Saturday, June 6, 2009

Better cover version---> Sunless "Paint It Black"

Best I ever heard!

Anamals cover version of Stones "Paint it black"

TY Eric Burdon :-)

Wimmin drivers compilation...

Kelly Bundy Tribute

Smartest blonde on the planet:

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

No comment!

B-52's



Bonus:

Supertramp - From now on

Just a fantastic song!
From now on...


Bonus:
Hide in your shell...

I think I only listened to these with one person, still love ya too Kim!

I love this song but I wish the lady would stop yellin at him.

She sounds mean!


Posted as "Classic Rock"

Friday, June 5, 2009

Sexy Granny


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"Boulevard of broken dreams" Green Day

Even Better! "9 Year Old Turns Plastic Bottles Into Benches !"

Katey Curry is fantastic!

"We do not inherit the earth from our parents!"
"We Borrow the earth from our children..."

Recycling Milk Jugs into Fencing

This is amazing!

Laura Branigan

This is NOT Vicki Sue Robenson. It's Laura Branigan. Why I posted it is for the solo's. The music is beyond the song. I think you'll like it...

Dern-it! Wrong post, here is good one....

Thursday, June 4, 2009

This is true...

This might sound kinda strange but I can be legally deaf if I wanted to be. I don't want to be because as I said to idiot doctor "Why in hell would I ever want to be deaf?" His reply was "You can get benefits, most people want them".

It is true that in hearing I miss allot but the sounds I miss I don't know anyway. Result is I don't care.

My point?

I love music but I love music on my feet, in my cup, on my table and in the breeze. I think sometimes I feel more than I hear but I love feeling it.

Advantage is I miss some of the bad squeeks, blurps and inaudible sounds that piss others off, but I can live with that and still don't care...

Peace!
Funk!

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

This is BS, but amusing

Dracula... etc...

Tribute to Love...

http://www.janson.com/television/show...
This musical special celebrates the songs of the revered pop-rock group of the late 60s and early 70s. It blends full-performance clips, rare home movies, exclusive interviews with members Michelle Phillips, John Phillips, and Denny Doherty, and vintage footage of the late Mama Cass Elliot. The hit songs featured include Monday, Monday, Dedicated to the One I Love, California Dreamin', and their version of the Beatles classic Nowhere Man.


They were and still the voice of love. I still remember being 4 & 5 years old and thinking "they sing ablout love of autumn leaves"? Wow!

One fine Mamma!!!

Offline 90 minute message to a friend...

Funk: 100 offlines comin up. Cry if you wanna but nobody's gonna listen to you anyway. Read em or delete em, yer pleasure is my reprise...
Funk: 001: Sex is almost like reality, pffft... "yea right!"
Funk: 002: Honesty is fake sugar, powdered cream in yer coffee and dehydrated blueberries in yer muffin.
Funk: 003: Jealousy is the fear of what you want to be and the fear of what you are not.
Funk: 004: Sometimes a mile you walked was really just a block.
Funk: 005: Justice is just urgency or a claim to what is right.
Funk: 006: Contempt is an anger within over something you denied
Funk: 007: pfft... 007 is a number between 6 and 9
Funk: 008: This is newliness, it is the begining of life
Funk: 009: This is the second step, where the world had fell into disgrace.
Funk: 010: It is the urgency, created thunder and split the lands.
Funk: 011: It was a time of peace when no man yet ruled no man.
Funk: 012: Complacency, even if I spelled it wrong it's true.
Funk: 013: It was a day of kings and a day when kings were true
Funk: 014: A law and a silent thing, beginnings and nothing more.
Funk: 015: A kingdom began itself while fish swam in the sea.
Funk: 016: Became two governments, began of what I dare not say...
Funk: 017: There came a voice of sorts, wandered awkward in the night
Funk: 019: Some died I guess. Stones split in half that night.
Funk: 020: There was a fire then, poison blessed inside the graves.
Funk: 021: Someone told me no, but my words could hush no more.
Funk: 022: Came a nephew then and his hair was blackened silk.
Funk: 023: Someone died, I am not sure but someone died today.
Funk: 024: A love, a kind of love.
Funk: 025: Was cold, was hard, they froze and froze with a guilt of shame on them.
Funk: 026: A king was born that night, nobody knows his name yet still.
Funk: 027: Was springtime for the world, blessings ever bound;
Funk: 028: A wound began to heal and life began to change'
Funk: 029: That wound became a man and then he began to change.
Funk: 030: The pot it boiled hard and flowed beyond it's rim.
Funk: 031: Observed as it was that it could not be contained, the air filled at once with fear!
Funk: 032: Stones flew about the world, yet one stone lay there unthrown.
Funk: 033: A song sang from everything, frogs sang with the sparrows.
Funk: 034: The Sun opened the skies once more.
Funk: 044: God shown his grace on us.
Funk: 045: A silent lamb he went to flock among sheep in naked field.
Funk: 046: Was time to cry I guess because time has been revealed.
Funk: 047: Now pause as the universe it did...
Funk: 048: Let an ear hear or eye can see.
Funk: 049: is points and pointless now, let the warrent take it's pride
Funk: 050: Let blood fall on our feet, let silence take its aim
Funk: 051: Is goth and frozen feet, is frozen and abate.
Funk: 052: Next comes the urgency.
Funk: 053: Let it come some more.
Funk: 054: Now blood flows back from the earth, let spirit take it's form.
Funk: 055: Death defeated now, I laugh an so should you!
Funk: 056: But death returns somehow, only in jest but it feels real.
Funk: 057: The beginning of the end of everything. Kiss my ass an I'll kiss yers!
Funk: 058: The end of everything. My family lost it's soul
Funk: 059: My future lays at those hands, at least they think
Funk: 060: A death and awakening and a Man like me was born.
Funk: 061: A song or a fondness of, but a time to pray or hope.
Funk: 062: More walk on muddy streams, so much in shame it's true!
Funk: 063: Questions: "is death real, forever real?"
Funk: 064: I think it's real, but is life real too?
Funk: 065: Why is that asshole singing about my fears?
Funk: 066: He has the same ones, I'm not alone as I thought I was I guess.
Funk: 067: I need, really need love, really need love or I kill myself!
Funk: 068: I need to think about 001 and the world because,,, it aint about me.
Funk: 069: "Please Dear God Posess Me, I'm lost!"
Funk: 070: I'll make you proud of me and be a man.
Funk: 071: She's not so beautiful but I love her.
Funk: 072: "My Son!"
Funk: 073: I'm looking at a world thousands of years old alone and afraid and I love this child???
Funk: 074: I need help!
Funk: 075: Cocaine helps
Funk: 076: I'm gonna fail
Funk: 077: I fukked up
Funk: 078: I try to kill myself because I'm tough and tough enough to do it because I am too tough for shame....
Funk: 079: I'm still an idiot
Funk: 080: Just lost
Funk: 081: I'm not even real anymore, mother dieing and I'm a fragment.
Funk: 082: I fight everyone
Funk: 083: I get worse
Funk: 084: Even worse
Funk: 085: Now life is fukked. I marry a coke whore.
Funk: 086: I dump her and get clean
Funk: 089: Find I'm sick but sicker than sick...
Funk: 090: Because of me my son is an addict because he followed me
Funk: 091: I cry
Funk: 092: I beg
Funk: 093: I quit everything for real
Funk: 094: It don't matter, my boy dies
Funk: 095: I try to live
Funk: 096: I ask why?
Funk: 097: I wipe tears from my beard
Funk: 098: I still hold my head and cry
Funk: 100: That is the history of the world as I know it!
Funk: typo's included for free!

Funk:099: is a secret! "shhh...."

Joan Jett's cover an then some...



One more hit.

Sweet band,




Best for last & my girlfriend song...

On the road to Shambala...

Whole world is dancing...

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

First sound recordings were 20 years before Thomas Edison

Earliest Known Sound Recordings Revealed
Researchers unveil imprints made 20 years before Edison invented phonograph
Posted June 1, 2009


By Ron Cowen, Science News

WASHINGTON—The muffled sounds from more than 150 years ago resemble the “wa wa” of the unseen teacher in the Peanuts cartoons. It would be impossible to know that someone was playing the coronet and guitar, although other fragments, from a dramatic speech from Shakespeare’s Othello, might be discerned if you knew the lines by heart in French.
Scott's 1859 drawing of his phonautograph shows a device in which a stylus inscribed sound waves on soot-blackened paper wrapped around a hand-cranked cylinder. The device allowed him to make longer recordings by producing a continuous, heliacal pattern, or phonautogram (at right), as the cylinder turned and the stylus moved.

Yet these sound bites and other snippets, unveiled May 29 by historians at the annual meeting of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, are the earliest known recordings. A bunch of wavy lines scratched by a stylus onto fragile paper that had been blackened by the soot from an oil lamp date from 1857. That’s 20 years before Edison invented the phonograph.

Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville never intended for the soot-lined imprint of the sound waves to be played back, the historians reported. But the inventor hoped the visual patterns of the sound waves he had recorded using a hornlike device with the stylus attached resembling an artificial ear — called a phonautograph — might one day be read like sheet music to recreate a singer’s voice or the timbre of a musical instrument.

Instead, these visual renditions of sound, known as phonautograms, languished at the French patent office and elsewhere in Paris for some 150 years. In 2008, record historian David Giovannoni of Derwood, Md., and his colleagues, part of an informal group of researchers known as First Sounds, uncovered the first cache of them. Last year, he and First Sounds colleague Patrick Feaster of Indiana University in Bloomington played what appeared to be a recording of a young girl singing a 10-second snippet of the French folksong “Au Clair de la Lune,” which Léon Scott had recorded in 1860.

But a group of thought-to-be-lost Léon Scott phonautograms was found late last year in Paris and dates from 1857. “It was immediately apparent that this would be some of the most important [phonographic] excavations to date,” Giovannoni said.

Sound historian Sam Brylawski, former head of the Library of Congress’ recorded sound division in Washington, D.C., and now affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara, said the new findings are important on several levels. These are not only the first known recordings, Brylawski notes, but are “providing the full picture of the history of recorded sound.… This is a biography unfolding.”

Yet until last fall, Feaster said, he and his colleagues weren’t sure they’d be able to play any of the oldest phonautograms. Among the problems: The wavy lines etched by the stylus sometimes looped back on themselves. And the side of the stylus, instead of the narrow tip, sometimes seemed to have scraped the surface of the sheet.

Using a technique employed in producing audio for movies, Feaster managed to coax some fuzzy sounds from the 1857 recordings. He also realized that phonautograms his team had previously transcribed, using a laser as a virtual stylus, had been played back at twice the actual speed. What sounded like a girl singing the French folksong was actually Léon Scott singing, Feaster now concludes.

In 1878, some two decades after his invention, Léon Scott was devastated when Thomas Edison received accolades from around the world for the invention of the phonograph. “Come Parisians, don’t let them take our prize,” Léon Scott exhorted in a memoir. “I beseech all stout-hearted men and I thank God some still remain to proclaim my name in this matter. For I am getting old, the father of two sons, and all I can leave them is my good name.”

Léon Scott died a year later. Now his unearthed recordings have finally found acclaim.

FLY, LITTLE BEE

This is the only phonautogram Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville identified as made with an "amplifying lever," his last known phonautographic design change. It is therefore presumably also his last known phonautogram, dating from late September 1860 or maybe even later.

EARLIEST AUDIBLE RECORD

As of mid-May 2009, this phonautogram of the opening lines of Torquato Tasso's pastoral drama Aminta is the earliest audible record of recognizable human speech.

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More Guess Who post...

Hey, I couldn't help it. I had to post these...




As always, best for last...

Probably one of the very first production type music vids I ever saw.

Green Tambourine - Lemon Pipers



NOTE: " I do not endorse or support the emotional or physical abuse of Teddy-Bears. The only reason I laugh when seeing a Teddy-Bear abused, bopped over the head with a guitar and mushed in the face with a knee is because I myself was abused somewhat like that by my first girl-friend and I laugh at seeing this because it reminds me of how funny it must have looked when she did that stuff to me".

The Five Americans - Western Union

Good sound...

Now Tracy Chapman with Mister Eric Clapton???

This is pure Gold!

OMG! Tracy Chapman & Buddy Guy, WOW...

Killer stuff,,,Nuff said....

Amos Lee on a Classic

Sinead O'Connor's covers

I wish she'd cover me in her arms...


Watch this one, she is more fine tuned than any piano I've ever heard. Woman can sing so beautifully....

Mister Eric Burdon...

This was the toughest guy alive folks. When I was three he was the most powerful guy in the world. He could beat up Superman, Batman, the Joker and all the other guys. He would kick ass on 100 men, look back at another 100 men an tell em to beat themselves up and they would, then he'd say to the last guy standing "Beat yerself up some more" and then he would too...

He was also the coolest guy alive in the whole wide world. He was an idol, an icon and he showed us what we wanted to be.... This is Eric Burdon of The Animals!









Best for last again...

Monday, June 1, 2009

Loreena McKennitt- The Highwayman

Needs no comment, Loreena needs no introduction!


Best for last as always...

This voice is so beautiful! I'm falling as I listen into depths of sweet rain water and pleasantries beyond common care

Cherish by the the Association

1960's cheese-puff wilted music but still cute...

My very first love was Lulu "To Sir With Love"



And I was only about 5 & 1/2 years old. I had great taste, huh?

Still awesome!


"Finest wine is aged properly"

We Five - You Were On My Mind

Probably posted this twice. Shoot me if it hurts yer feelins, but I love it!

I live here!

I don't have to do this
I live here!
I don't have to care
I live here!
I don't owe you love
I live here!
I Don't live in America Bitch!
I live on God's earth,
I Live Here!
Nothing about you interests me
I see your shallowness and pride
Still I will offer feed to you
because feed did not come from me
should a thought enter into your mind
I'd like to hear it too,,, but...
the rest, you should keep it close
I'm not par to trends or SHIT
necessary wisdom is the mind to shut it up
anger is a policy and a defense "watch what you eat"
burdens are useful baggage, means you took on more than yer load
hesitation is a luxury, you can go hands down & fold
uselessness is a propriety, sometimes the useless are the bold
kings have gone where all men go and the rich lay rotting with the poor
mine is not a currency, not to trade or to be shared
my wealth is nothing you can ever touch
my wealth is in God above...

Peace!

LOL, this and last poem were supposed to be about my Love for God. I guess God didn't want me talkin about Him

Denial!

Spirituality exists in sufferance,
Capacity, endurance and pain.
Reality in negotiation,
exchange, compromise, fear and in shame.

lies exist in reasoning, same from those above..
Wart grows upon a hand, then it travels up both arms.
Death is a reality... How real I just don't know.
Blood flows in it's own stream like a path of certain hope.
Wicked falls behind me and rises above me each day.
Fear dominates me but fear feeds me all this strength.
Wisdom is just a fantasy. Like a thought could ever be tamed?
And love it overwhelms me. I love so many my heart is faint.
Jokes resent reality, no joke ever spoken without the thought.
The joke presents the thought as mockery but the thought also uses the joke.
Shame is the disaster.. It kills both man and man, both woman and child.
I know what I implicated there, get on with it, it's part of life.
Shadows loom like a spinners wheel, all contain what they gather.
Memories even more so. Half of death is half your life.
Dragons, beasts and nightmares too...
All you fear or you deny are all tiny parts of you.

Objection is just denial!

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Andy Pratt Revisited...

Another post on Andy Pratt. Mostly because you people keep hitting his pages on here like mad.
Doesn't matter though because he seems like a pretty good guy and I like his music anyway.

Some of these I have never heard before but will hear em as I post them.
I'm sure you will like all of them and if you wish to see more I will post links to previous posts about his work at bottom of this post.

Please don't think I know him because I never met or saw him. I never met many people I post here. This is not about fame or representation of fame. It is about sharing cares, idea's, ideals & art. Nothing more and nothing less! Point?

Fun in the first world.


This one's Love Insurance, really nice flow to it..


Who will be my friend?
(from the First World EP)
Very nice indeed!


As always and a re post but I always post the best last and this one I have loved since I was a young boy...

No Title needed!


Links are as follows:
First post I simply titled "Classic" [LINK]
Second was called "New Andy Post" [LINK] It does contain Who will be my friend and a different version of Avenging Annie.

I strongly suggest you support this man "as I have" by purchasing copies of his work because often an artist gives to you more than is comprehensible in emotion, feeling and gift and they need support to continue.
I know this because I myself am an artist but very rarely will I share anything I do because unlike those I post here I am NOT willing to go that far. I will NOT give you my emotion except in shards, or my feeling except under heavy restraint and my gift is MINE. I do not have the balls to expose myself as a true artist does.

End of post!

Each American Citizen now owes $36,967.73 in debt to the United States Government!

U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 31 May 2009 at 07:09:45 PM GMT is:
$ 1 1 , 3 2 2 , 6 0 2 , 2 3 4 , 1 1 3 . 6 2

The estimated population of the United States is 306,283,415
so each citizen's share of this debt is $36,967.73.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$3.79 billion per day since September 28, 2007!
Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!

Do you have any questions about the National Debt or this Debt Clock?
Here are some answers. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Public Debt also has their own Public Debt FAQ.

    National Debt -- In the News


20 Mar 09 - US Federal Deficit soars past previous estimates (Washington Post)
20 Mar 09 - Congressional Budget Office: US Deficit ballooning to record $1.7 trillion (Christian Science Monitor)
17 Mar 09 - National Debt hits record $11 Trillion (CBS News)
27 Feb 09 - Americans mixed on Obama Budget and fret over Deficit (Reuters UK)
26 Feb 09 - Proposed 2010 Budget available for review (Whitehouse.gov)
26 Feb 09 - Budget chief explains Obama's $2 trillion for Deficit reduction (Wall Street Journal)
26 Feb 09 - Obama plans huge shifts in spending -- and a $1.75 trillion Deficit (New York Times)
24 Feb 09 - Editorial: Massive debt is Obama's long-term challenge (San Jose Mercury News)
23 Feb 09 - Deficit concern jumps ... among the GOP (Washington Post)
22 Feb 09 - Obama plans to slash U.S. Budget Deficit by 2013 (Bloomberg)
9 Oct 08 - Maxing out the National Debt Clock (US News & World Report)
9 Oct 08 - Sign of the times -- The clock has run out on the National Debt (Wall Street Journal/AP)
7 Oct 08 - U.S. Budget Deficit hits record $438 billion for year (USA Today/AP)
7 Oct 08 - Opinion: National Debt passes $10 trillion, no one notices (Huffington Post)
29 Sep 08 - Bush Administration adds $4 trillion to National Debt (CBS News)
25 Sep 08 - ABCs of the bailout: what it means for taxpayers (Tahlequah Daily Press (OK))
25 Sep 08 - Opinion: Bush legacy takes a turn (The Advocate -- WBRZ Louisiana)
24 Sep 08 - U.S. Debt could hit WWII levels (Toronto Star)
24 Sep 08 - U.S., examining a bailout, has boosted Debt before (Associated Press)
23 Sep 08 - Opinion: Our kids will pick up the check for our financial mess (Dallas Morning News)
9 Sep 08 - Deficit grows as rescue costs are added up (Financial Times (London))
4 Feb 08 - Bush proposes $3.1 trillion budget (Los Angeles Times)
27 Jan 08 - The State of the Union -- and its Debt (TheStreet.com)
13 Mar 07 - Wincing Dems are likely to raise the limit on Debt (The Hill)
16 Mar 06 - Congress sets new Federal Debt Limit: $9 trillion (National Public Radio)
16 Feb 06 - U.S. moves to miss hitting Debt Ceiling (MarketWatch)
7 Feb 06 - Bush's Budget sparks bipartisan protest (CBS News)
10 Jan 06 - Bush seeking to limit spending growth in '07 Budget (Bloomberg)
8 Jan 06 - U.S. hovers close to its Debt Ceiling -- Treasury boss says government business could be affected (San Francisco Chronicle)
27 Nov 05 - Deficit cracking GOP's solidarity -- party-line vote no longer assured (San Francisco Chronicle)
10 Apr 05 - Editorial: $7,782,816,546,352 in Debt (CBS News)
7 Apr 05 - Editorial: Bureau of Public Debt: Surrounded by IOUs (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
4 Apr 05 - Bush's agenda faces opposition from election-wary Republicans (Bloomberg.com)
21 Jan 05 - Does Social Security really face an $11 trillion Deficit? (FactCheck.org)
10 Jan 05 - Editorial: Deficit deception (St. Petersburg Times)
19 Nov 04 - Bush signs [$800 Billion] Debt-limit hike (CBS News)
18 Nov 04 - Senate votes to let US borrow up to $8.18 trillion (Boston Globe)
4 Nov 04 - Why Democrats should be thankful -- at least they won't have to clean up the Bush fiscal catastrophe (Slate -- MSNBC)
3 Nov 04 - Administration pressures Congress to raise Debt Ceiling (Boston Globe)
9 Jun 04 - Editorial: Reagan policies gave green light to red ink (Washinton Post)
2 Feb 04 - Bush sends $2.4 trillion budget (including record $521 billion Deficit) to Hill (CBS News)
4 Jan 04 - Bush's budget for 2005 seeks to rein in domestic costs (New York Times)
17 Dec 03 - Bush Deficit plan draws derision (CBS News)
15 Jun 03 - Aging population makes this Deficit scarier (USA Today)
14 Mar 03 - GOP senators oppose size of Bush tax cut (NY Times)
20 Feb 03 - U.S. Government hits national debt ceiling -- Treasury begins taking evasive actions (CNN)
29 Aug 01 - Congressional Budget Office: "Social Security funds needed to balance books" (CNN)
22 Feb 01 - Bush unveils 'fiscally responsible' budget--reduces Deficit, but not Debt (CNN)
27 Sep 00 - President Clinton Announces Another Record Budget Surplus (CNN)
7 Sep 00 - National Debt Clock Stops, Despite Trillions of Dollars of Red Ink (CNN)
1 May 00 - Clinton Announces Record Payment on National Debt (CNN)
4 Aug 99 - US to buy back National Debt, first time in 25 years (BBC)



Other sites concerned about the National Debt are:

* The Concord Coalition - A nonpartisan, grass roots movement to eliminate the deficit and bring entitlements down to a level that's fair to all generations
* Grandfather Economic Report on Federal Government Debt - Ever wonder to whom this massive Debt is owed? This massive site has the answer to this and other other questions.
* WebActive - A weekly online magazine for progressive activists.


Also, the U.S. Department of the Treasury provides daily, monthly, and yearly figures for the Debt--to the penny! These are the figures I use to calibrate this Debt Clock.


This debt clock is maintained by Ed Hall (edhall@brillig.com). It was last calibrated using information obtained from the U.S. Department of the Treasury dated 28 May 2009. Population figures are derived from the U.S. Bureau of the Census' Population Clock.


Link is as follows to original page [link]