. The passion that captures the feeling of young love. It Must Be Him – Vikki Carr
Groovy
60’s and 70’s era Japanese cinema instrumental funk
Brian Williams Raps
Journalist and anchorman Brian Williams signed off for the final time last night after 28 years with NBC. You can see his farewell from last night’s episode of The 11th Hour on MSNBC. We wish him the best in his retirement.
Over the years, Jimmy Fallon’s crew at The Tonight Show has had a lot of fun with Williams’ news footage, editing him word by word into popular rap songs.
These are genius (warning: some explicit lyrics).
Learned more in 5 minutes than 5 years of lessons…
Musicians Inspired has a great set of videos about learning the piano. I remember 2-3 years of piano lessons when I was like 10, but this guy manages to teach more in 5 minutes than I learned in 5 weeks.
Check out these videos on sight reading and playing chords.
Mary’s Theme
Some easy listening: Mary’s Theme – Stelvio Cipriani. Used in the 1969 Italian thriller film ‘Femmina ridens’/’The Laughing Woman’
The movie looks pretty epic: