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Wohoo, I'm almost finished with the Red Devils DVD, It's short but intens. Look here for the songs on the DVD I posted on YouTube and look above for the DVD Cover.
The Red Devils live at Pinkpop Festival in The Netherlands
The Red Devils, a Hollywood based Chicago Blues band, took the blues scene by storm around 1992 with their raw, real and raunchy approach to the blues. I remember reading a review in a music magazine describing their album as the best blues record in about the last 40 years. After listening to the record at the local record-shop I couldn't agree more with the reviewer an bought the album. King King it's called and if you don't have it yet, go out and buy it, trust me it's worth your money.
I could go and talk about the tragic death of the lead-singer and harmonica player, Lester Butler, but if you google some you find enough info. I just stumbled on some VHS tapes I had lying around of the Pinkpop Festival in 1993, which I also attended, to see the Red Devils and The Black Crowes. And you guessed it it has footage of the Red Devils on it. That made me realize that this is one of those bands that I somehow forgot and have little story to tell about. I have seen them three times, could've seen them four times and why I didn't see them four times I will explain.
The first time I saw them was at Pinkpop. The second time I saw them was at De Lantaarn, a small venue in a town called Hellendoorn, on a saturday night. I remember that I and my good friend Henk booked a hotel to stay the night. Here we were, two 17 year olds at a fairly classy hotel, looking and smelling a bit to much like Rock & Roll. Henk tried to pay with his debit-card which the machine didn't accept. This to classy looking guy behind the counter didn't look surprised because this was the exact thing he was hoping for so he could kick us out.
Henk insisted that the man should check his machine, because he was sure he had the money on his bank-account. Henk tried to pay again, the machine still refused to do his job. Eventually the guy check the machine and the error code it was showing and noticed that the time on the pin-machine wasn't right and that was causing the problem. So we did get our room and we went to the gig.
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Isn't it typical that some pieces of art just know how to hit you and you don't know why. That the paintin or song somehow stays a mistery to you and you actually want to keep it that way. That it surprises and touches you everytime you see it. I will show you some work of Jason Levesque and tell you what I think about it and why I think I like the work he makes. And I know what I just said about keeping it a mistery, but that doesn't take away the fact i still would like to know.
Untill now I've only featured music and now it's time to feature other things. Like most of my articles on my blog I let the artist speak for themself by there work. This time I will do the same and hope the artist isn't botherd by me posting some of his work. Before giving this my review I would like to be know that I'm not an art critic, I'm just an Art Director for an Advertsing/Communications Company.
Subject
I'm a big fan of the female form and I noticed that I have the tendency to like artist that use the female form as the leading subject also. His interpretation reminds me a lot of the work of Alfons Mucha. Using the female form and with slight expression of disinterest on the subjects part. I see an ode and respect to female form, but not in a trashy way.
Style
In this case again I see a resemblens to Mucha's work. The outlines, the flatness of the work.
Theme
He, the artist, described his work as "Dirty Delicious", I guess because of the slight erotic/fetish undertone in his work. I havn't discoverd much of a theme other then females in not so commen situations. And that works, it creates tention that makes the artwork worth looking at. But sometimes it's just a twist in a leg that gives the picture more meaning.
Conclusion
I just love this guys work and might one day have his piece of art hanging at my house. Again the female subject are to die for and the work keeps surprising me.
More info:
www.stuntkid.com
Not that I'm a Neil Young fan, but the fact that he's bringing this one for free and as a protest against the Bush administration, made me decide to put it up here. Oh, and some friends of mine are Neil Young fans. Go, Neil, Go, enjoy his album right here!
Click here for the album
Okay, this one has been arround for a while. And every so often you need to see this one, but it could've used more cowbell.
As stated before I'm in the process of making a new design for my blog, at a different Url b.t.w., and I wanted to share a few screenshots.
No.1 & 2 - Homepage & Article page
No.3 & 4 - Video page & Bootleg page
