April 2, 2007
Hands-Free Selection: Early Check-Out
In case you haven’t been reading my other blog, I should bring you up to speed on how I’ve been making posts recently: I broke my left pinkie finger about 2 weeks ago, making it really painful/difficult to type. I wanted to keep my regular posting schedule, so I began recording my posts as videos, creating a series of “hands-free” entries. I’m still not able to type well, so the hands-free postings will continue here.
YouTube has a 10-minute limit on the length of uploaded videos, so I had to split my comments on this month’s songs into three separate videos — the stories behind the deaths of the artists I chose were just too interesting to gloss over. Hope you enjoy:
Part 1: Gram Parsons & Richey James Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers:
Part 2: Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and Sam Cooke:
Part 3: Elliott Smith & Steve Clark of Def Leppard:
Enjoy the songs:
Download: Gram Parsons, “$1000 Wedding” (mp3)
(Right-click/control-click link to download)Download: Manic Street Preachers, “4st 7lbs” (mp3)
(Right-click/control-click link to download)Download: The Rolling Stones, “Citadel” (mp3)
(Right-click/control-click link to download)Download: Sam Cooke, “Another Saturday Night” (mp3)
(Right-click/control-click link to download)Download: Elliott Smith, “Wouldn’t Mama Be Proud?” (mp3)
(Right-click/control-click link to download)Download: Def Leppard, “Gods of War” (mp3)
(Right-click/control-click link to download)Download: Uncle Sam’s “Early Check-Out” (XML playlist)
(Right-click/control-click link to download)
This .ZIP archive of all of the above files proves that you can take it with you:
Download: “Early Check-Out” (ZIP — SaveFile)
(Click here for download instructions)
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:27 pm
I’d argue that George Harrison, via The Beatles, introduced the sitar to western music in 1965, in the song “Norwegian Wood” on the Rubber Soul album, which came out in December 1965. “Paint It, Black” came out in June 1966. However, the recording of the two songs could’ve been concurrent, as the Beatles and Stones did spin in the same social circles.
I do think that both George and Brian were influenced by the Maharishi at the same time, though, so the seed is probably the same, even though George was able to germinate the seed a bit quicker on record.