Some of the best Lee Perry is still out there to discover. I have been listening to this gem all night. Thought you might enjoy it.
Complete Upsetter Singles – Vol 1″
I’ve been crying, too long
Little girl, over you
You broke my heart, and you left me at home
For the other boy, that you love
You hurt me girl, you hurt me deep inside
Oh why, did you have to do that
Podcasting is simply a handy way to deliver media rich content. This is where the internet is going.
You have free or paid content that you can download for cheap. You write up a nice little summary of what you get with a link at the bottom to download or purchase it. Oh, and it’s always nice to give folks a little taste of what they are about to grab.
An audio podcast is the recording of an audio track along with optional additional media like images, slides or movies. These are the easiest to create. GarageBand is a fine tool to use on Mac OS X.
A screencast is a podcast of you talking over a movie taken of your screen. You fire up the application you want to demonstrate and go to work showing off your cool new thing. While you are working, a screen capturing application makes a movie of everything you do. My favorite application for this is Snap Z Pro.
Most people record the audio of them talking while they are doing the demonstration. This is a nice example of a lecture on using the Grid System in HTML. If you find that process difficult, simply record the audio separately while reviewing the movie.
A video podcast is where someone comes in a takes a video of the actual participants. Most lectures are presented this way.
Here is an example of a video podcast that uses slides, screencasts and live video.
What a fabulous show! I absolutely LOVE these guys =)
Fat Freddy came and rocked Amoeba something fierce! Here are 8 little clips I recorded on my iPhone.
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Enjoy
Well, I was passing by a pawn shop
In an older part of town
Something caught my eye
And I stopped and turned around
I stepped inside and there I spied
In the middle of it all
Was a beat up old guitar
Hanging on the wall.
What do you want for that piece of junk
I asked the old man
He just smiled and took it down
and he put it in my hand
He said you tell me what it’s worth
You’re the one who wants it
Turn it up, play a song
And let’s just see what haunts it
So I hit a couple of cords
In my old country way of strumming
And then my fingers turned to lightning
Man.. I never heard it coming
It was like I always knew it
I just don’t know where I learned it
It wasn’t nothin’ but the truth
So I just reared back and burned it
Well I lost all track of time
There was nothing I couldn’t pick
Up and down the neck
I never missed a lick
The guitar almost played itself
There was nothing I could do
It was getting hard to tell
Just who was playing who
When I finally put it down
I couldn’t catch my breath
My hands were shaking
And I was scared to death
The old man finally got up
Said where in the Hell you been
I’ve been waiting all these years
For you to stumble in
Then he took down an old dusty case
Said go on and pack it up
You don’t owe me nothing
And then he said good luck
There was something spooky in his voice
And something strange on his face
When he shut the lid
I saw my name was on the case
Guy Clark – The Guitar
I just got back from mountain biking at CrankWorx with my friends, Hilary, Lance, Nels and Derrick. On the drive up there we watched this great bike movie called: Roam.
Of course it had an excellent soundtrack. My favorite song on it was by Latch Key Kid called Coming Home Soon.
(Verse Pattern)
A E
Where have all the young men gone?
A D
They’re leaving town one-by-one
A E
Johnny come and get your gun
A D A
Father give your only son
Fearlessly they lay down their lives
Son don’t be afraid to die
You’re fighting for the land that you love
Yeah, yeah, fighting for your God up above
When the bullets fall upon you like rain
And the starry night is burst into flame
Remember you’re the few, you’re the brave
Remember what you’re fighting to save
I know, you’ll be coming home soon
The war is over, it was on the evening news
Nobody’s winning when its life we have to lose
I know, you’ll be coming home soon, coming home soon.
Victory can be bittersweet
Insurrection in the street
It never comes without a price
And never without sacrifice
The suicidal bombs in their cars
Wrap em up in stripes and stars
Johnny boy is coming home
For a soldiers burial
When the bullets fall around you like rain
And the starry night is burst into flame
Remember you’re the few, you’re the brave
Remember what you’re fighting to save
I know you’ll be coming home soon
The war is over, it was on the evening news
Nobody’s winning when its life we have to lose
I know, you’ll be coming home soon, coming home soon.
I know you’ll be coming home soon
The war is over, it was on the evening news
Nobody’s winning when its life we have to lose
I know, you’ll be coming home soon, coming home soon.
Coming home soon…
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Key is A, moderate tempo.
Verse Pattern:
AEA
E———————-|———————|———————-|
B—-5–X——–5–X–|—–7–X——-7–X-|—-5–X——–5–X–|
G—-6–X——–6–X–|—–9–X——-9–X-|—-6–X——–6–X–|
D—-7–X——–7–X–|—–9–X——-9–X-|—-7–X——–7–X–|
A———————-|–7—–X—(7) 7–X-|———————-|
E-5—–X(5)-5—–X–|———————|-5—–X(5)-5—–X–|
D
E———————-|
B—-5–X——–5–X–|
G—-7–X——–7–X–|
D—-7–X——–7–X–|
A–5—-X-(5) 5—–X–|
E———————|
Chorus Pattern:
ADA
E———————-|———————|———————-|
B—-5–X——–5–X–|—–5–X——-5–X-|—-5–X——–5–X–|
G—-6–X——–6–X–|—–7–X——-7–X-|—-6–X——–6–X–|
D—-7–X——–7–X–|—–7–X——-7–X-|—-7–X——–7–X–|
A———————-|–5—–X—(5) 5–X-|———————-|
E-5—–X(5)-5—–X–|———————|-5—–X(5)-5—–X–|
D
E———————-|
B—-5–X——–5–X–|
G—-7–X——–7–X–|
D—-7–X——–7–X–|
A–5—-X-(5) 5—–X–|
E———————|
OMG!!
I have been diggin Fat Freddy’s Drop for the past year or so. I have been listening to their 1.5 albums and never seem to tire of them. On a lark I Google’d them today only to discover that they have a new album coming out in a month =)
I then saw a link to the YouTube video above and believe this would be my perfect concert right now: Funk, Reggae and House with lyrics of love and progress. What more could I ask for? Their horns a tight, they have a great sense of rhythm, Joe Dukie (their lead singer) is fantastic! They even take a bunch story lines from Parliament/Funkadelic all the way down to Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk and Shiverman.
So off I go to explore links while looking forward to their release next month.
My first stop was their MySpace page. Reading down the page a bit I see where I can purchase and download the album right now. Fortunately I have a great friend in New Zealand [What-up Graeme!] and used his addy to get around any international sale restrictions. And what do you know… I am now the proud owner of Fat Freddy’s Drop’s latest album along with three tracks I previously could not find by Joe Dukie and DJ Fitchie!!! Woot! I love the internet =)
I found this great podcast by a Canadian who wants to introduce them to Canada.
I mean, come on, look at the video below. How can you not love these guys?!?!?! Play through the rain, signing about the Shiverman!!
“Be friends people. Live safe!”
Call me late to the party but… Well, wow!
Svetlana sucks lemons across from me
And I am progressing abominably
And I do not know my own way to the sea
But the saltiest sea knows its own way to me
And the city that turns, turns protracted and slow
And I find myself toeing the Embarcadero
And I find myself knowing the things that I knew
Which is all that you can know on this side of the blue
And Jaime has eyes black and shiny as boots
And they march at you, two-by-two, re-loo re-loo
When she looks at you, you know she’s nowhere near through
It’s the kindest heart beating this side of the blue
And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers
And we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words
When across the sky sheet the impossible birds
In a steady, illiterate movement homewards
And Gabriel stands beneath forest and moon
See them rattle and boon, see them shake, see them loom
See him fashion a cap from a page of Camus
See him navigate deftly this side of the blue
And the rest of our lives will the moments accrue
When the shape of their goneness will flare up anew
And we do what we have to do, re-loo re-loo
Which is all that you can do on this side of the blue
Oh it’s all that you can do on this side of the blue
Joanna Newsom – (iTunes)
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In the chilly hours and minutes,
Of uncertainty, I want to be,
In the warm hold of your loving mind.
To feel you all around me,
And to take your hand, along the sand,
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.
When sundown pales the sky,
I wanna hide a while, behind your smile,
And everywhere I’d look, your eyes I’d find.
For me to love you now,
Would be the sweetest thing, ‘twould make me sing,
Ah, but I may as well, try and catch the wind.
When rain has hung the leaves with tears,
I want you near, to kill my fears
To help me to leave all my blues behind.
For standin’ in your heart,
Is where I want to be, and I long to be,
Ah, but I may as well, try and catch the wind.
Go Stetsa was one of my favorite songs of late 86 and Top Billin’ was without any question the biggest beat in the summer of ‘87 in NYC.
I had a great time selling ice cream from a Good Humor truck with my sidekick David (my girlfriend Leslie’s brother). We had a boom box and drove all over Brooklyn but primarily hung around the projects of Bedford-Stuyvesant and East New York. We were known as the “Hip Hop Ice Cream Truck” cuz we were always blasting this tune instead of the typical ding-dong melody that I hated.
I don’t think I drove the truck for more than a month, but it gave me a chance to see the area. Good times… Good times indeed.
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Here is a fun YouTube video of the song (audio is very poor).
Check it out
MC am I, people call me Milk
When I’m bustin up a party I feel no guilt
Gizmo’s cuttin, up for the
Suckers that’s, down with meeee!!
The One of us, that’s how I feel
To be down you must appeal
To the Two, we’re rated R
We’re gifted, and we’re going far
Down the road, to the bank
While I’m here I’d like to thank
Mom and dad, they knew the time
Gizmo’s scratching, Milk Dee’s rhyming
Milk is chillin, Giz is chillin
What more can I say? Top billin
That’s what we get, got it good
Since you understood, would you
Stop scheming, and looking hard
I got a great big bodyguard
So step up if you wanna get hurt
Milk Dee’s gonna pull the skirt
I get money, money I got
Stunts call me honey if they feel real hot
That’s how it is, you can ask Giz
I stole your girl while you were inprisoned
Jail, for MC assault
You was jealous it’s all your fault
Milk is chillin, Giz is chillin
What more can I say? Top billin
That’s what we get, got it good
And since you understood, would you
Clap your hands, your hands you clap
If your girl’s out of place it’s your girl I slap
And if you’re dumb, you’ll ask why
I am from Bed Do-or-Die
The Audio Two, the Two’s Audio
I got a brother and his name’s Gizmo
Milk is chillin, Gizmo’s chillin
What more can I say? Top billin
That’s what we get, got it good
And since you understood, would you
Bite a rhyme, if you dare
I get the paper so I don’t care
My contributions to this jam
Is confusing, because I am
Milk Dee stated all the way
The super easy mightiest MC okay
Yes I’m down, down by law
I get the girlies out on the floor
G is D, down is G
Two the “At The Top” is where he’ll be
That is us, call us Aud
Girls come in you won’t be bored
Milk is chillin, Giz is chillin
What more can I say? Top billin
That’s what we get, got it good
And since you understood, would you
Do a dance, dance the Two
If, you can dance it’s easy to do
This dance is on and on and on
Dance until your breath is gone!!