Outside of the irritating reunion/tribute band noise at summertime “festivals” (2 Dog Night, 1/5 of the Yardbirds, hey is that Dickie Betts or did somebody fall off the Blatz truck.. ..)..it’s stretching into a good one. The garden is exploding..the plants we worked at the last few years are happy; the tomatos, herbs, peppers, sunflowers, [...]
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Hey Bo Diddley
Rumbling across a soundstage built from the oscillatin’ waves of tremmed guitar and the street hop of 2 hands clapping/2 feets dancing….abetted by the present if it was worth a shit Mr Jerome Green on the whirl’s loudest maracas..making The Dozens into a pop hit even Eisenhower era white teenagers could almost understand.. kicking the [...]
Marc Berthoumieux avec Richard Bona
It’s Saturday Morning..the sun is shining..da boids is singin..my Parisian friend Martine sent this along..this is one GOOD groove, ami..
Creative Commons and Music
I have been in the music business for a long time, first as a working musician, then adding composer to my so called resume. Along the way, I figured out why I dislike the music business so much (wasn’t all that hard to do!), but I couldn’t figure out how to deal with the simple [...]
Magic Sam: Fahnkin’ on the West Side, 1969
Baby boomer bullshit/navel gazing aside..I am from Chicago..and when I was a kid, I lived and breathed Chicago Blues music. While the other kids in my neighborhood were listening to… uhh..I dunnknow… The Association?..I hung out and played music with some older college aged hoodlums who were true fans… One of the best [...]
RIP Buddy
Buddy Miles, 60, died Tuesday night in Austin with his family at his side.
Nobody else could have played the drums on “Band of Gypsy’s”
doan’ staap bee lievin!
Once again sports fans..sorry for the juxtaposition…the James Brown piece set me off today..I miss the GF of Soul..I wish he was Obama-ing around the clock..fahnking for Barack….people who don’t know about what he did, his history..relegated to a pigeon-shat-on- statue in Augusta, GA……then..I found this today .and after Hillary’s thing..I ..I just had to. [...]
Z Funk Inferno: James Brown in Charge
When Martin Luther King was assassinated 40 years ago, only one US city was spared the riots that followed. Ed Vulliamy tells the extraordinary story of a James Brown gig that changed history
That ugly thing of vile violence - the assassin’s bullet which struck down Martin Luther King - did more than kill a visionary [...]
Happy Birthday Maceo!
The world’s best..HAPPY Birthday SOULMAN!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FR41cXuUfPg
