The Visionary and Sol Azul & other: July 2008

Thursday, 3 July 2008

Tom Petty the Heartbreakers

Artist: Tom Petty the Heartbreakers

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Live At The Fillmore

Year:
Tracks: 20

Wednesday, 2 July 2008

A Capitol Fourth on PBS Goes for the Gold With a Special Olympic Tribute to Team USA Led By Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton

- Hosted by Jimmy Smits, America's Biggest Birthday Party Offers
Patriotic Send Off to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing with the
National Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Erich Kunzel -

WASHINGTON, July 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On July Fourth, there's
no place like our nation's capital for America's biggest birthday party.
The 28th annual broadcast of A Capitol Fourth, hosted by Emmy and Golden
Globe Award-winning actor Jimmy Smits, will feature a special salute to our
country's summer Olympians. Gold medal winner Scott Hamilton will lead the
tribute to Team USA, honoring past and present Olympians on stage before a
crowd of hundreds of thousands live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
A musical tribute from the National Symphony Orchestra with maestro Erich
Kunzel will include John Williams' "Olympic Fanfare" and the inspirational
song "This is the Moment" performed by Tony Award-winning Broadway star
Brian Stokes Mitchell. Kunzel will also conduct the Cincinnati Pops at the
Beijing Olympics this summer, the only American orchestra to perform in
this year's Olympic Games. Olympians to be honored during the tribute
include: Eli Bremer (Modern Pentathlon); Tim Morehouse (Fencing); Dominic
Grazioli (Shooting), Jake Deitchler (Wrestling), Kendrick Farris
(Weightlifting), Nancy Rios (Sailing), Bob Malaythong (Badminton) and
Jessica Long (2006 Paralympian of the Year). The multi-award winning event
will be broadcast in high definition and commercial free on PBS Friday,
July 4, 2008 from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. ET (check local listings), simulcast on
National Public Radio and around the world to our troops on the American
Forces Network.

"I can't think of a better venue than the U.S. Capitol to honor and pay
tribute to my fellow Olympians," said Scott Hamilton. "These athletes
represent all of the qualities that have made America so great and it's
only fitting that we give Team USA a patriotic send off to Beijing on the
4th of July when we celebrate our nation's birthday!"

The most popular and beloved male figure skating star in the world,
Scott Hamilton is also a network TV skating commentator, actor, performer,
producer, Emmy Award nominee, best-selling author, role model, humanitarian
and philanthropist. As a cancer and brain tumor survivor, he is constantly
reminding others that, with fortitude and determination, anything is
possible. In 1990, Hamilton was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of
Fame, adding that achievement to his more than 70 titles, awards and
honors. This includes winning four consecutive U.S. Championships
(1981-1984), four consecutive World Championships (1981-1984) and the 1984
Olympics. Also in 1990, he became a privileged member of the World Figure
Skating Hall of Fame. Scott appears regularly on television. He has
recently signed a three year exclusive agreement with NBC Sports to cover
all of their skating broadcasts including the upcoming winter Olympics in
2010. This past season, he hosted Fox's reality series Skating with
Celebrities. On the big screen, Hamilton recently starred in the mega box
office motion picture comedy hit Blades of Glory with Will Ferrell and Jon
Heder. An acclaimed author, Hamilton received critical praise for his New
York Times best-selling autobiography Landing It (Kensington Books, October
1999), an intimate, candid and insightful look at his professional and
personal life on and off the ice. His new inspirational book, The Great
Eight, will be published by Thomas Nelson Publishing in January 2009.

A Capitol Fourth will include special performances by Grammy
Award-winning musicians Huey Lewis and the News, American Idol winner
Taylor Hicks, Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame legend Jerry Lee Lewis, Tony
Award-winning Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell, classical superstar
Hayley Westenra and American soprano Harolyn Blackwell in performance with
the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of top pops conductor
Erich Kunzel.

A Capitol Fourth 2008 is made possible by grants from The Boeing
Company, the National Park Service, the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, the Department of the Army, the National Endowment for the
Arts, PBS and public television stations nationwide. Air travel is provided
by American Airlines.

Web Site: http://www.pbs.org/capitolfourth

Press Web Site: http://www.pbs.org/pressroom

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Transformer star's sneaky cigarette a shocker

Shia LaBeouf set off smoke alarms in a US museum when he lit a cigarette in the bathroom.

The 21-year-old actor received a stern lecture and warning from officials at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in Washington DC, after attempting to smoke in the bathroom while filming his new movie Transformers 2.

When he realised he had set off the alarm, Shia tried to get rid of the evidence by flushing the nicotine stick down the toilet, according to the National Enquirer magazine.

Guards at the museum warned the actor he will be banned from the premises if he is caught lighting up again.

This is not the first time Shia has been in trouble with the law for his smoking habits.

In February, Shia was forced to pay a $500 fine after lighting up in a non-smoking area in Burbank, California.

Transformers 2 - which sees Shia reunited with FHM’s Sexiest Woman in the World winner Megan Fox - is set for release in June 2009.

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Skaldowie

Artist: Skaldowie

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Ty - Wszystkim Zakochanym

Year: 2002
Tracks: 22

Gold (CD 2)

Year: 1998
Tracks: 15

Gold (CD 1)

Year: 1998
Tracks: 15

Coldplay toppled from US No.1 spot

Ruben and the Jets

Artist: Ruben and the Jets

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

For Real!

Year: 1973
Tracks: 11

So, this is the report -- familiar to all fans of Frank Zappa -- of Ruben Sano and his '53 Nash, and the band he left behind at 19 when his girlfriend said she'd provide him if he didn't depart the group. Right?Wrong.This is the report of Ruben Guevara and the real world Ruben & the Jets. The latter was introduced as a nome de disque by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention for their 1968 album Cruising with Ruben & the Jets. At the meter, biography and art were regularly borrowing from each other in both directions all about Zappa and company. The Mothers of Invention album Freak Out! (1966) had served as role of the aspiration for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), which Zappa and company, in turn, satirized -- along with the state of psyche elicited by it -- on We're Only in It for the Money (1968).Later that same class, Zappa and company created the fictitious "Ruben & the Jets" image for purposes of doing an album, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, that was both a loving protection to and satire of '50s rock & roll, and specially of doo wop music. It was a record that worked either square or as a travesty (particularly of doo ginzo lyrics, which Zappa loathed as much as he loved the music); and it included not only some of his pre-Mothers do work, only a handful of songs off of Junky Out! reimagined in distinctly '50s damage, which helped give it an extra layer of attract for the already initiated. It didn't sell in brobdingnagian numbers racket (few of Zappa's records in those years did), just it influenced a lot of former artists, including -- again -- the Beatles, whose have back-to-the-roots project (in the beginning called "Get Back" and finished as Rent It Be), followed a few months later. And as a purely personal observance, it was the showtime Frank Zappa album that this writer remembers turning up in the hands of whatsoever kyd in his high school. Zappa and the Mothers touched on to other projects and ideas, and the "Ruben" album became part of their history, and that might've been the end of it.Just 1 person world Health Organization heard the album was Ruben Ladron de Guevara from Los Angeles, wHO was a isaac Bashevis Singer, musician, and songster with a special dearest of rock candy & undulate. He sour up backstage after a Mothers gig in L.A. and told Zappa how much he'd loved the criminal record -- he likewise pointed out that his list was Ruben, and he did music in that style. A duet of years later they crossed paths again, and Zappa suggested that Guevara think about putt together a band. He took the mesmerism and ran with it, and came back to Zappa with a band and the idea of vocation it "Ruben & the Jets." They requisite Zappa's permission and he gave it, and also suggested that if they treasured to record an album, he'd produce it, if that was okay.It was, and therefore the world all of a sudden had a real world Ruben & the Jets, with a channelise Zappa connection. And for his role, Zappa rosiness to the occasion with one of the c. H. Best (and straightest) productions of his vocation, and one that oozed virtuosity out of every note, far beyond what anyone was expecting from a retro-rock & roll album in 1973. But you could understand how very much Zappa liked the dance orchestra and their sound from the fact that he took them on a 1972 West Coast hitch supporting the Mothers, patch the album was in the works. And when the latter surfaced in 1973 on Zappa's have Indiscreet label (through Mercury Records), the connections 'tween artistic production and life sentence became even closer -- Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood, wHO had played in Zappa's Ruben & the Jets, was performing with the real guys. In a sense, this was a natural -- Sherwood and Zappa had one time played together in a rock music & roll/R&B outfit called the Omens, and the record album, appropriately highborn For Real!, was an extension of that history. The tangible Ruben & the Jets consisted of Ruben Guevara on vocals and tambourine, Tony Duran on lead story and slide guitar, Robert "Toad" Camenara on rhythm guitar and vocals, Johnny Martinez on bass, organ, and vocals, Robert "American buffalo" Roberts on tenor saxophone, Bill Wild on bass and minute tenor, Bob Zamora on drums, and Sherwood on barytone saxophone and tambourine. Among the songs, at that place was peerless Zappa original, the beautiful "If I Could Only Be Your Love Again," and although at that place is some difference of opinion on this point among those world Health Organization were there, it seems he as well likely played the jumper cable guitar on the second-half/fade-out for "Dedicated to the One I Love."For Real! was as lots of a masterpiece as Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, only dissimilar -- it was less a work out of satire than the 1968 album had been, though it silent had its moments of capital fun amid some genuinely, really glorious stone & roll. Zappa took them on circuit nationwide with his banding in 1973, and on a second tour during the like year Ruben & the Jets were engaged alongside Three Dog Night and West, Bruce & Laing. They too played aboard the likes of Tower of Power, Azteca, and Cheech & Chong.Despite all of their work, the group ne'er broke through to a wider public, and For Real! ne'er got as practically exposure as the prescribed Zappa record album. Sad to say -- as peerless of Zappa's best productions -- it's scarcely known by Zappa fans wHO came along in the decades that followed. The grouping did peerless more LP, Con Safos, simply ceased operative together in the mid-'70s, for the most part undischarged to Guevara getting the offer of a contract for a solo recording, and the frustrations of not fashioning sufficiency money. According to Sherwood, they played besides many benefits and non enough paying gigs.

Seether, Finger Eleven Cancel Sioux Falls

The Aug. 13 Seether [ tickets ] and Finger Eleven [ tickets ] concert scheduled for the Ramkota Exhibit Hall in Sioux Falls, SD, has been canceled due to a scheduling conflict, the promoter said in a statement. Refunds will be available at the point of purchase.

'Nerd Girls': Brilliant, beautiful babes who build stuff

Nerdgirls Here's a new show that could bring the dreams of geeks everywhere a step closer to reality. "Nerd Girls" from producer-director Paola Di Florio is about "a team of knockout brainiacs who are changing the world," one engineering problem at a time. The show is based on a real club at Tufts University, where ladies come to play ... with soldering irons. The trailer shows the stiletto-clad Nerd Girls working on solar cars, FPGAs and infra-red doggy doors.

Every week, in answer to viewer emails, the girls will hop in the Nerd van and seek out those with the most pressing technical and scientific issues to resolve.

Also, they will talk about boys.

"Sometimes boys are intimidated by girls being engineers," said the FPGA programmer, as Pink's "Stupid Girls" playedin the background. "But I don't care."

"When you say, 'I'm an engineer,' and they're not fazed by it," added the sizzling dorkette pictured above, "it kind of shows that they can handle that intelligence."

I can handle it. Hey, I've even got the name of the TV version, if the producers want it: America's Next Top Nobel.

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Quicksilver Messenger Service

Artist: Quicksilver Messenger Service

   Genre(s):
Rock: Psychedelic

Discography:

Happy Trails

Year: 1969
Tracks: 10

The ring that became Quicksilver Messenger Service originally was conceived as a rock vehicle for folk singer/songwriter Dino Valente (b. Nov. 7, 1943, d. Nov 16, 1994), author of "Get Together." Living in San Francisco, Valente had set up guitar player John Cipollina (b. Aug. 24, 1943, d. May 29, 1989) and isaac M. Singer Jim Murray. Valente's friend David Freiberg (b. Aug. 24, 1938) joined on basso, and the group was accomplished by the addition of drummer Greg Elmore (b. Sep. 4, 1946) and guitarist Gary Duncan (b. Sep 4, 1946). As the band was beingness put together, Valente was imprisoned on a dose charge and he didn't retort Quicksilver until by and by. They debuted at the goal of 1965 and played round the Bay Area and then the West Coast for the next deuce geezerhood, building up a big following simply resisting offers to record that had been interpreted up by such San Francisco acidulent rock'n'roll colleagues as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. Quicksilver ultimately signed to Capitol toward the goal of 1967 and recorded their self-titled debut album in 1968 (by this prison term, Murray had left). Happy Trails, the 1969 follow-up, was recorded live. After its release, Duncan left the band and was replaced for Shady Grove (1970) by British sitting piano player Nicky Hopkins. By the sentence of its release, however, Duncan had returned, along with Valente, qualification the mathematical group a sextet. This variation of Quicksilver, prominently featuring Valente's songs and lead vocals, lasted only if a class, during which deuce albums, Precisely for Love and What About Me, were recorded. Cipollina, Freiberg, and Hopkins then left, and the leftover ternion of Valente, Duncan, and Elmore hired replacements and cut another couple of albums ahead disbanding. There was a reunion in 1975, resulting in a unexampled album and a tour, and in 1986 Duncan reanimated the Quicksilver name for an record album that as well featured Freiberg on background vocals.