Category: Music

Couple of music links

Just kinda testing again after all the problems I’ve been having here:

Sun Ra – Historic master tapes, stampers, and mothers auction on ebay
Somebody needs seed money for a microdot startup! “Which might or might not be Sun Ra’s. ” Classic.

Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World
One of the best street performers I ever saw in Japan used an electric shamisen and a Cry Baby; that was the day I had to sell my Groovebox.

Traditional Cambodian Music: Land Mine Victim Band
A video I took amongst Khmer ruins on a hot, hot day.

Sony hates you.

“Last Friday, Sony Music sent Gummy Soul a cease and desist order for Amerigo Gazaway’s “Bizarre Tribe: A Quest To The Pharcyde”.”

LINK

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.

The Beginning of the Golden Age – Freestyle Cool J 1985

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.