Nina Simone–To Love Somebody

I don’t have much to say except Nina Simone just destroys this BeeGees classic (which they supposedly wrote for Otis Redding, who died before it could be recorded).  I don’t know who the drummer is, but he is doing dirty things to this song.  It’s one of my favorite drum performances ever, up there with Edwin Starr’s “25 Miles”.

Posted by Lucas Jensen on 11 Sep 2008 at 01:29 pm

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It’s true! I’m currently preparing to move 500 miles south (in t-minus 21 hours) so I don’t have time for a long, in-depth entry. For example, I won’t have the time until at least a couple days from now to write about the piece Boredoms played in Brooklyn on Saturday with 77 drummers! And honestly, at that point I’ll have lost interest, and so will you. So let me just give you an embedded link to the New York Times article about it, as well as a video that in no way captures what it must have been like to see it in person.

But as I was saying, Steve Albini, producer to the stars and rock music’s answer to Andy Rooney, has been answering questions about his career and the music industry in general in a thread on a… poker forum? It’s true:
Ask a music scene micro celebrity

The thread goes on for pages and pages, and I’ve only been able to read a little of it, but it seems like he’s being pretty candid without getting baited into talking much shit or naming many names. Just a warning: if you get sucked into this, it will be a BIG waste of time.

Posted by Mat on 09 Jul 2007 at 02:00 pm

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