Nine Inch Nails - 2013 Tours - Full Set Videos

Saw the Tension 2013 tour in Portland a few nights after the L. A. show, at the bottom here, was filmed.  I know some people thought Trent was getting a little too mellow and sedate, trying to hide behind the light show, but I loved it.  First time I've ever seen Nine Inch Nails live.

I actually was meh on Trent for a long time (like 20 years) and only recently got back into NIN.  The full concert video from Lollapalooza was responsible for that.

We were sitting pretty high and to the left of the stage for the Portland show, so while the lights were pretty cool, we missed some of the full effects, so I am happy to see that there is a well shot, pro video of the show so I can see what we missed.

Full Set at 2013 Fuji Rocks Festival:

Full Set at Lollapalooza 2013:

Full Set from Tension 2013 Tour in L.A. on November 8, 2013:

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Lou Reed: Magic and Loss Live (We'll miss you, Lou)

Saw this tour. Great album, great show. Played the entire Magic and Loss album. Took a break. Came out and played an hour of old material, including a bunch of old Velvet's stuff...

A couple words before the music…

Outsider Whose Dark, Lyrical Vision Helped Shape Rock ’n’ Roll - NYTimes.com:

"Mr. Reed brought dark themes and a mercurial, sometimes aggressive disposition to rock music. ‘I’ve always believed that there’s an amazing number of things you can do through a rock ‘n’ roll song,’ he once told the journalist Kristine McKenna, ‘and that you can do serious writing in a rock song if you can somehow do it without losing the beat. The things I’ve written about wouldn’t be considered a big deal if they appeared in a book or movie.’

“He played the sport of alienating listeners, defending the right to contradict himself in hostile interviews, to contradict his transgressive image by idealizing sweet or old-fashioned values in word or sound, or to present intuition as blunt logic. But his early work assured him a permanent audience.
…

“The composer Brian Eno, in an often-quoted interview from 1982, suggested that if the group’s first album, ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico,’ sold only 30,000 copies during its first five years — a figure probably lower than the reality — ‘everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band.’”

I discovered Lou a little late, when the New York album came out.  I saw the review in the back of Rolling Stone, more stars on it than I’d ever seen, and decided to pick it up.  That shortly led to me discovering the Velvet Underground and, I suppose, I am one of those who heard the first Velvet’s record and started a band.  Not sure if one event caused the other, but I sure got the order correct.

The full Magic and Loss set live as a playlist...


Individual songs...
































   

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Ha Ha Tonka & Samantha Crain @ Doug Fir

Didn’t get much in the way of pictures at this show, wasn’t in the mood to mess with the camera. 

In short…  Ha Ha Tonka killed it, though there was only 20 to 30 or so people there.  Samantha Crain opened, was really good, and talked about how she lived in Portland for a while. 

When she mentioned this, she expected some cheers and was met with crickets, which surprised her.  Surprised me, too, really.  I think my reaction, though, was that she looked and sounded a lot like a Portlander so it really wasn’t that suprising.  My reaction was more along the lines of, “Ok, then.  I can see that.”

Good though.  Great show.  Wish more people saw it.  Here’s some videos of these folks, though not from last night. 

 

 

 

http://www.hahatonkamusic.com

Lessons (New Album):

Amazon - http://amzn.to/1fyrRPH
iTunes (w/ bonus track) - http://bit.ly/17F6zvj

http://www.facebook.com/hahatonka

http://www.last.fm/music/Ha+Ha+Tonka

http://www.samanthacrain.com/

http://www.facebook.com/Samanthacrainmusic

Seattle before Nevermind...

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50 Electronic Albums You Should Own, 1963-2013 – Flavorwire

50 Electronic Albums You Should Own, 1963-2013 – Flavorwire: 'via Blog this'

Olafur Arnalds - This Place Was A Shelter: My video for Genero.tv

My last project…

 

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"St. Nick on the Fourth in a Fervor" & "Caney Mountain" by Ha Ha Tonka

 Let’s get one thing straight from the get-go
This glimpse of brilliance is much better than a long look at mediocrity
…

I own all of my ideas
I stole just one or two
…

I owe all of my ideas
To the ones I stole from you

Pretty much my theme song right now for those lyrics up there above the clip.   This has been stuck in the van’s CD player for awhile.  I keep thinking it’s time to switch it out, and then this song, or another one or two on the album, will come on and I decide to let it play through one more time.

"Caney Mountain" is a good song too, but I really love this video…  Saw this after initially posting this, and I had to throw it in too!

Can he climb old Caney Mountain?
Can he outrun this Crusading mob of men
who aim to kill him with the Crucifix theyd fished out of Hodgsons Mill.
They drug her cold, blue body from its depths.
That old relic served to drown her as a millstone round her neck.

Can he clear that western wall which looms large out the Ozarks side?
Calls of men and dogs are closer as is the end of his life.
Could he ever find forgiveness from those gospels he came to preach.
held her down as he baptized her so that heaven she might reach.

High shined sequined buckle in that Bible belt
High shined sequined buckle in the middle of that Bible belt

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/caney_mountain_lyrics_ha_ha_tonka.html
All about Ha Ha+Tonka: http://www.musictory.com/music/Ha+Ha+Tonka

 

       

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MAX Software (& Artist Interviews)

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 about | Sideband:

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VIDEO: Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) – Princeton Engineering:

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PLOrk: Princeton Laptop Orchestra – Free listening, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last.fm:

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) is a newly established ensemble of computer-based musical meta-instruments. Each instrument consists of a laptop, a multi-channel hemispherical speaker, and a variety of control devices (keyboards, graphics tablets, sensors, etc…). The students who make up the ensemble act as performers, researchers, composers, and software developers. The challenges are many: what kinds of sounds can we create? how can we physically control these sounds? how do we compose with these sounds? There are also social questions with musical and technical ramifications: how do we organize a dozen players in this context? with a conductor? via a wireless network?

"The Telephone Game: Oil/Water/Ether," PLOrk: Princeton Laptop Orchestra:

"The Telephone Game: Oil/Water/Ether," for the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), is an exploration of a real-time collaborative composition local network. All the performers have identical performance/composition programs -- a custom flexible step-sequencer -- that invite play with rhythmic cycles of various lengths and timbres. The real fun starts, however, when the players begin spying on their neighbors, secretly, via the network, and stealing their ideas with the click of the mouse. Unplanned structures begin to emerge, like oil on water, as riffs propagate and evolve, sometimes returning unrecognizable to their creators.

Telephone Game, version 1:

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PLOrk : The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (Official Site)

Wheelharp

Wheelharp from Antiquity Music on Vimeo.

 

The Wheelharp | Antiquity Music:

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Farewell, Snip.it (& thanks!)

So, Snip.it was bought by Yahoo and is being shut down. They've put together a "Hall of Fame" of contributors and I was named as one of the top contributors in the "Politics & World" category...

From an email I received from their Content Director:

I want to personally thank you for all your amazing contributions to the product, both in your snips and in your feedback to us. I’ve been continually impressed by all the interesting, unique content you’ve unearthed, as well as your thoughtful commentary on it. The quality of your contributions made the site an absolute joy to browse. 

To honor all of your support and contributions, we’ve included you in our Snip.it Hall of Fame, a place to celebrate our top snippers. We’ve included your Twitter handle, so people can continue to follow your insights.

https://snip.it/awards

We've also created a Snip.it Hall of Fame, where we’re honoring some of the top contributors to the Snip.it community. We’ve included their Twitter handles so you can continue to stay connected and follow their insights.

I joined Snip.it while it was still in beta and have posted to it more days than not since then.  They’ve been cool, it’s a great service, and their staff has been very supportive.  From nearly the beginning, they featured my content, which I was pretty proud of, and I seem to have attracted quite a few followers there.

Supposedly, they will be reinventing themselves with Yahoo.  I hope so.  They were a great service.

https://snip.it/

We are thrilled at the opportunity to bring Snip.it's vision to a larger scale at Yahoo!. While we can't share the specifics of what we'll be building, we are excited about the opportunity to take social news to new, exciting heights at Yahoo!. The Yahoo! team is passionate about inspiring and entertaining the world’s daily habits, and certainly sharing news and information is something we all do every day. The vision and energy at the company is contagious, and we’re so excited to be part of all that is to come.

So now, I just need to figure out what to do with the links I’ve saved there.  There are a couple ways to download them for future use, and I’ll be taking a look at how to get these back out there, when I have a little time…

I just deleted the Snip It button from my browser.  That makes me sad. 

Unfortunately, in life, with both the good and the bad, “This, too, shall pass…”

My Collections: HTML Links

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Yahoo is paying “mid teens” of millions of dollars for the company, according to a source.

…

Kara Swisher yesterday described Yahoo’s new approach to content:

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Talenthouse: My Soundgarden 2013 Short List

Murder By Death. Dante's. Portland, Oregon. August 11, 2012.

Band photography is something I've always wanted to get into a bit more, but haven't for various reasons over the years.

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, working with film, the lighting issues were just too annoying to deal with. However, these days, digital cameras are just much more light sensitive, and then there is the ability to vary ISO per shot, not per role, so that helps a lot. Also, being able to review the shots on the spot is tremendously helpful in these situations, because I can keep firing away until I know I've captured what I've been aiming for.

This last year, when I started taking cameras around with me pretty much everywhere, it was only natural to start taking some shots at shows, and I have been happy with the results.

I really like playing with the stage lighting, good performers do interesting things, and I can get some of the good, blurry but nice weird effects that I like, giving me a lot to play with in editing.

This last year, time and budget kept me from making it to many shows. Hopefully 2013 will give me plenty of new opportunities to continue developing my technique with live band photography and to build up a more solid portfolio in this area.

Photograph Soundgarden:

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