Showing posts with label Ginger_Lindsey. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Boots Like These - LIVE - Video - 05.02.2009

So sorry for the miss-post, but thanks to the kind folks who were at the show and corrected me and made sure I knew this song is "Boots Like These" off of his new album WHITE LIES FOR DARK TIMES (c) 2009. That is a great album and my next post that is about to drop goes over it. I did want to point out however since I already got started.

Ben did do a cover of "HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE" ~ Standing in the Shadows of Motown [SOUNDTRACK] - 12-24-2002 HIP-O Record (this was the first time I have heard this live in my 15 years covering and seeing Ben all over in L.A., New Orleans, Atlanta, San Francisco starting off first at Lulu's in Normaltown (a Diner/Beer Bar) where we sat on the floor and he played to us acoustic (also saw Jeff Buckley in the same setting). I was shocked and awed by Ben and from that moment forth I was an insta-fan, this is the first of what I hope to be many videos on the Brasshatgroup YouTube channel, please sign-up and join us as we "Fight The Resistance", the MLK/Ghandi way:






Now For The Video, Please Enjoy!



Standing in the Shadows of Motown is a 2002 documentary film directed by Paul Justman. It recounts the story of The Funk Brothers, the uncredited and largely unheralded studio musicians who performed on Motown Records' recordings from 1959 to 1972. The film was inspired by a 1989 bass guitar instruction book of the same name, by Allan Slutsky, which features the bass lines of James Jamerson.

The film covers the Funk Brothers' career via interviews with surviving band members, archival footage and still photos, dramatized re-enactments, and narration by actor Andre Braugher. The film also features new live performances of several Motown hit songs, with the Funk Brothers backing up Gerald Levert, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Joan Osborne, Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Chaka Khan, and Montell Jordan.

In case you haven't heard anything off of this or seen this film, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT, the soundtrack is amazing and I have it here for you to look and gawk at, once again Enjoy! I promise more on the Ben Harper & Relentless 7 show soon.

- The Brass Hat Group

Released by Hip-O Records. Can be purchased off of their official website here:

Now For The Video, Please Enjoy!

If you do decide to get it, I would recommend the double disk version with the songs seen below and some samples of those songs too, this can be bought off their website or off of Amazon in case you have one of those discount cards like I do, either way it's a must have for Birthday, Christmas, Bastille Day, whatever, whenever:

Disc: 1
1. Heat Wave
2. You've Really Got A Hold On Me
3. Do You Love Me
4. Bernadette
5. Reach Out I'll Be There
6. Ain't Too Proud To Beg
7. Shotgun
8. What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
9. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
10. You Keep Me Hanging On
11. Cool Jerk
12. Cloud Nine
13. What's Going On
14. Band Introduction / Ain't No Mountain High Enough
15. The Flick
16. Boom Boom
17. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
18. Scorpio

Disc: 2
1. Funk Brothers In The House
2. Standing In The Shadows Of Love
3. Dialogue: Joe Hunter
4. The One Who Really Loves You
5. Pride And Joy
6. Dialogue: Robert White
7. My Girl
8. Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart
9. Don't Mess With Bill
10. The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
11. Dialogue: Eddie Willis, Uriel Jones & Jack Ashford
12. I Second That Emotion
13. I Was Made To Love Her
14. Dialogue: Richard "Pistol" Allen
15. Heard It Through The Grapevine
16. Home Cookin'
17. For Once In My Life
18. Dialogue: Jack Ashford
19. I Can't Get Next To You
20. It's A Shame
21. Ain't No Mountain High Enough
22. Dialogue: Eddie WIllis
23. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
24. Dialogue: Lamont Dozier
25. You're My Everything
Posted by Unknown at 5/06/2009 09:36:00 AM 0 comments
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Friday, May 1, 2009

I Knew We Shoulda Turned Left At Alberquerque! Phoenix is that way...




Today is Friday and it's been long, tiresome week in these here parts. So as a treat to my loyal fans, you Phoenix loving folks, 'qui parles Français.' Like Bugs said, you got to turn left at Alberquerque to hit Phoenix...or is it right? Ugh, I'm so useless without GPS.

Anyhow as if Bonaroo wasn't going to be reason enough for me to attend with our friends Brett Dennen, Outernational, Ben Harper, Wilco, Neko Case...Phoenix is going to be at Bonnaroo! Bonnaroo for those of you aren't familiar with it, is like a very expensive, but also very good variant on what began with Woodstock that 1969, panomime of a year, sexually charged numerials as the Mets win the World Series and craziness is bascially everywhere in the state of New York, which sounds like an oxymoronic statement. FYI, those things are giving me the déjà vu(s).

This year's Bonnaroo list as it stands as of May 1st, 2009 is seen below, taken directly off their official website. Buy tickets now or they go up, just like everything else in this world; if we can't sell you on quality, we will sell you on fear. I am feeling a bit old, all of 34 and a month, but this is one year I shall not miss. I guess I will figure out the lodging, camping, and all that jazz stuff between now and then. Also, for those of you worried about the high sticker pricer of the 4 day festival they had been running a payment plan, which sadly it turns out, had its last day to enroll being April 4th. What about us procratinators?!!? We are always getting it good, though not that good (isn't that Becks bending over Posh in that linked photo? Right on mate!)

So anyway lest it be all doom and gloom like I was saying Phoenix is going on tour for their new album Wolfgang Amadeaus Phoenix and here are the dates as they currently stand (these things are ALWAYS subject to change so don't despair too much if you aren't on the list):

  • 6/12 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
  • 6/13 Chicago, IL - Park West
  • 6/15 Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theater
  • 6/16 Montreal, QC - Les Saints
  • 6/17 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
  • 6/19 New York, NY - Terminal 5
  • 6/21 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
  • 6/23 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity
  • 6/25 Denver, CO - Bluebird
  • 6/27 San Francisco, CA - Regency Center, Grand Ballroom
  • 6/28 Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern
And like I mentioned above there is always Bonnaroo with the following list of bands and surly a few extra last minutes 'major league surprises' like when the Police,the band, not the Reno 911 kids showed up.

Here is what is on tap for the Bonnaroo 2009 so far:
WOW...WOW! That is a lot of music and maybe the $240 price tag or whatever it is these days might not be such a bad deal after all...did I say WOW!?!!?

And to close the night out I wanted to leave you all with a few songs that I will make available personally out of my own record (well mp3/CD/etc...) collection:

Enjoy! Bon Nuit Mon Petites Chous-Chous!


"Rally" - It's Never Been Like That 2006
(Cover Art - "cuore" 7" x 13" mixed media 2004 by sanithna phansavanh)


"(You Can't Blame It On) Anybody" - Alphabetical (2004)
(Cover Art - Ginger Lindsey (c) 2009 - contact Brass Hat Group for add. info)


"School Rules" - United (2000)
(Cover Art - "homeward" Marvin The Paranoid Android unknown looking figurine by sanithna phansavanh)

Posted by Unknown at 5/01/2009 11:25:00 PM 0 comments
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

ED HARCOURT - "Women, Wine, and Snuff" (by J. Keats)

"Women, Wine, and Snuff"

GIVE me women, wine, and snuff
Untill I cry out "hold, enough!"
You may do so sans objection
Till the day of resurrection:
For, bless my beard, they aye shall be
My beloved Trinity.

by John Keats
(Posthumous and fugitive Poems - Circa 1820)

In listening to the music of Ed Harcourt one easily comes to the conclusion that if he and Keats were in a room together, during those final years, this type of poem/work that might have been discussed and drank over. John Keats is one of my favorite poets/writers and I would more quickly associate him with Janis Joplin, Elliot Smith or Jeff Buckley, than the living, breathing, soul searching music of Ed Harcourt. I have put a song below, that I find is ALWAYS on my IPOD playlist, in some form or another. It's the kind of music that 'riddles my phantasms'.

I first stumbled across Ed Harcourt's music like 4 years ago and you know when you are a kid and find something that you think is like the most important find since Lewis and Clark found the Pacific coast and lived to make it back east side to tell about it. Like when I used to find 4 leaf clovers I would rush inside and tell my mom, my sister, I would begin the preserving process because it meant I was now 'lucky' and now close to finding that pot of 'gold' (still waiting on those two swags to hit), but as least I found Ed Harcourt's music. I remember having to tell almost all of my friends, even my MySpace friends who were like 'what is that song?'

(Steph that is a shout-out to you for your always impatient, fired up music tastes - you know that is why we all love you ;p).

I hope you all enjoy the Sunday song of the day and a list of Ed Harcourt's music, which shows a May 5th EP (hopefully a tour will follow right?). Ed is like Tom Waits in many ways not to box him in, but just the opposite, because he usually is caught playing the piano, but he also plays numerous keyboard instruments as well as the guitar and percussion. This is someone that if you have heard of already, you're pretty cool and if you are hearing him for the first time you're pretty lucky (like finding several of those quad leafed clovers in a single search)!

His official website is: http://www.edharcourt.com/
His MySpace is http://www.myspace.com/60667424


"Until Tomorrow Then" by Ed Harcourt

(cover photo: Ginger Lindsey - "There She Goes..." PS4/Elements 7.0/After FX CS4 (c) 2009 - BHG)
Posted by Unknown at 4/26/2009 07:37:00 PM 0 comments
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