It's always fun to compare originals and covers, and even more so when we're talking Bonnie Prince Billy. The lion from Louisville has always been keen on interpreting the songs of other musicians - check out a most fascinating list here - and the results are nearly always interesting to say the least. Below's a first batch of cool ones, and there's more on the way. John Phillips - Someone's Sleeping Bonnie Prince Billy - Someone's Sleeping E.C. Ball & Orna Ball [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive Charles Epting At this year's NAMM convention in Anaheim, Calif., Martin Guitars unveiled a special model guitar in honor of one of the most iconic groups from the '60s, the Mamas and the Papas . The story behind it is special, as is the woman who was on hand to sit and play the guitar, the lone surviving member of the group, Michelle Phillips . The project [...]
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Wild : aj. - not tamed or domesticated; not cultivated Weekend : n. - Saturday and Sunday (as a period of rest or holiday) iPod : t.m. - a pocket-sized device used to play music files Shuffle : v.t. - to mix together so as to make a random order of arrangement Yes, and here we go again... with yet another edition of Wild Weekend . Let´s kick it off with Swedish garage rockers supreme the Nomads, and their [...]
You may think you have it bad with your parents, but I don't think it could get any worse than these seven. Take note, these celeb parents are just downright awful and deserve to be gagged, forever. Note: This is a Gosselin free post. 1. Ryan O'Neal Here's a real winner. After being charged for meth and passing his habit onto his son Redmond, Ryan went as far as hitting on his own daughter, Tatum, at Farrah Fawcett's funeral. Stay classy, Ryan. [...]
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"She's Just 143 is one of a number of songs written by the late John Phillips about his daughter MacKenzie Phillips. One of its lines is now the title of MacKenzie's tell-all autobiography. The song appears on Pussycat, the long-lost album that John Phillips recorded as the first solo artist signed to Rolling Stones Records in 1976. Produced by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the album reunited them in the studio for the first time with ex-Stones member Mick Taylor and also features his replacement, Ron Wood. listen: She's Just 14 [...]
Here at the LimeWire Music Blog office, we receive a steady stream of press materials from a slew of bands, labels, and publicists all day, every day. Most of it goes straight into our spam and/or trash folders, but today one caught my attention immediately. As reported on this very blog just yesterday, Mackenzie Phillips has been on a highly publicized press tour this week — including an appearance on Oprah and a featured tell-all in People — to promote her new memoir, High On [...]
"My father was not a man with boundaries. He was full of love, and he was sick with drugs. I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father," so recounts Mackenzie Phillips on the eve of her wedding when she was 19. Her father, of course, is the late-John Phillips of Mamas and Papas fame. This news is icky whether you believe her (somehow I do) or you don't - since it means she's inventing an incetuous releationship to sell books . Such is the nature of modern [...]
Mackenzie Phillips , the former child star, actress, and notoriously troubled daughter of musician John Phillips , has just unveiled a shocking confessional, revealing that she had an incestuous relationship with her father. John Phillips, who died in 2001, was the guitarist and songwriter of The Mamas & the Papas , the folky, 1960's California-based four -piece best known for " Monday Monday " and " California Dreamin' ." People , who broke the story based upon advance copies of the actress' tell-all memoir, revealed select quotes that peg the actress and her father for the liaison based upon drug-related incidents. At [...]
Ugh, this whole John Phillips thing (short-short version: his daugher Mackenzie, formerly of One Day At A Time , went on Oprah to say that her late father, formerly of The Mamas & The Papas, had sex with her the night before her 1979 wedding, and carried on an affair with her that went beyond that) is so gross. So, so, so gross. A friend asked if he's officially the worst person in rock-music history as a result of these revelations, and I don't even know how to answer that. Thoughts? [ Oprah.com / AP [...]
Filed under: News , Holy Hell Mackenzie Philips , the daughter of the Mamas and the Papas frontman John Phillips , drops a major bomb of a family secret in her new memoir, 'High on Arrival.' The actress, who has struggled with drug addiction for much of her life, reveals she had an incestuous relationship with her father that started when she was only 19 years old. "On the eve of my wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it," Phillips writes in the book. [...]
On the beach Agathe (centre) showing Salomé (left) and Chloé how to fly a kite The beach at night A couple of weeks ago, I spent a rather pleasant time on the French coast. I was staying with my friend, Agathe, and her mother, Gisèle, at their holiday home south of Nantes. For the best part of a week, the two ladies took great care of me. Everyday, I had a wonderful [...]
John Phillips - Andy Warhol Presents: Man on the Moon The particulars and events that lead up to John Phillips disastrous space opera seem almost too insanely Hollywood to be true. Phillips, post Mamas and the Papas was inspired by the Apollo 11 moon landing and set out to write an epic mythological play about a humanoid bomb, left on the moon that threatens to destroy the universe (naturally). With the part of the heroic astronaut originally intended for Elvis, the part of an off-key singing alien written for his naturally off-key [...]
Download: "Oh Yes, Los Angeles" mixtape by When You Awake Jody from the fantastic blog When You Awake—your sympathetic destination if homesick, lonesome, riled, fiery or any mindstates in between—presents us with this week's mixtape, dedicated to cosmic cowboy/cowgirl rock songs about the city of Los Angeles. (City of doom and freeways, too.) Listen to Jody's [...]
Most widely know for his work in The Mamas And The Papas, John Phillips' debut solo album 'John Phillips (John The Wolfking of L.A.)' is a work that, for me, surpasses his previous band's output and showcases an amazing talent at the height of his creativity. Phillips began work on the album at a crossroads in his life. The Mamas And The Papa had just split up, as had Phillips and his then wife Michelle, and this sense of dislocation is referenced in the albums lyrical content. The most abiding sentiments conveyed are those of world-weariness and [...]
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