New Arts Strand Landmarks Live In ConcertDebuts on Great Performances with Grammy Award-Winning Singer Alicia Keys Friday, January 20 at 9 p.m. On PBS; hosted By Chad Smith from The Red Hot Chili Peppers. “Landmarks” will offer series of performance specials with Brad Paisley and others to be announced Also featuring special lifestyle segments with MTV veteran Matt Pinfield and Instagram star Gabby Epstein. Alicia Keys – Landmarks Live in Concert kicks off a new arts strand within the Great Performances series, beginning Friday, January 20 at 9 p.m. (Check local listings.) This will be followed the next week by Brad Paisley – Landmarks Live in Concert on Friday, January 27 at the same time.
(Check local listings.) Eight episodes in all are planned for the first season. Chad Smith, the drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, serves as host for the series and conducts one-on-one interviews with the artists exploring their favorite locations around each Landmark. There will be additional lifestyle segments with special correspondents, MTV veteran Matt Pinfield and Instagram star Gabby Epstein.
The show is being shot in locations around the world, including London, Paris, New York, Havana, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Jamaica, West Virginia and many more with major artists performing shows for their fans in front of landmarks to which they have a connection. The travel component of the show, which is co-produced with Bungalow Media + Entertainment, shows how the particular cities influenced the artists’ careers and shaped their music.
The series premieres with a native New Yorker from Hell’s Kitchen, Grammy Award-winning artist, Alicia Keys. Her collaboration with Jay Z, “Empire State of Mind,” instantly became the City’s newest anthem.
In this debut Landmarks Live special recorded over a one-year period, Alicia’s love affair with New York continues as she performs in notable locations all around town including the City’s world famous Circle Line harbor tour and Harlem’s Apollo Theater. The following week, country music superstar Brad Paisley returns to his roots in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains for a special outdoor concert at West Virginia University. As the hit-maker behind 23 number one singles and the winner of just about every Country music award imaginable, Brad brings his unique skills as a singer songwriter, guitarist and entertainer back to his home state as well as to “viewers like you” everywhere.
“I am so pleased to be partnering with WNET and its prestigious Great Performances series. It has been a dream of mine to bring real family entertainment and top notch music programming as part of a series to PBS for a while,” says series Creator, Director and Executive Producer Daniel E Catullo III, who is also the CEO of City Drive Films.
Live in Concert by and Released April 20, 2013 Recorded 2012 Length 24: 08 Jet Life Recordings, chronology (2012) 2012 Live in Concert (2013) Live in Concert2013 (2014) 2014 chronology (2012) 2012 Live in Concert (2013) Live in Concert2013 (2015) 2015 Live in Concert is a collaborative by American rappers and. The EP was released on April 20, 2013, by Jet Life Recordings and. The EP was originally planned to be released as a free mixtape, but was released to retail due to sample clearance issues. Contents. Background In May 2012, announced that he had finished a joint mixtape with, saying: 'It’s done, but we not calling it out.
You’re not going to get a How Fly 2, that’s corny, You’ll hear a collection of music from me and the homie when it’s necessary, but it’s done. We just chilling. I’m still listening to dude’s verses and shit still.
We just chilling. We’ll put it out in a minute.' He also explained the collaborative process between him and Wiz Khalifa working on the EP, saying: 'We like what we doing. It’s just about music. We like what we do, If I’ma be in the studio anyway, he gonna be in the studio wherever he at, we fuckin’ genuinely will fuckin’ kick it. So we might as well fuckin’ kick it in the studio. But if we in the studio, we might as well make songs.
We gonna hang out and smoke, smoke in the studio. If you in the studio, you might as well record. So we just kick it and turn it into money, so it’s just a good deal.' The EP was originally scheduled to be released as a mixtape on August 9, 2012, the 3 year anniversary of their 2009 mixtape How Fly. On August 9, 2012, the day of the planned release, Currensy announced they would have to delay the release of the EP to allow more time to clear samples, saying: 'We wouldn't feel comfortable droppin # LiveInConcert until we get the samples cleared. With how these suits keep poppin up.
Mixtapes ain’t safe, Lots of law suits being handed out to folks for makin free mixtape jams.Wiz,Mac,myself even.We gotta play this one smart.We got it tho. So don’t trip it’ll be out soons the legal beagles handle it. Crazy how the game gets huh? I never imagined a time like this. Came up off mixtapes in 08 not financially but they put me on so2speak.Sucks that this may be a lane made unavailable to the next mcs. But when one door closes, another one opens.We will do the due diligence and have it cleared in its entirety When u hear it you’ll see what we built.
And it will last forever.' In November 2012, Currensy gave an update on the EP, saying: 'We're fighting so hard for the Live in Concert project, We're trying got hurry up and pay them for clearances and put it out, 'cus that shit was done when my leg was broken. It's like, we got so much shit done, I'm going through songs on the hard drive to complete New Jet City. That's gonna be the next project. I'm debating - I might put it out for free. I was gonna put it out retail, but I'm figuring since everything's going with Live in Concert and there's been so many hold-upsI might give them a recordit'll drop probably in the next couple of weeks. I just gotta think of a cool date, that's all.'
On January 9, 2013, Currensy hinted on his account that Live In Concert may have to be released to retail, saying: 'Honestly with the way the legal beagles r Finna tax us. #liveinconcert is gonna have to be a retail project. Y'all still down??' On April 17, 2013, Wiz Khalifa and Currensy announced after a long delay they that they would be releasing the EP on April 20, 2013. On April 19, 2013, it was revealed that the mixtape would be released on as a 6 track EP. Recording and production In April 2013, in an interview with, Currensy spoke about the incorporation of flutes on the EP, saying: 'Let’s think about what Ron Burgundy’s jazz flute did to Mrs.
Ron Burgundy mastered that flute and it made him able to bring her to Pleasure Town on animated horses and they were fuckin’ out in the solar system and all of that. So how could we not employ the talents of Ron Burgundy and his jazz flute on as many cuts as possible for Live in Concert. Honestly, that is the genius that is Bobbi Humphrey and his album that was put together long before me and my brother Wiz ever thought about rapping. Laughs I think at one point there’s maybe like two minutes of flute and nothing else. It’s for everybody’s soul, man. Some people don’t understand it immediately, but after they give it a second and third listen, they understand the music.'
He went on to explain the sample clearance issues with the EP, saying: 'These are them sans one record that we didn’t put on because the person who owned the rights to that recordSee we have no problem paying for clearances. I got no problem with that.
But this guy, not only were we going to pay him for the sample clearance but he was trying to change lyrics. Things he didn’t like that Wiz said about a chick and shit he didn’t like that I said about weed. Basically we were like “Fam, if you don’t wanna make the bread then cool. We just won’t put the record out.” So homie chose not to pick up the bread and that’s fine. We’re not gonna jump through all these hoops on someone’s behalf when I feel like what we’re doing is going to put some more light on a body of work that our listeners don’t know shit about. We want them to know about it.
That’s why we went through the proper channels to do it that way, so people who do their due diligence will see what this project sampled and want to hear that whole album. Then you pick up more money. You pick up the money ’cause we paid you to clear it and then you pick up the money from the kids who go to get the original album.'
He also talked about when they originally recorded the EP, saying: 'We had already recorded this shit all the way back when my foot was broken. This is last year when we did this. I was on crutches. So we were originally going to put it out August 9th, the three-year anniversary of How Fly, but we realized the publishing company might come for us.
Not so much on my part, because I feel like I’m still underground, but my brother done got so far up I thought they might feel some kind of way. If it was just me, it might fly under the radar, but to protect my brother we had to do it the right way. So it just took forever to get it right. This shit had been done. The only reason we went back in the studio and you’re seeing these pieces of video of us in the studio is because we recently went back in the studio like two weeks ago out in Cali just to listen to everything ’cause you know, I don’t listen to nothing that I record.
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So Wiz was like “Come on, let’s go listen to this in the studio and make sure everything’s gravy.' He also spoke about how it was recording the EP with Wiz Khalifa, saying: 'Honestly, it’s exactly the same. It’s just we got way more trees to twist up and way more for everything. It used to be we got X-amount for pizza, X-amount for bud, X-amount for drink and then we gotta pay for studio time. But now it’s like Laughs We just do whatever we want.
It’s really the same, but we just put the cheat code in. So now we got like infinite bullets and 30 lives.' On May 10, 2013, the music video for 'Toast' was released. Critical reception Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating (L) Live in Concert was met with generally mixed reviews from. Retrieved 2013-04-19.
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