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    01 november

    slow dancing in a burning room

    前几天看了一个澳洲当地的音乐搬奖晚会,本来不准备看的,主要原因一是我一直认为澳洲没有很好的
    的音乐,JB-HIFI里面大多数都是美国,英国的东西。后来听说JOHM MAYER 要来,一下兴趣就来了,这个年轻人
    被很多人称为eric clapton以后,最有希望将blues音乐,特别blue吉他音乐在主流pop市场延续下去的人,因为很多
    大师级的人物都已经到了只有在小酒巴演出维持生计的地步了。我也是上次回国,在街上闲逛的时候买了一张DVD,当时也没指望什么,因为
    纯熟是便宜,在澳洲这边到处都是他的东西,只是价格要翻10倍不止,不知道从什么时候开始,就有了是主流就不感冒的毛病,其实
    这是满大的一个误区,起码john mayer 就是一个例子,他是个天才,他23岁写出的第一张专辑,就得了几项grammy,我当时是第一次听
    就迷上了,也满震撼,一个这么年轻的孩子可以写成这样的音乐,而且他具有职业音乐人的技术可以在现场玩出很多即兴,使现场
    的版本听起来更加过瘾。这次来澳洲,主要目的其实不是为了什么搬奖晚会,因为他的第三张专机刚出,正在全球做专机宣传的巡演,
    这次随便参加一个搬奖。这次搬奖更象国内地方台做的演出,所谓的名人除了一些歌手因为,都是台里面的一些主持人,主要是
    搞笑的主持人为主,其中ROVE算最有名的了,他被安排和john mayer一起出场,本来想开开玩笑,结果谁知还被john mayer捉弄了,
    rove问john,“你写的your body is wonderland是大家都熟知的歌曲,你认为我的身体是wonderland么“,rove是个男的, 说实话,这是我听过的最恶心的几个不搞笑的笑话之一了,后来上myspace看了看,发现很多澳洲人也这样认为,看来rove这次是毁大了,结果JOHN还让他雪上加霜, 他反驳说” 我写的另外一首歌更适合你,’gravity“ 呵呵,我当时差点笑岔气了,因为rove本人个子不高,和john站在一起矮了不止一个头,rove后来也只能苦笑。 这次搬奖,其中半数的奖象都被一个叫wolfmother的乐队得了,乐队没有bass,一个键盘手更象是磕了药的混混,主唱兼吉他手,声音没有话说,有点模仿whitesnake,就是吉他,从头到尾就两三个和旋,拿着一把gibson满场飞,还玩出几个高难度的动作,音乐基本上没什么旋律,现场的灯光配合的还满好的,感觉比较火爆,结束了还模仿一些老牌金属的乐队一样,在台上砸东西,只是一点派头没有,看起来还是象一群磕药的人。
    john mayer作为演出佳宾,为一个当地的歌手做了旋律吉他的伴奏,这也成了整场演出唯一真正意义上的吉他solo,可能音乐风格的原因,
    john mayer演出的时候,全场的灯都黑了,只有他在聚光灯下,用黑色,掉了漆的fender弹了的一段水银泄底般的blues,这也和刚才那个拿崭新gibson的wolfmother 的吉他手产生了鲜明的对比,而且,相信他旁边那位澳洲的歌手也知道谁才是主角了,后来john mayer的论坛上面也有不少人对那个澳洲的歌手表示同情,谁要他和john mayer一起登场。
    另外一个鲜明的对比是,当john mayer结束solo以后,他只是面无表情的看着偌大的体育场,和数万台下的观众,也许他知道这不是他要征服的地方,可能他的心还是在blues上,还是在小酒吧里,和那些真正懂他音乐的人,而他在eric clapton,bb king的演唱会上,他谦逊的
    在后台看着自己的偶像演出,和他自己在blues酒吧演出结束后,他也会十分谦逊的答谢台下不多的观众,表现的十分humble。他自己的第三张专机,用他自己的话说,是他写给一直支持的广大歌迷的,并不是自己真正追求的东西,不过不可否认的是,
    ,其中还是加入了大量的blues元素,和他前两张专机比的话。 他说等他做完了宣传以后, 然后他会消失一段时间,去做自己的音乐,和自己的blues 乐队,john mayer trio,
    谁知道呢,希望他真能象很多人预言那样,把blues音乐重新搬回主流市场。

    www.myspace.com/johnmayer(有他新专机几首歌的试听)

    change

    john mayer blog 的一篇文章,写的还满有意思.
     
    CHANGE

    I've been thinking about something lately.

    Imagine this:

    You're on an airplane, sleeping with your head against the window, your heart set on being home this time three hours from now. All of a sudden, something goes very wrong. The plane stops moving across the air and instead starts falling through it. The lights are flickering and the movie is skipping. The plane dips hundreds of feet in seconds, and the yellow cups fall from the ceiling. They're a brighter shade of yellow than you remember, because unlike the demonstration, these cups have never been handled before. "Flight attendants take your seats now", you hear, the pilot's voice trembling over a cacophony of alert tones. You get that smell in the bridge of your nose like you've just been hit with a football. That's what the fear smells like. The plane is going down.

    Four more drastic drops in under a minute. People are crying. For all the folklore about how your life flashes before your eyes, you're remarkably fixed on one vision - your parents. They're sleeping at this very moment, in a bedroom so quiet they can hear the clock in the kitchen. And you can see them, clear as can be. You wish you could see a playground or a first kiss, but all you can see is your parents sleeping. Huh. Well, that's that.

    Several long minutes go by. Then, all at once, the lights come back on and the plane somehow rights itself. Some people cheer, but most people cry harder. The plane lands about an hour later, and as soon as you feel that touch down - hell, even when you were within 50 feet of the ground and could still technically survive a fall - you realize that however you brokered the deal between you and God worked; you've just been granted life in overtime.

    Here's the question: what do you change? Whom do you call that you haven't spoken to in years? Whom do you realize has been toxic to your heart and drop with surprising ease? What trips do you cancel, and what trips do you book? What can't you be bothered with anymore? What's the new you like?


    Think about that, and then ask one more question. Why not just change it all right now

     
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