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These are kids from Aaron O’Keefe’s music class.
Students’ ages:
Drums Tyler Rogers – 12yrs
Guitar Blake Hillard – 12yrs
Vocals Peter Hoffman – 13yrs
Guitar Matt Lohmueller – 13yrs
Guitar Tommy Floegel – 13yrs
Bass Sam Parsons – 16yrs
Guitar Joe Hubbell – 16 yrs
Even if you don’t like the music, you have to be amazed at the talent of these [...]

16 Oct, 2009

Vivaldi on the accordion

Posted by: Dave In: Music

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Vivaldi on the accordion is not as silly as you think it may be.
It sounds pretty good to me.
-Dave

16 Sep, 2009

Sleeve Face

Posted by: Dave In: Music| Photography

Sleeve Face is a great photo pool on Flickr.
It’s a pretty simple concept and lots of fun recognizing old album covers and the people interacting with them.
Link to Sleeve Face Flickr Pool. (via Dinosaurs & Robots)
Enjoy.
- Dave
(The photo above is from See Gee’s Flicker collection)

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This is a pretty amazing video featuring a deaf dance troupe from China. I couldn’t imagine coordinating this elaborate dance without being able to actually hear the music.
Beautiful.
- Dave

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27 Mar, 2009

I am a scientist

Posted by: Dave In: Film| Music

Gotta love Guided by Voices.
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- Dave

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13 Jan, 2009

Taxonomy of heavy metal band names

Posted by: Dave In: Music

If you think there’s a formula to heavy metal band names, you might be right.
My favorite is the “Triple Umlaut” in the bottom left corner of the diagram.
Link to larger image (via JWZ)



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