Brainbustaaah!Kevin HamiltonRadcapRadsleyBrandon Walsh is Insane.Welcome to the Top 4! You four extraordinary contestants have survived 16 grueling rounds against the finest talent that the Freakin' Awesome Network has to offer. In your rise up through the ranks, in your pursuit of the title FAN Idol, you have traveled the world, performing in front of audiences large and small. You have tried your hand at different music genres, wowed audiences from the television screen, and made the public weep with joy and gasp in shock.
You have visited the past and seen a glimpse of the future. You have knocked on the gates of heaven and escaped the depths of hell. You-
Wait. That's Wyld Stallyons.
Anyway, you four would-be FAN Idols have come far and yet you still have a way to go if you want to win it all.
Our final four will face-off in the following manner based on rankings:
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Brandon Walsh is Insane.vs.
4.
RadcapRadsley and
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Kevin Hamiltonvs.
3.
Brainbustaaah!The round will be scored in the same manner as Round 16, with each pair of contestants facing off, the Judges selecting the songs they prefer between each pair of contestants. Each three or more of the Judge's vote and a contestant moves on to the Finale.
So, with only one more round to go before the Finale and the crowning of FAN Idol, Season XII, the theme is...
"On July 5 1969, The Rolling Stones played Hyde Park in London. Brian Jones, guitarist and co-founder of the band, had drowned in his swimming pool just two days previously, and before the concert started Mick Jagger said:
Cool it for a minute because I would really like to say something about Brian. I don’t know how to do this thing, but I’m going to try…I’m just going to say something that was written by Shelley…
John Gale of the Observer wrote about the concert the next day although one suspects he hardly noticed which band was playing…
'There were any number of delectable girls with their bra-less breasts bobbing beneath their white vests, confidently aware of their appeal. One wore a lacy transparent dress with nothing at all beneath.
Many in this enclosure were camp followers: beautiful girl friends and wives, some in transparent blouses, feeding their grubby, healthy children. Others were swarthy, wearing rings and handled whippets, at times it did feel like a Gipsy encampment. Julie Felix was here in jeans. Marianne Faithfull carried a small child and wore a long white dress: an antique dealer wore a yellow-and-black checked plastic bowler hat. A girl official had small nipples peeking from her string dress.'
‘It’s nicer that I expected,’ said a middle aged man.
Richard Gott of the Guardian, while not obsessing with girls cut-away outfits (“navels abound”) wrote about the audience:
Most fantastic of all was that this was a free concert, an event that seemed to be taking place in a Socialist society in the distant future. The participants, almost all born since the Second World War, had a classless air, and they were less disciplined, less puritanical than the middle-class protesters of earlier days.
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One of the most highly anticipated gigs of 1969, the Rolling Stones' free concert in London’s Hyde Park on July 5 delivered on all the promise and then some.
Having taken two years off from the road, the show was conceived as the beginning of the band’s big return to the live stage. The evening was also planned as an introduction of their hot new guitar player, Mick Taylor. A former disciple of British blues legend John Mayall, Taylor had been inducted into the Rolling Stones just a month prior, after the band had decided to finally wash their hands of the supremely talented but increasingly erratic Brian Jones.
“I just made a phone call to John Mayall,” Mick Jagger recalled in the book, According to the Rolling Stones. “And he turned up with this guy Mick Taylor almost the next day.” After jamming with Taylor a bit, the band were sufficiently impressed by his talent to bring him into the fold with little extra vetting. “There wasn’t a big audition,” Jagger went on to say. “He seemed to fit in really well and there was the pressure to do the gig [at Hyde Park]. Maybe if we’d not had a gig coming up for six months, we’d have tried lots of others, but we just had to get on with it.”
As the Hyde Park show drew nearer and nearer, the group got into playing shape by rehearsing at the Beatles’ Apple recording studio on Savile Row. Then like a lightning bolt came the bad news no one was expecting. On July 3, 1969, Brian Jones was found dead at his home outside of London. As you might expect, the band was equal parts shocked and horrified by the news. Rather than cancel their upcoming concert however, they decided to carry on and reformat it as a tribute to their ex-band mate.
More than just another show, the Hyde Park concert was an event. Estimates put the crowd as large as 500,000 people who showed up to take in the spectacle. Opening for the Rolling Stones was a melange of fantastic British acts including King Crimson and Alexis Korner’s latest outfit New Church.
Just before the Rolling Stones hit the stage, Mick Jagger came out and read from the Percy Shelley poem "Adonais," in a touching tribute to Jones after which hundreds of white butterflies were released into the summer air. “We wanted to see him off in grand style,” guitarist Keith Richards wrote in his autobiography Life. “The ups and downs with the guy are one thing, but when his time’s over, release the doves, or in this case the sackfuls of white butterflies.”
When the full band finally came out and launched into "I’m Yours and I’m Hers," it was apparent to most of the fans in the crowd that there was still a bit of rust that needed to be knocked off, but the energy more than made up for the out-of-tune musicianship. For his part, Mick Taylor took a measured view of his grand coming out party. "I wouldn't call Hyde Park a great concert. It was a great event. It wasn't a great concert for the Stones musically, because it was the first time they played together in two years,” Taylor said, adding, “I would say by the time we did the second American tour, we were really tight and really good.”
ultimateclassicrock.com/rolling-stones-hyde-park/Round 17 : Final FourChoose 3 songs, 1 each to fulfill these three categories:Strange Bedfellows: 1 Song featuring two or more groups or solo artists that typically do not perform together (at most, these artists can collaborate on an album together, such as Count Basie and Duke Ellington; anything more is too much)
We're Live, Pal!: 1 Song from a live television performance (this can be from a reality music show competition, a late night or other talk show, a performance from an event like the Super Bowl, a televised performance like MTV Unplugged, but it must have been performed live expressly for television)
and
I am the Idol: 1 Song that boasts, brags, or otherwise celebrates its performer (could be a blast about an aspect of their fame, wealth, musical accomplishment, personal life, musical skill, etc.)
And, for this round, the contestants can Double Dip!
This means that contestants can, if they so choose, select songs from artists already used this season. This is applicable to the Strange Bedfellows category and up to one more song. The contestants must, however, choose one song performed by artists not yet used this season for at least one category. A contestant can choose not to Double dip, however.Good luck contestants!
4 will go down to 2...