Category: Music

The Saturday Night Music Express Presents: Jimi Hendrix

I have made it no secret on this blog and my old one; that I am, in fact, a die-hard Jimi Hendrix fan. A good part of who and what I am today is because of this man’s music. The biggest thing that I learned from Hendrix and his music was to never accept what is told to you. Always question everything; and believe you me, I do. 🙂

Are you shocked? 😉 😯

This is from 1970. This Jimi live at the Isle of Wight Concert. This is the Movie Presentation of “Wild Blue Angel”.

Please note: If you have a nice sound system or headphones. This would be a good time to put it or them, on and turn it up. 😀

Jimi Hendrix, more than anything else — was the sound of 1960’s America. He set the bar and everyone else tried like heck to sound, look and play like him.

Enjoy the music and enjoy your weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxfkJuD8RtE

Say what? — Mike Tyson: ‘I want to sing and dance in musicals’

I do believe I have heard it all.

Former heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson says he wants to “dance and sing” in musicals as his next challenge.

“I want to dance and sing. I want to do some dancing and singing musicals,” Tyson saids during a visit to Hong Kong when asked what he wanted to do with his life next.

The 46-year-old Hall of Fame boxer who served time in jail for rape and infamously bit off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear during a fight in 1997, said he now just wanted to “hang out and entertain”.

via Mike Tyson: ‘I want to sing and dance in musicals’ – Telegraph.

Now, at the risk of sounding like a “RAAAACIST” — this comes to mind, for some reason.

The Sunday Afternoon Music Express – Special Memorial Edition Presents: The McGuire Sisters

PHOENIX – Dorothy McGuire of the popular 1950s musical trio the McGuire Sisters has died at age 84.
Daughter-in-law Karen Williamson says McGuire died of natural causes at her son’s Phoenix-area home on Friday.
McGuire teamed up with her sisters Phyllis and Christine to earn six gold records for hits like “Sincerely” and “Sugartime.”
The sisters began singing together at their mother’s Ohio church and then performed at weddings and church revivals. They got their big break on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts show in 1952 where they continued to perform for seven years.
They stopped touring in the late 1960s but reunited in the 1980s and last performed together in the mid-2000s.
She’s survived by her two sisters, her husband of 53 years, Lowell Williamson, two sons and two step-children.— via Fox News

Joe South RIP

This is some seriously sad news and comes via The American Spectator Blog.

My Favorite song of his and the chorus of this song is timeless sounding…:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoznjbKVnmw

ATLANTA (AP) — Singer-songwriter Joe South, who performed hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as ‘‘Games People Play’’ and ‘‘Walk A Mile In My Shoes’’ and also penned songs including ‘‘Down in the Boondocks’’ for other artists, died Wednesday, his music publisher said. South was 72.

South, whose real name was Joseph Souter, died at his home in Buford, Ga., northeast of Atlanta, according to Marion Merck of the Hall County Coroner’s office. Merck said South died after having a heart attack.

‘‘He’s one of the greatest songwriters of all time,’’ said Butch Lowery, president of the Lowery Group, which published South’s music. ‘‘His songs have touched so many lives. He’s such a wonderful guy and loved by many.’’

via Joe South, singer-songwriter from 70s, dies at 72 – A&E – Boston.com.

Lyrics to “Walk a mile in my shoes” and believe me; this should be a prayer for America.

If I could be you and you could be me for just one hour
If we could find a way to get inside each other’s mind
If you could see you through my eyes instead of your ego
I believe you’d be surprised to see that you’d been blind

Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Yeah, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes

Well, your whole world you see around you is just a reflection
And the law of common says you’re gonna reap just what you sow

So unless you’ve lived a life of total perfection
Mm-mm, you’d better be careful of every stone that you should throw

Yet we spend the day throwin’ stones at one another
’cause I don’t think or wear my hair same way you do
Well, I may be common people but I’m your brother
And when you strike out and try to hurt me it’s a ‘hurtin you,

Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Yeah, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes

There are people on reservations and out in the ghettos
And brother, there, but for the grace of God, go you and I

If I only had the wings of little angels don’tcha you know I’d fly
To the top of the mountain and then I’d cry?

Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Hey, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Better walk a mile in my shoes

Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Oh, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes,

Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a mile in my shoes
Hey, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes

Video: God Bless Dave Mustaine, Screw Huffington Post and Think Progress

For this here from Huffington Post:

Now, I shall let it known that I do not agree that the Government or Barack Obama; as I said before, staged the events. But, I will say this; I am glad to see that people like Dave Mustaine are waking up to the fact that the Government is not your friend and can only take from you.

Having said that, enjoy the music from Magadeth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ww3XH4zEg

I just wish that someone could get the red-headed tool to run for President of the United States! Now that — would be awesome.