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Titolo: un coro per i Pearl Jam?

 
          Beh questa è davvero carina, Un coro di studenti di Cape Town che canta i
pezzi dei PJ!!
Speriamo che venga così bene da decidere di includerli nel prossimo
disco..chissà..
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimes/newsst/newsst1094456224.asp
School choir off to sing with Pearl Jam
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Monday September 06, 2004 09:37 - (SA)
By Steve Matthewson and Samantha Smith
African voices will merge with the guitar riffs of US grunge rock when
members of a Port Elizabeth township school choir join forces with one of
the world's most famous rock bands.
Twelve members of the Walmer High School choir - who until recently had
never left Port Elizabeth - have flown to the US to sing with the band Pearl
Jam after a personal invitation from the group.
The choir was discovered by chance after a group of academics from
Washington State University, visiting Port Elizabeth in April, saw them
perform on a visit to Walmer High School.
Someone in the group videotaped the performance and it later fell into the
hands of one of Pearl Jam's publicists.
The publicist thought the sound would fit well with the band's unique rock
style and Pearl Jam, known for their community outreach efforts, invited the
songsters to Seattle.
The choir has learnt from scratch to sing three Pearl Jam tracks, Loveboat
Captain, Pepperman and The Long Road and have rehearsed them "to perfection"
according to their teacher and the Rotary International members who are
supporting them.
The children also hope to take part in a studio jam session with the band,
although this has not yet been confirmed.
Shortly before leaving for the airport yesterday, beaming Grade 10 pupil
Lindezwa Mkrakra, 18, said she had never heard of Pearl Jam before the
project.
"When I first heard their music it was a bit strange, but I have been
listening to it quite a bit now and I really like it," she said.
"I'm excited to meet the band and I'm also excited to fly on a plane. I'm
looking forward to the whole experience."
Fellow choir member, Grade 11 pupil Siphokazi Majola, 18, said the choir had
been rehearsing the songs for the past three weeks. "I can't wait to sing
with them."
A feature of the rock scene for more than 14 years, Pearl Jam have built a
cult with iconic tracks such as Evenflow, Alive and Last Kiss.
Wielding the baton is choir mistress Nomalengelo Timba, who said she hoped
they would be able to get a recording of the children singing with the band,
so they could bring it back to South Africa.
"They sent us the three songs to work on - one track is old and the other
two are new. We have performed them as choral music and it goes well with
the band's sounds. I think it will make a nice collaboration of choral and
rock.
"The children are so excited. It's such a wonderful opportunity for them.
There is even talk of us perhaps cutting a CD with them, but nothing has
been confirmed."
As part of the service organisation's Active Schools programme, Rotary
members from Port Elizabeth raised money for the group to travel to Cape
Town last week to fetch their US visas.
Their sponsors on the US trip are more or less the same people who came to
see them in Port Elizabeth - a diverse group of 15 residents of the capital
of Washington state, including the dean of the University of Washington,
doctors, academics, teachers and businessmen, have funded the children's
flights and hotel accommodation - a cost of more than $25 000 (R162 500).
"It is an eye-opening experience... because some of them come from a very
disadvantaged background and this will change their lives forever," said
Walmer High School principal Lunga Dyani.
Eastern Province Herald
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 pezzi dei PJ!!
e chissà come verrà Pepperman
andando a memoria questa credo che sia l'idea da prepensionamento più
presuntuosa della storia della musica
staremo a vedere magari verrà fuori una cosa bellissima

staremo a vedere magari verrà fuori una cosa bellissima
E che fa. Tanto tu dirai comunque che fa schifo.
Ciao.

 Ciao.
non ho pregiudizi chi vivrà vedrà
spero che vanga fuori una cosa buona come Long Road al Groundwork o con Neil
Young
e non una cosa tipo "we are the world we are the children" il sabato sera su
rai1 :)
ma come andrà andrà tu sta sicuro che ti piacerà un casino

ma come andrà andrà tu sta sicuro che ti piacerà un casino
non tutti possono vantarsi di avere il tuo profondo, spiccato,
illuminato e distaccato giudizio critico.
:)
Ciao
:)

 bene, bene.. per quanto mi riguarda questa è una di quelle piccole cose che
mi rendono orgoglioso di essere un loro fan, molto piu' dei 100 bootlegs dal
vivo etc. Spero che si traduca in un progetto su disco, e che si riveli una
opportunità per i ragazzi coinvolti, cosi' come pare di intuire. La musica
(e non solo la musica, credo) ha bisogno di queste cose, come insegna il
bellissimo progetto w.o.m.a.d. che peter gabriel porta avanti da anni. A
meno che il tutto non sia fatto solo a scopo di pubblicità gratuita. Ma
questo credo possa pensarlo solo che non conosce nulla dei Pearl Jam.
Prepensionamento? forse.. ma si possono fare cose interessanti e soprattutto
utili anche da pensionati.
saluti
luca 'petranka'
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 risale piů o meno al 1989.
tieniti forte sto per dire/scrivere una cosa positiva
č molto bello che sul cd di Jack Irons ci sia scritto questo:
"Flea appears courtesy of Warner Bros. records.
Eddie Vedder, Jeff ament and Stone Gossard appear courtesy of themselves."
erano 16 anni che non ne dicevo una