In an always-bizarre and forever-endearing bit o’ serendipity, the last great Beach Boys LP, in fact the best one since either WILD HONEY or SUNFLOWER to this very day, and the 70s album most dominated by Brian Wilson, was THE BEACH BOYS LOVE YOU, released in April 1977, just as The Sex Pistols were gettin’ …
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Now, howzabout this—a FIFTEEN cd box set (14 cds plus one Blu-ray disc, actually) exhaustively documenting a single, 40-minute original album! Never thought I’d see the day….though I’m not exactly surprised that Mr. Robert Fripp is at the bottom of it! LOL King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues In Aspic – 40th Anniversary Edition (limited edition box set preorder) Larks’ Tongues …
[Gillian Gaar will read from her new book on 9/15 at Orca Books in Olympia at 3 pm and on 9/18 at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle at 7 pm.] As someone who makes it a point to attend every Gillian Gaar-related event I can, I was delighted to find her guesting on my ol’ pal Marco Collins‘ …
I found this circa-1988 Cedar Crest skateboard half-pipe footage on YouTube, the best of several CCCC clips there. Seems just a bit different than I remember, but of course I was never there in daylight! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIudO7G3nQc&feature=related It would be INCREDIBLE if footage of the Cedar Crest Country Club concerts featuring Gwar, Bad Brains and …
[Gillian Gaar will read from her new book on 9/15 at Orca Books in Olympia at 3 pm and on 9/18 at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle at 7 pm.] My friend Gillian Gaar loved this story when I shared it with her many years ago, and asked me to write it up while she …
Excellent ca. 1985 interview wit’ The Great Gore, somehow unpublished ’til now! Enjoy, Tom http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/09/express/a-life-of-reflection-invention-gore-vidal-1925-2012 P.S. Manifest Destiny, referred to several times in the text, was eventually published as Empire, in 1987! In the end it was not the concluding book in Gore’s American History series (aka “Narratives of Empire”), that honor …
Just goes t’show that ANY schlub can like and/or try to replicate a great song! Alas. I’ve been very dubious of Warren Haynes and his Nth-generation Allmans cult, so this wasn’t quite as bad as I’d feared. Though the vocal remains an uptight disaster! – Tom Kipp
This is a stone classic of journalistic ineptitude, with Lou Reed actually doing his best to be somewhat cordial & kind to the clueless dolt from Sweden who’s been sent to "interview" him, ca. mid-’90s! – Tom Kipp
Hi Marc: As the Creator, Curator, and Avatar of “Eff Clapton”, surely one of the most inspiring ongoing features on Facebook, I thought you’d enjoy this mini-rant, excerpted from the highly entertaining Salon article linked below— 5. Eric Clapton Not Cream, not Blind Faith, not even Derek and the Dominoes. They all get a pass. No, it’s solo Clap …
Now THIS is a fascinating anecdote (via Wikipedia, though suspiciously unsourced), particularly in this year of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, though I’d prefer to have a little more documentation re: that parking business, as no one from The Pistols likely possessed a driver’s license at the time, much less ever had any opportunity to park …
From: cory davis Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 9:56 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: Mock Rock? Hi TK. What would you recommend for anyone who likes Weird Al? What’s out there that’s better? What’s the name of that one group that was two guys just sorta spewing stream-of-consciousness about celebrities of the time? Thanks!! ~FC Hi FC: …
Thought you might enjoy this early Christgau piece (Village Voice, Jan. 1970, see attachment), which makes some interesting points and distinctions re: what you and I now refer to as “Conceptual Panache”, and about the late-Sixties Music Biz more generally! It’s also a nicely tart summary of the terminal phase of “Super Group Syndrome”, taken …
http://youtu.be/Ug1AS3yyWtw That’s the pre-Partridge Family Hal Blaine [playing drums in the above clip]! I have no specific memory of playing Peggy Lipton’s album, which actually came out on Ode in 1968, shortly after MOD SQUAD took the country by storm, so I’ll have to dig it out sometime. Didn’t recall that she sang such buoyant …
As a writer I consider him the greatest American stylist since at least WWII, if not since his beloved Henry James, as well as our finest essayist by quite a stretch. But I think his astonishing RANGE was most impressive of all–here was a fearless and fearsomely talented artist who conquered Television during its Golden …
Q: Re: the characters on THE MOD SQUAD, were they “Mods” in the scooter-riding, amphetamine-scarfing, madly-dancing, hopeless fashion victim, Pete Townshend-ian sense of the word? A: Well, virtually no one in The States knew a thing about British Mod until after The Who released QUADROPHENIA (in 1973, coincidentally the same year THE MOD SQUAD went off the air). Or perhaps even until The Jam’s …
From: Marc Marshall Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:53 AM To: Bob Burnett; Kipp, Thomas J Subject: Red Crayola remaster I know Tom is familiar with Red Crayola, not so sure if you are Bob, it was/is Mayo Thompson’s band that goes all the way back to 1965/66. The remaster of Parable of Arable Land has both …
I suppose this was inevitable, as the follow-up to my initial missive re: porcelain Prog Rock mugs from the Burning Shed mail-order conglomerate: A FLYING TEAPOT teapot, har har! (Alongside its companion mug.) https://www.burningshed.com/store/rockpots/product/449/3917/ And a ton more muggage, including a few of our own special faves. How’s this for a …
As a fan of unabashed critical HYPERBOLE and Pomo Theory Whoredom in general, I note the following double-shot of HIDEOUS NOISE and High Concept “Rock” coming to our fair town this September: http://showboxonline.com/eventdetail.php?id=36481&src=AEGLIVE_ENEWSSEA061312AEG001 FUCKED UP have the most perfect name for any band in rock history. In two words it bluntly states the truth …
Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers never really broke Nationwide, though “Bustin’ Loose” (#1 R&B, #34 Pop) briefly snuck into the Billboard Top 40 in early-1979, but he was something on the order of James Brown AND George Clinton for his beloved District of Columbia, and he leaves behind some of the most remarkable Funk …
This week NATION editor Katrina vanden Heuvel brings attention to an unlikely political cause celebre involving a Russian punk rock collective called Pussy Riot. Some remarkable YouTube video footage accompanies her piece: http://www.thenation.com/blog/167647/free-pussy-riot?rel=emailNation And their Wikipedia entry makes clear that PR is a remarkable project all the way around: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Riot This …
Hi Tom – Below is a story that appeared last week in the Great Falls Tribune. The Hi-Line may be getting even more attention via cinema (hopefully Winter in the Blood will see the screens sometime soon). However, this movie looks to be pure Hollywood with the "A-list" actors probably only looking to pad bank accounts rather than …
Recently I was asked, “What is wrong with CSN? They sold millions of generationally anthemic records, why do critics hate them?” and this is my response: Among the relevant arguments, with which I largely concur: Each of them emerged from a notably SUPERIOR band (The Byrds, The Hollies, Buffalo Springfield); the “American Beatles!” hype with …
About 25 years ago it suddenly dawned on me that Todd & Daryl were/are vocal doppelgangers, in addition to being Philly boys who made good! It then occurred to me that Daryl’s truest vocal model wasn’t David Ruffin or any of the other Soul Immortals he’s cited, but rather the wunderkind known as Todd! So …
On 4/26/2012 3:08 PM, Kipp, Thomas J wrote: https://www.burningshed.com/store/kingcrimson/product/450/3794/ By the by, Marc, if you ever need a birthday gift for our ol’ D.C. Prog Rock pals, now you’re set! (Burning Shed has four different mugs for Jethro Tull, as well! And two others for Crimson.) And I love that they’ve printed onto …
[At CBS.com – Jonathan Frid, actor in original “Dark Shadows,”dies at 87] He was one of the greats, for certain! Sadly, this makes three fixtures of my Montana childhood and adolescence departed during the past two days—Dick Clark, Levon Helm, and now Jonathan Frid. Talk about leaving legacies! By the by, I’m …
[4/19/2012 – On his website, the family of Levon Helm has announced, “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.”] A proud native of Arkansas, Levon Helm put the American, not to forget …
What an astonishingly bleak life, artistically at any rate, must one have lead to be a full-fledged adult workin’ at L’ETRANGER and without the first clue about blues, jazz, or the very existence of the 20th Century Avant-Garde! Or even about wordplay or bizarro humor. And to be so utterly hostile & uncurious (as opposed …
An old friend from Montana days queried me the other night as to my overall take on Bruce Springsteen, in light of Da Boss’ brand new LP, Wrecking Ball. Here’s my reply: Bruce is a far more interesting case than one would ever surmise from reading his press of the past 30 years, or hearing …
That sounds positively infernal, Jay, but I’m glad persons, beasts and buildings have thus far been spared! And I certainly agree with you about the climatic insanity of The Hi-Line. With Havre’s record temps ranging from 117 above down to 52 below zero, I think we’ve got a spread that’s unmatchable, at 169 degrees! Nowhere …
A dingy bit o’ time travel like I never dared to imagine! The greatest B-52’s song, smashingly performed in what looks like a hole in the wall every bit as unlikely as Missoula’s Moose Lodge would be a few short years later for Ein Heit. Mere WEEKS from the onset of World Domination, they’re lean, …