A TRIP TO WOODSTOCK

That was my first time in the US! No, not only in the US, in New York City! @.@ and I was so excited, could have never believed I would have visited it in my life! But I did it! Oh yesssssss! It was like being in a movie, I felt I already knew the city, although I did not, actually.

Since I was in New York City, I told myself I had to realize another dream: visit Woodstock, the place where all has begun! The place of the greatest rock and roll concert  EVER! So I caught the bus with a friend (both of us forgot our driving license at home) and when we arrived, the smiley small town of Woodstock was welcoming us, under a cloudy sky. Green mountains all around.

I could smell something of the hippy atmosphere of the 60s, or maybe it was just my imagination… or the small shop where the owner had just lit a marijuana scented incense… or the pink haired shop assistant…

I did know that the concert took actually place miles and miles far away from the town centre, in Bethel, still…I was so excited ingénue that I tried to reach this Woodstock Museum I had found in my map, and got lost… and I’m still thanking the good man who gave us a ride back to NYC ><!

Anyhow, I could imagine Bob Dylan spending his holiday here in the past, the advert this couple of guys (John P. Roberts and Joel Rosenman) published to look for some ideas and give birth to a great project.

"YOUNG MEN WITH UNILIMITEDCAPITAL LOOKING FOR INTERESTING, LEGITIMATE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND BUSINESS PROPOSITIONS”

And they didn’t even want to hold a concert at first! But here we are, still celebrating this event.

The end of the American dream of peace&love, the apotheosis of music day and night, the protest against the Vietnam war carried on my Country Joe McDonald, the show of a still unknown Carlos Santana, TheWho, Joan Baez, JanisJoplin and the guitar king Jimi Hendrix. @.@

        

I wish I was there even if the sound was so bad that you couldn’t hear almost nothing, I guess.

Can just imagine this all through Woodstock by Michael Wadleigh, first music film to win an Academy Awards back in 1971. Really fantastic, as it shows the (dis)organisation behind the stage, the rain and the mud, the free spirit of the young people sitting on the grass, and main protagonist: Music.

Yes, the one with the capital M.

Peace & Love

HOW TO ROCK A CELLO

There’s probably nothing completely new on the horizon, as everyone’s already used to electric strings. Still, these tow Croatian-Slovenian guys, 2Cellos, do know how to make a good rock sound with a classical instrument.

Yes! Discover after uploading a video to Youtube with their personal rearrangement of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal (it’s featured also in Glee), they published their first album about one year ago. There they play some classical pop-rock hits, like U2’s With Or Without You or Colplay’s Viva LaVida. Not only! They even made a cover of Muse’s Resistance and a really really outstanding version of Smells Like Teen Spirit. 

To my great surprise I was immediately captured, as I had always thought that the only one who could make justice to Nirvana’s masterpiece was my personal goddess Patti Smith!

Well, I was wrong.

No Led Zeppelin songs in the album, but I don’t miss them, as Escala and my beloved Bond already made their covers of Kashmir. Instead, we have Guns’n’Roses, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Pulp Fiction.

This energetic duo deserves at list one listen, I think.  Sometimes I even find myself thinking they’re playing guitars instead of cellos. And somehow they remind me of  the electric violinist Linzi Stoppard. God, she’s gorgeous!

2cellos’ new work, In2ition, is going to be released in January 2013. Hope it’ll be as rock as their debut album. But the first solo track seems to fulfill my expectations.

TRIVIAL #1

Come on baby, light my fire!

[Nara Yoshitomo, Light My Fire , 2001 (image taken from Krist Chamber, Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, 2004]

I could dedicate it to Mr. Homme my friend Josh (yes, in my dreams we are friends!). I almost fainted when I first listened to his new song Nobody to love, produced with Dave Sardy. It features in the credit songs of David Ayer’s latest film, End Of Watch (2012) and… it is a good reason to listen to them ‘till the end. Indeed.

Probably the piano intro is not as QOTSA as one could expect from Josh Homme, but then, when it comes to guitar riffs, robot-rock (or whatever music critics call that), Josh’s talent is unmistakable. And, by the way, his charismatic voice, his bemoaning in Nobody to love (as well as in other songs) actually makes my hormones reach higher levels than the stars…

Just wondering, if you really have nobody to love, can’t you love me?

We can’t talk a little bit about it, dear. I do know you’ll be willing to.

In the meantime, let’s wait for QOTSA new album. It seems they’re about to finish it…

I happened to see this on the NME facebook some time ago… so coooooool!!!

Who’s missing?