LINER NOTE #32
Daron: What, I'm starting?
ctan: Is there a reason not to?
Daron: You start. I'm not ready.
ctan: All right. But the first thing I wanted to share with the group was a simple link. Have you ever wondered how many songs there are about Los Angeles? Including Hollywood of course. Well, Wikipedia has a list of them: .
Daron: That is a lot of songs. Too many for me to count.
ctan: And yet it's probably only a fraction of the list of movies set in Hollywood.
Daron: Or merely filmed there. Hey so, I have a movie I want to see. I haven't seen it yet, but I saw the trailer, and here it is. For a documentary on backing singers: Twenty Feet From Stardom:
ctan: Ooh, you're right. We need to see that. I have a music business documentary to share, too. This one I stumbled across while researching settings. And discovered Dave Grohl made a documentary about the studio where Nirvana recorded Nevermind, the legendary Sound City. I ended up buying the entire movie off iTunes after watching this trailer:
Daron: Cool.
ctan: The Sound City movie Youtube channel/website also has a ton of clips asking musicians in the film what their first musical memory is. Tom Petty's is hilarious.
Daron: I have to go see that. Okay, now I have something that is especially for you, because of your whole "demented librarian thing."
ctan: (For those not in the know, I describe my public persona as "demented librarian." Hence the bun, glasses, and cardigan.)
Daron: It's the only time you and I don't dress alike.
ctan: It's my only "femme" persona, really. Now that I think about it, she's straight from the Adam Ant "Goody Two Shoes" video. But what's this you have for Ms. Demented Librarian?
Daron: Okay, first of all, you are already familiar with the Beastie Boys "Sabotage" video, which was a knockoff of 1970s cop movies?
ctan: Oh, man, school librarians are the toughest! Okay, I have something for you and your love of songbird female vocalists. Here's comedienne Christina Bianco doing a very special "Diva" rendition of Total Eclipse of the Heart:
ctan: OMG, anyone who hasn't seen the "LIteral Videos" can spend a lot of time on them. The other one I thought was really excellent was A-Ha, Take On Me. Um, did I put that in a liner note two years ago?
Daron: I don't remember. Here, have it again in case you missed it:
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Daron's Guitar Chronicles: Vol 4
RomanceIn Daron's life, it's 1989, his band Moondog Three is starting to take off, and although the closet door is open now, he's barely got one toe out. He's told his closest friends and bandmates that he's gay, and he's sworn off sleeping with his lead s...
