Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people
Taro came over a few weeks ago, and we stopped by a recently-opened music shop while the kids were at Tae Kwon Do. It’s the largest music store in Sarakham with possibly legit big brand stock, and also has 5 studio rooms in the back. The owner is super-friendly and let Taro try out the gaudiest German electric I’ve ever seen.
(I took this photo with T’s camera)
“Last Friday, Sony Music sent Gummy Soul a cease and desist order for Amerigo Gazaway’s “Bizarre Tribe: A Quest To The Pharcyde”.”
Sony just doesn’t get it:
They don’t know how to make good products anymore.
They don’t understand “fair use.”
They don’t know how to get back all the loyal customers they chased away over the years…
It seems they only want to make a last few bucks before Samsung and Apple and all the other companies who do get it (a little better, at least) collectively piss on their grave.
Die, Sony, die.
By the way, the album mentioned above is simply sublime.
This video is mindblowing on so many levels – it’s the earliest footage of LL performing vocally (there is apparently earlier footage of him breaking). There’s a small crowd in the college gym that’s apparently getting its first taste of rapping/scratching. LL explains what he’s going to do before actually doing it; at this point, he hasn’t even released his first album!
If you click through to the YouTube page, the son of the man that hired LL for this performance reveals details in the comments.
MMTJ is:
Mina-chanbo on the blues harp.
Maximum Overdrive spazzing out.
Taro on the genu-wine Nepalese sitar.
J not playing the djembe.
Videos to follow.
Such a clean mashup!
Thanks to corporate greed, the album this was released on, Blood Line, hasn’t been available for decades. It is largely unknown. I want to make it available again, because it’s worth it.
JAPAN:
KO-REA:
They need to form a superband and classify it as “Visual Winter Sonata Kei!”
(from Ko)
Oh my god this is so good.
(via my pal Alex on Facebook)