Virtues

Respect

Support

Honesty

???

I'm A Day Late

But im sure although im a day late this awesome song will make up for the hours of being behind the game.

This week we have the Bass and who else can do it better than Victor Wooten?

The answer is no one

Enjoy!!!

Great Solo's - For Our Percussionist's Out There

Now this week i have moved away from the guitar towards the louder more annoying, harder to tune instrument of the Drums.
Now drum solos come in all different shapes and forms and the one i have chosen here is pretty awesome because he was one of the best drummers going around in one of the most awesome bands ever.

This is a very long drum solo so take a while out of your day and enjoy

MOBY DICK - Led Zeppelin

RIP John Bonham

Great Solo's

Now everyone im going to start a section where on a friday i will post a video of a great guitar solo picked by myself or if anyone wishes to send me and email i will look into getting a good quality video up and we can al see the art of guitar.

Now for the first week, im going to set the bar probably far too high to be matched again in my opinion but then this section is called great solo's not good solos.

This solo is the solo that makes people insane and many say this version was the best version of the solo ever played as the context of the concert.
This is of course the Comfortably Numb solo in the concert Pulse



Enjoy!!!

Ps: They dont have to be guitar solos as any instrument is able to be shown

English Class

Now over this year, Mrs Garbutt has mentioned the rainbow warrior and how New Zealand rejected having nuclear waste dumped on the land and even went to the point of refusing entry of nuclear ships (warships, submarines from the USA) to enter our waters and harbours.

This angered the US quite a lot and escalated to quite a point where the US thought that NZ were sleeping with the enemy (communists and terrorists) and nearly went to war over it.

David Lange the PM at the time had a huge view on this saying no your not allowed to bring your nuclear waste here and he made numerous famous speeches about this topic.

And tiki tanne a NZ artist has used some of these extracts of his speeches to show his gratitude in his "Dub" music. I Think its a good way to know what happened, so next time Mrs Garbutt talks about it we can say yes we know too.

Plus it talks about (totalatarism)sp which could also be helpful with the handmaids tale :D

Koonyum Sun

Xavier Rudd's new album "KoonyumSun" was released on the 23rd of this month and over the past 2 days or so i have been listening to it.

Like all of Xavier Rudd's albums the lyrics are full of aboriginal rights, protecting the environment, fair rights to everyone and basically nice stuff being a nice guy he is.

Unlike all of his other albums he has joined up with the group Izintaba a South African group i believe consisting of a bass player and percussionist. This brings a whole new level and direction with the digideroo mixing with the African drums and backing vocals. The bass player really drives the band through most of the songs which also makes it sound awesome.

Overall another one of his amazing albums like they all are, with a great message and i would recommend a listen by everyone, if it is just at least once, to see the amazing talent that is brought up in our backyard and how only a few men can stand up for whats right and get a huge following.

Cant Wait for the tour to get back to Perth after the US!!!!!!

Famous Milliners

Yeah Annie i meet Phil Tracy in Isabella Blow's mother in law's hotel

Jealous???

http://www.philiptreacy.co.uk/

A highlight in one of the weirdest places i have ever been in my life

Didn't get any free hats though :(

Yusuf Islam To Tour Australia

Returning to Australia in the first time in 36 years Yusuf Islam will tour Australia in an intimate shows around the capital cities.

Although 36 years ago he was touring under a completely different name before his shock retirement (mid show, just stopped halfway through a song and left the stage not to play for over a decade) from live music and conversion to Islam and over the last 3 decades it seems unlikely he would ever return to the worlds stage.

After a few intimate shows over the past few years at the royal albert hall, nobel prize ceremony, UN conferences he has decided to come back and tour the world spreading the word of his peace and love throughout the world once again.

Personally i dont think it would be something to miss as this man returns from his long time away from the country that is Australia

Perth- Challenge Stadium 10th June

Tickets go on sale 6th May

Photos Of The Holiday

Here a few of the best photos that I took while on holiday

Enjoy :-)

Enlarge the pictures for better quality

Above: Hanging out of the window on the train going to the dutch forted city of Galle

Above: Taken from the train window. I think what makes this a good photo rather than one of just the beach in the background is the reflection in the little inlet at the bottom.

We rented some surfboards for a morning or two so I was down on the beach taken a few shots of the "surfer dudes" and the surrounding landscape because i got bored of taking pictures of them lying on their bellies.

Above: Looking towards the west to the point of the coast covered by huge palm trees, (Owned by the Dilmah tea company if anyone was wondering) although I think the contrast between the dark green leaves in focus and the glarey out of focus background works well in this situation.

Above: PD. James in action capturing the target coming in on a wave. Probably not the greatest quality but i think i got the "look" i was going for, with the subject being in the centre and in focus while the surrounding objects where somehow less significant.

Above: Although a very simple shot of the waves lapping at the beach, i find that these types of photographs are always very profound in their beauty although i would have preferred to have a breaking wave on the beach but unfortunately the waves broke quite a way out in the ocean.

Above: Sorry, I had to put the cliche photo in here of the hard day surfing on the beach. Gnarly though :P

Now these two remaining photos are my best that i probably have ever taken with a camera and i was extremely surprised of how they came out, as i had a general idea what i wanted to do but i didn't think they would come out the way they did.

Above: I think the contrast of the white water with the brown sand and stone wall really captures the viewers eye as well as the fact that the water is slightly more in focus than the wall on the left

Above: My favourite photo of the trip, same location as the one above just zoomed out which i believe encapsulates the landscape more and in turn creates a nicer photo. The way the rock on the right and the wall on the left, frame the photo draw the eye to the breaking waves which contrast to the lush green on the flax plant on top of the wall.

Well there good ones i took during the holiday, im sure i will put up more general ones a bit later.

I would love to hear what you guys think about the photos and my talking crap about what i think it does with contrast, framing etc because i have no idea :)

...

Well guess what everyone, James is going on holiday for the whole two weeks and wont be able to see or speak to anyone for that whole period of time.

Whats more James' birthday is happening as usual on the holidays and he will be celebrating it away from everyone in the sub continent.

So you would expect a couple of conversations this afternoon to go a little like this

"See you later james, have a great time on your holiday, hope you see some awesome stuff and have a fun birthday"

Which i would have replied

"thanks a lot, im sure i will and have a great holiday period yourself"

or even i would have been happy with a plain simple

"goodbye"

But since that didn't happen today i will have to keep those conversations in my head with the rest of my thoughts and imaginary friends

Happy Holidays People

Now For The Good, The Bad & The Plain Weird

Peter Jackson's First Ever Film Bad Taste.

Yes It Is Bad.

To Those Who Like A Heavier Type Of Music

Now as you probably know im not a fan of all this heavy metal music genre or anything but like that but there are a few bands that i really do respect who what they have done.

And in these two videos two of these great bands have combined at the rock and roll hall of fame last year

Metallica playing with the great messed up man of OZZY

Enjoy :)





Although Ozzy is totally messed up he can still put on a good show for the man he is

Man Stroke Woman

An Awesome english comedy show staring the legendary Nick Frost

Here are some of my favourite clips

We have all felt like this haven't we?





"I Cant Talk To Strangers"




And Finally How To Fed A Dog

In The Misty Morning........

On the slightly wet, moist morning of the Wednesday the 10th of February i woke at 6:15.

Why Did I Wake So Early?

To get ready for my scooter lesson in preparation of my test.

Long story short...

I Passed & Now i got my P's and am now self-portable

YIPPIE

Not Many Words can describe Annie Lennox's voice even after her Eurythmics days so here she is enjoy...

Toleration

Tolerating someone, and being tolerated is a gift that we are given.

I find that Ben Harper's "Burn One Down" really shows us this. The idea of toleration of whether someone chooses to do something that doesn't harm you should bother you is evident and the whole song is around the use of drugs. Enjoy :D

"Burn One Down"

Let us burn one
from end to end
and pass it over
to me my friend
burn it long, we'll burn it slow
to light me up before I go

if you don't like my fire
then don't come around
cause I'm gonna burn one down
yes I'm gonna burn one down

my choice is what I choose to do
and if I'm causing no harm
it shouldn't bother you
your choice is who you choose to be
and if your causin' no harm
then you're alright with me

if you don't like my fire
then don't come around
cause I'm gonna burn one down
yes I'm gonna burn one down

herb the gift from the earth
and what's from the earth
is of the greatest worth
so before you knock it try it first
you'll see it's a blessing
and its not a curse

if you don't like my fire
then don't come around
cause I'm gonna burn one down
yes I'm gonna burn one down

Bored, Tired, Bored, You

Anyone who falls into any of those categories which im sure you could do.

But if your looking for a new exciting website to look at you definitely check out this awesome site:

http://www.aleglass.com.au/www.aleglass.com.au/Aleglass.html

Enjoy!!!!!!

A Moment Of Clarity

While looking through youtube videos of live performances i stumble across this comment by a person "5Cincinnatus" to be exact.

And he made a very good point in a video where people were arguing about who's better drummer than who and so on.

Here is what he said modified by myself because the person was American and didn't make a normal sentence.

"I Dont think you or anyone in fact is qualified to say "who is the best drummer". As no one should say who is the best painter in the world because painting is art. Music is art. And art is not a competition"

Very Smart for a Yank

Lap Steel Bass????

Now some of you may be wondering what a lap steel bass actually is or looks like and to be honest im not sure if thats what it is even called although i have named it the lap steel bass because it works on the same principle as a lap steel guitar.

Edit: Oh By the way thats a 12 string bass too

"But every person in the crowd desperately wanted to be there, perhaps to witness a part of rock history that may never be repeated".

Well Tuesday the 19th of January brought one of the worlds newest "super bands" (Due to the fact they were from super groups already) to the shores of Australia and to Challenge Stadium for their first show on the Australia/ New Zealand shore.

The show brought together a mixture of people from the old rockers that were there to see JPJ and then the younger fans of the Queens Of The Stone Age and one similarity between all these people was the love of music and rock and roll and most probably Dave Grohl.

As we arrived about halfway through the support act which sounded pretty decent but we were not going to sit down and watch them as we knew it would be a while. So we went into the outside alcohol section which i managed to enter without any second glances once again.

As the support band finished their set we walked inside to get ready for Them Crooked Vultures (TCV). As the suspense of the sound check grew bigger and bigger so did the crowd as the floor was full and only a few empty seats.

With the rock and roll talents of people such as John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl & Josh Homme you would expect a huge dramatic entrance but no, the three of them plus another awesome guitarist (dont know name) just saunter on to stage to thunderous applause.

Now how could i explain the concert?

Well if anyone is aware of TCV's CD you would know how "dense" and "full on" their sound is and man it was LOUD. It wasn't a bad loud it was just very in your face loud and i some how knew in advance that people from Led Zeppilin, Nirvana & QoTSA were hardly going to be "lets play quietly" people.

Now how was the music playing?

Well i think if you have Dave Grohl & JPJ driving the band on drum and bass you could play anything over the top and it would still sound awesome. But they were not just playing crap over the top they were playing rocking and funky rifts over the top. Now i find once way to know if a band is a good one is to see how much they sound like live compared to their CD and let me tell you that it was nearly identical except for the awesome break downs and double time sections by Dave.

If there was a flaw with the concert and there was only one that Josh's lyrics did get a bit lost in the noise as he sings in the same key as his guitar and he did get a little carried away at the end but the crowd just loved it.

Now for some highlights from the show in my opinion:

Well for one just seeing it was a big one

Seeing the class of Dave Grohl & JPJ on the same stage rocking out together

Watching JPJ play many different instruments, including an 8 string bass, Lap steel bass, key-tar & piano. He was amazing at piano which came to me as a big surprise as he did a 5min piano solo near the end of the show.

But for me the best highlight in the show was when Josh introduced the band about half way through, there was a loud cheer for the other guitarist, a louder one for himself, a huge one that you would expect for a whole band for Dave Grohl but when he introduced JPJ the roof was nearly blown off the building.

So in conclusion one of the most awesome shows, many people think that it would be hard to out do Dave Grohl on the same stage but it was done and it was amazing. Now i've seen a hell of a lot of concerts but i would probably rate this one equal second behind Roger Waters, and equal with the RHCP because it was an awesome night and probably the first and last time to see a member of Led Zep.

Now i would strongly recommend that you go out and listen to their album or perhaps not because then you would have realised you missed one of the best nights i have had in a long time.

And I also picked up a T-Shirt which was awesome as well as being reasonable for a band shirt


PS: If you dont know who John Paul Jones, Dave Grohl are i think you better have a big ass ladder so you can get out of the whole you have been living in for your whole life :P

ROCK & ROLL

"Making The Possible, Truley Impossible"

Racism, It Sells

Now we all know the KFC ad that got banned for being "racist" according to the Americans.

If you live in a nuclear bunker and haven't seen it here it is



Hmmmmm... Racist?

Now thanks to some of our South African friends they drew our attention to this particular Nandos ad. Which personally i find a tad more racist but also extremely funny.

Enjoy



I LIKE THE CHICKEN

Queens of the Led Fighters....

Them Crooked Vultures.

A newly formed band similar to chicken foot where all members have come from different bands.
As you could probably work out from the title where the members are from, if not

Joshua Homme-Guitarist/Singer (Formally of the Queens Of The Stone Age)
John Paul Jones-Bass (Formally of LED ZEPPELIN)
Dave Grohl - Drums (Formally of Nirvana, Foo Fighters)

So their self titled debut album came out late last year and so far has been very popular with the people who are fans of the Foo's, Led or QOTSA.

What's my opinion I hear you ask?

My answer is pretty simple, THEY ROCK

If you are a fan of any of the bands mentioned above i recommend you check out their website that has some exclusive details, videos etc that you would expect to find on a website.


http://www.themcrookedvultures.com/us/home


Here is them performing the song "Gunman"



Oh I nearly forgot, guess whos going to see them live on the 19th of January.


MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

ROCK & ROLL PEEEEEPS!!!!!