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Taylor Hawkins Presents Alanis Morissette With The Icon Award | Women In Music

December 14, 2019

– I don’t need my readers, that’s good. I don’t need my readers. I’m nervous. I don’t normally give speeches,
I play drums for a living, and one of the reasons I
play drums for a living is because of an amazing
woman who’s here tonight. I think I can see you. Alanis Morissette. (audience cheer and applause) I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I would probably be delivering pizzas to someone you know tonight
if it wasn’t for her. I mean it, she gave me a break, and she’s awesome. She was an amazing boss. She went through 18 months of insanity from here to insanity, and
she handled it with grace. Now I’m gonna read my speech. I played with Alanis
on her Can’t Not tour, right after “Jagged Little Pill” came out. On that tour, I witnessed Alanis become not just a star, but an icon. Someone who inspired countless
musicians, including myself. After her… (mumbles) Sorry, I already fucked up the speech. (laughter) I knew that was gonna happen. Can you go back a little bit? Thank you, yeah, yeah. Who inspired countless musicians after her and changed the power
structure of an industry. It wasn’t easy. When radio stations said
they couldn’t play her single because they already had female
artists in their rotation, well, they played the fuck out of it. Let me tell you, because
there was no stopping it. There just wasn’t. The week it came out, it went bananas, and it was amazing, and
I saw it first-hand. Anyways, yes, the rotation. ♪ The rotation ♪ The power of Alanis’ music overcame it. It definitely did, because
it was fucking amazing. And the sexism, didn’t matter,
didn’t matter who it was, because that’s how good it was. She sold out shows, she topped charts. She was played on the radio a lot. And then an incredible thing happened. Thank you (laughs). More women began to get airtime. Sarah McLachlan, Ani DiFranco, the Indigo Girls, Sheryl Crow. They had already
(audience member cheers) accomplished a lot,
(audience light applause) and they were respected,
but suddenly radio stations were willing to play
their songs back to back. Alanis’ efforts made gender irrelevant. Since spearheading that sea-change, Alanis has won seven Grammys, 10 Junos, the UN Global Tolerance Award, damn. (laughter) Damn, and many more. I don’t wanna get so stiff
as Alisha put it (laughs). I’m feeling a little stiff (chuckles). She’s continued to influence
and awe fans and artists alike with her confessional style
and cathartic performances. Man I saw ’em, she never missed one. Off script, I mean I don’t
even know how many shows we played that year, and she
never fucking missed one. Never, and she sang every night and, you know we were going on before Rage Against the Machine
and bands like that. To watch her sort of
have to prove herself… I don’t mean prove herself,
but like, you know, it was a tough time, the 90s,
everyone was walking around. “Are you real, are you real?” To see her go on and we
played with David Bowie, we played with all these
people and she just, once she got to the front of
that stage it didn’t matter who was before or who was after,
it did not fucking matter. ‘Cause it was on, every time. Game on, every time. Never missed a show. That’s, all right, I’m
flipping the script. All right.
(audience member laughs) She became a mom of three. She mined that experience
for the deep insight we’ve come to expect from her. “Flavors of Entanglement”,
and “Havoc and Bright Lights” saw her embrace a sensitivity she hadn’t revealed on previous albums. I’m trying really hard (laughs). (laughter) And now with her podcast
(audience cheers) and a brand new Broadway musical, inspired by that ground breaking album, “Jagged Little Pill”. And I know it well. And a new album coming this
spring, she’s truly unstoppable. She is, she really is, she always was. From the day I met her,
and I thank you so much, for everything, for me,
and for everyone here. I’ve been so fortunate to
witness Alanis’ artistic growth, personal determination,
over the last 25 years. And here she is tonight. She’s the type of musician
and person who comes along just, God, once in my
lifetime, if you’re lucky. And I was lucky enough to meet her.

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Foo Fighters – The Sky Is A Neighborhood (Official Music Video)

November 8, 2019

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Foo Fighters Times Like These Acoustic Guitar Lesson + Tutorial

November 4, 2019

Hey, what’s up you guys? Marty Schwartz
here with Marty music. Going to break down the acoustic version of the Foo Fighters
song “Times Like These.” It’s really fun, pretty much easy chords and I think
you’ll dig it. Also I really appreciate you subscribing here to Marty Music and
especially I will love you if you click that bell notification right up there in
the corner. Alright let’s learn it! Alright so we’re
in standard tuning we’re gonna start with a D chord. Very straight, but then we’re gonna hammer on that
second fret G string with our index finger. Now, you could mess around with that, you don’t have to play it exact like that. You can still get a lot of good stuff
out of just playing with that note. That’s the main part we’re not playing though, the low E string. But we can get the A in there with it. Then you’ve got the verse which is going
to be that D chord. We go to an A minor chord and on the
acoustic version he’s adding this pinkie to the third fret of the high E. On the C
chord, he adds that same pinky note a lot as well, so we have the the verse. So we’re gonna hit a middle finger where
A minor seven, middle finger hits that to climb up to the C major, to E minor,
into that verse part again. Bah bah.
E minor back to D. So the chorus, C like these, E minor, to
the D. C C C E minor to D. Now with the C chord you can add the
pinky on the third fret high E. With E minor he’s adding the third fret
B string which would make it a minor 7. But they’re all, those are just extra
colors. Alright, there it was. Thank you again, feel
free to request any songs in the comments below that you’d like to see me
teach. Also while you’re down there don’t forget to like and subscribe to Marty
Music, thanks again, we’ll see you later!

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Sifting – Nothing But Us (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

October 18, 2019

You say that I’m not the one You say I’ll never become You say that I’ll never know…well This time I say… NO! I hear the things they say about me When I walk by they all stare I know the things they think about me Though the words hurt I don’t care Not today Not today You say that I’m not the one You say I’ll never become You say that I’ll never know…well This time I say Go on push me around now You can’t bring me down Now that I’ve looked in the mirror I see myself clearer You can’t tell me to be Something other than me I won’t let you define me You’ll always remind me Of what I’ll never become No remorse for what I’ve done So hateful and so numb NO! The words they said ring loud in my ears Telling me I should give up Never again will I give in to fear Finally…I’ve had enough Not again Not today Go on push me around now You can’t bring me down Now that I’ve looked in the mirror I see myself clearer You can’t tell me to be Something other than me I won’t let you define me You’ll always remind me Of what I will never do Because I’ll never be like you In this game you will lose You say that we’re not the ones You say we’ll never become You say that we’ll never know…well This time we all say Go on push us around now You can’t bring us down Now that we’ve looked in the mirror We see ourselves clearer Believe me you can trust We’ll be nothing but us We all have been set free We’ll be what we want to be ME!

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Dave Grohl Surprises Kid Drummer with a Special Message

September 12, 2019

Yoyoka, did you have
fun last time you were? [SPEAKING JAPANESE] Yes. [LAUGHTER] And what I didn’t
ask you the last time is when did you learn
how to play drums? How old were you? And why did you start? [SPEAKING JAPANESE] [SPEAKING JAPANESE] [LAUGHTER] So she started playing the
drums since she was two. Wow. And she taught herself. But she doesn’t know
how to read music. Because she’s a little too lazy. [LAUGHTER] Wow. I don’t think you’re lazy. And who is one of
your favorite– who do you like as drummers? Who’s your favorite? [SPEAKING JAPANESE] [SPEAKING JAPANESE] Dave Grohl. I heard it, Dave Grohl. Dave Grohl, she has
a lot of favorites. But that’s her favorite
in the rock genre. Yeah, he’s pretty good. He’s really good. OK, and what do you
like about Dave Grohl? What’s the best thing about him? Dave Grohl [SPEAKING JAPANESE] [SPEAKING JAPANESE] Uh-huh. [LAUGHTER] So she loves the sound
that his drums make it. She thinks it’s really cool. And she thinks that he
has a really heavy groove. Yeah, he does have
a heavy groove. All right, and you
went to New York. And what surprised you about
New York when you went there? [SPEAKING JAPANESE] [SPEAKING JAPANESE] So there was a lot of
different smells in New York, good ones, bad ones. Yes. [LAUGHTER] And she was really
surprised on how big the beds were in New York. And the one she saw in her
hotel that she was staying in was the biggest bed she’s
ever seen in her life. Oh, wow. That must have been a big bed. [SPEAKING JAPANESE] [LAUGHTER] Wow, yes. It’s is a nice-sized bed. [SPEAKING JAPANESE] You could sleep standing
up against that wall, too, if you wanted to. [LAUGHTER] [SPEAKING JAPANESE] [LAUGH] [LAUGHTER] All right. So here’s something that
you want to teach me. Is this what you
want to teach me? [SPEAKING JAPANESE] Hai. OK. What happens? [SPEAKING JAPANESE] [SPEAKING JAPANESE] This is a kendama. It’s a traditional
Japanese game. OK. [SPEAKING JAPANESE] [APPLAUSE] [LAUGHTER] All right, all right. [LAUGHTER] [CHEERING] This is stupid. [LAUGHTER] All right, so the last
time you were here– see, what happens is, we
interview you ahead of time and ask questions of what
things that you like. And then I pretend
like I don’t know. And I ask you
questions out here. And this– we’ll explain
all of this later. But this is what happened
last time she was here. And then what kind
of instrument do you want to learn how to play next? [SPEAKING JAPANESE] She wants to know how to
play the guitar and the bass. That’s not what I was
hoping she would she. [SPEAKING JAPANESE] Ask her some other instruments. [SPEAKING JAPANESE] No. [LAUGHTER] That’s it? Does she like a xylophone? [LAUGHTER] [SPEAKING JAPANESE] She doesn’t want to learn it. [LAUGHTER] Does she want to look at one? [LAUGHTER] [APPLAUSE] There you go! All right, so we
thought that you wanted to learn the xylophone. [SPEAKING JAPANESE] No? [SPEAKING JAPANESE] She did want it. Oh, good. So have you used it? Have you learned? [SPEAKING JAPANESE] [SPEAKING JAPANESE] Yeah, she’s using it every day. Oh, well, that’s wonderful. Because I was going
to take it back. That’s good. [SPEAKING JAPANESE] Look at that! That’s fun, right? [SPEAKING JAPANESE] All right. [APPLAUSE] Here to perform “The
Pretender” by Foo Fighters, nine-year-old drummer Yoyoka. [MUSIC – FOO FIGHTERS, “THE
PRETENDER”] (SINGING) Keep you in the dark. And so it all began. The need you buried deep,
the secrets that you keep are ever ready. Are you ready? I’m finished making sense,
done pleading ignorance. That whole defense. Spinning infinity, boy. The wheel is spinning me. It’s never-ending, never-ending. Same old story. What if I say I’m
not like the others? What if I say I’m not just
another one of your plays? You’re the pretender. What if I Say I’ll
never surrender? What if I say I’m
not like the others? What if I say I’m not just
another one of your plays? You’re the pretender. What if I say I will
never surrender? So who are you? Yeah who are you? Yeah who are you? [APPLAUSE] So good! [SPEAKING JAPANESE] So good. All right, earlier,
you said Dave Grohl was one of your favorite drummers. So take a look here. Hey, Yoyoka. This is Dave Grohl
from The Foo Fighters. I’ve seen you play
“The Pretender” before. And you’re amazing. So keep it up, because the
world needs more drummers. [APPLAUSE] All right. Also, while you’re here, we
want to give you four VIP passes to go to Universal Studios. And then you’re going to go– [APPLAUSE] [SPEAKING JAPANESE] Hi, I’m Andy. Ellen asked me to remind you
to subscribe to her channel, so you can see more
awesome videos, like videos of me getting scared, or
saying embarrassing things, like ball peen hammer, and
also some videos of Ellen and other celebrities, if
you’re into that sort of thing. Ah! Ah, [BLEEP]! God [BLEEP]!

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Taylor Hawkins Presents Alanis Morissette With The Icon Award | Women In Music

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Dave Grohl Surprises Kid Drummer with a Special Message