I Ain't Got No Money

But I Sure Got A Whole Lotta Love
you need love

Sixty Incidentally

Happy Birthday Ronnie Wood
with Rod and the Faces (when they was younger)
cindy incidentally

Singing Songs About The Southland

I've been hearing this song on the radio for 30 years and not once did it remind me of Sweet Home Alabama. Until now.
take the money and run (live '75)

A True Sleeper

from the post chronicle
Veteran rocker Keith Richards missed his cameo in Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End, because he fell asleep during the screening.
The hard-partying guitarist, 63, has a brief appearance in the Disney movie alongside star Johnny Depp, who based his Captain Jack Sparrow character on Richards.
Richards says, "I did fall asleep, but I'd been up for three days."

Let The Mohawk Do The Talking

First off, I defended Aerosmith's Superbowl appearance with Britney and NSYNC. I thought it was grand entertainment, a great song, and a great band trying to keep it fresh. Also I couldn't help but wonder what Steven Tyler was really thinking as he watched Britney prance around in the A-smith shirt/football pants combo. But Joe Perry and Sanjaya? That's the definition of sellout isn't it? Of course I was watching and that's the point. Maybe Joe's solo album stiffed (it did) and he wants to revive the Joe Perry Project with a fresh young singer. Couldn't be any worse than the guy who sang with him in the mid 80's. As for the actual playing, maybe having Steve Hunter or Dick Wagner taking the solo might have helped. It did on Get Your Wings. And somebody needs to tell him that the guitar with the picture of his wife on it is not cool. It's one thing to have the guitar, another to play it every time you're in public. We know she's beautiful, Joe. Now that their rock and roll days are numbered, it's time for Joe and Steven to sit down with the song doctors and write a new ballad and return Aerosmith to the spotlight it so deserves. As for these ridiculous cameo appearances, they may be awful but I'll keep watching 'cause I don't want to miss a thing

Amnesty International Superhit!

Well it's much better than Tin Machine isn't it?

Mother's Day Revisited

Camper Van Chadbourne revisit the great We're Only In It For The Money LP.
zappa medley

Grateful Dawg

Jerry Takes A Solo

Courting Alex

Motherly Love

We all wish you a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY !

motherly love

buy it now

The Singer Not The Song

Dim Stars

Who thought this was a good idea?
The original drummer of Golden Earring
That's who.
introductions

Open Mike Knight

America's got talent and it's name is David Hasselhoff

Phair Use

the fifth of may is as good a reason as any to post this photo...
I mean song.
cinco de mayo (live)

Street Hasselhoff

Frankly I couldn't give a shit if he's drinking again.
What I do care about is this

Sentimental Gentleman

Bob Welch and Friends 1981- before the lawsuits

A First Taste

McCartney Goes Solo Again. No English Tea Please.
ever present past

Tonight

Planetary Sit-In

It's Earth Day shut your computer off and go outside
(but listen to this first) planetary sit-in

A Perfect Pair

Lou Reed and Pavoratti sing Perfect Day

Heads Up

Ian Hunter will release the long awaited follow-up to 2001's excellent Rant on May 15
click here to preview words

Slice-K

Patriot's Day At Fenway Park
"as American as baseball and pizza pie"

Flex Beat

I found this Liquor Giants cover of The Flirtations' Nothin' But A Heartache on a flexi-disc similar to the one pictured but mine was nearly folded in half. It's still worth a listen.
nothin' but a heartache

King Friday

Seriously, I bought this today and didn't notice the cover 'til I went to play it.
born under a bad sign

Buy It Now!

Meet The Bee Gees

It came in through the bathroom speaker. A Borders bathroom to be precise. An early Beatles song I might have missed? No, I've heard every album at least once. Sounds like the bass line from Taxman. I was staring at the ceiling speaker when another patron came in. I made a quick exit and headed straight for Music Search, typed in "My Own Time", then got my answer.
in my own time
The Bee Gees from their 1st

buy 1st

Delp!

Brad Delp with Beatlejuice 1995

Teeth Don't Go

Keef interviewed 1974 by "Whispering" Bob Harris

Captain Fathersnort

Due to recent allegations of Dad abuse, Keith Richards has been suspended indefinitely from his role as Captain Feathersword on The Wiggles.
Murray, Jeff, and Woody were unavailable for comment.

A Toot And A Stone

All Hail The Kings

When a record gets too many positive reviews I get curious.
I gave in to the hype and bought the last Kings Of Leon album Aha Shake Heartbreak. As with the Arctic Monkeys I listened to it a few times and then filed it. It had it's charms but I never heard the great songs I had read so much about. I certainly wasn't waiting in line to buy their next album. Then I read this in my Boston Herald:

"A single sub-par tune (“McFearless”) taints “Because of the Times,” but for the rest of the CD the red-zone-driven needle bounces between Replacements’ “Let It Be” great and Stones’ “Let It Bleed” brilliant."

Let It Be?
Let It Bleed?
I don't think so.
Here goes another 12 bucks out the window.
I'll let you know when I hear the next Gimme Shelter.

Come And Go Blues

Elton and the Stooges

from the guardian

Several of the band's fans, including Ben Edmonds of Creem magazine, conspired to raise their morale with an endorsement by Elton John. Elton was sweeping across the US on a hugely successful stadium tour and he decided to signal his support for the band, plus his own general zaniness, by renting a gorilla suit and planning a one-ape stage invasion during the Stooges stint.

Creem had prepared a photographer for the stunt. Unfortunately, no one had prepared Iggy. Indeed the previous night he had disappeared with the usual local 'Rich Bitch', to use the Stooges' term of endearment. Early in the morning she brought him back to the band's hotel unconscious; he had gobbled down her entire supply of Quaaludes. Drummer Scott Asheton and a friend of the band, Doug Currie, were called to lift his dead weight out of her Corvette; carrying him into the hotel, they dropped him and were overcome with a giggling fit, seeing him peacefully sleeping, sprawled over a spiky Mediterranean bush.

He was still hardly conscious that evening when Doug and Scotty carried him into the club, and after a quick discussion of what to do, Doug announced he had some speed. James Williamson managed to find a syringe, and they duly shot their singer full of methamphetamine sulphate in order to get him on his feet.

For a couple of seconds, as Elton emerged from the wings in his gorilla suit, Iggy thought he was hallucinating, or else a real gorilla was raiding the stage. The Creem photograph documenting the event is hilarious, showing James Williamson transfixing the uppity ape with a malevolent glare that signals, he says, his intent to 'take him out. He lucked out, because he was smart enough to take his head off to let people know who he was, just in time.'

Sixty Years On

I'm watching/listening to this webcast right now and it's pretty fucking good!
watch live

Elton-Newton-John

Before The Big Split
Happy 60th Elton

oops...you're avant garde

David Thomas of Pere Ubu from OCT 2006 issue of WIRE:
It's people like Eminem or Britney Spears who are the weird experimentalists. They are avant garde. They are dealing with weird alternative worlds. If you put our view of the human condition alongside Britney Spears', one of them is experimantal and weird, and it's Ms Spears'.

Zorak Joins Boston

From Space Ghost Episode:Curling Flower Space
Zorak: Luckily, Boston came by and picked me up.
Space Ghost: Oh bull!
Zorak: They said they needed a keyboardist and I said, "I'm your man-tis!"

It won't link so copy and paste this URL to watch:
http://www.thirdstage.ca/boston/media/video/space_ghost.wmv

more Boston videos

Moonlight Feels Right

Former Wings leader Paul McCartney has joined forces with Starbuck sources say.
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird" the singer was quoted as saying.

Farming By Day

Gardening At Night
Bill Berry Won't You Please Come Home

Something About You

I've finally heard the infamous Tom Scholz demos and it's clear to me that Boston would have been just another boogie band (a la Foghat) had Scholz not been driven to perfection by major label rejection. They were not another Yes or Led Zeppelin ,as early reviews suggested, but a straightforward Rock and Roll Band with a killer guitar sound. The first album is all you need to know and even the hardest of critics had to be impressed. Sound isn't everything though, which is why subsequent releases never lived up to the debut. How do you beat perfection?
Fast forward 30 years. Lead singer Brad Delp has taken his own life. No one will ever really know why this happened but one suspects the bitter split of the original "band" had something to do with it. Scholz claims he did it all with Delp.
Original guitarist Barry Goodreau and mates think otherwise. Delp was caught in the middle. The "nicest guy in Rock and Roll" still sang with both camps to this day.
One thing is clear. It's not nice to leave your family and friends this way. No one will ever look or listen to a Boston song or album the same way. You might expect a thirty year old kid who was thrown into the limelight (like Kurt Cobain) to commit suicide but not a teetotaling thirty year veteran of classic rock. And for those who think Boston was just classic schlock well...nevermind.
gonna hitch a ride (mother's milk version)

Too Many Singers Spoil Roth

Why was this man singing Van Halen?
from Billboard
Frontman Scott Weiland explained the ensuing controversy: "We were asked to perform. Kinda what happened was, he wanted to sing the song 'Jump.' We felt from an artistic standpoint, and I'm being totally honest with you, that it wasn't a song we felt comfortable with. We don't have keyboards. To bring a keyboard on stage wouldn't work for us. We said we'd do "Janie's Cryin'" or "You Really Got Me," and he was adamant that wasn't okay."

Number 9

No More Time Left To Criticize

I remember waiting forever for that second Boston album to come out and it was a big disappointment when it finally did. The spaceships had arrived but the quality songs had not.
I also remember someone (name withheld) buying used records with the name Sib written on the corner wondering if this might be the name of the former Boston drummer. It was and it was his record store. I have an autographed copy of the first album to prove it.
I dont listen to Boston much (ever)
anymore but here's a couple tracks you might not know from their first tour.
shattered images
television politician

We'll Be Right Back

did you know? Peter Holsapple was once an auxilliary Blowfish.

There's More Than One Way To Rock

Sammy Hagar on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

from the san francisco chronicle
"I'm really happy about Patti Smith," he says. "That's one thing I like about the Hall of Fame. I never expected to be inducted. I really didn't. I knew Van Halen would eventually somehow, someway, but it was still hard for me to imagine Sammy Hagar being part of it. But it is. I'm so honored. But someone like Patti Smith, who really had such a short, intense career. She did it so cool. She really deserves it for being such a rebel and being a girl at that time. She was cool. I think it's cool that they honor those kinds of people. Some awards shows don't. They go with the most commercial. Half the people don't know who Patti Smith is, but I think it's awesome. She was a true artist, a Neil Young kind of artist, where, s -- , man, you do it my way or forget it. I like that. I'm almost that kind of artist. For some reason, my art doesn't project that. But I'm that kind of person. I never cop out. I never sell out. I never endorse things. It's so funny. What did I do wrong? Or right?

"R.E.M. -- another artsy band. I like R.E.M., they're not my kind of band, but they made some great records. Grandmaster Flash. I don't own a Grandmaster Flash record, but he was really the innovator. I like who they're recognizing this year. The Ronettes. How long have they been waiting? For Sammy Hagar to be a part of that crazy, eclectic group, I like that part of it. If it was Bruce Springsteen, U2 and Sammy Hagar, I'd be this thin, little guy -- oh, man, I'm going to get no respect at this thing. But with this eclectic group, I kinda fit in, quirky-wise."

"This is something that is so etched in stone that when you say I'm a Hall of Famer," Hagar says, "you have to live up to it. I think that every time I step up to a microphone from that day on, I have to live up to it. I think I'm going to have to be a f -- Hall of Famer."

Land Of Confusion

NRBQ or NKOTB?

Should Have Known Better

from blogcrtics.org:
For you younguns what don't remember 1970, the Stooges were a pre-punk garage band with no discernible skills as composers or performers who made three albums of crap. Look, a chainsaw ripping through an old growth redwood has "raw power," but you wouldn't call it music. These guys wouldn't know a real song if it bit them in the ass, but David Bowie, among other people who should have known better, figured Iggy Pop as a brilliant primitive artist. Personally, I prefer the infamous Shaggs album, which at least had personality. Lacking any actual songs or skill though, the Stooges never had anything resembling a hit and broke up.

Still, what else have they got to do? Thirty odd years later, they've made a couple of albums while they wait around to die. Weirdness is their new one. Perhaps they have belatedly-developed talent as composer and musicians.

Nunsense

Navy Blue Nuns-The Wanting
@ McGillicuddy's
Worcester, MA
March 1988
excerpt from the forthcoming
deluxe19th anniversary edition DVD

Happy Birthday

TO LOU!

Rough Justice

from contactmusic.com
The fiance of RONNIE WOOD's daughter was terrified by THE ROLLING STONES after his proposal to art student LEAH. British journalist JACK MACDONALD, who works with Sky News, got down on bended knee to the 28-year-old on a recent holiday to Kenya. While Leah's parents Ronnie and JO were delighted with the news, the engagement has prompted some warnings from the bride-to-be's extended family - namely, aging rockers SIR MICK JAGGER, KEITH RICHARDS and CHARLIE WATTS. MACDonald says, "Mick, Keith and Charlie all took me to one side separately and said: 'If you f**k with this girl, you're in big trouble.' "That was more scary than meeting Leah's family, because you're confronted with Keith Richards!"

Pan Labyrinth

Feel The Magic

Magic Dance

buy?

Oscars Gone Wild

We were hoping for an Academy Award nomination from Paul Westerberg's Open Season soundtrack but this Elliott Smith song from Good Will Hunting proves they don't always get it wrong.

Miss Misery

buy?

Papa Was A Rolling Stone

Yo ho ho and a bottle of organic rum

Keith Richard as Jack Sparrow's pops on the set of

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End

Sweethearts Of The Radio

radio sweetheart- jackie wilson said

elvis with a little van morrison on his mind

Back To The Garden

Larry Bird On Teamate Dennis Johnson

Rocket 88

Train Of Thought perform Soaring Death Song.
It's kinda like watching The Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
Isn't it?

thanks bruce

The Fabulous Sequel

The Devil Came Back To Georgia? Who knew?

Sunday Matinee

The Punk Meets The Godfather

Iggy sings the JB classic

(get up i feel like being a) sex machine

Weird Scene Inside Of Goldmine

In a recent issue of Goldmine Ray Manzarek made this bassless comment:
I think the secret to the Doors’ hypnotic sound comes out of the left hand keyboard bass. A fifth person, another physical element on stage, would have made it not a diamond. It would have taken away the diamond with Morrison at the point. As we faced the audience Morrison is at the point, (John) Densmore is at the point, behind Robby and I, who are point left and point right, a four-sided diamond, the purity of the diamond shape rather than some kind of pentagram star thing. And a fifth element would have confused it.

We at Philco Bros have one question:
Does the diamond still shine when Ian Astbury is at the point?

Feel The Love

valentine (live)

POLICE RAID GRAMMYS

They haven't aged a bit

LAST SUNDAY PRINCE PROVED THAT MUSIC OF THE 80'S DIDN'T COMPLETELY SUCK. LET'S SEE IF STING AND COMPANY CAN DO THE SAME.

police at fenway?

THE TRUTH HURTS

Kate and Al Y

What Do These Two Have In Common ?
Nothing But A Song...
i need a nap

buy Dog Train

Friday Night Videos

The trailer for the documentary of
Snatches Of Pink

Throwing Stones

While you're not waiting for that Patti Smith covers album

hear the Allmans cover the Stones

Heart Of Stone

the rest of the album is good too so buy it

Smith Wish List

Patti Smith will be releasing a covers album this spring. The artists have been announced but not the songs. Here's my wishlist

Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin'

Neil Young- Tonight's The Night

Tears For Fears- pass

Jimi Hendrix- Star Spangled Banner

Bob Dylan- Jokerman

The Doors - 20th Century Fox

Nirvana- Floyd The Barber

Jefferson Airplane- Plastic Fantastic Lover

The Beatles -Why Don't We Do It In The Road

The Rolling Stones- Stupid Girl

The Allman Brothers- Just Ain't Easy

Paul Simon- You Can Call Me Al

you couldn't pay me to go

I love Ozzy and I've seen him before but...

Ozzfest is Free

Idlewylde South

Zakk Wylde interview Feb 2007 Guitar World

The Allman Brothers' manager, Jonny Podell, knew I was a huge fan. So when something happened with Dickey and he couldn't do the show, Jonny called me. I was in the studio with Ozzy at the time. They flew me out on Saturday night for a show at Great Woods in Boston the next day. During rehearsal Gregg Allman comes over to me and says in his slow southern drawl, "Yo Zakk brother, you know how to play Dreams, 'bro?" And I was like "Oh the Molly Hatchet song?"(laughs) And he goes "Man another comment like that and we're gonna have to send you back home."(laughs) They hate Molly Hatchet! And I'm talking to the guy who originally wrote that amazing song!

But the show was cool as shit man. To me it sounded like Mahogany Rush playing with the Allman Brothers. (laughs) It was hilarious. After the first show they were like, "We love you Zakk. Now get the fuck out of here." I guess the Molly Hatchet and Frank Marino shit didn't go over too well. (laughs)

Alternative Idol

Tired of watching American Idol auditions every Wednesday night?
Then tune in to our favorite radio program Pastures Of Plenty hosted by David Ritchie. It's on from 7-11pm and who knows he may even play Philco Brothers one of these nights. A few requests probably wouldn't hurt.
listen online

Princes Kept The View

All week long I was saying: Why is Prince on the super bowl he hasn't had a hit in 20 years?
The answer is because he's good. Still.
His halftime show was probably the best part of the game.

Stand Back

Shortly after Stevie Nicks appearance on the super bowl pre-game show a post on this site titled Stevie Nix got about 20 hits which means either a lot of Fleetwood Mac fans can't spell or The Hold Steady suddenly have a hit single.

Spongebomb Scaredpants

In defense of Boston authorities who may have overreacted the other day (they did) I have never seen Aqua Teen Hunger Force either. If it was a more popular character would they have reacted differently? Probably not. If you saw a device that sort of looked like a bomb (it did) and it had Spongebob on it would you not treat it as a threat? Would his smiling image supercede the fact that this device has batteries and wires and is attached to the bottom of a bridge? Probably not. As for the two fall guys their comedic timing was slightly off. Maybe they just got lost on their way to the doofus convention.

how to look and feel healthy

from virgin.net :

Keith Richards has taken a health conscious move - he has started drinking organic vodka.
The Rolling Stones rocker was encouraged to go organic by bandmate Ronnie Wood's wife, Jo Wood, who is a keen advocate for green living.
Jo told the Daily Express: "I bought Keith 12 bottles of organic vodka for his birthday in December and when he got it he cracked up. I'm always going on about how the band should drink organic booze"
and they go jogging too!
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good QUITE good

never loved the Pixies

BUT I LIKE THIS MOVIE

they seem like nice people

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