Showing posts with label Jimi Hendrix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jimi Hendrix. Show all posts
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Saturday, July 12, 2014
Jimi Hendrix All Is by My Side Trailer
Jimi All Is by My Side Music Movie Trailer
A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's pre-fame years. JIMI: ALL IS BY MY SIDE stars André Benjamin (Idlewild, Semi Pro), Imogen Poots (Need for Speed, That Awkward Moment), Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger), Andrew Buckley (Borgia), and Ruth Negga (World War Z) and is written and directed by Academy Award Winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave).
Sunday, May 25, 2014
How to Make a Podcast
How to Make a Podcast
Podcast Awards (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A podcast is an easy way of distributing media files over the internet, and this article will tell how to make a podcast. The first thing necessary is a domain, and a host on which to store the media files for the podcast.
Getting a domain is simple and easy, there are many domain registrars that can register a domain for someone for a small fee. Some of these domainregistrars are GoDaddy.com, Dotster, or Network Solutions are some that provide domains.
The domainregistrar will, for a small fee, enter the chosen domain, provided it is not being used, into the computers that form the backbone of the internet. These computers will be told where the domain is located on the internet; what host it is that holds the domain's information. In order to give them that information, the name servers that are held by the host need to be associated with the domain.
Once the domain is in place, a good host should be found. The host that is chosen should offer a large amount of both disk space and a much larger amount bandwidth.
Disk space is neccessary because the site which holds the podcast will be storing large media files; audio or video files that take up a lot of space and are difficult to compress. The large bandwidth is necessary because transferring these large files many times to many different people will use up the quota quickly.
A good amount of diskspace would be several GigaBytes, bandwidth should be in the tens or hundreds of Gigabytes. Once the host is set up, it should offer you a couple of addresses called nameservers. Inputting these server addresses into the site where the domain was registered will complete the domain setup and allow the site to be found on the internet.
The next step for people who want to know how tomake a podcast is installing the software necessary to maintain the podcast. A small piece of coding called dircaster.php can be used to set up a basic level of podcast. Dircaster.php can be found easily by searching for it in any search engine.
Once it is located, it should be edited to reflect the particulars of the domain and uploaded to the site. Dircaster.php will generate an RSS file, or feed, that tells the subscriber about the new files available for downloading.
To begin podcasting, create the audio files that should be podcast, fill in the information about the file such as date, author, etc, and upload them to the same directory that contains dircaster.php. You now have a podcast, and all that is needed is to publicise the address of the file dircaster.php. To update the podcast with newinformation, just upload the new files. Other things to make the podcast better might be a site that contains information about the podcast, but it isn't necessary.
Mobile Podcast Recording Studio (Photo credit: theunabonger)
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Left Handed Guitarists How Should They Play Their Guitars?
How Should Left Handed Guitarists Play Their Guitars?
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Dick Dale (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was recently thinking about left handed guitar players (I know I need to get out more often) and wondered what effect their left handedness had on their playing style. Most of the very famous ones we are familiar with but I'll list some anyway:
Jimi Hendrix- yep he has to go first still - as you probably know he mostly played a restrung right handed guitar which he played upside down. (the guitar, not Jimi, though early on who knows). Gibson did however custom make him a left-handed Flying V in 1969 which he used at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.
Kurt Cobain - played a mixture of left-handed guitars and upside-down restrung right handed guitars. He favoured Mustangs and Jaguars, though dabbled a bit with Strats and had some custom made for him.
Paul McCartney (free again!) I know he played bass in the Beatles but he also played and plays guitar. Trivia fact - the guitar he first learned to play on which belonged to a childhood friend sold for over $600,000 in 2006! If you know some aspiring young rock gods you should perhaps lend them some gear (as long as you get it back and they don't trash it).
Dick Dale - It was good to see him getting some attention thanks to the inclusion of Miserlou in Pulp Fiction. Initially played an upside down right handed guitar but did not restring it so the strings were also 'upside down'. Even when using a left handed guitar keeps strings upside down.
Albert King - influential blues guitarist who also favoured 'upside down' strings, whether on an upside down right handed guitar, or a left-handed version. He was a big fan of the Gibson Flying V, and thanks to down-tuning his guitar had a very expressive and individual sound. From this we can see therefore that there are 3 main options available to lefties:
1) Use a right handed guitar and simply turn it upside down leaving the strings as they are. This will definitely have a large impact on your playing style and sound. Using 'normal' training materials and tabs will be difficult but you may be the next Dick Dale or Albert King.
2) Use an upside down right handed guitar and restring it. Although some purists may scoff this is certainly fairly straightforward for electric guitars. It can be difficult sometimes using the volume and tone controls and some guitars may just not be comfortable to use this way.
3) Buy a purpose built left handed guitar. This avoids having to restring your guitar and will mean that all the controls that you need will be in easy reach. Will also avoid difficulties in using an unusual arrangement of strings and will make more training materials available to you. Less likely that clumsy right-handed friends will want to borrow your guitar and return it after bouncing it off a concrete floor.
Your guitar should be pretty much plug n' play out of the box (well perhaps tune it first). Aesthetically your guitar will probably look more balanced and like what it's designers intended. So overall if you are just starting out learning to play guitar and are left-handed then
I would recommend finding a left handed guitar that you like. It will make your learning curve (to use an overused phrase) a bit smoother. Later on once you have learned the basics feel free to experiment as that's part of the fun in learning to play guitar, whether you're a lefty or not. Bob James is left-handed and plays guitar. Though not terribly interesting these facts means that he's interested in left handed guitars. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=B_James
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Sunday, May 11, 2014
Noise Rock
NOISE ROCK
Noise rock is a genre of rock music descended from early avant-garde music and sound art.
Cover of The Velvet Underground
Many noise rock groups have a confrontational performance style which mirrors the aggression of their music. This reaches back to The Who and Jimi Hendrix, who were famous for destroying their instruments on stage, and Iggy Pop, of the Stooges, and Darby Crash, of the Germs, who lacerated their bodies in a spectacle comparable to the performance art of Chris Burden and Vito Acconci.Acconci was also a significant inspiration for no wave. Some performers, such as Black Flag and the Birthday Party, for example, also physically assaulted audience members, on occasion.
1980s noise rock musicians tended to adopt a Spartan, utilitarian mode of dress following the hardcore punk ethos and in partial reaction against the more ostentatious elements of punk fashion. Steve Albini articulated an ethical stance that emphasized restraint, irony, and self-sufficiency. The Butthole Surfers were an exception in their desire to dress as bizarrely as possible. Several bands also made public reference to drug use, particularly LSD (Jimi Hendrix, the Butthole Surfers) and heroin (the Velvet Underground, Royal Trux).
Many contemporary noise rock musicians, such as the Locust, Comparative Anatomy, and Lightning Bolt, have a very theatrical mode of presentation and wear costumes. Some bands incorporate visual displays, such as film or video art. The origins of noise rock are in the first rock musicians who explored extreme dissonance and electronic feedback.
Examples of commercially successful figures include the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Underground rock musicians such as the Stooges, the Velvet Underground, and the MC5 incorporated elements of free jazz and minimalism. More obscure musicians, such as the Monks, San Francisco's Fifty Foot Horse, and Japan's Les Rallizes Dénudés also incorporated dissonance.
English: Iggy Pop, October 25, 1977 at the State Theatre, Minneapolis, MN (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The German groups described as Krautrock are significant influences on later noise rock, particularly Can and Faust. Lou Reed's 1975 album Metal Machine Music, which entirely eschewed song structure in favor of a minimalist wave of guitar feedback, also anticipated and influenced many later developments in noise rock. Punk rock groups such as the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and the Ramones tended to avoid extreme dissonance, preferring a more traditional, straight-ahead approach to rock'n'roll. One exception was the L.A. hardcore punk group the Germs, who pursued punk rock with an amateurish, free-form tenacity.
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