Gerry Rafferty - 1-hour BBC Documentary - Right Down The Line Susan Doran 2017-12-24 | Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line - ArtWorks Scotland Gerry Rafferty, who died in January 2011, was one of Scotland's best loved singer/songwriters, famous around the world for hits such as Baker Street and Stuck in the Middle With You.This ArtWorks Scotland film, narrated by David Tennant, tells the story of Rafferty's life through his often autobiographical songs and includes contributions from Gerry's daughter Martha and brother Jim, friends and colleagues including Billy Connolly, John Byrne and Joe Egan, admirers such as Tom Robinson and La Roux, and words and music from Rafferty himself.
All summer in an hour... Susan Doran 2024-09-05 | After a whole summer without the beach I zoomed to the ocean after work on Labor Day and got there for 1 hour of frolicking in the waves -- fabulous. (with a nod to Ray Bradbury: All summer in an hour)
Episode 2 - First Full Day: In which Grandmamas morning doves pay a visit... Susan Doran 2024-08-03 | Sunday - first full day in the wilds of Arizona
awww....Babys First Mouse [TRIGGER WARNING: deceased mouse is not an actor] Susan Doran 2024-08-03 | Lulu Little (4 months old today) caught her first mouse. She and brother Spot have been practicing wildly on toys for this day since they were adopted 2 weeks ago. After 18-year-olds Edward and Jasper passed away last year the Mouse Population of New London has been running amok at Chez Doran. That era...has come to an end!
Porcupine Interrupted Susan Doran 2023-04-12 | Driving home from work encountered a porcupine nibbling something in the middle of the road--took 30 seconds to find and get the camera going--and porcupine just noshed away til I tapped on the horn, at which point he waddle-scampered away!
Jerry Garcia on Altamont, Hells Angels, Sam Cutler, and Outlaw Life Susan Doran 2018-12-07 | The only video or audio I've ever found of Jerry Garcia discussing the Altamont Free Concert of 1969. The 2 excerpts here--of a May 24/24, 1970 interview at the Hollywood Festival in Newcastlethe, England--are included in the just-released deluxe edition of The Long Strange Trip documentary about the Grateful Dead. Here Jerry discusses Altamont, the Hells Angels, Sam Cutler's role and culpability vis-à-vis Altamont, and the notion of being an outlaw band.
MyCrystalShip Susan Doran 2018-02-14 | Not my video--I pieced various clip from YouTube and tried my best to re-synch the American Bandstand video with the clip--also not my audio. Was already on YouTube.
Music that gives you chills... Susan Doran 2018-01-27 | Kate Bush - Under Ice and Waking the Witch - both from Hounds of Love, 1985. If these don't give you chills, you're already an iceberg. Random visual accompaniment by way of authentic 1967 psychedelic liquid lightshow projections created by Mark Boyle & Joan Hills...these selections were the living wallpaper at the UFO Club on Tottenham Court Road. From Wikipedia: "The UFO Club (pronounced 'You-foe') was a famous but short-lived UK underground club in London during the 1960s. It was established by Joe Boyd and John 'Hoppy' Hopkins and featured light shows, poetry readings, well-known rock acts such as Jimi Hendrix, avant-garde art by Yoko Ono, as well as local house bands such as Pink Floyd and Soft Machine."
Amazing June Foray voice of Natasha, Rocky the Flying Squirrel etc (Sept 18, 1917 - July 26, 2017) Susan Doran 2017-07-27 | (September 18, 1917 - July 26, 2017)
Tony Funches: At work with the Rolling Stones (MSG 1969) Susan Doran 2017-06-29 | Excerpt from the Maysles Brothers film, GIMME SHELTER. A dear man I honored, and liked, a great deal, Tony Funches, at work, with the Rolling Stones (Madison Square Garden, Nov 28, 1969). I slowed it down in places to emphasize not only how strong--but how precise, kinesthetically and cerebrally intelligent, graceful, and elegant--he was. Not one bumbling, stupid, cruel, gratuitous, or extraneous motion or moment. He picks up people like little dolls. Even when fairly crippled, by the time we met each other in April 2013, he picked up my bags, and me when greeting, that exact same way. Swoop. Seemingly effortless -- definitely not, with late-stage COPD. A nobleman of the highest order. RIP.
Anita Pallenberg photo album & Keiths You Got the Silver Susan Doran 2017-06-14 | Collage of photos from throughout the life of stunning, dynamic Anita Pallenberg's life...with "You Got the Silver" and "Coming Down Again," written and sung by Keith Richards....Rest in Peace...(April 6, 1944 - June 13, 2017)
Sly Stone and Richard Pryor goof and play duet - Mike Douglas Show - Nov 1974 Susan Doran 2017-06-12 | The day before Thanksgiving 1974 (11/27/74), rounding out Sylvester Stewart's week as Special guest on The Mike Douglas Show. Muhammad Ali had been another guest with Sly earlier in the week.
Gregg Allman 45+ Minute Interview (New Orleans, 1982) Susan Doran 2017-06-01 | WHAT IT IS:45+ minutes of unedited, unreleased footage of interview of Gregg Allman, conducted by legendary journalist Eric Paulsen, on August 18, 1982, for what would be a 7-minute New Orleans TV news spot on the occasion of the Gregg Allman Band playing at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans.CONTEXT FOR THIS INTERVIEW:This video shows Gregg Allman at his most sober, calm, relaxed, intelligent, charming, humorous, reflective, emotionally honest best. The video was shot backstage, and you hear rehearsal music in the background, guys shouting back and forth, general mayhem--and at two points someone opens the door into Gregg's head, which he handles with aplomb and graciousness.Interviewer Eric Paulsen says he remembers the day very well. He had had been told by Quint Davis he could have no more than15 minutes with Gregg, and not to mention Cher, but they seemed to hit it off, and "the conversation went on for quite sometime." Fortunately for us---and for history!In this video Gregg reminds me quite a bit of his brother Duane---a less manic version of Duane. I have struggled over the years to see a huge resemblance between the two, but you see it here. It may partly be the lighting, which brings out the strawberry in his blonde hair and eyelashes, like Duane--but also more of Duane's sort of cleverness, wisdom, and wit (which I personally have not seen a lot of, over the years, in Gregg--while Duane was known to be overbrimming with all of the above).CONTEXT FOR THIS VIDEO:I "spliced" this video together from 14 different videos on youtube -- the quality is rough, and I'm not 100% sure I got the clips in the original chronological order -- I edited out redundancies but there seem to be some missing parts and it ends abruptly.CONTEXT OF THE GREGG ALLMAN BAND:The Allman Brothers Band had signed to Arista Records in 1980, released 2 critically maligned albums in 1980-81, which the band themselves considered "embarrassing," and disbanded in early 1982 after playing a final performance on Saturday Night Live on January 23, 1982 (the Allman Brothers Band wouldn't play together again until April 1986). In February 1982 Gregg Allman formed the Gregg Allman Band with the Toler brothers and began touring.
Grace Slick Vocals Isolated - White Rabbit Susan Doran 2017-03-14 | Even cooler and more powerful than you'd imagine!............................FAQ & LYRICS (below)Q: Who did the original vocals isolation and remastering? A: I don't know. It has been floating around the web for some time--it's superb. Q: What did you do?A: Edited out 30 seconds of silence in the beginning, added amplification, and very very minor noise reduction. Also made the slideshow :)Q: Did you add reverb or echo effects?A: No. Compare here to the original recording and production -- and its prominent reverb: youtu.be/XR8LFNUr3vw?t=28s Q: Did you---or the studio or producers--enhance *vibrato*?A: None of the above. Here's a good live TV performance, with Grace Slick's vibrato (and mostly sans reverb)youtu.be/WANNqr-vcx0?t=28sQ: Where was this recorded?A: According to Jefferson Airplane bassist, Jack Casady, “We recorded it out at Sunset and Ivar, in a huge room at RCA where they used to record A Hundred And One Strings. The room was massive, so we basically set up the instrumentation in the middle of this room and played it live onto four-track. It was very simple to record. I just led the song out as a bass part like Bolero, ripping off Ravel. It was all slow and slinky, it gave us the atmosphere we wanted.” (check out this fine article for more background on this song, Grace Slick, and the Jefferson Airplane:http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-10-29/the-story-behind-the-song-white-rabbit-by-jefferson-airplane)Q: People are getting the lyrics wrong - can you post them?A: Sure.One pill makes you largerAnd one pill makes you smallAnd the ones that mother gives youDon't do anything at allGo ask AliceWhen she's ten feet tallAnd if you go chasing rabbitsAnd you know you're going to fallTell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillarHas given you the callCall AliceWhen she was just smallWhen the men on the chessboardGet up and tell you where to goAnd you've just had some kind of mushroomAnd your mind is moving lowGo ask AliceI think she'll knowWhen logic and proportion have fallen sloppy deadAnd the white knight is talking backwardsAnd the red queen's off with her headRemember what the dormouse said:Feed your head.Feed your head.. . . . . . .. .. ... .. . . .. .. . . . . .. ... . . . .. . . .......
So wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully kitty! Susan Doran 2016-06-29 | The backyard visitor in action--and my cats as fanboys. At the end, the sprinkler goes off but it was 112° F and he didn't mind that he was being misted.
Mom & Dad Dancing to Loose Marbles (band from New Orleans) Susan Doran 2015-12-31 | December 28, 2015 - Mom & Dad dancing to my father's favorite band, The Loose Marbles from New Orleans!(both 86 years old and Dad on chemo for multiple myeloma)
Seranade before Sunset (Mission Alleyway) Susan Doran 2015-07-13 | The alleyway behind my building. The woman is relatively new to the neighborhood. About 3 weeks ago I heard her whoop. She seemed to have found a piece of crack on the ground. Since then, she comes back to the alley now and again, and spends up to an hour scuffling her feet on the ground---seemingly in hope of unearthing another errant piece of crack. Today a neighborhood man made up a song for her about God and Jesus, which she may or may not have heard.
