What Song Is Your Current Soundtrack?

[Karearea]

Salt Lake Seagull ~ Chris Shards [4:03]

(used as backing track for this video)



After Dark ~ Richard Elliot [4:23]

[OneHungLow]

Salt Lake Seagull.

[OneHungLow]

Going through a bit of The Cars reincarnation at the moment.



It seems like yesterday I was watching the guys playing at the Live Aid concert. Tempus fugit far too fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cars

[Karearea]

Wavelength ~ Van Morrison [5:47]



Tape ~ Canigou [5:36]



Hotel California (Spanish Mix) ~ Gipsy Kings [5:49]

[OneHungLow]

Three impeccable choices, as always, Karearea, the Hideki Inaba being a revelation to this listener.

Some more of the Swedish duo Canigou can be found here.

https://soundcloud.com/canigoumusic

I really like their Empty Home track.

[Karearea]

Something About You ~ Bad Company [4:19]



Freebird Child - Tammy Van Zant [5:36]

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

If your foot isn't tapping by the end of the first bar, you're dead.

[Karearea]

Deep Blue ~ Richard Elliot [5:00]

[Karearea]

Anchor Me - The Mutton Birds [4:40]

[Karearea]

Take My Breath Away ~ Berlin [4:14]



Clair de lune ~ The Philadelphia Orchestra [2:01]

[OneHungLow]

[OneHungLow]

Freebird Child - Tammy Van Zant [5:36]

Sad tale reference Ronnie Van Zant et al but Van Zant's daughter has done him proud.

On October 20, 1977, a plane carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ran out of fuel outside Gillsburg, Mississippi. The passengers had been informed about potential problems with the Convair CV-240 and were told to brace for a crash. Van Zant died on impact from head injuries suffered after the aircraft struck a tree. Bandmates Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines, along with assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray, were also killed. The rest of the band were seriously injured. Van Zant was 29 years old.

According to former bandmate Artimus Pyle and family members, Van Zant frequently discussed his mortality. Pyle recalls a moment when Lynyrd Skynyrd was in Japan: "Ronnie and I were in Tokyo, Japan, and Ronnie told me that he would never live to see thirty and that he would go out with his boots on, in other words, on the road. I said, 'Ronnie, don't talk like that,' but the man knew his destiny." Van Zant's father, Lacy, said, "He said to me many times, 'Daddy, I'll never be 30 years old.' I said, 'Why are you talking this junk? You will never be 30 years old?' and he said, 'Daddy, that's my limit.'" Van Zant's father later noted that, "God was a jealous god. Taking him for reasons I don't know."Ex-bandmate Ed King also reported hearing Van Zant saying he would never live to be 30 years old, saying Van Zant said it so often that he "had gotten sick of hearing it". Lynyrd Skynyrd backup singer JoJo Billingsley recalled that Van Zant had begun referring to himself as "The Mississippi Kid" in the months before his death despite being born and raised in Florida. She noted that, eerily, Van Zant's only connection to Mississippi was the fact that he would ultimately die there.

- Wiki

Truly another day when the music died.

Lynard Skynard Plane Crash

The Townes Van Zandt (not a relative) song seems appropriate...

[PHXPhlyer]

The Beatles will release a new and 'final record' this year, Paul McCartney says — with a little help from AI
"All that is kind of scary but also exciting because it’s the future," Paul McCartney said of the way artificial intelligence is changing music.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/beat ... -rcna88998

It's the news fans of the Fab Four thought they would never see: The Beatles will release a new song this year featuring vocals from John Lennon, with a little help from artificial intelligence, Paul McCartney said Tuesday.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4, the 80-year-old McCartney confirmed that the band — whose cultural influence may have been unmatched in the 20th century — will release "the final Beatles record" this year, having used cutting-edge technology to extract Lennon's voice from an old demo recording.

"We just finished it up and it’ll be released this year," he said.

The so-far unnamed song will be the band's first original material since the release of "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" in 1995 and 1996, both of which were painstakingly constructed around crackly demos recorded at home in New York City by Lennon in the late 1970s.

Ringo Starr and George Harrison collaborated with McCartney and producer Jeff Lynne on both songs, with Lennon's voice reduced to a whispery echo due to the deterioration of the tape and the low quality of the recording, which was never intended to be released.

Both songs appeared on the band’s career-spanning "Anthology" compilations and were considered to be the final original material from a band that — with an estimated 600 million album sales — is thought to be the bestselling musical act of all time.

But now, movie director Peter Jackson has used cutting-edge tools to restore the aging audio track and make what could be a much-improved sound.

He pioneered audio-visual AI technology to turn faded, distorted film footage into the epic eight-hour “Get Back” TV series following the making of the “Let It Be” album and the band’s legendary final performance on the top of Apple Corps headquarters in London’s West End in January 1969.

AI is one of the most controversial topics in the music industry. AI tools have been used to re-create or expand on the work of many bands, including the Beatles, and a song featuring the digitally created voices of The Weeknd and Drake was taken off streaming services in April.

"All that is kind of scary but also exciting because it's the future," McCartney said of the way AI is changing music.

"And [Jackson] he was able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little cassette that had John's voice and a piano. He could separate them with AI — he could tell the machine, 'That's the voice, that's the guitar, lose the guitar.' And he did that, so it has great uses.

"So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles record, it was a demo John had, that we worked on and just finished it up. It'll be released this year. We were able to take John's voice and get it pure through this AI so then we could mix the record as you would normally do."

While the song name has yet to be confirmed, the band's many obsessive fans expect it to be "Now and Then," a Lennon composition made around the same time as his "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" demos and likely to have been on a cassette Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, sent McCartney in 1994.

McCartney has said that Harrison disliked "Now and Then," so it wasn't included in the "Anthology" project despite being considered. Fans have claimed it has since appeared on bootleg CDs, although this has not been confirmed.

"The song had a chorus but is almost totally lacking in verses. We did the backing track, a rough go that we really didn’t finish," McCartney told Q, a British rock magazine, in 2006.

"It didn’t have a very good title, it needed a bit of reworking, but it had a beautiful verse and it had John singing it," he said. "[But] George didn’t like it. The Beatles being a democracy, we didn’t do it."

It is unclear whether the song will feature any contribution from Harrison, who died in 2001 but may have worked on the song before it was abandoned in 1995.

The song has preyed on McCartney's mind. He told a BBC documentary on Jeff Lynne in 2012: "That one's still lingering around. So I'm going to nick in with Jeff and do it. Finish it, one of these days."

Jackson's pioneering technology allowed McCartney to "duet" with Lennon live at Glastonbury music festival in June 2022, singing along to an isolated vocal track from 1969.


McCartney remains busy in his ninth decade and is promoting an exhibition of candid photographs of the Beatles in their 1963-64 heyday, currently on show at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

The photos were considered lost or stolen but were recently rediscovered.

PP

[Karearea]

...Truly another day when the music died. ...
The Townes Van Zandt (not a relative) song seems appropriate...

Ya, I read about it when researching before posting. Dreadful thing to happen.

Unfortunately, "This video is not available".
However I can glimpse briefly that it's Flyin' Shoes - maybe this will work:

[admin2]

Karearea - which search engine do you have installed?

[Karearea]

Karearea - which search engine do you have installed?

One googles - why d'you ask?

[admin2]

'Cos you said

Unfortunately, "This video is not available".

I took it that applied to you? I know DDG are blocking YouTube videos for some obscure reason, so I asked. There is away to 'unblock' the block' site by site if anyone needs it.

[Karearea]

'Cos you said

Unfortunately, "This video is not available".

I took it that applied to you? ...

It applied to me, which is why I made the observation.

Thank you for the information.

[admin2]

Could you elaborate on how it was 'blocked' for you? What was the message?

(PS What was happening daily at '8:41'? )