The film The Soloist is a true story about Steve Lopez, a journalist who befriended a street violinist who was plagued with paranoid schizophrenia. Robert Downey Jr. did a brilliant job of depicting the author whose life was changed by Nathaniel Ayers, played by the multi-talented Jamie Foxx. In this video, violinist Robert Gupta describes his experience with giving lessons to Nathaniel and the effect it had on him. You can’t help but be powerfully moved by this tale of taming the noise by finding your music.
.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..” Steve Lopez
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I’ve been perusing In Concert: KSHE and 40+ Years of Rock in St. Louis by John Neiman. It’s a trip down memory lane because I worked at KXOK when KSHE started dominating the radio waves. The book is littered with copies of yellowed photos, memorabilia and fascinating stories of a different time in the media world.
It’s Day 12 of the Social Media Challenge, and the challenge is this…
Do I tweet about what is playing on the radio, post a YouTube video on Facebook or blog about my favorite tunes on my iTouch? The 70s rocked for a lot of reasons. One of them was the choices were so much easier.
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me. – Billy Joel
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The film The Soloist is a true story about Steve Lopez, a journalist who befriended a street violinist who was plagued with paranoid schizophrenia. Robert Downey Jr. did a brilliant job of depicting the author whose life was changed by Nathaniel Ayers, played by the multi-talented Jamie Foxx. In this video, violinist Robert Gupta describes his experience with giving lessons to Nathaniel and the effect it had on him. You can’t help but be powerfully moved by this tale of taming the noise by finding your music.
