I remember watching this live when it aired in the 90s and feeling like there was something very special about this specific performance. Decades later, I found out that according to surveys, thousands of people still say this was their favorite ice skating performance of all times.
This video should be viral and dead like me must have had more seasons and a proper closure...but that's life. You don't die with the company of a charming reaper on time.
I love 'La Vielle Roux' Sting is playing, makes this the best A Krauss version of the song; it's also played in a beautiful song 'Black Raven' by the 'old donetsk cossaks', and possibly in J Cash's 'wayfaring stranger'. Fantastic for mournful songs.
I used to wonder how they didn't fall over. There have been no others with those deep edges and soft knees. They were robbed so many times. I love Tessa and Scott, and I love these two.
Interesting to notice that even a decade ago Black female pop stars didn't show their natural hair. All of the Black women in this promo have processed hair. In fact most of these celebrities, in the year 2004, seem very standard in that "white" euro way it used to be. It's the small things that tell us what we once were and what we now are.
14 years ago. Where did the time go? I remember this commercial well, but I finally got to listen to the full song during SonicVision at the Hayden Planetarium. It was a very moving experience, with the Space Theater's dome filled with faces of people around the world. A very memorable night where I made a lot of interesting new friends. Yeah, it was one of those nights I wish I could relive.
In his book, EC describes this performance. The producers insisted he and T-Bone Burnett accompany Alison, even though nobody could hear their instruments. Elvis mistakenly assumed his mic was off and was unaware that the bridge of his antique guitar had collapsed, throwing it badly out of tune.
Sting is playing Hurdy Gurdy, But...only really using it for drone here & oddly palming the crank He does know how to play several instruments & has studdied how to play many early 18th century instruments, such as Theorbo, Sting has two CDs that make use of a few different 18th century instruments, one of those CDs can be found in a Multi disk set,that includes a video interview where he talks about learning a few instruments & playing alongside master lutenist Edin Karamazov
Man goes beyond his own decision Gets caught up in the mechanism Of swindlers who act like kings And brokers who break everything The dark of night was swiftly fading Close to the dawn of day Why would I want him just to lose him again We'll rise above the scarlet tide That trickles down through the mountain And separates the widow from the bride
The Scarlet Tide by Alison Krauss Well I recall his parting words Must I accept his fate Or take myself far from this place I thought I heard a black bell toll A little bird did sing Man has no choice When he wants every thing We'll rise above the scarlet tide That trickles down through the mountain And separates the widow from the bride
