Bo Diddley
The News Review:
- Bo Diddley
- ut & About in York this week
- York area community calendar
- Advertising – Cablevision’s Music Channel Fuse Tries Mainstream…
- Big music from a small town
- Instruments strike chord at National Music Museum in SD
- Music is getting too loopy
Bo Diddley
Telegraph.co.uk – Jun 4, 2008
In 1934 the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago where the boy dropped the name tha and became known as Ellas McDaniel until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity. In Chicago he was an active member of his local Ebenezer Baptist Church where he played the violin becoming proficient enough for the musical director to invite him to join the orchestra with which he performed until the age of 18. He was more impressed however by the pulsating music he heard at a local Pentecostal church. Also he became interested in the guitar later remarking: “I looked around and didn’t see too many black violinists. That’s when I grabbed the guitar ’cause I seen plenty of black guitarists. ”Meanwhile he attended the Foster Vocational School but dropped out aged 15. He became known as Bo Diddley — black slang for an endearing type of bully boy — and took to playing in the streets with a small band while supporting himself in a variety of menial jobs.
ut & About in York this week
seacoastonline.com – Jun 4, 2008
Saturday June 7 at The Lobster in the Rough Route 1. There will be pony rides by Lyman Hill Farm face painting folk guitar music and a silent auction. Tour museums of ld Yorkn Saturday June 7 the Museums of ld York opens for the season. Visit the ld Gaol Emerson-Wilcox House Elizabeth Perkins House the Ramsdell House and each of these storied historic homes from 10 a.
York area community calendar
seacoastonline.com – Jun 4, 2008
Saturday June 7 at The Lobster in the Rough Route 1 York. There will be pony rides courtesy of Lyman Hill Farm face painting chiropractic screening by Dr. Chris Molda and folk guitar music. This fundraiser supports Camp CARD NE’s general scholarship fund. NATINAL TRAILS DAY AT MT. AGAMENTICUS at 9 a.
Advertising – Cablevision’s Music Channel Fuse Tries Mainstream…
New York Times – Jun 4, 2008
Fuse has tried to push the envelope with its advertising in the past. A controversial 2004 campaign featured a silhouette of a pole dancer (as well as far more risqué images) that parodied.
Big music from a small town
Prague Post – Jun 4, 2008
“I like to think that my songs have something unique to them thanks to my Slavic roots being subconsciously injected into the melodies and temperament of the music” says the singer-songwriter from his home in Tren?ín. Sometimes compared to the Smiths or Morrisey Mikloš’s music reflects the detail of David Sylvian and the dynamics of Bryan Ferry yet with mellower roots in the Slovak earth. Rather than working from an international music capital where overproduction can dilute such efforts Mikloš demonstrates the beneficial limits of a small Central European city on his 2008 release The Past of the Future (on Prague’s Starcastic Records). Speaking of the local collaborators who help sharpen his distinct and elegant sound Mikloš says “All these people belong to a community of musicians that I was lucky to become a part of after moving from Bratislava to Tren?ín five years ago. It is a small web of progressive electronic and guitar bands. ” With Mikloš and his crew closely tuned to the electronics and progressive guitar sound of England’s northern cities the major shock for most first-time listeners is in finding out he is not British… Rather than working from an international music capital where overproduction can dilute such efforts Mikloš demonstrates the beneficial limits of a small Central European city on his 2008 release The Past of the Future (on Prague’s Starcastic Records). Speaking of the local collaborators who help sharpen his distinct and elegant sound Mikloš says “All these people belong to a community of musicians that I was lucky to become a part of after moving from Bratislava to Tren?ín five years ago. It is a small web of progressive electronic and guitar bands. ” With Mikloš and his crew closely tuned to the electronics and progressive guitar sound of England’s northern cities the major shock for most first-time listeners is in finding out he is not British. As to where his Slovak pop magic meets Central Europe’s emerging second language Mikloš says “I believe that my enthusiasm to learn what my favorite English bands sing about still remains my biggest source of vocabulary phrases and in particular understanding of the workings of English. ” n further prodding Mikloš confesses “Plus I studied at an English-speaking university and in the past I lived with an English girl for a few years. ”Academic background and personal life aside Mikloš’s knack for pulling the better threads from the pop music’s weave has been a lifelong obsession.
Instruments strike chord at National Music Museum in SD
ABC News – Jun 4, 2008
getElementById(”shareThisButton”); stEntrybj. attachButton(stElement); ne visitor might be drawn to the six-string Spanish guitar on which Bob Dylan composed some of his earliest songs… Each is important to the National Music Museum which focuses on a piece’s place in musical history rather than just its beauty. “When you think of other collections especially other collections in the United States they are in art museums” says Sarah Richardson curator of musical instruments. “And so a lot of times when the instruments are collected they’re collected for their artistic value rather than their musical value. The 800 instruments on display at the museum — tucked away in the small university town of Vermillion — make up just a fraction of the more than 13500 items in its collection which museum director Andre Larson calls “by far the largest most comprehensive one anywhere now. “This is the only place really where you find all these things brought together American European and non-Western” Larson said. Many of the items were once scattered throughout Larson’s childhood home.
Music is getting too loopy
Bellevue Leader – Jun 4, 2008
For people who don’t know how this would look Liam would probably start out on drums playing a beat by itself and using a loop pedal he would loop the beat so it would play over and over. Then while the beat continues to play he would move to guitar and play a riff or chord progression looping that too. Then after a couple minutes on guitar he would move to bass loop that and then probably grab a guitar again and finally start singing a song. All of this looping can take anywhere from three to I don’t know 20 minutes. Liam is quoted in the article as saying: “It ends up sounding like a five-piece band onstage. ” Now Liam isn’t the first one to do this… People will stare in awe as they watch me jump from instrument to instrument slowly building each song for 10 minutes at a time. No one will ever get bored with that. I can see where Liam might be coming from – no one will ever be as passionate about Liam’s music as Liam so why involve them? I can even see how one might think this is a kind of next step in music. Looping allows a songwriter to take the music they hear in their head and play it live exactly like they want without having it be played by other musicians who would possibly add their own touches tainting the songwriter’s original vision. As someone who has played in several bands I think the collaborative effort put into turning one person’s vision into the expression of several people is one of the most beautiful byproducts of music. And it’s not always just one person’s vision. An entire song can spring from one long jam session between several members.
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