Especially for our resident music guru...

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741

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2007 350Z Grand Touring Roadster "OURZ"

WOW! What a GREAT video!!! I let my muffins burn to a crisp listening to this over and over! 20 performers in different locations around the world, all hearing each other and lending their own part to this wonderful old song. Brilliant!

See? This is why it's so important to support street performers! If I had been near there, I would have been boppin', shuckin' and groovin' while they played (and y'all would have walked away from me, I know! ).

STAND BY ME is the 'Phoenix' of R&B. It was released by the great Ben E. King when I was about 13 y/o, and went straight to #1 in a lot of countries. Everybody could sing part of it, and they did. When it eventually fell off the charts, other countries picked it up and it became #1 there. Over the past 50yrs it has been covered by nearly everybody in the music industry.

Alan, WHERE did you find this? My favorites are the Dobro @03:01, the Moscow cello, and Grandpa Elliott's great baritone voice.

When I lived in NC there was an all-black community (Harlowe) with no commercial attractions ~ in other words, no reason for a white boy to be there. But they had some really good home-taught musicians living out there.

I used to load my 12-string in my Z and drive the back roads until I spied some old white-haired black man on his porch with his banjo. I would park at the roadside right in front of their house, open the hood and look inside, pretending to fiddle with something. I opened the hatch, leaned the guitar against the fender so they could see it, and took my toolbox up to the front to "adjust" something. I got invited to some of the best porch-session bluegrass and blues I've ever experienced in my life. Looking back, it might have been a bit risky, but I never had any trouble and those are among my happiest memories of NC.

THANK YOU for this ~ it really made my day!
Music Guru, what do YOU think?

Frank

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1970 240Z

Great story Frank!

AWESOME!

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