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Carlos Santana covers “Under The Bridge”
The guitar legend Carlos Santana just released his new album, Carlos Santana – Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time. The title pretty much speaks for itself – mr. Santana is covering a lot of songs famous for their melodies and riffs. Guest singers, ranging from Chris Cornell to India Arie are also present. Now, why does this matter? Because the last track on the CD/DVD deluxe version of the album is a cover of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Under The Bridge, with Andy Vargas on vocals and Carlos Santana doing John. You can buy this pretty much flattering tribute from an older legend to a younger legend…
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – An Oral/Visual History reviewed + competition results
Just like it was the case with The Empyrean in January last year, Invisible Movement is reviewing the cool new thing so you can make up your mind whether you want it or not and so you know what to expect. At the same time, this review does not contain major spoilers, to make it more fun for you. Red Hot Chili Peppers – An Oral/Visual History is, at its worst, yet another lavish high-quality print coffee table book that you can knock out a burglar with and it will stay in one piece. At its best, it’s a nice work of design, combining some quotes we have seen in…
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FINALLY! Speed Dealer Moms’ 12″ available for pre-order!
Ever since Speed Dealer Mom’s first show was announced and their mysterios Myspace page was put up, the band that nobody’s actually heard but everyone knew would be awesome drew quite a lot of attention. They scheduled an appearance at the 2009 Bang Face Weekender on the not-so-fitting date of 26th April and their music machinery failed. They rescheduled the appearance for then-upcoming Bang Fest in August that year and it was canceled. From then on, we only had sporadic word-of-mouth news about them. But the sweet wait is finally over! ^_^ The retailer just informed me (yup, it literally happened that way!) that the FIRST SPEED DEALER MOMS TWELVE…
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Japanese label to release Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & John Frusciante on a CD
If you have not got yourself a limited-edition vinyl of the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & John Frusciante collab album and if you had no idea that the digital version silently went from free to no longer free; there’s no need to despair – it’s being exclusively released on a CD through a Japanese label on 15th December. It all started with this particular tweet made by Eri Nakanishi of Spectacles Records. They later clarified that the album is not being released through their label, but Sleepwell (sister label of Daymare). You can alreadypre-order the album through the distribution network the label is using. The red button is used to add it…
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Talent show alumni getting sued for ripping off Under The Bridge?
It is not peculiar to see parts of songs or even entire songs sounding like something else. For example, Can’t Stop somehow shares the riff with Shania Twain’s Honey I’m Home and we’ve had quite a lot of discussion here regarding the similarities between Dani California and Tom Petty’s Mary Jane’s Last Dance. On the other side, for example, Franz Ferdinand’s Walking Away is using the exact same chord progression as John’s Invisible Movement, the song this website was named after. How can musicians find their way in this mess, anyway? What is whose? Perhaps that is what the producer team behind English reality show contestant Diana Vickers had on…
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers: An Oral/Visual History out this/next week – win one!
The time has come! Depending on when and where you order it, the first official Red Hot Chili Peppers’ biography is out on either 15th or 19th October, which are this Friday and next Tuesday. According to what some little birdies said, the book will be just what the doctor ordered in our little community, as it focuses on John’s role in the band a lot, some people said that it was originally intended to be a plaudit. The book’s name is The Red Hot Chili Peppers: An Oral/Visual History. If you’re ordering it in USA, the shelf date is 19th October. If you’re ordering it in Europe, the shelf…
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Praises of How Deep Is Your Love? cover and By The Way
Here’s a pair of recent clippings, as John’s vocal, guitar and production skills are often talked about in the online media, whether he would like it it or not… How Deep Is Your Love? makes it to a list of (in)famous covers In the 18th issue of Altsounds.com magazine-like feature The Vault, the subject are famous and infamous classic live performances. One of the three they’re talking about is John’s take on The Bee Gees’ How Deep Is Your Love? This last video is one of the most surprisingly genius covers I’ve ever heard. You won’t agree until after watching this video but the Beegee’s “How Deep is your Love”…
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Mentions of John in a Swahili Blonde interview
In an interview for Japanese magazine Loud, Nicole Turley talked a lot about her project Swahili Blonde and the creation process behind songs, which is certainly interesting, as it was only Omar Rodriguez Lopez who previously shared what his creative process of working with John looked like. Were most of the songs written and recorded by yourself, and then you had the guest musicians come in and play? How did each guest musicians come about contributing to this project? (ie, John Taylor (Duran Duran),John Frusciante,Laena Myers-Ionita (The Like), Stella Mozgawa (WarPaint),Michael Quinn (Corridor) (Part omitted) I would record all my instrumentation for the song first, do a rough mix, and…
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RZA says he got into rock’n’roll through John and SOAD
In a lengthy interview for Red Bull, titled “The Man With The Iron Wu”, RZA is talking about many things and, as in the most of his interviews in the last couple of years, he touches the subject of John. This time, however, he’s not giving two-sided comments on the music they make together which appear to have creeped everyone out and aren’t matching the amount of music we actually got this yearl; he’s talking about how he got into rock music. What’s on RZA’s iPod these days – if you have one of those at all? I have a couple of iPods and I got all kind of different…
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Share Watson, John and RZA are collaborating – she’s honoured!
This just in. The talented R&B lady Share Watson aka Truth Hurts, whom you might know from her 2002 hit “Addictive” is a huge fan of John’s equipment. She apparently wound up in his home studio somehow…wow, this sure looks interesting. The photo posted on Twitter by a friend of hers (originally on Plixi) is what she said she’ll be RTing all day. To see it in a slightly bigger format, click on the thumbnail. The caption for the photo was: @TruthHurtsInc and some equipment that blew my freakin mind This is what she said on her Twitter account in four consecutive messages: I think I’m gonna be RT’n that…
