http://nickhoorwegmusic.today.com Music from Acuff to Zappa Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:40:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I heard an incredible new CD, one that has come out in the last week. Michael Jackson 'The Stripped Mixes' is one of the more interesting albums I've heard in a long time! The idea behind the CD is to highlight some of Michael's wonderful singing when he was a ... http://nickhoorwegmusic.today.com/2009/08/02/michael-jackson-the-stripped-mixes-cd/ It's funny how if you mention The Meters and The Neville Brothers to most music fans, they assume that basically the first band became the second band. While this isn't strictly true (since it's not as if the band stayed the same and just changed the name), it is almost true. Allow ... http://nickhoorwegmusic.today.com/2009/07/28/the-meters-and-the-neville-brothers/ Once in a while as a musician, you hear someone that totally changes the way you play music and your instrument. The longer you play for, and the more music you hear, the amount of times that it happens gets less and less frequent, but probably more profound each time. Viktor Krauss is one such musician for me. It ... http://nickhoorwegmusic.today.com/2009/07/18/viktor-krauss-double-bass/ I love it when you rediscover an album you've owned for a long time but haven't listened to in ages. Today I played Parliament's 'The Motor Booty Affair' for the first time in years, and wondered why it'd been so long. 'Motor Booty Affair' was the first Parliament CD I ever bought, ... http://nickhoorwegmusic.today.com/2009/07/06/mr-wiggles-junie-morrison-and-the-motor-booty-affair/ Some funky YouTube that'll get you groovin' for the weekend! This clip is a short, late 70's video of James Brown demonstrating some dances, including the camel walk, boogaloo, mashed potato and the best version of the robot I've ever seen. Way to go JB! Even though late 70's James Brown wasn't classic James Brown, he ... http://nickhoorwegmusic.today.com/2009/07/04/james-brown-teaches-you-to-dance/ I've just read a short piece on the internet today that I found a little bit disturbing. One of the major chain stores here in Australia has decided to stop selling CD singles completely, citing very poor sales - figures as low as 350 for a number one selling single nationwide. Obviously this ... http://nickhoorwegmusic.today.com/2009/07/02/the-death-of-cd-singles/ I don't know if you've ever read any of those musical anecdote books, where a whole lot of musicians contribute various stories with varying degrees of interest and humour. They are usually pretty hit-and-miss affairs, to be honest, often you have to search through a couple of hundred dreadful stories for ... http://nickhoorwegmusic.today.com/2009/07/01/our-father-thou-art-blakey/ A mondegreen is a misheard lyric, although the term applies to all speech. The word comes from author Sylvia Wright's mishearing of the words 'and laid him on the green' as 'lady mondegreen' in a Scottish ballad. There are some wonderful and very funny mondegreens; here are a few of my favourites... Probably the ... http://nickhoorwegmusic.today.com/2009/06/30/mondegreens-misheard-lyrics/ A little doo-wop song from Frank Zappa. This one features the original Mothers Of Invention on BBC tv from 1968. I saw it the first time a few years ago on a show called 'Sounds Of The Sixties', a series that was basically a compilation of great BBC music clips. If I ... http://nickhoorwegmusic.today.com/2009/06/29/frank-zappa-and-the-mothers-of-invention-clip/ There's nothing quite like an old Fender bass. They rumble, roar and shake a room like no other instrument. I've always been a fan of the precision bass over the jazz bass; that fat, woolly tone is what a bass should sound like, as far as I'm concerned :) I've played ... http://nickhoorwegmusic.today.com/2009/06/28/vintage-fender-bass-please/