Thread: Stand By Me

This video is really awesome, I know a lot of stuff is posted on here but really, this one is truly great.

If this video doesn't bring a tear to your eyes and makes you smile for the rest of the day, you are a cold hearted bastard. Watch it from beginning to end—you won't regret it.

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.

I don't know about you, but it blew me away. Best version of Ben E. King's classic I've ever heard in my life. And I've probably heard between five and two billion of them.

That was a good video........A great way to start the day. Thanks Cop.

Saw this a couple months ago.  They did another song, too, but this one is better.

EDIT

Now with a working embedded linky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjPODksI08

Couple more for you guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjFn...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgWFx...layer_embedded

Also, check out their website, http://www.playingforchange.com . They have a CD/DVD coming out soon, too.

Originally Posted by jmw_man

I went to New Orleans with my girl last fall, we were walking along to go to a cool cafe. As we approached it we saw a line of about 100 people waiting to get in to the cafe. We were standing there across the street staring at the line rethinking what we should do. All of a sudden, a lemon walked up to us and performed a trick for us. He then asked the lady if her man would give him a dollar. I gave him a dollar, then he asked, "would you two like to know a little trick? See that line over there, the lemons put them in that line so they can perform for them, there's a door on the other side of the cafe that leads inside where there is no line." I gave him another dollar and we walked right in to the awesome cafe.

Classic.......... :9