MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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Ever hear of stick man? Recognize the pic below? I guess with a url like that, it’s going to be easy to “guess”.
They found out who the guy on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV was.
A historian in England ran across the original photo. The guy’s name is Lot Long, and he was 69 in 1823, and worked as a roof thatcher. Good thing it’s that old, so any copyright would have expired by now, they sold a lot of those albums.
theguardian.com
Figure on Led Zeppelin IV cover identified as Victorian Wiltshire thatcher
Fifty-year mystery solved as research suggests picture shows Lot Long, a widower from Mere
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Everybody’s been saying Now and Then is the last Beatles song. But maybe there’s an encore (or 2, or 20)?
It looks like there’s an album called the Dakota Beatle demos? Maybe it’s time for Yoko to just empty out that sock drawer where she’s been finding these.
Lots of them. I’m sure all of you know about these right? I’m definitely not the Beatles expert around here. What am I missing? Sounds like these have been known for years too.
Btw, I checked, and this demo album is not on Amazon. In the comments for it, people have tried to share where a body can buy a copy of this, and YT keeps swallowing it up. I can imagine demos 2 through n are looking a bit more valuable right now than maybe they used to. This looks kind of bootleg.
https://www.discogs.com/release/3307244-John-Lennon-Free-As-A-Bird-The-Dakota-Beatle-Demos
discogs.com
John Lennon - Free As A Bird (The Dakota Beatle Demos)
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1996 CD release of "Free As A Bird (The Dakota Beatle Demos)" on Discogs.
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This is so, so brilliant. The arrangement, the harmonies, the video, it’s all there. As great as they are at making us smile, they can just as easily tug at the heart. Having this ready to drop so soon after the original is fantastic.
I love it.
I can imagine John and George up in heaven, smiling. And I’m just sitting here in awe. They are doing it again. So amazing.
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Jung,
Good timing on your comment about Liszt’s arrangements of classical works.
Yesterday I was planning what local concerts I was going to see this fall and winter, and one I am considering is from a pianist named Igor Levit. The last work on the list for his performance is:
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 (“Eroica”) (arr. for piano by Franz Liszt)
Should be very interesting. Thanks.
ums.org/performance/igor-levit-piano/
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The theme of this thread being “pushing instruments”, I thought I’d also include Igor’s cover of one of my favorite Billy Joel songs, And So it Goes. Definitely an emotional tune, even if not always having the same twist to it as he shows here.
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Good catch David. I did think that was pretty early for a photo, even a daguerreotype.
I spent more time looking into when the copyright ended for it. Didn’t find anything definitive for England; most countries seem to use 50 years after the photographer dies, 70 in the US. And there is no agreed international standard for that.
But — if they have the part about the photographer dying in 1944 right, then 1944 + 50 years is 1994. I think it’s unlikely to have ended before that.
Just when did they sell all those 37 million copies of Zep IV anyway? It was released in 1971. Might be time for the heirs of that photographer to ring up a barrister and talk about how much 37 million copies of that pic totals up to.
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Bud,
Yes, to all of what you said.
I’ve got Now and Then on loop and have had it there since I discovered it 2 1/2 hours ago.
My friends at university and I followed Jeff Beck from blues to rock to jazz. Since the mid ’70s, I’ve spent more time with jazz than any other genre. As a listener though, more than a musician. I play it too, but I’ve played a lot more rock and pop.
But I have wide ranging taste in music. In this thread alone I mentioned I’m going to 5 classical concerts this fall and winter, and I also mentioned Billy Joel a couple times. I grew up with the Beatles, and classic rock, and pop, and vintage R&B, and Motown of course, and all of that happened by 1970.
I’m going to soak in Now and Then for a while more…it’s so ever loving cool.
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Bud,
Art Tatum. There’s a reason people think he was the greatest pianist ever.
Of course Art improvised it. That’s what he did with every song. If he ever played a song the same way twice, he was cheating. That’s per Oscar Peterson, talking to Andre Previn, in another vid that I’ve mentioned before, in describing his discussions with Art.
Fats Waller. Ain’t Misbehavin’ is from the classic movie, Stormy Weather, which also starred Lena Horne, for whom it was her big break singing the title cut. It also starred Cab Calloway and Dooley Wilson, who played Sam in Casablance. Quite a movie. It’s old enough to be in the public domain, from 1943, so the full movie is on YouTube:
And here’s Lena singing Stormy Weather.
Billy Joel is one of my influences as a keyboard player. I used to play Prelude / Angry Young Man. The hardest part is finding a piano with a good enough action that you can do that drum roll on middle C. Most won’t recover fast enough. That’s a great live vid of him playing it.
Thanks, Bud, that’s all great stuff.
youtu.be
[FULL MOVIE] Stormy Weather (1943) | Classic Musical in 4K
▬ Public Domain Classic Musical, digitally restored, and upscaled to 4K ▬Synopsis: Dancing great, Bill 'Williamson', sees his face on the cover of Theatre Wo...
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Jung,
Thanks for posting that. I think I’m going to enjoy seeing him. Ok, I’m up to 5 shows I’m going to, all of which are classical. First time that’s ever happened.
I was thinking of looking at Liszt’s arrangement. Haven’t found it yet, but I found a different one that he did on YT.
Liszt is not the only one to do arrangements for a smaller ensemble than the original. The idea of doing this sounds like a Duo Session for one.
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Thanks they’re working now.
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For all the times I’ve heard that Deep Purple song, that might be my favorite version of it. They really nailed it. Thanks for posting that.
It reminds me of something I was listening to the other day. The song below is from Billy Cobham’s first solo album, the first cut. He and Jan Hammer, the two Mahavishnu Orchestra alumni, lead it off, and it has Leland Sklar on bass and Tommy Bolin on guitar. Two years after this, Tommy joined Deep Purple.
For a lot of lovers of jazz rock fusion, this album is on their all time top 10 list, including me. They said it took 2 days to record, and it was basically done live – one or two takes at most, and no edits afterwards. Another track from it, Tommy broke his high E string, and they just kept going. It’s a lot of improvisation, Tommy hadn’t played with these guys before. And he was 22 years old.
As far as pushing their instruments, yeah, they did that. This album affected a lot of people. Nobody had heard drumming like this before, very singular style, for example. And Jan is Jan, always know it’s him too, and unique. These guys just let it rip.
If you like this, the whole album is on YT. What do you think? Maybe like Deep Purple with a bit more loose improvisation? With feeling. Released in 1973.
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Jürgen,
I remember that song, a friend of mine’s band used to play it, long ago. Good fun, and as Jung said, a very big hit.
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YouTube is similarly misbehaving with this video, the one with the Waterboys song; it says it is not available.
For any vids that I can’t see in America, which might be due to copyright issues – at least that’s one possibility – if you tell me the name of what you’re trying to show I might be able to find another copy of it. Thanks.
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Jürgen,
Many thanks, to you and everyone else, for these recommendations. One of the great things about the Club is that it puts us in touch with people from all over the world, from different backgrounds. I know that there is an enormous amount of wonderful things in the world that I’ve not yet seen, and I very much appreciate you taking the time to post about them.
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YouTube tells me this vid is private. Were you trying to show Back to the Future trailer?