Guitar Hero/Rock Band: The Day the Music Died/Democratizing Music
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- Guitar Hero/Rock Band: The Day the Music Died/Democratizing Music
- Noby Noby Boy Site Hints At New Features
- Hank Locklin 91 dies; country singer helped usher in ‘the …
- Kenny Chesney Gets New Guitar
- At a London Exhibit Interacting With the Music
- Black Keys’ Auerbach emerges on solo debut
- MUSIC REVIEW: Free Henry soars
Guitar Hero/Rock Band: The Day the Music Died/Democratizing Music
The Perpetual Post
Why is it then that I now keep hearing diatribes defending RockBand as a way of getting kids into music. I go ballistic when I hear that. Rock music needs Guitar Hero to get kids interested in it?! Listen to me. Listen to me carefully: If you are eight years old and one Saturday morning your father turns to you and says “Listen to this Akie. ” And then he puts on Jimi Hendrix’s Foxy Lady with his stereo at peak volume. If you hear that and you don’t think its the most happeningest bad-ass thing you’ve ever heard… well then you’re just plain dead. Rock needs no gateway drug.
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Noby Noby Boy Site Hints At New Features
1UP.com
jp (yes that’s an actual URL) will yield some curious hints. The first shows four BYs playing together with BY saying “Even thought it may be offline I want to play multi-BY!”For the second dream BY says “Guitar music are good but music from catanets triangles and maracas is something I’d like to listen. ” So if you’re paying attention we could potentially be getting an offline multiplayer mode as well as more music soon. In the meantime the site also reveals that the game currently has 47685 players and that GIRL has made it all the way to the moon. Don’t worry though there’s still plenty of stretching to do — now you have to get her all the way to Mars. And maybe soon you’ll have some nice new music to accompany you.
Hank Locklin 91 dies; country singer helped usher in ‘the …
Los Angeles Times
“I’ve been blessed to have hit songs that are timeless and appeal to the generations” he said in 2001. Born Lawrence Hankins Locklin in 1918 in Florida’s timber-rich Panhandle as a teenager he played guitar and sang on radio stations across the South including the “Big D Jamboree” on KRLD in Dallas and “The Louisiana Hayride” in Shreveport La. He scored his first top 10 country hit with “The Same Sweet Girls” in 1949 and scored another chart-topper with “Let Me Be the ne” in 1953. Locklin’s 1958 recording of his song “Send Me the Pillow You Dream n” crossed over from country to U.
Kenny Chesney Gets New Guitar
Great American Country
For him to give it to me as if the songs I’ve been fortunate enough to get to sing weren’t enough well that may be one of the single greatest gifts anyone has ever given me. Mac won the Country Music Association’s Musician of the Year honor in November in recognition of his acoustic guitar work and his songwriting has impacted country fans for years. His titles include Alabama’s “ld Flame” Shenandoah’s “Two Dozen Roses” and Sawyer Brown’s “Thank God For You” among others. “Down The Road” is nominated for Vocal Event of the Year at the.
At a London Exhibit Interacting With the Music
International Herald Tribune
Music?s influence on art fashion and politics is examined. Among the artists represented are the Beatles and The Rolling Stones (of course) Cilla Black Tom Jones Cliff Richard asis Coldplay Arctic Monkeys Queen Spice Girls Elastica Motorhead and Iron Maiden. Much of the exhibit allows visitors to try their hands at drums guitar and piano accompanying musicians like KT Tunstall or Amy McDonald. There is the chance to take a singing lesson and in a dance booth catch up on any dance crazes you missed (or are nostalgic for) from the twist to vogueing. A hundred British artists have donated memorabilia and there are display cases devoted to individual artists and groups such as the Spice Girls David Bowie the Beatles and Dusty Springfield. The oldest exhibit is the trumpet played by Humphrey Lyttelton on V.
Black Keys’ Auerbach emerges on solo debut
Examiner.com
“[But] it’s amazing to be able to play music with other people and explore other ideas. It’s just a whole different thing and I think it’s good and healthy and rewarding to do that. ” Auerbach produced and engineered the record using mainly analog and vintage equipment in his home studio Akron Analog; he also played a variety of instruments including drums guitar percussion and keyboards. “This record is a mixture of things I like to listen to — psychedelia soul music and country harmonies” Auerbach told his label. The variety of instruments was part of Auerbach’s inspiration for straying from the Keys’ signature sound; he’s currently touring with Texs-based four-piece band Hacienda. “I wanted a live organic sound” said Auerbach who with his long beard and trademark jeans vest and flannel shirt tends to resemble a lumberjack more than a bluesman. “Nothing was too plotted or planned just a lot of spontaneity.
MUSIC REVIEW: Free Henry soars
Niagara Gazette
If there’s one weakness on “Summers in Neptune” it’s that lead guitarist Alex Foote isn’t featured prominently enough. Nothing against the rhythm section — bassist Derek Presti and drummer Pat Mannella more than hold their own — but the few teasingly short moments on the record where Foote’s play is featured make the listener plead for more. Granted drawn-out guitar solos are not generally featured by jam bands but in this case a bit more guitar would have been great. That in no way however diminishes the impact of this record. Calling upon rock influences with hints of jazz and blues the members of Free Henry! clearly put their all into this album. The listener can’t help but feel a bit better about life in general after taking in “Summers on Neptune” with the band’s infectious enthusiasm impossible to ignore. Although their proficiency lies in a genre that’s not exactly radio-friendly the members of Free Henry! possess more musical talent than a good deal of what now occupies the airwaves.
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