Very cool interactive video for The Cold War Kids. I've Seen Enough is getting alot of pub in the web design magazines and the execution lives up to the hype. It's a decent song that you can enjoy re-mixing with a variety of instruments and customize the enjoyment of their song.
Taken from the music blog of the senior vice president and director of music at my day gig, Josh Rabinowitz. These are his words:
"2. “Star Spangled Banner”, Marvin Gaye, Nike If like me, you watched Marvin Gaye sing the national anthem at the NBA All-Star Game in LA on TV in 1983, you were so floored/moved/stirred/etc. that you tried to find a copy of it but to no avail. Not until a Gaye Box Set came out in the early nineties, on audio cassette only, were you able to hear it. Thank goodness for YouTube, and thanks to Nike’s Spot “United We Rise” for tapping into that magic of Marvin, who at that LA performance was armed with only a first generation drum machine (programmed the day before by Gordon Banks), and connecting it with the spirit of the Redeem Team (aka US Olympic Basketball Team). Not the greatest of Nike ads, but certainly one the greatest rendition of the Star Spangled Banner ever done."
Love the fact that they used a drum machine track made the day before as the backing music. Mssrs. Marvin and Banks remixed the National Anthem! (and thank God for that!)
After hearing this remix on Gilles Peterson's show, I spent the majority of my last trip to London searching the shops for this song to no avail. Seems a hard look, but happily I have found this link (for the moment). It's such a dope mix. It needs to be out there! Enjoy.
“The Roots are from Philly which is the murder capital of America yet neither Questlove nor Black Thought have ever killed anybody. If they want to rep Philly they have to catch a body.” ~ The Source {taken from the sig of an okayplayer post}
This quote was going through my mind as I was watching the new online Roots video for “75 Bars”
It took me two listens to get into the song, where the best parts are the drumming and the subtle backing music. I’m at an age where I’m not excited by the N-word being every line’s exclamation point. But even worse, the video is just lackluster. It made me {and some of the okayplayers on the boards ask, “What’s the point?!”
And so I started to think about how I would have done the video. This is what I came up with: “75 Bars: Riqonstruction”
On a completely different note, this made me smile. "You crazy for this one Barack!"
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