Riding For The Feeling | Bill Callahan | TEDxKC
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- One of this generation’s great singer-songwriters, Bill Callahan performs: Riding For The Feeling; Dress Sexy At My Funeral and America!
Formerly performing as Smog, Bill Callahan has perfected a lo-fi indie rock sound that pairs his distinctive vocals and exceptional lyrics.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
My good friend introduced me to Smog at 15, maybe 16. We would play music as his dad drank wine and remodeled their old school house/home. I was full of angst then. And I would daze out to this music, and didn't really understand it completely. I avoided the chance of being depressed. But it has always echoed on. I've come to really love Bills music, and its building. I've only found that in Waits, Cohen, and few others. But only Bills music has played such a part in my life. I'm 27 now. Looking in the rear view mirror, and keeping one eye busy and distracted on the road forward.
I cry with chills, scared and proud. It tears me.
But I remind myself of the old days before us. I think of the wilderness, and the smile on a child's face, and my mother with happy tears, and my father singing baritone in his bath robe, and the idea of being a real man. A rock.
The perspective Bill gives me, puts me on top, and helps me see the beauty of life.
Agreed. I might add Nick Drake to your list. But yes, a very small terrific list it is. And I discovered him last December. At 61.
Wow, being just 27 and looking back at life as if you were a tanned 90 year old sailor... I don't know what to think.
@@DateTwoRelate Love Callahan, Waits, Cohen, and Nick Drake. As far as Callahan's contemporaries, Will Oldham and David Berman are at the same level.
Sounds like you've got a lot of pretension to get over, tbh.
This is a lovely thoughtful post. Nurture your beautiful spirit as you travel the days, weeks and years ahead. Yours will be a unique journey.
making the difficult simple and burying the remains in beauty. only a rare few are able to do so in such a short lifespan.
Yes Selma beautifully put _/\_
wow.. yes well said.
He ain't dead
Jesu God. Bill Callahan having to perform at a Ted Talk for a bunch twits is the best thing ever.
Hopefully he woke up a few of those people.
His voice is so calming & sticks with me. He's got this cool poise about him
One of the best singer-songwriters of my entire lifetime. I've seen him 3 times, and will continue to see him whenever he is nearby. I love you, Bill! You have changed my life, for the better.
I would love to see you three times and whenever you are nearby.
hueroski try some water for that thirst...
Agreed. saw him play with full band; outside in Driftwood, TX. I've never experienced such a feeling. It was more profound than DMT.
Joseph B this guy knows his audience
Bill Callahan: Poetry of sound.
no. its poetry of semantics. soundpoetrywise there are other giants active as loving runners
I’m always glad receiving positive comments from my lovely fans❤. It’s actually my pleasure bringing you sweet melody’s, may the good lord bless you. Have you been to any of my concerts?
Wow, Bill talks! It's so fantastic to hear some of his thoughts about the songs!
one of my all time favorite artists. Thank you, Bill.
Jeez, so amazing, just sitting and being brilliant at being Bill Callahan. A true artist making his art.
I love Bill Callahan ... and this great performance happens to include a couple of my my favorite songs by Bill, Smog, etc. Thank you for sharing and long live the Dead Mans Shoes soundtrack!
Looking forward to going to see the wonderful Bill Callahan tonight in Manchester UK. So excited.
saw him at eddie's attic this past year in atlanta in a crowded second show, and man i would rank it in the top five shows i've seen in my life.
Hahaha, u could maybe get out more? Lol.
@@lindamon5101 I've seen Leonard Cohen, John Prine, Emmylou Harris, Randy Newman, U2 (1993), Radiohead at least four times, the Pixies, Foo Fighters, Sigur Ros, White Stripes, David Bryne, etc... Before covid, I got out plenty.
@@lewiespearman did u see rodrigues? Yet? I wonder?
Still one of the most bizarrely entertaining sing/song'ers I ever saw
never heard him talk that much.
Haha thought the same
nice to hear his thoughts behind the song
The only good thing that has come out from a TED Talk
Poetry + Amazing Voice == Bill Callahan.
la primera vez que escuché america, la armónica pega como un cañonazo
Your music and your voice are really amazing, Bill. I will never forget your performance at Parc del Fórum in Barcelona (Primavera Sound Festival). Thanks for being so authentic!
That is the voice of universal consciousness.
@Nouvelle Terre Idk about Jesus, but he walks with Walt Whitman for sure.
brilliant with an exclamation point!
This song is a beauty. The chords is wonderful.
I’m always glad receiving positive comments from my lovely fans❤. It’s actually my pleasure bringing you sweet melody’s, may the good lord bless you. Have you been to any of my concerts?
It's sometimes hard to believe that he was once the early version of smog.
Not really. Smog was great, Bill got better. Not contemporary.
I love you Bill! thanks!
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I’m always glad receiving positive comments from my lovely fans❤. It’s actually my pleasure bringing you sweet melody’s, may the good lord bless you. Have you been to any of my concerts?
Bill Talk ! AWESOME🤘
Merci de France !
Old Bill and new Bill - all so good.
I’m always glad receiving positive comments from my lovely fans❤. It’s actually my pleasure bringing you sweet melody’s, may the good lord bless you. Have you been to any of my concerts?
I always got the impression most of his songs were written in an attempt to be the best one to play at his funeral. Particularly the first one.
never thought about it that way, but i like the you frame that. epic songs
the first funeral?
i doubt anyone there recognized how lucky they were
I can totally see him as Father Callahan, from Salem's Lot
I don't see the similarities at all. Father Callahan was a drunk who lost faith and ran from the light. If you ever read the Wolves of the Calla and Song of Susannah, he comes back and continues his story and dies in a pretty badass way, but still no connection. Except the name. :D
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He's so beautiful, too, by the way. Dream guy!
How have I never seen this?
Only beginning to start listening to this guy but I think he is a bit special.
He has an essence of tenderness to his music that very few share.
Is that a standard martin model? i love the rounded bridge. Does anyone know?
eid ma clack shaw zupoven del ba murtepy ven sineur cofally ragdah
That's the perfect song.
g'damn
I want my ex-wife to date him.
Uh, from a stranger to a stranger, thank you? I am oddly touched by your sentiment?
he has a wife. that would be immoral. he has a wife.
Everyone's allowed a past they don't care to mention... and a present it turns out.
His older stuff is always wonderful.
You know this is his newest stuff? I think as he thinks he's never been better.
Thanks but Dress Sexy is older.
Fair cop
rainybroons older yeah, but definitely not forgotten foundations or Julius Caesar wild love etc.....
He's a solid three-phased guy. The old stuff that was just hardcore LO-FI, then the mid stuff like Knock Knock and Red Apple Falls where he's finding more melody, then Bill Callahan he's done with all the nutty girlfriends and finding solid ground in his life and the music reflects this.
Hmmm 🤔 I think smog is pretty great. However, TedTalks can ruin everything.
yolo
Such a great song ...
"With intensity, a drop evaporates by law" ... that reminds me on my studies on evaporating sessile droplets.
In the simplest case evaporationtime is proportional to V0^2/3
... sorry for smarting off ;-)
Emo's '98
That XLR not wrapped around the mic stand bugs me so hard
Suddenly reminds me of Cumberbatch
I’m always glad receiving positive comments from my lovely fans❤. It’s actually my pleasure bringing you sweet melody’s, may the good lord bless you. Have you been to any of my concerts?
In my experience his shows with bands are trainwrecks. That’s never turned me off his beautiful songs, though. Absolutely beautiful.
That's not true at all. Matt Kinsey and others add so much to his live shows. I've seen him close to ten times live. Always a great live show!
What a shame he was on TEDx and not TED. I love TED, but TEDx is just a bunch of worthless bums as guests in comparison. I once watched a useless guitarist trying and justify his lack of skills, but he didn't really prove his point because his performance was so awful.
Bill Callahan is awesome, and he doesn't need to be here.
The (TEDx) bar has been raised since after Bill's performance.
What's the difference between the two?
Ted Talk- yuck venue
slippery slope when you flirt with the likes of TED (or TEDx who really cares, does it matter?) ... Artist, musicians... just see if you can stomach some of the corporate links that follow this performance to these corporate dweebs
Love Bill, and love/d (smog). Pity about the awful acoustics in this recording. Shame, a great track...
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