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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jul 25, 2013 8:15:22 GMT -5
Here's The Mini Band performing in the final of Live & Unsigned. They perform a medley of Linkin Park's One Step Closer and their own song Ain't No Other Way. There was a problem with the amp used by lead guitarist Harry Jackson which effectively killed his solo.
And here is a clip from their very first gig just after Harrison joined the band, he was just 7 at the time. Drummer Charlie was 10 years old and the rest of the band were all aged eight. Bass player Archie hadn't yet joined so the bass was played by a stand in 16 year old, who decided to stay in the shadows as he wasn't part of the band.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 26, 2013 2:58:50 GMT -5
I was just watching an old television interview given by Declan Galbraith in Great Britain sometime in 2002, and in the interview he states that he's actually three-quarters Irish, and a quarter Scottish. I guess while he may have been born in England, his genes are extracted primarily from the Emerald Isle.
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jul 26, 2013 8:24:59 GMT -5
Declan is 100% English, his ancestry may be 75% Irish and 25% Scottish but it doesn't alter where he was born and raised. All four of my grandparents were Irish but I would never consider myself to be Irish because I was born and raised in England. I did attend classes to learn Irish Gaelic at one point because I'm proud of my Irish heritage. Unfortunately my brain has difficulty with learning languages, I also have the same problem with trying to play musical instruments, which are essentially just a different form of language too really. Declan's ancestry really makes no difference to his ability as a singer. He had a very powerful and clear voice with his own unique pronunciation of certain words which made him very distinctive. Declan is now a young man and you can listen to his latest recordings free on his official website... www.declan-official.com/music.phpAnother boy with a very powerful and distinctive voice, Brendan MacFarlane, a lad from Scotland who likes country music...
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jul 26, 2013 8:40:14 GMT -5
Three other boys with a liking for bluegrass music are the incredibly talented Mizzone brothers. Johnny (Banjo), Robbie (Fiddle) and Tommy (Acoustic guitar) comprise the Sleepy man Banjo Boys and hail from New Jersey. Here they are practicing Flint Hill Special in their bedroom... They have their own very professional looking website, with CDs, videos, photos and much more... www.sleepymanbanjoboys.com/
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jul 26, 2013 8:56:08 GMT -5
The war movie Pearl must rank as one of the most boring flops in cinema history so when someone combined a clip from it with music by Russian kinder rok band Al-Boos and the result was that it made Pearl look interesting, even exciting, it shows just how good Al-Boos really are. So here it is Аль-Бус: Ангелы и Воины (Al-Boos performing Angels & Warriors)...
Dunn be fooled though, it's still a lousy movie.
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Post by scotty1958 on Jul 26, 2013 17:51:55 GMT -5
Going through my collection I found that one of my favorite songs from the 1980's features a cool kid in the video...
Authority Song - John Mellencamp
And for a change of pace, I'll never forget this fancy goal scored by a talented 9-year-old in Bruins mini one on one competition...
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Post by scotty1958 on Jul 26, 2013 18:11:46 GMT -5
Here's a couple I snagged from the Classic Rock forum that I post on...
Shut the Front Door (Too Young For This) - Forever the Sickest Kids
Cudi the Kid
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 26, 2013 18:21:14 GMT -5
And for a change of pace, I'll never forget this fancy goal scored by a talented 9-year-old in Bruins mini one on one competition... Even with all the angles they showed, I still can't figure out exactly what he did on that shot. It was like a combination of the skills of Bobby Hull, Jaromir Jagr and Fabrice Santoro (yes, I had to draw comparisons to a tennis player to adequately convey the skills required for that shot!) all wrapped into one; and somehow, it appeared he beat the goaltender top shelf, which almost seems to defy the laws of physics. I wonder if he had that move fully planned out in advance, or if there were some elements of improvisation to it.
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Post by scotty1958 on Jul 26, 2013 18:43:22 GMT -5
The hockey player kid is haunted...that's the only explanation ;D
Here's a cool video from some teenagers from Florida...
Broken - Sound Express
I'm not sure what this is, but it was posted on the Classic Rock forum and people liked it, including me...
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Post by scotty1958 on Jul 27, 2013 5:17:14 GMT -5
Here's a couple of videos that I just found and I think are pretty cool. These kids must be from France. These videos have been up for awhile, maybe someone knows more about these guys...
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jul 27, 2013 8:32:26 GMT -5
I'm not into sport of any kind at all but the goal by the kid from the Bruins was something exceptional. It was obviously a practiced move and he had probably made many previous attempts before he got it right on camera but that doesn't lessen how special it was in any way. It was innovative, original and nothing short of brilliant. The only problem is that he's given away his secret skill and he'll be less likely to get the chance to do it during a game.
Once upon a time Gene Simmons of Kiss made a British TV series called Rock School. He went to an exclusive school in London and molded a group of kids, who'd been trained in classical music, into a rock band. The series was a big success so in the nature of such things he made a follow up series. This time he went to an ordinary state school in a run down seaside resort and formed a rock band from a group of problem kids with no musical training. His choice of lead singer and lead guitarist was a 4 feet 11 inch tall sixteen year old bundle of energy called Chris Hardman, who everyone in the school knew as Lil' Chris. Chris co-wrote the song that the band performed at the end of the series too. Lil' Chris had so much charisma that he made a real impact on the viewing public. Recognizing that he had potential a record label immediately signed him up and he later went on to record two albums and had several hit singles. If Lil' Chris had been born 70 years earlier he'd have fitted right into the Little Rascals without a doubt. Here's the official video for his very first single, Checkin' It Out...
Here is his follow up second single, the suggestively titled Gettin' Enough?
And his third single Figure It Out
After his second album and a few more singles Lil' Chris fronted his own TV show and later became a club DJ. More recently he's been appearing in stage musicals.
I've got all of his albums, singles, promo singles, promo DVDs, photos, autographs, T-shirt and everything else that I could find because I really liked him. He has real energy and the drive to achieve his goals in life but he never takes himself too seriously, he's also got the blackest eyes I've ever seen. I've still waiting hopefully for a third album some day.
As part of his TV show Chris did a 'dare' each week. Some of his dares included wing walking on a biplane, cage fighting and this one... overcoming his personal fear of the dark by walking through an abandoned military tunnel inside the white cliffs of Dover...
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jul 27, 2013 8:53:47 GMT -5
I'd never seen the John 'Cougar' Mellencamp video or heard the song before and I really enjoyed it. If it wasn't for the date I'd have thought that the kid was Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady)... Here's another classic rock video with a kid in it...
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jul 27, 2013 9:38:18 GMT -5
The Kid Cudi song was new to me and not really my cup of tea but it did immediately remind me of another video, one with no kids but nevertheless interesting and a decent song too...
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jul 27, 2013 11:29:50 GMT -5
I liked the Sound Express video. The band pay good traditional rock, like Plowboy, and I've subscribed to their channel.
I'd never previously heard of 'Petits Chanteurs d'Asnières et des Poppys' but the Petits Chanteurs part of the name simple means Little Singers and it's applied to a whole heap of different French choirs who are much in the same tradition of the English cathedral choirs I guess. I do know that 'Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois' of Paris (Little singers of the wooden cross) have been around since 1907 and have recorded numerous albums and even a few DVDs. On the subject of French boys singers here one of my favorites, Valentin Vierling...
Here he is winning the grand final of the French TV series l'école des stars...
Unlike a lot of child singers ,who fade back into obscurity once they get older, Valentine's voice seems instead to have improved and he now has a successful career as a singer.
Here are two of my favorites by Valentine although there are many, many more...
Dingue, Dingue, Dingue
SOS d'un terrien en détresse
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Post by scotty1958 on Jul 27, 2013 15:31:31 GMT -5
Lil' Chris is really cool. I like his videos. I had never heard of him before. I'll have to post "Gettin' Enough??" over at the Classic Rock Forum one of these days ;D Here's one I dug out from my archives. Beamer Wigley from Canada singing an original song written with his father... Ain't Nothin' that a Beer Can't Fix I remember that song "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam. Someone on the Classic Rock Forum posted it, and I found the awful story that the song was partially based on. A boy named Jeremy Delle committed suicide in front of his class. Here is the news story that inspired the song: www.fivehorizons.com/songs/aug99/jeremy_article.shtml
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