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
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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

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