Monday, November 22, 2010

Antique Cristal Bowl Punch

A HURRICANE CALLED SMITH BAND ON THE RUN

Type was a pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II, while tried his luck with jazz but with little success, and in 1959 landed a job at EMI studios, those who are in the famous street, and from 1962 to 1965 worked with the Beatles sound engineer until the company promoted him to the position of producer and stopped working with them. The last Beatles album Rubber Soul which was intervened and was behind the recording console in over a hundred songs from the Fabs.
In 1967 he was the producer of a band that had just been signed to the label, Pink Floyd, they produced three albums: the first, third and fourth: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, A Saucerful of Secrets, and Ummagumma .
in 1968 produced the first rock concept album: S. F Sorrow, the Pretty Things.
His name is Norman Smith, an English major producer with similar credentials just imagine a front of a recording console, including recorders, cables and tapes.
But no, the guy went the other way and became " Hurricane" Smith, the singer's voice played dirty sax.
In 1971 he wrote a song with the intention that John Lennon sang, but when she did hear from a friend named producer Mickie Most, he suggested that he record it himself, almost as it was in demo.
The song is called "Do not Let It Die " and was his first hit in the UK, others followed:
next year " Oh Babe What Would You Say " hit No. 1 in the U.S. and a cover of Gilbert O'Sullivan called "Who Was It " was included on their debut LP, which took his pseudonym.
Then, tastes were changing and Hurricane stopped having number ones.
also recorded an instrumental that Argentina was known as the background music of a notice of a cigarette brand and is the unofficial anthem of the English soccer club Aston Villa.
Smith In 2004 he recorded a selection of songs which included all their hits of yesteryear and the CD booklet contains texts written by Paul McCartney and members of Pink Floyd.
wrote his memoirs in a book called "John Lennon Normal called me"
The book contains rare photos of the Beatles, Pink Floyd at Abbey Road studios.
Norman Smith died at age 86 in 2008 but his music will continue playing much longer, by dint of quality.

Marcelo Castello to Beat
Universe

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Red Lines On Projections



A damaged car is stopped in the middle of a dirt road, stopping behind another, and five men coming down from the second car, there is a dialogue with the first, they argue, is a struggle and suddenly, one of those who were in the first car is with a knife that is dangerously close to his neck.
man threatened the woman's screams, please ask, do not know what to say to the thugs to loosen her husband and let him, words and soul will choke him out the magic phrase: "Let him go, is the Beatle Paul ...!".

A studio half-finished, in a place where it rains all the time, there are bad vibes and a military government.
is a country of Africa, Nigeria and this happens in the capital, Lagos.
Two gang members who decide to get off of it a few days before traveling with the rest of the group and only three: husband, wife and another.
have to record an album with the band decimated, what else could happen?
What's worse? yes, the day of the knife incident, the spoils of the robbery were some cassettes, worth more than gold, were the demos of the new album by Wings.
And everything is back to square one, memorize songs. What work, then not so much, the songs were written recently. It's the summer of 1973 and Paul McCartney and Wings have reduced over the worst.
Paul, Linda and Denny Laine are now the only members of the band, and preparing to record in that study that EMI is building in Lagos, Nigeria's capital.
"I thought we were going to spend a summer day in paradise, beach and sun during the day, recording at night. Idyllic. Do not expect that going to a country ruled by a military junta and the study was half done ... " Under these conditions
What could I do?
could be and it was: to create and develop the best solo album of a musician who joined a band called The Beatles.
In this dismal environment was recorded "Band On The Run" by Wings, Paul McCartney's group formed in 1971 to go back on tour in remote places, regardless of the huge industrial and shake your head the Fab Four.

few days ago has gone on sale a new edition of this classic pop music, with bonus tracks on a second version disquito we had not heard before filming the making of the album, in a third which is a DVD.
There are also a collector's edition, that it produces chills when you see it in the trays, a book of unpublished photographs, access to download the album in digital and high definition: How and CDs are not high ...?
has also been released on vinyl 180 gr. What
have that album in 2010? That is still a wonder, that the issues are of utmost quality and freshness that has lost 37 years of its original release.
is the album that sets the tone of the reason for the continued success of Paul McCartney, is that here the bass player for the pretty face again a Beatle, shakes his mane and reconciled with the bass Paul Hoffner making it sound as in the times of the album Abbey Road by The Beatles, singing Beatles songs that refer to, dismembered with a band that sounds like more.

saw Paul a few days ago playing some songs of this album on Jools Holland's show and gave me goosebumps, as when in 1974 I walked into a record store in my hometown and asked "Dame Banda on the run, the last Wings ... "

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