One of life’s great pleasures for me is discovering new music. Now, mind you, this is rarely new in the sense of being a new group which has just broken onto the scene; in most cases, I’m discovering music, artists, or groups which have been around for some time, unbeknownst to me. One such artist…
Category: Music
About music and musicians
Alice in Wonderland
Alice Cooper was over the top, even for me — and I was a fan of King Crimson and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Never much cared for gross-out rock (vomiting blood? bat beheadings??) But as it turns out, it was — and still is — all an outrageous act; late twentieth century vaudeville, in essence. Count…
Amazing Bass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA-ZKDOoBnkLove playing bass, and am reasonably skilled at it (in my own opinion). After finding this video, I have decided I have the potential to play this well — after, oh, say, 100 or so years of practice — every day, all day … maybe. Notice how he uses an alternate string tuning to make…
Now THIS is multiculturalism…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gae-n0Pb7Q There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. — Galatians 3:28 —