Hurt
So this past weekend was the Bridge school Benefit concert @ Shoreline in Mountain view. First of all, the Wang isn’t about reviewing concerts, so here’s a much better report of the bridge school accounts via Mercury news by Shay Quillen.
But the Wang do have a few things of note.
- Must learn to play the Guitar
- Trent Reznor brought some of the hawtest Cello players to do a great set of Mellow NIN songs with a string quartet. Though Shay from Mercury News don’t agree.
- The Shoreline gets cold, so bring a jacket
- its very crowded on the lawn and it has a weird slope, beach chairs help
- Death Cab sounds EXACTLY the same as they do on CDs
- Need to start listening to Pearl Jam, they were quite good.
- Didn’t truly dig Dave Mathew, but he had one of the best music jam sets. They just went all out!
- need to find a better way to sneak in a SLR, bag checkers are getting good at noticing the Digital SLRs
- Flickr set of Mytmouse - some Bridge School photos, but mostly of Death Cab and Dave Mathews.
- Rick’s Flickr Set - less photos, but he seemed to have a VIP ticket to the lounge.
But the most important thing of this week, for the Wang, was hearing Hurt by Trent Reznor. Even though this is an old song, the Wang has spent most of his 90s listening to Chinese pop (we dont talk about this...) So most fo the 90s music scene is blurred down to TV and Film soundtracks. But anyways, upon hearing this song for the first time on the radio awhile back, the Wang had made a mental note to find it. Though this thought was reinforced by hearing Trent doing it acoustically with 2 hawt chicks on the cello. All of this which lead to the Wang doing some inet surfing fun, that lead to Johnny Cash’s version, which is the main point of today’s post.
“Hurt" was covered by Johnny in 2003 a few month before his death and few month before his wife’s death. The video features the both of them. I like how Wikipedia’s entry states that upon hearing this song, Trent felt that Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore. Though Trent sings a more powerful version of hurt, Johnny Cash clearly captures the feeling of the song’s lament. Plus the videos of his life, made this song his. I think this is what music is truly about, sitting under the stars with hundreds of ppl sharing that emotion. So this week goes to Trent and his string quartet, but the song goes to Johnny Cash.
MP3: Johnny Cash – Hurt
