Sunday - January 17, 2010
Weekend Videos
This brings back some memories. Some of them aren’t that long ago either!
I know, Meat Loaf can go bad over time. Here’s some more recent Meat Loaf. Only a couple of years old!
Now, a little America:
Below the fold, due to very suggestive content, Clarence Carter is Strokin’ and “sassifying” his woman.
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Permalink • Tuesday - December 08, 2009
Fashion Tips
OMG, I have to go meet the Queen of England! What do I wear???
Something formal, obviously. Demure, sophisticated, classic, and classy. Be absolutely certain that your shoes coordinate, and don’t speak until spoken to.
And make sure you do something with those eyebrows first, m’kay?
Sounds like good advice. Of course, if you’re Lady Gaga, you find a unique way to do exactly what’s expected, but still keep your freak flag flying ...
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Permalink • Thursday - December 03, 2009
I’ll publish anything
Rich K gets inspired by the Muse and cranks out a little Obama poem/tune.
The Muse Clio, reading a scroll, 435 BC
Except his muse has a bit more modern incarnation ...
My name’s Barak Obama and I don’t have a clue
So let invite a bunch of folks to tell me what to do
And after that Ill go to town
And let you see I’m just a clown
So smile and wave and don’t be shy
I’m hope and change and I don’t lie
Life is great and green as grass
I’m here to stay so Kiss My Ass!
Not bad for a first effort. So let’s push him for bigger and better. Poems, posts, graphics.
While I’ve got you here, I want to mention a failed Christmas present. I’ve got Conservative friends and relatives, so it’s always a no brainer to pick up Conservative books for Christmas. Funny thing though, I order them real early and then carefully read them first!
Anyway, I picked up a copy of Michelle Malkin’s Culture of Corruption. Horry Clap. You WANT to read this book. Even if you thought you were on top of the cronyism and all it’s corrupt interconnectivity, it’s bigger than you realized. And uglier. This is a fantastic read, but ... it’s pretty dark. Ann Coulter books make better presents; at least she’s a wise ass half the time and that’s good for a chuckle or two. CoC is serious stuff. And it will scare the shit out of you, upset you, piss you off, and make you afraid for the future of America. Thanks ever so much, 52ers.
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Permalink • Friday - November 20, 2009
Musical Interlude
Part 1
Related to the previous post ... we get a whole lotta mileage out of old Dvorak’s Symphony #9.
Here’s Academy Award winning actress Deanna Durbin, who at 87 continues to live in peaceful seclusion, signing Goin’ Home. Eye candy for Peiper, because I know he likes the old time ladies. She’s 25 in this video.
The music is straight from the Largo in #9, and the words were written by his assistant William Arms Fisher. Two DWEMs ( Dead White European Males ), yet the song is so evocative of a Negro Spiritual that it’s probably considered racist these days to watch a white woman sing it. Yet ... the underlying themes, the soul of the song, is just as authentically Bohemian as it is authentically Black. And some say the tune is even older, that it was an old Scottish song long before any negro slave every heard it. Go figure.
These days it’s mostly played at funerals, but that was not the intent of the original. Like I said, ya learn something new here every day.
So here she is, cut from the film It started with Eve from 1941 ...
Part 2
While running down a couple of versions of Goin’ Home I found Mary Fahl doing Going Home, one of the tunes from the wonderful Gods and Generals film. Gonna hafta get myself a copy of that show one of these days, along with the Ken Burns series. I’ve always loved how deeply the Celtic blood runs in American folk music. This one is lovely. And so is the song! 
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Permalink • Sunday - October 04, 2009
THE YEAR IS 1928. THE JAZZ AGE AND THE ERA OF WONDERFUL NONSENSE IS SOON TO END.
This is certainly NOT a normal posting for this site.
Look, the news is depressing. And not just the vote in Ireland but yes, that plays no small part in things.
The Tories (Conservative Party) is saying that when they’re elected they are gonna start putting some teeth into law and order. The opposition party is saying the same damn thing. WTF is it with these ass-wipes? (Pardon me please) What is it with them? Haven’t they seen what’s been happening in their own country for years now? Or do things become miraculously visible only at election time? Bah ..
I’m pretty well PO’d over other things here as well. Nothing I can do of course. But one can’t help being rankled. Can one?
Well anyway .... to take my mind off things I went over to YT looking for something to help cheer me up. Music is usually the answer and mostly from another era. One I kind of wish I could visit. Although if I were around way back then, I would never have been able to catch all the great talent and bands the were going then. But I can see em on YT, right in my own home. house.
Well, while there I found this wonderful video. You might say, it struck a chord for me. It so well reflects that time, just before the depression. A time that history calls, THE ERA OF WONDERFUL NONSENSE.
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Permalink • Tuesday - September 29, 2009
Because Just Being a Tramp isn’t enough anymore
The latest musical life lesson your kids are being taught comes from that paradigm of class, Britney Spears, with the release of her latest tune 3. A song about the wonders of ménage à trois and orgies in general. Isn’t that swell?
It’s a pretty catchy little tune too, even though it’s machine generated to the Nth degree.
Peter, Paul & Mary
Gettin’ down with 3P
Everybody loves *** [sex grunts]
Countin’
Three is a charm
Two is not the same
I don’t see the harm
So are you game?
Lets’ make a team
Make ‘em say my name
Lovin’ the extreme
Now are you game?
Are – you in
Livin’ in sin is the new thing
Are – you in
I am countin’!
1, 2, 3
Not only you and me
Got one eighty degrees
And I’m caught in between
Countin’
1, 2, 3
Peter, Paul & Mary
Gettin’ down with 3P
Everybody loves *** [sex grunts]
What we do is innocent
Just for fun and nothin’ meant
If you don’t like the company
Let’s just do it you and me
You and me…
Or three….
Or four….
Total class. You can find the video everywhere, or go visit Just Jared.
I think her next album will have love songs dedicated to Tony the Pony, and tout the wonders of sexual chickenry.
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Permalink • Thursday - August 13, 2009
Not Fade Away
Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday. He was 94.
According to Gibson Guitar, Paul died of complications from pneumonia at White Plains Hospital. His family and friends were by his side.
He had been hospitalized in February 2006 when he learned he won two Grammys for an album he released after his 90th birthday, “Les Paul & Friends: American Made, World Played.”
“I feel like a condemned building with a new flagpole on it,” he joked.
As an inventor, Paul helped bring about the rise of rock ‘n’ roll and multitrack recording, which enables artists to record different instruments at different times, sing harmony with themselves, and then carefully balance the “tracks” in the finished recording.
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Permalink • Tuesday - August 04, 2009
Chill Winds To Come
A little Jethro Tull for those suffering from excess summer this summer. Not that we’re getting any of that in New Jersey this year. It’s the 4th of August, and right now it’s 65°F outside. But at least it’s not raining. Yet. This is our 2nd day in a row without rain, which is just about a record here since mid-May.
Good morning Weathercock: How did you fare last night?
Did the cold wind bite you, did you face up to the fright
When the leaves spin from October
and whip around your tail?
Did you shake from the blast, did you shiver through the gale?
Give us direction; the best of goodwill ---
Put us in touch with fair winds.
Sing to us softly, hum evening’s song ---
Tell us what the blacksmith has done for you.
Do you simply reflect changes in the patterns of the sky,
Or is it true to say the weather heeds the twinkle in your eye?
Do you fight the rush of winter; do you hold snowflakes at bay?
Do you lift the dawn sun from the fields and help him on his way?
Good morning Weathercock: make this day bright.
Put us in touch with your fair winds.
Sing to us softly, hum evening’s song.
Point the way to better days we can share with you.
Ian Anderson
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Permalink • Thursday - June 25, 2009
Michael Jackson also dead today
About an hour ago, Michael Jackson died. At first the gossip sites said it was cardiac arrest, but now the hospital and his mother have released a statement.
I really liked his early musical career, but his personal life and his plastic surgery really turned me off.
This was a rumor at first, but it has now been confirmed.
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Permalink • The Dead Have Arisen?
It’s not much of an admission, but I was a Deadhead back in my late teens and early 20s. Not one of those totally immersed in it, wild Children of Nature types, going On The Road and living out of a VW camper, making ends meet by selling grilled cheese sandwiches at concerts ... but I got myself to dozens of shows, owned all the albums, a bunch of bootlegs, and didn’t listen to much else in the way of music for several years. Eventually my musical world expanded, and my time at those concerts eventually led me to become an audiophile. In terms of sound, and to play with the old audiophile idiom, there was so much there there at the shows, that the issued vinyl, a plain old stereo, a good Fisher phonograph, and a good set of speakers was quite a let down. Hell, it was a disaster. And that was one of their better albums.
And that’s one of the things that made being a Deadhead difficult. You could talk forever about fusion, jug band music, blues, rock, jazz, musical communication, brain surfing, into, the whole bit. But you couldn’t share it via vinyl. Nor via cassette tape. The World’s Greatest Jam Band could not put together an album with decent sound. Ever. Never, not once. Europe ‘72 was about the worst thing ever pressed into vinyl. Well, maybe Live Dead on 8-track. Things got a little better towards the middle 80s, but not by much.
The band mostly broke up when Jerry Garcia died in 1995. I say mostly, because everyone in the band was almost always in some other bands at the same time, and after a couple of fits and starts there is once again a group touring called The Dead. It’s the surviving band members, lately with the help of Jeff Chimenti and Warren Haynes. Death never stopped this band; I’m pretty sure that more members have died over the years than are currently playing in the band. [see? that deadhead shit is still in me somewhere]
Anyway, pretty much the only way to make an outsider understand was to drag them to a concert. Sure, they could sort of glean something from albums or bootleg tapes, but it just wasn’t right. In the mid to late 90s a series of concert tapes were turned into CDs, the whole Dick’s Picks and From The Vault collections, and they were mostly great, but they weren’t really there.
I pretty much moved on with life. It’s only once in a great while that I turn out the lights, crank up the very fine stereo, and leave the world behind for a couple hours. But while surfing through Amazon last week, I traipsed down the Dead Aisle and read the reviews on a couple of throwback albums. Newer releases of old master tapes. And I gave it a try, just to see.
I needed a miracle ... and I got two. To Terrapin and Live At The Cow Palace are both albums from the end of the Keith & Donna era, what could be considered the peak of the wave for the Old Kingdom - First Intermediate Period of the GD. They’re published on HDCD, whatever that is, and the sound is ... pure. No hiss, no pop, no scratch. No filtering. The band doesn’t sound like they’re 5 miles away. The music actually has a soundstage, and not the millimeter tall, 2 foot wide kind you usually get even on most “good” CDs. Somebody, somewhere, did something right. Both CDs are concert recordings, but from the instrument feeds, not from microphones out in the audience. So they don’t have the background noise and they don’t have that sense of power, that electric aural intensity of a few hundred thousand watts coming your way through 200 speakers in the old 4 story tall Wall of Sound. But these CDs do have a presence nonetheless. They’re quite forward, and here that’s a good thing.
I was prepared to be let down. I am thrilled to be let up. And further up. A 19 minute Sugaree, a 23 minute space jam filled Playing, and a 15 minute Morning Dew? With several Drums?? 2 albums with 5 CDs filled with into? With actual detail - you can sometimes hear Keith or somebody kicking the piano, keeping time. Takes me back, in the best possible way. And without the chemically induced ball of orange light travelling up and down my spine this time. I’m too old for that shit. But it’s nice to wake up the memory that the best Snoopy Dance is done to a kickin’ rendition of Sugar Magnolia [the 8 1/2 minute S.M. on Cow is darn good, but it isn’t truly magical].
When in doubt, twirl.
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Permalink • Monday - June 08, 2009
Red State Rockers
Obammunism got you down? Feel like banging your head on some piece of metal out in the garage? How about turning all that around, and doing some garage metal head banging instead?
Joe Corcoran from DM Records brings us the group Red State Rockers ... doing their tune No Socialism!. Sounds good to me, in sooo many ways. Now, if I only had a V8 powered pickup truck, manual transmission, no emissions controls, and a pretty healthy amp on the stereo ... it would sound even better.
30 second micro-video snippet at YouTube:
Since I was never able to figure out how to embed an .mp3 in this blog, here’s the link to download the whole tune and play it on your own PC.
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Permalink • Friday - May 15, 2009
A painting on a CD sleeve banned in some stores. Right or Wrong?
I didn’t have a clue that I’d be posting this for your opinions. In fact, I don’t even know who the heck they are talking about.
Here’s another one of those ... BUT…
I was off checking my email just now and on the left was a question, I read the question and thought, what’s that all about?
I didn’t have to read far as the ‘so called art’ caught my eye. A bleeding beaten girl? It a painting but why? And it’s on a CD cover.
Well, I’m not one for censorship and I do understand that what I call dreck (crap, something worthless, junk) others see as art. OK. Not my taste and I don’t think much of the person who creates this stuff. Just another thing that coarsens the culture. What’s left of it anyway.
One thing that did surprise me were the comments made at the end of the story. (see the link) I am definitely in the old fart minority I guess.
Truth to tell however, I didn’t care for this sort of ‘art?’ when I was 20. I don’t understand it and don’t see the point of it. I also don’t understand the so called music group(s) with odd or silly names that are generally made up of would be musicians who haven’t really learned their instruments but simply bang away, bump and grind and screech the same tired line a hundred times to an equally talentless and tone deaf crowd ... BUT.
That is NOT the subject here.
Some stores found the painting so distasteful that they have refused to stock the CD in it’s sleeve with THIS PICTURE .
But some of those complaining about this decision are also trying to compare magazines with sexy women and bare butts or photos of guns, with a picture of a girl with a bleeding face and a black eye, as though she’s been beaten. I don’t see that comparison at all. Do you?
Alright. Some of you may not approve of semi-nude young women on display in the papers and magazines. But would you compare that to the picture here?
I’d rather see a photo a pretty lady or a beautiful car or even a blank cover, then be confronted by this at the checkout. But that’s me. Others will disagree.
Tastes sure have changed radically. And what a title. Journal for plague lovers? Oh how inventive and literate. But I’m sure it matches whatever they call music on that CD.
Manic Street Preachers Banned
Posted Fri 15 May 2009 11:34AM BST by Dave Rumour in Snap, Crackle and PopYou probably wouldn’t know it looking at their rather tired 21st century image but the Manic Street Preachers used to be a quite terrifying prospect for some, full of provoctive teen rage, playing “Top Of The Pops” in balaclavas, while tragic lost member Richey Edwards famously slashed the words “For Real” into his bloody arm in a bid to impress former music journalist Steve Lamacq.
They might be a lot older now but that’s not stopped their new album being banned by four of the UK’s big retail giants, with one supermarket calling the artwork “inappropriate”.
The cover for “Journal For Plague Lovers” (pictured) depicts a girl seemingly with a bloody and battered face and has been painted by acclaimed artist Jenny Saville. The record is considered a follow-up to the Welsh rockers’ landmark 1994 album “The Holy Bible”, which also featured one of her controversial works.
Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda and Morrisons have all refused to stock it with the original image, as Nicola Williamson, music buyer for Sainsbury’s explained: “We felt that some customers might consider this particular album cover to be inappropriate if it were prominently displayed on the shelf. “
The Manics have reacted with bafflement at the news, calling their decision “truly bizarre” and pointing to the fact that such shops regularly display products of a similarly graphic nature.
“We just thought it was a beautiful painting. We were all in total agreement”, explained singer James Dean Bradfield, continuing: “You can have lovely shiny buttocks and guns everywhere in the supermarket on covers of magazines and CDs, but you show a piece of art and people just freak out”. “Journal For Plague Lovers” is released on Monday but will only be available in these stores in a special sleeve provided by the publisher.
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Permalink • Friday - October 24, 2008
I used to like MTV
Yes, I used to like MTV, back in the day of paid cable TV. Remember those days? Remember when the biggest selling point of cable TV was ‘because you pay for it, there are no commercials’?
Among my favorite channels was MTV. Why? That takes some background.
Meet the inventor, if you will of MTV:
According to Wikipedia
recorded a number of LPs for his label, and had a moderate worldwide hit in 1977 with his song “Rio”, the single taken from the album From A Radio Engine To The Photon Wing. More importantly, ------- created a video clip for “Rio” which, in a roundabout way, helped spur -------’s creation of a television program called Pop Clips for the Nickelodeon cable network. The concept was sold to Time Warner/Amex, who developed it into the MTV network. His single “Cruisin’” was the first video of the MTV generation.
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Permalink • Tuesday - October 07, 2008
ELECTION YEAR RAG …….. STEVE GOODMAN
This might possibly be my only post today ....
I used to play Steve Goodman in my DJ years ....
Imagine getting paid to play this kind of thing. LOVED it while it lasted. And this is so spot on.
Goodman was a great talent and sadly died age 36 of Leukemia. What an unfair loss. The MIL is 93 and worthless and useless and keeps breathing day after day. A talent like Steve Goodman dies at 36. ??? Well anyway ... I hope you folks enjoy this. I’m sure you’ll let me know if ya don’t.
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