Musical Interlude
Oct
29
Fang’s Bites’ Musical Interlude – Arcade Fire
Haven’t done a musical interlude in a very long while. Here’s Arcade Fire’s Wake Up. You’re very familiar with it if you listen to Dan Patrick as he uses it to end the week. I’ll post the whole song here for your enjoyment. The regular Friday features will be posted starting at 8 a.m.
In the meantime, enjoy Arcade Fire.
Enjoy your Friday
Mar
27
Fang’s Bites Musical Interlude: Remember The Titans
I’m going to give you one video. Actually it’s not really a video, just the main theme from the great movie, “Remember The Titans” which starred Denzel Washington and Will Patton. Produced by the Walt Disney Pictures, the message of the movie to overcome racism and becoming together as one still resonates today. Of course, the main theme of the movie, “Titan Sprit” has been used by NBC since 2002 for the closing montage to each Olympic Games. It’s quite fitting music and I’ll give you this in lieu of any links today. I’m out running errands so this will tie you over until tomorrow.
If I get motivated, I may do a Videos of the Week for Sunday morning. See you all on Sunday.
Jan
26
Fang’s Bites Musical Interlude: The Dream Super Bowl Halftime Set List For The Who
I haven’t done a Musical Interlude in a very long time. Seeing a story on the Super Bowl Halftime set gave me some inspiration tonight.
The Super Bowl Halftime Set List is supposed to be a guarded secret until Halftime of the Super Bowl, but no one told Pete Townsend of The Who and he released it to Billboard magazine tonight. The Chairman says the set is going to be a bit of a mashup:
“A bit of ‘Baba O’Riley,’ a bit of ‘Pinball Wizard,’ a bit of the close of ‘Tommy,’ a bit of ‘Who Are You,’ and a bit of ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again.’”
That’s nice and all, but if I were producing the Halftime show and Mr. Townsend gave me control of the set list, it would look something like this:
I’d start with 5.15 from Quadrophenia. This is from BBC’s Top of the Pops in 1973.
That would be followed by the Live at Leeds version of The Magic Bus. This is awesome.
Then we would move to Squeeze Box.
That would be followed up by Boris The Spider, but that would be hard without The Ox, the late John Entwistle. From Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens in 1982, John doing the lead vocals.
With Super Bowl XLIV being on CBS, it’s only natural that Who Are You be played, as it’s the theme for CSI. Here’s the official music video for Who Are You. Drummer Keith Moon being so playful. He died shortly after this was made.
And we would end halftime with Love, Reign O’er Me. We started with a song from Quadrophenia and we end with a song with Quadrophenia.
Of course, this would be way too long for the NFL’s tastes, but it would be my show. It runs for as long as I would want.
Jul
23
Fang’s Bites Musical Interlude – Heart
Time for a musical interlude as I haven’t done one in over a month. I’ll post videos from one of my favorite bands, Heart. Led by sisters Ann & Nancy Wilson, the band was one of the pioneers for future female-led bands. Ann sang, Nancy played guitar and through the years, have added and subtracted various band members.
The core of the band has been the Wilson sisters and they started in Seattle in the early 1970′s before hitting it big around 1977. They played hard and folk rock before being forced to sing power ballads in the mid-1980′s by their record company. In the mid-1990′s, Heart went back to its hard rock roots where they’ve stayed.
I’m going to post six videos here and they really don’t even begin to broach their discography, but perhaps during a Videos of the Week, I’ll go all out and post a whole bunch of their music.
Right now, let’s begin in 1976 and a live appearance by the band on a TV show (not sure which one), but this is “Heartless.”
I can’t believe I found a video of a performance I actually saw on TV. This is from the California Jam 2 in 1978. ABC played this on a late night Friday, I remember it being on after midnight and it went for about 2 hours and I watched the whole thing. Watch how hard the band works on stage. Oh, before I forget, this is “Barracuda.”
Let’s move to Heart’s power ballad era, but instead of showing those horrible videos that MTV played, I’ll post a video from a concert the band did in Seattle in 2003. This is “Alone.” And a very nice acoustical version. Ann and Nancy had some very nice harmony.
From the same concert, here’s Nancy singing “These Dreams”. Again, great harmony.
Since you see the beginning of “Mistral Wind” in the last video, I’ll add it so you can see it in its entirety.
From that same Seattle concert, Heart covers Led Zepplin’s “Black Dog.” Heart really loved Led Zepplin and often paid tribute covering their songs live. Ann pulls this off so well.
And flashing back again, this time to 1976 and NBC’s Midnight Special which never played at midnight, but always at 1 a.m., here is “Crazy on You” and Nancy’s awesome acoustic beginning to the song.
Ok, that’s actually 7 videos, but once I start finding good songs, I just want to post them. Down the line, I’ll do a Videos of the Week with Heart. Press releases coming up.
Feb
22
Fang’s Bites Musical Interlude – Live
This is one of my favorite 1990′s bands. Their CD, Throwing Copper, is one of the best I have ever listened to from beginning to end.
So I’ll give you three or four songs from Live. Great songs. And when DirecTV played one of their recent concerts in Amsterdam, I was reminded how much I loved this band.
Here’s I Alone.
Lightning Crashes
Selling The Drama
Lakini’s Juice
The great song, Turn My Head
And this is Heaven performed live by Live
That’s certainly more than three or four. I just kept finding good videos to post.
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