So, it’s been a few months now and I feel like I should post again.

I am taking this amazing seminar course this semester titled “Roots to Rock”. It is basically a class the history or Rock and Roll in America. It is taught by a prof who wrote a book on Music and Fashion. She’s pretty amazing actually and I love the class.

Something I find extremely interesting is the amount we use YouTube in the class. I cannot count the number of occasions where either Dr. Davis or one of us will go up to the computer and bring up a video of a group to show the class. She literally imbeds the links to YouTube videos in her powerpoint presentations. Of course, some of the best ones come from the other 7 students in the class. It just shows you how much things have changed since my parents went to college.

Two recent amazing videos are as follows. We did a lecture on cover songs and how far they can be from the original. This is a video of Jake Shimabukuro playing “While my Guitar Gently Weeps” on ukulele!! Amazing

The second is pretty phenomenal as well. Take the zombie movie Night of the Living Deadand cross it with the Beatles Hard Days Night. Here is the Movie Trailer. Enjoy!