Live at The Marquee!Written by Chris Meehan
The relationship between performers and venues played is vital in establishing reputation or, indeed, credibility of a given group or musician. Think of The Cotton Club and Jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong that consolidated their legendary status here. The mystique of a club, vibe of an underground venue (at cutting edge of music fashion) roughness of a dive, opulence of a casino, smokiness of a Jazz joint can all add to mythology of those who?ve played there. The destination of choice for up and coming musicians in London, with an eye for big time and rock immortality, has since late fifties always been iconic Marquee Club. The club came into being in 1958; birthplace: 165 Oxford Street. This was dawning of ?Swinging Sixties?, when post-war austerity was morphing into something much brighter, with an emerging and dynamic youth culture - which was more hedonistic, less repressed and more fashion-conscious than previous generations had known. Changing economic patterns also meant that young had opportunities, like never before, and a disposable income, which fuelled a consumer boom and an explosion in music and fashion. At epicentre was Marquee, banging out a combustible mix of Jazz, Rhythm and Blues. The Rolling Stones, very incarnation of loved-up, psychedelic sixties, launched their assault on world by playing one of their earliest gigs at The Marquee in July 1962. Names such as Clapton, The Yardbirds and The Animals became regulars here, cementing both their fame and fortune and status of club as a key landmark of ?Swinging? London. The roll call of artists that rocked Marquee throughout 60s and 70s reads like a Who?s Who of most dazzling stars in rock?s bright firmament. These include: Hendrix, Bowie, The Who, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Genesis, to name but a few.
| | Downloading MP3's Made EasyWritten by Keith Kingston
The MP3 movement started out with a huge audience of music enthusiasts on internet. The MP3 digital music format has had, and will continue to have, a huge impart on how people, gather, listen to and share music. The MP3 format is a compression system for digital music that helps reduce size of a digitized song without disturbing sound quality. Digital music is converted to MP3 format and made available for use, usually via web. MP3 files can be downloaded onto your computer from internet and special software, either commercial or freeware. Using your computer and software you can convert digital music from a CD into MP3 format. MP3 files can be played in three different ways: 1. They can be played directly onto your computer. 2. They can be decompressed and recorded onto a CD. 3. These files can be played on a portable MP3 player. The advantage of MP3 players is that they are small, lightweight and rugged. They are a great way to carry your MP3 files with you! With a portable MP3 player, a personal computer, and appropriate software, you can do following: 1. Obtain free or low-cost music from web. 2. Create your own mix of music by downloading MP3 files from web and converting tracks from CDs. 3. Listen to near-CD quality music wherever you go. 4. Listen to more music (up to 10 hours' worth). If you want to convert your songs from your CDs into MP3 files, you can use ripper and encoder software. A ripper copies a song's file from CD onto your hard disk. The encoder compresses song into MP3 format. By encoding songs, you can play them on your computer or take them with you on your MP3 player. The ripper and encoder software may come with your MP3 player. The specific instructions will vary with individual software programs, but following steps will definitely take place: 1. Place CD from which you want to convert songs into your drive. 2. Select track(s) that you want to convert to MP3 format. 3. Convert selected track(s). 4. Copy new MP3 files on to your computer's hard disk. Now you are ready to download these MP3 files into your portable MP3 player. Once you have MP3 files on your computer, you can use software that came with your MP3 player to download files into your MP3 player. Again, specific instructions will vary depending upon your software program and player, but you will:
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