All it Takes is this Casio keyboard…

MC Lyte was in Amsterdam this weekend and visited the Paradiso, check out her blog here and read what she had to say about our boy Manga.

Its also interesting to read her opinion on the music scene nowadays:

“I LOVE THIS TIME THAT WE’RE IN RIGHT NOW!!!  WE AS ARTIST CAN DECIDE WHAT WE WANT TO DO AND HOW BIG WE WANT TO DO IT.  WE CAN MAKE THE DECISION OF HOW HARD WE WANT TO WORK AND PUSH AND PROMOTE AND MARKET OR CHOOSE TO DO THE TOTAL OPPOSITE AND MAKE MUSIC AND DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH IT.  WE ARE BACK AT THE BEGINNING, WE HAVE GONE FULL CIRCLE.  

THE LABELS ARE AT A LOST AND THE POWER IS BACK IN THE HAND OF THE TRULY CREATIVE ONES.  NOT TO SAY LABEL PEOPLE ARE BAD BUT LET’S JUST FACE IT…ARTIST CREATE ART AND LABEL EXECS CREATE MARKETING PLANS.  THAT’S HOW IT IS AND THAT’S HOW IT SHOULD BE.  THE MUSIC IS MADE FIRST AND THEN THE LABEL COMES UP WITH A PLAN TO MAKE THAT PIECE OF MUSIC WORK.  IT SHOULD NEVER BE THE MARKETING TEAM HAS A PLAN NOW LET’S FIND ANY AND EVERY ARTIST THAT CAN FIT INTO IT.”

One of my favorite players in the NBA shows how to treat a lady…..

another case of an early talkbox situation….

Rembrandt using an Ipod, or is he? This would make up for a nice ad. Thanks to Shoe.

Move over Peter Frampton, Roger Troutman, Steve Miller and Stevie Wonder,  they were not  the first musicians to put a plastic tube in their mouth to make  instruments talk. Pete Drake, a phenomenal steel guitar player, shows his stuff in this delightful video with an unusually  group of backup singers, musicians, and people who are sitting around in what appears to be a drug- or witchcraft-induced trance.  Is this where David Lynch got some of his inspiration from? Or maybe it is an unaired episode of the Twilightzone.

In this video Linsey Pollak, an Australian musician and instrument maker carves a carrot and then plays it as a clarinet.

Bands in Sweden sure knew how to dress in the 70s’. Now we know why The Hives always look so neat.
Get inspired!

Check this amazing one man acapella version of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. He has used 64 tracks to do this.