Nude remix

This is just truely amazingly innovative. Radiohead released the song Nude on their last album In Rainbows and this amazing person, James Houston, set out to make a remix and in the process uses scanners, harddrives, printers and a tv to make the sounds. This is beautiful and art, I think. Take a look. If the tv sound in the beginning drives you nuts, please just scan forward in the file to around 1 minute :)

Great collaborations: Travis and Noel Gallagher

I found out that I also need a series about great collaborations. This will include great performances of two acts (artists, bands etc.) together of some form. To start it off is the quite amazing performance of Travis' "All I wanna do is rock" while on tour with Oasis. This must have been in 1997 I think. I saw Oasis on that tour and really wonders if I actually also saw Travis warming up... I have to find out if they were in Oslo. Anyways, I had this bootleg for a lot of years before I finally got to see the footage of it through YouTube about a year ago. I wish I could have seen Andy's guitar-playing too. I am sure we will return to him when I one day will write about great guitarists and great guitar solos. He and All I wanna, will be there.. hehe.
Without further ado: Travis and Noel:

Blur discovery, coffee & tv

For about 5 years at least if not a lot more I have loved the song Coffee & tv by Blur. Yesterday I came to an amazing realization. It is actually Graham Coxon who is singing the verses!!! Oh dear, how can I not have heard that. Now that I know, I do NOT understand how I ever can have thought it was Damon. Well, this was a huge discovery in my little life... I doubt that anyone else in the world care at all... haha.. Anyways: here is a live video :

Musical memories: Guns N' Roses

In about 1992 a new kind of music hit me. Up till then I had been listening to a lot of a-ha and pop stuff basically. But then i discovered Guns N' Roses. We was a few years behind here in the countryside of Norway so Nirvana didn't hit until just before Cobain died, at least not me. So we also got to hear Guns N' a little bit late. I think my fetish with wanting to play guitar might have started when I heard Slash play and was reinforced by hearing Jimi Hendrix the year later, and Bryan Adams, but more about that some other time.

I remember listening to Don't Cry and November Rain in long nights thinking about cute boys in school and rocking to Sweet Child of mine... Wait a second... Bon Jovi must have been before all this... hm... Ok, so I might actually have got that guitar thing from Richie?? That's a bit frightening. Let's stick with Slash for now. I remember my friend had a huge crush on him, and I just loved that guitar playing... I saw him live as a part of Velvet Revolver a few years back, and though it wasn't Guns N' Roses, it was still quite special. A childhood.. Well, early teenager... hero.

So i give you November Rain.. The song with two guitar-solos. It's almost like a small opera or something.. :



And for some rock n' roll :

Great Voices: Damon Albarn

I have said it before and I will say it again: "Let Damon Albarn sing anything, and I will listen". It's just something about that voice and that man that makes me just sit and look into the air, with an empty look in my eyes, and listen. And he has that beautiful kind of tender, but tough boyish-charm thing going, that just captivates me.. hehe. Anyways, for all of you that though Damon is only about Boys and girls, or haven't heard him at all, here are a few of my favourite thihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifngs :)

Blur - Essex Dogs (My blog post about this song, great lyrics etc.)



With The Good, The Bad and The queen - Kingdom of Doom


Blur - Out of time


Blur - Beetlebum


Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.