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Pat Benatar And Neil Giraldo on their Rock ‘N’ Roll Marriage

Every relationship has an origin story. For Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, it all goes back to the moment in the late 1970s when Benatar signed a recording deal with Chrysalis Records — who immediately fired everyone in her band but the bass player.

“They brought in all these top studio guys and all the guys that were in New York, the big guys,” Benatar tells NPR’s Scott Simon. “And we were in auditions for all the other musicians and they said, ‘Neil Giraldo’s here.’

“He didn’t even bring a guitar with him; he was so ridiculous. He’s putting on someone else’s guitar, and I turned around and I was like, ‘Oh my god.’ I didn’t know what to do. I was completely smitten. And I just leaned over to my manager at the time and I said, ‘I don’t even care if he can play. He’s in the band.'”

Benatar and Giraldo joined Simon to retrace their steps over more than 35 years as a music-business power couple. Hear their conversation here.

Emma Lord on The Competition Of Female Singers In Nashville

Emma Lord moved to Nashville to pursue her songwriting dreams. After a few months, she came to this conclusion:

It’s a harsh reality that you really only understand when you are in Nashville: you are a dime a dozen. There are a hundred thousand girls there who look just like you, who sing just like you, who write songs just as well as you do. In Nashville, it isn’t always about who has the most talent because everybody there has talent. It’s about who perseveres, who shows up, who happens to be in the right places at the right times and doesn’t get discouraged by rejection – or worse than rejection, nothing happening at all.

Via Bustle

Jerry Lee Lewis on His Piano Playing

These fingers speak for themselves—they have a brain. They always hit the right notes, too. It just happens. That’s the way it is. Sometimes I still throw my boot up on the keyboard and play with my heel. It’s very important to hit the right notes. I did it first when I was young. I figured it would be good for business. Playing rock ’n’ roll the way I do takes a lot out of a person. But it don’t bother me. I’m used to it. Sometimes I sit up on top of the piano and play with both my feet, looking at the keys the other way. I hit the right notes then, too.
— Jerry Lee Lewis in The Wall Street Journal

Morrissey reviews the latest singles back in 1984

Back in October 1984, Morrissey did a feature with British music magazine Smash Hits where he reviewed some popular singles at the time. You can check out the whole thing below to see his reviews of Siouxsie, Duran Duran, XTC, Ultravox and more. It’s a shame artists today wouldn’t do this, for fear of insulting or offending a fellow musician. Even the littlest arguments on Twitter between, say, Jack White and The Black Keys, end in apologies.

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28 Businesses Who Created Signs For The Win

Check out these 28 businesses who knew how to make people laugh, and likely got the business…

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Jimmy Iovine on the marriage of music and tech: ‘The meek are not inheriting the Earth’

Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine talked about how he sees the technology and music industries working together. While accepting an SFTB Award, Iovine gave a cool and interesting speech.

“These are times that call upon us to be visionary and to be daring. These days, the meek are not inheriting the Earth. That’s why Dr. Dre and I both believe we need to intelligently merge the worlds of technology and the liberal arts.

“The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not. Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us – and that simply does not work any more. We must face the fact that our delivery and distribution systems are too sterile and not compelling enough for a new generation of young people who love music in their own way.

“And if we don’t fix the distribution of music, we run the risk of music being sent out into the world in such an uninspired way that music loses its value – and not just its financial value, but even worse, its emotional value too – and therefore its position as arguably the most dominant art form going forward. Ladies and gentleman, the time has come for the music business itself to innovate.”

Ringo Starr’s Isolated Vocals For The Beatles “Octopus’s Garden”

“Octopus’s Garden” from The Beatles’ 1969 album Abbey Road was the second song Ringo has ever written. George Harrison says “It’s lovely. The song gets very deep into your consciousness…because it’s so peaceful. I suppose Ringo is writing cosmic songs these days without even realising it.”

Paul McCartney’s Wings “Band On The Run” Isolated Bass and Drums

Wings’ “Band On The Run” album was recorded at the EMI studios in Lagos, Nigeria after Paul McCartney decided he wanted to try recording in a more exotic place and get away from some of the media blitz happening in the UK and also securing himself complete artistic freedom. There was a bump in the road, though, when lead guitarist Henry McCollough and drummer Denny Seiwell left the band. Paul and band members Linda McCartney and Denny Laine decided to carry on just the same, with Paul taking on drum and lead guitar as well as bass.

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Johnny Cash’s Isolated Vocal for “Ring Of Fire”

Written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore and popularized by Johnny Cash, “Ring of Fire” appears on Cash’s 1963 album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. The song was originally recorded by June’s sister, Anita Carter, on her Mercury Records album Folk Songs Old and New (1963) as “(Love’s) Ring of Fire”. “Ring of Fire” ranked No. 4 on CMT’s 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music in 2003 and #87 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The song was recorded on March 25, 1963, and became the biggest hit of Johnny Cash’s career, staying at number one on the charts for seven weeks. It was certified Gold on January 21, 2010 by the R.I.A.A. and has also sold over 1.2 million digital downloads.

Although “Ring of Fire” sounds somewhat ominous, the term refers to falling in love – which is what June Carter was experiencing with Johnny Cash at the time. Some sources claim that Carter had seen the phrase “Love is like a burning ring of fire,” underlined in one of her uncle A. P. Carter’s Elizabethan books of poetry. She worked with Kilgore on writing a song inspired by this phrase as she had seen her uncle do in the past. She had written: “There is no way to be in that kind of hell, no way to extinguish a flame that burns, burns, burns”.

These isolated vocals of Karen Carpenter Will Sooth You

Fun Fact: After the Carpenters became successful in the early 1970s, she and her brother bought two apartment buildings in Downey as a financial investment. Formerly named the “Geneva”, the two complexes were renamed “Only Just Begun” and “Close to You” in honor of the duo’s first smash hits. The apartment buildings are located at 8353 and 8356 (respectively) 5th Street, Downey, California. In 1976 Carpenter bought two Century City apartments, gutted them, and turned them into one condominium. Located at 2222 Avenue of the Stars, the doorbell chimed the first six notes of “We’ve Only Just Begun”.
Below, “Ticket to Ride” vocals and drums:

 


“Yesterday Once More” vocals and bass:

 


“Goodbye To Love” vocals, bass and drums:

 


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