Greg Adkins
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August 11, 2009
July 08, 2009
Stickin' it to the Man!
Okay, this is hilarious! First, read this story. Then, after you're done with that, come back and watch the following video. Classic.
July 02, 2009
May 14, 2009
December 04, 2008
November 20, 2008
November 15, 2008
A Couple of Youtube Videos I enjoyed this week
These are both worth watching... funny stuff!
November 12, 2008
God of this City
I wanted to share a video we put together a couple of months ago for the song "God of this City". We totally ripped off the idea to sync this with local pictures and footage from about 5 other churches but I really think the combination of this song with pictures of our community (including footage shot within a couple of miles of the church) really helped to make a powerful song even more meaningful.
Anyway, here's the video. The audio track is the finished mix of this song from our Powell Church Live Volume 2 CD. When we do this song live, we play to a click track I created in Reason. I'm controlling the click track and the video track from my laptop in Ableton Live... Ableton is great in that it allows you to include video so I can run video out from my laptop into our switcher and keep that synced with the clicktrack we use.
Okay, nerd-speak over... enjoy the video.
June 30, 2008
June 18, 2008
June 03, 2008
The Band in Action
You guys hear me say all the time how great I think our worship team is at church... I thought it would be cool to show you a clip of the band in action. This is a clip I put together featuring most of 3 songs we did this past Sunday morning. Not everyone plays every week so my apologies to those who aren't in this but included in this video are:
Adam Adkins - drums
Greg Adkins - acoustic guitar, piano
Adam Whipple - keyboards and organ
Rose Williams - violin
Rob Mason - bass
Jasmine Hoisington - acoustic guitar
Jim Walker - electric guitar
Dave Locke - percussion and vocals
Sarah McAffry - vocals
Michelle Kollenberg - vocals
Kim Mason - vocals
May 13, 2008
The End of You and Me
Here's a video my friend Dave Potts just sent to me... this is Dave performing my song "The End of You and Me" at a really cool coffeehouse called The Electric Brew up in Goshen, Indiana. Dave and I did a 5 show tour last year and had a really great time out on the road... Dave's a great friend and he did an awesome job with this song. I actually like his take on it better than mine... he makes it sound all professional. Of course, for Dave, it ain't a hobby. He's the real deal. Thanks for doing the song Dave... I'll be anxiously awaiting my royalty check.
May 11, 2008
Sunday Setlist - 5/11/2008 - Mother's Day
Today was a really great day at church. Some days you work really hard and plan a lot of things and it doesn't quite work out... every now and then, it all seems to click and today was one of those days.
We hired a harpist to come and play in the lobby while people came in. I shared that we were doing this with a few people beforehand and they looked at me like I was crazy. I don't know what they were thinking because it was really, really nice. Elizabeth Farr is the name of the harpist we used and she did a great job... she mixed hymns with some classics (Over the Rainbow, What a Wonderful World) and also played some classical and I think I even heard some Enya in there. Come on, you know you had that one Enya album and loved it. Don't even try to deny it!
For our worship set this morning, we went for kind of a pop-jazz feel. I played piano, Adam played drums, Rob played bass, Jim played guitar, and our new friend Dave played some really amazing saxophone. Our men's quartet joined us on one song and Sarah and Michelle sang too... Michelle did a great job singing lead on "Indescribable". I can't even tell you how much fun it is to get to play music every week with such a talented group of people. I'm the musical weak link on stage... I'm not half the player a lot of these guys and gals are but they tolerate me and I'm having so much fun. Here's our setlist:
Opener / Walk-In
"You are so Beautiful" - Joe Cocker (we played this instrumentally... I can't pull off Cocker!)
Worship Set
Pass me Not oh Gentle Savior - traditional (Lyle Lovett arrangement)
Love the Lord - Lincoln Brewster
Indescribable - Laura Story
Friend of God - Israel Houghton
Closing Song
Lord I Give You My Heart - Jeff Deyo
I also have to mention that Renee Denney did a hilarious version of the "Mom's Anthem" that's been going around youtube this past year. Some lady took everything she says to her kids in one day and condensed it into three minutes and set it to the tune of the William Tell Orchestra. Renee memorized every word and performed it for us this morning. HERE'S THE AMAZING PART... I found out after church that Renee had been in the emergency room almost all night and had gotten almost zero sleep. She had to be there at 8:15 for a sound check and she didn't complain, didn't even mention it! I found out from someone else.. she never said anything about it. So Renee, you're already first in line for a Powelly Award next year!
If you've never seen the original song on youtube, here it is:
April 27, 2008
April 17, 2008
The One Semester of Spanish Love Song
Thanks to Adam Feldman for this absolutely hilarious video. Anyone who ever had only one semester of Spanish is going to be feeling the love.
April 09, 2008
Sigur Ros - Glosoli
I first saw this video over on The Rabbit Room and at first I wasn't sure what to make of it. A month later and I've found every CD by Sigur Ros and think that this is one of the greatest music videos ever made. I would love to hear your thoughts on the video... I think the meaning is up for discussion and the ending can be interpreted a few different ways.
If you're not familiar with Sigur Ros, they are from Iceland and most of their music is sung in a made-up language that they call Vonlenska (I know, weird) but it's really quite beautiful. It's very atmospheric with a lot of interesting orchestration and piano work. It's not driving music but I like to listen to it while I'm working... there aren't really any lyrics to distract but the music is interesting enough keep me feeling creative. Good stuff.
Greg Adkins
I'm just a guy who is trying not to waste his life.
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