From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music“, comes the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.
Playing For Change | Song Around The World “Stand By Me” from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.
On Saturday night we checked out the OZOMATLI show at Higher Ground. I hadn’t listened to them much before the show but it was a great time and their latin/world/funk/hip hop/jazz sound was definitely unique. You may recognize them from one of the older iTunes commercials:
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Ozomatli is a hip-hop group formed in 1996 in Los Angeles, known as much for their extremely vocal activist viewpoints as their wide array of musical styles. Ozomatli take their name from the Nahuatl word for the Aztec astrological symbol of the monkey, which is also a god of dance, fire, the new harvest, and music.
The members of the band met through their affiliation with the Peace and Justice Center of Los Angeles, and their first performance was for picketers during a strike. They began their career in the Los Angeles and San Diego/Mexico border-area club scene. (Last.fm)
Opening for OZOMATLI was Parker, House and Theory… these guys rocked too…. check them out:
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If you missed this entertaining face off from Thursday evening here is an excerpt from npr along with a video of the interview:
“Jon Stewart’s appearance with CNBC’s Jim Cramer (thursday) night was one of the most highly anticipated late-night appearances in recent memory, and if you were looking for a serious confrontation, it did not disappoint. Asked at one point why there were shows on CNBC promising to teach people how to get rich without doing any work, Cramer said, “There’s a market for it.” Link
Full Daily Show Episode
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This morning CNBC interviewed Warren Buffett at 6am EST (live from the Nebraska Furniture Mart in Omaha). During this interview they used viewer emails/questions to drive the conversation and streamed live updates here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29552618.
Although my questions didn’t make it through I think CNBC did a great job engaging their audience and it’d be great to see more interviews in this format.
Blog/Interview Summary:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/29552618/page/3/
Part I
Transcript: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29595047
Part II
Transcript: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29595412
Part III
Transcript: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29595537
Part IV
Transcript: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29595993
Part V
Transcript: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29596414
Part VI
Transcript: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29596605
Part VII
Transcript: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29596955
A few stills from a cool trip to Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands… and a clip from a live show courtesy of the “International All Star Band” featuring Reuben on a 12 string and “Bunn the Taxi Driver” on the triangle:
Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands from Dan Jackson on Vimeo.
The International Allstar Band in Jost Van Dyke from Dan Jackson on Vimeo.
A few clips and photos from the NADA 2009 convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. Click below to listen to “Right Place, Wrong Time” Live at The Blacksmith, Live Jazz on Bourbon Street, and “Sweet Caroline” during a Dueling Pianos show at Pat Obriens…
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A Jaguar and a Maserati parked at the Convention:
America… Live courtesy of the Aspen Marketing Folks
Toured the World War II Museum during a few spare hours on the last day of our trip:
Bourbon Street
Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr. were the keynote speakers at the show:
Statues, Tourism, Fantasticks, Underwater Airplanes and a Gold Robotic Man in the Subway:
Subway Entertainment in New York City from Dan Jackson on Vimeo.
Before swinging back to BTV we stopped by to give the bull a pep talk:
A slideshow and some pictures from a weekend of snowboarding at Snowbird and Brighton in UTAH:
Snowboarding in UTAH from Dan Jackson on Vimeo.
Checked out a little British rock show with the The Kooks and the Pigeon Detectives in Montreal, Canada… it was definitely better than this one but not quite as good as that one. Here are a few photos and clips:
The Kooks – See the World in Montreal Canada from Dan Jackson on Vimeo.
Pigeon Detectives in Montreal Canada from Dan Jackson on Vimeo.
Matt Costa, Battery Park in Burlington Vermont, July 31st 2008
This was the last show of the 2008 Burlington waterfront concert series. We brought Toby with us (his 2nd concert) who barked like crazy during his favorite song which got him some attention and a shout out from Mr. Costa himself.
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Coldplay Concert, July 29th, 2008 Bell Centre Montreal, Canada
Reviews:
“The standing ovation started the moment the lights dropped, and didn’t let up until the end of the encore. Cheers were deafening and singalongs were omnipresent.”
“Sometimes we go to certain towns – in England, Wales, Germany or Australia – and people don’t sing along, so we get depressed,†Martin said. “So we come here, and everyone is going for it 100 per cent, and it makes us feel fantastic.†– Mycoldplay.com
Pictures from Coldplay in Montreal:
A short clip from “In My Place”
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Full Set List:
Life in Technicolor
YouTube Life in Technicolor
Violet Hill
Clocks
YouTube Clocks
In My Place
Yes
Viva La Vida
YouTube Viva La Vida
42
Fix You
YouTube Fix You
Chinese Sleep Chant (band playing close together, right side of stage)
God Put a Smile Upon Your Face (techno version, right side of stage)
Speed of Sound
YouTube Speed of Sound
Yellow
YouTube Yellow
Lost! (regular version – not acoustic)
YouTube Lost
Strawberry Swing
The Scientist (acoustic, b-stage beside sound booth)
YouTube The Scientist
Death Will Never Conquer (acoustic, b-stage, Will on vocals)
Talk (remix)
Politik
YouTube Politik
Lovers in Japan
Death and All His Friends
The Escapist (outro)
Encore
Green Eyes
The Dubliners
More @ Coldplaying and MyColdPlay
Technology Review (a magazine published by MIT) recently asked various thought leaders what the Web might be in ten years. Below is one of the most creative responses but all the interviews are quite intriguing.
Jonathan Abrams
Founder of Socializr and Friendster; San Francisco, CA
“In five to ten years, we will all have chips in our brains. When you look at someone’s face on the street, your Google Brain software will automatically call up every embarrassing photo of them from ancient websites such as Flickr, Facebook, and MySpace; list all mutual friends; and remind you of the person’s annotated bio. As a response to the perceived slowness and verbosity of antiquated services like Twitter, people will send everyone they know nanobursts of information about anything they might do or think before they actually do or think it. Every website, blog, and social-networking profile will include an aggregated feed from every other website, blog, and social-networking service, resulting in an exponential and infinite length of repeated content on every possible site, overloading our brain chips and causing frequent nosebleeds and occasional cerebral hemorrhage.”
Source: The Future of The Web, Technology Review 7/2008
Jack Welch on Work/Life:
“Your boss’s top priority is competitiveness. Of course he wants you to be happy, but only inasmuch as it helps the company win. In fact, if he is doing his job right, he is making your job so exciting that your personal life becomes a less compelling draw.”
The quote above was pulled from:
Jack Welch’s best seller “Winning” (2005)
I read this book a while back and highly recommend it. Recently, I’ve started to publish an excerpt from the book to kick off each week.
Jack Welch on China:
“Yes, you hear about China’s problems – its scarcity of middle managers, for instance, and the massive number of poor farming families moving into unprepared cities with not enough jobs to support them. Lumbering, bureaucratic state-owned enterprises still make up most of its economy. And the country’s banks are saddled with bad loans. But for China, these aren’t mountains to be scaled, they’re blips to be flattened by the giant, high-speed bulldozer that is its economy. Increasing prosperity from spectacular economic growth over the past twenty years has given the Chinese enormous self-confidence. But China has so much more: a massive pool of low-cost, hardworking laborers and a rapidly expanding number of well-educated engineers.”
“And then there’s its work ethic, which may be its single biggest strength. Entrepreneurship and competition are baked into the Chinese culture. Consider the executive who hosted me during a week long visit to Shanghai and Beijing last year. She said she’s at the office from 7am until 6pm, goes home for dinner to join her husband and son until 8pm, and then returns to work until midnight. “This is very typical here,” she said, “six days a week.” And she works for a U.S. multinational!”
“You can look at China and feel victimized. Or you can look at it and be excited about conquering the challenges and opportunities it presents.”
The quotes above were pulled from:
Jack Welch’s best seller “Winning” (2005)
I read this book a while back and highly recommend it. Recently, I’ve started to publish an excerpt from the book to kick off each week.
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