Category: Music
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Don Felder From The Eagles Plays “Hotel California” at the Met Museum
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is filled with masterpieces by giants like Picasso and Rembrandt. This week, Don Felder's Gibson double-necked guitar will join them. It's the instrument Felder has used for 40 years to play "Hotel California," the masterpiece he co-wrote for The Eagles. Of all the tools for making music, the guitar…
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Behold The Music Typewriter From The 1950s, Only A Handful Are Left Today
Woody Allen said he has written all of his scripts and The New Yorker pieces on a typewriter. That’s 60 years. And it worked for him just fine. In fact, typewriters are making sort of a comeback today. And arguably one of the most desired ones is the Keaton Music Typewriter. And for an interesting…
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Lady Gaga’s University ‘Friends’ Had A Facebook Group Dedicated To Shaming Her For Trying To Be Famous
One of the things that A Star is Born has taught us is that no one becomes great without going through some sort of adversity. And this story from Lady Gaga’s personal life only proves it. When she was only starting out her career, her haters created a Facebook group called “Stefani Germanotta, you will…
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Amazing Images Of Freddie Mercury With His First And Only True Love, Mary Austin
“The only friend I’ve got is Mary and I don’t want anybody else,” Freddie Mercury once said about the ‘love of his life,’ Mary Austin. While the legendary Queen singer’s relationships were always in the media spotlight, including in the recent, wildly popular movie Bohemian Rhapsody, the one that truly mattered probably received the least…
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Woman Started Drumming In 1920 And She’s Still Got What It Takes At The Age Of 106
Musicians rejoice! Because legendary percussionist Viola Smith may have discovered the secret for a long and healthy life: energetic drumming and the moderate consumption of good wine. Now aged 106 and actively drumming until recently in a Costa Mesa band called Forever Young Band: America’s Oldest Act of Professional Entertainers, Viola’s remarkably long career has…
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First music video ever singing while flying at 215 Km/h
For the first time ever a wingsuit pilot sings @TheTaxiTalk’s #Universe flying at 155 mph. A beautiful jump at Walenstadt without any digital retouching.
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Twenty Instruments Reconstructed to Play Through the Keys of a Vintage Piano
When the Ukrainian band Brunettes Shoot Blondes came across a vintage broken piano, they decided to transform it into a unique and completely analog hybrid of 20 different instruments that are each connected and controlled by the piano keys. The band prominently featured this wonderful instrument in the music video for their song “Houston”. The…
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The Most Awkward Metal Band Photos That Are So Bad They’re Good
Rock stars are supposed to be charismatic. The gig requires being able to a) get up in front of people and perform convincingly, b) create compelling songs that evoke emotions, c) have a sense of style your fans would want to emulate, and, of course, d) be sexy. That’s a lot of requirements, and some…
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Mongolian Band Plays Heavy Metal with Traditional Folk Instruments and Throat Singing
Over in Mongolia, a folk metal band called The Hu have been inventing what they call “Hunnu Rock,” a style combining Western headbanging with instruments like the horsehead fiddle (morin khuur) and Mongolian guitar (tovshuur). “It also involves singing in a guttural way,” Katya Cengel points out at NPR—no, not like this, but in the…
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Spectacular Photos Taken Inside Music Instruments By A Romanian Photographer
Adrian Borda is an artist (surrealist painter) and photographer from Reghin, Romania. Inspired by an old print campaign for the Berlin Philharmonic, Borda managed to take a fascinating series of photos from the insides of old instruments like a cello and contrabass. To achieve these shots, Borda fit a Sony NEX-6 camera equipped with a…