There is a young man in Norway who has caught my attention due to just how inspired and creative his videos are, as well as his actual talent. Below is a video he created made from editing tapes of himself hitting various pieces of percussion and some simple notes and chords on a piano.
What he does is cuts them together into a song without actually needing to know how to play either instrument. Sadly, the audio concept this utilizes this is how idiots like Paris Hilton can release a steaming pile of crap and call it music while lacking any talent (or purpose for that matter) entirely.
A final nice touch is the reversal of outfits one might be seen wearing while playing the instruments shown.
Computers and the Internet have revolutionized how we communicate and share. Messages can be sent nearly instantaneously. Entire songs can be reduced to small files and portable storage devices can hold thousands of them. Video is rapidly joining audio in compact portability.
Somehow the entertainment industry has fallen behind. They continue to attempt to enforce outdated copyright laws which where written and designed before current technology was even conceived.
Lets face it, the harder they try to control how things are shared online, the harder someone will work to subvert the system and do it anyways. Hollywood and the music industry should spend more time and money trying to conceive of a new business model that embraces the new capabilities of Internet technology. Instead they keep fighting a losing battle to preserve the current.
It just boggles my mind.
My friend Johny G. has been getting some great regular gigs lately, and on the occasions I manage to make it out, he sometimes lets me take the stage for a while. I’ve come to realize that I let my skills really fall to the wayside over the past few years and there’s been only one way to remedy it – practice!
I’ve written some nice short songs that I’m quite proud of, and unleash them upon captive bar audiences more often than not – but I used to play some covers and that’s what gets people going. With that in mind I’ve been setting out to learn and re-learn a sampling of covers from various artists that I enjoy. Some are relatively obscure but they say variety is the spice of life.
Here’s a brief list of what I’ve practiced enough to play passably in front of an audience:
- Headstones – Tweeter and the Monkey Man
- Headstones – Three Angels
- Neil Young -Rocking In The Free World
- Bob Dylan – Knocking on Heaven’s Door
- Nirvana – Polly
- Nirvana – Rape Me
- Marcy Playground – Poppies
In the works or planned to be:
- Sublime – What I Got
- Nirvana – Heartshaped Box
- Neil Young – Hey Hey, My My
- CCR – Fortunate Son
- CCR- Who’ll Stop The Rain
- Moist – Push
- Matchbox Twenty – 3 A.M.
- Oleander – Why I’m Here
- Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
- Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm
- Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
- STP – Plush
- STP – Creep
- STP – Interstate Love Song
Plus a handful of others. Here’s hoping I can get my chops up enough for these all. 
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