Making Light :: Playing for Change redux :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:49:40 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.34-en Playing for Change redux Yes, we've blogged the Playing for Change project before, with their collaborative recordings by musicians around the world. Pretty much... Yes, we've blogged the Playing for Change project before, with their collaborative recordings by musicians around the world. Pretty much... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html Playing for Change redux -- comment #1 from jon singer comment from jon singer on 8.Aug.12 This is too cool for words. MANY thanks!!
jon

]]> <p>Posted August 8, 2012 10:49 AM by jon singer</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#848032 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#848032 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:49:40 -0500 Playing for Change redux -- comment #2 from Michael Bloom comment from Michael Bloom on 8.Aug.12 I love the Gimme Shelter performance, but I kinda disagree about this video demonstrating "the universality of Delta blues." The singers, Jamaican and African/American, are inherently part of the culture that produced Delta blues. The Italian guitarist who starts it off and defines the groove has to be a huge fan, otherwise why would he have concentrated on bottleneck slide? The Asian and Latin American contributors aren't contributing to the groove, they're just providing sound bites. (And they know this; watch the Indian harmonium player roll his eyes.)

]]> <p>Posted August 8, 2012 12:11 PM by Michael Bloom</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#848166 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#848166 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:11:54 -0500 Playing for Change redux -- comment #3 from Lydy Nickerson comment from Lydy Nickerson on 9.Aug.12 Wow. I don't actually know why, but many of these brought tears to my eyes. Thank you and wow.

]]> <p>Posted August 9, 2012 2:39 AM by Lydy Nickerson</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#849740 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#849740 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:39:50 -0500 Playing for Change redux -- comment #4 from Doug Burbidge comment from Doug Burbidge on 9.Aug.12 Oddly, it repeatedly refused to accept my credit card: "We're sorry, but your payment has been declined. Please try a different payment method."

It took PayPal, though.

]]> <p>Posted August 9, 2012 9:39 AM by Doug Burbidge</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#850404 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#850404 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:39:50 -0500 Playing for Change redux -- comment #5 from Juli Thompson comment from Juli Thompson on 9.Aug.12 Since "Chanda Mama" is from Chennai, it's likely to be Tamil, not Telugu. Telugu is my younger daughter's native language. It's quite lovely, often called "the Italian of the east" because all words end in vowels and it's quite rhythmic. But it is spoken in Hyderabad, not Chennai.

Chennai is a wonderful city, and said daughter loved dancing around to Chanda Mama. We need to go back!

]]> <p>Posted August 9, 2012 11:08 PM by Juli Thompson</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#851447 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#851447 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:08:28 -0500 Playing for Change redux -- comment #6 from Lizzy L comment from Lizzy L on 10.Aug.12 I too love the Gimme Shelter cut. Thanks.

]]> <p>Posted August 10, 2012 9:05 PM by Lizzy L</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#852979 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#852979 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:05:55 -0500 Playing for Change redux -- comment #7 from janetl comment from janetl on 10.Aug.12 You can also buy this music through the iTunes store

]]> <p>Posted August 10, 2012 10:44 PM by janetl</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#853069 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#853069 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:44:02 -0500 Playing for Change redux -- comment #8 from Juli Thompson comment from Juli Thompson on 11.Aug.12 Following up on my comment #5, Roger Ebert did a short blog entry about the Chanda Mama video here. Commenters filled in that Chanda Mama is a childish name for the moon in several Indian languages, that there are versions of this song in several languages, that this is definitely Telugu, not Tamil. There is also a better translation of the lyrics.

]]> <p>Posted August 11, 2012 8:41 AM by Juli Thompson</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#853537 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#853537 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:41:02 -0500 Playing for Change redux -- comment #9 from Juli Thompson comment from Juli Thompson on 11.Aug.12 The gnomes are holding my comment. I offer carrot halwa, and kheer.

]]> <p>Posted August 11, 2012 8:43 AM by Juli Thompson</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#853541 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#853541 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:43:32 -0500 Playing for Change redux -- comment #10 from Lenny Bailes comment from Lenny Bailes on 19.Aug.12 This was a good post. As far as Gimme Shelter is concerned, as a harmonica player, I'd go with Dylan's.

]]> <p>Posted August 19, 2012 3:51 PM by Lenny Bailes</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#873679 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#873679 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:51:53 -0500 Playing for Change redux -- comment #11 from Lenny Bailes comment from Lenny Bailes on 19.Aug.12 This was a good post. As far as Gimme Shelter is concerned, as a harmonica player, I'd go with Dylan's.

My previous attempt to post this was gnomed, probably because I tried linking my Google blog and got the URL wrong.

]]> <p>Posted August 19, 2012 3:53 PM by Lenny Bailes</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#873681 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014158.html#873681 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:53:34 -0500