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Johann Sebastian Bach… not just good for your ears and good for your soul… good for you period. From Miller-McCune: A newly published study from Mexico reports repeated listening to certain classical works — including one by Mozart — helps ease the debilitating symptoms of clinical depression. “Music offers a simple and elegant way to [...] Eric… I have found the perfect way… when that day comes decades hence — that you should be memorialized. L.P. = Late Porvaznik — What record would you be memorialized as? The company at the link will take your ashes and make them into vinyl records. Share on Facebook We don’t do tip jars around here (and if you search we mention this stuff maybe once a year) but we made just enough last year to re-up the blog for another year — thanks in every way to your Amazon purchases and Google clicks. It seems sharing with and recommending to you folks [...] Czech President Vaclav Havel and the Rolling Stones… Prague 1990 Here is a great piece from yesterday’s The New York Times about the 20th anniversary of the Rolling Stones coming to Prague — after 40-plus years behind the Iron Curtain and 25-years after the British Invasion of rock and roll had swept the West. That night in [...] Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on Facebook What are your or the top 5 songs about mothers… (are there 5?) In no particular… Glenn Danzig’s Mother is of course the beginning and the end of songs about Mothers so outside of that… 1.The Beatles “Julia” written by John Lennon about his mother who passed away in the 1950s. 2. U2 [...] I guess Bryan Adams (where has he been?) is going to receive a humanitarian award from the Canada Grammys — Juno Awards or somesuch… whatever. Bryan Adams was one of the things that made the 1980s awesomely awesome — at least from this teenager’s perspective. Here’s a nice defense of the Bryan [...] Jay-Z parody about New Hampshire… never been to old or New Hampshire, but this is pretty well done. Rappers should reference Robert Frost and helmet laws more often Share on Facebook I saw Eric in 1990 backed by Double Trouble a few months after Stevie Ray died… great concert, great tribute to SRV, and a great guitarist in his own right. Share on Facebook Share on Facebook We were down for over 8 hours today. I’m not one for hyperbole, but it took me back to the dark days of the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979-80… 444 days/8 hours what really is the difference? I just wanna celebrate. Share on Facebook This song sums up today’s Cowboys-Vikings game. In any case… there’s nothing to say but to tip my hat especially to the Vikings defense. The game would’ve been a lot closer if not for the Vikes D. Share on Facebook Share on Facebook The College Widow got me thinking… I really do like that video of James Brown performing “Gravity,” and it’s Friday… Back in the Old Dirty Harry’s Place days Floyd, John Nolte and I had a tradition of sharing moments from classic films that we loved on Fridays (John carried the tradition on to Big Hollywood and an [...] “On the 3rd planet from the Sun, I’ve been trying to get the funky job done!” Wow! Mighty Skip has just made my month! And in a month that includes Christmas that’s sayin’ something’. I really like James Brown and I am a big fan of his song, “Gravity.” I hesitate to [...] Eclectic Method Goes Phish from Eclectic Method on Vimeo. This mashup was commissioned by Phish from an outfit called The Eclectic Method to introduce a concert they performed in Indio, CA on Halloween that was a cover of the entire Rolling Stone’s album Exile on Main Street. It is as advertised — a mashup from [...] Share on Facebook Those damn Swedes and their whimsy! Life needs more of this. If they turned recycling soda cans into a basketball game more people would recycle — or if they suck you might have more trash on the ground — but it would be more fun and less preachy. I want stairs that sound like [...] This is Lucy Vodden… childhood friend of Julian Lennon and the “Lucy” of Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds fame. She passed away today in Britain at age 46 of lupus. “I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom [...] I was listening to my tunes the other day and this song came up: I’m not thinking supergroups or disparate people who get together all the time (think Rat Pack), but one-offs — probably just a song or two, but maybe an album or live performance. In no particular order– and in addition to Iggy Pop and [...] Milton “Gummo” Marx…. Most bands of any staying power have a string of well-known songs whether top 10 hits or concert staples…. What are your top 5 deep cuts? For the Beatles example… not “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” or “Eleanor Rigby”, but that unknown — relatively speaking (it is The Beatles after all) [...] When your 9-year old son plays “Ode to Joy” on the piano…. you think… “That’s about right.” Share on Facebook Share on Facebook They be a band… Arc Angels coming to The House of Blues this summer… Anaheim on July 16-17. Doyle Bramhall II, Charlie Sexton, and Chris Layton (of Double Trouble — as in SRV and…). Texas super group had an all-too brief moment in the sun in the early 1990s, but they still get [...] I’m a big fan of Eric and sincerely admire all that he’s been able to accomplish with his talents, for want of a better word. I look forward to reading his music reviews, if for no other reason than that I enjoy the occasional blood pressure spike as much as the next guy. Because he doesn’t [...] Chacun a sont gout. Here’s a site that highlights one-star Amazon reviews of classic movies, books, and albums (do they still call them “albums?”). I wish I’d thought of this—but give me a week, and I will have. Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones sucks. Always did and always will. Part of the joy of teaching at a liberal arts university with a teaching emphasis (meaning we don’t have a “publish or perish” ethos here) is that I get to put my English and Philosophy degrees to use and teach an undergrad survey Humanities course every so often (think a Western Civ class — [...] Share on Facebook What the devil does this mean?!?! and cause never was the reason for the evening, or the Tropic of Sir Galahad… Share on Facebook Share on Facebook There are other songs that are its equal, but I’m not sure if I can think of a song that surpasses the Beatles’ cover of the Shirelles’ “Boys” as a pure, Rock & Roll song. That’s Richard Starkey nailing the lead vocals and George’s solo is perfect. Every lead guitarist wannabe should study this solo until [...] Chuck, if you’ve had time to follow the debate today about young kids and “hooking up,” Floyd summed up in words what only Rundgren can do in music. Share on Facebook I’m not sure whose mother Rick schtupped to bring down the Greek tragedy that was his Thursday, but — besides feeling some German superiority over his Polish folly (sorry dude — somethings are ingrained)… his travails, made me think of this — for you Ricardo. The official is embedded disabled…. Share on Facebook
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Read the whole thing! Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Share on Facebook Jimmy Buffet, Democrat Yes… THAT Jimmy Buffet. It doesn’t surprise me that more musicians, especially rock musicians, are not Republicans. What does surprise me is that they would back any party at all. Isn’t rock all about revolt, revolution, anti-authority? How is either monolithic, entrenched, PAC and lobbyist infested party anti-authoritarian? Aren’t both parties the bleedin’ definition [...]
Joaquin Phoenix says he’s through with acting. Nothing personal, but this guy never clicked with me. He’s probably a nice enough guy, but whenever I saw him in movies he seemed like a guy playing a character, not the character. Oh well, I know nothing about acting and the folks who do think he’s got [...] I didn’t know there is an “AppleCorps Four,” and Giles Martin, son of George Martin is still in the game and that’s SIR Paul McCartney to you! (from wired.com) A Beatles-branded interactive music game along the lines of Rock Band and Guitar Hero will give gamers and music lovers a chance to play songs from every stage [...] M23 comments how one of the old Halloween photos in the cholera post is particularly spooky because of the faded quality of the old photo. I agree. One of the most spooky things I encountered this past year is this old recording of Claire de Lune. I highly recommend following the link, reading the article [...] |
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