I have been watching a lot of the Hellfest 2022 shows on the very good Arte Concert Youtube channel. I discovered Brutus (not from the Hellfest). Some post-progressive-hardcore-rock that gives me the chill.
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Yes cool ! I too watched Arte concert a lot for the Hellfest.
More than 300 groups this year in 2 weekends !!! 
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I know that was insane 
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Iâm still learning the basics of the four-string electric bass, but I can be inspired by virtuosity while I make my baby steps.
Charles Berthoud plays a beautiful solo piece he composed. You may find yourself counting the strings. Yes, there are only four.
(Now Iâm going to try counting his fingers!)
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I am taking the risk of being flagged as the one that is always complaining (though I am french) but as much as it is technically impressive, this is most often not very musically pleasing. Same goes (again for me) for Davie504. They have amazing techniques but it never really sounds like music to me.
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I read that in a northern English accent that slowly morphed into Glaswegian as I realised the joke.
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In case anybody doesnât know Doctor Who, The Doctor is an alien who, when faced with death, has the power to âregenerateâ, adopting a completely new body and personality (conveniently enabling a long succession of different actors to play the role since 1963.) Here he regenerates into a character played by Peter Capaldi, a Glaswegian actor, in an episode written by a fellow Scot, Steven Moffat. Itâs customary for the new persona to be a little disoriented at first. In this episode set in London he complains that everybody he knows has an English accent. Then the reason for this dawns on him.
(Same actor, this time as foul-mouthed Downing Street fixer Malcolm Tucker, in the film In the Loop directed by fellow Glaswegian Armando Iannucci.)
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This post has a long story to it.
Back in 1981 when dinosaurs still roamed the land, I listened to a BBC Radio 4 programme called âIt makes me laughâ, and the guest that week happened to be Douglas Adams of Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy, which was at that time only a cult radio serial and not the publishing behemoth it later turned into. This was the first time to my knowledge that he told his famous âa guy ate my biscuitsâ story which actually shows up in (I think) So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
Here he is telling the story to David Letterman.
Among the other mirth-producing items on the show, he played The Roches singing The Clothes Line Saga by Bob Dylan. This was from a BBC recording session he dug out of the BBC archives, and having seen that on television I was already something of a Roches fan.
A couple of years ago I went looking for that Radio 4 episode and listened to it. The Roches recording had been removed, presumably for copyright reasons. To the best of my knowledge it never appeared on any of their records.
But just now I found another clip of the three sisters performing the song at The Metropol, West Berlin in 1982.
Finally! After 41 years I hear them sing it again.
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So nice that someone made a whole video game for Machine Girlâs new album.
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-Fumu / Esopus
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-Fumu / Esopus
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We anglophones donât really know Johnny Hallyday. Letâs try to change that.
Here is an extraordinary posthumously released version of Le pĂ©nitencier, an adaptation of the traditional song The House of the Rising Sun. This is based on the Animals version, and retains its powerful male vocal and its cautionary âmothers tell your childrenâ theme, though the subject is a penitentiary rather than a house of ill repute. Itâs a great showcase for Hallydayâs vocal talents and his charisma. Unlike Alan Priceâs arrangement the instrumentation is sparse, mostly existing to support the singer. No flashy guitar intro, no haunting organ solo. Just Johnny.
The adaptation is by Hugues Aufray, more famous for adapting the songs of Bob Dylan, but no slouch as a singer-songwriter in his own right.
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Played a mix of keyboards,sax, flute and vocals with Sean Halliday
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Itâs the best bit!!
Plus 20 characters that prove my point
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Whoa i didnât expect to see this here one day
⊠personally I prefer The Animals 
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Yes!
And that opening arpeggio. Thatâs the best bit too.
Except for Eric Burdonâs voice, which one critic at the time said was âdeep and gravelly as the north-east English coal town of Newcastle that spawned himâ. That was the best, as well.
Wikipedia quotes Mickie Most as saying âIt only took 15 minutes to make so I canât take much credit for the production.â Recorded in a single take. Bonkers. It makes the Soggy Bottom Boys look like Brian Wilson.
A rare photo from the recording session of House Of The Rising Sun.
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Not a big Hip Hop / Rap fan, but once in a while I find a track that works for me. Long introâŠ
or this oneâŠ
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