Good News: Justin Bieber to Tour Japan!

[BigInJapan]

Couldn't bear the thought of listening, but what was it aboot?

I didn't really think there could be a music video this dumb, and I was right.
It's from an episode of "How I Met Your Mother" (never seen it).

Robin Scherbatsky (aka Robin Sparkles) is a fictional character created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Canadian actress Cobie Smulders.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Wait, you guys didn't realize that was a joke!? Are you all feeling OK?

[Yokohammer]

Wait, you guys didn't realize that was a joke!? Are you all feeling OK?

My faith in the ability of anyone younger than about 35 to create good music is at an all-time low.
I am prepared to believe just about anything.

(Actually, it's not that bad ... but I'm stickin' with music from my ge-ge-ge-generation).

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Groovy cat. I can dig it.

[Yokohammer]

Groovy cat. I can dig it.

Hey! You're a real hep dude!

Coincidentally, I was watching the DVD of the 2010 Crossroads festival last night. Hubert Sumlin was on stage with Eric Clapton and Sonny Landreth (if memory serves), and although he's pushing 80 and can't play like he used to, I couldn't help thinking that the guy has real soul. Good stuff.

I was also getting quite a kick out of Vince Gill, Albert Lee, and James Burton. That'll give you an idea where I'm coming from.

EDIT: Oh yeah ... Keb' Mo' ... another favorite.

[Coligny]

Wait, you guys didn't realize that was a joke!? Are you all feeling OK?

Is it too early to blame Fukushima ?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Hey! You're a real hep dude!

Coincidentally, I was watching the DVD of the 2010 Crossroads festival last night. Hubert Sumlin was on stage with Eric Clapton and Sonny Landreth (if memory serves), and although he's pushing 80 and can't play like he used to, I couldn't help thinking that the guy has real soul. Good stuff.

I was also getting quite a kick out of Vince Gill, Albert Lee, and James Burton. That'll give you an idea where I'm coming from.

EDIT: Oh yeah ... Keb' Mo' ... another favorite.

Well, you're obviously a connoisseur wasting your time with the likes of me.
I'm afraid about the only thing we have in common in music terms judging from the above is Eric Clapton and that's only because he's aan alky, too.

[Yokohammer]

Well, you're obviously a connoisseur wasting your time with the likes of me.
I'm afraid about the only thing we have in common in music terms judging from the above is Eric Clapton and that's only because he's aan alky, too.

Who you callin' a "corny-sewer"?

BTW, Clapton has been clean for a bunch of years. In fact, he founded the Crossroads Center in Antigua to treat drug and alcohol addiction, and the proceeds from the Crossroads Festival I mentioned in my last post go to that cause.

[Ganma]

Well, you're obviously a connoisseur wasting your time with the likes of me.
I'm afraid about the only thing we have in common in music terms judging from the above is Eric Clapton and that's only because he's aan alky, too.

I know a bloke who met him a number of times at AA meetings

[Samurai_Jerk]

Clapton: technically brilliant but absolutely no soul. It the guitar equivalent of Japanese hip-hop dancers.

[Mike Oxlong]

Does that account for his huge popularity in Japan?

I think the Stones were absolutely correct in picking Ronny Wood over Clapton when replacing Brian Jones/Mick Taylor.

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[Ganma]

Clapton: technically brilliant but absolutely no soul. It the guitar equivalent of Japanese hip-hop dancers.

Dunno about that. His work with Cream was killer. Don't like anything much he's done since though.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Dunno about that. His work with Cream was killer. Don't like anything much he's done since though.

Cream only had a couple of good songs. Anyway, being a good guitarist and being able to rock aren't the same thing as having soul.

[ChargerCarl]

I've always felt Clapton to be a bit overrated too.

[Yokohammer]

Clapton is an icon and guitar/blues evangelist more than anything. His playing is dated and he's been pretty much stuck in the same pentatonic groove since the 70's. There are gazillions of guitarists who can outplay him technically. Yet his presence is felt for the reasons stated in the first sentence above.

"Keef" is not much technically either (great interview video BTW ... thanks Mike), but he's got the vibe in bucketloads. Still has it. An icon of a completely different sort. Nobody lives like Keith Richards.

Watched the second of the 2-disc Crossroads Festival 2010 DVD set last night, and will throw out a few more names for people to grapple with: good performances by Derek Trucks + Susan Tedeschi, Warren Haynes, David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos, Buddy Guy, Ron Wood, Jeff Beck, and B.B. King.

[Ganma]

Watched the second of the 2-disc Crossroads Festival 2010 DVD set last night, and will throw out a few more names for people to grapple with: good performances by Derek Trucks + Susan Tedeschi, Warren Haynes, David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos, Buddy Guy, Ron Wood, Jeff Beck, and B.B. King.

If you like your blues you might want to check out Joe Bonamassa, a prodigy blues player who played with B.B.King first at the age of 9 (now in his 30s). Some might consider his playing too technical and lacking in soul, but he's worth checking out IMO.

[Yokohammer]

If you like your blues you might want to check out Joe Bonamassa, a prodigy blues player who played with B.B.King first at the age of 9 (now in his 30s). Some might consider his playing too technical and lacking in soul, but he's worth checking out IMO.

Yeah, forgot to mention, Bonamassa played at the festival too (so did Sheryl Crow, and John Mayer, and ZZ Top ... gotta love ZZ Top). I've been watching him since he was a kid. Good player, but he tends to try too hard to act cool rather than concentrating on making music. I hope he'll get past that eventually though, and grow some more musically. Johnny Lang is another young hot dog that has a way to go yet, IMHO.

The old chestnut "you gotta pay your dues if you wanna play the blues" has some truth in it.

[Mike Oxlong]

Now I'm gonna hafta go and find that DVD. What's Kenny Wayne Shepard up to these days?

[Yokohammer]

What's Kenny Wayne Shepard up to these days?

New studio album coming out in August.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

So, are these guys like the backing band for Justin Beiber or something?

[Mike Oxlong]

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[Cyka UchuuJin]

Clapton is an icon and guitar/blues evangelist more than anything. His playing is dated and he's been pretty much stuck in the same pentatonic groove since the 70's. There are gazillions of guitarists who can outplay him technically. Yet his presence is felt for the reasons stated in the first sentence above.

"Keef" is not much technically either (great interview video BTW ... thanks Mike), but he's got the vibe in bucketloads. Still has it. An icon of a completely different sort. Nobody lives like Keith Richards.

Watched the second of the 2-disc Crossroads Festival 2010 DVD set last night, and will throw out a few more names for people to grapple with: good performances by Derek Trucks + Susan Tedeschi, Warren Haynes, David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos, Buddy Guy, Ron Wood, Jeff Beck, and B.B. King.

i just finished reading Keith Richards biography. totally predictable in that it's 400-ish pages of 'i did loads of drugs and booze, nearly got to the brink, some bird pulled me back from the edge, things were rocking well again after that...lather, rinse, repeat'. but he is a damn good storyteller, and it was a mighty good read. NOT a book to loan your kids though, unless you're grooming them to become drug addict menaces to society.

[Yokohammer]

i just finished reading Keith Richards biography ...

Thank you for reminding me!
I've been meaning to order that from ******.

EDIT: Wow, I've never seen that happen before ... a-m-a-z-o-n got converted to a bunch of asterisks. Freaky. What if you wanted to talk about the region or the river? You'd get all asterisked out. Let's see:

So, I was canoeing down the ****** river the other day ... (yup).

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

... a-m-a-z-o-n got converted to a bunch of asterisks.

I bet Coligny had something to do with this....look out for the fat bloke carrying around a big rock, or the other, pure white fat bloke with black eyes whose spare tires look like, well, spare tires. And I'd keep your eyes open for piles of shit on the floor of McDonald's or nuclear waste in your backyard while you're at it, too.

[Coligny]

I bet Coligny had something to do with this....look out for the fat bloke carrying around a big rock, or the other, pure white fat bloke with black eyes whose spare tires look like, well, spare tires. And I'd keep your eyes open for piles of shit on the floor of McDonald's or nuclear waste in your backyard while you're at it, too.

I dun't understand anything... (wait... Obelix, Tireman, McDo nuking, and Areva ?)

Michelin
Carlyle Group
Halliburton
Renault
Peugeot
Citroen
Audi
Ky Jelly
Trojan
TRW
Raytheon
Mc Donnell Douglas
Fairey Rotodyne
Fairchild Republic
General Dynamic

and now: ****** aww crap... it is le censoreded too for me !? might be to prevent hotlinking to their amazing selection of double ended dildos and ona holes...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Trojan...???

I had no idea about this one.
So, they really are French letters now.

[John Dillinger]

Even though I hate his music, I have to give some grudging respect to girlyboy Bieber. A lot of pop stars have canceled their tours because of the quakes, tsunamis, and ongoing nuclear crisis, but Bieber is still going to tour.

When Justin Bieber is braver than Avril Laigne and metal band Anthrax, something's not right in the world.

Next Media Animation explains it all:

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[Mike Oxlong]

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[Ganma]

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Ah. When rock was so much younger.

[Thug4Life]

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