Bid On That Axe, Eugene

David Gilmour is probably my all time favorite guitar player, and he’s selling a bunch of his guitars for charity. 120 of them. He’s even selling the “Black Strat” that he played on Dark Side of the Moon, Wish you Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. So that’s the guitar that was used for Time, Comfortably Numb, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, and Run Like Hell. Day-um… I’d just like to see that guitar, and I can’t imagine what it would be like to own it. Check out the auction here…  

So if you’ve got $100,000 burning a hole in your pocket, go pick one up.

Check Out These Early Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Animatics

So sayeth animator Alberto Mielgo …

As I mentioned before, I was hired to direct the animation test for the new Spiderman film.

Here you can see my original storyboards and animatics that I produced for such a test. My main intention was to explore the language of comics and cinema and merge them together. We finished only 4 of this shots. And everyone ended up pretty exhausted!!!
The shots that we produced with an incredible technical team were some of the most amazing thing Ive seen, and Im extremely proud of them and the team involved. With those shots we open a door to a pipeline and possibilities and help to estimate the overall film.
I hope Sony will allow me to share the finished shots some time in the future .

Im really happy to see that most of my shots on this early boards made it to the final film. Again I would like to congratulate the whole team that finished the final film for preserving the compositions and the original intention of these shots. It shows that everyone felt inspired and that they really cared for this particular vision.

As you can see the 3 versions are very different in tone. It was early and I was not too sure yet what would be the final mood of this film yet.

I work with pencil, photoshop, I do the comp in After FX and my edits in Premiere, with my own sounds and all bunch of crap in Audition… Did I ever say how much I love adobe?

Music on this obviously temp score just for the edit.

My pick temp track artist:
v1: SON LUX
v2: LEFTFIELD
v3: MAXIMONO

Majestic Sloppiness

Here are the Stones at Hyde Park in 1969 playing a cover of “I’m Yours and I’m Hers” that is horrendously sloppy, just barely in tune . . . and completely badass.  The Replacements may have been the only other band with the attitude and panache to be simultaneously so bad and so great.

Some background:  this was their first show in two years due to drug busts and Brain Jones’s decline, and their first gig with a 20 year-old Mick Taylor.  They had kicked out Brian Jones a month previously, and sadly, he died two days before this gig.  Jagger begins by reading a portion of Shelley’s “Adonais”  in his honor. They opened with “I’m Yours and I’m Hers” because it was one of Brain’s favorites.  Music begins at about 3:00.

Lies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7fQgg_T9Gk

This is the best imitation I’ve heard of John Lennon’s singing.  However, when you see a video of these guys (as I did for the first time this a.m.), the effect is dampened a bit by the singer, who could pass for a flooring salesman.  And why’s he wearing a saxophone?  Great song nonetheless.

Dave Davies On Jonesy’s Jukebox

A few dull stretches, but fascinating musical discussions beginning at around 11:00 and 21:00.  Dave interestingly links his power-chording to the Ventures, while Jonesy ‘fesses up to lifting the riff to “Sub-Mission” from “All Day and All of the Night.”