Tag Archive for "video"
Fender American Standard Stratocaster Review
I may not have the best nose in the world, but I definitely smell an Oscar.
Check out my behind the scenes, professionally (cough) edited video review of my brand spankin’ new guitar.
It’s sexy, and it’s informative. Just like your 6th grade history teacher! Oh, Mrs. Young, we miss thee, what with your poor-man’s-Angelina-Jolie looks and proclivity to trip over violins. Every time you mispronounced obelisk I swooned.
Err…what was I saying? Right. PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW GUITAR! Check this thang out mang, you won’t regret it!
Places To End lyrics
This song was written in the time just before we hit the studio to record “QED” in July 2008.
Nicky and Nate hammered this out, and when it was done we knew it was a keeper. We made it about the contrast between viewpoints regarding the violence in the middle east.
Places to End
Locking pop cans on the fencepost
just like the oil, you’re boring
Obviously lacking modesty, you’ve got a policy too foreign
Like Stormin’ Norman you’re combing the sand
Screwing, ruining the lives you hold in your hand
People begging, dying, crying
saying, “Open up your eyes!”
But you’re not seeing.
Oh Hell!
I am home still
if we don’t kill each and every last one
Brother, grab you a gun
I’m in line with the sky’s design
I’m disguised behind the ancient cloth.
The hatred makes it hot.
There’s children crying at rounds in the air.
It’s everywhere.
We scatter, scared.
Erect our necks,
“Oh, who is next?”
We’re so perplexed,
the Holy Text couldn’t ever have prepared us for this.
Oh Hell!
I am home still
if we don’t kill each and every last one
Brother, grab you a gun
And go fill
the window sill
We’ll get those devil people running.
No, they’ll never see it coming.
Desert hummers humming, coming to kill.
Children, walk around it.
Let’s not talk about it.
We won’t have to see their faces again.
Lying bleeding, beaten
In the trees of Eden.
O, of all the places to end.
O, of all the places to end.
We won’t see their faces again.
O, of all the places to end.
This is the place it will end.
Danallan @ The Key Club
This is the third multi-camera edit we’ve pieced together. Thanks to Justa and Adam Young for the awesome footage!
Stand By Me, Around the World
This song has echoed across attics, bounced through boulevards, and danced around dining rooms for more than 50 years now. Maybe it’s because I’m reading Dante’s Divine Comedy for the umpteenth time back at UCLA (and actually starting to enjoy it now!) that I am no longer surprised by old works bringing forth very real, contemporary emotions. As “they”–whoever they are–say, some things never change.
But what’s really interesting about this video is the manner in which it was edited together. A camera crew recorded street performers and traditional artists from all over the Earth doing their individual renditions of the song “Stand By Me.” They were instructed to play the song in a certain key so that once combined, all the different parts would shine together. It’s truly a work of art…moving quickly from shot to shot to these intimate scenes in these completely separated places almost makes you feel like you’ve been teleported there.
If you have any heart at all the symbolism of all these different cultures coming together to make music is touching. It’s the same feeling I get when I play music with my band mates. Enjoy!
“Stand by Me” performed by musicians around the world from SKAT on Vimeo.
thatwasthen – live @ the key club – “places to end”
HD footage provided by Elko weaver.
Pumpkin Carving with thatwasthen
Last year, thatwasthen and a group of their closest friends decided to carve a few pumpkins to get into the Halloween spirit. Here’s a quick video and some pictures from the festivities. Note the absolutely bad-ass PAC-MAN carving that Adam Young engineered.
A day in the life of Benny Dacks
I’d like to give our fans a quick insight into what it’s like to follow me around for a day.
I recently revived this Apple iBook with a dirty hack that I like to call the Hackintosh – HotWire Edition. The power button was broken when I received it. It’s previous owner had broken the plug for the power button clean off the motherboard. This left two insanely close, bare contacts. Here are a few shots of the process.
Here is the 'new' one and my old iBook G3 it's replacing.
A random piece of metal I decided to exclude from the rebuild process.
hmm... Heat shield maybe?
This ladies and gentlemen is how true geeks start their computers.
Here is a time-lapse video of the new Hackintosh:HWE in action!
After a long day of ripping apart laptops and eating soup, I’ll head to our studio to lay down some bass. We have some really cool gear at our disposal.
I love this amp. It belongs to our rehearsal studio.
Victor Wooten Bass Genius
When I first started playing the bass, I researched many bassists to learn from their styles, vary my taste in music, and gain an overall well-rounded understanding of my instrument. In my research, I came across Victor Wooten. This guy is the definition of innovation on the bass guitar. His style unique and unorthodox however incredibly effective. Take a moment to appreciate the part of the music that we normally feel rather than hear.
Mark King Slap Solo
Here is a sweet video of elite bassist Mark King. This guy makes popping look so easy.
Quoted as saying "Hold on a second, I can't hear you over the radiant awesomeness of this shirt"
Here’s a little info on Mark King, via Wikipedia:
Mark King (born 20 October 1958, Cowes, Isle of Wight) is an English musician. He is most famous for being the lead singer and bassist of the band, Level 42. In the early 1980s King popularized the 1970s-era slap and pop style for playing the bass guitar by incorporating it into pop music.
Mark King helped to develop and popularize the slap and pop style of playing the bass guitar in the 1980s. The slapping and popping style was developed in the 1970s by funk bassists such as Larry Graham and further developed by jazz fusion bassists such as Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller. King developed a rapid playing speed using this technique, and introduced technical elements that enabled him to produce a mix of percussive effects while still playing a bass line.
One of King’s greatest influences was the musician Tom Taylor who gave King guitar lessons at the age of twelve.
King’s bass playing style is largely based on continuous 16th notes (aka semiquavers), variously described as “machine-gun” style. The “machine-gun” style of playing consists of popping a note, hammering on, then slapping (occasionally with a left hand slap combined) very rapidly.
King and Level 42 are considered highly influential artists of the brit funk movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
