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Barenaked Ladies…I just made you say underwear

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3 Doors Down…there might be more than you can see

Ahhhhh Bach…

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 [...]

It’s September!

Party on!

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Was (Not Was)…boom, boom, ackalacka boom boom

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Turn It Up Tuesday: Turn that frown blah-blah-blah

Set out to make a case for INXS’ rightful and beyond-deserved place in rock’s history for this week’s TIUT, but between Michael Been’s passing and, much more personally, one of my best friends apparently losing his mind before going MIA towards the end of last week, just hasn’t been a happy time of late. Sure, [...]

Rest In Vinyl

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.

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The Tubes…don’t want to hear it again tonight

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Floyd: Bill Cosby’s Message to Jackson and Sharpton

For those of you who love nostalgia there’s a nice little reminder in the video between 1:29 and 1:34.

An Appreciation: Max Perlich

Coincidental reminder with recent viewings of Drugstore Cowboy and Cliffhanger how I haven’t seen Max Perlich, one of my favorite younger character actors from the late 80s/early 90s (read, my age at the time), too much in recent years, at least since Blow. Always loved his nervous, hyper-kinetic/wired and/or high performances (or all three in [...]

Sunday Open Thread

Dinah Washington was born this day in 1924.

Sunday Gospel

Stevie Ray o' the Day

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Stevie Ray Vaughan…look out it’s Hillbillies From Outer Space!

Sorry I couldn’t work baseball in there too.

Funky Friday Flashback - 8/27

Stevie Ray Vaughan -- Unplugged

On the one hand — thank God MTV had the wisdom to put SRV on Unplugged and document this genius. On the other hand… 3 friggin’ songs? Half of a 30 minutes show? What the heck MTV?

I saw him in Abilene, Texas a few months before he died — awesome… [...]

Stevie Ray o' the Day

Little help from big brother Jimmie never hurt.

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Power Station…get it on

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Think about the children

Uncle Teddy sure does. The loony left can say what they want about The Nuge. He doesn’t care and those on our side of the aisle love him all the more for it.

Nugent … has “well over a dozen” tracks written and “eight or nine that I have to capture on tape as soon [...]

Anti-Lady Gaga

I saw Janelle Monae a few weeks ago on So You Think You Can Dance and thought… “she’s the anti-Lady Gaga”. Yeah the hair is funky, but she was appropriately dressed, on that she danced a lot more than on this clip, and who doesn’t love horns. Lady Gaga — she’s awful, awfully [...]

Stevie Ray o' the Day

Classic Pick O’ the Day: August 26

Experiment in Terror (1962)
A master criminal tries to force a bank teller to help him pull off a big heist.
Cast: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin Dir: Blake Edwards BW-123 mins, TV-PG. 12:00 PM. EDT. TCM.

When Blake Edwards was on he was really on… and this film has him channeling Hitchcock. Tomorrow [...]

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Rush…freeze this moment a little bit longer

Little boy blue and the man in the moon

Here Are Your Sub-Titles, Stosh!

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Yes…in and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky and they stand there.

FIXED, you kids stay the hell off my lawn.

What the heck was I thinking???

Love the Pantera cover, too, JFN…

I hope they're coming for me

Turn It Up Tuesday -- Six Strings Down

There are too many tales of musicians taken too soon, from Otis Redding, Randy Rhoads and too damn many members of the original Lynyrd Skynyrd lineup (stupid airplanes) to Frank Zappa, Joey Ramone and John Coltrane (stupid cancer). Don’t even get me started on other greats like Bon Scott, Layne Staley or Michael Hutchence — [...]

Monday Night Mashup

Slightly NSFW

A Soundtrack Within A Blog

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 [...]

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Pink Floyd…do you think we ought to drop the bomb

A month of Sundays, RF3D style

With one more August show to go, an easy way to get caught up on the return of Radio Free Threedonia. Moving backwards …

8/22 — Author Kender MacGowan and a mini-memorial to The Call’s Michael Been, including great stories from Been friend and former collaborator Eli Braden

8/15 — Jeff Radice (No No: A Dockumentary), Christian [...]

Self-Explanatory

Best trailer. Ever.

Sunday Gospel

I wanna be … Neocon?

Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols opines on the recent musician ban of Israel following the flotilla flap. The singer had this to say in the Independent.

I really resent the presumption that I’m going there to play to right-wing Nazi jews [sic]. If Elvis-f-ing-Costello wants to pull out of a gig in Israel [...]

Michael Been — R.I.P.

Michael Been — lead singer of the 1980s alternative band The Call died Thursday at age 60 of a heart attack. The Call was part of that “are they or aren’t they Christians?” alternative music scene including U2, The Alarm, Simple Minds and to a lesser degree The Call. This was probably their [...]

Calling All In Transit!

I ran across this piece last night by P.J. O’Rourke on Radio Free Europe, free speech and liberty in the journal World Affairs.

In a free society all people must be communicated to, and we must be able to get communication from them in return. People must be able to talk back. People must be able [...]

Copyfight!

Did Germany outstrip England’s growth — reaching industrial parity in 1900 because it didn’t have copyright laws? This article from Speigel online makes that claim.

The entire country seemed to be obsessed with reading. The sudden passion for books struck even booksellers as strange and in 1836 led literary critic Wolfgang Menzel to declare Germans [...]

Much Ado… About Nothing?

According to the AP — a group of soldiers at Ft. Eustis in Virginia are claiming they were punished for not attending a Christian concert last May — Via Yahoo! News:

Pvt. Anthony Smith said he and other soldiers felt pressured to attend the May concert while stationed at the Newport News base, home of the [...]

The Dad Abides

So the Turbos went to the beach today… beautiful weather though for some reason the water was cold enough to turn me into the world’s largest 6-year old boy… it was like 60 degrees today. Anyway… why post C & C Music Factory? I was in the restroom getting back into regular clothes [...]

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The Ohio Players…FIRE!

SQUEEEEEEAAAAAL!!!!!

That girlish sound you hear emanating from California’s Inland Empire area is that of Mr. Floyd R. Turbo, who figures to be positively giddy U2 has 25-30 new songs ready to be released.

We have Songs of Ascent, which is the meditative work that was meant to complement No Line on the Horizon. We’ve got [...]

A South Pacific Worth Revisiting

This week, PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center has reunited the cast from the 2008 multiple-Tony-award-winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific. Never my favorite of the duo’s, but I love the music; even if the “Small Town American Girl Overcomes Prejudice To Marry Rich Old French Dude” main plot always left me rolling my [...]

Funky Friday Flashback -- August 20