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Wednesday February 23rd 2011 Four good-looking gentlemen named Cam Millar, Mark Buigesien, Alec O’Halloran, and of course Matthew Meissner got together at John T. Tuck Public School for the show of their lives – Tuck Idol! The band, Metal Squid, is shown here playing “Money” by Pink Floyd. Your guaranteed much needed satisfaction from this film. You’ll enjoy it…. |
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Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine ( Echoes Compilation) Written by Syd Barrett Published by Westminster Music Ltd. 1967 Taken from “A Piper at the Gates of Dawn” released on 1967. Lime and limpid green, a second scene A fight between the blue you once knew. Floating down, the sound resounds Around the icy waters underground. Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda And Titania, Neptune, Titan. Stars can frighten. Blinding signs flap, Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow. Stairway scare Dan Dare who’s there? Lime and limpid green The sounds surrounds the icy waters under Lime and limpid green The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground… |
(1 votes, average: 10.00 out of 10) Loading ...NEW YORK, N.Y.- Bonhams are to hold an auction entirely devoted to some of the most iconic images in rock. Original Rock ?n? Roll artwork including album covers, posters and cartoons associated with musicians such as The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, The Police, The Clash, Richard Hell, The Ramones, Led Zeppelin, Ozzie Osbourne, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Journey, U2, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd and the Sex Pistols will all be included in this exciting new sale. The auction will take place on Thursday 10th March 2011 at Bonhams, Madison Avenue, New York.
The comprehensive sale includes three decades of paintings, drawings, sketches and studies, printing plates and poster sets, by some of the most influential artists in Rock ?n? Roll Art will be offered, including Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Jamie Reid, Alton Kelly and Randy Tuten. New York, West Coast USA and British musical artists, all feature strongly.
Fans of Ozzy Osbourne will be keen to snap up the original photographic artwork for the cover of his No Rest For The Wicked album. Created by the iconic photographer Bob Carlos Clarke, more known for his highly erotic imagery, it is estimated to sell for $4,000-6,000.
Designs by Rick Griffin and Stanley Mouse feature in the sale. The late Alton Kelley has long been established as a leading name in San Francisco psychedelic rock art history. One of the highlights by Alton Kelley on offer is the artwork for Journey?s album Departure. Released in March 1980, this was the band?s sixth album and their first one to enter Billboard?s Top 10 album chart. The artwork is estimated to fetch $25,000-35,000.
Stephanie Connell, Head of Entertainment Memorabilia at Bonhams comments, “Many of the artists whose work is included in this sale were major contributors to the look and feel of popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century. Punk, psychedelia and heavy metal are just some of the genres represented.”
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Pink Floyd (A) speak to me (B) breathe in the air…. |
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NOW BOOKING CONCERTS! AGENTS WELCOME TO CONTACT US A live tribute to Pink Floyd from the PIPERS album to the Division Bell era, (and everything in between) THINK PINK FLOYD is the most popular Pink Floyd tribute show, authentic recreation of PINK FLOYD…. |
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A saucerful of secrets suonata da The Lunatics Band, gruppo tributo ai Pink Floyd di Albavilla (Co)…. |
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The song “Time” by Pink Floyd is aptly titled, because its lyrics point to a dilemma we all face — as we get older, the clock seems to tick faster.
I find this to be generally true, but it also creates another dilemma. If February is the shortest month of the year, why does it seem like it takes forever to pass?
Today is the last of February’s 28 days, but it seems like about 40 have come and gone since we were hit by the worst blizzard in a dozen years at the beginning of the month. The foot or so of snow it left behind has since melted, but we woke up last Friday and Saturday mornings to two more minor rounds of snow.
From my perspective, it was just as irksome as any major storm.
It’s safe to say it’s been a long winter, and I say enough already. We Midwestern folks tend to enjoy the four seasons our location offers us, but at this point, can you even remember what a sun-splashed day with temperatures in the 80s feels or looks like? I’m trying to recreate it in my mind, but the only visions I can conjure are those of grayish piles of snow coupled with a slick sheet of ice wherever you can find the surface of the ground.
The arrival of Tuesday and March is something to celebrate, because it means December, January and especially February are behind us. March is known to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb. I can’t wait for the lamb — also known as spring — to arrive. How about you?
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One way to stave off the cabin fever that strikes this time of year is to go on some sort of outing. I was fortunate enough to be part of two in recent days, and both times, the adventures lifted my spirits.
The first was a trip to the Kankakee Valley Theatre Association production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” two Sundays ago. “The Bee” closed its two-weekend run at Kankakee Junior High School last Sunday, and I’m sure those of you who witnessed it were also impressed by the efforts of all involved.
It’s been stated here before: If you want to see quality theater, it can be found right here in your own backyard. To learn more, visit the website www.kvta.org.
The second outing came last Saturday. It was a trip to Champaign for the men’s basketball game between the University of Illinois and Big Ten Conference rival Iowa.
Illinois won, and that was enjoyable to see. But the personal highlight came during a walk around the circular lobby that surrounds the arena.
From the rafters hang banners commemorating when star musical and stage acts performed at the Assembly Hall over the years. One in particular caught my eye. It recognized the six times the late Johnny Cash appeared there between 1969 and 1998.
Saturday’s date was Feb. 26, and had he lived, it would have been Cash’s 79th birthday. With that in mind, I honored him by singing the opening verse of “Folsom Prison Blues” in impromptu fashion.
“I hear that train a comin’. It’s rollin’ round the bend,” I sang aloud, oblivious to the fact someone might hear me.
They did. People were around, and one couple in particular gave me an odd look. Apparently, they thought it was mental instability, not cabin fever, I was suffering from.
Regardless of what ails me, I need a cure that only a break in the weather will bring. Bring on the 20 days of July. Yes, I know the calendar says that month features 31 days, but the glorious summer passes too fast me for me to believe it’s true.
Mike Frey is the metro editor of The Daily Journal. He can be reached at (815) 937-3343 or by e-mail at mfrey@daily-journal.com
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Like everything else, human beings feel the need to categorise music. Unfortunately, this is restricting bands from exploring and exploiting their talent for fearing of losing fans; having problems with the recording labels; and most important of all, losing money and their jobs. The generic public who listens to anything that is played on the radio, is just good enough to vote for the best lipstick in a women’s magazine or for the sexiest blonde in a men’s magazine, and not to be selective with music genres. Such crowds are being misled by this idea.
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I do believe that there are bands which can be very heavy, difficult, and sometimes disturbing to listen to. Though because of this music categorisation, and MTV influence, there are a number of bands who fall under the umbrella of rock genre who never saw the light at the end of the tunnel. This is quite a misfortune, when considering that some of them are better than any commercial rock band out there. I’ve seen people whom as soon as you try to tell them to listen to a particular band, simply refuse just because the band is classified as rock.
Ever heard of Paradise Lost? They are one of the few gothic metal, British bands who had the courage to go from one extreme to the other in just six albums. Lost Paradise, their first studio album was a heavy death/doom album. In every subsequent album they released, one could notice the evolution of their music and the band themselves. Even their image changed: the clothes they wear; the way they behave on stage etc. Their music got softer till they released their sixth studio album One Second, a synthpop master piece. While dj’ing, I’ve played songs from this album in non-rock clubs, and people came up to the dj stand to ask me who this band was. They even asked me to play more songs from the same album. If only I could tell them that this band falls under the gothic metal genre!
Many people stop listening to a particular band or artist because they changed their style and genre. I accept the fact that not everyone got enough bandwidth to handle a wide variety of music genres. Though it trips my overload switch when people say that a particular band is not good anymore because they changed genre. Do they expect that every band sticks to the same genre? Grow up! Looking at myself, when I was sixteen, I could be more than happy listening to heaviest and darkest metal. Fourteen years later I prefer to listen to something less aggressive, maybe with more with electronic influence and less guitar distortion.
And the same happens to a band. After all, a band is formed by human beings, and like everyone else, they get older and their taste changes. When they are in their early twenties, they like to play heavy and destroy instruments, but when they grow up, they find it more satisfying to play softer music.
The Gathering, a well-known Dutch band has also gone through evolution, and thanks to this evolution they lost a good number of fans. Their everlasting thirst for always experimenting with different genres of music, cost them dearly. When you compare Always, their first studio album, with The West Pole, you wouldn’t even recognize them. The first album is heavy, doom metal, while their latest release, is as good as Pink Floyd music, and I am not joking.
Is it wrong, or is it right that bands change? Unlike all the thirsty for money record label directors, I think it is the best option to allow bands to go through their natural evolution. Let them experiment and do what they want to do, because that is the only way how you can get the best out them. Unless bands experiment with music, there will never be something new and original to listen to. Back in their early days, Pink Floyd were classified as an alternative band. Today they are Pink Floyd, an iconic band every human being heard of! If you like a specific album from a band, and not their latest releases, it does not mean the band does not play good music anymore. It means that the band is experimenting with music, and respect that fact without pointing fingers at their previous or new work. Just don’t listen to it if you do not like it.
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