nprfreshair:

Merry Clayton, one of the singers features in 20 Feet from Stardom, tells Terry Gross about singing backup on the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter”

The guys come out and stand next to me and say, ‘It’s just a shot away,’ as I’m saying, ‘Rape, murder.’ I mean it was a sight to behold, and we got through it, and then they went in the booth to listen, and I saw them hooting and hollering while I was singing, but I didn’t know what they were hooting and hollering about. And when I got back in the booth and listened, I said, ‘Ooo, that’s really nice.’

And they said, ‘You want to do another?’ and I said, ‘Well, I’ll do one more and then I’m going to have to say thank you and good night.’ I did one more, and then I did one more … and then I was gone. Next thing I know, that — that’s history.

Isolated vocals on GIMME SHELTER reveal the intensity of the background singers, including Merry Clayton.

The public radio show STUDIO 360 is hosting a “Battle of the High School Bands” contest. They’re inviting folks to send in their old high school band recordings (and no, they don’t mean marching band, although I was part of that, too).

Here’s my entry:

Band name: The Knümbe Skülles, later changed to Barnyard Commandos

Credits for the song: Written by Frank Birchak. Performed by Frank Birchak, guitar, Nathan Cone, guitar, Glenn Pistoll, bass, Tom Briggs, drums. Lyrics by Frank Birchak. NOTE: no vocals got recorded for this song. The lyrics were something on the lines of “Mutant lice, mutant lice, wash your hair or pay the price.”

High School: Klein Oak High School, Spring, TX

Lovely music!

texaspublicradio:

A new chamber music series debuts this weekend in San Antonio: “Q.” Led by oboist Jennifer Berg, it will include three concerts this summer at Christ Episcopal Church.

Here, Berg is joined by Daniel Anastasio, piano, and Marisa Bushman, viola, for Charles Martin Loeffler’s “Rhapsody #2: The Bagpipe.” (Listen as the viola echoes the droning sound of the bagpipe).

For more details: http://tpr.org/post/new-chamber-music-series-q-debuts-sunday

texaspublicradio:

$10,000 Reward For Help Finding Riverwalk Duck Killers

One of San Antonio’s River ducks is the subject of a city investigation this week, and a $10,000 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest.

The City’s Animal Care Services has several videotapes from Riverwalk restaurants, and is searching for those responsible for the death of George the Duck.

More…

Texas Public Radio made the cover of the San Antonio Current this week—-for Cinema Tuesdays! Yeah!!!

nprfreshair:

Ethan Hawke talks to Terry Gross about how Before Midnight differs philosophically from Before Sunrise and Before Sunset:

The first two films deal so much with romantic projection, and [with] the third one we felt like we really couldn’t do that again. We needed to try to address the harder, more difficult aspects of daily life and what it means when you get what you want, and what you do with what you want when you have it, and do you still want it?

Can’t wait to see this….

Thanks to Eileen Teves, Liz Lopez, and the team at Great Day SA for supporting Texas Public Radio and the TPR Cinema Tuesdays series!  I had a wonderful time at the KENS5 studios. 

nprfreshair:

Steven Soderbergh talks to Terry Gross about making Behind the Candelabra, his new Liberace biopic for HBO:

It’s a very intimate movie. It’s a very emotionally intimate movie and there are scenes between them that are almost uncomfortable in their intimacy and would be if it was a man and a woman involved. … I always felt that if we did our jobs correctly, that halfway through the movie you’d forget that it was Michael and Matt and just feel as though you’re watching a relationship.

Image courtesy of HBO

Texas Public Radio’s 13th annual Cinema Tuesdays series is fast approaching. All summer long, movie lovers can enjoy the very best in classic films curated

Hope to see you there!