Depends Comercial

Please follow the link above and view the video so that you can understand our frustration. Pay close attention to the underscore. Recognize it? Of course you do; it is “Green Onions” co-composed and performed by the amazing Booker T. Jones and his band “The MG’s.” So why does this bother us? Well , beside it being one less cue licensed from the Organic Music Library, we’re disturbed by the vandalizing of one of the most important pieces of American Music.

Green Onions was originally released as the B-Side of a single on the Volt Label but quickly moved to a breakthrough A-side on the cutting edge Stax label when the hit potential was recognized. Stax, and more specifically, Booker T. and the MG’s were icons for freedom and racial co-existence in the 60′s; it was a label run by males and females of black and white persuasions who shared all the responsibilities.  The MG’s were a 50/50 black  & white  4 piece band that broke the rules of segregation by simply being on the same stage .  All of this occurred in the Southern city of Memphis at a time when civil rights was not a welcomed topic in this region of the US.

Listen to the opening Hammond B-3 riff of this blues/soul classic anthem: within these three notes and the killer groove to follow we hear the freedom and rebellion that was becoming the underlying theme of the 60′s.

Our friends at Depends (no rhyme intended) have managed to reduce the meaning of a song of freedom, equality and rebellion, to that of a Mary Tyler Moore look-a-like  making it through an hour of grocery shopping without bodily fluid embarrassment.

While Booker T, Steve Cropper et al. are surely enjoying the residuals from this usage, we at the OML are upset. What’s next? A Viagra ad using Bob Marley’s “Get Up Stand Up.”? How about Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” for a Hairspray commercial? Or Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” with lyrics changed to “Where Ya At?” for a cell phone commercial. You get the point.

Avoid the Fail
The next time you are conducting a music search, make sure that you are not defacing a musical artifact.  Know its history, and PLEASE…understand the relationship to your product.

Or to make it easy…. simply use the pre-cleared music at the OML.

Wow- what’s better than a cruise ship filled with 1500 drunks from all over this fine land heading out to the high seas with unlimited cases of Bud Lite, questionable guacamole, and fancy cover ups from Wal Mart?

Why TWO cruise ships of course!

Yes, you along with 3000 of your newly closest friends can carouse and vomit to your heart’s content while swigging what may be the worst beer ever made around the clock or until you are hooked up to the IV feed in Sick Bay. You’ll rock to the sounds of a “Private Concert” starring……UH- WE DON’T KNOW AND WE DON’T CARE because we’re hammered and peeing on palm trees.

Dig Some Actual footage from a previous cruise-Awesome DUDE!!!!

Truly a prize to die for. One can only hope, as seems to be the rule these days, that potentially fatal E Coli vapors seep through the ship’s ventilation system forcing off shore quarantine and EXTRA DRINKING TIME.

Party On America.

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Final Cut Pro X is here, and even though it appears to be really impressive, it is not without controversy. This does not come as a surprise to us here at the OML.  This is not a slightly tweaked version of the already impressive program. It is a major overhaul of the original. It is the most drastic upgrade to date. Old school users are understandably dismayed by the iMovieesque interface and newly imposed limitations regarding disk export. However, keep in mind that Apple loves its high-end pro users and will certainly accommodate them as time moves forward. FCP X’s upgrades in raw power and usability make us think that it will go perfectly with the OML’s user-friendly, powerful and moderately priced music library.

We believe that over the next few weeks FCP X will not only please the most jaded user, but will also build on a whole new generation of users that will love the robust, easy-to-use, power it provides. So…treat yourself to a new copy of FCP 10 for your next production and while you’re at it….treat yourself to a fresh new collection of superior quality production music from the Organic Music Library. After all, what’s more liberating than a fresh new approach to something you are already comfortable with and good at?

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Are you kidding us?  Is this for real? In a city known for it’s media production, it could be the next epic scare fest from Spielberg and friends. YOU LOST A HOCKEY GAME YOU STUPID MORONS.  Are your lives so pathetic that you need to justify your existences through a whining team of athletes that think they should simply be handed the cup based on their stats? It is with deep sincerity that the OML hopes each and every one of the rioters gets identified, arrested, tossed in the slam (which in Vancouver, probably has  Whole Foods and Starbucks), and forcibly tattooed with the Boston Bruins Logo.

You guys really suck.  An EPIC fail, to be sure.

Relevant Music from the OML might have been sports related, but in this case, Battle & Aftermath seems more appropriate.

With the onset of the warm weather around these parts (that would be NYC and the East Coast of the US in general) comes the arrival of a particularly heinous fashion statement, The MAN-PRI . Like a swarm of locusts, this ridiculous 66% pant or 133% short descends on the streets of NYC to wreak aesthetic havoc. Take care, like Lot’s wife, you could turn to stone gazing too long upon the disturbing three-quarters clad legs. Even Rafael Nadal abandoned his Man-Pris once he realized he resembled a member of the cast of extras from “Oliver Twist On Holiday”.

Enhancing YOUR fashion footage? Click here for Stylish cuts from the Organic Music Library

Interesting set of Birthdays this week. Three men whose innovations changed the course of music. The birthdays to which we refer are:

Robert Moog – May, 23
Bob Dylan – May 24
Miles Davis – May 25

Question: Other than being involved in music, being born in the same week, and two are named Bob, what do these guys have in common?

Answer: Electronics!

Explanation:
Bob Moog’s relationship to electronics goes without discussion. Best know for the Moog Synthesizer, Bob created the first voltage-controlled subtractive synthesizer to utilize a keyboard as a controller. An over-simplification of his career but, since we know people don’t like to read (particularly words like “subtractive synthesizer”), we like to keep things short here. Where would “A Clockwork Orange” be without that Walter, now Wendy Carlos’ Moog driven soundtrack?

Hear some OML Techno that would not have happened without Bob’s innovations

As we go down the list the relationship to electronics probably gets a little more obscure so let’s take a look:

Miles Davis was instrumental (no pun intended) in introducing the use of electric guitars (with rock tone) and electric keyboards to the world of jazz. Yes, there were others prior to him like; Gary Burton, Larry Coryell, Soft Machine and Cream, but, for the most part, Miles mainstreamed electronics into jazz.

By the end of the 1960s, Miles was playing an amplified trumpet through a wah-wah pedal over his plugged-in band in order to get his sound closer to the rock guitarists (particularly Jimi Hendrix) that he admired so much.

Miles’ ventures into this world were not without controversy. Jazz fans and critics were appalled by these endeavors. The controversy soon fell apart and Jazz rock fusion took over in the 70′s as the predominant selling form of jazz. For more on Miles, see our earlier blog entry.

Hear some related OML Cues

Though Miles received criticism for his use of electronics, no-one connected to an electrical outlet was thrown to the lions more than Bob Dylan. Dylan was booed by purist folk fans when he appeared with an electric blues-rock band behind him at the The Newport Folk Festival in 1965.  And…this would not be his last booing. There were many booings to follow. Bob probably made more money from getting booed than most musicians make from a career of applause.

Bob’s new music would also work it’s way into acceptance and we are thankful that it did. Without albums like “Blonde on Blonde” and “Highway 61 Revisited” the folk-rock world would be suffering a major void.

Hear some Dylanesque OML Music

So plug one in for the pioneers this week. Please use insulated cables and try not to stand in swimming pools while you do so. We find failure to comply to these requirements can create complications.

Today’s Fail – Losing Your Edge

Professor Jugnut gives his views on Snoop appearing in a boy-band video:

Hip Hop that still funks us up the professor

It’s a no-brainer today folks. We love a good burger as much as anyone, but this defies all logic and laws of space/time

We heave a collective sigh here at the OML.

Today begins our extended series on…series. This is the never ending, always incomplete, yours is better than mine, how could you forget etc.etc.etc. compilation, and we hope you will contribute your faves to the mix. For now, let’s start with three unarguably fantastic cuts of the ultra melodic sort:

I Dream Of Jeannie-Music By Hugo Montenegro

As a point of interest, note that there was an original theme for season one that was more of a swinging, romantic thing

Bewitched-Music by Jack Keller. This is season three-they re-cut these things all the time, with full orchestras no less. Can you imagine the producers nowadays?

This might be the king of them all: The Jetsons-from the masterful Hoyt Curtin who also wrote The Flintstones and Top Cat themes.

Let us know what your faves are, we’ll be back with more in a couple of days.
And if you are looking for the best quality production music available in this decade, please visit us here The Organic Music Library