With every mistake we must surely be learning...

Well, today is March 11. Do you know what that is? If you don't, you should be ashamed. It's Bobby McFerrin's Birthday!

You can see Bobby hiding there behind that red post thing. Come out, Bobby! It's your birthday!

I thought to commemorate the birth of our generations most talented noise maker guy since Michael Winslow, I dig up some McFerrin covers of Beatles tunes.

And boy, do I deliver. Check this one out where McFerrin bebops and scats a really cool rendition of "Blackbird." He utilizes some inward breathing that would make Tenacious D proud. But seriously, this guy is talented. So watch and learn:









For another example of how awesome Beatles + Bobby McFerrin is, listen to two bars of this rendition of "Come Together" from the George Martin CD of Beatles covers "In My Life."





But WARNING WARNING WARNING! Get out of the song after like 15 seconds before Robin Williams ruins this like he has ruined everything he's touched since 1997. I hate it when Bicentennial Man comes in and drops a load of wizzgigs and bolts all over the smooth carpet Bobby McFerrin just laid down for me.

This proves, once again, that Robin Williams is poison and, despite what George wrote in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," we certainly are NOT learning with every mistake, if Robin Williams is still allowed to embarrassingly ruin movies AND music!

So, since it's raining in Dallas, since we're not surely learning from our mistakes and since I'm weeping after listening to that version of "Come Together," the apple today is George's masterpiece: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

It also doesn't hurt that my Pandora mix played two different versions of this song back to back this morning.



On a side note, did you know that in the original Beatles track for this tune, it's Clapton on lead guitar? John and Paul didn't want to record George's mournful, soulful little ditty. Faced with the Lennon/McCartney kibash, George rolled Eric Clapton out of bed and convinced him to come to the studio and lay down the guitar. Clapton's endorsement was enough for John and Paul, so the song was recorded, with Clapton on lead.