Update On December 31st, or maybe during the early morning hours of New Year’s Eve 2019, the DonaldPierce.com site went down, at least from an administrative point of view. If you were on the net and checked in up until the end of April 2019, you could still see the posts–all of them–starting with our …
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Annals of YouTube: Joe Walsh on Setting up a Gibson Les Paul Guitar
A video on how to set up the classic Gibson Les Paul guitar. Your instructor is Joe Walsh.
Nightshift Sports: US Open 8 September 2018
Day 13 Context and Background The U.S. Open, which started August 27th and runs through September 9th, is the last tennis major of the year. There was a week of qualifying (the qualifying started on 21 August) and now the real heavy lifting begins with the last week of the tournament now in progress. Results …
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Nightshift Sports: US Open 5 September 2018
Day 10 Context and Background The U.S. Open, which started August 27th and runs through September 9th, is the last tennis major of the year. There was a week of qualifying (the qualifying started on 21 August) and now the real heavy lifting begins with the last week of the tournament now in progress. Results …
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Nightshift Sports: US Open, 2 September 2018
Day 7 Context and Background The U.S. Open, which started August 27th and runs through September 9th, is the last tennis major of the year. There was a week of qualifying (the qualifying started on 21 August) and now the real heavy lifting begins with the last week of the tournament now in progress. Results …
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Nightshift Sports: US Open, 1 September 2018
Day 6 Context and Background The U.S. Open, which started August 27th and runs through September 9th, is the last tennis major of the year. There was a week of qualifying (the qualifying started on 21 August) and now the real heavy lifting began with the last week of the tournament now in progress. Results …
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The Weekend Concert Series: Aretha Franklin Meets the Blues Brothers
The Hunt for New Music: A classic that always brings a smile to your face: Aretha Franklin with her great performance of “Think” from “The Blues Brothers” movie. The direction by John Landis is spot-on and very, very, sharp–notice how he doesn’t bring the Blues Brothers into the choreography until late in the video. Absolutely …
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The Weekend Concert Series: Aretha Franklin
The Hunt for New Music: Before she became a one-name celebrity, Aretha Franklin was one of the hardest working, widest ranging performers of our time. The tributes to Aretha are pouring in from all over the world after her death at age 76. She certainly deserves the respect she is now receiving–she’s always deserved it–but …
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The Art of the Movie Trailer: The Girl in the Spider's Web
Paying Attention: Fans of author Steig Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander series of novels (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest), which were a part of an enormously popular series of books he called ” Millennium” series” will be pleased to note that yet another movie based …
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Nightshift Sports: Tour de France, The Final Stage
29 July 2018 Context The Tour de France, the world’s greatest long-distance bicycle race, goes on at the same time France is playing in the world’s largest single sports event. What a year and maybe, just maybe, the Franco rise to the top of the sports world is one of the reason’s why this year’s …
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