In MemoriAm
1/15/2018 R.I.P. Delores O'Riordan of The Cranberries . Saddened to lose another one-of-a-kind artist so early in the new year. Zombie was my introduction. This illustrates the power of one song to me. It touched me. Thank you Delores, you brought this to my attention & it affected me. This is the cerebral power of Art & Music. After all that's happened it's hard to remember Belfast & the Catholic/Protestant war in Northern Ireland. I'm glad the strife is mostly,no longer there. Unfortunately it is now among us. Strive for compassion & understanding,no matter the consequence.
Please click the buttons above to be taken to a tribute page for each of the artists.
As sad as it is to lose these great talents,they have left an enduring legacy in their art,
that will inspire for generations.My small gesture to honor them here is my way of
expressing my own appreciation for the inspiration they've given me.This was a
challenging but fulfilling project that engrossed most of my spare time over the last
month or so. I had never played any of these songs before & really have only played
my own music for probably the last 25 years. I did things the old fashioned way,
listening to the original recordings over & over to figure out the cord changes & hand
writing the lyrics,recording each one a half dozen times to pick the video with the fewest mistakes. I'm no performer so it took some getting used to to watch myself. I dug out
my old record albums,concert tickets & tee shirts & photographed them for the slide shows & did a fair amount of reminiscing,(which I've been getting good at on this
website!) I was almost done,then George Martin died & I knew he would have to be
included. So I quickly gathered some images from the internet & practiced a rough
ad-lib version of John Lennon's In My Life a couple times for his page. Martin played the baroque piano solo on that song & I make no attempt to mimic it here. There's an
interesting story of how he recorded it at a slower speed then sped it up to match the songs tempo. So many of the tricks he pioneered are just normal,everyday techniques today. Sorry to ramble on so long here,I'm glad to have completed this project & am
looking forward to the next. Hopefully not more tributes.
As sad as it is to lose these great talents,they have left an enduring legacy in their art,
that will inspire for generations.My small gesture to honor them here is my way of
expressing my own appreciation for the inspiration they've given me.This was a
challenging but fulfilling project that engrossed most of my spare time over the last
month or so. I had never played any of these songs before & really have only played
my own music for probably the last 25 years. I did things the old fashioned way,
listening to the original recordings over & over to figure out the cord changes & hand
writing the lyrics,recording each one a half dozen times to pick the video with the fewest mistakes. I'm no performer so it took some getting used to to watch myself. I dug out
my old record albums,concert tickets & tee shirts & photographed them for the slide shows & did a fair amount of reminiscing,(which I've been getting good at on this
website!) I was almost done,then George Martin died & I knew he would have to be
included. So I quickly gathered some images from the internet & practiced a rough
ad-lib version of John Lennon's In My Life a couple times for his page. Martin played the baroque piano solo on that song & I make no attempt to mimic it here. There's an
interesting story of how he recorded it at a slower speed then sped it up to match the songs tempo. So many of the tricks he pioneered are just normal,everyday techniques today. Sorry to ramble on so long here,I'm glad to have completed this project & am
looking forward to the next. Hopefully not more tributes.