The way we Listen

Brilliant. Wonderful. Led Zeppelin recent reunion generated one of the greatest Rock’n'roll moments of the year : a unique concert in London. 80.000 fans attended the gig that took place December 10th in the O2 stadium. Original members were almost all there : Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham, John Bonham’s son (former drummer, who died in 1980).

Here’s the setlist played that night :

The story take place in 1995, during the MTV Music Video Awards. Michael Jackson and Slash were asked to perform the main event of the show… Michael the King of Pop starts its medley, and during “Black or White”, Slash comes in with his famous hat, and begins a real “guitar hero” solo. But he gets too intense and his solo lasts a very long time… TOO long time for the MTV crew! One of their men get on the stage and kindly asks Mr. Guns ‘n’ Roses to finish up quickly… Slash ends his solo without showing any concern, and then gets off the stage.

I found this new device recently… It may become a little revolution in the guitar world… Gibson just introduced a week ago their brand new electric guitar, the “Robot Guitar”, which comes with a electronic system that allows self-tuning! It is an amazing innovation, for all of you who keep playing 5th frets all day long… The instrument can even detect by itself if a string is wrongly tuned, and adjust it automatically!

You are even able to switch between a specified set of tunings, as easily as you adjust the volume.

Unfortunately, this technological piece comes with a price : 1400

On this sunny sunday (not that sunny, though…), here’s a post that has absolutely nothing to do with music… While reading an interesting article about setting up a new blog, I just discovered a quizz “Are you addicted to blogging”.

–> The link

So enjoy! I just took the test, and here is the result :

67%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

It’s over! A tiny earthquake shook the music industry recently, when the english rock band Radiohead got rid of distributors and labels. Their new album “In Rainbows” was made available for download on their official website. You even had the right to choose what price you wanted to put on this disc!

A recent post published on the official website states that there will be no more MP3 downloads, starting December 10th. The album will then be available in classical stores.

However, this original idea was successfully reproduced by other artists such as Nine Inch Nails or Barbara Hendricks. The music industry has to face this new problem : artists don’t want to lose the product of their work in the hands of thousands of businessmen and companies… What do you think about this new issue?

December… almost the end of 2007. Well this year was very very full with concerts for us! And most of all reunion tours and things you cannot miss. We’ll post live reports for each of these concerts that we attended throughout the year :

• The Scorpions, Zenith, Paris 14/05/07 - Humanity Hour I Tour
• Aerosmith, Bercy, Paris 19/06/07 - 2007 World Tour
• Genesis, Stade Gerland, Lyon 12/07/07 - Turn It On Again Tour
• The Police, Stade de France, Paris 29/09/07 - Reunion Tour
• Dream Theater, Zenith, Paris 05/10/07 - Systematic Chaos Tour
• Superbus, Zenith, Paris 23/11/07 - WOW Tour (French Band)

Almost a concert per month Some money went away this year! Come check out this website soon if your want to share details about these concerts.