Day Eight: Tuesday, Jan. 10, 1977 - Dallas 9 pm “Behind the car park of the Longhorn Ballroom is an area called Boot Hill. According to the signs around it, many prominent Texans are buried there. The car park is a madhouse. It’s freezing outside and snow is starting to fall, but a naked woman poses atop a Corvette for television cameras. As the promoter’s son walks into the club, a live television audience captures a Sex Pistols’ fan [...]
Sorry about slacking with the posts. I’ve been busy with work and stuff (mainly and stuff). I’m bad at returning e-mails, too, so not only does my blog get neglected, my friends and family do as well. So I’ve got some Alice Cooper. I had intended to tell you about his autobiography, “Me, Alice,†published in 1976, and suggest you read it. However, when I checked Amazon, I found the book for sale starting at $861.87. You read that right, eight hundred sixty-one dollars. For Alice Cooper’s autobiography. Not [...]
"... And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking And racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death ..." [...]
Dateline: Early on a Saturday. Too early, based on what was going on last night. A couple of days out from my birthday, all I know is the evening involved Jager (or "Jay-ger," as they say here) and credit cards... ... and probably led us to some sort of no good. [...]
Joan Jett kicks ass. She's been rocking for around 30 years, first with the Runaways, then leading the Blackhearts, and still remains not only relevent, but an icon to bands with members young enough to be her children. In some sense, you can look at the acts joining her on this year's Warped Tour as her children. Where would they be without her? I've been listening to her Radio Revolution on Sirius Satellite Radio, and checking her out on the Warped Tour. My interest in Joan, never too far away anyway, has been rekindled. So - [...]
Thirty-nine years ago today, we lost The King of Rock 'n Roll. I still remember where I was when I heard. I was a couple of days from my 14th birthday, it was raining outside. I was in my bedroom, listening to the radio, looking outside at the rain when I heard Elvis Presley was dead at 42. His first and last #1 hits Heartbreak Hotel.mp3 Suspicious Minds.mp3
Here's a real oldie from my record bins: Sandy Nelson's "Let There Be Drums." I'm going to confess to cheating a little bit. I found some digital versions of a couple of the songs from this album, so I'm going to post those, just because they sound better. But, in the spirit of keepin' it real, I'll post the original album version of "Tequila," scratches and all. A little bio information: Sander L. "Sandy" Nelson was born Dec. 1, 1938, in [...]
I laid hands on this early Aerosmith boot back in the 70s, while I was in high school. I remember seeing an ad in some magazine for “live recordings.†I hand wrote a letter, looking for Kiss bootlegs, even using the term “bootleg.†They apparently didn’t care; a couple of weeks later, a cheaply-crafted pamphlet arrived, detailing a bunch of albums I could get for the miserly sum of $5 each, or
I don’t want to make a book review or report or anything out of this, but I just finished reading “Bob Dylan - the Essential Interviews†by Jonathan Cott. I while ago I read Dylan’s own book “Chronicles, Vol.1,†which is supposedly his autobiography. Or as close as we’re probably going to get from Dylan. A far more telling picture actually arises from the pages of “Essential Interviews.†The conversations cover 42 years, from a radio interview with Cynthia Gooding, to a 2004 LA Times profile written by [...]
In blissful appreciation of the new New York Dolls album, "One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This," I dug deep into the vinyl crates and came up with a live David Johansen album. Johansen released "Live It Up" in 1982, about five years after the Dolls split and a couple of years before Buster Poindexter came along. Fellow Doll Sylvain Sylvain frequently performed with Johansen, but is not featured on this album. The musicians are Huw Gower , a studio [...]
I had some other stuff I was going to post, but when I found this record, I thought I'd bump it to the front of the line. I'm not even sure how I acquired this disk, but I'm glad I found it again, because it is very cool and captures the roots of a legendary band. The double album "Live! at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany," captures the Beatles on New Year's Eve, 1962. The line up features all four Beatles - Ringo apparently [...]
I gotta try to lighten the mood around here a little. That said, I'm reaching into my boxes of vinyl and serving up some dumb punk rock. I don't know whether these bands took themselves serious or not, but with names like The Mighty Sphincter, The Crucifucks, and the Impotent Sea Snakes, I don't think they were exactly looking to be statesmen. The Mighty Sphincter released "The New Manson Family" LP in 1986 on Placebo Records. Although the sleeve states Alice Cooper produced the album, he probably did not. For [...]
The music world lost another great this past Thursday. Arthur Lee lost his fight with leukemia, passing away at the Methodist University Hospital in his hometown of Memphis. He was 61. I am regretably lacking in details of Lee's life, other than the basics of his music, so I'm providing a couple of links for more information. The LA Times has a well-written obit, with bio information. Rolling Stone [...]
It's been almost a month since Syd Barrett passed away at the age of 60. Most blogs marked his passing in one form or another. I didn't post anything at the time. As the days went by, I figured it was no longer timely and didn't want to seem like I was jumping on the bandwagon by posting something late and lame. Earlier this week, I got the August 10 issue of Rolling Stone. Inside was their Syd Barrett obituary . There's no new insights into what happened to Syd; [...]
Fidel Castro has ceded power to his brother Raul. The local news is atwitter at the idea Castro may have died and Cuba isn't telling us. So let's rock. Got a few things from the mid-to-early 80s tonight. First is a live Scorpions recording, "Loving You Sunday Morning," from the first Monsters of Rock festival in August 1980. The festival was held annually at Castle Donington in England until 1996. Other countries have played host since then. Monsters of Rock was back in the UK this year for the first time in 10 years. [...]
In Loving Memory... Anna S. Anthony 1918 - 2006
Gotta rock this rare mid-week post. I'm flying out to California for a family emergency. Instead of packing and getting ready, I'm procrastinating and doing this. Girl put out their "Sheer Greed" album in 1980. I think I picked it up when I visited England in '83 or '84, whenever I was there the first time (yeah, that's me - jaded world traveler). "Sheer Greed" was the first of six albums various incarnations of the band would release, and features a pre-L.A. Guns Phil Lewis on vocals, and a pre-Def Leppard Phil [...]
In the mid-80s sometime, I bought about 20 12" singles. I have no idea why. I had no designs on being a DJ. Well, actually, I did want to play records on the radio, but I mean I had no intention of setting up the wheels of steel and doing some mixing and scratching in front of a bunch of bad-dancing white folks at the El Charro nightclub back in my hometown. So I have these platters for some reason. They're stuck in with the other vinyl, so I got to looking through them the other day. [...]
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