Showing posts with label musicians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label musicians. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Music: Woodstock Live Performances


Hey!!
This post is dedicated to the music of Woodstock and some great quotes and philosophical ideas about music.  I hope you enjoy these amazing live performances from Woodstock 1969 by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane, Santana and The Who!

Enjoy, I'll be back later today and the rest of the week with more Woodstock themed posts so stay tuned!




Jimi Hendrix - Outro Jam (end of set)
Live at Woodstock 1969

Jimi Hendrix - "Star Spangled Banner"
This is a classic live performance of Jimi's version of the star spangled banner at Woodstock 1969!


Jefferson Airplane - "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit"
Live at Woodstock 1969

These live performances by Creedence Clearwater Revival are AWESOME!  I wish I had been there!

Creedence Clearwater Revival - "I Put A Spell On You"
Live at Woodstock 1969

Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Born on the Bayou"


Santana
(live performances at Woodstock and an interview about Woodstock)


Janis Joplin - "Try"
Live at Woodstock 1969




Sheet of music embellished to make art, so cute!

The Who - "My Generation"
Live at Woodstock 1969
(All images in this post are sourced via Pinterest and all videos sourced via YouTube.)

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Woodstock 42nd Anniversary!



Hey there!

Guess what this week is?? The 42nd anniversary of Woodstock! Yep its been 42 years since those three days of love, peace and music that turned out to be a whole lot more than just love, peace and music! Haha... Over 500,000 people flooded Bethel, New York in 1969 to attend the Woodstock Music and Art Fair to see many artists perform such as Janis Joplin (love her!), The Who (whoooo are you, who who!?), Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival (run through the jungle! they're amazing), Joan Baez, Santana, Grateful Dead, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Jefferson Airplane and of course Jimi Hendrix, my all time favorite artist next to the Beatles. I love that man, his music rocks my world just like the first time - every time!

I am one of those old souls who loves classic rock and is quite bothered that I was not alive to attend Woodstock! Hehehehehe... I know, I know, it was days of ill-planned, grungy hippy madness but hey, I'm a hippy and although I'm anything but grungy, I would have gladly put up with all the chaos to hear Janis Joplin, Creedence and especially Jimi's spectacular performance at dawn on August 18, 1969, the last day of the festival. It would have been the sweetest music to my groggy ears - you know, whilst waking up all sticky and unbathed on a damp/grassy/muddy field. Haha, it would have been worth it, I know it.  *Sigh* If only I had a time machine! But since that's not the case I settled for buying his live performance on DVD, you can see it below in the special Woodstock Amazon product widget I created at the end of this post in case you're interested in getting your own.  It's a real shame that by the time Jimi Hendrix went on stage (which was supposed to be the previous night) many of the people at Woodstock had already left. Their loss huh? 

Anyway, in honor of Woodstock I'm going to be doing a lot of hippie and music themed posts this week, so get ready! In the meantime enjoy these images and a video of Jimi Hendrix's live performance of Voodoo Child at Woodstock. Genius of a man! ;)






Janis Joplin


John Fogerty - lead singer of Creedence Clearwater Revival

The Who

Jefferson Airplane


Do I even need to label this musical god?  Jimi Hendrix :)


Check out these Woodstock videos, music and products....

(All images sourced via Google images, video sourced from YouTube.)

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

John Lennon: Gone But Not Forgotten


 Hello everyone...
In case you didn't know, today marks the 30th year since John Lennon's death.... since he was tragically and needlessly taken from us that is.  I'd like to take a moment to remember him for his incredible talent and for the tremendous love and compassion he had for humanity.  I can only imagine (no pun intended) that the world would be a better place with him in it, luckily we still have his music to remember him and his powerful messages by.  I love that Lennon and The Beatles sang about such timeless issues, it enables generations like mine to connect with the lyrics and the message regardless of how long the songs have been around.  Apart from The Beatles, John Lennon was an incredible artist, musician and father, may he always be remembered.

John, your spirit lives on forever! 



Words to live by....

Imagine 
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
  -John Lennon


art by Richard Avedon




 (All images via a Google image search and Last.FM)

Friday, August 13, 2010

The Beatles: Lyrical Art and Graffiti

The Beatles by Richard Avedon

Hello all, I know I've been missing in action this week and I'm sorry! To be honest I just haven't had the juice for it... you know, I've been wrapped up in life. Does that ever happen to you? I'm positive the answer must be yes because I firmly believe all human beings are the same deep down. With the world we live in today it's easy to get overwhelmed and carried away, there's a barrage of digital information at our fingertips, thousands of channels and crazy things happening in the world every day. Also, there's that thing called WORK! Yeah, work can drain me mentally and take away my desire to blog, grrr.

Anyway, today is Thursday and I am back! Hooray it's Thursday and tomorrow is Friday wheeeee! So, what have I been up to while wrapped up in life's little treasures? That's a question I will answer in my next post. For now I hope you will all enjoy this post on various images I have collected from the web, the common theme being the amazing and wonderful group The Beatles. I love their music and all of the art and other forms of self expression it inspires, it's truly indicative of the everlasting impact The Beatles have had on societies throughout the world!

Since this post is all about them, I started things off with my favorite piece of The Beatles art, the psychedelic portrait titled in their name by Richard Avedon (above). What's not to love about all of those funky poses and psychedelic colors?? Besides, you know I love this art because I have it in my art den at home! Take a look:


What's that I hear? You love The Beatles too and want this art in your home!? You could print them out like I did and [impatiently] frame them (they don't look too polished up close!), or you can go bigger and better (and probably really expensive and do this (as seen in my brief post last Monday):


Either way it will look good, I was just too impatient and I wanted my own Richard Avedon trippy Beatles art too much to wait! Hey, it suits me just fine for now, but perhaps one day I will get a bigger version!

Anyway, as you will see, the following images are a montage photography, graffiti and artwork which in some way represent The Beatles and their music, "All you need is love" seems to be the most popular lyric used, but I really love this first one... I couldn't agree with The Beatles more, you got to be free!

By the way, if you enjoy this post, which I hope you do, you may also be interested in checking out one of my past posts on Psychedelic Rock Concert Posters!

xoxo




This is the actual sign and gate for Strawberry Field in Liverpool, England....


...covered in graffiti from all of the Beatles lovers around the world :)....


I really like this one....

".....but I'm not the only one... I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will be as one!"










I really love this lyric.... couldn't be more true!
"The love you take is equal to the love you make"











I wanna live in a Yellow Submarine, a Yellow Submarine.... I'm lovin' this art and the metal heart peace sign too...


This funky piece is a paper cutout art by Pinky Vision....



These pieces below are by an artist named Chepita and I found them on Flickr.......




And last, you might remember these images which I have featured in past posts....

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((All images via Google image search, WeHeartIt, Vi.sualize.us and Flickr)