VJ Heaven

+++RIP PETER+++( Dont forget to watch part 2) “back in the day” there used to be a wonderful public access show called “Hard Rock Television” here in the Santa Cruz County. the host… the “Ice Princess” would VJ all kinds of videos from bands all over the world.Requests were taken, and My good friend & I had flooded the show with requests, and almost all of them were played. She didnt do many interviews, but when she did she chose well. Here is the almost NEVER seen interview with Peter Steele during the October Rust Tour in 1997. They played all of their Videos, but Warner Music Group doesnt want you to be able to see them. they actually blocked my upload when i still had them included, so here it is with ALL MUSIC VIDEOS CUT OUT (so hopefully WMG doesn’t try to claim they own the rights to Peter’s voice while talking, especially when it was on PUBLIC ACCESS!!)

I hope you enjoy it / espero que lo disfrutes Comment & Rate please / comenten y voten por favor

Sub & check out the Facebook page ‘Mixes & Mashups for more www.facebook.com All credits and respect to Dj Robin Skouteris , Bliix and the amazing Vj Panos T who made this mix even sicker than it is;) Sub and follow for the download link: Dj Robin Skouteris Youtube page www.youtube.com Facebook page www.facebook.com Contact www.facebook.com Vj Panos T for more of his awesome videos definitely check out Youtube channel www.youtube.com Facebook page www.facebook.com Bliix Youtube channel www.youtube.com David Guetta feat. Chris Willis – Love Is Gone (Bliix Remix) REM – The One I Love Rage Against The Machine – Testify

Inspired by Hexstatic’s mix on Solid Steel. A mash-up of AC/DC, Queen, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Recorded in two takes and mixed in After Effects for final edit. Minimal amount of post-production used, as this is all about the live mix. Once again I used the NUVJ, which I use for live performances.

Mr Man vj loops feat. Rock Your Bones and lots of flowers. download at thewetcarpet.com

Chris Rock was described by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all times, Christopher Julius Rock III is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. Rock was born on February 7, 1966 in Andrews, South Carolina. Shortly after his birth, his parents moved to Brooklyn, New York and a few years later, they moved to the working-class area of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn where they settled.

Rock began doing stand-up comedy in 1985 in New York City’s Catch a Rising Star. Rock slowly rose up the ranks of the comedy circuit in addition to earning bit roles in the film I’m Gonna Git You Sucka and the TV series Miami Vice. Upon seeing his act at a nightclub, Eddie Murphy befriended and mentored the aspiring comic. Murphy gave Rock his first film role in Beverly Hills Cop II. Rock also auditioned to be on MTV as a VJ.

While Rock has acted in movies since 1987 beginning with a small role in Beverly Hills Cop II, it was not until the success of his stand-up act in the late 1990s that Rock began receiving major parts in films. These include roles in Dogma, Beverly Hills Ninja, Lethal Weapon 4 and Nurse Betty and a starring role in Down to Earth. Rock has also increasingly worked behind the camera, both as a writer and director of Head of State and I Think I Love My Wife.

Rock became a cast member of the popular sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in 1990. He and other new cast members Chris Farley, Adam Sandler and David Spade became known as the Bad Boys of SNL. In 1991, he released his first comedy album Born Suspect and won acclaim for his dramatic role as a crack addict in the film New Jack City. His tenure on SNL gave Rock national exposure, but he was rarely used on the show, save for his recurring Nat X character.

He starred in his first HBO comedy special in 1994 titled Big Ass Jokes. But it was his second stand-up special, 1996′s Bring the Pain that reinvented Rock as one of the best comedians in the industry. His routine featured commentaries on race in America, stirred up a great deal of controversy. Rock won two Emmy Awards for that special. Adding to his popularity was his much-publicized role as a commentator for Comedy Central’s Politically Incorrect during the 1996 Presidential elections. Rock was also the voice for the “Lil Penny” puppet that was the alter ego to basketball star Penny Hardaway in a series of Nike shoe commercials from 1994-1998, and hosted the ’97 MTV Video Music Awards.

In the fall of 2005, the UPN television network premiered a comedy series called Everybody Hates Chris, based on Rock’s school days, of which he is the executive producer and narrator. The show has garnered both critical and commercial success, and Rock describes it as “honest” and “very working-class, so people can relate.”

Often the subject of tabloids, when asked about paparazzi and the other negative aspects of fame, Rock says he accepts the bad with the good: “You can’t be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.”

His comedy typically involves race relations in the United States, politics, music, romance, and class relationships. Though not directly based on it, many of his comedic views are rooted in his teen years; his very strict parents, concerned about the neighborhood schools, had him bused to an almost all-white high school in Bensonhurst (an Italian-ethnic neighborhood of Brooklyn that was known at the time for poor race relations). Rock claims to have been arrested four times: once for vehicular assault on a youth who had robbed him, and three times for traffic violations, including driving without a license and driving too slowly.

Chris made his first appearance on stage in the UK at the Live Earth event July 2007 which was broadcasted live on the BBC. Before introducing the Red Hot Chili Peppers Chris called the crowd “motherfuckers”. Due to the broadcast being at 5.45pm Chris was immediately cut off and the BBC made several apologies for his use of the word “motherfucker”. He also went on in a later interview with Jonathan Ross to use the word “niggers” but was unrepentant in later NME interviews.

Rock has been married to Malaak Compton since November 23, 1996. She is the founder and executive director of Style Works, a non-profit, full-service salon that provides free services for women leaving welfare and entering the workforce. The couple has two daughters together, Lola Simone and Zahra Savannah.

In November 2006, the entertainment news website TMZ.com reported that Rock was filing for divorce after nearly ten years of marriage to Malaak. Two weeks later, however, TMZ reported that Rock had not filed divorce papers, and that it appeared that the couple had been able to work out their differences and stay together. In response to the reports, Rock released a statement to the press denouncing them as “untrue rumors and lies”.

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Whatever line there was between playing Rock Band as a game and playing Rock Band as musical instruments has now more or less evaporated with the release of Rock Band 3. Yes, there’s a keyboard, and yes, you can add a strap to it, if that makes it a keytar for you. But there’s more to it than that.

For the gaming world’s take on the ratcheted-up difficulty and actual music making functionality, Joystiq interviews Daniel Sussman at Harmonix.

The keyboard parts are real keyboard parts. The only difference between Rock Band / Guitar Hero parts and traditional score notation, aside from rotating the whole score 90 degrees counter-clockwise and having it come toward you, is that you don’t get a full range of notes. The keyboard changes that – while not as extreme as my faux mock-up in May, you do get the full range of black and white keys. There’s actually an octave and a half up on the screen, and two octaves on the controller. In other words, while you’re not quite learning to sightread, you are learning actual keyboard skills. There’s also a touch strip on the neck of the instrument, in a nod to keyboard history.

MIDI output. The keyboard accessory supports MIDI output, as confirmed in the Joystiq interview. So you can plug the keyboard into your computer – good fun for Xbox-using electronic music geeks, and also a nice bridge for people new to music who want to get into production after using Rock Band.

MIDI input. Here’s the other surprise: Sussman tells Joystiq they’re working with Mad Catz to do a MIDI input accessory, so you can plug your Roland JUNO-106 into your Xbox 360, if you want. (Side dream: if such an accessory supported XNA titles, you could have elaborate indie music games to play with real controllers, too. CDM Hero?)

Guitar with strings and frets. This is a bit more elaborate, so it tops my questions for Harmonix when I talk to them, but suffice to say Harmonix is finally adding strings and frets to a six-string model made by Fender.

Consider this a teaser, as I’ll be talking to Harmonix later this month. But why does this matter?

It makes gaming even more of a gateway drug for music. CDM’s own Jaymis, known better on the visual side of things than music, has started playing drum kit after getting hooked on Rock Band. And statistics worldwide show uptick in interest in buying and playing instruments, even as music education has been under economic pressures. At some point, there may have been a debate about the validity of music games. It’s tough to continue that debate now: games get more people into music, period. And while the games aren’t exactly creative or improvisational, they introduce people to more communal, more musical experiences in surprising numbers.

It makes a game musicians might actually want to play. Here’s where I think there might be a surprise. Lots of tech-loving musicians and producers are avid game system owners, but it’s hard not to feel a little silly picking up anything but the mic on the music games. Oddly, RB3 could bridge the opposite direction.

Rock Band Network just got a lot more interesting. I’ve been singing the praises of Rock Band Network, the tool that allows artists to author songs for the game platform, for some time. But now with keyboard input and real musical parts, I think RBN might finally be more tantalizing – including for electronic music. Now, could we please, please, please have some on-screen visuals in the vein of Harmonix’s earlier, visually-brilliant Amplitude or Frequency, and not just people in leather pants? (Okay, so maybe there are still some lingering obstacles for electronic music.)

Got questions for Harmonix? Stuff you’d like to see? Want to register for my Bring Back Frequency campaign? Let us know in comments.

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Kotaku notes that Rock Band 3’s icons tease something we’ve been awaiting a long time — keys.

It’s ironic that in order to make guitars playable in games, they were effectively made into keyboards, yet it’s taken this long to actually get keyboards. Oh, wait — yeah, there is that whole problem of having as many as 88 keys, two hands, and no convenient way to fit the staff notation into the descending gems view. Not entirely sure how that’ll work out; see also a controller concept, below.

Of course, this also means that, while electronic music is still largely off-limits, synthpop, prog, and synth bands are all now fair game. That’s fantastic news for the Rock Band Network I’ve covered here on CDM, which lets anyone with a copy of Reaper adapt music for the platform.

So, I got one wish… though I do have to say it again, on behalf of the richer gameplay and the chance for VJ backgrounds and electronic tracks. Xbox Network. Frequency. Amplitude. (Or, heck, Google TV/Android. Anything.) Long-time Harmonix watchers know what I’m talking about.

Oh, side note to Kotaku: am I going to have to send Stevie Wonder and J.S. Bach to kick your ass, or will you stop making fun of the keyboard? Yeah, it’s had its embarrassing moments, like any other instrument. It’s no soprano sax, though.

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