Those rockin' 70's
I scored a Far Out
80% on theQuiz by SheGoddess: Lose Weight Fast
I should have done better...
April 09, 2008
March 19, 2008
Sweet Home Alabama
Performed by the Leningrad Cowboys, with the Red Army Choir doing backing vocals and traditional instruments. Stoli alert!
h/t Protein Wisdom
November 06, 2007
More WoW madness
November 05, 2007
Warcraft Rock
Ace of Spades house band!
July 09, 2007
Fifty years ago today...
June 22, 2007
OMG
The most awesome guitar in the world, ever, seriously.
It can be yours if you've got the loot.
If I was just 25 years younger...
July 12, 2006
Syd Barrett R.I.P.
Author of "See Emily Play", Syd Barrett, has died. He had no easy life, nor did he have the fame that his bandmates in Pink Floyd found years after he left, but he'll always have a special place in my heart. He was, like me, the typical LSD-swilling hippie of the mid-Sixties, only in his case it bit him. Maybe now he's found the peace he never had in this life.
June 07, 2006
More Numan
...even though the nutball that put this up thinks he's a NASCAR Dodge-jockey...
BTW- crank it up!
Gary Numan still rules
March 20, 2006
For Geeks and Gamers only...
Thanks Justin!
March 10, 2006
God, did I really used to look this way?
Carry me back. Hair bands and arena rock, what a different world it was...
via With Cheese!
November 09, 2005
Remember Sax
Scott of Powerline remembers Adolphe Sax-
Adolphe Sax (above) was born on November 6, 1814. I missed the anniversary of his birth this past Sunday, but it seems that today is a good day to catch up with Mr. Sax's legacy via the notice I posted here of Michael Segell's new book three weeks ago. Segell devotes the first chapter of the book to Sax's sad story. He writes: "For all its brilliance, and despite its almost instantaneous impact on the world's music, the saxophone was never kind to its creator."
At the outset of the notice I refer to Peter Guralnick, whose eye-opening new biography of Sam Cooke has just been released. I will come back to Guralnick's new book some time soon. In the meantime, in honor of the anniversary of Sax's birth, let me take the liberty of running my notice of Segell's book once more once.
Peter Guralnick may be the best writer ever to devote himself to American popular music. He has a gift for writing profiles and narrative as well as unfailing good taste in music. In his two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, he joined a scholar's mania for detail and accuracy to a fan's passion. The result is definitive. But Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom is my favorite of his books. In it Guralnick tells the history of soul music, taking a kind of sidelong glance at the civil rights era in America. The history is deeply affecting; Guralnick helps us not only to hear America singing, but to hear what it means. This book has echoed in my mind long after I first read it fifteen years ago.
Just the sexiest musical instrument ever, period. Happy Birthday, Adophe.
April 11, 2005
Strunz & Farah
These guys ROCK (in their own unique way)
h/t Kevin Connors at Stryker
September 18, 2003
Get Back
The Beatles (or what's left of them) are going to release a new album-
bq. “IT’S ALL EXACTLY as it was in the room. You’re right there now,” Paul McCartney said on Thursday of the album “Let It Be ... Naked.” After Abbey Road Studios put their 21st century digital technology to work on the original 1969 album, McCartney said of the no-frills result: “This is the noise we made in the studio.” Ringo Starr, the only other surviving member of the world’s most famous pop group, was equally re-assured by the new-look album. “When I first heard it, it was really uplifting,” the drummer said. “It took you back again to the times when we were this band, the Beatle band.” A statement from management company Apple Corps said the album will be released worldwide on November 17. It said the group had originally set out to make the 1969 album with no studio effects and no over-dubbing of voices and instruments. But the album was caught up in the turmoil of the band’s break-up. It was re-produced by Phil Spector and never released as the Beatles had originally intended.
Hot damn. I can't wait. RTWT here.
February 25, 2003
Bombs over Baghdad
My entry for music video of the year.
A tip o'the hat to Blogs of War