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Amit & AI

AmitSaigal

Normally, on AI, I only post Music. We’ve never had a post that has not talked about a song, or an album, or a band. But this will be an exception. Sort of. It will talk about a man, and me. Although, I admit, I didn’t know him personally. Of course, the man had something to do with Music – that’s why it’s on AI. He was a musician, part of a band. But that was not his claim to fame. His connection to Music, the reason that made him famous, kind of, was his love of Music. Sort of like me. Though I am not famous or anything. But he was. With a handful. A handful of people who

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Playing For Change

Playing For Change

[UPDATE: Updated with a new cover of Bob Marley's Redemption Song. Please see below.] “Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music.” “For ten years Johnson and his team travelled the globe, with a single-minded passion to record little-known musicians for what would become Playing for Change – its name evoking the coins thrown to street musicians as well as the transformation their music inspires.” “The movement began a decade ago, the brainchild of Grammy-winning music producer and engineer Mark Johnson. “I was in a subway in New York on my way to work, and I heard these two monks playing music,” he recalls. “They were painted head to

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Covering Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

(It was Hendrix’s birthday last Saturday and this post was planned on the day. But due to both unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances it has been delayed! But better late than never.) There’s nothing much left to say about Jimi Hendrix – all that had to be said has been said by all. A wizard who wove his magic around a six-stringed instrument doing things no one even thought was possible and all the while entertaining his audience – Jimi Hendrix is one legend that will probably endure long after the rest are forgotten. So I thought how does this humble blog pay tribute to this genius extraordinaire? And I decided I can’t – featuring some well-known tracks or some rarities

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Sonny Landreth

Sonny Landreth

It was last Saturday that the wifey and I decided to go down to Singapore’s only Rock N’ Roll and Blues pub – Crazy Elephant for a night on the town. The house band, Blues Machine had a new vocalist/guitarist and with the resident guitarist, John Chee in attendance we had a swell time. Now, normally my enthusiasm over music is what you could put down as passionate, if you like me and eccentric, if you do not! But what happens after a few pints of beer is completely outside my sphere of influence – I am that funny character you meet in a pub who breaks out into expressions of ecstasy and rapture or despair and pain at particular

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Stormy Monday

Santana Buddy Guy

One of the greatest Blues guitarists alive jams with one of the greatest Rock guitarists alive on one of the best known Blues standards ever – these are moments for which people who know and love music, live. Such collaborations are what get us drooling and salivating all over the floor! Buddy Guy is a legend having been an inspiration to guitar virtuosos such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Angus Young. Clapton has gone on record saying that “Buddy Guy is by far and without a doubt the best guitar player alive…if you see him in person, the way he plays is beyond anyone. Total freedom of spirit, I guess… He really changed the

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