Guns N' Roses - Knocking On Heaven's Door (Live In Tokyo 1992) photo

Guns N’ Roses – Knocking On Heaven’s Door (Live In Tokyo 1992)

Guns N’ Roses turned the old cowboy tune written by Bob Dylan into a massive arena rock ballad and it’s one of their most amazing pieces to date! Their Use Your Illusion tour featured this particular stop in Tokyo in 1992, and quite honestly – this jarring rendition of the old cowboy classic stole the …

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32 odd musical anecdotes photo

32 odd musical anecdotes

Here are 32 odd musical anecdotes. The Beastie Boys used to open for themselves, disguised as a heavy metal band. When Andrew Lloyd Webber was writing the sequel to ‘The Phantom of the Opera,’ the entire score was deleted by a kitten. The only guy in ZZ Top who doesn’t have a beard is Frank …

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Dancing on : Daft Punk - Get Lucky photo

Dancing on : Daft Punk – Get Lucky

If you’re into dancing, here’s a really cool video from the dancing days of the disco/funk era (Papa was a Rolling Stone) mashed up with Get Lucky by Daft Punk : Soul Train is an American musical variety show created by Don Cornelius that aired in syndication from 1971 to 2006. In its 35-year history, …

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C2C - Happy Ft. D.Martin photo

C2C – Happy Ft. D.Martin

Allez, on reprendra bien une petite dose de C2C, le quatuor nantais ! Voici une petite vidéo qui devrait vous donner envie de bouger vos gambettes, cela swing comme le turf dancing – ce sport dont je vous avais parlé il y a quelques mois deux ans – mais à la sauce gospel du sud …

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Coup de coeur : Alela Diane photo

Coup de coeur : Alela Diane

Alela Diane Menig (née le 20 avril 1983 à Nevada City en Californie) est une chanteuse et une compositrice américaine, dont les chansons sont imprégnées d’un style psyché-folk proche de celui de Nick Drake, mêlant des sonorités du folk américain et du folk anglo-irlandais. Alela Diane a grandi dans une famille de musiciens : “durant …

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New York City : 5th Avenue, Rockefeller Center, St Patrick's Cathedral, Flatiron Building, Madison Square Park, Shake Shack's, Little Italy, Soho, Greenwich Village, Time Square photo 38

New York City : 5th Avenue, Rockefeller Center, Flatiron Building, Madison Square Park, Shake Shack’s, Little Italy, Soho, Time Square

Voici la troisième journée de l’US Summer Trip. Suite de mes aventures new-yorkaises. Breakfast at Toastie’s On se lève tôt et on prend le métro, direction 5th Avenue. On prend le petit déjeuner chez Toastie’s. Je prends un medium coffee et un blueberry muffin. Le medium m’a l’air aussi grand que le large d’hier. Je …

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Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism photo

Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism

This is post 1 of 11 in the series “From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877)” From the Puritan settlements to the American Civil War (1787-1877) Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism Antebellum South Life in the Plantations USA: North and South O’Sullivan’s Manifest Destiny The social context of America in the early …

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