Gary Wright – Love Is Alive
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1976.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Norah Jones – Come Away With Me
An evening pause: Performed live in New Orleans 2002.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Lalo Schifrin – Mission Impossible
An evening pause: Performed live in Prague, 2010.
Hat tip Roland.
Cher & Tina Turner – Shame on You!
A evening pause: Performed live on television 1975.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Fender – recreating the classic “Brownie” Stratocaster used by Eric Clapton
An evening pause: Apparently Clapton used what is called a “Brownie” Stratocaster when he recorded the song Layla. In this video Fender rebuilds an old one to make it like new, for Clapton.
Hat tip Cotour.
Johann Sebastian Bach – Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
An evening pause: Good music is good music, and should not require the right season to enjoy.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Metal Church – Beyond The Black
An evening pause: Performed live 2016. Heavy metal music about a post-nuclear war world, written in 1984. It is a shame that fear might be returning.
Hat tip Björn Larsson a.k.a. LocalFluff.
The Rolling Stones & Sheryl Crow – Honky Tonk Women
An evening pause: Performed live 2003.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Heart – Stairway to Heaven
A evening pause: Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Katie Webster – I’m bad
An evening pause: Performed live, 1990.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
The Weavers – So Long
An evening pause: That’s (l to r) Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Fred Hellerman. Performed live c1951.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Touring the largest organ in the world
An evening pause: Specifically, this tour takes us from the bottom to the top of the largest pipe, and then shows us what comes out when you play it.
Hat tip Judd Clark, who provides this additional information:
Constructed between May 1929 and December 1932, the Main Auditorium Organ is the “Poseidon”, built by the Midmer-Losh Organ Company, and is the world’s largest pipe organ. Also included in this organ are pipes operating on 100 inches of pressure, the Grand Ophicleide being the loudest and also most famous. The instrument has an estimated 33,113 pipes and requires approximately 600 horsepower (450 kW) of blowers to operate.
The best news in the world
An evening pause: This short video is kind of a Paul Harvey “Rest of the Story.” Stay with it, it is worth it.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Cindy Cashdollar & her 1927 Hermann Weissenborn Koa wood slide guitar
An evening pause: As she says, “They have such a different sound.”
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Clarence Gatemouth Brown – Leftover Blues
An evening pause: Very nice. Hat tip Judd Clark.
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Styropyro – The brightest laser pointer in the world!
An evening pause: Much of the electronics described here is over my head, but the final result is quite astonishing.
Hat tip Tom Wilson.
Lavinia Meijer – Metamorphosis
An evening pause: By Philip Glass and performed live in 2011.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World
An evening pause: Performed live 2000.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
George Winston – Thanksgiving
An evening pause: For a winter’s evening.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
John Williams – The Cowboys Overture
An evening pause: It is more than a decade since I last posted this magnificent piece of music from the 1972 John Wayne film, The Cowboys. Time to post it again, because I think it makes a great start to a new year. Rather than John Williams conducting, this time we have a 2018 performance by the Stanisław Moniuszko School of Music Orchestra in Bielsko Biała, Poland, Andrzej Kucybała, conductor.