Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Stand By Me: Street virtual studio version
This cover of Stand By Me was recorded by completely unknown artists in a street virtual studio all around the world. It all started with a base track—vocals and guitar—recorded on the streets of Santa Monica, California, by a street musician called Roger Ridley. The base track was then taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, where Grandpa Elliott—a blind singer from the French Quarter—added vocals and harmonica while listening to Ridley's base track on headphones. In the same city, Washboard Chaz's added some metal percussion to it.
And from there, it just gets rock 'n' rolling bananas: The producers took the resulting mix all through Europe, Africa, and South America, adding new tracks with multiple instruments and vocals that were assembled in the final version you are seeing in this video. All done with a simple laptop and some microphones.
I don't know about you, but it blew me away. Best version of Ben E. King's classic I've ever heard in my life. And I've probably heard between five and two billion of them.
( via Gizmodo.)
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5 comments:
great find. very creative and very unique.
Viswanathan
amazing concept...its so easy to bring so many people and creative thoughts together...im bowled over by the execution and the concept of a street virtual studio! I salute all the talented people involved
anita
thanks sunil...
for bringing it to notice...
truely brilliant...
with th inclusion of every artist it gets better...
altho i personally loved stefano tomaselli (pisa, italy)... his inclucion in the end really builds up to the end...
This piece blew me away! Incredibly well done and such talent from around the world. Great song, class act and amazingly well-executed creativity. I'll be forwarding this link. People have got to see this!
If that does not move you, you simply have not got a pulse!
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