Friday, May 20, 2011

The Beatles

OK, let's talk about the greatest rock band of all time
THE BEATLES
Yes, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr
four young Englishmen from an industrial British town of Liverpool
change the world with their body of work and their catchy and experimental
rock music that has touched alot of people's heart with their musical genius
especially with their groundbreaking studio work and their live performances that has got the screaming fans at their feet.
The songs created by Lennon and McCartney from "She Loves You" and "I Want To Hold your Hand" saw an innocence of the band that was catchy and commercial that had a Buddy Holly and Elvis inflouence in their music and they came to the US at the height when President Kennedy was assassinated.
The band were at their best with songs lke "Help" and the experimental "Rubber Soul" and "Reolver" record which was the beginning of the band's greatness they were the precusor to their "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" record.
John Lennon was a genius in writing good experiemntal rock sounds as he teames up with Paul McCartney they have created a body of work that has been special .
There was a folk style of the Dyalnesque "You've Gotr to Hide your Love Away" to the pschedelic Indian influenced "Tomorrow Never Knows" and the dramatic "A Day In The Life".
The road was gettint to them and John's controversial comments that the beatles were more popular than Jesus which I kind of agree sorry to those religious freaks, I only agree based on album sales and ticket sales and they were the first stadium band, and have paved the way for rock bands to play in large arenas and stadiums, that even their music wasn't being heard since the screaming fans were out of control that they stopped touring altogether in August 1966 to be more a studio band and created great albums like "Sgt Pepper" "Magical Mystery Tour soundtrack", "The Beatles; White album", the soundtrack to "Let It Be' and the final studio album which I call it their masterpiece better than the overrated Sgt Pepper its "Abbey Road". Let's not forget George Harrison , the strong silent member of the band who has been the group's musical backbone with his great guitar playing and songwriting as he did with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Something" and "Here Comes The Sun" and his playing in "Day Tripper" and "Get Back" made him a ital group backbone and Ringo Starr the greatest time keeping drummer who kept the backbeat. The band split -up in September 1969 but their music had an everlasting inpact on alot of artists and musicians out there.

The Beatles in their final tour 1966 perform "Day Tripper"




The fab four in their hippie moment playing a song of peace and love it's John's
"All You Need Is Love" recorded and filmed for the BBC-TV on June 25, 1967




The Beatles during their final years together at the Daid Frost Show performing
Paul's "Hey Jude" which is a song dedicated to John's son Julian filmed on July 17, 1968 on BBC-TV




Here is a clip of the song "The End" which is one of the final songs The Beatles ever recorded as a group a poignat farewell to a great group opf great musicians recorded in August 1969 in Abbey Road Studios. John can really wail on his guitar and joined by george and Paul doing their guitar parts as you can see the band in their final photoshoots together done by Linda McCartney at John's twickenhurst estate in Londonjust one month before their break-up, the song sums it all of the end of an era but the legacy continues. August 1969


Thursday, May 19, 2011

Friday

Just yesterday I got my se;f a new client in doing a set of paintings
I am doing 8 x 10" painting for another client
I am always excited to do new stuff I am always busy writing books working at my day job at Anton Miles Company and writing books for my onlinepiblishing company Blurb.com
I am so stoked for new things into the future.
I hae so many books to write and I am figuring out what I can do.
I have a biography coming up , a fiction book that is both a dark comedy that deals with taboo subject and a recipe book on making drinks based on my bartending days.

Right now I hae this biography that I have researching and its a very good book of course there are musical history of this great man that I am working on but there is a tragic side to it. Writing this book on this person whose music has been the soundtrack of everyday life has been daunting ,the last thing I want to be foreseen as a bad guy I have concenrtade on his musical genius.

The first book I will publish will be a book I have been working for two years simply called "The Whole"

"The Whole" is basically about a young man who has been struggling to find his own identity of himself, found himself a job and is making up money he had lost after being unemployed and is finding his way out of his family's household and struggles being a good person and a good worker and falls into the trappings of the demons like sex and drugs but I will save that when I hit my book in the stands this June or July depending on the pages I have written.

Hae a great day and agood night....

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Tribeca

I just arrived in Tribeca with a new place to live and new place to
make cetrain transitions in my life. I loe the scenery and I love to live
nothing more in the most recreational and the most artistic place to
live.
I would like to share with my pals on the clip of what is it like to live in
with peace and quiet. The bad part of it was the unfortunate 9/11 attacks on our motherland. But that's another story.
Living in Tribeca is peaceful and very comfortable place to enjoy and play in a park or even go swimming or play sports there or do your artwork there which is what I love and even writing books.

Here is a clip

Donald Trump

OK let's talk about this rich tycoon Donald J Trump.he has become somehat of a media whore for the past 20 something years. He is a smart business man and a ruthless one and he gets things done and I give him credit for one. He has a trophy wife and wealthy probaby worth $3 billion and has a reality TV show The Apprentice.He has his real estate companies and golf businesses and so forth. But he has been a bit of flirt when it came to his intentions of running for the most powerful job in the country. It is so painful to watch this buffoon make a complete ass of himself on TV declaring on the president's birth certificate for a number of times. but Mr. President wasn't gonna take it son he released it to the public and authentic and thta was a way to shut Mr. Trump's big mouth and his big ego that is inflated in his head or hair.Mr. President even interrupted Donald's "Celebrity Apprentice" to announce his wacking the most wanted terrorist Osame Bin Laden.His outrageous comments had ridiculed them even by comedian Seth Myers and even Mr. President at a recent event.Even in interviews, he comes across as agitated and defensive which shows he doesn't have the temperament to be President, and gien comments from his former employees as difficult. Yes he is a tough boss so is mine, and he should stay where he does best

The only thing running in Donald is his mouth. Now I never liked politics and have been very cynical about the political landscape. Talk about career suicide? . Now he announced he is not running for office after all . Smart move Donald, you have no chance in hell to be our leader. He is best at doing more seasons of the Apprentice or Celebrity Apprentice. Here is something I post on trump and what do you guys think

Here is this big buffoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEvOQMReVcQ

Monday, May 16, 2011

Rock n' Roll Hall OF Fame or hall of shame

Ok let's talk about the Rock n' Roll Hall Of Fame or should I say the Rock n' roll hall of shame which is what I call it. The institution has been a big disappointment
to the rock community . the group has inducted acts like Madonna, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Neil Diamond, and those dancing queens ABBA, instead of real rockers like Free, Bad Company, Yes, Thin Lizzy, Chicago (The Terry Kath era), Cheap Trick, Judas Priest , Kiss or Deep Purple . what the fuck is wrong with the hall of fame.

What a bunch of fucking idiots that committee has utterly ignored the bands who were around and put non rock acts that hae no business being in the hall of fame. Madonna is pop and basically is not the greatest singer but a mere performance artist, ABBA , the two men and girl team which produced songs like "Dancing Queen" or "Mama Mia" for their sugray pop songs that is no rock n' roll. Run DMC and Grandmaster Flash are rap artist . One thing is the hip hop hall of fame or the pop hall of fame but they ain't rock n' roll. Neil Diamond he is basically pop and middle of the road type.

Jann Wenner and his cronies are too political and always ommitted the real rockers for his won taste. This is why they are called The rock n' roll hall of shame and the institution should be called unless thye get it right next time and we will held these morons accountable for their actions in choosing real rockers with the artificial ones. ABBA rock n' roll ? you got to to be fucking kidding me.

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