Celebrity Sighting
OK, not that big a deal I guess, but I saw Ric Ocasek near Dam Square today and snapped a couple pictures with my iPhone…
sigur rós trove of beauty
The other day, I was watching - for maybe the fiftieth time - this video by sigur rós for the song “Glósóli”
It’s a stunning piece of filmmaking, for a gorgeous song, but if not for YouTube, how would one find such a thing as this? MTV doesn’t show videos anymore, and a band like sigur rós probably wouldn’t get much play even if they did, so why does sigur rós bother? Who is it for?
Well, thanks to the wonderful internetz, MTV is completely obsolete. sigur rós offers up a huge collection of videos on their website for anyone to download. And there are many more on their ftp site.
I’ll be busy with these for a while.
The Fendertones recreate The Beach Boys
My friend Jonathan pointed me to The Fendertones - a project our old boss, Tony Rose, has been working on to reconstruct The Beach Boys original recordings in live performances. Here’s the description from The Fendertones website:
No details were spared to recreate the sounds of the original recordings. Using period correct instruments, the music featured everything from marimbas and accordians to horns and strings…the keyboardist even built what is most likely the only exact replica of Paul Tanner’s electro-Theremin that he played on the original “Good Vibrations”
As my friend Jonathan put it, “So if the recording has 5 beach boys singing 3 parts each they need 15 singers to do it live, and if a 1963 Fender guitar played 2 parts and was redoubled in the recording session they need 4 1963 Fender guitars. You get the picture.”
Just in time for the holidays, here are the Fendertones doing “Little Saint Nick.”
