G.A.S. (n.)
Abk�rzung f�r Gear Acquisition Syndrom (dt.: Ger�te-Erwerbs-Syndrom). Ein besonders unter Musikern verbreitetes psychisches Leiden, das den Erkrankten zum Erwerb immer neuer Instrumente und Verst�rker / Effektger�te treibt, im Glauben, dadurch musikalische oder pers�nliche Fortschritte machen zu k�nnen. Folgeerkrankungen insbesondere: chronischer Geldmangel, destruktive Agonie oder Depression. Sp�tfolgen: R�ckbildung musikalischer F�higkeiten, Verlust der Urteilsf�higkeit.
Hier gehts lang: Gear Acquisition Syndrom
"Oh hi! I'm Hollywood Steve. You just caught me relaxing in my music room..."
Well, you'll be surprised at what occasions you will catch Steve in the next episodes. But since he is smooth like the music he listens to, he always welcomes you as his guest. He is here to tell inside stories surrounding the music genre "yacht rock". "Hall & Oates" and "Loggins & McDonald" enter a songwriting contest or you find out the secret story surrounding "Roseanna" by Toto. Chigago, Kenny Loggins, Steely Dan, Journey and other bands of that genre are also part of these amazing, hilarious clips. "I never knew smooth music could rock so hard! ... "
--> Yacht Rock Clips
--> Yacht Rock @�Wikipedia
If there was ever a rockstar in Germany, it was Nina Hagen. Her first album "Nina Hagen Band" is still a very important piece of music ... and lyrics to me. Nina always seemed "real", her punk attitude never forced. She really was (and probably still is) like that. Where other german rockstar wannabees imitated rolemodels, she just was her own punky, unpredictable self.
Teaching some older lady how to masturbate during a talkshow in 1980 resulted in stopping the program and she was all over the press the next day. I remember everybody talking really shocked about it, while I yet didn't know what masturbation was and haven't heard a single song from her. But I felt the controversy and since she was so upsetting to my parents, she became a heroine to me instantly.
And she kept being unpredictable, much to the dismay of people who wanted to make money with her. She is probably the most famous singer without any real hits. Here is a video from 1979 I found somewhere.
Here is a very wellbehaved Nina Hagen with David Letterman
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Original Article: Sly Stone(d) @�Grammys
Sly Stone's brother and guitarist Freddie Stone speaks about Sly's performance on the Grammys: "Larry Graham did not feel well after the last dress rehearsal and decided not to play. In his place, was Rusty Allen. Our positioning on stage was fine until someone decided to change things, which brought everyone else out on stage about two minutes too early."
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Soul Patrol has something good to say about it as well: "Jimi's image is frozen in time. To us he will always be 27 years old. In Amerikka, "image" is always the most important thing? ... Sylvester Stewart is a 61 years old man. Untill last night, the image of "Sly Stone" has been "frozen in time". After last night, the "image" can no longer be the same."
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Bastard Pop von Going Home Productions
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Xtina vs Van Halen (Girls Jump) und Uptight Maggie... so sch�n!
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What was that? Maybe one of the saddest TV moments I have witnessed. Another sad one was, when the pope mumbled his blessings for the last time. Sly reminded me of that. Whoever thought he was on to the idea of the decade by bringing him back on stage was clearly wrong.
Slys whereabouts were almost unkown since he completely vanished from the scene in 1987, and among musicians, who worship his records and funk inventions as a blueprint for everything that came after, it was well accepted, that he had left the public eye since he had fried his brain with drugs and his output was seemingly over. It was an urban myth, that he was indeed not dead, you could run into him, kinda like the elvis stories, but real. Sure, a sly stone comeback was an often talked about wish of many people, and, if he would have rocked, it would have been a magical moment, concert tickets and greatest hits albums flying of the shelves.
The band and the singers, who did a medley with all his hits before launching into "Higher", were excellent, and actually looked seriously thrilled to be a part of that event. When Sly came out, one hand bandaged (?), he looked to the floor and NOT happy and really shy. After the second line of the verses in "Higher" was missing, stuff started going wrong. Sly was mumbling the choruses (or his mike was too low) and after he got all his balls together to go to the front of the stage, sporting a shy grin, wanting to get interaction with the audience, the band stopped the groove part and went back to the chorus instead, all resulting in him leaving the stage, the musicians exchanging sheepish glances. So he was there a little over a minute total. Wow.
Why was Larry Graham not on bass? Maybe he didn't wanna have it. And after seeing Larry a lot of times live, doing all the Sly Stone hits perfectly, even ballsier and more uptodate, I think, that we don't need the composer on stage necessarily. Sad, but true.
Additional link: Sly completely wasted on Dick Cavett show 1970
The duet between Herbie Hancock and Christina Aguilera singing "a song for you" was a nice experiment. And it stayed exactly that.
Two people from 2 completely different schools. It felt like witnessing 2 foreigners, who don't speak each others language, explainig stuff to each other with hands and feet, not succeeding, and parting ways soon after, scratching their heads.
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