Summer at Seashell Harbor by Richard Dunne

http://www.thekidfrombrooklyn.com/seashell.asp


Check it out!!!
Michael (Mike) Caracciolo (thekidfrombrooklyn.com) LOVES IT!

Jake Shimabukuro playing "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" by George Harrison

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=829401773913198414&q=Jake+Shimabukuro

God Bless You John Lennon and George Harrison

Please, please, please check out my buddy Jake playing George Harrison's "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" in Central Park, New York City. I get chills every time I hear it. Just click on the link below & it will play automatically!

"Imagine" John Lennon

His most creative year was 1971. Following the album Lennon released another strong single, "Power To The People". After his move to New York, the follow-up Imagine was released in October. Whilst the album immediately went to number 1 internationally, it was a patchy collection. The attack on Paul McCartney in "How Do You Sleep?" was laboured over in the press and it took two decades before another track, "Jealous Guy", was accepted as a classic, and only then after Bryan Ferry's masterly cover became a number 1 hit. Lennon's resentment towards politicians was superbly documented in "Gimme Some Truth" when he spat out, "I'm sick and tired of hearing things from uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites". The title track, however, remains as one of his greatest songs. Musically "Imagine" is extraordinarily simple, but the combination of that simplicity and the timeless lyrics make it one of the finest songs of the century.

John Lennon Art Tribute

Another Tribute to John Lennon & The Beatles.
"It's all relative."

www.jerryland.net/johnlennon.html

Rock 'N' Roll Show Kicked Ass!

We saw a fantastic show last night called, "The Roots of Rock 'n' Roll to celebrate my lovely wife's birthday.
It was freaking fabulous! One of the guys in the show was fellow
actor/author/musicianTim Biancalana. He looks just like John Lennon & has a book called, "Village Idiom, Tribute to John Lennon." Check it out.

Jake playing "While my Guitar Gently Weeps"!

Folks, Click on the link below for a mind-blowing rendition of this
beautiful song. His name is "Jake Shimabukuro" & he shreds!


You have GOT to check this musician out. What a huge talent.
And he is playing George Harrison in Strawberry Fields in Central Park hence, the "Cosmic Connection."

Enjoy this awesome 3 minute video of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by George Harrison
by clicking on the following link:
http://www.collegehumor.com/search/439f945f644905dd297a2b78adbb0860

Take Care!

Not Fade Away

Toni Sant's Blog: Not Fade Away: "Not Fade Away
Last night I went to Central Park to see Patti Smith live in concert at SummerStage, her third appearance at Rumsey Field since 1993. Although this was the first time I saw her here, it was not the first time I saw Patti Smith and her band perform in New York. Three years ago she appeared at the downtown River To River Festival, an ongoing effort to revitalize lower Manhattan after 9/11 - I even took my summer performance students to see that.

Patti Smith dedicated yesterday's show to Jerry Garcia, the legendary Grateful Dead guitarist, who died on August 9 ten years ago. As it happens, Garcia was born on the 1st of August, so she declared this week 'a nine-day week for Jerry.'"

"Cosmic."

The Cosmic Connection

As the tenth anniversary of Jerry Garcia’s death on Agust 9, 1995 approaches, we begin to understand more about the “Cosmic Connection” between all people and all things. One of the Cosmic Connections that Jerry has is with John Lennon.

Lennon, one of the “Fab Four” as the Beatles were known, was a creative genius, “In His own Write”. Often referred to as the “leader” of the Beatles as Jerry Garcia is similarly described as the “backbone” of The Grateful Dead, Lennon continued on as a solo artist after the Beatles’ breakup in 1970. With his wife Yoko perpetually by his side, they played a major role in creating a “Cosmic Awareness” in the achievment of world peace. Their slogan, “War Is Over (If You Want it)!” is considered by many to be “The shot for peace heard ‘round the world”.

John Lennon’s message, both with The Beatles and with his wife, Yoko Ono, was and still is a message of love, peace and a belief in the inherent goodness of humanity. Jerry Garcia was also a creative genius and the driving force of a group of “ragtag” musicians known as The Grateful Dead. He had a similar message and both artists used their own brand of music to spread the word to the rest of us mortals.

The similarities between John and Jerry are endless. Both were artists; both were singers and songwriters; both were musicians and used their music and lyrics to spread the message they had to tell. They both considered themselves to be clowns, of a sort. They both, at one time or another, had a problem with drugs and both considered themselves to be not so good fathers. As John Lennon has said, “I was never home much but always on the road, bloody working all the time.” Jerry Garcia has stated, ”With my older kids, I was pretty much an absentee parent, a mediocre father at best.” Regardless, they were loved and respected by their children.

John Lennon and Jerry Garcia are no longer with us in this physical world. Lennon was brutally gunned down outside his home in New York City on December 8, 1980. He was 40 years old. For those of us who grew up with The Beatles, this day has now replaced the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor, December 7, 1941, as the “Day Of Infamy” We will always miss him. John Lennon lives inside of us. Jerry Garcia’s death, while no less tragic, was at least not so brutal. He died at the age of 53 of a heart attack, instead of at the evil hands of a misguided misfit. We will always miss him. Jerry Garcia lives inside of us.

It was fitting and appropriate, therefore, that after his death, one of the Memorials for Jerry Garcia was held at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The mood was both festive and somber with music and much laughter to help ease the sadness and sorrow. Like a 1960’s apparition, jerryblog (cont’d)standing next to Bob Weir was one of the psychedelic era’s gurus, Wavy Gravy - dressed as a clown. Three thousand miles away in New York City, another Memorial for Jerry Garcia was being held. Hundred of his “Deadhead” fans lit candles and paid their respects to another fallen “Icon” at The John Lennon “Imagine” mosiac, in Central Park’s, Strawberry Fields.