LIVE ROCK CRITIC: 2015

Thursday 3 December 2015

LIVE ROCK CRITIC 49

"Hemingway could write drunk, so can I" Drunky Cocamo.

Cold Play is releasing a new album " A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS". Cold Play is one of those bands whose popularity amazes me. Of course i am from Sooke BC, land of the easily amazed. I heard part of the new very popular single "Adventure of a Lifetime". Cold Play has gone even more 1910 Fruitgum Company. The front man jumps and bounces around in what I can only think of as ridiculous unskilled white guy dancing. Some people think its cool, call it "quirky".I wonder if there is an extremely youthful and tasteless audience? Is it possible that there are people who just can't tell the difference between good music and highly promoted music.

Sunday 29 November 2015

LIVE ROCK CRITIC 48

Stephen Colbert on Late Night is not quite as funny as he used to be
with the most terrible band, Staying Human, Jean Baptiste's band.

Voltek joined Jean and the band adding an incomprehensible layer of mystification, I wonder what they were doing. Was this some "in" joke that I don't know about?

Boots Cure. OK. This is an artsy dischordinate start which will morph and meld into melody. No. That did not happen. Same metallic dischordinate electronic annoying repetitive with bad sounds mumbling I am so cool. No. Godawful.

Celo Green performed with Staying Human. Celo is a good example of a multi voiced artist who can belt out tunes right on key.

I viewed a number of Stephen Colbert's Late |Night shows and one of the funniest moments was the look on Bill Mahr's face when he heard Staying Human.

Forty or so Late Nights in the DVR, but I did not find that the episodes were very entertaining. At the beginning of each program and at around the twenty five minute mark Stephen Colbert will deliver some John Stewart style Political Satire. Trevor Noah on the new Daily Show is every bit as good as Colbert, and maybe even John Stewart. Trevor Noah does the best voice impersonations.

Public Image Ltd. The lead shouter is ridiculous. Drums driving hard. Nice sparky guitar. I can't tell, the red with bookmarked gold flame grain looks just like a Les Paul Gibson guitar. Very symphonic very much in tune. Could the guitar be a Paul Reed Smith.

I do not like the movie star conversations which go on forever it seems. Celebrities talk with Steve about nothing. I will continue to record Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Will I watch the episodes?

Live Rock Critic 48 with Drunky Cocamo, official Live Rock Critic

First of all, I did not host Stephen Harper and Patris Magnus at Drunkycocomovision, nor was the performance which they created at Drunkycocomovision studios in any way authorized. They broke in.

Saturday Night Live is traditionally a source of Live Rock Critic material. The critic would view live performance on SNL and post.
Donald Trump is performing as host tonight. What a perfect opportunity as another bombastic loudmouthed extrovert who thinks he knows everything does his usual thing, spouting off.

I would like to concentrate on Donald Trump dancing and singing as Drake would. It is no secret that I think that Drake is a Dork. Donald dances well, very fluid, very old school white guy, just like Drake. It just dawned on me, that is why Drake is so popular in Canada. A white in black's clothing. He has a fashion line.

University of British Columbia students out wimped and out white- guyed both Donald and Drake. ( Really, you should go to youtube and try to find the video which the geeks on CBC played and replayed.The two wimpy white guys in the white sweaters, pathetic. A very large number of UBC students posted videos where they mimed and minced their way through " ...... my cell phone". Cannot anyone come up with a cooler name for mobile phones than the ancient "cell phone"?

Sunday 15 November 2015

Live Rock Critic 47

LIVE ROCK CRITIC 47

https://www.youtube.com/user/DRUNKYCOCOMOVISION

Sorry, the link wouldn't work, here is the video.

LIVE ROCK CRITIC 46

Hello, this is Russ Russ from Keith Martain Mpy channel on you-tube. I am a Collard Creation. (Also a channel). There, that over with just call me Russ.

Russ says: Conrad Black I would like to talk to you about tuning stringed instruments.

Can come back, The most common would be guitar but electric guitar and

Bye the Bye, bass is the primary focus of this post.

So can I.

Before the advent of electronic tuners tuning with tuning forks, pitch pipes and keyboards was difficult. Lindon Collard the previous Live Rock Critic recalled being required to sound an accurate tuning note on harmonica in live performance situations.

There are many digital electronic tuners available today. I still use an old Korg GT20 tuner which was inexpensive.

I have found that the warmth of fingers and stretching caused by fingering and picking will lengthen strings just slightly and lower pitch so it is not correct to A 440 cps.

The use of lowered tunings has always perplexed me as I think that not tuning to concert pitch reduces "sparkle" and will train the ear other than to perfect pitch.

If you find yourself always slinging the guitar with your finger tips or bending a little to hear sound which is right on, your pitch is probably low.

When I am tuning I allow a slightly higher pitch than indicated, a just flashing red on the Korg GT 20. I am not sure exactly how other electronic tuners could be used, but tuning slightly high and then checking the tuning on the guitar after a period of play could determine whether or not the process was effective or desirable.

If you are interested click on my video link just below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRnA31JhQ9c

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