[audio:http://earshotpresents.com/sounds/within-earshot/captain-lou.mp3|titles=NRBQ — Captain Lou] Captain Lou Albano, professional wrestler, actor, rock singer, and all-around legend, has died. He was 76. Here’s a song NRBQ wrote for Lou, on which he’s featured.
Author: Earshot Presents
Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters: Tonight You Belong to Me
[audio:http://earshotpresents.com/sounds/within-earshot/the-jerk.mp3|titles=Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters sing Tonight You Belong to Me (from the Jerk)] Tonight You Belong To Me, a hit from the 50s, is performed here by Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters (and someone else on cornet, presumeably). The audio is taken from the romantic walk-on-the-beach scene of the Jerk (1979).
Robbie Maddison’s Incredible Arc Jump
Robbie Maddison jumps his motorcycle over 120 feet onto the top of the Arc de Triumphe at the Paris Las Vegas… then jumps back down. Holy shit.
The genius of Lasse Gjertsen
Amateur, performed and edited by Lasse Gjertsen, a genius animation and video artist from Norway. “All the sounds are the actual audio from the original video tape”. Each note, chord, beat, and symbol was played individually and edited into music in the video editing stage. It’s hard to believe Lasse’s claim that he “can neither…
Danny Way jumps Great Wall of China on his skateboard
Danny Way breaks skateboard history records by ollie-ing over the Great Wall of China. Skip to 3:25 if you’re in a hurry. Incidentally, Way is the same crazy son of a bitch who set the land speed record on a skateboard earlier this year.