Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – Riviera Paradise
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
Tag: entertainment
The Haunting
An evening pause: For the Halloween weekend, one of Hollywood’s best ghost films, Robert Wise’s The Haunting (1963), based on a short story by Shirley Jackson.
No blood. No gore. No violence. Only an overwhelming sense of dread and fear, evoked by brilliant filmmaking.
Fun Boy Three – Our Lips Are Sealed
An evening pause: A very typical 80s song, very sad, hopeless, and depressing. Background here.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Eddie Van Halen – Another greatest guitar solo ever
An evening pause: Performed live in 1986. I suspect there are a lot of guitar solos that people will label the greatest ever.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Elli Siitonen – Popcorn
A evening pause: Song by Gershon Kingsley, played on a kantele, a traditional Finnish string instrument, with looper added.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Boy Meets Girl – Waiting for a Star to Fall
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas – The Boxer
An evening pause: “But the fighter still remains.”
Hat tip Daniel Morris. I posted this in 2013, and it was time to post it again.
Stuart Hamm – The greatest bass solo ever
An evening pause: He goes from classical to country to rock, in less than four minutes.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Crowded House – Weather With You
An evening pause: Performed live 2016. Stay with it. It gets better and better.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Nat King Cole – September Song
An evening pause: Performed live in 1957 on Cole’s television show. The music was composed by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Patrick Dykstra – Chasing Ocean Giants
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour, who correctly describes this as “a meeting of aliens from two different worlds.”
Igudesman & Joo – Rachmaninov had big Hands
An evening pause: Hat tip Dan Morris.
Chaka Kahn – Ain’t Nobody
An evening pause: Performed live 2012. Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The Bangles – Hazy Shade Of Winter
An evening pause: Performed live 1987.
Hat tip Daniel Morris.
Numberphile – The Strange Orbit of Earth’s “Second Moon”
An evening pause: There is joyful art hidden in all existence. You simply have to have the open-mindedness to look for it.
Hat tip Tom Donohue.
James Hill – Billie Jean
An evening pause: Performed live, 2011, with his imaginary band.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Jay Sekulow Band – Long Time
An evening pause: The song is originally by Boston, and the lead singer here is Dino Elefante, originally from the band Kansas. Sekulow is the Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which focuses on defending the issues of free speech that the ACLU abandoned years ago.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Neil Finn – Dizzy Heights
An evening pause: Performed live 2013.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
Billy Paul – Me and Mrs. Jones
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Paul Simon and Willie Nelson – Homeward Bound
A evening pause: Performed live 2003.
Hat tip Jeff Poplin.