Raw and unedited footage. Me and Matty D providing music for the masses, where it belongs. Free music for all!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMCTKgAd9Z4
"?????? ?????" is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr. The original German title is "Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht." It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011.
"Stille Nacht" was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, a village in the Austrian Empire on the Salzach river in present-day Austria. A young priest, Father Joseph Mohr, had come to Oberndorf the year before. In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars,he had written the poem "Stille Nacht" in 1816 at Mariapfarr, the hometown of his father in the Salzburg Lungau region, where Joseph had worked as an assistant priest.
The melody was composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, schoolmaster and organist in the nearby village of Arnsdorf, now part of Lamprechtshausen. On Christmas Eve 1818, Mohr brought the words to Gruber and asked him to compose a melody and guitar accompaniment for that night's mass, after river flooding had possibly damaged the church organ. The church was eventually destroyed by repeated flooding and replaced with the Silent-Night-Chapel. It is unknown what inspired Mohr to write the lyrics, or what prompted him to create a new carol. Perhaps it was Divine Inspiration?
Here's a special annotation video as requested: the Circle of 5ths and how it's accomplished on guitar.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EJyVr5DNiA
Here I was interviewed by friend, bandmate (in the Elegant Strangers) and brilliant jazz pianist, Rob Mullins. To my mind, he's one of the top jazz pianists in the metropolitan Los Angeles area. Amazingly, he was mostly self-taught. He's produced at least 30+ jazz records. Among them, inspired by our gig in Venice, beloved by both Rob and myself, he decided to create an album called, 'Only In Venice,' on which I was the featured guitarist on a few of the numbers. In fact, he wrote one of the songs, "Slow Dance," in order to feature my guitar playing.
Rob just recently started podcasting and had put about three of them out. He got in touch and asked if I'd be up to being interviewed. Of course, I said yes. I knew it'd be a lot of fun and almost like a typical hang between sets, stepping outside of the club for a smoke. In ways, it was even better because we got to talk more in depth about things we only nominally talked about before.
Rob Mullins' YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/planetmullins/featured
Rob's 'Only In Venice' album can be found here: http://onlyinvenice.com/
I hope you can sense the fun we were having!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PebpZSBV7NY
Here is a rocker that quotes some classic rock & roll moments in the lyrics. One of the ten songs to be featured on our up and coming record.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFk9pEaBROM