Category: music

Nashville – Season 1

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The series stars Connie Britton as Rayna Jaymes, a legendary country music superstar whose stardom is beginning to fade, and Hayden Panettiere as rising star Juliette Barnes. …

Click PLAY or watch a trailer on YouTube.

I hate football, yet loved Friday Night Lights, partly because of Connie Britton.

I dislike both Country and Western music. Would Connie Britton convince me to like Nashville?

Season 1 got a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. People love it. 

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For me it’s OK. Not nearly as good as Friday Night Lights. Too much soap opera. I doubt I’ll go on to season 2.

ABC cancelled the series after 4 seasons. Fans are still trying to #BringBackNashville.

BEAUTIFUL – Selaron Steps, Rio

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One of my favourite Rio tourist attractions. Unique. Quirky. And very Rio. 🙂

Escadaria Selarón, also known as the ‘Selaron Steps’, is a set of world-famous steps in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They are the work of Chilean-born artist Jorge Selarón who claimed it as “my tribute to the Brazilian people”.

In 1990, Selarón began renovating dilapidated steps that ran along the front of his house. At first, neighbours mocked him for his choice of colours as he covered the steps in fragments of blue, green and yellow tiles – the colours of the Brazilian flag. It started out as a side-project to his main passion, painting, but soon became an obsession. …

There are 250 steps measuring 125 metres long which are covered in over 2000 tiles collected from over 60 countries …

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You’ve seen the steps if you’ve seen this video – Beautiful with Snoop and Pharrell.

(The artist) Jorge Selarón was found dead on the Escadaria Selarón near his home on January 10, 2013, at the age of 65. Police did not rule out homicide, saying he had received death threats. Later in 2013, police has said the main line of investigation was suicide, considering allegations from friends that he was depressive.

every Country Song is the same

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Here’s the evidence. It’s a formula. 😦

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (2014)

“Sure Be Cool If You Did”- Blake Shelton
“Drunk on You”- Luke Bryan
“Chillin’ It”- Cole Swindell
“Close Your Eyes”- Parmalee
“This is How We Roll”- Florida Georgia Line
“Ready, Set, Roll”- Chase Rice

Straight Outta Compton

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In 2014, Dr. Dre was ranked as the second richest figure in the American hip hop scene by Forbes with a net worth of $550 million; he is at the top of the 2015 Forbes list, with an estimated pre-tax take of $620 million in 2014. …

I first learned of Dre when confiscating N.W.A. cassette tapes from teenage boy gymnasts in the late 1980s.

I then listened to albums like Straight Outta Compton and learned to enjoy rap music. 🙂 I still feel N.W.A. is as good as any rap band all time. 

“Fu©k tha Police“ was their most controversial song. I have much more appreciation for that sentiment from the African American community now than I did at the time.

Straight Outta Compton is a 2015 American biographical drama film. …

Among the film’s producers are Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E ’​s widow, Tomica Woods-Wright …

N.W.A goes on a national tour in 1989. The FBI demands that they stop performing “Fuck tha Police,” declaring that it encourages violence against law enforcement, but they refuse, and the police raid their Detroit concert, resulting in riots and the group being arrested. Interviewed by the press, the group maintains that they did not start the riot, that their music was a reflection of their reality and that the first amendment protected their free expression. …

Here’s the Rodney King video, in case you’ve forgotten the story. Police brutality. The police unpunished.

Click PLAY or watch the Straight Outta Compton trailer on YouTube.

 

 

can Prince play guitar?

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🙂

How would you like to have to fill Eric Clapton’s shoes on a much-loved classic rock track?

The thought alone would probably intimidate most of us. But if your name happens to be Prince …

Prince Covers for Clapton on All-Star Performance of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” in 2004

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks Ron.