Few Metallica songs have crossed over to a wider audience quite like "Nothing Else Matters." First heard on 1991's self-titled album, it revealed a more melodic and personal side to the band while becoming one of their most enduring songs. This live acoustic performance from 1997 strips everything back, allowing the songwriting and emotion to take centre stage without sacrificing the song's impact.
"No Sleep till Brooklyn" was the sixth single from Licensed to Ill(1986). Featuring a guitar solo by Slayer’s Kerry King, the track became one of the Beastie Boys’ signature songs and an early rap-rock landmark. Its title and lyrics reflect the exhaustion of life on the road and the group’s determination to make it back home to Brooklyn, while also nodding to Motörhead’s No Sleep ’til Hammersmith. The video, built as a tongue-in-cheek parody of 1980s glam-metal excess, helped turn the song into one of the band’s most memorable early hits.
Hey @FlyKnoxville frequent flyer here…. What can we do about the economy lot shuttle being broken down? That unexpected walk should get me at least one day of parking for free. Right?
Wake Up to Guitar Greatness
Today’s Pick: Robben Ford – "Freedom" (Live)
Rise, tone seekers! Ford finds more soul in one bent note than most find in a whole solo.
Seven years ago at Aiken Bluegrass Festival, Billy Strings played a late-night set with the Cris Jacobs Band, billed as the Psychedelic Circus.
That's What Love Will Make You Do
Billy Strings
May 11, 2019
Aiken Bluegrass Festival - Aiken, SC
🎥 T Shaw's Progressive Bluegrass
genuinely unfathomable video i cannot begin to imagine the feeling of seeing the beauty of earth below you as you go into a firery freefall hoping you don't burn up and die lol
On April 7, 1995, DMB debuted #41 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Originally called “41 Police,” it became a fan favorite on Crash. Ever-evolving from 4-minute cuts to 30+ minute jams, it’s seemingly never played the same way twice.
🎶 #41
🗓️ 5.6.1996
📍 New Orleans, NO
This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.
The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.
There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.
That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.
📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center
Huey Lewis didn’t want to write a song called Back to the Future, so he delivered “The Power of Love” instead. Robert Zemeckis loved it, built it into key scenes, and it went on to become a No.1 hit for Back to the Future (1985).