John Lennon plays I Feel Fine’s main riff on his Gibson while George Harrison sometimes doubles, and other times plays rhythm on his Gretsch Tennessean. At the time of the song’s recording, the Beatles, having mastered the studio basics, had begun to explore new sources of inspiration in noises previously eliminated as mistakes (such as electronic goofs, twisted tapes, and talkback). I Feel Fine marks one of the earliest examples of the use of feedback as a recording effect in popular music. Artists such as the Kinks and the Who had already used feedback live, but Lennon remained proud of the fact that the Beatles were perhaps the first group to deliberately put it on vinyl.
Pretty Cool Documentary on The Yorkville Music Scene in Toronto
If you want to know one thing about Toronto, let it be what went on in Yorkville during the 1960s.
When New York City found its artists burrowing in Greenwich Village, and while artists were flocking to Haight-Ashbury on the San Francisco scene, the hippies of Toronto were building their own cultural haven in Yorkville.
Located in the dead centre of the city, the neighbourhood became a place for Canadian musicians, writers, and political activists to form a community in one of their country’s largest metropolises. Singers like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Gordon Lightfoot found themselves in the same cafes and clubs as migrated Americans including Rick James, Ronnie Hawkins, and Leon Redbone before making a name for themselves in the mainstream. Draft dodgers mixed in with curious Canadian youths, and a presence was born that shocked and alarmed the Silent Generation as the 1960s counterculture grew.
But after a few years of a flourishing arts scene and political demonstrations, the creation of an experimental university started Yorkville on its short road to decay. But could an educational experiment gone wrong be enough to destroy one of the most prominent cultures in Canadian history?
Check out the documentary preview below. An Indiegogo campaign didn’t quite make the goal for the production team, but keep an eye on their official website for more details.
The Windows 95 Launch Hosted By Jay Leno
August 24, 1995 was a historic occasion for the computer industry as Microsoft introduced Windows 95 at a gala launch event. The long awaited new operating system not only sparked the explosion of the Internet, but for the first time computers became home-based tools that would make our lives better. Forever.
Hosted by Bill Gates, the launch was beamed simultaneously to 43 other events in cities around the world, not an easy feat to do back in 1995. Microsoft enlisted late night talk show host, Jay Leno, who cracked that Windows 95 was ‘so powerful that it can keep track of all of OJ’s alibis at once’.”
See the first teaser trailer for the 24th James Bond adventure SPECTRE
See the first teaser trailer for the 24th James Bond adventure SPECTRE. A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE. Starring: Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, David Bautista and Andrew Scott, and Directed By Sam Mendes.
‘The Sandlot’ Just Got Even Better Thanks To The New Yankees Recreating It
Members of the 2015 Yankees recreate a memorable scene from the classic movie, “The Sandlot”
Ricky Gervais Couldn’t Care Less About Being the Spokesman for Netflix Australia
This is the greatest ad for Netflix I’ve ever watched. I think. No, no, I’m sure about this.
Strange Portable Music Inventions Of The Past
The original portable boombox was a beanbag with a transistor radio
The first ever Walkman?
Tupac Shakur’s movie debut in Dan Aykroyd’s Nothing but Trouble
Dan Aykroyd’s Nothing but Trouble might be a forgotten film, but it’s notable for one key scene for music fans. Aykroyd decided that Oakland hip-hop group Digital Underground should be in it. That means a cameo by a young Tupac Shakur, making his big-screen debut.
https://youtu.be/jGVZISx-oWs
Girls Say Yes To Boys Who Say No, 1968
The poster features the celebrated U.S folk singer and political activist Joan Baez, along with her sisters Pauline and Mimi. They sit together on a couch, above which a slogan reads “Girls Say Yes To Boys Who Say No”.
