Friday, Aug 14th, 2009 by highnote |
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concert,
Dylan,
New Jersey
What is the world coming to? Bob Dylan is on tour in New Jersey. At around 5pm evening time, before his concert, he took a walk in a run-down neighborhood near his concert venue. Not doing anything remarkable, and dressed in a blue jacket, apparently he got called on by someone who had seen him. As a result, two cops drive up to him and want to know who he is. Here’s the ensuing dialog.
“What is your name, sir?” said the first officer.
“Bob Dylan,” answered Bob Dylan.
“OK, what are you doing here?” the officer asked again.
“I’m on tour,” said the singer.
Another officer, also in his mid 20s, came to the first officer’s assistance. Remarkably, he had no idea who Dylan was.
Anyway, the officers took him back to his hotel where his staff, probably flabbergasted, told the police who they had brought back.
Sunday, Aug 2nd, 2009 by highnote |
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drm,
nesson,
riaa,
tenenbaum
Oh my, Boston grad student Joel Tenenbaum lost his case against the RIAA. He was accused of downloading and sharing hundreds of tracks, but the case had focused on just 30. Of those 30, the jury agreed with the RIAA that Tenenbaum caused substantial damages and loss. But $675,000??? That’s sounds ludicrous. There’s no way he can pay this off.
This is also the case where the Harvard professor Charles Nesson said he would represent Joel Tenenbaum. Looks like it wasn’t helpful enough. Harvard’s law faculty is well known for being very anti-RIAA. I wonder what will happen now - the kid is going to go into bankruptcy probably.
Friday, May 29th, 2009 by highnote |
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baby,
music therapy,
pain
Interesting - looks like music can reduce the sensation of pain in babies. Scientists got together a bunch of studies and looked at them to conclude the soothing music reduced pain, lowered heart rates, and increased oxygenation in blood. How can you tell from a baby whether this is working? Looks like they looked at these things by measuring baby vitals during heel pricks, circumcision (ouch), and suckling.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/besttreatments/2009/may/28/music-may-ease-pain-for-newborn-babies
Anyway, I don’t know if the quality of the studies was very good. I bet the differences between babies with and without music was pretty miniscule,you know.
Tuesday, Apr 7th, 2009 by highnote |
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apple,
drm,
itunes
DRM is “digital rights management”, and is a label usually attached to music files like mp3s purchased over the internet at vendors like Napster, eMusic or iTunes. Music files with DRM are restricted in the sense that they cannot be easily transferred from one computer to another with playability intact. When it’s moved to a computer after being purchased, the file usually cannot be played. Well, Apple finally got rid of this restriction. Other vendors have already done so either completely or in a limited fashion. But Apple iTunes really is the 8 billion pound gorilla in online music sales, and their action portends a turning point in online music vending. What this means is that we’re free to copy, trade this music (in accordance with copyright law of course), principally this allows us to move these files around different computers and still retain the ability to play them. About time I think.
Tuesday, Mar 31st, 2009 by highnote |
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Allman brothers
One of the greatest Southern rock bands Allman Brothers spent the last two weeks playing at New York’s Beacon Theater. Stars such as Boz Skaggs, Eric Clapton, and strangely enough, Bruce Willis, joined them on stage. Apparently Bruce Willis had a lot of practice with the harmonica in an R&B band in his younger days before acting on stage and screen.
March 26th, the Allman Brothers celebrated a 40th anniversary as a band! They don’t show signs of slowing down.
Saturday, Mar 28th, 2009 by highnote |
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movies | Tags:
leonard cohen,
watchmen
What a pairing. I just watched The Watchmen, which is incidentally a great adaptation. Surprisingly, the music played a big part in the film I think. Lots of recognizable stuff by Bob Dylan, and then weird things, like Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. From Boston Phoenix article:
James Parker: The sex scene between Nite Owl and Silk Spectre II is pretty great — the boots, the zips. And you’ve got Leonard Cohen doing “Hallelujah” over it.
Zack Snyder: Well, I originally had a different version of “Hallelujah” on that scene — it was the version by Allison Crowe, and it was really beautiful. Too beautiful, as it turned out, because when I showed it to my buddies, they were like, “Wow, you really mean this, this love scene.” So I was like, okay, that didn’t work. But with the Leonard Cohen, in that moment, it’s a little sadder of a song, it’s a little bit more twisted, it’s a little more broken, which expresses to me what’s going on in that scene, between those two characters.
Saturday, Mar 28th, 2009 by highnote |
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Baez,
Dylan,
Mellencamp,
Nelson
Rumor mill: Joan Baez at a concert with John Mellencamp allegedly mentioned that she is privy to information that John will be touring with Bob Dylan. What’s more, Mellencamp recently reported on his Website: “A special tour is in the works, slated to start in early July and run through the end of August. It will play at minor league baseball fields, with John sharing top billing with two other major artists.”
From a solid source, the Dylan fansite Bob Links, another musician to be featured will likely be Willie Nelson.