Sections: Uncategorized Apr 27th, 2004 No Comments Can't think of a city that deserves it more after NYC. It's a shame about that name though: Eat Chicago
Sections: Uncategorized Apr 26th, 2004 No Comments Fascinating. Via Boing Boing originally from the Guardian:
The 15 kg portable jukebox, owned by Lennon around 40 years ago, was bought by the late Bristol music promoter John Midwinter for just £2,500 at a Christie's sale of Beatles memorabilia in 1989. He then spent years restoring it to working order and researching its 41 discs. Listed in Lennon's handwriting, they are effectively the Desert Island Discs which helped shape his musical genius.
Among the collection of rock and roll, rhythm and blues and soul, Midwinter traced an intriguing influence on the Beatles' output. Blues performer Bobby Parker's guitar lick was 'borrowed' by the Beatles for 'I Feel Fine'. Delbert McClinton's harmonica inspired Lennon's own on 'Love Me Do'. And the high-pitched scream on 'Twist and Shout' and other tracks was copied from the Isley Brothers.
A team from The South Bank Show took the jukebox, which they dubbed 'the original iPod', across America to track down Lennon's musical heroes. Many were gratified and none accused the Beatles of plagiarism. But one said he felt his contribution deserved greater recognition.
Sections: Uncategorized Apr 26th, 2004 No Comments 2nd time in a week now that I've had issues with my hosting company shutting down MotoringFile. The first time was due to an error in the code causing some unnecessary hits on the server. However this time were clueless as to what the cause is and we don't seem to be getting too far with our hosting company in terms of getting any help. Not sure how long I'll can stay with them at this rate.
Issue resolved - Our host shut us down due to a mistake they made. Everything is back up. Of course this is still a rather alarming issue.
Sections: Uncategorized Apr 26th, 2004 1 Comment Enjoy! - Via Boing Boing
Sections: Uncategorized Apr 25th, 2004 3 Comments That I know of. Oh and it's quite a good read.
Sections: Uncategorized Apr 24th, 2004 No Comments “He is the Henry J. Kaiser or Walt Disney of this era,” - Oh, Yeah, He Also Sells Computers.
Sections: Uncategorized Apr 23rd, 2004 No Comments This is nice vindication.
Sections: Uncategorized Apr 22nd, 2004 No Comments And it's in the ever popular tech blog genre… time.blogs.com.
Sections: Uncategorized Apr 21st, 2004 5 Comments Well the latest Powerbooks proved to be just too tempting. I finally decided that it was time for my three year old 400mhz G4 Titanium Powerbook to find a new home. My new 1.5ghz G4 Aluminum Powerbook will be in my hands next week. Can't wait!
Gabriel Bridger is a creative director, and part-time blogger living in Chicago. Bridger.us is a rambling collection of thoughts, comments, and various media in no particular order and, at times, of no particular merit.
