john smies
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Loc: koudekerke, Holland.
Never heard of you will say and you will be spot on. But bear with me please. Notwithstanding the pandemic and my own shaky constitution I continue to endeavour finding solace in making music and listening to good music. I also realize this is predominantly a keyboard orientated forum and the fact that over 90% of those participating are from the USA.
So.....here is some geography first and some astounding music later which ,I think, might appeal to many of you here. I live in the very southwest of Holland near a town called Middelburg, check it out please... DANNY VERA is a musician who actually is from Middelburg and has been around the block for a while but has risen to national fame over the last five years. He and his band do a lot of covers but he also writes a bunch of songs himself. Last year he had a megahit in Holland and a few surrounding countries with his song "Rollercoaster ", see link below for an astonishing live studio performance. Yesterday the site of our regional radio station ( where I was employed once myself) published a brand new video of him recorded at his house a couple of days ago with a grand new song penned by himself which imho should hit Bilbooard 100 (does that still exist ) song entitled:"Hold on and let go" (see link below) And to top it all 14 year old DAX (who lives about 25 kms from where I live) surprised all and sundry with his stellar performance of Blue Suede Shoes on national network TV in the program The Voice Kids. Enjoy !!!!!
#492440 - 03/22/2011:39 AMRe: DANNY VERA and DAX.
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john smies
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Loc: koudekerke, Holland.
Man this is so inpressive. Had he been an American it would have been all over the place imho. new direct link to this brand new song, now on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e86TYBlK-k
#492461 - 03/22/2004:50 PMRe: DANNY VERA and DAX.
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tony mads usa
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Loc: East Greenwich RI USA
Originally Posted By john smies
Man this is so inpressive. Had he been an American it would have been all over the place imho. new direct link to this brand new song, now on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e86TYBlK-k
regards John
John, I really enjoyed Danny Vera, but did I have to D/L an app the see Dax? As for Danny, yes he is very talented and has a 'signature' type of voice. And I am always amazed at European singers - or others - who sing in "American English" as if they were born here. But truth be told, there is a LOT of really good talent all over the world, including America that will never get their due - unfortunate as that may be ...
Man this is so inpressive. Had he been an American it would have been all over the place imho. new direct link to this brand new song, now on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e86TYBlK-k
regards John
John, I really enjoyed Danny Vera, but did I have to D/L an app the see Dax?
In my case, it says: „Deze video kan helaas niet afgespeeld worden in het land waar je bent.“ - I can guess the meaning as in German it would sound very similar: „Dieses Video kann derzeit nicht abgespielt werden in dem Land, in dem Sie sind.“
Which means: The video cannot be shown in the country you're in. Banned outside the Netherlands...
#492479 - 03/23/2002:34 AMRe: DANNY VERA and DAX.
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john smies
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Loc: koudekerke, Holland.
Tony, Crossover,
You are right the video of Dax doing Blue Suede Shoes is protected and cannot be viewed publicly (as yet) outside Holland. However I have added some links here below that show him doing the same song, be it the quality is less. Also added two links to two FULL concerts by Danny Vera. The one in 2011 he was doing a lot of wellknown covers in a studio session and the 2017 concert was a recording from the concert in the Oostkerk (East Church) in Middelburg in 2017, in which he is mainly performing his own songs, backed up by a complete orchestra.....all of which shows the versatality and quality of the artist imho. Enjoy !!!
#492506 - 03/23/2010:33 AMRe: DANNY VERA and DAX.
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Bachus
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Originally Posted By Crossover
Originally Posted By tony mads usa
Originally Posted By john smies
Man this is so inpressive. Had he been an American it would have been all over the place imho. new direct link to this brand new song, now on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e86TYBlK-k
regards John
John, I really enjoyed Danny Vera, but did I have to D/L an app the see Dax?
In my case, it says: „Deze video kan helaas niet afgespeeld worden in het land waar je bent.“ - I can guess the meaning as in German it would sound very similar: „Dieses Video kann derzeit nicht abgespielt werden in dem Land, in dem Sie sind.“
Which means: The video cannot be shown in the country you're in. Banned outside the Netherlands...
Not banned..
Its probably a setting by the uploader..
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I don't want to belittle anyone's performance or contribution here, ergo I think it is great more and more are posting their efforts be it recordings or live streams but I fail to see the magic here Arno. I cannot for the life of me figure out what is the fascination of playing the melody line of a song with the full accompaniment of a Midifile, you could have used your left hand to have a coffee or do some interior decorating !!! (..joke...). I am sure that with a Genos and a Nord at your disposal you can do much better and am looking forward to those efforts, recordings and videos !!!
I don't want to belittle anyone's performance or contribution here, ergo I think it is great more and more are posting their efforts be it recordings or live streams but I fail to see the magic here Arno. I cannot for the life of me figure out what is the fascination of playing the melody line of a song with the full accompaniment of a Midifile, you could have used your left hand to have a coffee or do some interior decorating !!! (..joke...). I am sure that with a Genos and a Nord at your disposal you can do much better and am looking forward to those efforts, recordings and videos !!!
regards JOhn
To each their own i guess.. Most important to me as a homeplayer is that he se3ms to enjoy it
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I don't want to belittle anyone's performance or contribution here, ergo I think it is great more and more are posting their efforts be it recordings or live streams but I fail to see the magic here Arno. I cannot for the life of me figure out what is the fascination of playing the melody line of a song with the full accompaniment of a Midifile, you could have used your left hand to have a coffee or do some interior decorating !!! (..joke...). I am sure that with a Genos and a Nord at your disposal you can do much better and am looking forward to those efforts, recordings and videos !!!
regards JOhn
If you see my other recordings you can see that this was the first recording i ever made with the use of a Midi file . Its after al strange that you react on this , there are a lot of "fake" perfomances on YT and they all are praised like they are the best players ever.
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