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Instagram is crippling young entrepreneurs like Kylie Jenner by dropping 'likes'
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Instagram is doing away with "likes."
And, boy, do people hate it.
Instagram's new pilot scheme, which launched last month in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Italy, Japan and Brazil, ensures that users can see the likes they get on a post — but other users can't. The test has been active since May in Canada and could soon be trialed in the UK and the US. And it's provoking some full-scale meltdowns.
Mikaela Testa, a 19-year-old Instagram influencer from Australia, released a teary video that almost instantly went viral protesting the policy. She wrote, "Regardless of what you may think, Instagram is a REAL job and those in the industry have worked hard to get where they're at … I've put my blood, sweat and tears into this for it to be ripped away."
This seems like a dramatic reaction to a change on a social media platform, but she's not wrong. Instagram influencers, who are generally beautiful women, aren't much different from models of old — they've just cut out the modeling agencies that profit off their image. At the moment, brands are shelling out big money for them to post pictures of their products — CPC Strategy marketing estimates that influencers can charge about $1,000 per 100,000 followers for a post about a brand. Kylie Jenner reportedly gets paid $1 million per Instagram post on a brand. At 21, she recently became the world's youngest billionaire.
Likes matter. According to Forbes, MRI pictures of people's brains have shown that how many likes a post gets alters its appeal to viewers. And because it's so easy for posters to boost their number of followers by buying them, likes are a much more genuine measure of an influencer's reach.
Obviously, Instagram influencers are worried that eliminating likes will make their posts seem less appealing and cut into their profits.
You know who else is worried about profits? Instagram executives.
Yet Instagram chief Adam Mosseri claimed in a chipper statement about the change, "We want people to worry a little bit less about how many likes they're getting on Instagram and spend a bit more time connecting with the people that they care about."
That sounds nice. But we all know it's BS. It's hard to pretend that a platform through which people were sharing child pornography (as The Atlantic reported this January) is really worried about the public's mental well being. If people actually wanted to connect with others they care about, as Mosseri suggests, they should log off social media altogether.
According to a recent report on the Daily Mail website, Instagram can't make serious money selling ads to companies on the platform, so it's now trying to beat the influencers at their own game.
"Instagram is a 'likes-first' platform, and naturally ads don't get a lot of likes, which has the effect of making often reputable products appear fake or unpopular," one insider told the outlet. "Instagram took so long to implement a viable algorithm that all these 'influencers' took it into their own hands."
And if Instagram's "like ban" becomes permanent, brands won't be so anxious to work with influencers whose metrics of success will be a lot less obvious. Many of them will have their livelihoods stripped away.
Regardless of what you may think, Instagram is a REAL job and those in the industry have worked hard to get where they're at
It's part of a general trend on the web. Where once enterprising young pioneers found a way to make a living through YouTube or Facebook or other platforms, social-media companies are increasingly chipping away at those profit-making efforts by changing their algorithms, exerting increasingly more influence on who makes money and who doesn't.
You might think we should just tell Instagram influencers to "get a real job" — but they have become a viable force in the modern-day economy. By becoming their own photographers, stylists, hairdressers and makeup artists, they have found an honest way to utilize a fairly silly device to make some real dough.
The hustle of Instagram stars is admirable. The greed of Instagram, estimated to be worth $100 billion, isn't.
And upsetting their most valuable contributors is playing with fire.
We've learned that social media platforms don't necessarily stay popular forever (so long, MySpace). And if big-money posters like Jenner migrate to a friendlier platform, their fans will follow. These people are, after all, influencers.
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Read the following introductions for attractions in Kunming. You will know the top attractions there and you can also get to know the city attractions by category.
Golden Temple, an important protected cultural relic, is a famous temple in Yunnan which acquired the name for its shinning golden appearance. It is the biggest and well-preserved existing copper temple in China, providing important information for the researches on ancient metallurgy and architecture in Yunnan Province.
With many elements of ancient Chinese architecture in the designs of the top, column, edge and girder, Kunming Museum is a local comprehensive one with three fixed exhibitions for bronze culture, ancient Dhvaja (Buddhism ornament architecture) and dinosaur fossils, and two temporary exhibition halls for irregularly scheduled themed exhibitions.
The biggest lake in Yunnan and the 6th biggest freshwater lake in mainland China, Dianchi Lake is a best summer resort since ancient time. Over 20 rivers flow into it and shaped as a crescent moon, the lake is1886min altitude and boasts scenic beauties with peaks. It is crowned as 'the pearl on the plateau'.
In picturesque Dongchuan District of Kunming, Yunnan lies dreamlike and beautiful Dongchuan Red land, which is especially renowned for its marvelous landscapes. It was praised as the lost palette of god, colorful and gorgeous: red, orange, green, cyan, blue, and purple, like the color of rainbow.
Boasting magnificent karst landform and located some 78km to downtown Kunming with an altitude of 1500-1900m and an estimated age of 5 million to 30 million years old, Stone Forest is hailed as the No.1 Nature Wonder under the heaven with its fantastic rocks in the shapes of sword, column and tower.
As one of the popular parks in Kunming City, Daguan Park is divided into three regions by the style of different periods, which are elaborately connected by traditional Chinese bridges, pavilions and embankments, together with green trees and flower blossoming creating a nice Chinese classical frame.
Located on the shore of the Dian Lake some 15km west to city center, the West Hill is renowned for its rolling mountains, tranquil forest with towering trees, singing birds and clear streams, numerous historic sites, as well as its excellent viewpoint for overlooking the Dian Lake and watching sunrise.


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Vans RV-6, N77GT: Incident occurred September 11, 2016 in Jerome, Idaho (and Accident occurred June 04, 2013 in Brookfield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin
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FAA Flight Standards District Office: FAA Boise FSDO-11
AIRCRAFT ON LANDING SUSTAINED TAIL WHEEL DAMAGE, JERMONE, IDAHO
Regis#: N77GT
Aircraft Make: VANS
Aircraft Model: RV6
Damage: Minor
City: JEROME
NTSB Identification: CEN13CA316
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Tuesday, June 04, 2013 in Brookfield, WI
Probable Cause Approval Date: 08/13/2013
Aircraft: SHELDRICK JOHN H RV-6, registration: N77GT
Injuries: 1 Uninjured.
NTSB investigators used data provided by various entities, including, but not limited to, the Federal Aviation Administration and/or the operator and did not travel in support of this investigation to prepare this aircraft accident report.
The pilot reported that he approached the airport, intending to land on the grass runway. He said that his approach was high and he introduced a slip in order to lose altitude. During the slip, the airplane turned to the left, which he did not notice. He continued the landing and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing and vertical stabilizer and rudder. The pilot stated that there were no mechanical problems with the airplane. Postaccident examination revealed that the airplane was landed in a marsh about 400 yards north of the east-west oriented runway.
The pilot's failure to maintain runway alignment and his failure to recognize that the airplane had drifted away from the runway prior to landing.
WAUKESHA CO. (WITI) — A two-seat, experimental aircraft that was intending to land at the Capitol Drive Airport in Brookfield crashed in a marshy area just north of the airfield on Tuesday, June 4th.
Waukesha Co. authorities tell FOX6 News the pilot is fine and being evaluated for injuries after the crash. The pilot was apparently aware enough to notify authorities that he and his aircraft crashed moments after the incident.
"The pilot was in contact with the folks at Capitol Airport. After the crash, it was reported to us that he was in a swamp, in an upside-down environment," said Brookfield Fire Chief Charlie Myers.
It apparently took emergency responders about ten minutes to walk into the field and get the pilot to drier ground so he could be checked out.
"We know it's marshy, it's just difficult to walk through it. They had a general location and they followed that location with Flight for Life guiding us, helping us as we got out there," said Myers.
The pilot was evaluated at the scene — but was not hurt.
BROOKFIELD, Wis. —An experimental aircraft crashed near the Capitol Airport in Brookfield Tuesday.
Waukesha County Sheriff's dispatch officials said a report of an aircraft crashing north of the airport in a marshy area was received around 1:30 p.m.
Authorities said the pilot had made radio contact with the Crites Field tower stating that he was having problems.
The next time the tower heard from the pilot, he said he was upside down in a marsh near the airport.
The pilot exited the plane under their own power after emergency personnel helped lift the aircraft.
WISN 12 News reporter Nick Bohr said the pilot told authorities the plane was a two-seat, single-engine aircraft known as a Vans RV-6 experimental plane.
Bohr said FAA investigators are on the scene and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.
Capitol Airport is a non-towered airport, and pilots communicate to each other via a common frequency. Crites Field in Waukesha monitors the airspace around Capitol Airport.
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After meeting Dr. Susan Brown, Interim Chairperson of the Department of Inclusive Education at Kennesaw State University, at RESA's meeting on April 13th, her interest in my math manipulatives has opened several doors to expand and reach out to future teachers and show them how to help the students in their upcoming classrooms. I have a meeting scheduled at KSU on May 23rd to discuss ways to make Slide-A-Round math manipulatives available to their students.
Tomorrow will be a busy day as I travel to the Alabama School for the Deaf to do an in-service presentation to their faculty and administrators. I look forward to creating an academic relationship with their school similar to the one I already have with our Georgia School for the Deaf located near Rome. Any opportunity I have to meet with fellow teachers to collaborate on ways to help their students learn is always exciting!
I will be meeting with the faculty and administration of Johnson Elementary School in Rome, GA. I continue to be excited about the opportunity to show teachers my manipulatives in person and not only demonstrate their variety and usage, but also answer any questions teachers may have on a more personal basis than over the phone or via email. In addition to the meetings and conferences I have scheduled this summer, I am also going to continue working to design more handouts/lessons to coordinate with each product and link several instructional lessons from my website to YouTube. This has definitely been a rewarding and EVENTFUL school year!


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Sir John Harrison ( 1590 – 28 September 1669) of Balls Park, Hertfordshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1669. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War.

Public life
Harrison was born in Lancaster, the 12th son of a yeoman, and went to London in 1611 at the age of 22. He was one of the first to suggest the position of commissioner of the customs and was given that post.

Harrison was elected MP for Scarborough in 1628. In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Lancaster in the Short Parliament. He was then elected for Lancaster in November 1640 for the Long Parliament.

He built Balls Park House in Hertford between 1637 and 1640 and was knighted in 1641.

He supported the king during the Civil War and was disabled from sitting in September 1643. He suffered greatly from his loyalty, being fined £10,745. After the Restoration, Harrison was elected MP for Lancaster again in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament and held the seat until his death in 1669. He served as a gentleman of the Privy Chamber from 1664 until his death.

Private life
Harrison died at the age of 80, at Balls Park, Hertford and was buried at All Saints' Church, Hertford.

He had married, firstly, Margaret Fanshawe, daughter of Robert Fanshawe, by whom he had three sons, all of whom predeceased him, and two daughters, and, secondly, Mary Shotbolt, daughter of Philip Shotbolt, by whom he had a son and a daughter. His elder daughter Ann by his first wife married Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet ambassador to Spain. He was survived by his three daughters and his youngest son, the only son of his second marriage, Richard Harrison (1646–1726), who succeeded him at Balls Park and was also the Member of Parliament for Lancaster.

His descendants included Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend and George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend.

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Q: rails filtering an array after performing a find on the table i have a method in a model that looks like this:
def self.super_data
 self.find(:all,
      :select => 'name, type, ref_id, SUM(duration) as duration',
      :group => 'name, type, ref_id'
    )
end

then I would also like to have a method
def self.filter_by_ref_id(filter_ref_id)
    self.select{ |l| l.ref_id == filter_ref_id}
  end

so I would like to do model.super_data.filter_by_ref_id(1) or something like that, but it seems like it no longer knows what class it is after the first method, so it can't call the second.  is that right? what can I do instead? is this the best way to filter data in rails?  thanks!

A: edit: if you're in rails 3
scope :super_data, select("name, type, ref_id, SUM(duration) as duration").group("name, type, ref_id")
scope :filter_by_ref_id, lambda{ |id| where(:ref_id => id) }

You could define them as scopes:
named_scope :filter_ref_id, lambda { |filter_ref_id| :conditions => {:ref_id => filter_ref_id} }

But I've been using rails 3 for quite some time now, and I don't really remember how chaining scopes works in rails 2...

A: Have you tried passing in condtions?
    def self.super_data(filter_ref_id)
 self.find(:all,
      :select => 'name, type, ref_id, SUM(duration) as duration',
      :group => 'name, type, ref_id',
      :conditions => 'ref_id = filter_ref_id'
    )
end

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Who are some pre-vedic deities?
Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: I assume that by the term 'pre-vedic', the question refers to the Vedic time period and not to the vedas themselves. As I understand it, the present day deities have come to be worshipped only over the past 4000(?) years or so. Prior to that, I have observed from my…
Why are religious stories not called "mythology"?
Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Hmm… mythology. A word I hate with a certain passion. Each time I see it being used, I feel a sense of anger bubbling within me. The word 'mythology' originated from several European languages with the root word 'myth' which is basically a study of some kind of folk stories…
What are your unpopular or controversial opinion regarding Indian history and Indian culture/religion?
Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: I don't endorse the idea of 'Indian culture'. There is no such thing as 'Indian culture' whereby you have a bulleted lists of things to do and things not to do. Unlike other nations, India is a land of diverse cultures and things change when we move from one region…
How could Abhimanyu or sons of Draupadi be around 16 years old during the war when it was said that Arjuna himself trained them in weapons, Dhoumya trained them in Veda, and the sacred-thread ceremony was also done even before the Rajasuya Sacrifice?
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Q: Require application_name for incoming connections I am passing the application_name to my postgres server in the uri like
postgres://username:password@host:port/database?application_name=name

My question is how I can force every incoming connection request to supply this parameter? For logging reasons I don't want to allow connections without this name.
Is that possible?


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Claus von Bülow, Accused Killer, Dies at 92
How Claus von Bülow Became the Original True Crime Star
Convicted and acquitted of murdering his heiress wife, the Danish socialite, dead at 92, relished his reputation as a debonair criminal.
By Ben Widdicombe Published: May 31, 2019
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Claus von Bülow, a Danish-born socialite who was convicted and then acquitted of attempting to murder his wealthy American wife, died in London on Saturday at the age of 92, a family friend confirms to Town & Country.
The scandal that would define his life began in December, 1980, when Martha "Sunny" von Bulow (the Philadelphia Main Line heiress to a utilities fortune) was discovered unconscious on the marble floor of a bathroom at their oceanfront estate in Newport, R.I.
Martha Sharp Crawford von Auersperg Von Bulow in 1979, shortly before she fell into her first of two comas.
Sunny, who remained in a coma for the rest of her life, died in 2008. Her two older children—Prince Alexander von Auersperg and Ala Isham, née Princess Annie Laurie von Auersperg Kneissl, from a first marriage to Austria's Prince Alfred von Auersperg—suspected foul play.
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They hired investigators, which lead to an attempted murder charge for their stepfather.
In a 1981 trial, Sunny's maid and von Bülow's mistress, Alexandra Isles, both testified against him. It emerged that Sunny had also briefly fallen into a coma in 1979, and prosecutors successfully argued that von Bülow had poisoned his wife on both occasions with insulin injections. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
But the accused, who always had the support of Cosima von Bülow, his daughter with Sunny, overturned the judgment on appeal.
The highly-publicized retrial was argued by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, and the case turned the lawyer into a star. His 1985 book about the case, Reversal of Fortune, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film starring Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons and released in 1990.
Claus Von Bulow and Alan Dershowitz during an appearance on the "Phil Donahue Show" in 1986.
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Von Bülow eventually agreed to a settlement with his stepchildren that involved him divorcing their comatose mother and giving up any claim on her estate, in exchange for Cosima, who had been disinherited, being restored to her maternal grandmother's will.
Claus Von Bulow with his and Sunny's daughter, cosima, in 1983.
"The affection and support Cosima felt for her father was unwavering," a family friend, who asked not to be named, told T&C. "He raised a marvelous woman, full of integrity, loyal but with her eyes open, who unwaveringly thought the world of him."
The back-to-back trials divided both public opinion and the former couple's international society friends. Some of them continued to embrace the handsome, charming European, while others shunned him as a murderer.
"We would see Claus at Mortimer's," the publicist Paul Wilmot recently told T&C. "People used to point at him—he was a tourist attraction!"
Von Bülow relished his newfound celebrity. His mordant humor was legendary. He once quipped that when visiting New York, "I always stay with my old friend Frank Campbell"—a reference to the Upper East Side undertaker known for society funerals.
Barbara Walters interviewed Von Bulow for 20/20 in 1982.
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Among those who continued to support him were late-twentieth-century society fixtures like Mercedes Kellogg (now Bass), Doris Duke and Catherine Guinness. Less enamored was Tina Brown, the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair magazine, who described him in her published diaries as a "dark bastard and I'd love to see him nailed."
Still, in one of her most famous stunts, she put him on the cover during his trial. "Only Helmut [Newton, the photographer] could persuade a man on trial for murder to look in his closet and choose an S & M-flavored black zip-up leather jacket," she wrote. "He looks positively satanic."
There was always something of the night about Claus Cecil Borberg, who was born in Denmark in 1926. His father, a playwright, was imprisoned after World War II on charges of having been a Nazi collaborator.
Subsequently Claus adopted his mother's maiden name: Bülow. The aristocratic prefix "von" was a later addition; he sometimes claimed was made at Sunny's behest.
Sunny Von Bulow in 1968 in the London home she shared with Von Bulow.
After attending Cambridge University, he worked in a variety of roles for the American oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, who was based in London. It was while moving in these privileged circles that he met his future wife, whom he married in 1966. Her annual income at the time was reported to be $3.5 million.
A taste for the social whirl never left von Bülow, who spent his later years in a flat not far from Harrods in London. I met him at a Knightsbridge restaurant party in the mid-1990s, on the night that Reversal of Fortune first aired on British television. He reveled not only in the attention, but also the tabloid gossip column sightings that appeared the following day. In recent years, acquaintances have described him as ill, and mostly keeping to his own apartment.
Von Bulow and his girlfriend Andrea Reynolds in 1986.
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Von Bülow's presence also haunts the New York diaries of Andy Warhol. He is noted attending parties from 1978 to just a month before the artist's death, when Warhol introduces him to Bob Dylan at Nell's nightclub in January, 1987.
Warhol quotes von Bülow telling him: "Thank you for being nice to me before I was a star."
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Professor Mary Beard embarks on an investigative journey to explore the life and times of one of Rome's most extraordinary and notorious individuals Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus – better known to us as Caligula.
Caligula was the emperor of Rome from 37 to 41 AD. The son of the popular Roman general Germanicus and Augustus's granddaughter Agrippina the Elder, Caligula was born into the first ruling family of the Roman Empire, conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Germanicus's uncle and adoptive father, Tiberius, succeeded Augustus as emperor of Rome in 14.
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Education and Society in a Changing Mizoram
The Practice of Pedagogy
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Education and Society in a Changing Mizoram: The Practice of Pedagogy
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I loved Blogger Girl and look forward to reading Novel Girl!!
I'm 3/4 the way through Blogger Girl and I'm thrilled to read there will be a sequel, Meredith. Great news indeed!
Thank you, Jill – I'm so glad you're enjoying Blogger Girl!
I'm currently writing a sequel as well, and I can relate with your fear of not living up to the first one. I wish you much success with Novel Girl, I know it will be great!
I remember reading- and loving- Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood. I picked up Little Altars Everywhere (which I believe was actually written before Divine Secrets) and didn't care for it. In fact, had I read it first, I never would have picked up Divine Secrets. So I can understand your trepidation.
I can say, in general though, that I have enjoyed most sequels if the characters stay true to what I liked about them initially.
I'm excited to read Novel Girl!
Yes, I agree that sequels definitely bring their own challenges, especially one that you want to stand on its own where necessary, too.
I think Joanne Phillips did a great job with The Family Trap, her sequel to Can't Live Without, in referencing the first book without relying on it.
On the other hand, I seem to remember the second Bridget Jones book left me very underwhelmed and the movie script was significantly different.
That said, if your readers are begging for a sequel, and you've come up with some great new problems for your characters, I think you'll be just fine!
Hi Pauline – I agree that it is so important to be able to find the balance between giving enough information about the first one so that people who are reading the second as a stand alone won't be confused without giving too much history and boring the people who did read the first one or stalling the pace of the second one. Hopefully, I've done that well, although I'm sure my beta readers will let me know. I agree that I wasn't a fan of the second Bridget Jones book, although I did adore the third one.
Sequels are so tricky, especially when you have high reader demand for them. In those cases, I find that readers generally already know what they want to happen, so you risk disappointing them, big-time. Then again, you're also in the position to grant their wish and just might knock their socks off, and that's pretty darn special.
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My Ten Desert Island Albums
Inspired by Hans Postcard's fun 2020 album draft, where 10 participants pick albums in 10 rounds for a total of 100, I decided to put together my list of 10 albums I would take on a desert island. Essentially, I already came up with such a collection in May 2018, but some things have changed in the meantime and this list features five new picks, including three different artists.
While each of the albums are longtime favorites, I still can't exclude the possibility that my picks might be different in a month or two. Since I couldn't figure out how to rank my selections, I ingeniously decided to put them in chronological order. Conveniently, this means kicking things off with my favorite band of all time.
The Beatles/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (May 1967)
While I dig all albums by the Fab Four, on most days, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is my favorite. The innovative use of recording technology, the cover art and the combination of different music styles like vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde and traditional Indian music with pop and rock make Sgt. Pepper a true masterpiece. The first album after The Beatles had stopped touring was influenced by The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, which Brian Wilson had created in response to Revolver, as well as Freak Out! by the Mothers of Invention. Had it not been because of silly pressure from EMI to issue Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane as a single, Sgt. Pepper hands-down would have been the strongest Beatles album. Still, with tunes like the title track, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Within You Without You and the magnificent A Day in the Life, there's lots of great music.
Carole King/Tapestry (February 1971)
Carole King's Tapestry perhaps is the ultimate singer-songwriter album. Her sophomore release from 1971 featured 10 new tunes and two reinterpretations of songs King had written together with her former husband and lyricist Jerry Goffin in the '60s. Like many of their other songs, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman became hits, in these cases by The Shirelles and Aretha Franklin, respectively. There's really no weak tune on Tapestry and I could have selected any. It's Too Late has always been one of my favorites.
The Rolling Stones/Sticky Fingers (April 1971)
I know many fans of The Rolling Stones consider Exile on Main St. or Some Girls as their best albums. While I can't claim to know all of their records in detail, my favorite is Sticky Fingers. This was the second full-length record with Mick Taylor who had replaced Brian Jones in June 1969. Between Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Bitch, Sister Morphine and Dead Flowers, there are so many classics on this album. I just think the Stones never sounded better. And interestingly, it's the country-influenced Dead Flowers that has become one of my favorite Stones tunes. I just love the guitar work!
Marvin Gaye/What's Going On (May 1971)
I think Marvin Gaye had one of the most beautiful soulful voices I know. This artist was a smooth operator, even when he sang about serious issues like on this album. …(Oh, crime is increasin') Oh, woo/Trigger happy policin'/panic is spreadin'/God knows where we're headin'/Oh baby/Make me wanna holler/They don't understand/Make me wanna holler/They don't understand…It's remarkable these lyrics were written almost 50 years, yet they sound frighteningly relevant in America in the year 2020.
Neil Young/Harvest (February 1972)
I dig a good number of Neil Young songs and feel his first compilation Decade is one of the best greatest hits collections I can think of. When it comes to his albums, my favorites are Harvest from 1972 and Harvest Moon from 1992. While I think the title track of the latter is among Young's best tunes, I have a slight preference for Harvest from an overall album perspective. Featuring David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt as guests, it became Young's most successful record and the best-selling album in the U.S. in 1972 – in part thanks to Heart of Gold, which remains Young's only no. 1 song on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 to this day. There are many other gems on the record, including The Needle and the Damage Done.
Deep Purple/Machine Head (March 1972)
I don't listen to hard rock a lot these days, but when I do, Deep Purple remain my favorite choice, especially their sixth studio album Machine Head from March 1972. I've always thought one of the cool things about this band are the equal roles the guitar and the keyboards play as solo instruments. Jon Lord was a true master of the Hammond organ who skillfully blended blues, hard rock and jazz with elements of classical music. Lazy is one of the tracks on which Lord shines in particular.
Pink Floyd/The Dark Side of the Moon (March 1973)
First, I was going to pick Meddle, Pink Floyd's sixth studio album from October 1971. With the great Echoes, it foreshadowed the band's classic mid-'70s sound on The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. All three albums are among my favorite Floyd records. Eventually, I settled on The Dark Side of the Moon. It's a perfect album for headphones, and I've listened to it countless times at night in bed. The sound is just phenomenal. One of the standout tracks is The Great Gig In the Sky and the amazing vocal performance by British singer Clare Torry.
Bruce Springsteen/Born to Run (August 1975)
Bruce Springsteen entered my radar screen in 1984 with the Born in the U.S.A. album. While I'm still fond of that record, I subsequently explored and came to appreciate his earlier work. To me, Born to Run turned out to be Springsteen's Mount Rushmore. After two albums that were critically acclaimed but not successful from a commercial perspective, he really needed a hit. Born to Run would turn out to be exactly that and catapult Springsteen to fame beyond the U.S. Apart from the title song, my favorite tracks on the album include Thunder Road, Backstreets, Jungleland and the beautiful soul-oriented Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.
Stevie Wonder/Songs in the Key of Life (September 1976)
Stevie Wonder has been one of my favorite artists for 40 years. I dig many of his songs starting from when he was known as Little Stevie Wonder. But it's his classic period in the '70s I like the most, especially the albums Talking Book (October 1972), Innervisions (August 1973) and Songs in the Key of Life (September 1976). The latter became the best-selling and most critically acclaimed album of Wonder's long career. Here's his beautiful tribute to jazz legend Duke Ellington who had passed away in May 1974.
Steely Dan/Aja (September 1977)
I'm wrapping up this list with Steely Dan. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen made many great records, but it's this gem from September 1977 that's my favorite: Aja. As usual, Becker and Fagen assembled top-notch session musicians to record the album. There were also prominent guests, including Michael McDonald and Timothy B. Schmit. All of the tracks on this album are great. Deacon Blues is my favorite Steely Dan song, but since I previously featured it more than once, I'm going with the closer Josie.
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When Bs Should Have Been As
While I suspect most folks can tell an anecdote where they feel a teacher or professor did them wrong, you probably figured this post isn't about academic grades, though it is somewhat related to grading. I'm talking about the good old-fashioned single from the last Century. Yep, it's hard to believe that in the age of online streaming and digital downloads there was once was a time when music artists would release singles on vinyl and people would actually buy them!
The most common format of the vinyl single was the 7-inch 45 rpm, which according to Wikipedia was introduced by RCA Victor in March 1949 as a more durable and higher-fidelity replacement for 78 rpm shellac discs. Historically, singles had an A-side and a B-side, and placing a song on the A-side implied it was better than the tune on the flip side. In December 1965, The Beatles disrupted this tradition when they released the first so-called double-A side: We Can Work It Out and Day Tripper. The 70s saw yet another type called double-B, where you had one song on the A-side and two tunes on the B-side. Also known as maxi singles, the initial format was 7 inches and, starting from the mid-70s, 12 inches.
Do singles even matter you might ask. At the end of the day, it's all music, so who cares how it's called. Well, I guess I'm a bit of a music nerd, so I get excited about it. That being said, I never got much into buying 45 rpms myself. In retrospect, that's a good thing, since the handful I ended up were all pretty awful. Three I can still remember include I Was Made For Loving You (Kiss), Heart of Glass (Blondie) and How Could This Go Wrong (Exile) – indeed, how could things have gone so wrong? Well, to my defense it was the disco era and, perhaps more significantly, I was like 12 or 13 years old and slightly less mature!:-)
Before I go any further with this post, I have to give credit where credit is due. The initial inspiration for the topic came from a story on Ultimate Classic Rock about B-sides that became big hits. Then I also remembered that fellow blogger Aphoristic Album Reviews has a recurring feature called Great B-sides. Both together made me curious to do some research and there you have it: a playlist of tunes that initially were released as B-sides, which in my opinion would have deserved an A-side placement or perhaps double-A side status. This doesn't necessarily mean I feel the corresponding A-sides were inferior. With that being said, let's get to it!
What better artist to kick off a rock playlist than with Mr. Rock & Roll, Chuck Berry. In September 1956, he released Brown Eyed Handsome Man, a single from his debut album After School Session. The B-side was Too Much Monkey Business, which I personally prefer over the A-side. Both tunes were written by Berry. Like many of his songs, Too Much Monkey Business was widely covered by others like The Beatles, The Kinks and The Yardbirds. Naming them all would be, well, too much monkey business!
Another 1950s artist I dig is Buddy Holly, a true rock & roll and guitar pioneer who during his short recording career released such amazing music. Here's Not Fade Away, the B-side to Oh, Boy!, a single that appeared in October 1957 under the name of Holly's band The Crickets. Not Fade Away was credited to Charles Hardin, Holly's real name, and Norman Petty. In February 1964, The Rolling Stones released a great cover of the tune, their first U.S. single and one of their first hits.
In November 1964, Them fronted by 19-year-old Van Morrison released a cover of Baby, Please Don't Go, a traditional that had first been popularized by delta blues artist Big Joe Williams in 1935. While Them's take was a great rendition, it was the B-side, Morrison's Gloria, which became the band's first hit, peaking at no. 10 on the British singles charts. Following the song's big success, apparently, Gloria was re-released as a single in 1965, with the garage rocker getting its well-deserved A-side placement. G.L.O.R.I.A., Gloria, G.L.O.R.I.A., Gloria – love this tune!
Another great B-side is I'll Feel A Lot Better by The Byrds, which they put on the flip side of their second single All I Really Want To Do from June 1965. It was written by founding member Gene Clark, the band's main writer of original songs between 1964 and early 1966. Like the Bob Dylan tune All I Really Want To Do, I'll Feel A Lot Better appeared on The Byrds' debut album Mr. Tambourine Man. I'm a huge fan of Roger McGuinn's Rickenbacker jingle-jangle guitar sound. Another reason I've always liked The Byrds is because of their great harmony singing. It's the kind of true music craftsmanship you hardly hear any longer these days.
My next selection won't come as a shock to frequent readers of the blog: I'm The Walrus by The Beatles. Other than the fact that The Fab Four are my all-time favorite band, there's another valid reason I included them in this playlist. You can file this one under 'what were they thinking relegating the tune to the B-side and giving the A-side to Hello Goodbye.' Hello? According to The Beatles Bible, not only was John Lennon's push to make Walrus the A-side overturned by Paul McCartney and George Martin, who both felt Hello Goodbye would be more commercially successful, but it created real resentment from Lennon. And frankly who can blame him! After the band's breakup, he complained "I got sick and tired of being Paul's backup band." Yes, Hello Goodbye ended up peaking at no. 1 but also as one of the worst Beatles singles!
Next up: Born On The Bayou by Creedence Clearwater Revival, the B-side to Proud Mary, a single released in January 1969. Unlike the previous case, I think this is a great example of two killer tunes that are each A-side material. Written by John Fogerty, both songs appeared on CCR's second studio album Bayou Country that also came out in January 1969.
In October 1969, Led Zeppelin issued Led Zeppelin II, only nine months after their debut, and one of their best albums, in my opinion. The opening track Whole Lotta Love was released as a single in November that year. The B-side was Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman). It may not be quite on par with Whole Lotta Love, but it sure as heck is an excellent tune with a great riff. The song was co-written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.
The Needle And The Damage Done is one of my favorite songs from one of my all-time favorite artists: Neil Young. It became the B-side to Old Man, which Young released as a single in April 1972 off Harvest, his excellent fourth studio album that had appeared in February that year.
Also in April 1972, David Bowie came out with Starman, the lead single from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, his fifth studio album and my favorite Bowie record. The B-side was Suffragette City, a kick-ass glam rocker. Like all tracks on Ziggy Stardust, it was written by Bowie.
Of course, this playlist wouldn't be complete without featuring a tune from one of my other all-time favorite bands, The Rolling Stones. I decided to go with When The Whip Comes Down, the B-side to Beast Of Burden, which was released as a single in September 1978. As usually co-written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, both tunes appeared on Some Girls, the Stones' 14th British and 16th U.S. studio album from June that year. That's according to Wikipedia – I didn't count them myself!
Sources: Wikipedia, Ultimate Classic Rock, Radio X, Smooth Radio, Forgotten Hits, The Beatles Bible, YouTube
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My Busy 2018 Music Journey Part 2: New Music & 2019 Preview
Part 1 of this 2-part series looked back on the concerts I was fortunate to catch this year. Another significant aspect of my 2018 journey was listening to music, both familiar and new. While most of the music that's coming out these days isn't my cup of tea, I still ended up reviewing 24 new releases this year. About half (13) are studio albums, while the remainder is a mix of reissues, vault type releases and live records. Even if you only consider the new studio releases, 13 albums over the course of one year, or an average of approximately one per month, isn't so bad for somebody who almost entirely lives in the past when it comes to music.
From the above studio albums, I'd like to call out the following: John Mellencamp, Other People's Stuff, Dec 7 (review); Greta Van Fleet, Anthem Of The Peaceful Army, Oct 19 (review); Paul McCartney, Egypt Station, Sep 7 (review); Buddy Guy, The Blues Is Alive And Well, Jun 15 (review); Roger Daltrey, As Long As I Have You, June 1 (review); and Sting & Shaggy, 44/876, Apr 20 (review). Following are some clips.
Teardrops Will Fall, a '60s tune co-written by Gerry Granaham and Marion Smith, was first recorded by John Mellencamp for his June 2003 album Trouble No More. But it actually sounds he could have taken the tune from his 1987 gem The Lonesome Jubilee, Mellencamp's first record where he moved away from straight rock toward a more roots-oriented sound.
While Greta Van Fleet will probably need to find a more original style to ensure their longevity, selfishly, I can't deny getting a kick out of their Led Zeppelin-style rock. The Cold Wind from their new album is a great example. I don't know of any other band that sounds like the mighty early Zep. One thing is for sure: Robert Plant can no longer deliver vocals with this degree of intensity.
Egypt Station is Paul McCartney's 17th solo study album. Here's I Don't Know, a classic McCartney piano-driven pop song. Yes, Macca's voice has noticeably changed since New from October 2013, but I actually think it goes pretty well with his latest songs. Based on YouTube clips I've watched, I'm less sure about Beatles tunes. Many are in high keys and as such tough to sing, so Macca may have to make some adjustments.
Moving on to Buddy Guy, who at age 82 shows no signs of slowing down. One of the highlights of his latest record is Cognac, where he trades guitar licks with Jeff Beck and Keith Richards. If you're a guitarist with basic blues skills, you just feel like grabbing your instrument and joining in!
As Long As I Have You is Roger Daltrey's first solo album in close to 26 years. Here's the excellent title track, a cover of a tune that initially was recorded by soul singer Garnet Mimms in 1964. The Who also played it in their early days.
Last but not least in the new studio album category is what at first sight may look like a somewhat odd pairing: Sting & Jamaican pop reggae fusion artist Shaggy. But they actually blend quite well, and here's some pretty groovy evidence: Just One Lifetime.
This year also saw various great reissues and songs from the vault type albums. The two releases I'd like to highlight here are the reissue of The Beatles' White Album (review) and Songs For Judy, an excellent Neil Young compilation of live solo performances from his November 1976 tour with Crazy Horse (review).
To me the true revelation of the Beatles' reissue are the so-called Esher Demos, early and unplugged versions of most of the original album tracks, along with a few additional songs that didn't make the White Album. They were all recorded at George Harrison's bungalow in Esher located to the southwest of London. Here's the Esher demo of Revolution.
The song I'd like to call out from Neil Young's recent vault release is The Needle And The Damage Done. It remains one of my favorite tunes from Harvest, Young's fourth studio album that came out in February 1972.
I also would like to acknowledge two Jimi Hendrix releases: The reissue of Electric Ladyland, the third and final studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Both Sides Of The Sky, the third in a trilogy of posthumous albums after Valleys Of Neptune (2010) and People, Hell and Angels (2013).
The last category of 2018 albums I'd like to touch on are live releases. I already noted Neil Young's record. Three others that deserve to be called out are Bruce Springsteen's Springsteen On Broadway (review), Sheryl Crow's Live At The Capitol Theatre (review) and Soulfire Live (review) by Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul. Springsteen On Broadway is one of the best new albums I've heard this year. While Bruce Springsteen as a great music performer wasn't any news to me, I had not fully appreciated his compelling verbal story-telling capabilities. There's a bit of that on the Live/1975-1985 box set where Springsteen talks about how he was drafted for Vietnam and that his dad was happy they didn't take him. Springsteen on Broadway takes his story-telling to another level. In fact, Springsteen's monologues that precede his songs are almost more compelling than the music performances. Here's part 1 of the introduction to My Hometown.
Next up: Sheryl Crow. If It Makes You Happy is one of my favorite Crow tunes from her eponymous second studio album released in September 1996. On the new live album, she starts off with another unidentified song I don't recognize, before launching into Happy.
On to Little Steven. Soulfire Live captures his 2017 tour with The Disciples of Soul in support of his excellent Soulfire album, one of my favorite new records from that year. Among the live album's highlights is a terrific cover of the Etta James tune Blues Is My Business. In addition to Steven demonstrating that he can be more than just a side-kick, The Disciples of Soul prove what a terrific backing band they are.
So what's in store for my music journey next year? On the concert front the only thing I can say for sure is I'm thrilled I got a ticket for The Rolling Stones on June 13 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. It will only be my second time to see the Stones. Three other artists who are currently on my radar screen are John Mellencamp, John Mayall and Paul McCartney.
Mellencamp has a series of gigs in New Jersey and New York at the end of February. I'd definitely enjoy seeing him again! Mayall has started booking dates in Europe for February and March. I've never been to one of his shows and hope he'll add a U.S. leg to the tour that includes at least one logistically feasible concert. As for McCartney, his current tour schedule shows U.S. gigs between late May and mid-June. Unfortunately, none of them are within reasonable reach, so hopefully there will be additional dates closer to my location.
To frequent visitors of the blog it won't come as a shock that I have every intention to continue seeing tribute bands. In fact, I already have a ticket for Neil Young tribute Decade for January 11 in Asbury Park, N.J., where they are going to recreate Young's MTV Unplugged concert from 1993 – should be pretty cool! On February 23, I'm hoping to see Good Stuff, a great new tribute to Steely Dan, Gino Vannelli, Sting and Stevie Wonder. I'm planning to do more about these guys in the near future. Assuming the above British Invasion and Rock The Farm festivals will happen again in 2019, I certainly want to return to both events. Undoubtedly, there will also be plenty of other tribute opportunities.
Before finally wrapping up this post, I also would like to take the opportunity to reflect on the current status of the blog. I'm generally pretty happy where things stand at this time. Sticking with it wasn't necessarily a given when I started out in late June 2016. While I've always emphasized I'm doing this because of my passion about the subject of music, not to become "famous," I cannot deny that getting recognition in the form of comments, likes and followers is encouraging. I'm happy traffic has multiplied from 2017 and to date includes visitors from more than 70 countries.
I'd like to thank all readers, especially those who keep returning and leave comments. Apart from learning new stuff about music, feedback can also help me gain new perspectives. Whether you're a fist-time visitor or one of the regulars, I'd like to wish you a great and peaceful Holiday season. And if you're a fellow music blogger, to borrow creatively from Neil Young, keep on rockin' in the blogosphere!
Sources: Wikipedia, Christian's Music Musings, YouTube
Author christiansmusicmusingsPosted on December 22, 2018 December 22, 2018 Categories Year In ReviewTags 2018 In Review, 44/876, Anthem Of The Peaceful Army, As Long As I Have You, Blues Is My Business, Both Sides Of The Sky, Bruce Springsteen, Buddy Guy, Cognac, Crazy Horse, Egypt Station, Electric Ladyland, Etta James, Garnet Mimms, George Harrison, Gerry Granaham, Gino Vannelli, Good Stuff, Greta Van Fleet, Harvest, I Don't Know, If It Makes You Happy, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, John Mellencamp, Just One Lifetime, Keith Richards, Led Zeppelin, Life At The Capitol Theatre, Little Steven, Live/1975-1985, Marion Smith, My Hometown, New, Other People's Stuff, Paul McCartney, People Hell And Angels, Revolution, Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey, Shaggy, Sheryl Crow, Songs For Judy, Soulfire Live!, Springsteen On Broadway, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Teardrops Will Fall, The Blues Is Alive And Well, The Cold Wind, The Disciples Of Soul, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Lonesome Jubilee, The Needle And The Damage Done, The White Album, The Who, Trouble No More, Valleys Of Neptune, Year In Review3 Comments on My Busy 2018 Music Journey Part 2: New Music & 2019 Preview
Neil Young Shines On New Live Album With Strong Solo Acoustic Performances
Archive release presents highlights from solo acoustic sets during Young's November '76 tour with Crazy Horse
Neil Young on Friday released Songs For Judy from his archives, a compelling collection of live recordings from the solo acoustic sets of his November 1976 tour with his longtime backing band Crazy Horse. It is based on recordings of the shows made at the time by photographer Joel Bernstein, who was accompanied by Rolling Stone writer Cameron Crowe.
After the tour, Bernstein and Crowe created the selection of 23 tracks. Initially, the mix was leaked and became available as a bootleg known as The Bernstein Tapes. While the material on the new release is almost identical to the bootleg, the quality of the sound has been improved.
"Joel and Cameron chose these songs and did a great job," Young said on his archives website, as reported by Rock Cellar Magazine. "The album is quite unique and I think the period was very well captured in the sound and performances. It was a moment in time, and it's easy to tell why it's called Songs For Judy."
Following are some clips. Here is No One Seems To Know. While according to Setlist.fm, Young first performed the song live in March 1976, the inclusion on Songs For Judy marks the first time it is being released on an album.
After The Gold Rush, the title track of Young's third studio album from September 1970, is one of my longtime favorites. It still gives me goosebumps when listening to it.
My next pick is Mr. Soul, a tune Young wrote during his time with Buffalo Springfield, which appeared on their second studio album Buffalo Springfield Again, released in November 1967. During the announcement of the song, he alludes to his then-recent 31st birthday.
A Man Needs A Maid is a song from Harvest, Young's fourth studio release from February 1972. While when announcing the tune Young says he has played it many times, he starts out by teasing another, then-unknown song, which would become one of his best known tunes: Like A Hurricane. Check it out!
Another gem from Harvest that beautifully shines on the new collection is The Needle And The Damage Done. The moving tune, which describes the destructive impact of heroin, was inspired by Young's grief over the related death of his friend and former Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten.
The last song I'd like to call out is the final track of this excellent collection: Sugar Mountain. Young composed the song on his 19th birthday (November 12, 1964) at a hotel in Fort William, a town in Ontario his band at the time The Squires had visited for a local gig. The first formal release of the tune was a live version that became the B-side to Young's debut solo single The Loner from February 1969.
I dig many of Neil Young's crunchy live rockers with Crazy Horse. But the more I listen to solo live performances like the ones on this collection, the more I come to the conclusion that he is oftentimes most powerful when playing all by himself.
Sources: Wikipedia, Setlist.fm, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Rock Cellar Magazine, YouTube
Author christiansmusicmusingsPosted on December 2, 2018 Categories New MusicTags A Man Needs A Maid, After The Gold Rush, Buffalo Springfield, Buffalo Springfield Again, Cameron Crowe, Country, Crazy Horse, Danny Whitten, Folk, Harvest, Joel Bernstein, Mr. Soul, Neil Young, No One Seems To Know, Songs For Judy, Sugar Mountain, The Bernstein Tapes, The Loner, The Needle And The Damage Done, The Squires9 Comments on Neil Young Shines On New Live Album With Strong Solo Acoustic Performances
Neil Young Triumphantly Returns To Boston
Solo set at Wang Theatre spans various decades
"One of my first solo shows was in the Wang Theater, then called the Music Hall," wrote Neil Young on his website in May, talking about his 2018 solo tour that officially ended last night with the second of two dates at the landmark venue in Boston's Theatre District. "It's a real beauty folks – a chapel of soul and music. I hope it still sounds as good as it did then and that I do too!" While I wasn't around when Young played Music Hall in January 1971, I saw him at Wang Theatre on Wednesday night, the first of his two concerts there, and he surely sounded amazing to me!
View of Wang Theatre auditorium from stage
Young was right. The venue is pretty impressive. Take a closer look at the above photo, and you can see the rich ornaments and decorative painting. In addition to its looks, he certainly also well remembered the Wang Theatre's acoustic, which was great.
While it must be about 40 years ago that Young entered my radar screen with Heart Of Gold, I had never been to one of his shows. When I read about his solo tour a few months ago and noticed it would bring him to Boston, it didn't take long for me to decide that seeing him was worth a five-hour drive from my house, especially given the tour only had six dates: Two in each Chicago and Boston, and one in each Detroit and St. Louis.
But before I further get to Young, I'd like to acknowledge William Prince, a folk and country singer-songwriter, who like Young hails from Canada. Punctually at 8:00 PM, he walked on stage with just an acoustic guitar and opened the night. Prince is a member of the Pegius First Nation from Manitoba.
In 2015, he released his debut album Earthly Days, for which he won a Western Canadian Music Award for Aboriginal Artist of the Year in 2016 and the 2017 the Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year. From that album, here's Breathless. The look and feel of the performance, which apparently was captured in December, is very similar to Wednesday night. I thought his voice and guitar-playing sounded really nice. Visit his website for more information.
And then it was time for Young. To get an idea what to expect, I checked the previous shows from the tour on setlist.fm. I noticed the sets were relatively constant and included a mix of well-known songs and other tunes that at least to me were deeper cuts. A friend of mine, who is a Neil Young connoisseur and the lead vocalist in an excellent Neil Young tribute band, thought it was a selection for longtime fans.
The stage setup looked a little like a music workshop. It featured areas with different instruments, including an array of acoustic guitars, a semi-hollow electric guitar, two grand pianos and two organs. Young also had multiple harmonicas on hand. During the show, he shared anecdotes about most of the instruments. For example, one of the grand pianos was from the 19th century, and the bottom had been burned during a fire. Young maintained this gave it a very unique sound, adding this tour was the first time he took it on the road. He also pointed to guitars that had once been owned by Stephen Stills and Hank Williams.
Time for some music. I tried capturing some of the songs, and while the audio came out okay, the quality of the video varies quite a bit. The latter was due to challenging lighting conditions and my seat up on the balcony in the back of the theater. There was also what looked like an illuminated stripe in the background above the stage. I'm wondering whether this may have been done on purpose to discourage taking videos, which officially was strictly forbidden.
While I get they don't want flash photography, I generally find these "no video rules" complete nonsense. Unless you walk in with a professional camera that enables you to record footage you could sell, what damage are you going to do with clips taken with a smartphone? On the contrary, in my opinion, taking and posting such clips on Facebook or elsewhere actually helps promote the artist. Okay, I'm stopping going off on a tangent now. The following is a combination of my own clips and footage from other recent solo gigs.
First up: Pocahontas, a song by Young that first appeared on the Rust Never Sleeps live album from July 1979. Initially, he recorded a version of the tune in the mid-70s for Chrome Dreams, a then-planned but unreleased album.
Ohio was the only Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young tune Wednesday night and one of two songs Young played on the electric guitar. Written by him in the wake of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970, the track was released by CSNY as a single in June that year. It was also included on the band's 4 Way Street live album from April 1971 and the studio compilation So Far, released in August 1974. The tune also appeared on Young's solo compilation albums Decade (Oct 1977) and Greatest Hits (Nov 2004).
A highlight of the show and perhaps my favorite moment of the night was After The Gold Rush. Young played the title track of his third studio album from September 1970 on a pipe organ. The church-like sound was just incredible. He slightly updated the lyrics by singing, Look at mother nature on the run in the 21st century/Look at mother nature on the run in the 21st century. The performance was incredibly powerful and gave me the goosebumps!
Among Young's more recent tunes was Love And War. He recorded the song for his 30th studio album Le Noise, which appeared in September 2010. This clip was captured at his June 28 show in St. Louis.
Young finished his regular set with two gems from Harvest, his fourth studio album released in February 1972: The Needle And The Damage Done and Heart Of Gold. Unfortunately, the following clip of Needle, shot in Chicago on July 1, is cut in the beginning but otherwise 10 times better than my attempt to film it.
Here's the mighty Heart Of Gold. Young may be getting old (though he sounded great!), but not the song.
Young came back for one encore: Tumbleweed, a tune from the deluxe edition of his 34th studio album Storytone from November 2014. He performed it with a ukulele. This clip is from the above St. Louis clip.
For now, Young's second gig in Boston last night marked the final show of his solo tour. In September, he is scheduled to perform back-to-back at Farm Aid (Hartfort, Conn., Sep 22) and, together with Promise Of The Real, at another Willie Nelson event (Saratoga, N.Y., Sep 23).
Sources: Wikipedia, Neil Young official website, William Prince official website, setlist.fm, YouTube
Author christiansmusicmusingsPosted on July 13, 2018 Categories ConcertsTags 4 Way Street, After The Gold Rush, Americana, Chrome Dreams, Country, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Decade, Folk, Greatest Hits, Harvest, Heart Of Gold, Le Noise, Love And War, Neil Young, Ohio, Pocahontas, Rock, Rust Never Sleeps, So Far, Solo 2018, Storytone, The Needle And The Damage Done, Tumbleweed, William Prince21 Comments on Neil Young Triumphantly Returns To Boston
1968: (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay by Otis Redding was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Co-written by Redding and Stax house band Booker T. & the M.G.'s guitarist Steve Cropper, the song had only been released as a single on January 8 that year, following Redding's untimely death in a plane crash on December 10, 1967 at the age of 26. The tune, which topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and climbed to no. 3 on the UK Singles Chart, became his biggest hit. As of December 13, 2017, it has reached 3x Multi-Platinum certification.
1970: The Beatles released Let It Be in the U.S., five days after the song had appeared in the UK, their last single prior to the announcement of their official breakup. Credited to John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the ballad was actually written by McCartney who also sang lead. Undoubtedly one of the best known Beatles songs to this day, Let It Be gave the band another no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at no. 2 in the UK.
1970: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released Déjà Vu, the first studio album by the quartet and second studio record by Crosby, Stills & Nash. The record, which became the band's most successful album, includes numerous gems like Carry On, Teach Your Children, Our House and the brilliant cover of Joni Mitchell's Woodstock. The aforementioned songs also appeared as singles, and each charted in the Billboard Hot 100, with Woodstock reaching the highest position at no. 11. The album topped the Billboard 200 in May 1970 and stayed in the charts for 97 weeks. RIAA certified the record Gold on March 25, 1970, only two weeks after its release. As of November 4, 1992, Harvest has reached 7x Multi-Platinum certification, numbers that are unheard of these days. Here's a clip of the mighty Woodstock.
1972: Neil Young's fourth studio album Harvest hit no. 1 on the Billboard 200, staying in that position for two weeks. The record featured various notable guest vocalists, including David Crosby, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Hills and James Taylor. The album includes some of Young's best known songs, such as Old Man, The Needle And The Damage Done and Heart Of Gold, his first and only no. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100. That tune also topped the charts in Young's native Canada, as did the record. Harvest was certified Gold by RIAA less than three weeks after its release and became the best selling album of 1972 in the U.S. As of June 27, 1994, the album has reached 4x Multi-Platinum status. Here's a clip of The Needle And The Damage Done.
1975: English Art rockers 10cc came out with their third studio album The Original Soundtrack. The record is best known for I'm Not In Love, which was also released separately as a single on May 23, 1975. Co-written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, the ballad is one of the band's most popular songs and enjoyed massive radio play. It became 10cc's second of three chart-topping singles in the UK, and their best performing U.S. single, peaking at no. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album's lead single Life Is A Minestrone climbed to no. 7 on the UK Singles Chart but did not chart in the U.S.
Sources: Wikipedia, This Day In Music, The Beatles Bible, RIAA.com, Billboard Chart History, YouTube
Author christiansmusicmusingsPosted on March 11, 2018 November 27, 2020 Categories On This Day in Rock & Roll HistoryTags (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay, 10cc, Carry On, Crosby Stills & Nash, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Deja Vu, Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Harvest, Heart Of Gold, I'm Not In Love, Joni Mitchell, Let It Be, Life Is A Minestrone, Neil Young, Old Man, Otis Redding, Our House, Paul McCartney, Rock & Roll History, Rock History, Teach Your Children, The Beatles, The Needle And The Damage Done, The Original Soundtrack, Woodstock3 Comments on On This Day In Rock & Roll History: March 11
On This Day In Rock History: February 18
1959: Ray Charles recorded What'd I Say at Atlantic Records in New York City. Written by Charles, the R&B classic evolved from an improvisation during a concert in December 1958. At the end of that show, Charles found himself with some time to fill and reportedly told his female backing vocalists The Raelettes, "Listen, I'm going to fool around and y'all just follow me." Fooling around paid off nicely. Following its release in July that year, the tune became Charles' first gold record. One of the challenges with the song was its original length of more than seven and a half minutes, far longer than the usual two-and-a-half-minute format for radio play. Recording engineer Tom Dowd came up with the idea to remove some parts and split up the song in two three-and-a-half-minute chunks: What'd I Say Part I and What'd I Say Part II. The division relied on a false ending after the orchestra had paused the music.
1965: Tired Of Waiting For You by The Kinks hit no. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. Written by Ray Davies, the tune was a single from the band's second studio LP Kinda Kinks, which appeared in March that year. Notably, The Kinks only had two other chart-topping singles in the UK during their long career: You Really Got Me (1964) and Sunny Afternoon (1966). According to Songfacts, Davies wrote the tune while studying at Hornsey School of Art in London. Since by the time The Kinks went into the studio he couldn't remember the lyrics, the band initially only recorded the backing track. Davies ended up writing the words on the train the following day while heading back to the studio.
1967: The Buckinghams topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with Kind Of A Drag, the Chicago sunshine pop band's only no. 1 hit. The tune was written by Jim Holway, who is also best known for this accomplishment. The band, which had formed the previous year, became one of the top-selling acts in 1967, according to Wikipedia. But their chart success was short-lived and they disbanded in 1970, which I suppose is, well, kind of a drag! On a more cheerful note, they re-emerged in 1980 and apparently remain active to this day. Here's a clip of the lovely tune.
1972: Neil Young's fourth studio album Harvest was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), only less than three weeks after its release on February 1. It features some of Young's best known songs, including Heart Of Gold, Old Man and The Needle And The Damage Done. James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash were among the impressive array of guest musicians. Harvest topped the Billboard 200 for two weeks and became the best-selling record of the year in the U.S. As of June 27, 1994, the album has 4x Multi-Platinum certification. Here's a clip of The Needle And The Damage Done.
Sources: Wikipedia, This Day in Music.com, Songfacts Music History Calendar, YouTube
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Clare Jackson is an Australian artist living and working in Canberra, Australia. She recently received a First Class Honours degree at the Australian National University School of Art where she majored in Printmedia and Drawing and minored in Bookbinding. She currently continues her printmaking practice at Megalo Print Studio and Gallery where she was awarded a residency last year and has recently started working with ceramics. She hopes to continue her research into memory and place as part of her residency in Tartu.
Intrinsic to my art practice is an interest in time, memory and the traces they leave on the surfaces around us. While there is continuity to these elements, they are also ever changing. Each unfolding moment in time is a unique experience that imparts itself on us, while simultaneously resisting any attempt to grasp it. Amorphous by nature, my work is fuelled by a desire to retain and hold them. Drawing and printmaking have become a means for me to capture these traces of time that are charged with memory and presence. I use delicate lines and ambiguous marks to draw objects and spaces from my surroundings and contain these moments in a surface.
Lost – cannot be recovered, taken away, wasted, unable to find one's way, confused.
My project will focus on what it means to be 'lost'. Whether it is the desire to hold on to moments of the past, the sensation of being unable to find one's way, or simply being lost for words. These experiences will be used as metaphors for what we potentially stand to lose of the places we occupy.
While considering the fragility of our surrounding environment as it increasingly shows the impact of our presence, I will use drawing and printmaking as a means to translate the spaces around me as I explore Tartu. In a sense, tethering my experiences to a surface in order to make them tangible.
My practice relies on the experience of unfamiliar places so my project will evolve as my understanding of place deepens. By looking at forgotten buildings, quiet corners and empty spaces as I explore Tartu, in conjunction with elements of landscape, I hope to highlight the importance of what once was and how it relates to what we have now. I will produce a body of prints, drawings and works on paper that together will form an elegy of my research into 'lost places' in Tartu and reflect my experiments with sustainable processes.
The development of this project will navigate explorations into personal and ecological sustainability; the idea that creative endeavours are a source of sustenance and the use of recycled and repurposed materials can enrich ones practice.
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Often we get the concept of mission work wrong. It is often mistaken that only the missionaries who go to other countries who are called to do missionary work. We are all missionaries, be it in showing Christ through our daily lives to those around us, or following a calling to become active in one or more particular areas of the community.
To see the various work that our Church is currently involved in, please have a look at the various projects. If something in particular strikes your interest and you want to know more or know how you can get further involved please don't hesitate to contact us.


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