An alternative rock band formed in the early nineties, they released their first album "Cão!"(Dog!) in 1997.
The band achieved its greatest success with their second album "O Monstro Precisa de Amigos"(The Monster need Friends).It was released in 1999 and is considered by many (myself included) the best Portuguese rock album ever!
The group split in 2002.
One of their songs from the last album.(It's in Portuguese but I hope you can still appreciate it)
"Ouvi Dizer"(loosely translates to "I heard a rumour")
You take away all the letters that are not in the musical scale(The music scale is A to G) from the body of your website, and the letter that is used the most is the key of you website.Also if the letter appears an even number of times its because it's in the major pentatonic scale if not its in the minor pentatonic scale.
Based on the number of characters the site will be awarded a synthesiser.
The drums will be determined by dividing the number of characters that are music note for the total.
Anyway I know that CODEORGAN is kind of pointless, but it's kind of fun for a few minutes...
...for instance my website is in the key of CMajor, and has Horns synthesiser, the drums you have to ear it for yourself, just copy-paste the link to check it out...
This video-clip is from a Portuguese artist called Gomo, i think his voice is kind of annoying that is why i won't put him in the Great Musician series.Nonetheless he has some great videos.
I promised myself that the next "Great Guitarists" post wouldn't be about a fingerpicker, so i thought about making a post about one of my very first readers.
Matt Stevens is a guitarist from North London, he uses a technique called Live Looping, which basically means that he plays something while recording it, then the recording his played over and over while he plays and maybe even records other layers of the song.
He controls all this using a pedal.
The most basic example of this would be to play the rhythm while recording it, then playing the solo on top of it.
Hope I didn't mess up the explanation. I am sure Matt could do it better!
I have never tried even the that basic example, so I can only imagine the concentration needed and precision needed to do the trick stuff Matt does.
He already has one album with great reviews called Echo.
Contemporary Madness helping awesome yet unknown musicians since the Twenty-eight of January. Not much tough, maybe one or two more fans, but oh well...
This guys have been teaching me guitar for a year, and thanks to them despite the limited time I have to practice, I have made some progress.
Here They are:
Pearl Jam, a rock band formed in 1990 in Seattle. They played an important role in the Grunge movement of the 90's, with bands like Nirvana.
Since then they have recorded nine albums, the first being "Ten" and the last "Backspacer" with memorable songs like "Betterman", "Alive" and "Ledbetter" just to name a few.
Joe Robinson or Smokin' Joe, was born in Australia on the twenty-fifth of May.
He won "Australia's got talent" performing Tommy Emmanuel's arrangement of "Classical Gas". In 2009 he won the World Championships of Performing Arts, becoming the youngest person to do so, and also the first instrumentalist.
In 2005 he released his debut CD called Birdseed, and in 2009 he released his second album "Time Jumpin'".
Please comment, dig, tweet, stand up, sit down...joking...except for the comment, dig, tweet part, you should spread the word if you like him.
Contemporary Madness helping awesome yet unknown musicians since the Twenty-eight of January. Not much tough, maybe one or two more fans, but oh well...
Real Time is the story of a compulsive gambler that was given one hour to live by a man hired to kill him.The film is as the title implies shot in real time,it's about 70 minutes long.
It stars Jay Baruchel as Andy Hayes the compulsive gambler, and Randy Quaid as Reuban "the hitman", loved both performances.
The film is Drama with quite a bit of comedy which is done mostly by Jay Baruchel.
Loved the film you should definitely see it.
Yes!
Filipe Pinto a great singer and a true Idol!
And he is very humble...
...Not like one of the other contestants who shall remain nameless...Carlos Costa...ups. Third place, really?(this is more for the Portuguese Readers who follow the competition)
Here is his last performance Pearl Jam's "Betterman"
After he won he sang "Ouvi dizer" by Ornatos Violeta (his favourite performance and mine as well):
Also a word for Diana who came second, and would have been a deserving winner.
Del Handley writer of Personal Blog of Del Handley, asked me why i didn't write about my course (computer science).
My answer is quite odd, because what happened to me, and i know it has happened to others, is that ever since I started the course i became more unaware of the latest news in tech.
Contrary to what some people believe, i am not learning what's the best processor in the market, or if the iPad is a good idea!
I am learning how it all works, in other words the "boring stuff".
And the reason why don't pay attention to tech related news so much now, its because I hear about it all day long that the last thing I want to do when I get home is read about more technology even if its the "cool stuff".
Now everyone is thinking, that i hate my own field of study...
Not the case i just want to do something else with the time that the course leaves me.
Last night the third edition Portuguese Idol came to an end, kind of...
...Because they decided to reveal the winner a week later grrr...
Before the final show I wanted Filipe to win based on my musical taste and I wouldn't be mad if Diana won.
But after the final performances, it has to Filipe he was better in all the four songs!
Is performance of Nirvana's "Lithium":
It's funny that in what is supposed to be a pop contest, two Rockers reach the final.
Great Performance by Filipe, check out my you tube channel for other videos: nmmb6
What do you think about the performance?
Would he have a chance in your country's idol?
Diana Piedade although not my favourite contestant she is very deserving of reaching the final, the only reason I would like to see Filipe win is because of my musical taste.
Their both talented in their own way!
Diana Entered the competition Rock n' Roll girl, but since then has managed to expand her horizons.
Here She is singing "Live and Let Die" Guns N' Roses
This is a Portuguese Song called "E Depois do Adeus"(After the goodbye) by Paulo De Carvalho
(On a cultural note, this song was played on the radio in 1974, has the signal for the beginning of the Portuguese Revolution against the oppressive regime in power at the time)
Link To my post on the other contestant Filipe Pinto.
Who is your favourite?
Would they do well in your country's idol?
Phil Wybra is 18 years old(not 21 has i had previously said), and i have been following him on YouTube for quite some time, actually he introduced me to the likes of Doyle Dykes and Tommy Emmanuel and fingerpicking in general, which is kind of odd first listening to a cover of a kid and only after the original by "The Master", but thanks for that i can't stop listening to fingerstyle guitar now.
If you see his first videos and compare them with the more recent one, you will see a lot of progress. It would be interesting for him to record a video of a song he played in the early years for comparison.
For now he has only put "out there" covers, but I hope he develops some material of his own in the future and makes a record.
He will have at least one buyer!
Is more recent video, where he plays Borsalino in the style of Tommy Emmanuel:
A Portuguese Artist which despite unknown for the world population is very famous in Portugal!
He first started as the lead singer of Silence 4 in 1998, where he achieved great success until 2002 when the band ended.
In 2003 he released is first album "Sing me Something New", he has since released 3 more albums, the last of them called "Between Waves", in which he played all the instruments.
His first solo single "Someone that cannot love":
With Silence 4 cover of erasure's "A little Respect" (Silence 4 made it better in my opinion):
Description: "Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is their friendship and for Shaun his first love Katy..."
I saw this one very recently, it's relatively unknown, and I only saw it because I have been going trough some of the films starring Robert Carlyle ( A very good actor by the away).
Carlyle plays Shaun a kid with a difficult childhood who takes care of his sick friend Daz, played by Steve Evets. When Daz's health starts to deteriorate he is "forced" remember/relive his childhood including is love for Katy played by Rachael Blake.
What i enjoy the most about the film is that it really feels like a true story, that happens more than it should.
I think you will find the same.
Here is the Trailer:
Filpe Pinto is my favourite contestant of the Portuguese Idol, he as an unique voice kind of similar to Eddie Vedder's .
He has sung Radiohead, Santana, oasis amongst others...
I will show you my favourite performance where he sings in English, and I will also throw in one in Portuguese.
The english one is Oasis' "Don't look back in anger":
The Portugues is "Ouvi Dizer"(Loosely translates to "I heard") from Ornatos Violeta:
He is already in the Top 2, which will be this Sunday. I will let you know if he wins!
The other contestant is actually my second favourite her name is Diana I will post some videos soon.
how do you think he would do in your country's idol?
Comments are welcome!
