discover old vinyl... today la Streisand

Yes,it is about Babs before she became really famous. 

Some of you may remember that she did TV shows in her beginning and showed how good she already has been then. 

And as it is those songs have been banned on vinyl. So we can hear them again and again and again. 

I was not exactly looking for that vinyl of hers but found it.

Since then I looked up the same vinyl to see what the prices are and interessting thing is, the prices differ quite a bit from very cheap to quite expencive. And also different countries made up different prices. And I am talking about the original vinyl. 

Anyway the album contains all the classic from that time and some are still famous today and well known like - Happy days are here again- or -cry me river-. 

The nice thing with this album is, it shows la Streisand as a young girl, with a young voice just before she got better and better and even that young lady was more then promising. 

What a wonderful sound, though it is a soft album and not a dance album but if you look at the most ablums from these days, they are made for chilling and listening to great music and enjoying a soul, an artist. This album is after all a quite perfect production and not a single song is making the enjoyment less. 

So look up your parents vinyl collection and listen to it again..... Have fun. 

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Shizmo on journey

The secret brother of Gizmo is again on a journey. Taking the flight over the clouds. 

Spring is already in Berlin, will this be the same in Stockholm?

Now back to Stockholm another time- Shizmo felt happy and did not waste any minute. 

Visiting friends and being in the Globe to see a concert. 

He visited the Gamla Stan and eat in exelent coffees the Gladkaka and enjoyed the view over town, the Vasa Museum and the park Skansen. It is always nice to walk through Gamla Stan and being in the clubs at the evening to drink a beer with friends. 

Of course you must be also on the other side of the river and therefore from Gamla Stan.  

Shizmo could shop and look for vinyls there and end up near the Theater. 

But again he went to the Gamla Stan as there is also the castle, the parliament and the wonderful views in the afternoon.

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click on the pics- this is Parliament house

click on the pics! and there getting big!

Later it was taking a walk around one of the Islands where the salt water meets the sweet water. Where modern houses meet the old typical swedish Sommarstuga. Where the train is next to you when you take the brigde.

Underground driving next to you- same with cars and behind us is Gulmarsplan station

So yes, spring has arrived in Stockholm like you can see on the pics and there is wood to in town. The air is therefore better then in many big towns. By the way Shizmo felt that it is true, that Stockholm is expencive. But always worth a try. Like London. Thought those towns are different and better not to compare.

After all this he went on with the train over the whole south of Sweden to see that it is in fact true what you read about Sweden. All those typical houses. Well, gets a bit boring after a while. Nice but not much differnece between the towns, villages and so it is to enjouy the nature, the fact that the train drives next to lakes. In fact sometimes just two steps away. And he has the luck that nothing went wrong with taking the train as there is the warning that each second time you'll have to expect something going wrong or similiar.

Gothenburg/ Göteborg Central Station

Gothenburg it was then and here spring had arrived a bit earlier and anoter view and wonderful days have been to catch. All is smaller, but cheaper and more calm. 

Well Shizmo was at friends and brought them also flowers of spring, which cost three times more the in Berlin. Beauty can cost money, but are we lucky to have friends, so we don't care about prices. By the way one or better two of the best vinyl stores is near the Järntorget Place.  Now the last pics and we wish you a wonderful spring and week.

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A Divas Dance

Mariah Carey is in Europe with her Sweet sweet fantasy tour. 

As fate wants to I was able to get a ticket for the concert in the Globe in Stockholm. 

I am not a big fan of her, but I like many of her songs and acually had no big expectations. 

I knew as I saw it in the past and heard about it too, she is capable of doing great shows and also had her lows when she did not catch the notes. 

Well, the show startet with a big bang and went right throug your body with the first song, while she had been carried on the sofa to meet the fans. Thought the music was so loud that you had hard to hear her voice. Luckily the next songs like -Emotion- and -My All- have been in good quality and music and voice have been in balance. 

So Mariah Carey started with a mix of her hits and it soon was clear that she is having a more or lesseon -Best of Tour-. Mariah Carey also had a small talk between her songs - nice, harmless, bit funny and took also a fan on stage for a half song, like many artist used to do these days, thought she better had not done it as she is a Diva and she did not really come near the fan. That she is in fact a Diva, she let no doupt in that while doing the show- in a funny way. 

Of course Madame did change her clothes a several times and thanks to her very good background singers, it did not went to be boring while she was away. Her dancers on the other side have been lame. Not much dance anyway but the choreo was all but hard and in no way special and they danced it bad. 

Another thing was actually a nice idea. Mariah sang -I'll be there- and made a respectful bow to Michael Jackson and sooner to Whitney Houston with their duet -When you believe-.

But it took about an hour before Mariah really got the audience. It started when she hade her Medley Part with dance and hip hop songs. Many of those already forgotten, so it was a reminder how many songs she had in her baggage. 

But the thing is, Mariah did her show in a way like- I sing my songs and that's all. No emotion, nothing special, no surprises and it felt much like a -I just do my work- thing. No wonder that some people left the concert. 

But let's be honest, Mariah Carey can sing. Technically she is great if she wants and cares, but she is commercial and nothing more. 

The concert was kept simple which is not a bad thing itself, but then I expect that you give your songs something which let the people feel you are for real, you touch them. 

She did not. 

Then came the ballads session. It started with -Against all odds-. 

Here you had the first time the feeling this song means something to her. She told exactly this to the audience and it felt true. 

This ballads session showed her talent in singing and that she is a ballad women. It's her thing but after some ballads, when her last came, her voice let her down a bit. So when the break came before she did her extra song, it was a good thing. 

The the last song was apart from -Against all odds- her best one. Strong and it was a classic. Thought the rage of different ballads is not big. The structures are very similiar and this makes it a challange to sing them as good as possible as it otherwise will be soon boring. 

She managed to keep us awake and touched us with her technical standard. 

All in all it was a Best of, a simple concert, but sadly without much more. I had more fun on other - simple- concerts and have been touched more and deeper by others. For Swedish people is has been for sure not much of a delight as she has not been there for 13 years. 

I would give her 3 of 4 stars as she has done a good job but there was more then one thing missing. 

But don't worry, when I saw Whitney with her Bodyguard Tour it was worse. I nearly slept in. 

But now some pics and a clip.

and now the clip... her extra song:

Love and light.