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You Are Ketchup is a career resource for musicians and other creatives, fusing narrative and advice from Grammy-nominated musician Kokayi.
The book presents a series of delightful vignettes-amazing stories, anecdotes, articles, original songs-stitched together with a collection of images.
(Guitar Play-Along). The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the online audio to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. Songs: Bad Moon Rising * Born on the Bayou * Down on the Corner * Fortunate Son * Green River * Lodi * Proud Mary * Up Around the Bend.
REGGAE AND CARIBBEAN MUSIC: THIRD EAR
A fusion of history, culture, and song in a practical travel guide for music lovers who want to understand more of what helped shape what they are seeing, hearing, and experiencing as they tour the cradle of the blues in Mississippi and beyond. By appreciating the roots of this most American style of music, readers will have a richer experience listening to songs and visiting blues' holy and sacred sites.
Lovingly illustrated with thirty original and inspired works by esteemed art director, graphic designer, and illustrator Hugh Syme, Our House brings to life the joyful emotions of Graham Nash¿s song ¿Our House.¿ The book conjures the warm feelings we all share in our hearts about a loving and caring home.
This play is the story of the novelist Stine, giving scenes from his life and his work; his work being the adaption of one of his books into a screenplay built around a fictional hero, an ex-cop named Stone.
TURN TURN TURN - THE '60S FOLKROCK REVOLUTION
This new edition is the ultimate exploration of the upstart instruments ä and their unique analog growls and screams ä that paved the way over the last four decades for today''s fast-paced electronic music world. Explores the development of the modern synthesizer from 1962 on with in-depth interviews with pioneering designers Bob Moog and Alan R. Pearlman of Moog Music and ARP Instruments fame. These and other designers reveal their initial ideas reflect on their hits and misses and discuss how star performers have used their creations. Histories of groundbreaking instruments examine modular analog & digital synths and samplers plus more unusual instruments like the Mellotron. Noted synthesist Keith Emerson and composer Wendy Carlos ( Switched-On Bach ) offer musical insights and performance techniques. Includes fully updated pricing and production info and more than 200 photos and a stunning color section.
CD includes 60 tracks for demonstration and play-along.
Anyone who has ever seen a live performance of ballet knows the thrill of seeing larger-than-life figures on stage dancing in ways that seem superhuman. What are these dancers like beyond the footlights? How have they acquired such artistry and technique? What are the joys and difficulties in sustaining their careers? What dreams would they like to fulfill as performers? Round About the Ballet profiles the stars of the top New York City ballet companies: American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet. Selected by Roy Round, one of the world's leading dance photographers, the dancers profiled represent the very best in ballet today. The dancers are brought to life through stories of their lives, real-life interviews, and the stunning photgraphs of Roy Round. This book is for ballet fans, dance students, and people who are curious about the performing arts.
A vigorous inquiry into the art of acting focusing on playing action, this book teaches actors how to do the "doing of acting." Hugh O'Gorman provides special insight into the acting methods of Earle Gister and Lloyd Richards.
Elegant People is the definitive history of Weather Report, the premier fusion band of the 1970s and beyond.
In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood MacΓÇÖs epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year with the band in their new million-dollar studio trying to follow up Rumours, the biggest rock album of the time. Following their massive success, the band continued its infamous soap opera when its musical leader and guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham, threatened to quit if he didnΓÇÖt get things his way, resulting in clashes not only with his band but especially Caillat, who had been essential to the bandΓÇÖs Grammy-winning sound. Hernan RojasΓÇÖs story recounts a young man who leaves Chile after General PinochetΓÇÖs coup to seek his future in the music industry of Los Angeles, where he finds success at one of the hottest studios in town. When Fleetwood Mac arrives, Rojas falls in love with its star singer, Stevie Nicks, and the two of them become romantically involved.Throughout the book, both Caillat and Rojas detail not only the trials and sacrifices they made to finish the album, but also triumphs of musical inspiration and technical innovation that have made Tusk the darling of music critics and indie rockers today.
In 1973, Judy Scott was intent on traveling to Istanbul, but serendipitously she stumbled onto the incomparable Greek island of Hydra and the people who would continue, over many subsequent visits, to enhance and influence her life ever after.This memoir, based on notebooks and journals Scott kept during various times and visits to her favorite place on earth, recounts in very intimate detail her interactions and developing relationships with singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen and his beautiful muse and “love of his life” Marianne Ihlen. As Leonard himself observed of this book when Scott sent the manuscript to him for his approval: “I particularly admire the detail and honesty of the piece.” One of the more unique features in this recounting is the emerging acknowledgment the author confronts of her own sexuality, as she recounts: “It did not take long for Leonard to recognize that I was more attracted to Marianne than I was to him, though I came to love him too in the end.” And indeed it was Marianne herself, who sought out and fostered Scott’s interest and affection. After a shocking interlude at Marianne’s 38th birthday party, Scott writes: “After that, my life on Hydra was all about Marianne.” But it was Leonard’s interest, his kindness and generosity that signified her lifelong love and respect for the real private person who was Leonard Cohen. Robert Kory, Leonard’s executor, told Scott when they met to discuss several edits the Cohen family had requested: “Your story details a side of Leonard and a phase in his life that no other biography or coverage of the public person he was captures. And it lovingly depicts and lets me see the person he was at 38, long before I made his acquaintance and got to experience the musical and literary genius, and whose legacy I’m now dedicated to preserving.”The book also goes into a detailed description of Hydra in the early 1970s. A unique place filled with astonishing physical beauty and an incomparable atmosphere of serenity and peaceful energy. Hydra is the only inhabited Greek island with no cars (they are forbidden), no automotive transportation at all. All the roads on the three large hills that circle the small deep-water yacht port contain stairs or steps that make traversing by wheeled vehicles impossible. This absence of gas-powered vehicles and motors was also the reason Hydra attracted so many artists; it was the light, the unfiltered magical “Greek light” absent noxious fumes that presented some of the purist images on earth. The island also contained a small foreign community of like-minded creative souls, artists, musicians, writers and their supporters and admirers. As Scott explains: “Hydra in the late ’60s early ’70s was at its creative zenith. Like Paris in the ’30s, Harlem in the ’40s, Greenwich Village in the ’50s, San Francisco in the ’60s—Hydra in the ’70s was the place to be.”The memoir, though it centers on her most important, most impactful interactions with Leonard and Marianne, also contains several portraits of other Hydra habitués, all members of the same small ex-pat community, all close friends (and occasional lovers) of Leonard and Marianne, all uniquely interesting in their own right. From George Lialios, the wealthy Greek man the book is dedicated to (whom Scott met first on the island and who introduced her to all the others contained in these pages) to Alexis Bolens, the Swiss/Greek handsome lothario, who’d worked as a mercenary in Rhodesia and a plantation manager in South Africa, from Lindsey Callicoatt, the writer, artisan and most beloved of all the foreign community, to George Slater, irascible poet, sea captain and brilliant curry maker—there are many characters who all contributed to the “Hydra family” that Scott lovingly recalls. This book is both a story of a special time, place and cast of characters—a travelogue of an enchanted island as it was back then and still is to this day, backlit by the glow of Leonard Cohen and his muse, Marianne.
When the Hits Hit the Fan marries the process of songwriting, and living a songwriterΓÇÖs life, with humor and empathy. It unravels the mystery, science, and livelihood behind the rapidly evolving art of songwriting, but ends up revealing just as much about who we, the listeners, are, and where we may be going. These are lessons and tools Mike Errico has honed over years of writing, performing, teaching, and mentoring. This is a book for songwriters, future content creators, music lovers, and all the rest of us who are dying to know how popular art forms are able to touch us so deeply. Think Stephen KingΓÇÖs On Writing and Mary KarrΓÇÖs The Art of the Memoir, for the songwriter, meets books that are a result of that writing, like Alan Light''s The Holy and the Broken and Jacob Slichter''s So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star, to books about the industry, John Seabrook''s The Song Machine and Derek Thompson''s Hit Makers, and finally, experimental love letters to the art form like Rob Sheffield''s Dreaming the Beatles, David Byrne''s How Music Works, and Oliver Sacks'' Musicophilia.40,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify...per day. Recording equipment is cheaper than ever, which has lowered the bar of entry for music creation. Educators have taken note, and "School of Rock" franchises are opening nationally, while major universities scramble to update their music curricula and provide courses their students find relevant. Songland, a songwriting-specific competition show, just debuted on NBC, and the interest in how songs work has never been higher. People spend millions of hours on YouTube learning how to mix and master their music. When the Hits Hit the Fan will be an invaluable tool to help them find (and write!) material that rises to the level of their creative curiosity.Anyone who reads When the Hits Hit the Fan: will definitely gain help in writing a tight, focused song that kicks the door down for all their visions to rush through. YouΓÇÖll plant a flag so you can build a creative world around it; a world intrinsic to who you are, and for it to feel nontrivial and undeniable to whoeverΓÇÖs listening.
In a series of funny, tender, and touching dialogues, former Saturday Night Live writer Zweibel recalls his buddy-and-almost-lover friendship with SNL actress Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer. Zweibel claims he "merely scribbled the dialogues playing in my head " and, indeed, these recreated conversations have a neurotic, sarcastic, and vulnerable air of aunthenticity. The actress and writer become fast friends on the SNL set and segue into personal revelation.
Collects for the first time major lesbian plays from controversial cultural perspectives spanning more than a generation of work in varied theatrical styles representing an amazing gamut of lesbian politics from all over America. ÞIncludes: The Quintessential Image (Jane Chambers) Û The Postcard (Gloria Joyce Dickler) Û A Lady and a Woman (Shirlene Holmes) Û Nasty Rumors and Final Remarks (Susan Miller) Û Desdemona (Paula Vogel) Û and more!
Here is the original story of a true original, the celebrated and internationally renowned director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, whose creative genius continues to energize American stage and screen today. Say his name, and images of West Side Story, Gypsy, Anastasia, The Turning Point, and The Way We Were appear. Laurents'' highly praised memoir is a dazzling portrait of his life - as he recounts the great moments, the trials and the joys of his incredible career. He takes us into his world, peopled with the creative artists, directors, actors and personalities who came of age in the theatre and in Hollywood after WWII. Later, back in New York, he writes about jump-starting Barbra Streisand''s career by casting her in I Can Get It for You Wholesale. He writes about the creation of Gypsy with Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim. And he writes about coming together in a complex, fraught collaboration with his three old pals, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein and Sondheim for West Side Story. Throughout, Laurents is funny, fierce, and frank - a life recounted as richly as it was lived. "This is a historic work. A ''must'' for show biz mavens." - LIZ SMITH, Newsday & Syndicated
Noted writer Leon Katz, the champion of the present day commmedia dell''arte, has written a brand-new stage adaptation for children''s theatre. Included are the costume sketches, the stage cues and even a few of the stage tricks used to bring not just Pinocchio but all of the play to real life in its acclaimed original American Children''s Theatre production.
JIM MARSHALL THE FATHER OF LOUD THE STORY OF THE MAN BEHIND THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS AMP
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