Colin Hay’s show last night was one of the best concerts I’ve been to in years. He had us laughing throughout the night with stories of his tours, his time with Men at Work and his childhood. He played his hits (”You can’t ignore the big songs,”) and many tunes off of his “Peaks and Valleys” and “Going Somewhere” albums, my personal favorites.
Here is an excerpt, his cover of the Beatles’ Norwegian Wood.
Norwegian Wood:
Brad Delp, The Nicest Guy in Rock n’ Roll (1951-2007)
Digital (Photoshop), 3/21/07
Your voice is soaring to new heights now, bud.
Starting off the new year with a faux-charcoal sketch. I brushed the cobwebs off of my installation of Painter, awoke the beast of a program and wrestled it into submission. It’s a little tricky to use with its very strange and un-ubiquitous interface.
It’s nice to have clean fingers and cheeks and a smudge-free nose after a charcoal drawing.
This not-so-flattering rendering is of Adam Weaver of the band Adam Weaver and the Ghosts. If you haven’t heard them yet, listen to the four songs they have on their MySpace page. Then, go buy their album from iTunes or somewhere else. I’m not that great at describing music, so here’s a description from CD Baby:
Southern slowcore writing meets intelligent urban delivery resulting in dark folk-pop. Mississippi meets Omaha.
Jen and I saw them perform in St. Louis in December. Adam rocked a nice cover of “Feelings” that bore little resemblance to the original tune but was easily my favorite song of the night. Here’s the photo reference for the sketch above, from that night.
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