Music Video: Sue Scrofa's "I'm Goin' Around" - Under The Radar Magazine

The music video by The Dickheads (Website, Facebook) for "I'm Goin Around" by Sue Scrofa (Website, Facebook) is online. Read the nice write-up by Under The Radar magazine here; video below...

My Dog and I are in this music video: 

First frame is us behind the spinning pinwheel, I'm dragging her around...

Then she's got a closeup at 1:04 just after / just at the end of the 1st chorus... Then, she spins in a circle. :)

Just try and get this song's refrain out-of-your-head...Great work, fun day.    ~W.

On Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/44269968

Link on Youtube: http://youtu.be/46ikaGKzB7I

*Very Professional* Online Guitar Instructional Video

I taped this last fall in L.A. for fun: Musician friends might especially appreciate it:

[Photo links to Youtube:]



Description from the blog of CarlKingCreative, who produced the video & debuted it online yesterday:

You know those scenes in movies where they cut to the actor’s hands and he can suddenly shred? More often than not, those are this guy’s hands — and now you can learn directly from the man behind the magic.

Will Maier from The Whatevs is the special guest host / instructor today on this free video excerpt from ShredTips.edu — the world’s first online guitar instructional website for Hand Actors. He appears in his first ever wide-shot and demonstrates a few “conceptual” licks that are unlike anything C.C. DeVille could play (watch out for that killer vibrato intonation) — showing the student how to find his own voice on the guitar and make it his own. You’d think it can’t get any better than that “exotic” scale… but from there, Will launches straight into teaching you How To Play A Song For 30 Seconds.

It was announced last week that Michael Bay flew Will in as a consultant for his upcoming remake of Crossroads, in which Megan Fox teams up with herself to play a pair of renegade, lesbian, train-robbing demolition experts… and in this video, you’ll see why.

Play along, if you can!

Will also played the role of Zac Efron’s hands in the upcoming feature called The Sailor’s Predicament, written and directed by Dan Oster. This talented young artist can be contacted through William Morris.
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:D

Misplaced Recordings: 3 Songs 1 Spoken Word

Had forgotten these songs / recordings, all done for a friend's album: http://www.imeem.com/people/H6X4Af_

Whoops.



Also had forgotten about this portrait by the artist Lauren Weinstein, and just rescanned it at a better resolution. Believe it was made in December 2007. I drove with Lauren on a leg of her band's West Coast tour and she sent this to me afterward. I'm depicted here driving. I find Lauren to be a great and interesting person to know as well as a fantastic illustrator. Kind of inspiring to have been inspiring.

Check her stuff out at http://www.laurenweinstein.com.

Ken Block [Sister Hazel singer] Music Video Now Online

UPDATE: Now up on Youtube!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlhGKGd_1o4

The music video for Sister Hazel singer Ken Block's debut single "I Don't Mind", off his just-released first-ever solo CD "Drift", is now online as of today. You can watch the video exclusively on http://www.windowsmedia.com/mediaguide/RockGrabBag . The video will certainly pop up elsewhere on the web and TV in the next week.






[Note: if you have trouble viewing the video on a Mac, I suggest the FlipMac plug-in for Quicktime available here, which will enable your computer to play the video in Quicktime format.]

Director Tracie Laymon shot the video a few months ago in Los Angeles and I was lucky enough to appear in the video and meet Ken. Could not have been a nicer guy. Was so nice to meet a rock and roll success story (from my home state of Florida, that obscure no-man's land of huh? no less), that could have happened to a nicer human being. Check out Ken's solo site at http://www.blockville.com to see some of the stuff this guy has done with his opportunities: all the charity work and gratitude to he and his bands' fans. Sister Hazel had a bit of a monster hit in the '90s with the song "All For You", which I myself have (probably) butchered i karaoke a few dozen times. It was great to meet him and to be a part of of such a sweet song's video.

Special note: The painting visible below the window through which Ken pops through n the video is by my friend and fellow Florida Artist Jared Whitham, who himself resided & worked in Gainesville for the last few years before relocating to New York. It was nice to be able to facilitate that "collaboration": more paintings of Jared's are visible at http://jaredwhitham.com .



And be sure to check out the director's site at http://www.tracielaymon.com.

That's it! Now enjoy the music.

Video from 'America's Most Unstable Conductor'.

I made it to the next round. Thank so much for your support.

Warmly,
Marcus Shostanovich.

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Metallica Inside You [live perfomance]

Metallica Inside You, by William Maier & Stirling Krusing (For Serious Reals)

Stirling was in town from New York with the band Flaming Fire, so I stole him for a night and we performed a few songs that we'd written back in January of '07 during my brief time spent in Gainesville. This was the last song of the 5 song set:

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MP3 of this song & others at the For Serious Reals myspace.

"Singing Hootie in a Ski Mask", on Funnyordie.

Not too long ago I was feeling low, and the only thing that seemed to help was being, you know, pretty honest & heartfelt about it. However recent events had left me scarred: I'd been rebuked by the one I loved who had turned out to be something other than what they'd first let on. So I felt the need to conceal myself behind some barrier (see the chapter 'Masks' in that book by the one guy), to protect myself from those who would see honesty and openness as a sign of weakness. The result was the performance below.

I put it up on Funnyordie, where it will be in good company with all the other Hootie and the Blowfish tribute videos:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/67ebec1c1b




Be sure to vote 'wtf'. . .

And thanks for asking.

;W.

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Dr. Zoltan & Will Maier Release Song About 9/11

What better way to celebrate seven years of confusion than with a campfire sing-a-long? Dr. Zoltan & Will have released a song called Freefall (Catchy Folk Tune To Celebrate The End of the Republic):



Download / Listen to the song (quicktime)
ADDITION: "Listen" to the song on Youtube

Lyrics are below. To read Dr. Zoltan's thoughts on this day, please check out his original post on the DrZoltan.com blog.

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CREDITS
Will Maier - Vocals
Dr. Zoltan - Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Keyboard, Bass, Drumkit From Hell

Cover art by CarlKingCreative

LYRICS
You’re better off hiding with some weapons in a hole
When a corporate fascist state has taken control
But instead you’re dancing, drinking, and you’re having lots of fun
While the end of the United States has already begun

Chorus
Brother, Look no further, there’s no other proof you need
Buildings can’t collapse at freefall speed

You can expect to see another pseudo-terrorist attack
When the best you’ve got are posing fakes like Tom and Zach
Hiding from the truth behind their blurry poetry
While the crime scene is buried at the bottom of the sea

It’s gonna come to civil war sooner or later
Protesting won’t stop an evil dictator
Don’t try to vote him out, there’s nothing you can say
The tyrant that’s in office isn’t going away

Endure your Freedom, everyone.

~W. Maier