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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 24, 2021 21:46:43 GMT
I'm guessing we've all seen the George Harrison tribute with Prince blazing on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
MTV used to have this annual show called Hip Hop Honors, which I loved. This was my favorite tribute:
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Post by Sneelock on Aug 24, 2021 23:26:24 GMT
I like when Aretha did "...Natural Woman" at the Carol King Kennedy Center honors. yeah, we all knew she could sing the song but not like THAT - not at that point. it was great seeing her at the piano in her big ol' fur.
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Post by blue on Aug 25, 2021 16:29:29 GMT
I love that Martyn and Drake were good pals despite seemingly polar opposite personalities.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 25, 2021 18:27:04 GMT
I like when Aretha did "...Natural Woman" at the Carol King Kennedy Center honors. yeah, we all knew she could sing the song but not like THAT - not at that point. it was great seeing her at the piano in her big ol' fur.
Obama brought some pretty cool music to the Kennedy Honors awards. I liked the Zeppelin tribute (even the Foo Fighters). I can see Obama listening to Zep, cutting classes in high school and smoking a big bowl: |
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Post by peter on Aug 26, 2021 11:51:36 GMT
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Post by sloopjohnc on Aug 26, 2021 14:24:41 GMT
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Post by clive gash on Aug 26, 2021 21:08:28 GMT
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Post by quaco on Sept 1, 2021 2:53:25 GMT
I'm guessing we've all seen the George Harrison tribute with Prince blazing on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. That was for Harrison's induction to the Hall of Fame and was good. My favorite is the earlier Concert for George, where all his friends play his music a mere year after his death. So you have the biggest names in the business playing with a realness and sincere ego-less reverence for the actual music that none of them have had in decades—and George never afforded his own music. Not to mention playing stuff that isn't necessarily "good on stage" but is finally getting its due ("Isn't It a Pity", "Give Me Love"). For his part, Eric Clapton, who has been on the wrong side of everything since about 1971, on this one night, as George's best friend, was an impartial and highly musical musical-director, actually leading the band at times, like the groom's best man excusing himself to handle an unexpected planning problem. There are so many highlights: - Jeff "everything's overproduced and I barely exist anymore" Lynne finally embracing his Beatle nerd-dom, doing a nice version of "The Inner Light", at once one of the more obscure Beatle songs (the kind of thing no big star would touch) and crucial to Harrison's whole ethos - McCartney, finally giving credence to that song he didn't like enough in 1969, doing a mugging-free "All Things Must Pass", not to mention his "Something"—that's one of the great moments on any stage, but I don't think I can adequately explain it here - and indeed Clapton doing "While My Guitar..." complete justice as arguably only he has the right to (with McCartney doing THAT harmony that he did in Trident Studios in 1968) It's the best concert George Harrison was ever involved in. Finally his music LIVED! |
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 1, 2021 6:18:36 GMT
- McCartney, finally giving credence to that song he didn't like enough in 1969, doing a mugging-free "All Things Must Pass" Saw an interesting clip on YouTube recently about how John and Paul were actually pretty enthusiastic about the song and wanted to work on it, and it was actually George who decided not to push ahead with it (in part because he couldn't see it working well on stage, which was what they were theoretically working toward). |
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