Saturday, July 21, 2012
Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings - Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings perform "Folsom Prison Blues" at Farm Aid in Champaign, Illinois on September 22, 1985.
A performance from the first Farm Aid benefit concert. Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp founded Farm Aid and serve on the board of directors. The three agreed that family farmers were in dire need of assistance and decided to plan a concert for America. The show was put together in six weeks and was held on September 22, 1985 in Champaign, Illinois before a crowd of 80,000 people. It raised over $9 million for America's family farmers. Performers included Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, B.B. King, Loretta Lynn, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and many more.
Dave Matthews joined Farm Aid's Board of Directors in 2001 to help further Farm Aid's mission of keeping family farmers on their land.
For more, visit http://www.farmaid.org/youtube
George Strait - Carrying Your Love With Me
Music video by George Strait performing Carrying Your Love With Me. (C) 2004 MCA Nashville
Johnny Cash - Walk The Line
Live at San Quentin State Prison, California Department of Corrections
24 February, 1969
Tøsedrengene - Indianer
Den 21. september 2012 var det 27 år siden, at en række danske musikere samledes i Idrætsparken i København til den hidtil største rockkoncert med danske kunstnere. Koncerten var en del af en kampagne, der skulle skaffe penge til de sultende i Afrika. A Danish followup to Bob Geldorf's Live Aid concert, earlier this year, raising money for famine relief in Africa.
Bamses Venner - Lad Mig Elske Dig Igen
Bamses Venner (English: Teddy (Bear)'s Friends) is a Danish musical group that has been performing together since 1973.
Bamses Venner represented Denmark in the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest with the entry "Tænker altid på dig" (ranked 14th in 19 countries) and received 25 points.
They also recorded "Er du langsom i nat" and "I en lille båd der gynger".
In 1980, the band was composed of Flemming Jørgensen, lead vocals and bass (nicknamed "Bamse" which means "Teddy Bear"), Mogens Balle (piano/organ), Bjarne Green (guitar), and Arne Østergaard (drums). As of 2004, the band consisted of Jørgensen (vocals, bass), Peter Bødker (piano/organ/guitar), Frank Thøgersen (drums), Torben Fausø (keyboards) and Jes Kerstein (guitar). Bamses Venner sing in Danish.
Jørgensen died on January 1st, 2011, from a cardiac arrest. The rest of the band members have decided to break up after a series of planned memorial concerts.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
DuckDuckGo 101 - A Good Alternative To Google Search!
www.duckduckgo.com
search operators and tips: http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html
Welcome to DuckDuckGo 101
Duckduckgo is a search engine that prides itself on providing spam-free clean-looking results, not collecting or sharing any personal information, and giving click free information to things that you search for.
To search, just type into the search box and click the search button.
At the top, Duckduckgo gives quick information about different things related to your search term. You can click on any option to learn more. Your search results are listed below, and as mentioned before, clutter free.
One option Duckduckgo provides is a quick way to search in different ways. If you click the dropdown arrow, you have the option to search a variety of sites or you can choose how to organize your search results. For instance, if you want to search Wikipedia, click the button and input your search. Duckduckgo will forward you directly to your search on Wikipedia.
If you type an exclamation point before your search, Duckduckgo will take you directly to the website of its best guess that matches your search term. For instance, if I type in the term "apple" after the exclamation point, I will be directed to Apple.com.
A complete list of search operators is listed below in the video description.
The Best Web Browser Alternative To Firefox - FREE!
I have been having problems with the latest version of Firefox - specifically tracking issues slowing my system down - WELL, Have Palemoon up and running and you will not believe how much faster and smooth my internet is running now!!! I am absolutely IMPRESSED and am going to be posting this on all of my blogs!!!
This is open source - FREE - and I encourage anyone to make a donation if you are as impressed as I am!
So, you download the browser, THEN they have a great tool that imports all of your bookmarks, settings, add-ons, and EVERYTHING from Firefox or IE!!
I'm so tired of internet marketing tracking crap, and this is - WELL, just give it a shot!! I am so happy!! My system is running VERY noticably faster IMMEDIATELY!! AND NO! I have no connection with these guys, and am not making any money from this!! Just try it - you'll see!!! BRILLIANT!!!
Will be testing search engines, and will be finding a good alternative to google also!!!
The Pale Moon Project homepage
CCR - Who Will Stop The Rain (Eisenstaedt Historical Photo Slideshow) HD
Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 -- August 24, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his photograph of the V-J Day celebration and for his candid photographs, frequently made using a 35mm Leica camera.
Eisenstaedt was born in Dirschau (Tczew) in West Prussia, Imperial Germany in 1898. His family moved to Berlin in 1906. Eisenstaedt was fascinated by photography from his youth and began taking pictures at age 14 when he was given his first camera, an Eastman Kodak Folding Camera with roll film. Eisenstaedt served in the German Army's artillery during World War I, and was wounded in 1918. While working as a belt and button salesman in the 1920s in Weimar Germany, Eisenstaedt began taking photographs as a freelancer for the Pacific and Atlantic Photos' Berlin office in 1928. The office was taken over by Associated Press in 1931.
Eisenstaedt successfully became a full-time photographer in 1929. Four years later he photographed a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Italy. Other notable, early pictures by Eisenstaedt include his depiction of a waiter at the ice rink of the Grand Hotel in St. Moritz in 1932 and Joseph Goebbels at the League of Nations in Geneva in 1933. Although initially friendly, Goebbels scowled for the photograph when he learned that Eisenstaedt was Jewish.
Because of oppression in Hitler's Nazi Germany, Eisenstaedt emigrated to the United States in 1935 where he lived in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, for the rest of his life. He worked as a staff photographer for Life magazine from 1936 to 1972. His photos of news events and celebrities, such as Dagmar, Sophia Loren and Ernest Hemingway, appeared on 90 Life covers. Eisenstaedt was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1989 by President George Bush in a ceremony on the White House lawn.
Eisenstaedt, known as "Eisie" to his close friends, enjoyed his annual August vacations on the island of Martha's Vineyard for 50 years. During these summers, he would conduct photographic experiments, working with different lenses, filters, and prisms in natural light. Eisenstaedt was fond of Martha's Vineyard's photogenic lighthouses, and was the focus of lighthouse fundraisers organized by Vineyard Environmental Research, Institute (VERI).
Eisenstaedt's last photographs were of President Bill Clinton with wife, Hillary, and daughter, Chelsea, on August 1993, at the Granary Gallery in West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard.
Eisenstaedt died in his bed at midnight at his beloved Menemsha Inn cottage known as the "Pilot House" at age 96
Gary Wright - Dream Weaver - HD
"Dream Weaver" is a song by Gary Wright that was a hit single in the US, reaching #2 in the Billboard charts while it reached #1 in the Cash Box charts (Australia, Canada and Europe) in 1976. Taken from the album The Dream Weaver released the previous year, it features Wright on vocals and keyboards, and Jim Keltner on drums. In 1992, Gary Wright re-recorded a longer version of "Dream Weaver" for the Wayne's World movie soundtrack.
According to Gary Wright, the song was inspired by Autobiography of a Yogi, which was given to him by George Harrison. Paramhansa Yogananda's poem, God! God! God! made reference to "the idea of the mind weaving dreams." The expression "Dream Weaver" was popularized by John Lennon in 1970 in his song "God," taken from his solo album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. This song depicts Lennon's declaration that he was the dream weaver of the sixties, breaking away from the influences and dogmas that influenced his life.
"Dream Weaver" was featured in the Fox television series That '70s Show in the episode "The First Time".
Portions of "Dream Weaver" were first sampled in a short film appearing in the 1990 Wayne's World episode of Saturday Night Live, in which guest star Wayne Gretzky appears, and Wayne is picturing that song playing as he imagines himself defeating Gretzky in street hockey and then winning his wife, Janet Jones. The song would later be re-recorded for the soundtrack of the 1992 film Wayne's World.
Since then, a similar form of sampling of the song has been used to note the meeting between, or the longing of one character for another, as indicated in the 2003 movie Daddy Day Care as well as in the Pixar film Toy Story 3 when Ken first meets Barbie.
This song, and its keyboard introduction, according to Wes Craven, inspired the concept behind the film A Nightmare on Elm Street. The song has also appeared in films and television programs such as The People vs. Larry Flynt and the fifth season episode of Nip/Tuck, "Dawn Budge II"
"Dream Weaver" was also featured over the closing credits of the sixth episode of the fourth season of the classic HBO sketch comedy series "Mr. Show."
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes - HD
"Ashes to Ashes" is a song by David Bowie, released in 1980. It made #1 in the UK and was the first cut from the Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) album, also a #1 hit. As well as its musical qualities, it is noted for its innovative video, directed by Bowie and David Mallet. The lyrics revisit Bowie's Major Tom character from 1969's "Space Oddity", which he referenced once again in 1995 with "Hallo Spaceboy".
Interviewed in 1980, Bowie described the song as "a nursery rhyme. It's very much a 1980s nursery rhyme. I think 1980s nursery rhymes will have a lot to do with the 1880s/1890s nursery rhymes which are all rather horrid and had little boys with their ears being cut off and stuff like that...". Years later, Bowie said that with "Ashes to Ashes" he was "wrapping up the seventies really for myself, and that seemed a good enough epitaph for it"
Melancholic and introspective, "Ashes to Ashes" featured Bowie's reinterpretation of "a guy that's been in such an early song", namely Major Tom from his first hit in 1969, "Space Oddity". Described as "containing more messages per second" than any single released in 1980, the song also included plaintive reflections on the singer's moral and artistic journey:
I've never done good things
I've never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue
Instead of a hippie astronaut who casually slips the bonds of a crass and material world to journey beyond the stars, the song describes Major Tom as a "junkie, strung out in heaven's high, hitting an all-time low". This lyric was interpreted as a play on the title of Bowie's 1977 album Low, which charted his withdrawal inwards following his drug excesses in America a short time before, another reversal of Major Tom's original withdrawal 'outwards' or towards space.
The final lines, "My mother said, to get things done, you better not mess with Major Tom", have been compared to the verse from a nursery rhyme:
My mother said
That I never should
Play with the gypsies in the wood
Bowie himself said in an interview with NME shortly after the single's release, "It really is an ode to childhood, if you like, a popular nursery rhyme. It's about space men becoming junkies (laughs)."
Musically "Ashes to Ashes" was notable for its delicate synthetic string sound, counterpointed by hard-edged funk bass, and its complex vocal layering. Perhaps Bowie's most sophisticated sonic work to date, its choir-like textures were created by guitarist Chuck Hammer with four multi-tracked guitar synthesizers, each playing opposing chord inversions; this was underpinned by Bowie's dead-pan, chanted background voices.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Jharda the Singing Harpist - Somewhere Over the Rainbow / Wonderful World
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