Hiromi – "Blackbird" (live, 2025)
At the end of her recent interview with Rick Beato, jazz pianist Hiromi played this inspired version of Paul McCartney’s “Blackbird.”
Bullet For My Valentine – "All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)" (2006)
Ever since the O. J. Simpson murders, I have had to think twice about songs that portray violence against women. Some of my old favorites, such as “Hey Joe” and “Down by the River,” now give me pause.
These guys have taken that a step further, putting the reference right into the band’s name. I wish they had made a different choice.
That said, the song is not too bad.
Here is the original music video that features the car-crash nightmare sequence.
No vocals to worry about in this one. Just musical mayhem!! Truly impressive.
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Oeuf. This one always hit hard. One of The M&M’s best!
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They gotta start naming those songs something like “My Tears Fall As Rain Because I’m Apart From You”.
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Corpse Love 
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Urg… that’s only a picture?
I was poking at the thing like a retarded chimp trying to make it play… 
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LOL!
(It’s a jpeg image.) 
Yeah…me too!
Lol my bad, new here.
I was thinking the… forum?.. whatever, was able to do more than yootoob, like maybe Dailymotion, and other sources.
Wellp, guess not.
Welcome!
Here are a few tips:
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I found this official link for your song. See if you can get it to post as a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJaWPYZFOs
Hope to see more from you!
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Bob Weir (1947-2026)
R.I.P.
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Compositions by Bob Weir and Robert Hunter (1970-1972)
Bob Weir wrote or co-wrote many of The Grateful Dead’s biggest songs. In the early days, Weir collaborated with lyricist Robert Hunter.
Here are a few of their highlights.
The Grateful Dead – "Sugar Magnolia" (live, 1974)
In the latter part of its career, The Grateful Dead settled in on a three-day concert format. They’d come into town, and play three sold-out shows, on consecutive nights. Deadheads would would purchase “sparkle” tickets, directly from the Dead’s mail-order service, for all three nights. These collector tickets had glitter on them, and varied their design for each set of shows. During the three-day run, the band would play different songs on each night. For those who could afford it, the fact that there were no repeats made it an easy choice to attend them all!
“Sugar Magnolia” was always fun. It has a “Sunshine Daydream” reprise that normally closes the song, but it would sometimes be omitted until a later part of the show. The second set, for instance, might open with “Sugar Magnolia,” and the reprise wouldn’t be played until the end of the night, to close the set. There were times when you’d have to wait until the following night, to hear the reprise!
The Grateful Dead – "Playing in the Band" (live, 1973)
This one has a delicious interlude, between the verses, that is played in 10/4.
In 2021, during a concert livestream, Weir credited the interlude to David Crosby, saying, “David Crosby came up with the seminal lick… and then he left. We were out at Mickey’s barn. So Mickey said, ‘Make a song out of that.’ Next day, I had it.”
The jams in this live recording from 1973 are smokin’ hot!
The Grateful Dead – "Jack Straw" (live, 1972)
Hunter opens this song with the seductive line, “We can share the women; we can share the wine.” The song quickly turns dark, however, when its two protagonists are revealed to be out-of-luck ne’er-do-wells, one of whom has violence on his mind.
In a pair of interviews, from 2004 and 2007, Bob Weir explained that the song was inspired by John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men.
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Compositions by Bob Weir and John Perry Barlow (1973-1977)
After a few years, Robert Hunter noted that Bob Weir was a slow composer. Hunter sometimes gave him a lyric, and then nothing happened! No song resulted.
So, Hunter began reserving his talents for Jerry Garcia, and Weir turned to his lifelong friend, John Perry Barlow, for his songwriting collaborations.
Here are a few of their tunes.
The Grateful Dead – "Weather Report Suite" (1973)
Folk singer/songwriter Eric Anderson joined Weir and Barlow to write this one. “Prelude,” the acoustic guitar piece that opens the song, was rarely played in concerts. Martin Fierro plays saxophone on “Part 2 (Let It Grow).”
The Grateful Dead – "The Music Never Stopped" (1975)
At a show, it was always nice to hear the band sing, “Everybody’s dancin’!” and “The music never stopped.” Both are lines from this song.
The chorus features vocal interplay between Bob Weir and Donna Jean Godchaux. Horns are played by Steven Schuster.
The Grateful Dead – "Estimated Prophet" (1977)
For its 1977 album Terrapin Station, the Dead agreed to work with an outside producer, something they had not done since 1968. Keith Olsen, who had produced Fleetwood Mac’s eponymous comeback album in 1975, took on the job. The result was a record with noticeably more polish than most of the band’s other studio albums.
The lead-off track, “Estimated Prophet,” is one I sometimes play for folks who tell me they don’t like the Dead. Its great singing, coupled with Olsen’s slick production, usually surprises them.
The time signature is typically given as 7/4, but drummer Mickey Hart explained (in one of his books) that he plays it in a cycle of 14 beats. Successive pairs of 7/4 bars are combined into musical phrases that have a 14/4 structure overall.
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I’m still shocked by what can be done with AI. This “psychedelic blues rock” hits the nail on the head.
Speaking of The Grateful Dead…
Kinda pist they didn’t include the best part just before.
“…it’s called ojinfruit, and tastes like a cross between a guava and a mango.”
“So it’s sort of a guango…”
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Nicely done tribute. Many memories. Thanks
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