M Is FOR MASHUP - May 30th, 2012
A Hard Days Mashup,
By DJ Useo
Or How To Group Beatles Remixers
Ever since I discovered the Beatles music I've been into all their stuff. John Lennon meant even more to me because of his devotion to his strong beliefs. His protest-oriented music is more relevant today than when it was released. If only he was still with us. George Harrison, too. Ringo & Paul are still going strong with fantastic new music. After you've bought all the available records, the music is so great, you still want more. For some of us, we need more Beatles music, & the only way to get it is to savor the variety & newness of Beatles mashups.
Lots of DJ's indulge in making Beatles mashups, but the home of them all is the Beatles Remixers forum ( beatlesremixers.freeforums.org/ ). You won't find the enormous numbers of members & posts of the regular mashup forums, but you will find inventive, well-mixed tracks from practiced, well-liked home producers like MP3J, BDJ, TjT, and a good many more. I've tried to consistently post tracks there since they opened. I really enjoy posting among mixers I admire & those guys are happening.
Today I was able to catch up with many of the newer Beatles Remixers posts. BDJ (Beatles DJ) had a batch of killer bootlegs like John Lennon - Luck of the Irish (BDJ Upgrade), John Lennon -Attica State (BDJ Remix/Upgrade), & The Beatles - I Need You (BDJ arrangement). TjT had just recently done a splendid full album remix of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' (posted in the non-Beatles section), 'Maybe I'm Whipped' (Devo vs The Beatles),& 'Nowhere To Go' (Beatles vs Beatles). DmR of AtoZ who oversees the many Beatles Remixers Group compilations has excellent mixes posted like 'Lobster Skelter' (The Beatles vs B-52's), 'What You're Doing Upside Down' (Beatles vs Beatles) & 'And The Band Played Get Back' (The Hills Where You Once Belonged )(The Temptations vs The Beatles).
There's more, too, much more than I could mention in only one article. New members even fade in once in a while. One I must mention is Alubman. 'Birthday' (re-creation/video by Alubman) is an incredible cover version of The Beatles. This track was completely recreated by one solo musician who expertly handles the bass, drums, guitars, and more. He even stars in and directs his own video. You got'ta see this one. It & all the other tracks mentioned are found here ( beatlesremixers.freeforums.org/ ) Bookmark the site & enjoy some fine Beatles mashups often. Beware, though…you will find yourself buying lots more official Beatles music. Beware? That's a big plus! Lol! Thanks for reading.
Mix Of The Week
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Latest Useo Thing
I heard a mashup a while back by Wolverhampton, UK's mashup-mixer 'No Saturday Night Surgery' NsNs of Lit singing 'My Own Worst Enemy' over the Beatles' 'Nowhere Man'. I love his mix but I wanted it longer, so I mixed up
this version that I didn't release till now
( www.groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2012/05/lit-vs-beatles.html ) . 'My Own Nowhere Man' (Lit vs The Beatles) I did release a reverse mix version last year with the Beatles singing 'Nowhere Man' over Lit's 'My Own Worst Enemy'on my INTENSE PSYCHEDELIA 6 album.
Here it is as a single. '13-My Own Worst Nowhere Man' (The Beatles vs Lit) Thanks to NsNs for inspiration & satisfaction. Be sure & check his mixes out.
( soundcloud.com/no-saturday-night-surgery )
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
You will never get sick of Beatles mashups.
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In every year since 1971 Amtrak has lost money. Real businesses don't lose money for 40 consecutive years. When they lose money for a year or so the top dogs get heaved. If the losses go on much longer the company is taken over, dismembered and sold for parts. While capitalism can be as dumb, arrogant and shortsighted as government, no one can say capitalism is sentimental. Bad or outmoded products and services die. Good products and services thrive. We benefit.
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Annalee Newitz: Here Are the 1960s Science Fiction Novels Everyone Should Read (io9)
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UK Politicians "Bowed" Before Him
Rupert
Britain's political class competed to "bow and scrape" before media tycoon Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate), Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Tuesday, in comments aimed at setting his Liberal Democrats apart from the country's two other main parties.
The Lib Dems, Britain's third-largest party, has had relatively few dealings with Murdoch and his News Corp media empire, which paid them little attention until they came to power in 2010 as part of a coalition government.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair - who once likened the media to a "feral beast" - said on Monday leaders had to court media barons or risk savage press attacks.
"Almost the entire political class competed to bow and scrape in front of Rupert Murdoch. The whole thing was rotten, and it inevitably came crashing down," Clegg said in extracts from a speech he is expected to make later on Tuesday at the opening of a summit tackling "Britain's broken establishment".
Rupert
Eagle Scout To Challenge Anti-Gay Policy
Zach Wahls
An Eagle Scout whose defense of gay civil unions went viral in 2011 on YouTube plans to challenge the anti-gay policy of the Boy Scouts of America at its annual conference in Orlando on Wednesday.
Zach Wahls, 20, of Iowa City, Iowa, told Reuters he will present the Boy Scouts leadership with a petition signed by more than 280,000 people calling for the organization to end discrimination against gay youth and leaders.
Deron Smith, public relations director for the BSA, said on Tuesday that the conference and Wahls' presentation will be closed to the press and public.
The petition was launched April 17 on Change.org, the web-based social change platform, by Jennifer Tyrrell, 32, a former Boy Scouts den leader from Bridgeport, Ohio, one week after she was ousted because she is gay. The petition also calls for her reinstatement.
Tyrrell, who will not attend the event, said she is not optimistic. But Wahls, whose defense of his lesbian mothers and civil unions before the Iowa House of Representatives has been viewed on YouTube more than 2.5 million times, said gay rights advocates are aware of many Boy Scout leaders who support change.
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Goes To Bat For Farm Animals
Peter Dinklage
In "Game of Thrones," Peter Dinklage's character is constantly steeped in battle over control of a mythical kingdom. After the show's season finale on Sunday, Dinklage plans to take his fight to the farm.
Dinklage, 43, will spend his off season promoting a campaign to change the way society treats farm animals as national spokesman for Farm Sanctuary's annual Walk for Farm Animals.
The actor, who has been a vegetarian since he was 16, has won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his role in the HBO series. He said he joined the cause because he felt "animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery."
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Sets New Record
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The first installment of History's "Hatfields & McCoys" had 13.9 million total viewers, setting a new record for non-sports, ad-supported cable programs.
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Back On Florida Library Shelves
"Fifty Shades of Grey"
A Florida county is putting the racy romance trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey" back on its library shelves.
The Brevard County Library System had pulled 19 copies of the best-sellers from its bookshelves earlier this month. County officials said the decision was made after they read reviews of the trilogy initially self-published by the author in e-reader form.
A county spokesman also called the books "semi-pornographic."
On Monday, the county announced that "Fifty Shades of Grey" would be available immediately through the library in response to requests from residents.
Library Services Director Cathy Schweinsberg said the library was against censorship and was reviewing its selection criteria.
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Avoid These Words
Homeland Security
With the FBI reportedly forming a new internet surveillance unit and the National Security Agency building a data center in Utah that will be able to sift through communications between private citizens, you can assume that the government can readily spy on you whenever it wants to. Another agency, Homeland Security, began its social media monitoring program a few months ago. But you don't have to worry about being included in its watch list, so long as you avoid using any word found in its list of keywords.
The agency was recently forced to release its list after a freedom of information request was submitted by privacy watchdog, Electronic Privacy Information Center. Some of the words like "Al Qaeda" and "Taliban" are pretty much self-explanatory. But others like "pork" and "sick" make no sense until you hear the agency's explanation about its program monitoring social networks not only for signs of terrorism, but also for public health threats and natural disasters.
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Jury To Hear Claims Against Game Maker
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No Doubt's attorneys can argue to a jury that the band was misled by gaming giant Activision Publishing Inc. about how its likeness would be used in the video game "Band Hero," a judge ruled Tuesday.
The ruling by Superior Court Judge Ramona See rejected a motion by Activision's lawyers to dismiss several claims from the case, including fraud, violation of publicity rights and breach of contract. See determined there were genuine disputes about evidence that a jury should consider.
No Doubt sued the Santa Monica, Calif.-based video game company in November 2009, claiming the band was never told that players would be able to unlock avatars of the band to perform other artists' music.
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Sentenced In Family Court
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Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman was sentenced in family court Tuesday to 104 hours of community service on four counts of contempt for failing to pay child support.
Court Commissioner Barry Michaelson also placed Rodman on three years of informal probation. The sentence includes the condition that Rodman pay current child and spousal support obligations.
The court hearing remained under way at late morning on other issues in the case. Rodman was present.
Rodman currently pays about $4,500 a month in child and spousal support, said Jack Kayajanian, another attorney for Michelle Rodman who is focused on recovering the payments.
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Repug Wunderkind With A Fake Law School Record
D.J. Bettencourt
Republican wunderkind D.J. Bettencourt's rise to the top of New Hampshire politics was meteoric. His fall has been even more spectacular.
Bettencourt, first elected as a state representative at 20, last year at 27 became majority leader of New Hampshire's 400-member House of Representatives after Republicans won a two-thirds majority in the 2010 election.
On Sunday he resigned from the body after admitting he had falsified information about an internship that he needed to graduate this spring from the University of New Hampshire's law school. On Monday, a conservative legal foundation that had planned to hire Bettencourt as its director announced it would no longer do so. And on Tuesday, legislative leaders planned to quickly fill the majority leader position.
The scandal broke after Representative Brandon Giuda, a lawyer and fellow Republican legislator, offered an 11-week internship at his southern New Hampshire legal practice, but Bettencourt showed up only one day for work, Giuda said.
Giuda said that he was then surprised to see Bettencourt announcing his graduation from law school this spring and confronted the majority leader about it. Bettencourt then admitted to faking 11 weeks of reports about an internship he had not completed.
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Says Garage Sale Drawing Is a Fake
Paul Warhola
When a British tourist came back from Las Vegas with a $5 painting he'd bought at a garage sale and told everybody he was pretty sure a 10-year-old Andy Warhol had done it , people flipped out, but now Warhol's brother and a bevy of art experts say its a fake . Everybody wanted to believe so badly that this was real: Headlines stated unequivocally that the image of singer Rudy Vallee was a Warhol, which tourist Andy Fields brought from a drug addict who said his aunt used to babysit the pop-art icon. But now that it's going on display at the Royal Western Academy, folks are lining up to throw some cold water on the story.
There are certainly some inconsistencies in last month's reports of Fields' account that he lucked into the painting at a garage sale in 2010 but then realized it was a Warhol years later: Fields told The Telegraph's Hannah Furness that the vendor "told him his aunt used to care for Warhol when he was a child," though he can no longer find the guy. RWA's announcement of its display says "Mr. Fields discovered the sketch inside a framed drawing of William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy by Gertrude Stein - a Pittsburgh-born artist and writer who was painted by Warhol in later life." A Stanford University Stein expert, Wanda Corn, told the site Warholstars: "She NEVER made drawings or any other kind of visual art and the signature is not hers. Nor was she interested in popular films." But the RWA believes the other image is a real Warhol, and puts the value at $2 million. Fields, for his part, says he's not interested in selling.
In an email, Warhol's own brother Paul Warhola explains that the family had already told Fields that the work was not done by Warhol. "It had no characteristics of his drawing style whatsoever and the signature was vastly unlike his real signature. It doesn't even come close to being like Warhol's early work."
Other experts, including authors Patrick Smith and Thomas Kiedrowski, said the painting, which bears what appears to be Warhol's signature and is thought to be of 1930s singer Rudy Vallee, looks like a fake. Smith told Warholstars.org: "I have never seen any early drawing by Warhol that even remotely looks like the supposed 'Warhol' sketch of Vallee, nor have I ever seen an early authentic signature that even remotely appears like the one on the sketch." And while the RWA's promotional write-up says "The pencil portrait is drawn on a (now tattered) piece of paper and is full of the pop art motifs we have now come to recognise, including Warhol's signature bright red lips, made using lipstick, and a typically pop art blocked background, coloured with green and orange felt-tip pen," despite the fact, as Warholstars points out, that felt-tip pens weren't invented in the 30s.
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Top 10 Songs & Albums
iTunes
iTunes' Official Music Charts for the week ending May 28, 2012
Top Songs:
1. "Call Me Maybe," Carly Rae Jepsen
2. "Payphone (feat. Wiz Khalifa)," Maroon 5
3. "Somebody That I Used to Know," Gotye
4. "Starships," Nicki Minaj
5. "Back In Time (From "Men In Black III")," Pitbull
6. "Boyfriend," Justin Bieber
7. "We Are Young," Fun.
8. "Wild Ones (feat. Sia)," Flo Rida
9. "Where Have You Been," Rihanna
10. "Scream," Usher
Top Albums:
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2. "Once Upon Another Time - EP," Sara Bareilles
3. "Up All Night," One Direction
4. "21," ADELE
5. "Blown Away," Carrie Underwood
6. "Vows," Kimbra
7. "Apocalyptic Love (feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators)," Slash
8. "Glee: The Music - The Graduation Album," Glee Cast
9. "Making Mirrors," Gotye
10. "Listen Up!," Haley Reinhart
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In Memory
William Hanley
William Hanley, a Broadway playwright and award-winning screenwriter who scripted a pioneering TV film that dealt with incest, has died. He was 80.
His daughter, Katherine Hover, said he died Friday at his home in Ridgefield, Conn.
Hanley's works include "Slow Dance on the Killing Ground" and "Mrs. Dally Has a Lover" and the teleplays "The Long Way Home" and "The Kennedys of Massachusetts."
He won Emmys for the TV movies "The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank" and "Something About Amelia."
"Amelia," which first aired in 1984 on ABC, explored the largely taboo topic of parental sexual abuse. Ted Danson, then the star of hit sitcom "Cheers," portrayed a doting, well-to-do father exposed as having had sexual relations with his teenage daughter. Glenn Close played the mother in the critically acclaimed, top-rated program, which also won Emmys for outstanding drama special and for young Roxanne Zal, who played the abused daughter.
In addition, Hanley wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film, "The Gypsy Moths," as well as several novels.
Hanley is also survived by another daughter, Nell Hanley; a sister, Patricia Hanley; and three granddaughters.
William Hanley
In Memory
Arthel "Doc" Watson
Doc Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century, died Tuesday at a hospital in Winston-Salem, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his manager. He was 89.
Watson, who was blind from age 1, recently had abdominal surgery that resulted in his hospitalization.
Arthel "Doc" Watson's mastery of flatpicking helped make the case for the guitar as a lead instrument in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was often considered a backup for the mandolin, fiddle or banjo. His fast playing could intimidate other musicians, even his own grandson, who performed with him.
Doc Watson was born March 3, 1923 in what is now Deep Gap, N.C., in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He lost his eyesight by the age of 1 when he developed an eye infection that was worsened by a congenital vascular disorder, according to a website for Merlefest, the annual musical gathering named for his late son Merle.
He came from a musical family - his father was active in the church choir and played banjo and his mother sang secular and religious songs, according to a statement from Folklore Productions, his management company since 1964.
Doc Watson's father gave him a harmonica as a young child, and by 5 he was playing the banjo, according to the Merlefest website. He learned a few guitar chords while attending the North Carolina Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, and his father helped him buy a Stella guitar for $12.
Doc Watson got his musical start in 1953, playing electric lead guitar in a country-and-western swing band. His road to fame began in 1960 when Ralph Rinzler, a musician who also managed Bill Monroe, discovered Watson in North Carolina. That led Watson to the Newport Folk Festival in 1963 and his first recording contract a year later. He went on to record 60 albums.
According to the Encyclopedia of Country Music, Watson took his nickname at age 19 when someone couldn't pronounce his name and a girl in the audience shouted "Call him Doc!"
Seven of his albums won Grammy awards; his eighth Grammy was a lifetime achievement award in 2004. He also received the National Medal of the Arts from President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Doc Watson's son Merle began recording and touring with him in 1964. But Merle Watson died at age 36 in a 1985 tractor accident, sending his father into deep grief and making him consider retirement. Instead, he kept playing and started Merlefest, an annual musical event in Wilkesboro, N.C., that raises money for a community college there and celebrates "traditional plus" music.
"When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play," Doc Watson is quoted as saying on the festival's website. "Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'"
Doc Watson has said that when Merle died, he lost the best friend he would ever have.
He also relied on his wife, Rosa Lee, whom he married in 1947.
"She saw what little good there was in me, and there was little," Watson told the AP in 2000. "I'm awful glad she cared about me, and I'm awful glad she married me."
In 2011, a life-size statue of Watson was dedicated in Boone, N.C., at the spot where Watson had played decades earlier for tips to support his family, according to the Folklore statement. At Watson's request the inscription read, "Just One of the People."
Arthel "Doc" Watson
In Memory
Jim Paratore
Jim Paratore, an executive producer of "TMZ on TV" and other syndicated hits, died Tuesday after suffering a heart attack while cycling in France. He was 59.
Paratore was the principal of the production company paraMedia, which he founded in 2006. The company had an overall deal with the Warner Bros. Television Group. His television career, which spanned almost three decades, also included stints as president of Telepictures Productions and as executive vice president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.
In addition to TMZ, Paratore served as executive producer of such shows as "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," "The Bonnie Hunt Show" and "Lopez Tonight." While at Telepictures he was also involved with numerous series, including "Extra," "The People's Court," "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and "The Tyra Banks Show." His primetime credits include "The Bachelor," "The Bachelorette" and "The Real Gilligan's Island."
Paratore is survived by his wife, Jill Wickert, and his daughter, Martinique Paratore.
Jim Paratore
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