Barbara Manning has kept a low profile over the past few years-playing shows mostly in her home base of Chico, California-but those who are in the know, know (and all very beautiful, intelligent people). With no new records to speak of you might think she'd called it a day. Impossible-I've seen her notebooks and tapes filled with pure pop gold. Manning has recorded and performed songs with new bands like The Sleaze Tax and Champion, and more recently a short-lived power pop band called Rocket 69 that performed with her heroes The Clean in San [...]
SF Seals : Dock Ellis [ purchase ] While reading Susan´s post (see below ) on Dock Ellis and his unbelievable baseball exploits while tripping on acid, it dawned on me I had another song about that legendary pitcher somewhere. A little research in one of my shoeboxes of vinyl singles turned up this very nice psychedelic indie-rocker by Barbara Manning´s SF Seals, from their ´93 Baseball Trilogy ep . The ball [...]
So I'm in a great mood. Spring is in the air. The cherry blossoms are out. Those so familiar voices are coming out of that cheap little transistor in the kitchen telling me what's going on in the ballpark. My Giants win their home opener, small thanks to our Cy Young winner (that was a little scary, no?). And to top off the afternoon my son pitched well in his little league game. Great way to start the regular season. So why not some baseball tunes? America's Favorite Pastime - Todd Snider [...]
Former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis passed away Friday. Dock Ellis, who infamously claimed he pitched a no-hitter for Pittsburgh under the influence of LSD and later fiercely spoke out against drug and alcohol addiction, died Friday. He was 63. His wife, Hjordis, said he died at the USC Medical Center in Los Angeles. "It's a tremendous loss to the family," she said. "He's been struggling for about a year with the end stages of liver disease." Ellis was certainly [...]
"Contact" "Nothing Achieving" "Canary in a Coalmine" "I Burn for You" "Synchronicity II" by THE POLICE : On a whim, I caught The Police a few weeks ago on the Omaha stop of their reunion tour. I couldn't decide if I was excited to see the show. Something about it felt. . . obligatory. It didn't help matters that I had caught a post-Police Sting show in one of my earliest concert memories (he was touring for The Soul Cages ), [...]
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