Music used in this mashup:
Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
Black Sabbath – Children of the Grave
Van Halen – So This is Love
Tag: Music
What is the all time greatest driving song?
The_Fat_Man_Jams
Radar Love. Golden Earring.
Hershie23
Highway Star [Deep Purple]
whigger
For late night driving, Riders on the Storm by The Doors.
the_cat_fancier
Kickstart my heart by Motley Crue
Wrathofkala
Panama – Van Halen
dem0074
Born to be Wild. – Steppenwolf
latenightdrive_
move bitch, get out the way – Ludacris
ibided
The Passenger [Iggy Pop]. Even people who don’t know it will sing the chorus by the second time it comes around
RIP Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck anecdote from Duff McKagan’s book:
I arranged for a friend of mine, drummer Slam Thunderhide of the band Zodiac Mindwarp, to have my mom over to his flat for a proper English tea and then to bring her down to the studio where Jeff and I were recording. Jeff had already been playing for a little while when my mom arrived. He’s a virtuoso, and watching him play is like seeing musical butter melt.
After Jeff had played some blistering passes at one song, my mom said, “Jeff, you play really nice guitar.”
My mom was not aware of Jeff Beck’s iconic status—she didn’t know about the Yardbirds or his influential albums like Wired and Blow by Blow.
Unfazed, Jeff answered, “Oh, well, thank you so much, Marie. I thought I messed up that last pass pretty good. Did you like it, then?”
That guy will forever be my hero.
It’s So Easy: and other lies
Duff McKagan
Karaoke – Big Freedia feat. Lizzo
Freddie Ross Jr. (born January 28, 1978), better known by his stage name Big Freedia (/ˈfriːdə/ FREE-də), is an American rapper and performer known for his work in the New Orleans genre of hip hop called bounce music. Freedia has been credited with helping popularize the genre, which had been largely underground since developing in the early 1990s.
RIP – Terry Hall
Here’s a rembrance at BBC:
Terry Hall of The Specials dies aged 63
From Wikipedia:
“Ghost Town” is a song by the British two-tone band the Specials, released on 12 June 1981. The song spent three weeks at number one and 10 weeks in total in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart.
Evoking themes of urban decay, deindustrialisation, unemployment and violence in inner cities, the song is remembered for being a hit at the same time as riots were occurring in British cities. Internal tensions within the band were also coming to a head when the single was being recorded, resulting in the song being the last single recorded by the original seven members of the group before splitting up. However, the song was hailed by the contemporary UK music press as a major piece of popular social commentary, and all three of the major UK music magazines of the time awarded “Ghost Town” the accolade of “Single of the Year” for 1981. It was the 12th-best-selling single in the UK in 1981.
The Tumult of Freedom
The Tumult of Freedom@BBC #OnDrums #StewartCopeland #BBC pic.twitter.com/z1XgDs925A
— Stewart Copeland (@copelandmusic) December 19, 2022
Go Down Moses – Louis Armstrong Version, With Notes
The lyrics of the song represent liberation of the ancient Jewish people from Egyptian slavery, a story recounted in the Old Testament. For enslaved African Americans, the story was very powerful because they could relate to the experiences of Moses and the Israelites who were enslaved by the pharaoh, representing the enslavers, and it holds the hopeful message that God will help those who are persecuted. The song also makes references to the Jordan River, which was often referred to in spirituals that described finally reaching freedom because such an act of running away often involved crossing one or more rivers. Going “down” to Egypt is derived from the Bible; the Old Testament recognizes the Nile Valley as lower than Jerusalem and the Promised Land; thus, going to Egypt means going “down” while going away from Egypt is “up”. In the context of American slavery, this ancient sense of “down” converged with the concept of “down the river” (the Mississippi), where enslaved people’s conditions were notoriously worse, a situation which led to the idiom “sell [someone] down the river” in present-day English.
When You Tell David Crosby to Shut Up and Sing
Sweet Child O’ Mine – New Orleans Style Guns N’ Roses Cover ft. Miche Braden
RIP Dan McCafferty
William Daniel McCafferty (14 October 1946 – 8 November 2022) was a vocalist and songwriter best known as the lead singer for the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth from its founding in 1968 to his retirement from touring with the band in 2013.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_McCafferty
https://www.guitarworld.com/news/nazareth-singer-dan-mccafferty-dies-aged-76