I Can Only Imagine...

"Surrounded by Your Glory, what will my heart feel?
Will I dance for you, Jesus? Or in awe of You, be still?
Will I stand in Your presence, or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing 'Hallelujah!'? Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine! I can only imagine!"

Damn I love this song...definitely one of my favourite Christian songs. Powerful, stirring, emotional, reflective stuff....thinking of that sweet, sweet day when Jesus returns to this Earth.

"I can only imagine, when all I do is forever, forever worship You...."

Artist : Mercy Me
Title : I Can Only Imagine

Watch the video clip here

RHCP

Still as funky as ever after over 20 years in the business, the Red Hot Chili Peppers put on a slick and professional performance tonight in front of a packed crowd in the Acer Arena.

First I'll start with a negative. There was barely any interaction with the crowd. Apart from the Flea (with his usual energy and enthusiasm), lead singer Anthony Kiedis forgot that it's always a good idea to speak to the crowd. I think he might've said like one sentence to the crowd the whole night.

Back to the positives. The songs sounded even better live (a sign of a good live performer) than they do on the albums, and the improvisations were great (especially by Flea). You'll notice that I'm very Flea biased (for all y'all who don't know Flea - he's the bass player for RHCP) because his genius on the 4 strings inspired me to start playing bass. They played quite alot of material from Stadium Arcadium, but it was the older songs that I was enjoying. Best songs IMHO were 'Get On Top', 'Suck My Kiss', 'By The Way' & 'Hump De Bump'. Was quite dissapointed that they didn't play 'Under The Bridge', 'Otherside' or 'Soul To Squeeze' but must remember that due to the size of RHCP's discography it'd be hard to please everyone. To the end the night, Flea (bassist), John Frusciante (guitarist) and Chad Smith(drummer) played out a 15 minute instruments only session which was amazing - each musician having their time to shine and showing their musical prowess.

Overall I still thought U2 was more involving and 'The Roots' last week was definitely more entertaining. I'd probably rate this concert on the same level as Foo Fighters. I'm no concert guru or anything so I'm just basing this on performances I've seen.

Braggin Writes (Song of the Week)

Gonna break out of the usual hip-hop song and put in a link to a Red Hot Chili Peppers (what better time) performance of the ultra funky 'Get On Top' in Japan. Check it out (I'm loving the look on Flea's bass).

Watch it here.

Anyone want a Chili Peppers ticket?

One of my high school mates pulled out due to work so now there is one spare ticket, at the moment we have four people going (so five total when this spare ticket is sold).

When : Tuesday, 17th April, 2007 (not sure what time, I think 7:30pm)
Who : Red Hot Chili Peppers
Where : Acer Arena (At Olympic Park, Homebush)
Cost : Forget, but somewhere around the $100 mark.
Seats : Not in General Admission, but seated with pretty good views.

Let me know if you are interested!

The Legendary Roots Crew

Went to see 'The Roots' yesterday night at the Enmore Theatre with Benny & Nate.

Wow.....that's all I can say after watching the best live performance I have seen to date from any musician/group across all genres. Yep, it was better than U2 at Olympic Stadium.


There was a unanimous standing ovation at the end of the show and as we left the packed out theatre I heard "That was the best show I've ever seen" over and over again from very satisfied fans.

In terms of value for money, The Roots played a 2 hour set, which is unheard of in terms of hip-hop concerts. This included many classic hits from their entire discography, solo performances from their amazingly talented musicians and a 25 minute, uninterrupted megamix (played only by live instruments) of some classic hip-hop songs from past times.

At times the whole crowd were on their feet, dancing, singing and rapping with The Roots and just having a damn good time. At other times the crowd were just mesmerised by the genius of musical talents like ?uestlove, Black Thought, Hub and the rest of the crew. It's no wonder that 'Rolling Stone' magazine listed 'The Roots' in their top 20 live music acts of all time.

Sorry Nas, Hip-Hop ain't dead.


Braggin Writes (Song of the Week)


Title : You Got Me
Artist : The Roots (Featuring Erykah Badu)
Album : Things Fall Apart (1999)



It's only fitting that the song of the week is performed by 'The Roots'. 'You Got Me' was the Grammy nominated and breakthrough single from their album ' Things Fall Apart', where the massive potential of The Roots finally came together. This song features the smooth vocals of Erykah Badu, thought provoking lyrics of Black Thought and the innovative percussion from ?uestlove. Watch the music video here.