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Cuneiform Records

Cuneiform Records

Soft Machine trailer NDR Jazz Workshop Hamburg, Germany, May 17, 1973 Cuneiform Records

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

The Rolling Stones Still Going Strong In 2008

The Rolling Stones are one of the most successful bands ever. They originally formed in 1962 and are still touring forty-six years later. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were among the original band members shortly followed by Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts.

Brian Jones and Ian Stewart originally formed the band. Mick Jagger joined at the beginning as their lead singer. Brian Jones died in 1969 by misadventure and Ian Stewart died of a heart attack in 1985.

Probably one of there most famous singles, which catapulted The Rolling Stones to stardom was there hit single in 1965 "I Can't Get No Satisfaction". Mick jagger and Keith Richards song writing partnership would ensure that they would sell upwards of 200 million albums.

Memorabilia and merchandise

With all this music history from The Rolling Stones, memorabilia and merchandise is plentiful. If you are a fan of The Rolling Stones, you will have no trouble finding posters, photos and original autographs of band members and compared to The Beatles memorabilia, it's surprisingly cheap.

So what are the Rolling Stones up to in 2008?

They have just finished a film documentary directed by Martin Scorsese called "Shine a Light" about The Rolling Stones and starring The Rolling Stones with footage from their "A Bigger Bang" tour. The "A Bigger Bang" tour was a world tour and started in August 2005 and finished in August 2007. The tour is reported to have earned over 500 million dollars. Not bad for a bunch of pensioners.

In 2008 they also left the EMI recording company and signed with Universal Music which can only mean there are more Rolling Stones albums on the way and considering that Mick Jagger just turned 65 and Charlie Watts is 67 its makes you wonder where they get their motivation from, they certainly don't need the money.

Is there really going to be a Rock & Roll band with members in their seventies. There's only four more years to go before they can celebrate fifty years of the Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger has been quoted has saying he and the other band members have no intention of retiring and they want to make more albums and do more tours.

There is obviously still a great deal of interest in the Rolling Stones if the earning for the "A Bigger Bang" tour are anything to go by and I hope they carry on. As a musician myself I see them as a great inspiration. Being in a Rock & Roll band used to be a young mans game. Not any more.

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Hits Best

Hits Best

All About Hits Traffic Building

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Top Rock

Top Rock

The Intricacies In Planting A Rock Garden

With most kinds of gardening or landscaping, the gardener may exercise a rather wide range of choices when it comes to treatment; he may make his planting formal, informal, natural, highly decorative, or more picturesque.

With a rock garden, however, formal treatment is precluded. Neither the materials used in the construction of the rock garden, nor the plants which will occupy it, lend themselves to any formal arrangement. Straight lines, regular angles or curves, the trimmed plants, statuary, fountains, and all that sort of thing are so foreign to the whole conception of the rock garden that any attempt to introduce them would appear ludicrous. A rock garden is the most natural kind of garden there is, chiefly designed to be constructed with materials that are already present. A lot of fuss is just not appropriate or necessary

One may, however, choose between a naturalistic treatment and what may be termed "the Japanese style," the chief difference being that in the Japanese style an effort is made to reproduce a miniature landscape. This requires an excellent sense of proportion and a knowledge and use of a wide variety of plant material. The satisfactory execution of a Japanese rock garden is much more difficult than that of a rock garden which will appear satisfactorily natural looking. Unless the services of a landscape architect are available, it is better to try the simpler form first.

It will become apparent that in planning a rock garden, even a simple one, that the gardener will be presented with the choice of a number of different types. It is a sensible route to take to plan what type of rock garden that is desired beforehand so that time, resources, and materials are not wasted.

The first step in success with rock gardening, as with other types of gardening, is to have a definite objective before starting. It is not practical to plan a rock garden in every little detail before one begins the construction; but a fairly definite idea as to what is to be attempted there should be.

One of the most critical elements that should be taken into consideration in determining the type of rock garden to be made is space available:

A rock garden may be built on a few square yards of ground, or cover a considerable area. The expense is not, necessarily, in direct proportion to the size, particularly if there are natural features that can be taken advantage of. On a small place, however, the size of the rock garden should not be out of proportion to the other elements of planting. Where outcropping ledges or rocks flourish, it is sometimes possible to convert the whole place into a naturalistic garden. Where this may be done it is economical as well as one of the most attractive of all methods of treatment.

The character of location is another critical element that should be considered prior to beginning. Where the rock garden must be built artificially, "from the ground up," it should not be made too conspicuous. Small rock gardens, fairly well done themselves, but planted squarely in the middle of the front-lawn area and look even more out of place than the old-fashioned geometrical flower bed which has, happily, pretty much become obsolete.

For a small rock garden, a corner of the grounds, preferably flanked by evergreens or by a thicket of shrubs and providing some seclusion as well as protection and shade usually offers the best opportunity. A conservatively placed patio water fall never hurts either.

Time available for taking care of the rock garden is another consideration. If its construction is simple, and the plants in it are such that they will largely care for themselves, the rock garden will require very little time. A more elaborate scheme and the inclusion of varieties which easily perish or must be protected from more rampant growers, require just as much care as any other kind of a garden.

The most important thing, however, is to plant a rock garden which will please you. Before starting your own rock garden, you should by all means make the effort to visit several rock gardens so as to see firsthand for yourself the results which are possible. Observe elaborate gardens, complete with garden fountains and outdoor water features, as well as more basic gardens.

A number of the leading parks now have excellent rock gardens. Some of the nurseries specializing in rock plants have been wise enough to create small gardens on their own premises illustrating in a practical way what the possibilities can be. Various garden magazines, from time to time, also illustrate great examples of rock gardening.

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Music Best

Music Best

Academy Musical Favorites of the 1960s on Satellite TV

Today when someone thinks about a 1960s movie he or she may immediately see images of happy, high, hippies wandering across the screen.  However, according to Oscar and the Academy, the Best Pictures of the 1960s were far from depicting this retrospective image.  In fact, especially in the early 60s the top pictures were wholesome singing and dancing musical spectaculars.  Today many of these old favorites are available via satellite TV, but without the glitz and glamour of high definition or state-of-the-art technology they are often overlooked by younger viewers.  To catch up on one’s history of cinema it’s best to start at the beginning, or at least towards the beginning, and check out some of these musical Best Picture nominees (and winners) from the 1960s.

1.  West Side Story (Winner) 1961

When Romeo and Juliet is redone on the red hot streets of New York City, the result is a sizzling best picture winner.  West Side Story follows two young lovers, Maria and Tony, as the rival gangs to which they have allegiances begin to clash at an escalating level of intensity.  With the white gang, the Jets led by Riff, and the Puerto Rican Sharks led by Bernardo, it looks like neither side is going to back down.  Maria and Tony continue their romance in secret, but everything falls apart when a winner-takes-all rumble under the highway is planned by the two gangs.  The audience is left to wonder whether love is strong enough to conquer all, or whether violence will prevail.  With a slew of pop culture references to this film going out over satellite TV every day, it really is a must-see classic movie.  

2. The Music Man (Nominee) 1962

Harold Hill comes to town with a bang, and revs up the locals to participate in the boy’s marching band which he will train and equip.  The only snag is that Harold has no musical talent whatsoever, and is in fact planning to con the unsuspecting townspeople.  It seems that nothing can foil Harold’s brilliant con, until he meets the lovely town librarian and falls instantly in love.  Will Harold learn a valuable moral lesson, or will he choose to stay with his lying cheating ways?

3. My Fair Lady (Winner) 1964

When British linguists make a bet, they wager big, as is shown in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical My Fair Lady.  Professor Henry Higgins accepts a wager from Colonel Pickering that he cannot transform a Cockney flower girl from the streets into a passable Lady.  Determined to prove the Colonel wrong, Henry takes Eliza Doolittle, the chosen girl, into his home and begins a rigorous training program.  What nobody considered was what would happen to Eliza after undergoing such a dramatic change, and Henry must learn to see her in a whole new light.  

4. Mary Poppins (Nominee) 1964

Combining song, dance and colorful cartoony animations, Mary Poppins is the heartwarming tale of a super-nanny who flies into the lives of the Banks children on a magical umbrella.  Using her special powers and delightful disposition Mary Poppins touches the lives and hearts of many in this cheerful tale.  Although the animations may not do your HD TV justice, Mary Poppins is sure to win over even the hardest heart.  

5. The Sound of Music (Winner) 1965

When Maria’s attempts to become a nun are unsuccessful, she takes up an opportunity to work as the governess for the children of Navy captain Georg Von Trapp.  Set in 1930s Austria, Maria wins over the hearts of the children, and the captain, with her positive attitude and sunny disposition, however their world is turned upside down by the German seizure of control in Austria.  Family and love may be strong, but are they strong enough to survive in war-time Europe?  

6. Oliver (Winner) 1968

The musical adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens tale, Oliver is a young orphan who runs away from the orphanage only to find himself in with a dodgy crowd.  Out on the streets of London he and a gang of boys learn to pickpocket and steal to survive.  Whether by luck or fate Oliver’s circumstances keep changing, and the audience is left wondering if his dark past will inevitably come back to haunt him.  

7. Hello Dolly! (Nominee) 1969

When matchmaker Dolly Levi heads to Yonkers, New York, it is to meet the “well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder.  She convinces Horace and his crew to head into New York City, where she every so slyly deters Horace’s romantic prospects with any other woman (besides herself).  As the romantic web she weaves becomes increasingly complex, the plot thickens, and we are left wondering whether Dolly will get her man.

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