Pete Brown

Welcome to the 'Pete Brown' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Pete Brown'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Pete Brown”

• PDC09 Wrap Up at the Next CapArea Silverlight SIG Meeting Dec 10

  
  Frank La Vigne — Authority: 493
  If you’ve watched the live stream, downloaded all the sessions , and still want to know more about all the good stuff revealed at this week’s PDC, then make clear your calendar on December 10th! The next meeting of the CapArea Silverlight SIG will cover all of the XAML goodness from the PDC09 . PDC09 ...
  1 week ago

• THE VANGUARD SESSIONS

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 130
  Between 1953 and 1957, John Hammond supervised a series of record dates for the Vanguard label.  I first heard one of those records — the second volume of the THE VIC DICKENSON SHOWCASE — at my local library in the late Sixties, and fell in love.  The Vanguard sessions featured Ruby Braff, Shad Collins, Buck ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pete Brown on being a snob

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 516
  Pete believes that if you are in a state of readiness, when good ideas come along you will grab them. He enjoys being very social and takes buses and trains wherever he goes, which means hes always meeting new people. And Petes hardly snobby; you have to "keep it real" with everybody he tells t5m.For Pete, an idea for ...
  4 weeks ago

• Creativity not commerce

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 516
  Pete makes it clear that he wont produce just for the sake of money or just to occupy himself, instead he wants to do something that can occupy himself, and a project that he can make a committment to. He has to like the people he works with, either as people, or musically. And finally, it also has to be in a genre ...
  4 weeks ago

• A low point

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 516
  Pete was distracted and angry by the destruction of the skilled labour force, and the bringing in of "scabs", he told t5m. At the time he was managing the band Back to Front who were incredibly musical, but they were struggling to get a record deal. The band eventually broke up and he began feeling guilty that he ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pete Brown on meeting Martin Scorsese

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 516
  Pete had the great opportunity of meeting award-winning director Martin Scorsese, Pete told t5m. Pete was a true film buff and he could recite every movie script by heart. So, he got himself an agent and starting writing scripts despite most of them not being made. However, he liked the idea of writing a script, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Getting noticed

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 516
  Pete had already written a couple of songs for Cream, British blues-rock band, and was contacted by Graham Bond whose organisation was falling apart. He was asked by Graham to write a few songs for his ailing band, Pete agreed, and sent him a tape of the music and his own singing voice. On hearing the tape, Graham ...
  4 weeks ago

• Peter Brown on segregation in jazz music.

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 516
  Most black musicians at the time were outsiders in a society they desperately wanted to be a part of, Peter tells t5m. It was obvious that they werent getting their dues, and as a result they adopted a humorous attitude which masked darkness and suffering. This prompted some musicians to get into drugs, but others ...
  4 weeks ago

• Jazz hands

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 516
  Pete Brown, lyricist, poet, and musical producer was brought up in a "claustrophobic" jewish world where they thought everyone was the enemy. But he didnt share their perspective, he felt like he belonged in the world and people were just that. People. He was desperate to get out of this cocoon, he told t5m.He went ...
  4 weeks ago

• It’s not just me, then?

  
  Beer Blokes — Authority: 117
  A great post over at Pete Brown’s Beer Blog that touches on some issues we have been examining here for a while. I know sometimes I bang on about certain issues (the posts that Mrs Pilsner refers to as my ‘Redneck Rants) but I just feel at times there is a need to create some balance in the debate. ...
  4 weeks ago

Comments about Pete Brown