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Thursday, November 6, 2008

Listen to em': Demun Jones

Demun Jones has been on tour with the recently popularized Rehab and making quite a name for himself down south. His style is a mix of southern rock and hip hop, and he tours with a band and often has collaborations with Rehabs lead singer. When I first came across him a few weeks ago I was mad excited to hear his music, because rapping-with-guitars style is similar to what I want to establish.


dude makes hot music, so check em!

listen to: Tinman, I cant remember

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

If Music was a sport


Here is an article i came across on the site www.musicthinktank.com headed by Andrew Dubber.
It is definitely worth look and check out some of the other articles as well...


If music was sport

Just for fun, here's a thought experiment. It illustrates that things in the world of music (and the business of music) need not necessarily be configured the way they are...

If music was treated like sport:

  • Schools would have plenty of equipment and kids would have places to play and practice
  • People who didn't do any music at all would be considered a bit lazy by their peers
  • Professional musicians wouldn't get asked by their parents when they were going to get a real job
  • Most people would play music and almost none of them would expect money for it
  • Every weekend, you'd get a televised battle of the bands
  • Players in top acts would change bands for millions of dollars
  • Every four years, the best amateur acts would come together for the largest music festival on earth
  • There'd be significant funding for community music programmes
  • Most bands would have coaches as well as managers (and a physiotherapist?)
  • Schools, pubs, churches, villages, and even workplaces would have their own bands
  • If you went to a gig with a videocamera, you wouldn't be considered a thief
  • Big acts would sell season tickets at their own venues
  • Government-funded television campaigns would encourage non-musicians to take up an instrument and practice for just 30 minutes a day...
  • Children from the age of 6 would know all the stats on their favourite bands
  • There'd be movies where people escaped from POW camps by playing the guitar
  • TV channels would get into bidding wars for the rights to show concerts
  • All the top bands would regularly hold auditions for new members
  • You'd join your first band at the age of five
  • The more musically inclined would routinely play in different bands in different genres
  • Audiences would bet on the outcome of concerts
  • University scholarships would be awarded on musical aptitude
  • Kids would dream of one day representing their country in Hip Hop
  • You'd play another genre of music in Summer - jazz is a Winter music
  • Band members would switch instruments from time to time (she's been on drums all season - let's give her a turn on vocals)
  • Bands would have reserves
  • You could swap out every member of a group and it'd still be the same band
  • In American teen films, trombonists would beat up the kid who got picked last for the orchestra

And so on... Of course music is not sport. It's not even like sport. But it's interesting to think through the things that we do in a different field of human endeavour, and realise that the way that we approach music and the business of music is not a logical necessity - it's just how we've chosen to put it together.

And since that's true, we can choose to do it a different way.

Personally, I like the idea of some of these outcomes. Especially the first one. I'm sure you can add some of your own too.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Joint of the Week: Change by Trick Daddy featuring Barack Obama

In honor of the event going on today, and most likely what will be the election of our first black president, I decided Tick Daddy's new song Change would be fitting. Now despite the connection it is a pretty good song regardless, I don't know if I would exactly bump it but it has a good message so check it out...

check it here

Sunday, November 2, 2008

YouTube Clip of the week

Sorry I'm a few days behind but Halloween got me all backwards so today I'm posting the YouTube clip of the week.

Don't worry it's a great one. If you have never seen this video, it will bring you back to the 80's instantly. This is the hilarious video by Ray Parker Jr. performing the Ghostbusters Theme Song. Besides a bunch of really bad cameos, the video has two funny defining moments. One is at about 2:56 when Ray admits that "Busting makes him feel good" and the second being a few seconds later when he rips his front shirt off to reveal a Ghostbusters shirt underneath. Ah, the 80's....


enjoy:
 
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