I get a lot of e-mails asking me to bring up what I brought up last year, about Shahkar …sorry, Dr. Shahkar Bineshpajooh’s so called “live performance” videos. Like I said last year, this is a good way for you to train your eyes in picking up “seams” in production quality and authenticity! And while our general public, unfortunately, always chooses to turn a blind eye and deaf ear to con-artistry (in some cases even reward it!), it glads me that there are those individuals out there, with a sense of responsibility, who give a damn about the credibility of our music and popular culture! The following quote is part of an e-mail from my dear/your fellow reader Reza whose keen senses have picked up exactly what I last year hoped for:
” … His Latest video is: Vasate Ghalbam which is Micheal Buble’s version of the classic song SWAY. But, here’s what drives me crazy about this joker. He is using a $1.99 KARAOKE VERSION of the track (Attached) that he got from this website: http://www.karaoke-version.com/mp3-backingtrack/michael-buble/sway.html. In addition if you look @ the Video @ 0:33 sec. & 4:20 sec. you will see the only simultaneous shot of the orchestra with the band. But notice a Bald Timpani player and a yellow harp that does not even exist in the Video itself. What makes me mad is the ignorance of the Iranian people. Read the reviews for this work. They are comparing him to some amazing artists…”
Update:
Another dear reader, also by the name Reza, has written:
“… Also adding another piece that perhaps you can add to you blog is that the so called composer credit on the video @ 4:41 is Mr Pablo Belteran Ruiz which who was Mexican and died on July 29, 2008 in Mexico City, Mexico http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0069629/”
Second update, click to read the post!
In other words, the only difference between the staging and editing of this so called live performance and the famous Ahmadinejad IRIB clip which portrayed the president in the crowd listening to his own speech (0:50), is that the editor of this one was slightly more skilled, or sober!lol
