100th Post!

Yay!

This, my babies, is our 100th post here at the luscious Effect Return and I've decided to celebrate it with a little Bobby Conn, who is in fact my new idol. I believe this clip is from 'Chic-a-go-go,' a public access dance show for kids and adults out of Chicago.

P.S.- Please, don't say "yes" to the man....



Awe, hell. I wasn't going to do this, but how could I only pick one when both these videos are so frickin' cool?? 'Home Sweet Home' may actually be my current favorite song....

This is How We Go Out

Leslie Hall. Nuff said....

Talking Heads Live in Rome

Boing Boing reported a few days ago that someone had posted an entire concert video of the Talking Heads live in Rome (circa 1980!!) to You Tube. Holy Crap.

I am and have always been a fanatical follower of this incredible band, who (along with Television) totally redefined the way I think about the interplay of the instruments in a band.

This show reveals why the great Talking Heads remain the stuff of legend, and the rich vibrant energy that they emit on-stage is intoxicating to say the least. In a word, this is a-w-e-s-o-m-e.

So grab a drink, get comfortable, unplug the phone, and put your rawk goggles on!

The Songs:

* Psycho Killer
* Stay Hungry
* Cities
* I Zimbra
* Drugs
* Take Me to the River
* Crosseyed and Painless
* Life During Wartime
* Houses in Motion
* Born under Punches

Live! James Brown, Michael Jackson, and Prince in Supersoul Throwdown!

In keeping with the recent burst of video love, I just had to drop this clip of an old James Brown show where Michael Jackson and Prince both get called to step up from the crowd and onto the stage to add a little spice to the Godfather's mega-jive. Holy crack-rabbits, this is some cool sh*t....

She Wakes Up Just Long Enough to Rawk!

This video I found at haha.nu is awesome. This little girl rocks like nobody's bid-ness!
I wonder how long till she can quit her day job?

Guitarist Zack Kim Shreds Mario Bros.

For all us tragically nostalgic kids who owned one of the first Nintendo game systems and who's voices changed not because of puberty but from blowing into game cartridges and screaming endless hours at the Koopa Troopas, here's a guitar virtuoso who feels our pain.

This is a priceless video clip I caught over at haha.nu of an Australian guy named Zack Kim playing the original Super Mario Brothers Theme on two guitars simultaneously using a finger-tapping technique that would make Eddie VanHalen proud as a pickled herring.

Check out his site for loads of links to similar videos he's made (including other video game themes!).

***Edit!***

Awe, screw it. Here's a few more unique samples of the Mario theme I found on YouTube after posting Zack Kim's. Enjoy!

Classical Guitar:

11 String Bass:

Drums and Bass:

Beyoncé Battles Stairs, YouTube, and Aliens

Has anybody seen the footage of Beyoncé's recent fall in Orlando?

Apparently, she took a face-firster down 12 stairs during a concert then got up, dusted herself off, and kept workin' it! Some concert-goers reported that Miss Knowles even appeared to be bleeding. The show must go on, I suppose- bravo, Queen Bee!

After the show, Beyoné requested that no one release any video footage of the fall on the internet, but it surfaced quickly on YouTube anyway. Sony music yanked it, though, by the time I got there. Doesn't matter anywho because I managed to find some stills of the video that was released to Fox News and the quality is so bad you've got no clue what you're even looking at- could be Beyoncé falling down a flight of stairs, could also be a fuzzy bootlegged scene from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

Probably the second, I think.

*Edit* Maybe, it's both....

Clemens Kogler Creates Crazy Video Collage for Clark

Illustrator/digital animator Clemens Kogler has come up with an absolutely gorgeous music video for UK musician Clark's song "Herr Bar". The vid, which is an animation created from photos of the human body arranged to form animals, landscapes and plants, is really quite beyond description. Clark's music is very nice as well, although a bit reminiscent of some of Richard D. James' more ambient, less drill-n-bass, stuff. Regardless, the music and images are married perfectly, and it is a lovely way to spend a few minutes.

Enjoy....

Deerhoof @ Rolling Stone

Deerhoof is so much fun. They were recently here in tha "C," but I was unable to attend.

*Sadness floods my drab southern room; the flowers wilt; goldfish hold their breath in sorrow; somewhere in the distance, a clown is crying.*

Oh well, I'll just have to console myself with the new video for "The Perfect Me" available at Rolling Stone's site. There's also a vid for "Dog on the Sidewalk" on the same page.... Off the chizzain.

Also, for more of Rolling Stone's Deerhoof coverage/support check out their Deerhoof Page, ripe with articles, album reviews, photos, videos, and a little audio player that lets you tune in to 'Deerhoof Radio' and/or listen to the 5 most popular Deerhoof tracks on Rhapsody.com.

Love ya, Deerhoof. Catch you next time around....