I quick music vid made using Winamp, Milkdrip 2 & WebCamMax

I made a video tonight using Winamp, MilkDrop Visualizations (It comes bundled for free with the free current version of Winamp), and I recorded it with  WebCamMax.

One thing you should know about most screen capturing software is that with just about every program I've used you can not record internal sound from your sound card. What I always ended up doing is record the video and then overlay the sound track onto it. WebCamMax allows you to use systen sound and that's good because of syncronization between the sound and scenes.

I did this quick version to show you what you can do with next to no costs. I didn't make a production out of it. I just kept it simple and basic.

This is Danielle Dax playing The Evil Honky Stomp.

Them, Featuring Van Morrison.

Them: 1964–66

Main article: Them (band)

The roots of Them, the band that first broke Morrison on the international scene, came in April 1964 when Morrison responded to an advert for musicians to play at a new R&B club at the Maritime Hotel – an old dance hall frequented by sailors. The new R&B club needed a band for its opening night; however, Morrison had left the Golden Eagles (the group with which he had been performing at the time), so he created a new band out of The Gamblers, an East Belfast group formed by Ronnie Millings, Billy Harrison, and Alan Henderson in 1962. Eric Wrixon, still a schoolboy, was the piano player and keyboardist. Morrison played saxophone and harmonica and shared vocals with Billy Harrison. They followed Eric Wrixon's suggestion for a new name, and The Gamblers morphed into Them, their name taken from the Fifties horror movie Them!.

The band's strong R&B performances at the Maritime attracted attention. Them performed without a routine and Morrison ad libbed, creating his songs live as he performed. While the band did covers, they also played some of Morrison's early songs, such as "Could You Would You", which he had written in Camden Town while touring with The Manhattan Showband. The debut of Morrison's "Gloria" took place on stage here. Sometimes, depending on his mood, the song could last up to twenty minutes. Morrison has stated that "Them lived and died on the stage at the Maritime Hotel," believing that the band did not manage to capture the spontaneity and energy of their live performances on their records. The statement also reflected the instability of the Them lineup, with numerous members passing through the ranks after the definitive Maritime period. Morrison and Henderson would remain the only constants, and a highly unsuccessful version of Them even soldiered on after Morrison's departure.


Dick Rowe of Decca Records became aware of the band's performances, and signed Them to a standard two-year contract. In that period, they released two albums and ten singles, with two more singles released after Morrison departed the band. They had three chart hits, "Baby, Please Don't Go" (1964), "Here Comes the Night" (1965), and "Mystic Eyes" (1965), though it was the b-side of "Baby, Please Don't Go", the garage band classic, "Gloria", that went on to become a rock standard covered by Patti Smith, The Doors, Shadows of Knight, Jimi Hendrix and others.

Building on the success of their singles in the United States, and riding on the back of the British Invasion, Them undertook a two month tour of America in May and June 1966 that included a residency from 30 May to 18 June at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. The Doors were the supporting act on the last week,and Morrison's influence on The Doors singer, Jim Morrison, was noted by John Densmore in his book Riders On The Storm. Brian Hinton relates how "Jim Morrison learned quickly from his near namesake's stagecraft, his apparent recklessness, his air of subdued menace, the way he would improvise poetry to a rock beat, even his habit of crouching down by the bass drum during instrumental breaks." On the final night, the two Morrisons and the two bands jammed together on "Gloria".

Toward the end of the tour the band members became involved in a dispute with their manager, Decca Records' Phil Solomon, over the revenues paid to the band; that, coupled with the expiry of their work visas, meant the band returned from America dejected. After two more concerts in Ireland, Them split up. Morrison concentrated on writing some of the songs that would appear on Astral Weeks, while the remnants of the band reformed in 1967 and relocated in America.

NOTE: "All of the text above was taken from Wiki's page [HERE], because I suck at writin and want you to have a better chance at gettin the point.

The Story of Them , Disc 1

01 The Story of Them, Pt. 1 & 2.

02 Don't Start Crying Now.

03 Gloria.

04 Philosophy.

05 One Two Brown Eyes.

06 Baby Please Don't Go.mp3

07 Here Comes the Night.

08 All for Myself.

09 One More Time.

10 Little Girl.

11 I Gave My Love a Diamond.

12 Go on Home Baby.

13 My Little Baby.

Disc 1, tracks 1-13 all in one Zip file.

14 Mystic Eyes.

15 Don't Look Back.

16 If You and I Could Be as Two.

17 I Like It Like That.

18 I'm Gonna Dress in Black.

19 (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66.

20 Just a Little Bit.

21 You Just Can't Win.

22 Bright Lights, Big City.

23 Baby, What You Want Me to Do.

24 I'm Gonna Dress in Black [Alternate Mix].

25 One More Time [Alternate Stereo Mix].

26 Little Girl [Alternate Version].



Disc 1, tracks 14-26 all in one Zip file.

The Story of Them , Disc 2


01 How Long Baby.

02 It Won't Hurt (Half as Much).

03 Something You Got.

04 Call My Name.

05 Turn on Your Lovelight.

06 I Put a Spell on You.

07 I Got a Woman.

08 Out of Sight.

09 It's All over Now, Baby Blue.

10 Bad or Good.

11 Hello Josephine.

12 Don't You Know.

Disc 2, tracks 1-12 all in one Zip file.

13 Hey Girl.

14 Bring 'Em on In.

15 Time's Gettin' Tougher Than Tough.

16 Stormy Monday.

17 Friday's Child.

18 Richard Cory.

19 My Lonely Sad Eyes.

20 I Can Only Give You Everything.

21 Could You, Would You.

22 Bring 'Em on In [Alternate Version].

23 Richard Cory [Alternate Version].

24 Call My Name [Alternate Single Version].


Disc 2, tracks 13-24 all in one Zip file & the last of this damn long-assed embedding project.

Alice Cooper "Nobody likes Alice - live", blues too???

♫ Alice Cooper - Nobody likes Alice (1969-Live) ♫

This is the (I guess Cassette tape rip of) the 1970 concert "Nobody likes Alice" recording from his Toronto show. With this I obtained even some earlier works of his and may post them also, but for now I'll just stick with this.


 One reason I chose this one over the other was that it shows the Alice Cooper that we all have grown to admire in his not-so early stages of development but full of talent and well on his way to becoming the Super-Star Alice of fame as we know him now.


I did include my comments with the posts even though I hate that, what with opinions being all that they are. Still I did it because if you only plan to try a few I hope you'll at least give the blues tracks a shot. Trust me, it'll be painless and you'll be glad you did it in the end.

01 - Ain't That Just Like A Woman.
♫  ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ This one is very good. It's almost like a Honky-Tonk night club blues. Plenty of horns, brass end is great.

02 - Painting A Picture.
♫ ♫ ♫ A little more electric, vocals are pretty good. Music is full of confusion, it adds to the suspense though.

03 - For Alice.
♫  ♫ ♫ Similar to the last track with some warped metal effects. Still good tho.

04 - I've Written Home To Mother.
♫  ♫ ♫ More metal. I think this and the last two go together well like a trilogy.

05 - Freak Out Song.
♫  ♫ ♫ ♫ Good lyrics, nice & dark. First real taste of Acid Rock yet.

06 - Goin' To The River.
♫  ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ Really good blues. I'd like to hear more like this. Keys are nice, guitar kinda catchy, harp adds to its completion.

07 - Nobody Likes Me.
♫  ♫ Kind of dark, I've heard better but I guess it fits here.

08 - Science Fiction.
♫  ♫ ♫ ♫ More Acid Rock here. This one's better tho.

09 - Ain't That Just Like A WomanGoin' To The...
♫  ♫ Close-out blues medley of the others previously. I'm not sure why he added this one, because it seems redundant. Maybe it was a track intended for promo radio play.

All in all this album scored 31♫ 's  out of a possible 45. I guess that ranks it at 3.4 out of possible 5. Pretty good if you ask me.

BONUS: Alice with Dali

Susan Tedeschi's new Web Site & some vids...

Susan Tedeschi is so beautiful. Her blues style is like nothing I have ever heard before. She doesn't know me and if I ever met her I'd damn well remember her so given that I'd bet the only way she got my email address was from here.


By the way, let me start this out right because I'm messing up a little. I just got an email from Susan Tedeschi  and I'm too blown away to reply to it. Wasn't much anyway, just a link to her new bands site (or band site). It's called Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi.net and the name is the link.


I never met her or even saw her sing live even though we lived close together. Seems I missed every show because of work


schedule at the time (bummer), but a friend claimed to visit her often and invited me often. This was James Berry from


Attleborough. I figured it was lies and thought better than to allow him to do something foolish enough to impress me I opted out. Doesn't matter now tho R.I.P. James ; blessings


I'm posting a couple of her YouTube vids to get you going onto her web site. If you don't want to now then have a listen and I'm sure you will after.


One more thing,,,
Thank You Susan for the email and Blessings Forever.
*Smiles!

Hurt so bad

Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi doing a cover of Bob Dylan's Don't think twice at KGON Studios in Portland, Oragon

Angel from Montgomery

(as usual, best for last)

Damn push-button html generator is screwing up on me, sorry for bad formatting...

Fleetwood Mac - The Early Years (From CD 1)

This Vid is Fan-Fukkin'-Tastic!!!
This is the music Fleetwood Mac Wanted to play.

Download this concert [Here], or watch it below

Fleetwood Mac blues band live - shake your money maker & heart beats like a hammer...

Fleetwood Mac - I Loved Another Woman

Christian Prommer Drumlesson - Trans Europa Express by KRAFT

Kinda nice....

Elmore James - One Way Out

Janis Joplin - To love somebody...

A Gib classic with a blues accent....

Anna B.

Anna B. and The Heartbones
"CD Release Party at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver.

Anna B and The Heartbones new CD is entitled "A Deal With The Wind" and is available at CDbaby and at annabmusic.com
Featuring:
Anna B. - Vocals and guitar
Steven Nikleva - Electric guitar
Simon Kendall - Accordion
Terry Townson - Trumpet
Michael Rush - Double bass
Michael Simpson - Drums"

Janis Joplin, you feel more, you feel more, you feel more...

I'm in love all over again.
This is the Ultimate Woman!

-Combination of the two-

Leadbelly

Take this hammer...



House of the rising sun...



Where did you sleep last night...

Muddy Waters

bit of Blues according to Lloyd

JMT is a reaL blues man

In my time of dieing...

Jow Walsh - Funk 49

Nuff said....

John Mayall - Parchman Farm

Some Classic Harp Blues for ya'll ripped from Vinyl a 45 (1966)



Thanx Lloyd...

Mister Stephen Stills playin live...

Below is the quote from the post:

"As performed during a 'Daylight Again' concert, picture quality is reduced so no one has an excuse not to buy the DVD available for nice price (~$7) -- go get it got me guys ? with special permission from falcon new media Europe"


WOW, that was an awesome acoustical Jam!

Stephen Stills Solo, but can't post it because they don't want embedding & I have too much respect to steal it, but here's the link for you to see it their way [LINK TO VID], solo comes in on second half and it does kick-ass!

Buffalo Springfield:

Aerosmith doin' "Baby please don't go"

I've seen these guys over 25 times live, but never seen em play like this!
They shoulda played some more blues. They are Awesome in this vid and Steve never sang better.

Townes Van Zandt - Tecumseh Valley

Another post set in by Lloyd...

Mister VanZandt on the blues guitar & a fine piece!



Now Cocaine Blues: