Shocking? “Bangerz” pushed the limits on prime-time American TV, I suppose. Both performers have acceptable contralto voices, energetic dance skills, and assemble exciting Brechtian spectacles. The concert (recorded in Barcelona) reminded me of Madonna’s shows twenty-five years ago.
Click to stream or download full 862 Megabyte video performance Some of the images, such as Miley riding a giant “Mr. Bertolt Brecht would have loved the production: live dancers against rear-projection oversized animation with creative costumes and lighting. Too bad it couldn’t last forever.Īccording to Rolling Stone magazine, the FCC is considering disciplining NBC for airing an indecent performance on July 6, Miley Cyrus’ “Bangerz Tour”. This is a classic performance by master musicians who were at the top of their games. Michael Brecker and Don Alias died a few years ago. This Warner Brothers recording artist and Down Beat Hall of Fame member was sleeping on park benches and shooting baskets in a local public park. I had musician friends c 1984-87 who were torn up watching their friend Jaco dismantle his life. He had a rapid rise to the top followed by a quick ride back down again. Jaco seemed to still have his act together when he played this concert. Jaco’s friend Pat Metheny, who plays a beautiful lead guitar in this concert, is a University of Miami music school graduate. I’ve heard bass players tell me that they tried to imitate Jaco’s technique, but gave up trying they claim that Jaco changed what it meant to play electric bass guitar. He graduated to more jazz- and fusion- related music and put his unique fretless Fender bass stamp on Weather Report. When I first heard Jaco in the early 1970s, he was playing bass for straight-ahead local rock bands. Jaco was a Fort Lauderdale kid who began playing in rock bands around town in a variety of clubs: She, The 4 O’Clock CLub, The Village Zoo, The Flying Machine, The Button, Bachelors III, Ocean Mist. It’s among my favorite videos of a concert performance. Supporting players are Jaco Pastorius on bass, Pat Metheny on guitar, Michael Brecker on sax, Don Alias on drums, Lyle Mays on keyboards, and The Persuasions. I’m delighted to discover that the video of Joni Mitchell’s classic Shadows and Light concert (1980) can be viewed in full (1h 13m) on YouTube. This clip includes the fab four wailing in Liverpool’s Cavern Club: (If YouTube has taken down this video clip, you can hear the same recording with groovy rock and roll clips (sorry - requires Flash) from 1950s America and early Beatles. I’m amazed that Larry Williams isn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.Įxtra credit assignment: Compare and contrast the Beatles’ cover of Slow Down with Larry Williams’ original. While Williams was alive, the Beatles paid their respects by admirably covering Larry’s Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Slow Down, and Bad Boy. In the mid-1950s, Williams inherited star billing from Little Richard (who’d forsaken rock and roll for religion) at New Orleans’ record label Specialty Records. He was born in 1935 and died on this date, January 7, in 1980. Larry also composed Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Bad Boy, and Bony Moronie - classic rock tunes, all.
I think that the dancers are from a 1950s Hollywood rock & roll movie. The tune, ringing with ninth chords, was released on disc in 1958. The tune, “Slow Down”, is performed on piano and sung by its composer, Larry Williams. If you must try it, run it on fast hardware with lots of memory. My conclusion? For real-time video, all of this virtualization results in erratic motion displays and sluggish controls.
I’m impressed that this works at all, since Android runs on ARM - not Intel - CPUs. Then I went to the Google Play Store within AndroVM and installed the Lorex Android client.