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13:35:15 12/08/11
Woodsongs 640: John Gorka & Eliza Gilkyson and Blitz the Ambassador
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JOHN GORKA AND ELIZA GILKYSON are considered two of the best contemporary Singer/songwriters touring today. These longtime friends recently teamed up with Lucy Kaplansky to form the super folk group Red Horse. The trio's self titled debut CD was released last year and it became an instant folk classic and a big hit with fans. JOHN GORKA is a world-renowned singer-songwriter who was raised in New Jersey and came out of New York City's Greenwich Village folk scene that produced such songwriters as Suzanne Vega and Shawn Colvin. His award-winning songs have been recorded and performed by such notable artists as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith and Mary Black. John has recorded eleven solo albums, six on Red House Records. His latest is So Dark You See. ELIZA GILKYSON is a politically minded, poetically gifted singer-songwriter, who has become one of the most respected musicians in roots, folk and Americana circles. The Grammy-nominated artist was inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2006, she was recognized with 3 Austin Music Awards and 4 Folk Alliance Music Awards, one of which was for "Song of the Year" for her tune "Man of God." Her latest solo CD is Roses at the End of Time on Red House Records. BLITZ THE AMBASSADOR may seem like an unusual booking for WoodSongs at first glance. The Ghanaian-born, New York-based composer, and producer unleashes psychedelic Afrobeat colors and triple-time rhymes with a lightning-fast mind, the political boldness of Chuck D, and the sixth groove sense of Fela Kuti. All set to swirls of brass, distorted guitars, and the crackle and pop of old amplifiers. However, for his WoodSongs performance, Blitz will be performing a more intimate, stripped down set. Check out his video for "Remembering The Future" to see this talented artist in action as Michael welcomes the show's first hip hop artist and explores the genre's connection to folk music.
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22:30:00 09/07/10
Our studio guest: Frank Briegmann
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CEO of Universal Music GermanyDW-TV: For more we're joined by Frank Briegmann, CEO of Universal Music Germany. How do you feel about this software? Does it affect your business? Frank Briegmann: Not really because Ableton is a software for composing and producing music and because we are actually in the business of selling the music of our artists I think it takes something more from the artists, charisma, virtuosity, everything. If you consider Mark Knopfler for example just standing there with a guitar and getting people to buy his music...I think it needs more but it could still be a great product. DW-TV: Artists have started producing their albums at home. They use internet platforms to market and sell their products... Do they still need a Label? Frank Briegmann: Well I think the task of a label never changed, no matter if there is an internet or not an internet. Our task and our passion is really to find new artists, to break and make them successful and to help them in marketing questions and in promotion questions and distribution questions. That's what we have been doing and that's what we are going to be doing in the future no matter if there's the internet. So the question is yes, now that the artist is able now to distribute his music by himself, but availability is not the same as awareness. So we help people to find the music in the internet. DW-TV: So you can work in the business without a label, but if you want to make it you need a label? Frank Briegmann: Well I could not agree more on this one. No, really, the majority of artists are still with labels, of commercially successful artists. And there is a reason for that. Because they want help from us in getting all the business sides of the music together...to think about how am I going to make my money? How am I going to design my marketing? How am I going to design my product? And so on and so forth. Artists want us to answer all of these questions. DW-TV: The popular music industry is usually about being cutting edge - how does the industry react to new technologies and media? What are the new business strategies? Frank Briegmann: Oh yes, absolutely. The internet offers us many opportunities in the new digital world. We are working together with all kinds of technology companies. For example when YouTube came up we were one of the first companies to cut a deal with YouTube. They streamed our videos and you know we found a business model for that. And that is the same for so many other internet technology companies that we are working with closely. DW-TV: So you are not worried about technology. Where do you see the industry in the next ten years. Frank Briegmann: The good news for our industry is that the demand for music is greater than it has ever been before. More people want to hear music. Now the question is how are we going to monitor this and how are we going to pay our artists in the future. So we need to find business models in the digital world. We have been developing very many of them but I think as technology moves on we will keep on developing business models and also we need protection in law and by the politicians for the intellectual property of our artists so it is not going to be illegally downloaded. Interview: Monika Jones
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22:30:00 09/07/10
Our studio guest: Frank Briegmann
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CEO of Universal Music GermanyDW-TV: For more we're joined by Frank Briegmann, CEO of Universal Music Germany. How do you feel about this software? Does it affect your business? Frank Briegmann: Not really because Ableton is a software for composing and producing music and because we are actually in the business of selling the music of our artists I think it takes something more from the artists, charisma, virtuosity, everything. If you consider Mark Knopfler for example just standing there with a guitar and getting people to buy his music...I think it needs more but it could still be a great product. DW-TV: Artists have started producing their albums at home. They use internet platforms to market and sell their products... Do they still need a Label? Frank Briegmann: Well I think the task of a label never changed, no matter if there is an internet or not an internet. Our task and our passion is really to find new artists, to break and make them successful and to help them in marketing questions and in promotion questions and distribution questions. That's what we have been doing and that's what we are going to be doing in the future no matter if there's the internet. So the question is yes, now that the artist is able now to distribute his music by himself, but availability is not the same as awareness. So we help people to find the music in the internet. DW-TV: So you can work in the business without a label, but if you want to make it you need a label? Frank Briegmann: Well I could not agree more on this one. No, really, the majority of artists are still with labels, of commercially successful artists. And there is a reason for that. Because they want help from us in getting all the business sides of the music together...to think about how am I going to make my money? How am I going to design my marketing? How am I going to design my product? And so on and so forth. Artists want us to answer all of these questions. DW-TV: The popular music industry is usually about being cutting edge - how does the industry react to new technologies and media? What are the new business strategies? Frank Briegmann: Oh yes, absolutely. The internet offers us many opportunities in the new digital world. We are working together with all kinds of technology companies. For example when YouTube came up we were one of the first companies to cut a deal with YouTube. They streamed our videos and you know we found a business model for that. And that is the same for so many other internet technology companies that we are working with closely. DW-TV: So you are not worried about technology. Where do you see the industry in the next ten years. Frank Briegmann: The good news for our industry is that the demand for music is greater than it has ever been before. More people want to hear music. Now the question is how are we going to monitor this and how are we going to pay our artists in the future. So we need to find business models in the digital world. We have been developing very many of them but I think as technology moves on we will keep on developing business models and also we need protection in law and by the politicians for the intellectual property of our artists so it is not going to be illegally downloaded. Interview: Monika Jones
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03:54:45 01/10/10
Music Video Reform School Vs DJ Earworm and Def Leppard - MeVIO Music
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It's a new year, and Jackie and Martina are back with a brand new episode of Music Video Reform School. On tap in this episode is a look at a mashup video from DJ Earworm, then the girls head back to the 80's with a track from Def Leppard. Enjoy.
DJ Earworm:
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San Francisco’s DJ Earworm is one of the mashup genre’s most innovative artists. His appetite for booty can’t be satisfied with just two artists; he uses upwards of six or seven tracks in each of his bastard creations.
His official website has a collection of all his mash ups and links to download them.
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Def Leppard
BIO: (from allmusic.com )
Def Leppard, in many ways, was the definitive hard rock band of the '80s. There were many bands that rocked harder (and were more dangerous) than the Sheffield-based quintet, but few others captured the spirit of the times quite as well. Emerging in the late '70s as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the group actually owed more to the glam rock and metal of the early '70s, as their sound was equal parts T. Rex, Mott the Hoople, Queen, and Led Zeppelin. By toning down their heavy riffs and emphasizing melody, Def Leppard was poised for crossover success by 1983's Pyromania, and skillfully used the fledgling MTV network to their advantage. The musicians were already blessed with photogenic good looks, but they also crafted a series of innovative, exciting videos that made them into stars. They intended to follow Pyromania quickly but were derailed when their drummer lost an arm in a car accident, the first of many problems that plagued the group's career. Def Leppard managed to pull through such tragedies, and they even expanded their large audience with 1987's blockbuster Hysteria. As the '90s began, mainstream hard rock shifted away from Leppard's signature pop-metal and toward edgier, louder bands, yet the group maintained a sizable audience into the late '90s and were one of only a handful of '80s metal groups to survive the decade more or less intact.
Def Leppard had their origins in a Sheffield-based group that teenagers Rick Savage (bass) and Pete Willis (guitar) formed in 1977. Vocalist Joe Elliott, a fanatic follower of Mott the Hoople and T. Rex, joined the band several months later, bringing the name Deaf Leopard with him. After a spelling change, the trio, augmented by a now-forgotten drummer, began playing local Sheffield pubs, and within a year they had added guitarist Steve Clark to the lineup, as well as a new drummer. Later in 1978, they recorded their debut EP, Getcha Rocks Off, and released it on their own label, Bludgeon Riffola. The EP became a word-of-mouth success, earning airplay on the BBC. The group members were still in their teens.
Following the release of Getcha Rocks Off, Rick Allen was added as the band's permanent drummer, and Def Leppard quickly became the subject of the British music weeklies. They soon signed with AC/DC's manager, Petter Mensch, who helped them secure a contract with Mercury Records. On Through the Night, the band's full-length debut, was released in 1980 and instantly became a hit in the U.K., also earning significant airplay in the U.S., where it reached number 51 on the charts. Over the course of the year, Def Leppard relentlessly toured Britain and America, playing their own shows while also opening concerts for Ozzy Osbourne, Sammy Hagar, and Judas Priest. High 'n' Dry followed in 1981 and became the group's first platinum album in the U.S., thanks to MTV's strong rotation of "Bringin' on the Heartbreak." MTV would be vital to the band's success in the '80s.
As the band recorded the follow-up to High 'n' Dry with producer Mutt Lange, Pete Willis was fired from the band for alcoholism, and Phil Collen, a former guitarist for Girl, was hired to replace him. The resulting album, 1983's Pyromania, became an unexpected blockbuster, due not only to Def Leppard's skillful, melodic metal, but also to MTV's relentless airing of "Photograph" and "Rock of Ages." Pyromania went on to sell ten million copies, establishing Def Leppard as one of the most popular bands in the world. Despite their success, the band was about to enter a trying time for their career. Following an extensive international tour, the group re-entered the studio to record the follow-up, but producer Lange was unavailable, so they began sessions with Jim Steinman, the man responsible for Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell. The pairing turned out to be ill-advised, so the group turned to their former engineer, Nigel Green. One month into recording, Allen lost his left arm in a New Year's Eve car accident. The arm was reattached, but it had to be amputated once an infection set in.
Def Leppard's future looked cloudy without a drummer, but by the spring of 1985 -- just a few months after his accident -- Allen began learning to play a custom-made electronic kit assembled for him by Simmons. The band soon resumed recording, and within a few months Lange was back on board, having judged all the existing tapes inferior and ordered the band to begin work all over again. Recording sessions continued throughout 1986, and that summer, the group returned to the stage for the European Monsters of Rock tour. Def Leppard finally completed their fourth album, now titled Hysteria, early in 1987. The record was released that spring to lukewarm reviews, with many critics claiming that the album compromised Leppard's metal roots for sweet pop flourishes. Accordingly, Hysteria was slow out of the starting gates -- "Women," the first single, failed to really take hold -- but the release of "Animal" helped the album gather steam. The song became Def Leppard's first Top 40 hit in the U.K., but more importantly, it launched a string of six straight Top 20 hits in the U.S., which also included "Hysteria," "Pour Some Sugar on Me," "Love Bites," "Armageddon It," and "Rocket," the latter of which arrived in 1989, a full two years after the release of Hysteria. During those two years, Def Leppard's presence was unavoidable -- they were the kings of high-school metal, ruling the pop charts and MTV, and teenagers and bands alike replicated their teased hair and ripped jeans, even when the grimy hard rock of Guns N' Roses took hold in 1988.
Hysteria proved to be the peak of Leppard's popularity, yet their follow-up remained eagerly awaited in the early '90s, as the band took a break from the road and set to work on a new record. During the recording process, however, Steve Clark died from an overdose of alcohol and drugs. Clark had historically battled with alcohol, and following the Hysteria heyday, his bandmates forced him to take a sabbatical. Although he did enter rehab, Clark's habits continued, and his abuse was so crippling that Collen began recording the majority of the band's guitar leads. Following Clark's death, Def Leppard resolved to finish their forthcoming album as a quartet, releasing Adrenalize in the spring of 1992. Adrenalize was greeted with mixed reviews, and even though the album debuted at number one and contained several successful singles, including the Top 20 hits "Let's Get Rocked" and "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad," the record was a commercial disappointment in the wake of Pyromania and Hysteria. After its release, the group added former Whitesnake guitarist Vivian Campbell to the lineup, thus resuming Def Leppard's two-guitar attack.
In 1993, Def Leppard released the rarities collection Retro Active, which yielded another Top 20 hit with the acoustic ballad "Two Steps Behind." Two years later, the group released the greatest-hits collection Vault while preparing for their their sixth album. Slang arrived in the spring of 1996, and while it proved more adventurous than its predecessor, it was greeted with indifference, indicating that Leppard's heyday had indeed passed and they were now simply a very popular cult band. Undaunted, Leppard soldiered on, returning to their patented pop-metal sound for Euphoria, which was released in June of 1999. Despite the success of "Promises," the record failed to produce any additional hits, resulting in a return to adult pop balladry on 2002's X. The two-disc Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection arrived in 2005, followed in 2006 by Yeah!, a strong collection of covers. In 2008, the band released their ninth studio album, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge, which debuted at number five and was supported by a lucrative summer tour.
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03:56:20 06/17/09
Video Guitars are the Future of Music
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Which comes first, the music or the video? The question is moot now that artisan Ben Lewry of Visionary Instruments, has built an LCD video display into his guitar. After several prototypes, his custom video guitars now can run visualizations or movies by simply popping in a USB thumbdrive into a back panel. Visualizations can [...]
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15:56:20 06/16/09
Video Guitars are the Future of Music
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Which comes first, the music or the video? The question is moot now that artisan Ben Lewry of Visionary Instruments, has built an LCD video display into his guitar. After several prototypes, his custom video guitars now can run visualizations or movies by simply popping in a USB thumbdrive into a back panel. Visualizations [...]
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18:55:48 04/08/08
Consciousness Awakening
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http://www.ralphbuckley.com
Consciousness Awakening....
I don't know why....but I feel compelled to continue with this...call it what u will....intuition...instinct...but this idea is constantly spinning in my head. It's very weird...but I remember thinking these same thoughts back when Art did his experiment way back when. I was so riveted during this time. I literally couldn't wait to listen to Mr. Bell's show every night...it was way better then cable....(hehe)!
I recall wondering why this hadn't been done or thought of before & why the 'powers that be' hadn't put there monies & resources into a venture that held such extraordinary potential...I was really quite naive then...we've never had any real money, nor have we been truly exposed to the corruption of it all, always been poor....& for this I feel fortunate. Never really bothered me much. In the years that Marcie & I were homeless...we didn't really analyze it then, but we were always taken care of...people, things...necessities came to us....as they were needed. I wish I would've been more in tune with the spirit back in those days, I would've been more relaxed...for I was constantly in a state of panic and anxiety.
anyways....this 'consciousness' project is a really delicate matter and we musn't allow things to become distorted....or lost in hype and money. I think that we need to become accustomed to this idea...the idea of thinking or being as one. Like everything else this takes getting used to...it takes practice. With large groups it becomes extremely evident of personalities that are louder then others...ego's are incredibly fragile & unpredictable & possibly dangerous. We have to account for this....before we begin. This is why I think we need to keep on trying...until we are comfortable with the idea & more importantly comfortable with each other in what we're trying to accomplish, again we have to get used to thinking of ourselves as one.
When I close my eyes....I think about a flock of birds that can change direction instantly....as one. Thousands of birds that can make a complete change of direction...as one. One mind. One heart. One Love....
I am positive that as long as everyone involved has their hearts in the right place that this could really grow....quickly. We could enter into this online as individuals or groups....small or large...depending on where the comfort zone is with an individual....so we can eventually be able to develop this intuitive ability to think and be as one.
To be honest, I don't want to be the one to lead this experiment. I believe for this to work we'll need to trade off on who will 'moderate' or host certain 'sessions'... Just to be sure & positive, I think it would be wise to prevent any one individual to be in control of things, for very long anyways.....if this happens it will most assuredly fail.
I'm doing this, because, in my mind, it is the most important endeavor of our time. We need to come together spiritually...without a care for race color or creed....or money. Staying as far as we possibly can from any organized religious beliefs...
We are one...and until we can start thinking about ourselves in this capacity....we'll never get past the differences that have held us back for the ages.
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What would be the focus? - perhaps prayer lists? - those who are sick? - without a doubt we should always try to envision a world of peace. But eventually we could attempt to become more specific...specific regions - focus for specific leaders -............ This is always about bringing light.....we can never feed the darkness.
The response to this idea in recent attempts has shown great promise...but as I stated in the video.... Most people won't think of such things as necessities...that is until their very lives are effected by the chaos that our future promises....
If anyone feels inspired....then it's important that you act on that impulse....
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