My all time favorite Christmas song!
Christmas Music: The Kinks- Father Christmas (Live ’77)
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Christmas Music: George Thorogood- Rock n Roll Christmas
The good old 80′s….
Christmas Music: U2 performing Baby Please Come Home
A great Christmas tune…
This years edition of Rolling Stone’s 100 greatest guitarists of all time
Let’s see…
Willy Nelson is on the list and Paul Gilbert is not.
Lou Reed made it and Eric Johnson didn’t.
David Howell Evans a.k.a. ‘The Edge’ is on the list and Joe Satriani is not.
Joni Mitchell….. JONI MITCHELL is on the list. An excerpt from her RS write up:
She had mastered the idea that she could tune the guitar any way she wanted, to get other inversions of the chords.
Wowwww… Alternate tuning a guitar. Joni Mitchel mastered alternate tuning and made the list and Steve Vai didn’t:
No Kirk Hammett, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Steve Lukather, Brian Setzer, Tommy Emmanuel, Sonny Landreth, john 5 or Jennifer Batten. There are dozens of guitarists that could make the list and didn’t. But Paul Simon did.
ZZ Top: I’m Bad, I’m Nation Wide
Great live version from 1980.
Derek and the Dominos: It’s Too Late
Great blues rock for a Monday night…
Ugghhh… My Ears: Glee TV Show Covers Van Halen’s Hot For Teacher
Van Halen‘s ‘Hot for Teacher’ will be performed by the cast of ‘Glee‘ tomorrow night (Nov. 15), in yet another shocking and appalling example of popular television-on-classic rock crime. The song originally appeared on the band’s ’1984′ album, their last (so far) to feature original lead singer David Lee Roth.
Here is a link to the flat and thin sounding Glee-ification of the Van Halen classic. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Eric Johnson: Zap
Awesome guitar playing.
Interesting Graph: Does music taste reflect intelligence?
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This is a really interesting chart that correlates taste in music to SAT scores:
Virgil Griffith, popularly known for the Wikipedia Scanner that detects where the Wikipedia edits are coming from, maintains another very interesting project that maps musical tastes of college students with their intelligences levels (determined by their SAT score).
The x-axis represent the SAT score while the colored boxes indicate the music genre and the artist / composer.
Of course, SAT scores are not a direct measure of intelligence, but it is a directional indicator.
Check out the full size charts here.
Ya know, nothing says Thanksgiving like Lady Gaga
As ABC swirls in ever tighter circles around the drain:
ABC has scheduled A Very Gaga Thanksgiving to air on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 24. The telecast will feature eight performances in front of a small crowd by the singer and a sit-down interview with Katie Couric. The special, conceived and directed by Lady Gaga, will also feature appearances by Tony Bennett and chef Art Smith.
Be still my heart, eight performances by Lady Gaga and a sit down interview with the perky one herself. What could possibly top this?
She will also sing holiday songs like “White Christmas.“
Holiday songs…Like “White Christmas.” Really? That must be the single stupidest sentence I have seen in a long time.
I’ll miss this one for sure.