May 14th, 2008
Was doing some web-sleuthing this afternoon and ran across this video excerpt from the Classic Albums documentary series episode about Nirvana's Nevermind. The short clip features producer Butch Vig demonstrating the individual mixing tracks from In Bloom, commenting on its various parts and pieces, from the awesome groove of the isolated drums and bass (which they got on the first take), to Dave's harmonizing on the chorus.
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September 20th, 2007
The Pretender:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKhnmUdmz74
I think I'm in love with Foo Fighters again.
I've watched as the band kinda coasted down hill, or at least plateauing after achieving breakout success and emerging from the long shadow of Nirvana after There's Nothing Left to Lose. After that the band just seemed to be going through motions.
I still liked Foo Fighters during that time and some of their songs from that time are good, ...
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September 18th, 2007
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6627904867875032821
Ethan Winer plays all 37 separate parts on A Cello Rondo, including the percussion, on his cello. He also composed the song. The music is about 6 minutes long and the end of the video shows his digital music editing and some of his film setup. Not only is the production quite smooth, showcasing the power of modern technology to allow a single person to (relatively) easily create complex ...
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February 6th, 2007
OK. I like Prince; let's just set that on the record. But after the recent Superbowl Halftime show, my respect for the man just tripled. I swear that was the best halftime show in recent memory, and possibly ever. Certainly much better than anything offered in the past few years, especially 2004's infamous profligacy.
Prince's performance was showy, but tasteful, spectacular, but not gaudy or opulent. But most importantly, ...
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July 4th, 2006
Mudhoney's My Brother the Cow, I think, is a fitting bookend to the "grunge" era. And though I didn't get into Mudhoney until the waning days of the movement, in retrospect it seems as though it was the most quintessentially grunge of all the big bands to come out of Seattle during that time. Nirvana was more pop friendly; Pearl Jam leaned toward hard rock; Alice in Chains and ...
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June 11th, 2006
I'm currently listening to Foo Fighters 2005 double-album, In Your Honor, and for some reason, it feels like a chore. Foo Fighters has been a perennial-favorite band around these parts, but, starting with There's Nothing Left to Lose, each album gets increasingly more disappointing. and that's ironic, because the band's popularity and mainstream success seems to be inversely proportional to its slide toward mediocrity.
I don't know if Dave and ...
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