Personally amusing video, one of my favorite 80s bands Squeeze plays their iconic song “Pulling Mussels From A Shell” released in 1980. Now thirty (!) years later, they perform the song with a keyboardist (not Jools Hollands) using an iPad throughout. The good part happens around the 2:27 with an iPad piano solo.
Getting up there myself, am developing a loose “bucket list,” and as a Beatles fan, one was to attend a Paul McCartney concert. Adding to the desire is the fact that the dude is nearly 70, and I wonder how long he’ll continue touring.
This is just too funny to not post — mashup of Smells Like Teen Spirit and Never Gonna Give You Up.
So guitarist Joe Satriani is suing Coldplay, claiming the immensely popular tune Vida La Vida copies his instrumental If I Could Fly. You can listen to both songs one after another in this handy clip:
So… Axl Rose has been working on the next Guns N’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy, for the past 14 years, spending around $13 million in the process. Yeah, that’s longer than it took Lord Of The Rings to get made. That alone piques my interest in the album, as a possible eclectic musical misfire / masterpiece like The Beach Boys’ Smile.