Rant: MACHO MEN in Live Shows + Rustin Man & CCR

    

Souvenirs, souvenirs and a little rant...

A Mistake I Made by Decluttering My Books. I Had No Idea How Sad It Coul...

   

I would have never thought that I would post a video in these circumstances. I shot it before, and now, we have to deal with the after.
Life is too short. We must do the most of it.

RON KANE (1958-2017), It Was All About The Music

   

You will find a little interview of Ron Kane at the end

Mark HOLLIS, Tribute to Eddie & All The People Who Taught Us The Music

    

To those who enriched our lives...

Small Business Saturday, RAIN & The French Primary Election 2016

        

A little snippet in the everyday life, and the rain...

60's Singles MUSIC, Street VIOLIN, Nela Artwalk Night & Behind The Scene

     

It was so much fun!!!

The Failed December 2015 ARTWALK & A Dinner at Maximiliano, L.A.

 

For the first time, we had a failed Artwalk! :-) 

Not our fault, just because of the too cold temperature...

New Space ARTWALK Test Run & TALK TALK About Music + Violin

Yes, we are in our new space, however the outside was not painted yet. Nothing was well organized, and the musicians' position was not right, but still, a lot of fun and interaction. It seems to me even more eccentric than before! :-)

60's - 70's Street MUSIC + Violin, Psychedelic & More, Artwalk Night

My DJ and friend Ron Kane chose great musics that night, and David Strother, the violinist improvised rather well on them. 

Here was our last Artwalk Night.

Unfortunately, my camera dropped dead before the end, just when a lot of people arrived and were dancing in front of my shop.

A friend of mine took a photo of a few of us in my shop:

 it was a great souvenir for my Birthday, which was one day before, but I never celebrate it on the 11th because of 9/11.

All these musics that I listened to or could have listened to during my childhood are so wonderful, so full of images, conveying a form of hope and joy that we don't feel much nowadays. I am not certain that people were more joyful in the 60's or 70's but they were more spontaneous and innocent for sure.

On the Thumbnail of this video, it is a painting "The Myth of the Isle of Wight" that I made years ago about several artists playing there in 1970. It was the last time that we saw Jimi Hendrix on stage and there were The Moody Blues, The Who, The Doors and many others... Why the Myth? Because I would love to attend a festival there one day. I don't know if it is any good today, but for me, the Isle of Wight is something that I didn't do when I was still small. I easily imagine why my parents didn't want me to go! :-) I was anyway way too young.

Am I today too old? :-) 

We are never too old for Music.

Street VIOLIN on French 80's & More Music for BASTILLE DAY 2015 at Cucul...

Playing this songs in Eagle Rock for the Artwalk, is like merging two very different worlds which are very separate in my mind.

The Violin was surprisingly amazing on them.

Enjoy the snippets of Music we chose, and chiefly, enjoy the Violin in the street.

Violin on Mark Hollis or Talk Talk MUSIC, Morally Correct? Ramblings...

I think that I just wanted to honor the Music and the people that I love.

Music is meant to be played, and as of genius it can be, it is not supposed to remain locked under glass like a master piece in a famous museum and being forgotten there...

I wanted to see or rather hear how it would resonate live on my boulevard in Los Angeles, even though it is not a Los Angeles Music.

But when we know how much work and thoughts Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene did put on the Laughing Stock album, we can start wondering if adding a violin or any other instrument on the top of that is such a good idea and morally correct...?

I was rambling yesterday night, and today, it was my violinist David Strother who started rambling by email as well.

What are we supposed to do?

Still now, we don't know, I am not even sure that something of Talk Talk or Mark Hollis will be played tomorrow. I want to be correct, but it makes me feel very sad too... 

I just wanted to know how it was like to hear this music for real.

Street VIOLIN on DISCO Music Nela Artwalk, David Strother, Ron Kane

This is my 50th video on YouTube! Obviously, I have a passion for Music and Art. 

You will find more videos on my YouTube Channel, especially a lot about Talk Talk and Mark Hollis Musics, my paintings and more to come...