Stand by me


playingforchange, a group who is trying to promote peace through music, made the following video.  It touched my heart, hopefully it will touch yours.

“This cover of Stand By Me was recorded by completely unknown artists in a street virtual studio all around the world. It all started with a base track—vocals and guitar—recorded on the streets of Santa Monica, California, by a street musician called Roger Ridley. The base track was then taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, where Grandpa Elliott—a blind singer from the French Quarter—added vocals and harmonica while listening to Ridley’s base track on headphones. In the same city, Washboard Chaz’s added some metal percussion to it.
And from there, it just gets rock ‘n’ rolling bananas: The producers took the resulting mix all through Europe, Africa, and South America, adding new tracks with multiple instruments and vocals that were assembled in the final version you are seeing in this video. All done with a simple laptop and some microphones.” [gizmodo]


2 responses to “Stand by me”

  1. I loved this. It makes me want to see “August Rush” and “The Soloist,” maybe simultaneously.
    Did the project affect any change?

  2. I”m not sure. They have several videos on their website. Did you see the Soloist? I saw a trailer, it looked really interesting. What did you think?

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