Respect is so well deserved for this entertainer extraordinaire. RIP
What’s Up With That
The acoustic/electric final production 2011
By Shane O’Brien
Directed by Edward Lapple
Look Forward to a Production insight by Shane O’Brien to be published right here soon…
Comment from Director Edward Lapple:
“What’s Up With That?” is a truly powerful blues/rock song, written and sung by Shane O’Brien. It is a salute to all US Veterans and an insightful question about how we honor them. This presentation starts out acoustically and then thunders into Shane and his band “O’Brien’s Edge” live at the Legendary Whisky a Go Go. Intermixed with the heart moving performance are iconic images which Shane picked to best reinforce the message of this song.
Shane has long been referred to as “The Genuine One” and “What’s Up With That?” on many different levels expresses his feeling about the way that our nation treats its true heroes and it challenges every one of us to consider “What’s Up With That?” Shane is a multiple award winning song-smith and this heartfelt presentation showcases him at his best, both as a story teller and a Rock and Roller. It has never been easy to express outrage at social injustice and, at the same time to make it Rock. With “What’s Up With That?” Shane joins the small group of artists who have pulled that rabbit out of their hats.
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The Story Behind The Song is a new feature of the obriensedge.com web site. So far there has been three installments of unique stories regarding the songs: “It’s Safe To Be You” and: Chapter 2 _ “That’s The Way” also: “Chapter 3 _ “The Bluesman“. All 3 Chapters are loaded with photos highlighting each story of how the song came about and then developed to be what is on the albums by Shane O’Brien and O’Briens Edge. In some Chapters you may find two recorded versions in the Chapters display of that particular song. One version of the song as it was originally being written and recorded and the 2nd rendition may be Shane playing it for that Chapter featured as a highlight.
There may be many folks who read and see this new feature and say to themselves “Hey I took that picture” or “I recorded that track with him” or “I was at that gig“. To those particular friends I say “Don’t fret a thing all“. I’m just kicking this feature off and as things and web skills and understandings become more developed, it’ll be easier to remember the everything I should have remembered, type of thing… If you catch my drift. Heck this all has been such a blast, I try not to forget anything… Also remembered to share the vision too…
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