Pat Metheny again

About two months ago I made a post about Pat Metheny. I also embedded a video from YouTube with Pat Metheny playing a special Pikasso harp guitar. I used the video to support my post about Pat Metheny, how I got in touch with his music etc..

I was unpleasantly surprised to find out that the video I attached at this post is no longer available, due to a copyright claim by Pat Metheny. I checked YouTube but there s not a real alternative video from Pat Metheny playing his Pikasso Guitar, only a short 37 second video, but I can't consider that as a real alternative. It's a bit strange, because there are still loads of other Pat Metheny videos out there on YouTube and I'm pretty sure that the copyright with these videos haven't been settled properly either.

Although maybe an interesting issue, this post is not meant to be to start a discussion about copyrightproblems with videomaterial on YouTube, I just wanted to notify my visitors. The only thing that I would like to say about posting videomaterial from artists is that as long as it's done by a fan to show his or her admiration for an artist or group without any commercial purposes then I don't see much trouble with it. The artist or group in question also can see it as free publicity. But sharklawyers might see this a bit different.

Too bad that the original video is removed. Right now I'm not in the mood to rewrite my first Pat Metheny-post, but I guess I will do that some other time after I find another proper video to go with the post.

Pat Metheny

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (Live at Utrecht)

Last Night N., two friends and also former roommates and yours truly went to a concert of the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, a ten men formation from Tokyo (what a surprise), Japan. For those who are not familiair with their music you can describe their music as Madness meets The Pogues with a bit of punk-, jazz-, soul-, funk-, bigband- and even sometimes klezmerinfluences added to the overall mixture, creating a live performance that turns every musicevent into a partying, jumping and dancing whole.

N. and I saw the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra for the first time two years ago in 2005 at the Parkpop Festival, a free music festival at The Hague, which is always held at the last Sunday of June every year. Although they were playing early in the afternoon at the Parkpop Festival, they got the whole crowd jumping and dancing, including me and that's quite an achievement if you know that I'm not a big dancinglover. They have a great and very energetic live performance and they also proved that last night.

We had a wonderful and fun time last night N. and I manage to made a few pictures and I shot two videos that I uploaded at YouTube. I have embedded the videos in this posting. You'll find them together with some pictures below. The videos were shot with a compact digital photocamera, so the video- and sound quality is not extremely high, but good enough to get an impression of the live performance and the atmosphere. Because there was not enough light and because of the jumping and dancing crowd it was difficult to get sharp pictures, so some of the pics are a bit moved sometimes.

TSPO is touring through Europe now. You can check their schedule on their website (see below). If they are coming near you and you are in the mood for a great night with fun- and partymusic then don't hesitate and go. You won't regret it.

I also made a posting about the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra at my photoblog at BrownNoisePhotos.

Enjoy the videos!

They also do a great version of the thememusic from "The Godfather". They also played it last night, but this video was shot (not by me) in August 2006 at another concert of the TSPO in Barcelona.

Official website of Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

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Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra