The (truly) inimitable “Weasel” (aka Jonathan Gilbert), who was the 2 to 6pm “drive time” star of Annapolis, MD’s “progressive”/”alternative” WHFS 99.1 FM, during my years managing The Record & Tape Exchange in Fairfax, VA (1988-92). No other voice like Weasel’s has ever found a regular home on the airwaves, to say the least! (Not …
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Here’s two great pieces of video (one posted for the very first time earlier today!) documenting the version of Treepeople that ripped the hell outta Seattle during Silkworm‘s first two years in town (1990-91, during which the two then-quite-unfashionable Idaho/Montana transplants often teamed up for gigs), just prior to my own arrival hereabouts in July 1992. …
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Marshall, Marc wrote: http://www.popmatters.com/column/154630-rock-is-the-new-jazz.-sorry-rock/ Just ran across this and it made me laugh as we were discussing jazz vs rock last night. I think this is pretty accurate (not that I have a real hold of the present commercial world of music) and is pretty funny at …
A gift, if not “The Gift”— http://dangerousminds.net/comments/entertainment_gang_of_four_live_in_zagreb_1981 At or very near THE PEAK! (of Postpunk, of Rock Music in General, and of Live Musical Performance….) TK</a
Recently I saw one of the very few bands/artists whom I’ve come to love during the past (largely desultory) musical decade, Hartford CT’s The Magik Markers, who played a headlining show at Seattle’s Chop Suey. I first saw their lead singer/noise guitarist/front person, Elisa Ambrogio, in November 2008, entirely by accident, as she was then (very briefly) guesting on guitar …
Sad news for those of us who loved/still love “Jazz with a Future”….and the precious few musicians with the courage to reach for it, much less actually ARRIVE there, as Charlie Haden did on so many occasions. P.S. This Fred Kaplan is NOT the academic and Nineties Gore Vidal biographer with whom Gore had a …
This here Moonshoes “If You Want to Do It” video/single item definitely correlates (in its way) with one of the most unexpectedly delightful prizes ever to emerge from both the notorious K-Tel label and Robert Christgau’s Village Voice Consumer Guide column, in 1996— Robert Christgau— Roller Disco: Boogie from the Skating Rinks [K-Tel, 1996] Was there such a thing as roller …
Hi Marc: Thanks for brightening my return to work, after clocking less than FIVE days during the whole of September! I mean, this is “The Audio Fidelity Collection”!! Containing all FOUR studio albums of "Pantheon Purple"!!!! On GOLD!! The World’s (presumably few) remaining Ritchie Blackmore-ites must be spontaneously JIZZING! LOL Thanks again, – Tom Kipp —–Original Message—– …
For your viewing and listening PLEASURE, courtesy of your loyal, rock-obsessed, friend and colleague, TK: http://www.amazon.com/Mullets-Rock-Too-Love/dp/B000NDEXHU http://www.amazon.com/Mullets-Rock/dp/B00008J2QP And thus, a musical “genre” was named! LOL Still out there awaiting my hard-earned dollars, yet more 2cd “Sludge” Extravaganzas, these courtesy of the Doom Rock/Industrial Music specialists at Cleopatra Records! http://www.amazon.com/This-Mullet-Rock-Various-Artists/dp/B000BITTF8 http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Mullet-Rock-Various-Artists/dp/B000OYLT2A Happy to loan out #1 & #2 …
Amidst various researches today I came upon this mindboggling YouTube clip, which of course reminded me of my ol’ pal S. Swag, who introduced me to his beloved Cowsills just over 34 years ago, by playing their immortal cover of “Sunshine of Your Love” (from the 1969 IN CONCERT album!) on the family phonograph in their Grant Avenue living …
The mastering engineer’s statement (“The Tale of the Tapes”) at the end of the 24-disc (21 cd, 1 dvd, 2 blu-ray!) track listing for THE ROAD TO RED is quite illuminating, at least for TAPE OP fan-types. Indeed, reading it makes me wish I could somehow afford this “Rolls Royce of King Crimson box sets”, from what is undoubtedly …
Just blundered upon this definitive MONDO “Beat It” from the infamous Jacksons VICTORY Tour of 1984, and I’ll be damned if the spectacle doesn’t live up to all its crazed HYPE, at least for the distended, 7:03 length of this one song, drum solo and all! I love how random Michael’s attempts to interact and …
By the by, former BUFFY co-star (and Tim Duncan’s teammate at Wake Forest, before that!) Marc Blucas’ mondo-gorgeous wife, Ryan Haddon, used to be married to Christian Slater, and I have an issue of the ritzy TOWN AND COUNTRY magazine in which there is a “mansion porn” article spotlighting their (then seemingly) idyllic life! Hope things are …
http://www.mstarz.com/articles/12655/20130510/jimi-hendrix-miles-davis-collaboration-included-paul-mccartney-memo-requesting.htm Would’ve made an interesting rip in the Rock/Time Continuum, needless to say! If only Mark Shipper had known about this…. Imagine The Seventies if….Jimi, Paul, Miles, and Tony HAD formed "Sky Church" in late-1969 and (inevitably) sold MILLIONS of records— 1. The Beatles might not have had to break up permanently, thereby stanching the FLOOD of questionable “solo” product …
I actually kinda/sorta liked this song during its year of what seemed like hourly airplay on Seattle’s KCMU/KEXP (it’s right on the cusp o’ that local re-branding shift, so I don’t recall which call letter era it falls into, specifically), and at the very least it has stuck wit’ me all these years, but I greatly disliked them and all they represented and …
In the decades since we discovered (and learned to revere) Sir Lord Baltimore’s proto-Speed Metal debut LP, 1970’s peerless KINGDOM COME, I don’t recall encountering anything quite THIS enticingly-described within the realm of Classic Hard Rock Collector Scum Aesthetics! Description: Rare 1969 Deep Groove Stereo Original. Cut Corner. Appears Unplayed. Thunder And Roses Was An Early Power Trio …
From: Marc Marshall To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: Davie Allan Hi Tom! Did I forward this to you already? My new musical friend at Noblis I told you about, Frank Lawrence, turned me on to Davie Allan recently. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjhno4sn2TA Thanks Marc! What a fabulous summary of both the 1967 HELLS ANGELS ON WHEELS movie and Davie Allan’s greatest fuzztone guitar masterpiece, “Cycle-Delic”! Also a wonderful …
Many years ago at the EMP Pop Conference I heard a scholar and avant-garde musician named Ned Sublette deliver perhaps the greatest impromptu speaking performance I’ve ever experienced in that setting, or possibly anywhere at all! He was then about to publish his landmark study of the Cuban influence on global music, and he was both breathing fire and quietly …
Thanks to my friend Patty Dean of Helena, I came across this extraordinary short film about Lee Metcalf, who served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate from 1953 to 1978, and who was, along with Mike Mansfield (who still holds the record for longest reign as U.S. Senate Majority Leader–1961 to 1977–among many other distinctions), …
Thought you’d get a kick outta this mild Montana media outrage, which befell station KRTV from Great Falls, one of the two local stations I grew up watching, whether from the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation (1968-71) or Havre (1972-83). My ol’ pal Jay is clearly enjoying the egg dripping down KRTV’s face! Very nicely done…. …
From: cory davis To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: Curious what you think of this, TK?!? Kevin Durant sometimes doesn’t want to chuck heaves at the buzzer to protect his percentages, despite his coach’s wishes. HI FC: Ol’ Kevin Durant sounds like someone who’s become a bit too basketball “Sabermetric” for his own good! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabermetrics On the other hand, do you think Camariah King of …
I greatly appreciate hearing from folks on birthdays, and I suspect that my very favorite aspect of Facebook is the small cascade of good wishes that trickle in all day long. Nice to feel connected to so many good folks on the one INHERENTLY meaningful holiday! The morning has passed very pleasantly thus far, and …
In case you missed it: Richard Marx hates my guts I made a snarky comment about the 1980s soft-rock balladeer on my blog. And now he won’t leave me alone. Really. BY EDWARD MCCLELLAND http://www.salon.com/2013/01/19/richard_marx_hates_my_guts/ Highly entertaining, the Salon comments section every bit as much as the piece per se! Interesting how calling someone “shameless” for hawking a “special …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObJbi4mK35k I’ve been outta the loop re: many of my favorite magazines for a spell, especially those I normally buy at the newsstand. So I missed several iterations of Greil Marcus’ “Real Life Rock Top Ten” (A MONTHLY COLUMN OF EVERYDAY CULTURE AND FOUND OBJECTS) in THE BELIEVER, which ranks 10 seemingly-random items from around the popular culture …
I must admit, this is my current idea of “The horror….the HORROR!” (per J. Conrad, via F.F. Coppola) Courtesy of my weekly EMP member e-mail alert— TEATRO ZINZANNI DISCOUNT RETURN TO PARADISE See Jimi Hendrix come to life in Return to Paradise, Teatro ZinZanni’s tribute to the swinging sixties. Adding to the local musical flavor of …
I have a bit of history wit’ CHARLIE IS MY DARLING, which is a great fave, especially in the phenomenally cleaned up & recently completed version now finally available! I first read about it in 1981, when Dave Marsh published the first edition of THE BOOK OF ROCK LISTS, in which it was listed as the #1 …
“Rescue Me” is certainly the equal of Peak Aretha on Atlantic, but arrived a full 18 months IN ADVANCE of Miz Franklin’s first venture into the Top 10! It also boasts one of the great bass lines in the history of pop music, from R&B to Postpunk! – Tom Kipp RIP Fontella Bass 1940 – …
This horror just in from the Burning Shed prog reissue site— Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe ABWH/An Evening Of Yes Music Plus (double cd/dvd) Released in 1989, ABWH’s debut studio album was considered a return to the grand, mystical music of peak period Yes, but with a contemporary 1980s production twist. The album now includes …
As fine a Byrds rip as “American Girl“, sans doubt! – Tom Kipp
TK, I ran across this piece by Sean Beaudoin at Salon.com. It’s a list of the bands he will be forced to listen to in hell: http://www.salon.com/2012/07/11/the_ten_bands_i_will_be_forced_to_listen_to_in_hell_salpart/ Top ten lists are nothing new—but there was something a little different about this one. Beaudoin just seems to center on the bands/artists he despises the most from …