Given that music is the only thing keeping me and one of the cats together, I am far past anything resembling normal behavior. Hence, Van Morrison at Winterland '74 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHBnAtGjBG8). The version of "Caravan" is not as good as the one from It's Too Late to Stop Now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Ud1e423i0), but it's video.
Let's spin some tunes from the greatly underappreciated Jazz Butcher Conspiracy:
Southern Mark Smith (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIez7lGxKps) (some seem to prefer the version from Bloody Nonsense (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af3J3cBBn38))
Rain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99tLmlaUf68)
Roadrunner (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlF_ytUD-yM) (this is a superb cover, even if the video is nothing special)
Drink (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjTkfyMptMs), live (the Asylum Street Spankers also do a nice version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy6NMbfFP30))
Love Kittens (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24QOc2IBosE), live
Unfortunately, I can't find the "Sweet Jane" cover from Live in Berlin, which is much better than the one available on Y—be.
[Edit.—This may have been noted in the Deadpool, but the Northern Mark Smith died in January (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/24/mark-e-smith-lead-singer-with-the-fall-dies-aged-60).]
Bonus track, as I have to hang out at the library until it's time for my unpaid catering gig for a friend: I'll Fly Away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NI4zU4vFao) with Corky Siegel, The Sons of the Never Wrong, and strings.
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Bonus track, as I have to hang out at the library until it's time for my unpaid catering gig for a friend: I'll Fly Away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NI4zU4vFao) with Corky Siegel, The Sons of the Never Wrong, and strings.
There is never a bad time for Corky Siegel.
I had a head full of mushrooms the one time I saw him live. He was doing a thing where the harmonica would take a bow in his hand. I wish I remembered anything more about the performance.
Anyway, the definitive version of The Weight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCSzL5-SPHM), from The Last Waltz. Given that everybody's probably already seen this time and again, there's bonus Pops Staples doing a fantastic I Shall Not Be Moved (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwif8DRABIE).
[Edit.—It's not really a good version, but for the cats (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjtPBjEz-BA).]
[Edit 2.—Holy crap, this version of The Weight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEOPRpfYnSA) isn't on my heavy-vinyl reissue of Mad Dogs and Englishmen.]
A quick Fairport entry while I am waiting for labor and stuck with just a phone: Meet on the Ledge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhV7JwJoHco), live. More Fairport coming.
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A quick Fairport entry while I am waiting for labor and stuck with just a phone: Meet on the Ledge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhV7JwJoHco), live. More Fairport coming.
I enjoy a spot of Fairport, but that's an absolute rabble. "Hey, let's invite twenty people on stage, none of whom have rehearsed this song, and let them join in!".
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A quick Fairport entry while I am waiting for labor and stuck with just a phone: Meet on the Ledge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhV7JwJoHco), live. More Fairport coming.
I enjoy a spot of Fairport, but that's an absolute rabble. "Hey, let's invite twenty people on stage, none of whom have rehearsed this song, and let them join in!".
Hey, they can't all be Midnight Oil.
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Quote from: Wheezer on April 19, 2018, 09:35:18 PM
A quick Fairport entry while I am waiting for labor and stuck with just a phone: Meet on the Ledge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhV7JwJoHco), live. More Fairport coming.
I enjoy a spot of Fairport, but that's an absolute rabble. "Hey, let's invite twenty people on stage, none of whom have rehearsed this song, and let them join in!".
Look, brother, I haven't had the opportunity to patch this up, but I won't bother you with the reasons. Go bitch at your dong or something.
And, in the irony to beat all ironies, I'm being evicted from living in squalor in the cat shelter because crazy lady has the emotional temperament of a 13-year-old or a fucking bonobo or something. Now please pardon me while I try to come up with some music for the cat that is not going to be getting any more loving-kindness and the Welsh yobbo before I start packing.
Here:
Si Tu Dois Partir (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiBC6z0goMo), not from Unhalfbricking (there's a mildly amusing story here involving a random French girl and the final gasp of the hydro farm, but I digress) and Percy's Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C5EPmR7YdY) from the album.
Big Bill Broonzy:
Black, Brown and White (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYSERmlOxGA)*
Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ21YvbPXM8)
The Glory of Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJBhfwP6VSQ)
* Once upon a time in Morocco, my imaginary college girlfriend and I were with a local who showed us how to find hotel bar that served booze. They refused to serve him.
A brief, exhausted entry from the 13th Floor Elevators:
I Had to Tell You (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF5xZawdYZ4)
No electric jug and, I think, underappreciated.
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A brief, exhausted entry from the 13th Floor Elevators:
I Had to Tell You (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF5xZawdYZ4)
No electric jug and, I think, underappreciated.
Now you're talking.
Episode 16 of Rainbow Quest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMxtuGale1Y), featuring Richard and Mimi Fariña. It's an hour long, but aside from Pete Seeger himself, well worth the cheddar.
Anthem of the Freak Power Party, Herbie Mann's Battle Hymn of the Republic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw9kCKkOxzs).
Mingus Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1WQR8Ti1vk) from Blues & Roots.
This entry is going to get longer.
[Edit.—Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop that Atomic Bomb on Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaeVLd4G1Zg).]
[Edit 2.—Someone has transcribed the liner notes (http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/The_Black_Saint.html) to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. I recommend reading them before taking it in (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFA0FYQo0Gg), which I consider to be a better categorical imperative than Kant's navel-gazing.]
[Edit 3.—Better Get It in Your Soul (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0FcKOfRgvE).]
[Edit 4.—I hesitated on this one for some reason, but then my imaginary ex gave me cause to listen again: Eat that Chicken (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ovaY1KlQRi4).]
Waiting for you to get to Uncle Meat.
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Waiting for you to get to Uncle Meat.
Never been a Zappa fan. But that reminds me of something:
Halifax (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVDOZ9IIFIo) by the Hampton Grease Band. There's a video that goes with this on the BookFace account that I can no longer remember the fake E-mail address for, but so it goes; I presume that it's viewable by those who fren'd the account.
Anyway, this isn't where I planned to initiate another self-digressive item, as there's more to be done above, but I have happened upon the unfortunate discovery of Loudon Wainwright and Iris DeMent mangling "Pack up Your Sorrows." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nMs_He26bs) It sounds like overripe pineapple.
And now I've realized that there's no realistic chance of my accessing More Bert and I from the storage area to record "President Harding."
I'm just going to plow forward and add to the other stuff later.
Don Ellis' opener (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euB9gK_FXjE) at the '66 Monterey Jazz Festival.
A live version of Coltrane & Dolphy doing My Favorite Things (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MpsPkA9RxY).
[Edit.—In retrospect, I think I like the studio version (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dpA75mEf-W4) better.]
Hell, I might as well shoot the works after this insane day: Bandala (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75qtf9AcxME), from the Partridge Family. Includes Panthers, or something.
Sounds of North American Frogs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQdHW9_G7Jo).
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Sounds of North American Frogs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQdHW9_G7Jo).
Warning: this is actually the sounds of North American Frogs.
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Sounds of North American Frogs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQdHW9_G7Jo).
Warning: this is actually the sounds of North American Frogs.
I'm anxiously awaiting the review of this (https://www.ebay.com/i/112235111582?chn=ps).
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Sounds of North American Frogs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQdHW9_G7Jo).
Warning: this is actually the sounds of North American Frogs.
I'm anxiously awaiting the review of this (https://www.ebay.com/i/112235111582?chn=ps).
Hey, I've got the two-CD set of Maritime Radio Telegraphy World Wide News (http://www.seefunknetz.de/seefunker/sfk/CD-E.htm) as well as
Frogs, which, I will note, is a Folkways classic (https://folkways.si.edu/sounds-of-north-american-frogs/science-nature/album/smithsonian).
Loudon Wainwright III, The Acid Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB81CczTEdw). This is the version from Career Moves.
Melanie, Ring the Living Bell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFWxcVJWJE4). Gather Me is one of the few pieces of vinyl that I have segregated in the keeper section. Tarkio is more than just "One Toke Over the Line," as well.
This could be a long one. As a placeholder, a 1969 interview with John Fahey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoOkFSAQtf4).
[Edit.—Desperate Man Blues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyKBiaik5_Y) seems like as good a place to start as any.]
Quote from: Wheezer on May 10, 2018, 11:28:57 PM
Melanie, Ring the Living Bell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFWxcVJWJE4). Gather Me is one of the few pieces of vinyl that I have segregated in the keeper section. Tarkio is more than just "One Toke Over the Line," as well.
"Ring The Living Bell" actually hit the top 40, didn't it?
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Melanie, Ring the Living Bell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFWxcVJWJE4). Gather Me is one of the few pieces of vinyl that I have segregated in the keeper section. Tarkio is more than just "One Toke Over the Line," as well.
"Ring The Living Bell" actually hit the top 40, didn't it?
The deuce you say.
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Melanie, Ring the Living Bell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFWxcVJWJE4). Gather Me is one of the few pieces of vinyl that I have segregated in the keeper section. Tarkio is more than just "One Toke Over the Line," as well.
"Ring The Living Bell" actually hit the top 40, didn't it?
The deuce you say.
Number 31 in 1972 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_(singer)).
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Melanie, Ring the Living Bell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFWxcVJWJE4). Gather Me is one of the few pieces of vinyl that I have segregated in the keeper section. Tarkio is more than just "One Toke Over the Line," as well.
"Ring The Living Bell" actually hit the top 40, didn't it?
The deuce you say.
Number 31 in 1972 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_(singer)).
"I was fasting with a twenty seven day fast on water." Oh, dear. I'm trying to remember the name of the crank and his daughter who popularized this back then (not that it doesn't persist). It involves at least one criminal prosecution.
[
Edit.—It was Herbert Shelton (https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/natural_hygiene.html).]
BSL version of "Son of a Preacher Man." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Xb9pORFRk) This has been pulled from Y—be repeatedly as a putative copyright violation, so get it while you can.
A live version of Bill Lee (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNjJ63UAacw&feature=youtu.be&t=2m26s).
[Edit.—This isn't very high fidelity (I have a better one on cassette), but it's from the '86 Jonathan Richman show at Holstein's, which also featured the best version of UFO Man that I've heard yet: Walter Johnson (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pMXcNRzgDbM).]
Randy Newman on The Old Grey Whistle Test: Sail Away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tVhNU8heb0).
[Edit.—My Old Kentucky Home and I Think It's Going to Rain Today (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdaMbF6UZzc) from a live radio broadcast.]
Quote from: Wheezer on May 13, 2018, 12:21:16 AM
Randy Newman on The Old Grey Whistle Test: Sail Away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tVhNU8heb0).
[Edit.—My Old Kentucky Home and I Think It's Going to Rain Today (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdaMbF6UZzc) from a live radio broadcast.]
Meh. He's no Randy Edelman.
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Randy Newman on The Old Grey Whistle Test: Sail Away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tVhNU8heb0).
[Edit.—My Old Kentucky Home and I Think It's Going to Rain Today (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdaMbF6UZzc) from a live radio broadcast.]
Meh. He's no Randy Edelman.
Very well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQa9TmkAVh8), then. Don't make me get out the Vachel Lindsay (which I also have on vinyl).
Taj Mahal:
Colored Aristocracy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0bEIFVTp-U) (I used to play clawhammer; haven't ever seen another Hohner banjo)
Ain't Gwine to Whistle Dixie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8DbVFJtbU), live version
Fishin' Blues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNsQI-abvCo), live
[Edit.—The studio version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQC2_NJj2iA) of Fishin' Blues.]
Quote from: Wheezer on May 15, 2018, 01:29:30 AM
Taj Mahal:
Colored Aristocracy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0bEIFVTp-U) (I used to play clawhammer; haven't ever seen another Hohner banjo)
Ain't Gwine to Whistle Dixie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8DbVFJtbU), live version
Fishin' Blues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNsQI-abvCo), live
[Edit.—The studio version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQC2_NJj2iA) of Fishin' Blues.]
This rocks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXfWuYaSY7g).
As does this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdHTNAxNfZI).
Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiKW3lQ9RM). With Chinese subtitles. Beats me, but, hey, Faith Petric. This is the version from Rebel Voices, which is uneven but wraps with a terrific Power in the Union (not the Bragg shit).
Quote from: Wheezer on May 16, 2018, 12:59:07 AM
Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiKW3lQ9RM). With Chinese subtitles. Beats me, but, hey, Faith Petric. This is the version from Rebel Voices, which is uneven but wraps with a terrific Power in the Union (not the Bragg shit).
I had that compilation. My introduction to the song.
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Quote from: Wheezer on May 16, 2018, 12:59:07 AM
Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiKW3lQ9RM). With Chinese subtitles. Beats me, but, hey, Faith Petric. This is the version from Rebel Voices, which is uneven but wraps with a terrific Power in the Union (not the Bragg shit).
I had that compilation. My introduction to the song.
Yah, it also hipped me to Utah Phillips: Pie in the Sky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMraYdklSOE).
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Quote from: Wheezer on May 16, 2018, 12:59:07 AM
Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiKW3lQ9RM). With Chinese subtitles. Beats me, but, hey, Faith Petric. This is the version from Rebel Voices, which is uneven but wraps with a terrific Power in the Union (not the Bragg shit).
I had that compilation. My introduction to the song.
Yah, it also hipped me to Utah Phillips: Pie in the Sky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMraYdklSOE).
Same here.
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Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiKW3lQ9RM). With Chinese subtitles. Beats me, but, hey, Faith Petric. This is the version from Rebel Voices, which is uneven but wraps with a terrific Power in the Union (not the Bragg shit).
I had that compilation. My introduction to the song.
Yah, it also hipped me to Utah Phillips: Pie in the Sky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMraYdklSOE).
Same here.
I still enjoy hearing that at the start of Bulls games.
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Quote from: Wheezer on May 16, 2018, 12:59:07 AM
Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiKW3lQ9RM). With Chinese subtitles. Beats me, but, hey, Faith Petric. This is the version from Rebel Voices, which is uneven but wraps with a terrific Power in the Union (not the Bragg shit).
I had that compilation. My introduction to the song.
Yah, it also hipped me to Utah Phillips: Pie in the Sky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMraYdklSOE).
Same here.
That should have been "The Preacher and the Slave," of course.
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Quote from: Bort on May 16, 2018, 08:12:11 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on May 16, 2018, 12:59:07 AM
Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called a Red (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiKW3lQ9RM). With Chinese subtitles. Beats me, but, hey, Faith Petric. This is the version from Rebel Voices, which is uneven but wraps with a terrific Power in the Union (not the Bragg shit).
I had that compilation. My introduction to the song.
Yah, it also hipped me to Utah Phillips: Pie in the Sky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMraYdklSOE).
Same here.
That should have been "The Preacher and the Slave," of course.
I feel like a chump that I didn't even notice the error.
There appears to be a remarkable shortage of Tongan string band music floating around freely. I'll start here: Kalapu Afo e Teau (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag8ohvhztJ0), as they say.
Quote from: Wheezer on May 18, 2018, 02:42:23 AM
There appears to be a remarkable shortage of Tongan string band music floating around freely.
Imagine that.
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Quote from: Wheezer on May 18, 2018, 02:42:23 AM
There appears to be a remarkable shortage of Tongan string band music floating around freely.
Imagine that.
Jesus, The Conet Project has been free for years (there's a longer story here); there's more Tongan brass than string band, which is a shame.
Strings of Love is fantastic.
Paging Gil (http://mingusmingusmingus.com/mingus/cat-traning-program).
[Edit.—Silly me, I forgot to include some audio (https://www.wnyc.org/story/charles-mingus-toliet-trained-his-cat-we-put-his-method-to-the-test/).]
Quote from: Wheezer on May 18, 2018, 11:33:46 PM
Paging Gil (http://mingusmingusmingus.com/mingus/cat-traning-program).
[Edit.—Silly me, I forgot to include some audio (https://www.wnyc.org/story/charles-mingus-toliet-trained-his-cat-we-put-his-method-to-the-test/).]
This just made my entire morning.
I'm at risk of being trite here, but so it goes. (BTW, a local barbershop has a 1946 Rockola for sale, if anyone needs a juke box.) De La Soul, The Magic Number (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBx3g8cowY).
Quote from: Wheezer on May 20, 2018, 02:02:27 AM
I'm at risk of being trite here, but so it goes. (BTW, a local barbershop has a 1946 Rockola for sale, if anyone needs a juke box.) De La Soul, The Magic Number (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBx3g8cowY).
I asked for 3FHAR for Christmas '89 and Mum and Dad bought it on vinyl for me. It quite simply changed my World.
More Loudon: Kings and Queens (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lb3sgTWUpE), but not the version from A Live One, which I recommend in its totality.
Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dmNwuvyTaWI&list=OLAK5uy_mc7PnYEDfdKbrn4t2acTaSIxoh4JqRwVQ&index=1$).
[Edit.—Having invoked Brubump (see Been Down So Long), I guess Mose Allison comes next: Back Country Suite (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU6Qsli9KnI), full album.]
I am weary enough tonight to resuscitate Shambala (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnyh6i9NvmE). Sue me.
[Edit.—Oh. My. G-d. A bare-chested lip-sync of Black and White (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f65mO146Zo). This makes Play That Funky Music (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x0B2m2CVFpY) look like high art, although it does remind me that some Laura Nyro could be appropriate.]
OK, so back when I was in high school, there was an episode of The Tonight Show featuring Pete Fountain that was allowed to run over time thanks to audience demand. I may have found it, but I'm not certain. This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPY0l_uEVLk) will have to serve instead for the time being. Carson on one of a bunch of drums.
RollinUke (https://www.youtube.com/user/RollinUke). I regret that his cover of "Second Hand News" seems to have been pulled.
Quote from: Wheezer on May 29, 2018, 12:39:19 AM
RollinUke (https://www.youtube.com/user/RollinUke). I regret that his cover of "Second Hand News" seems to have been pulled.
Von't tchou lay me down in ze tall gress und let me du my schtuff?
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RollinUke (https://www.youtube.com/user/RollinUke). I regret that his cover of "Second Hand News" seems to have been pulled.
Von't tchou lay me down in ze tall gress und let me du my schtuff?
Yup. It was fantastic.
In a coincidence, I was listening to Tumours, Schlong's incredibly terrible-but-I-love-it-anyway cover of the entire Rumours album today.
Third Rail, "Run Run Run (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2ocDH5bMd4)."
Sun Ra, Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy. (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7F44666643A7C5DAhttps://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7F44666643A7C5DA)
Quote from: Wheezer on May 31, 2018, 10:30:45 AM
Sun Ra, Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy.
(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7F44666643A7C5DAhttps://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7F44666643A7C5DA)
I swaw Sun Ra at the Riviera, in a room filled with Chads and Trixies that were in no way prepared for Sun Ra.
Space is indeed the place.
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Sun Ra, Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy.
(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7F44666643A7C5DAhttps://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7F44666643A7C5DA)
I swaw Sun Ra at the Riviera, in a room filled with Chads and Trixies that were in no way prepared for Sun Ra.
Space is indeed the place.
Man, I saw Ken Nordine at the Vic, and it was bad, but a friend and I actually walked out on Fahey at the Double Door.
Quote from: Wheezer on May 24, 2018, 11:32:56 PMit does remind me that some Laura Nyro could be appropriate.
I was really having trouble with selections for this one, until Scott Simon helpfully reminded me (https://www.npr.org/2018/06/02/616392750/laura-nyro-and-the-summer-of-1968) of what should have been obvious (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUiVPCfJqAo).
OK, so Sara Bareilles performed "Stoney End" at Laura Nyro's posthumous induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (there's a story here about a friend getting stoned with Wilco, but I have to get it straight), but I'm just goint to skip ahead to Regina Spektor's Ne Me Quitte Pas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKot8tKt3z0), which has nothing to do with the Jacques Brel.
I probably wouldn't have gone so far as to indulge this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VrKro8djw) had I not come across the
Rolling Stone blurb (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/taylor-swift-guide-to-1989-20140908/paul-simon-big-daddy-kane-biz-markie-john-madden-spud-webb-mickey-mantle-me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard-20140908):
QuoteAn utterly bananas video where Rhymin' Simon tricks out his 1972 pseudo-rican oldie with two Queens hip-hop heroes, showing off his street cred with true mathematics from Madden and lip-synching from Mickey Mantle. (Garfunkel wept.) Basically, you can't understand what the hell 1989 was about until you process the fact that this video actually happened.
Jesse Fuller, The Monkey and the Engineer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJm8Tzt84ik). Screw Bob Weir.
Holy fuck. Ne Me Quitte Pas in Russian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nysh61DI32w) performed by Regina Spektor.
Upon due consideration, I'm offering the Bareilles Stoney End (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zynFqUu9oKw).
Selections from The Dark Side of Hall and Oates (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbdi7rzGxXnNFlmvSWn2J3Q).
Fuck it. At least it's live (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uxzDZSvIbw0). I have to decide whether to bail on this door-knocking for Doctors without Borders gig. Great cause, idiot semiprofessional "leadership." I've already ditched the "rap" in practice in favor of talking like an adult rather than a robot.
Oh, and I have a sense of where this may be going (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDdLgBO0Nw) for a bit.
Where's the Bus? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z396cRJiRdI)
Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpennt and Harry S Truman doing Raggmopp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfXQs9OUTtk).
Quote from: Wheezer on June 18, 2018, 03:03:40 PM
Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpennt and Harry S Truman doing Raggmopp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfXQs9OUTtk).
I can't have been the only one excited to see Daws Butler was involved.
On second thought, I very much can.
This is such a peculiar find that I can't resist: Madness covers Mother and Child Reunion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQEsMZXQSg).
Quote from: Wheezer on June 19, 2018, 05:01:37 PM
This is such a peculiar find that I can't resist: Madness covers Mother and Child Reunion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQEsMZXQSg).
That sounded exactly how I expected it would.
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Quote from: Wheezer on June 19, 2018, 05:01:37 PM
This is such a peculiar find that I can't resist: Madness covers Mother and Child Reunion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQEsMZXQSg).
That sounded exactly how I expected it would.
One of the cats who I try to work with, and who is stuck "living" in a motherfucking trap, only calms down when I sing him Paul Simon songs. The woman who runs the "rescue" is approaching batshit crazy.
R. Dean Taylor, Indiana Wants Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNM5g2ARGyY). I'd call it a classic of the genre, but I'm not sure there actually is one.
Side 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MpRcSLVncA) of Orson Welles reading The Begatting of the President. The rest is floating around in bits and pieces if anyone cares to go looking for side 2.
There is a back story here, though. What is now Chabad House (the closest religion to Judaism) used to house the Rosicrucians on campus, and one day they put out free books. I scored this and The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew.
Two versions of "The Vegetable Song": Jimmy the Clown (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAn60MfkoE4) and Li'l Stevie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTG4WohsMPw). The latter isn't the live version that I have on an older machine.
Hell, while I'm at it, I might as well throw in When the Cubs Go Marching In (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q7iZ7Tu63U) from Live at the Earl of Old Town.
I guess it's come to this: I'm going to invoke Vachel Lindsay. The Congo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3lY8qmiLy4). This is crappier audio than my vinyl copy, but so be it. The weird thing is that there appear to be some live group performances of it on Y---be.
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Quote from: Bort on June 19, 2018, 05:49:27 PM
Quote from: Wheezer on June 19, 2018, 05:01:37 PM
This is such a peculiar find that I can't resist: Madness covers Mother and Child Reunion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQEsMZXQSg).
That sounded exactly how I expected it would.
One of the cats who I try to work with, and who is stuck "living" in a motherfucking trap, only calms down when I sing him Paul Simon songs. The woman who runs the "rescue" is approaching batshit crazy
Leave out the "approaching"; last night, she decided that I had had a stroke and freaked out my friends to the point that they were searching for me on the street and I was in the ED until 3 a.m.
As a consequence, I present a Finninsh cover of "YMCA." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTbjLOem2Qg) Rest assured that there was a time when I was a genuine connoisseur of Finnish pop covers, although this one was sent to me as a retort to my sending
"Belly of the Whale (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocRVFI4EggM)" from the ED.
Finnish cover of "A Horse with No Name." (https://youtu.be/bBhIvAjgVhE) Trust me on this one.
Quote from: Wheezer on June 23, 2018, 11:06:32 PM
Finnish cover of "A Horse with No Name." (https://youtu.be/bBhIvAjgVhE) Trust me on this one.
I was skeptical at first, but the horns towards the end reallly won me over.
Quote from: Wheezer on June 23, 2018, 09:54:19 PM
Quote from: Wheezer on June 20, 2018, 01:21:30 AM
Quote from: Bort on June 19, 2018, 05:49:27 PM
Quote from: Wheezer on June 19, 2018, 05:01:37 PM
This is such a peculiar find that I can't resist: Madness covers Mother and Child Reunion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQEsMZXQSg).
That sounded exactly how I expected it would.
One of the cats who I try to work with, and who is stuck "living" in a motherfucking trap, only calms down when I sing him Paul Simon songs. The woman who runs the "rescue" is approaching batshit crazy
Leave out the "approaching"; last night, she decided that I had had a stroke and freaked out my friends to the point that they were searching for me on the street and I was in the ED until 3 a.m.
As a consequence, I present a Finninsh cover of "YMCA." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTbjLOem2Qg) Rest assured that there was a time when I was a genuine connoisseur of Finnish pop covers, although this one was sent to me as a retort to my sending
"Belly of the Whale (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocRVFI4EggM)" from the ED.
Hmph. Teh Whackyweedia reports that it was actually the Burning Sensations whose version of "Pablo Picasso" appeared in
Repo Man. Everything That Rises Must Converge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F8DkOmUy2E).*
* I loathe Flannery O'Connor, BTW.
Speaking of "Pablo Picasso," though, I did indeed switch to Wranglers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48hrHVMCRgY) last year.
Charles Ives' "Variations on 'America'" on organ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2u-DHEm9wk).
Quote from: Wheezer on June 26, 2018, 01:04:15 AM
Charles Ives' "Variations on 'America'" on organ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2u-DHEm9wk).
Oddly enough, it turned out that my shrink has actually performed this as part of some chamber-music group that he's part of when not collecting Canadian art. I'm mildly surprised that he didn't press the magic 72 button before we got that far. Selah.
As much as I loathe Vimeo, this (https://vimeo.com/74780982) seems to be the version of "The Mighty Quinn" from Greatest Hits Volume 2. And yes, I have had pigeons running to me this morning.
I'd have done "It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl" if this site weren't still broken six ways to Sunday.
Well, I inexplicably woke up with the Oscar Meyer jingle in my head, but then it was The M.T.A. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Jw_v3F_Q0)
A cover of "Chicago" by Stay (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM8-y9juVLs). I have the vinyl 45 somewhere. As it happens, my former employment specialist was a helicopter side-gunner in Viet Nam. It did not treat him well, but he was sartorial as hell once he got it back together a couple of decades later.
Fairly well known, but I'll add it anyway: One Toke Over the Line from the Lawrence Welk Show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6VZM5T9fEo). Fantastic program when coming down from the Supreme Sacrament on Saturday, BTW. Used to be on around 5:00 on WYIN, as I recall. They omit the "I met all the girls" verse.
Part 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKEgqF4Sq1c) of The Doobie Brothers episode of What's Happening. This only occurred to me because I thought it was sans Michael McDonald, but I was sadly mistaken. Still, it's a classic.
Quote from: Wheezer on July 08, 2018, 11:43:48 AM
Part 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKEgqF4Sq1c) of The Doobie Brothers episode of What's Happening. This only occurred to me because I thought it was sans Michael McDonald, but I was sadly mistaken. Still, it's a classic.
I want to live in a world where you can get caught bootlegging and still pal around with the band afterward.
In honor of the collapse of the Trump administration's risible failure to protect the baby-formula industry,* I offer Rufus Is a Tit Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46EbjMkeghE).**
* I was formula-fed and have a very dim opinion of MDC-style lactivists.
** Whoops.
OK, so sometimes I hang out with Jerry the local schizophrenic in the park across from my imaginary ex's place. He seems to be well-read, although I doubt that he really was Abbie Hoffman's lawyer in New York for a year. (This came up in the context of Jimmy Carter, and for some reason he mentioned that Amy had gone to Brown. As it happens, my imaginary ex did as well, and she once got stoned with Amy and Abbie.)
Anyway he informed me that "Proud Mary" was about reefer, which somehow had never occurred to me before. In an unrelated event, today I wanted to hip a friend to RollinUke. Right on the first page of results. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLPwdhYE1Ic)
I can scarcely imagine what Grandpa Jones, given his vow to hunt the man who invented Daylight Saving Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQbCTebC20), would have done to the bastard who came up with low-flow toilets.
Quote from: Wheezer on July 16, 2018, 01:10:59 AM
I can scarcely imagine what Grandpa Jones, given his vow to hunt the man who invented Daylight Saving Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQbCTebC20), would have done to the bastard who came up with low-flow toilets.
Yum, yum!!!
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on July 16, 2018, 09:16:23 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on July 16, 2018, 01:10:59 AM
I can scarcely imagine what Grandpa Jones, given his vow to hunt the man who invented Daylight Saving Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQbCTebC20), would have done to the bastard who came up with low-flow toilets.
Yum, yum!!!
You have to "flush" the goddamn things four times anyway, including the one where you have to stick in your hand to wipe off the fucking bowl. I prefer the industrial-handle style.
Quote from: Wheezer on July 17, 2018, 12:55:50 AM
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on July 16, 2018, 09:16:23 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on July 16, 2018, 01:10:59 AM
I can scarcely imagine what Grandpa Jones, given his vow to hunt the man who invented Daylight Saving Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQbCTebC20), would have done to the bastard who came up with low-flow toilets.
Yum, yum!!!
You have to "flush" the goddamn things four times anyway, including the one where you have to stick in your hand to wipe off the fucking bowl. I prefer the industrial-handle style.
You could always invest in a bog brush.
Quote from: Tonker on July 17, 2018, 03:19:07 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on July 17, 2018, 12:55:50 AM
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on July 16, 2018, 09:16:23 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on July 16, 2018, 01:10:59 AM
I can scarcely imagine what Grandpa Jones, given his vow to hunt the man who invented Daylight Saving Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQbCTebC20), would have done to the bastard who came up with low-flow toilets.
Yum, yum!!!
You have to "flush" the goddamn things four times anyway, including the one where you have to stick in your hand to wipe off the fucking bowl. I prefer the industrial-handle style.
You could always invest in a bog brush.
Yes, sanitizing a brush every time makes perfect sense. Because you don't have to flush yet an additional time. Oh, wait.
I was really hoping for something from "God and Hair (https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RC82ODO7X9IEN/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000ILYWHI)," but it's all very formulaic. Sorry, Sky, but the "mysterious hang-gliding accident" was probably a manifestation of Divine irritation.
Solomon Burke's version of Proud Mary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiJw79k4wGc), which preceded the Turners'. A bit more Solomon seems like a good idea, once I get some more sleep, or bathing, or something.
But first, the Van Morrison classic Ring Worm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AwtBoiWOTA).
Back to Solomon:
Party People (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEGu8seDTKg) and, of course, the original of Everybody Needs Somebody (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OKAlBC-XWQ). There's one more, but it's quite silly.
Quote from: Wheezer on July 24, 2018, 01:42:49 PM
Back to Solomon:
Party People (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEGu8seDTKg) and, of course, the original of Everybody Needs Somebody (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OKAlBC-XWQ). There's one more, but it's quite silly.
This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0bsWl-GnOo) is the one.
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on July 24, 2018, 03:43:49 PM
Quote from: Wheezer on July 24, 2018, 01:42:49 PM
Back to Solomon:
Party People (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEGu8seDTKg) and, of course, the original of Everybody Needs Somebody (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OKAlBC-XWQ). There's one more, but it's quite silly.
This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0bsWl-GnOo) is the one.
No, if you're going to invoke that performance,
this is the one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcz6l2hlGsU). "I need some dancers up here."
I suppose here is the place for some live Rascals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9XbXJY8_hY) to follow up Solomon.
Quote from: Wheezer on July 30, 2018, 04:19:17 AM
I suppose here is the place for some live Rascals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9XbXJY8_hY) to follow up Solomon.
It's a shame that they're all still on this side of the grass, they did a killer show on Broadway (Once Upon A Dream) that they took on the road, and now Felix is doing oldies cruises and Eddie is singing Sinatra in NJ. Based upon when I saw them a couple years ago when the show came to Chicago, they've still got tread on their tires.
Synchronicity strikes again: General William Booth Enters into Heaven (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnbGruNIV1o), as composed by Charles Ives. I have the Vachel Lindsay original on vinyl.
The Allman Brothers' jam take on (https://youtu.be/-aHfMYQ1Hjo) "There Is a Mountain." I would liken Donovan to Freud, in the sense of getting a few things right and the rest just plain screwy.
Man, there are a lot of atrocious covers of "The Midnight Special." I'm going with Little Richard's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufIxaJZH9SM).
Time for some Hampton Grease Band:
Halifax (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVDOZ9IIFIo) and Six (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gfx2s9qza0).
Well, my evening at the cat shelter with the crazy lady jumping up and down yelling "fuck" was a bit tiresome, in the sense that I wasn't close enough to wave the big pair of scissors at her, so I'm going with some cheesy Poi Dog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XC4Vu1hofU).
So, my octogenarian former neighbor (who is still banging along) was into both politics and the '70s folk scene ("Oh, I *knew* Stevie"). But she used to have a piano, and one time John Prine needed one, and kismet. Hence, Please Don't Bury Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEhqzOeJnto).
[Edit.—The version from Souvenirs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfBdMXhpQnU). I am undecided between the two.]
Jesus, you can't swing a cat without hitting Iris Fucking DeMent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8tTwXv4glY) (more Prine).
I can't sleep. Three Two versions of "Cecilia":
Local Natives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdnjfxXpr7g)
Paul Simon, Jimmy Fallon, and Stomp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4V5s75fQ1o)
I misplaced the third one.
OK, I can't resist: R.E.M.'s "Bandwagon" from Dead Letter Office set to some sort of blend of Christine and The Warriors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P84FrbgbFI). I have no idea what the movie is.
Before I move on to the Fugs, the first episode of Songwriters Circle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4p9Nwltfyo), featuring Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright, and Suzanne Vega as something resembling a trio.
Jesus, I had only watched part of it when I recognized it as a keeper, but Richard Thompson can really work that axe.
Quote from: Wheezer on August 21, 2018, 12:54:28 AM
Jesus, I had only watched part of it when I recognized it as a keeper, but Richard Thompson can really work that axe.
And I take back my complaints about DeMent. Suzanne Vega is a serviceable backup singer, but she doesn't seem to have had a fresh idea since her bout with mild popularity.
OK, Fugs time:
The Ten Commandments (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_uOh9cNk_Q), rambling live version
Wide Wide River (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVfrt2JlLTw) (it's been too long since I've deployed this against persevering antivax gasbags)
Nothing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFd3maezlhI) from the memorial service
Perhaps more to come.
Is this getting stale? I can't sleep and was almost going for Don Ho.
Quote from: Wheezer on August 22, 2018, 03:04:29 AM
Is this getting stale? I can't sleep and was almost going for Don Ho.
True story...in 2003 we were in Honolulu and wanted to swee Don Ho. His show had been sold out for weeks, we found out. We mentioned this to a guy who was giving us surf lessons that day (sidenote: surfing fucking owns) and he said to come swee him at his other jorb (selling timeshares) and he'd get us into the show. We figured it was just a ploy to get us in for his sales pitch, but damned if he didn't make a call to his "cousin" who worked at the club. He told us he'd need a few minutes, and asked us where we were going. We told him we were going over to this shopping center to look around and maybe get something to eat.
We figured that was the end of it, but all of the sudden about a half hour later, this guy shows up and tells us we have to hustle. He takes us through the kitchen like something out of Goodfellas, and tells us he needs $20. He hands us off to his "cousin", who then seats us in the club. So we've got two $75 seats for a total of $20. Then, they announce Don will be outside posing for pictures. At this point, we're so far ahead money-wise we decided to get our picture taken with Don Fucking Ho.
He does his show (singing "Tiny Bubbles" twice), then after the show he's signing autographs. So we get the picture taken before the show of us with D.F. Ho signed, as well as a CD titled "Don Ho Gold". We used an unsigned pic of us with Don as that year's Christmas card.
And that's why in our home we have both a signed photo and CD from Don Fucking Ho.
Tiny bubbles...in the wine...
More Poi Dog, just because I like the contrast, and women playing the fiddle never go out of style: "Everybody's Tryin'," the Letterman version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ7oxb5BjJ8) and the Fat Orrall with horns edition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxGQS0oj5L4).
OK, I'm shameless: Ooh La La (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xwnb3cymc). I'm trying to convince my imaginary ex to watch Rushmore.
Quote from: Wheezer on August 31, 2018, 10:51:22 AM
OK, I'm shameless: Ooh La La (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xwnb3cymc). I'm trying to convince my imaginary ex to watch Rushmore.
You never need to apologise for Faces. Having said that, though, it's a reflection of just how fucking good Steve Marriott was that even with a bona-fide legend like Stewart in his place, Faces were never the band that Small Faces were.
I suppose this should have occurred to me earlier: The Hey Der Milwaukee Polka (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBTGsmKvOe4).
An embarrassing lacuna on my part: Elvis (who is everywhere (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpb4ZAAP6Z4)), The Promised Land (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jBgGyG8MQY). And if you haven't seen Bubba Ho-Tep, get a move on.
Quote from: Wheezer on October 18, 2018, 12:24:11 AM
An embarrassing lacuna on my part: Elvis (who is everywhere (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpb4ZAAP6Z4)), The Promised Land (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jBgGyG8MQY). And if you haven't seen Bubba Ho-Tep, get a move on.
I'll second this entire post.
Lucy Kaplansky, The Tide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfWpeTSJbpg).
This was bound to happen, if it hasn't already: Joe Cocker, the annotated version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUo8vcDC10I) of "With a Little Help from My Friends" and the Belushi--Cocker (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ryce5) "Feelin' Alright."
And now for something completely different, the RTÉ Radio 1 radio documentary on Richard J. Hayes (https://tunein.com/podcasts/Documentary/Documentary-on-One-p1105/?topicId=126376449), Irish librarian and WWII codebreaker.
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Quote from: Wheezer on October 18, 2018, 12:24:11 AM
An embarrassing lacuna on my part: Elvis (who is everywhere (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpb4ZAAP6Z4)), The Promised Land (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jBgGyG8MQY). And if you haven't seen Bubba Ho-Tep, get a move on.
I'll second this entire post.
And I'll third.
Well done.
The only version of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" I can tolerate is, predictably, that by the Staple Singers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UagEgEp2ok).
My imaginary ex just got cranky because she had never heard of Victor Borges' Phonetic Punctuation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ91SVKryYU).
Quote from: Wheezer on October 31, 2018, 12:15:51 PM
My imaginary ex just got cranky because she had never heard of Victor Borges' Phonetic Punctuation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ91SVKryYU).
Borge takes me back to days spent visiting my grandparents. They owned maybe 4 vhs tapes and one was a collection of his bits. EDIT:no. Two of the four were Borge.
Holy cats, I didn't even know that there was a film version of the Belfast Cowboy's It's Too Late to Stop Now tour. That was the first Van Morrison album that I ever bought. Domino (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcYGaPiZ1c8).
According to my imaginary ex, the only tune I can actually carry is Chantilly Lace (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b-by5e4saI).
Quote from: Wheezer on November 08, 2018, 11:26:01 PM
According to my imaginary ex, the only tune I can actually carry is Chantilly Lace (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b-by5e4saI).
Must be your pretty face, and your pony tail just a-hangin' down.
Quote from: Tonker on November 09, 2018, 04:11:28 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on November 08, 2018, 11:26:01 PM
According to my imaginary ex, the only tune I can actually carry is Chantilly Lace (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b-by5e4saI).
Must be your pretty face, and your pony tail just a-hangin' down.
I'm so pretty that they gave me the discount for senior citizens at the beer store on Monday. Twice.
OK so these two assholes (https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--WhkC3LbU--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ek4my1lzqisyhy1zsvsu.jpg) focused on Paul McCartney (https://www.soundopinions.org/show/676) this week (and on the radio in the cat gulag), and they ranked one item as the second-worst song of the oeuvre, or something. I thus present the culprit, Uncle Albert and Admiral Halsey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43SIia9XII) (cover, on general principles) and, for the hell of it, a late live performance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqBQAym36t8) of Venus and Mars from Brazil. The album was very hard to come by in the '70s in Arkansas. I think I found it at Service Merchandise. It was always a treat when they played it on KBHS, along with the long version of "Blinded by Light" (wait for it). The DJ, Rick Rowland, turned out to be a pedophile who could identiify weaker personalities. He's now some sort of preacher.
Let the Tonk complaints begin.
Quote from: Wheezer on November 10, 2018, 01:12:23 AM
OK so these two assholes (https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--WhkC3LbU--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ek4my1lzqisyhy1zsvsu.jpg) focused on Paul McCartney (https://www.soundopinions.org/show/676) this week (and on the radio in the cat gulag), and they ranked one item as the second-worst song of the oeuvre, or something. I thus present the culprit, Uncle Albert and Admiral Halsey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43SIia9XII) (cover, on general principles) and, for the hell of it, a late live performance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqBQAym36t8) of Venus and Mars from Brazil. The album was very hard to come by in the '70s in Arkansas. I think I found it at Service Merchandise. It was always a treat when they played it on KBHS, along with the long version of "Blinded by Light" (wait for it). The DJ, Rick Rowland, turned out to be a pedophile who could identiify weaker personalities. He's now some sort of preacher.
Let the Tonk complaints begin.
Seriously, though, I will never forgive Mark Chapman for shooting the wrong Beatle.
Anyway, I did say "wait for it." I regret that I can't find my favorite version of "Blinded by the Light," in which he breaks a string and weirdly has to tell the band to freaking vamp, so this curious acoustic version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vBUreX9ENE) (the video is awful, and the sound is mediocre) will have to suffice.
The version of Kenneth Anger's Rabbit's Moon with It Came in the Night (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIyxIhpLGQk) by "A Raincoat."
Might as well do the Liz Phair, since I can't sleep. Or eat, because it would wake up my imaginary ex.
The Tra La La Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JvB5AL59fM). I'll get to the other ones later.
I had no idea that the Baretta theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TyaqYRwPQs) was performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. My imaginary ex's cat is neurotically grooming her fur off, so I suggezted getting a cockatiel. Only now do I realize that the performers were cockatoos.
Quote from: Wheezer on November 14, 2018, 02:46:21 PM
I had no idea that the Baretta theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TyaqYRwPQs) was performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. My imaginary ex's cat is neurotically grooming her fur off, so I suggezted getting a cockatiel. Only now do I realize that the performers were cockatoos.
For a person who is a surprisingly big bible nerd, I was stunned to realize that title is a weird allusion to a gospel hymn.
Oh, I had my hopes up that Jimmy Cliff did a cover of the Baretta theme, but this is a different song with the same name, apparently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm0VQg6P7fA).
Quote from: Wheezer on November 13, 2018, 06:03:46 AM
Might as well do the Liz Phair, since I can't sleep. Or eat, because it would wake up my imaginary ex.
The Tra La La Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JvB5AL59fM). I'll get to the other ones later.
It's only
three two, as I don't recall anything whatsoever from the putative landmark:
Whip-Smart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCs-HhONUI), acoustc from the Leno show.
Crater Lake (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQFUrmMQUo), standard issue; the live versions are ghastly.
I forgot that "Go West" is atrocious. There might be something left, but I'm weary and not done with my labors yet.
Well, Alice's Restaurant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM) should come as no surprise. There's also bonus indulgence, more Poi Dog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWmfXimrLSU).
The 2015 remaster of Astral Weeks (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg8oXWXB7tNaFiYXG0zTYd10kps_GNc8t).
Southside Johnny, Walk Away Renée (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7TqO9VMPes).
The live Cypress Avenue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsHijcP39UQ).
This will depend on time zone, but Rabbi Joe Black and the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band with Eight Nights of Joy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIClo7oeoN8).
Given that (1) the Jackson 5 cover of "Doctor, My Eyes" is awful--perhaps thought of as a tribute to Wellbutrin on my part--and (2) the Gong Show outro of "Easter Parade" [sic] is seemingly nowhere to be found, I present as a fallback Gene Gene the Dancing Machine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME_rrjIODTE).
Left unfinished is the question whether DJT thinks Chuck Barris was a CIA agent (https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/1929-maybe-chuck-barris-was-born-1.5390526).
Andy Kaufman does Elvis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r59AWfhwpPg) on Carson. Unfortunately, it's not Burning Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJac6OykfM).
Given that I've mentioned the WFMT radio program in the hopeless annoyances post, I suppose I might as well get around to the song itself, which I don't think they even use as an intro. "The Midnight Special" has an an interesting history (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Special_(song)) (and Wi---dia looks to have a decent entry), but down to brass tacks:
Pistol Pete's Midnight Special (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ltkDphhhzgI) and Leadbelly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrdioqIMtpY).
The Colonel Bogey March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dPn9M7TLlI). Seriously, if you've never seen this movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai), it's time to put the kids into a low oven for a little while and get to business.
Use a towel or something on the rack, of course.
Quote from: Wheezer on December 08, 2018, 03:12:23 AM
The Colonel Bogey March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dPn9M7TLlI). Seriously, if you've never seen this movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai), it's time to put the kids into a low oven for a little while and get to business.
Use a towel or something on the rack, of course.
I have always loved military bands. As a kid I had an LP of classics, the first track on which was, indeed, Colonel Bogey. Happy days.
Quote from: Tonker on December 08, 2018, 03:39:05 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on December 08, 2018, 03:12:23 AM
The Colonel Bogey March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dPn9M7TLlI). Seriously, if you've never seen this movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai), it's time to put the kids into a low oven for a little while and get to business.
Use a towel or something on the rack, of course.
I have always loved military bands. As a kid I had an LP of classics, the first track on which was, indeed, Colonel Bogey. Happy days.
See how this item from the 338th Army Band (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8V7bGF0kgc) treats you.
G-ddammit, the "Choo Choo Ch'boogie" comment that I started last night and had nearly finished tonight was disappeared by Chrome when I didn't touch the screen on the tablet in just the right fashion. I wonder whether the "Textarea Cache" extension works in the mobile version of Firefox.
Quote from: Wheezer on December 12, 2018, 11:22:48 PM
G-ddammit, the "Choo Choo Ch'boogie" comment that I started last night and had nearly finished tonight was disappeared by Chrome when I didn't touch the screen on the tablet in just the right fashion. I wonder whether the "Textarea Cache" extension works in the mobile version of Firefox.
Live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A2pRVyBmOY).
A greatest hits version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwAnNzfZ7H0), which I presume to be the Decca issue. I don't know how faithful it is, though; rooting out a turntable-video version is more than I can handle tonight. No rest for the often weary and sometimes bedraggled.
Quote from: Wheezer on December 12, 2018, 11:52:25 PM
Quote from: Wheezer on December 12, 2018, 11:22:48 PM
G-ddammit, the "Choo Choo Ch'boogie" comment that I started last night and had nearly finished tonight was disappeared by Chrome when I didn't touch the screen on the tablet in just the right fashion. I wonder whether the "Textarea Cache" extension works in the mobile version of Firefox.
Live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A2pRVyBmOY).
A greatest hits version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwAnNzfZ7H0), which I presume to be the Decca issue. I don't know how faithful it is, though; rooting out a turntable-video version is more than I can handle tonight. No rest for the often weary and sometimes bedraggled.
There is never a wrong time for Louis Jordan.
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on December 13, 2018, 08:48:06 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on December 12, 2018, 11:52:25 PM
Quote from: Wheezer on December 12, 2018, 11:22:48 PM
G-ddammit, the "Choo Choo Ch'boogie" comment that I started last night and had nearly finished tonight was disappeared by Chrome when I didn't touch the screen on the tablet in just the right fashion. I wonder whether the "Textarea Cache" extension works in the mobile version of Firefox.
Live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A2pRVyBmOY).
A greatest hits version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwAnNzfZ7H0), which I presume to be the Decca issue. I don't know how faithful it is, though; rooting out a turntable-video version is more than I can handle tonight. No rest for the often weary and sometimes bedraggled.
There is never a wrong time for Louis Jordan.
This is why Fork was banned from the Bush funeral.
Quote from: Bort on December 13, 2018, 09:31:08 AM
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on December 13, 2018, 08:48:06 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on December 12, 2018, 11:52:25 PM
Quote from: Wheezer on December 12, 2018, 11:22:48 PM
G-ddammit, the "Choo Choo Ch'boogie" comment that I started last night and had nearly finished tonight was disappeared by Chrome when I didn't touch the screen on the tablet in just the right fashion. I wonder whether the "Textarea Cache" extension works in the mobile version of Firefox.
Live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A2pRVyBmOY).
A greatest hits version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwAnNzfZ7H0), which I presume to be the Decca issue. I don't know how faithful it is, though; rooting out a turntable-video version is more than I can handle tonight. No rest for the often weary and sometimes bedraggled.
There is never a wrong time for Louis Jordan.
This is why Fork was banned from the Bush funeral.
Pretty sure it was me throwing glitter like I was Rip Motherfucking Taylor.
I'm going with my morning earworm: Lead Belly, Pick a Bale of Cotton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd5ViH_5598). (Sadly, it doesn't have the "dat nigger from Shiloh" verse.)
Might as well toss in a live Goodnight, Irene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn50JSI0W-E) while I'm at it. And the recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NfPdu1sl4A).
[Edit.—This short film (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x175tm) has "Grey Goose" and "Take This Hammer" as well as "Pick a Bale of Cotton."]
British Sea Power, Atom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJwn8XhEkAQ), with Redbridge Brass.
The Leopards with Mah Mah Chicken Pot Pie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61T_Vsz3f2gv).
"The Promised Land": Chuck Berry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHFRg2yhkZ8),* Elvis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKR9MYYdBM), and a surprisingly decent Grateful Dead version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=HYj6yq4iAUk).
And here (https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan) is the W—dia history of the North American Numbering Plan.
* I know, the guitar isn't plugged in.
What is purported to be the first live performance of Fly by Night (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IkWucQC-I). The zany stereo effects do make me wary of the provenance, though.
Ezekial Saw the Wheel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzQdN5uoNE) performed by Louis Armstrong and Dem Bones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhmLXHtT1A8) by The Four Lads (the version used in The Prisoner).
Quote from: Wheezer on December 08, 2018, 03:12:23 AM
The Colonel Bogey March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dPn9M7TLlI). Seriously, if you've never seen this movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai), it's time to put the kids into a low oven for a little while and get to business.
Use a towel or something on the rack, of course.
Comet does indeed make your teeth turn green.
The Memphis Jug Band, Stealin' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY5J2TA11HA), and Cannon's Jug Stompers, Walk Right In (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_BEhtwEHSnM).
... And the Jim Kweskin version of Stealin' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq0B3DwbWKg), which is what I was looking for in the first place. As a bonus, there's footage from Newport (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQvClKK0HRo).
Cannonball Adderley, Hoppin'John (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QRJk9TdE9k). Meryy New Year.
The Drake–Chenault Time Sweep (http://www.djfood.org/chart-sweep-time-sweep/).
There's nothing like waking up with American Tune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZ72yHQ0K8) in the remainder of one's head.
Quote from: Wheezer on January 05, 2019, 05:34:11 AM
There's nothing like waking up with American Tune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZ72yHQ0K8) in the remainder of one's head.
The excessive plastic surgery / Botox is so unfortunate.
Quote from: flannj on January 06, 2019, 08:26:15 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on January 05, 2019, 05:34:11 AM
There's nothing like waking up with American Tune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZ72yHQ0K8) in the remainder of one's head.
The excessive plastic surgery / Botox is so unfortunate.
I will not let this calumny stand. I demand a duel, arm-wrestling at a location that is reasonably accessible to me.
Quote from: flannj on January 06, 2019, 08:26:15 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on January 05, 2019, 05:34:11 AM
There's nothing like waking up with American Tune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZ72yHQ0K8) in the remainder of one's head.
The excessive plastic surgery / Botox is so unfortunate.
Lordy, he's made himself look like an orang-utan, and it seems as though he cuts his own hair, too. As for his voice... well, he can carry a tune better than McCartney, just about, but that's a really low bar.
Brazil's Oleg Summer (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswspb). (There seems to be some weird crosstalk that wasn't on the real-time stream, but so it goes.)
Quote from: Tonker on January 07, 2019, 02:33:24 AM
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Quote from: Wheezer on January 05, 2019, 05:34:11 AM
There's nothing like waking up with American Tune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZ72yHQ0K8) in the remainder of one's head.
The excessive plastic surgery / Botox is so unfortunate.
Lordy, he's made himself look like an orang-utan, and it seems as though he cuts his own hair, too. As for his voice... well, he can carry a tune better than McCartney, just about, but that's a really low bar.
Geordie? Ned? Ted? So many choices, so little time.
Quote from: Wheezer on January 06, 2019, 10:54:11 PM
Quote from: flannj on January 06, 2019, 08:26:15 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on January 05, 2019, 05:34:11 AM
There's nothing like waking up with American Tune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZ72yHQ0K8) in the remainder of one's head.
The excessive plastic surgery / Botox is so unfortunate.
I will not let this calumny stand. I demand a duel, arm-wrestling at a location that is reasonably accessible to me.
No way. You'd kick my ass.
Quote from: Tonker on January 07, 2019, 02:33:24 AM
Quote from: flannj on January 06, 2019, 08:26:15 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on January 05, 2019, 05:34:11 AM
There's nothing like waking up with American Tune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZ72yHQ0K8) in the remainder of one's head.
The excessive plastic surgery / Botox is so unfortunate.
Lordy, he's made himself look like an orang-utan, and it seems as though he cuts his own hair, too. As for his voice... well, he can carry a tune better than McCartney, just about, but that's a really low bar.
Are we sure that isn't Alan Arkin lip-syncing?
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on January 07, 2019, 10:09:59 AM
Quote from: Tonker on January 07, 2019, 02:33:24 AM
Quote from: flannj on January 06, 2019, 08:26:15 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on January 05, 2019, 05:34:11 AM
There's nothing like waking up with American Tune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZ72yHQ0K8) in the remainder of one's head.
The excessive plastic surgery / Botox is so unfortunate.
Lordy, he's made himself look like an orang-utan, and it seems as though he cuts his own hair, too. As for his voice... well, he can carry a tune better than McCartney, just about, but that's a really low bar.
Are we sure that isn't Alan Arkin lip-syncing?
If I could afford it, I'd go for an eye lift in a second. Every single crease in my skin grows epidermoid cysts.
Have I overlooked Dylan?
The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHLfJcuKUK4) live, although the date and venue seem to have been omitted
Too ManyThreads George Jackson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHLfJcuKUK4)
An Italian busker doing John Wesley Harding (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W45KrH_kC0w)
A "Promised Land" with Garcia vocals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs3cSonyIB4).
Os Mutantes, Ando Meio Desiglado (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srz8xj6W8KY).
The Hurricane Tapes (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttt6/episodes/downloads) seems to be off to a promising start.
I actually have this on vinyl: If I Had My Druthers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npqKFxhwNhc) as interpreted by Shelley Manne.
The backstory is that I was dragooned into playing bass for the production of the play that somebody thought would be a good idea for a high-school theater troop. And yes, I put that there.
The Killers, All These Things I've Done (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKKsbRQ9GQg).
The Baseball Project, The Day Dock Went Hunting Heads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSJ4Yc7Ensg).
[Edit.—All Future and No Past (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pImdlO86_UA).]
Bill Oddie, OBE, All Things Bright and Beautiful (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU6Y57isznU). It's overproduced compared with the one from the show proper, but I have to deal with these loose ends.
Quote from: Wheezer on January 11, 2019, 02:16:22 PM
A "Promised Land" with Garcia vocals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs3cSonyIB4).
This was a serendipitous find not just because I loathe Bob Weir but also because the vocals have been stripped from every Elvis entry I've found on Boobtoob. But then, in the gulag tonight, some public-radio music show coughed up my original target. What to do?
It took only several minutes for me to smell the clover: RollinUke, 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKbAHpAtFwo) and 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_M_rtqTbk). I'm leaning toward the latter.
Wait, I've forgotten Jimmy Castor?
"Hey Leroy," original (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vMKtLCB-XQ) and revised (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTCkXXT3ojc)
"Troglodyte," with Lil' John Renaldi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DQRuJS5JQ) and live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlcjvWks-00)
Quote from: Wheezer on January 27, 2019, 03:03:22 PM
Wait, I've forgotten Jimmy Castor?
"Hey Leroy," original (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vMKtLCB-XQ) and revised (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTCkXXT3ojc)
"Troglodyte," with Lil' John Renaldi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DQRuJS5JQ) and live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlcjvWks-00)
Troglodyte is about tdubbs.
Great choice.
I can't hear Bertha Butt without laughing.
That live version is killer.
If I may...
Screamin' Jay Hawkins "I Love Paris"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u473SSuHRwg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u473SSuHRwg)
I spent an afternoon drinking with him at Biddy Mulligan's in the early 80's.
The coolest of the cool.
Just Another Nervous Wreck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLb-ohfrkl4), Tonk special rabble performance.
I am perplexed by the tail end of the distibution for a search for Be My Life's Companion (http://"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-z28pfjB3Y) with "rollinuke" added, but whatever. This version by the Mills Brothers is older than the one I have somewhere on vinyl. Still works.
Quote from: Wheezer on February 03, 2019, 01:02:28 PM
Just Another Nervous Wreck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLb-ohfrkl4), Tonk special rabble performance.
Heh, this was in my head on one of the campus hellbuses, and sure as shootin', "Give a Little Bit" comes on while I'm in line at the produce store. I think this was because my imaginary ex and her cat, I am told, snarfed my Palacios chorizo, causing me to wonder whether my life amounts to low or high comedy at this point.
More from Captain Spaulding: Unrequited to the Nth Degree (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVjTtvqAIBg).
This is a bit overproduced, but none of the covers are working for me: Dick & Mimi, Reno Nevada (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REQc1Hmi1hw).
Quote from: Wheezer on February 03, 2019, 01:02:28 PM
Just Another Nervous Wreck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLb-ohfrkl4), Tonk special rabble performance.
Seriously, though - what a fucking racket.
Quote from: Tonker on February 14, 2019, 07:04:27 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on February 03, 2019, 01:02:28 PM
Just Another Nervous Wreck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLb-ohfrkl4), Tonk special rabble performance.
Seriously, though - what a fucking racket.
You are more than welcome to visit the inside of my head. It could be like
Freaky Friday, except that you'd run screaming.
Here, have the original (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5tyO0vklEY).
Heather Woodbury's What Ever (https://heatherwoodbury-whatever.bandcamp.com/album/heather-woodbury-s-what-ever-an-american-odyssey-twentieth-anniversary-special-edition-2).
Rave on (John Donne (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26W2Ybiq-jU)).
If you're not going to contribute to your own thread...
Fred Wesley kills it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUkfiLjooxs)
If you're not going to contribute to your own thread...
Suit yourself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgCk3bnvO5Y).
Quote from: Wheezer on April 18, 2019, 02:56:10 PM
If you're not going to contribute to your own thread...
Suit yourself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgCk3bnvO5Y).
God damn you.
I've been pondering this one for a while, but I'm just going to roll with it: Leadbelly live (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaxoUzY2FRw), Austin 1949 according to the description.
An oddity, but my imaginary ex has booted me, so I'm trying to cool out: "John Wesley Harding" by... Winny & Amy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS8cEj3lOOs)?
Hmph. Dylan pulled out The Mighty Quinn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2tbpGkrY4g) in 2003.
Found Slaky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-GxCBM7FqQ)
Rubberband Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXcFFNx0_g8), Midnight Special 1976.
You Get Elves (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idQz05QrK4M). Everybody does.
Ooga chaka (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eGheulFnmFA).
Got My Mind Set on You (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZwjdGSqO0k), by the only noteworthy Beatle.
Wait, did I really forget this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIy6X4VTWpk)?
Jackie Wilson, "Higher and Higher."
I forget who said Bob Geldof has dined on "I Don't Like Mondays" (which no longer has a decent video available) for decades.
I will, however, credit McCartney with trying something, ah, off the beaten track:
Venus and Mars/Rock Show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7eJEXj8QNA). Don't get me started on "Magneto and Titanium Man."
This was, however, an eagerly awaited entry on the KBHS rotation, along with the Manfred Mann cover of "Blinded by the Light." I think pedophile DJ Rick Rowland once locked himself out of the building during one of the longer ones while copping a smoke. Good times.
Oh, wait, pedophile.
Quote from: Wheezer on October 11, 2020, 07:42:16 PM
Wait, did I really forget this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIy6X4VTWpk)?
Jackie Wilson, "Higher and Higher."
I forget who said Bob Geldof has dined on "I Don't Like Mondays" (which no longer has a decent video available) for decades.
One of the great sessions the Funk Brothers did on the sly.
G-d, I just heard "The Ballad of John and Yoko" because Publicradiofan is no longer curated. What a fucking asshole. "Imagine" demonstrates the same thing: TINU, jackass, unless I can crash on your couch and have some street hippie chick wash out her homemade tampons while Yoko is in the tub.
The Nairobi Trio, "Solfeggio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416o9b_pjQk)."
Quote from: Wheezer on November 01, 2020, 03:01:03 AM
The Nairobi Trio, "Solfeggio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416o9b_pjQk)."
Used to great effect here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo), with the greatest one-chord song of all time.
Quote from: Quality Start Machine on November 02, 2020, 09:24:40 AM
Quote from: Wheezer on November 01, 2020, 03:01:03 AM
The Nairobi Trio, "Solfeggio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416o9b_pjQk)."
Used to great effect here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo), with the greatest one-chord song of all time.
Excellent. As I learned it at the Old Town School, though, it had two chords, requiring the movement of one finger back and forth.
The Hives, Tick Tick Boom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y1lXtGi8zc).
Tonk special: Schoolkids doing the dance from the video for REM's "Stand." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tghax9FqzV0)
Quote?They threw these super bubble-gummy songs at me, and I said, ?I?ll see you and raise you one.? And I wrote the most inane lyrics that I could possibly write.?
Oh, dear, oh dear, these past lousy years resulted in my forgetting about The Anthology of American Folk Music, one of the most important set of albums ever released. I'll start with Saut Crapaud (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA28wabJmsA).
Poi Dog Pondering on Letterman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ7oxb5BjJ8). There's nothing sexier than a lady with a fiddle.
Quote from: Wheezer on January 14, 2021, 09:39:37 AM
Poi Dog Pondering on Letterman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ7oxb5BjJ8). There's nothing sexier than a lady with a fiddle.
If you say so (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42PWgUdSrA).
Toots and the Maytalls at Winterland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA4R-WoM10A). If I had a rescue cat (cf. the President-Elect (https://www.npr.org/2021/01/13/956096928/bidens-german-shepherd-to-be-celebrated-with-indoguration-hosted-by-animal-shelt), I might just be able to pull this off.
Bonus Peter Tork. For What's It's Worth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXp7AAirwqo), Monterrey '67.
Hang on to your bootstraps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsYQIvrLCKw). (This has already been Twatted to Morts, but for posterity.)
Hmph. I got suspended from school for scrawling "The Police" on my locker (no, it took a few more decades to reach something resembling maturity), but I hadn''t before seen the video of "So Lonely." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX6MvV8cbh8) MTV must have been lax, or something.
i don't think this is a repeat: 49 Reasons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oxmP15Dk6A), live.
Gillian Welch, Hard Times (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k35haKwqY14).
On the way back from the shelter, the neighbor who gave me the ride and I somehow got to singing M.T.A. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Jw_v3F_Q0)
Kristofferson, Jesus Was a Capricorn (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=frVK05b8r5s).
There are several options for this one. I'm going for the longest, with the epileptic fit. Suspicious Minds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_RCvsiavuM) in Vegas.
Ollin Arageed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI4g1OrQCCk) 9/16/78 (Hamza!), video version. Better audio here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pp-gFT5uDk).
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, A Taste of Honey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtcdTSFxSu8).
The Lawrence Welk Show, Georgia on My Mind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKN2ixyq_hY).
[Edit.--My pineal gland started flashing "Mississippi Mud" about 15 seconds later. Sure enough. The whole of the insanity is here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjqd61ROCT4), embedded in a documentary video.]
Come a Long Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVQT5ba9u8w), Captain Spalding.
[Edit.---A dandy ensemble version. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efwJM3CwJzY)]
Tangled Up in Blue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKcNyMBw818).
I can remember every one, but there's only one.
The Staple Singers, Come Go with Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAr7iq43SRc).
Pete Seeger, Banks of Marble (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-o3CJytIPE).
Hard to keep track of this after a few years and wholesale attack on my neurons -- I hope not a dup.
Kermit the Frog, Once in a Lifetime (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTeTcrvSQms).
Cyndi Lauper, Time after Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBsCqTlepPs), live acoustic from The Town Hall in 2004.
Probably my favorite from Louis and the Good Book: Ezekiel Saw de Wheel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb1DXR17LhE).
Lawyers, Guns and Money (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZx_TokIHdI), live at the Capitol Theatre 1980.
The Garcia/Grisman cover of The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXdJelp8OOU).
Tampa Red, She Want to Sell My Monkey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP1RBj4BnMo).
The Treniers, Say Hey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UduDreaZq6c). Willie Mays is the oldest living HOFer (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/sports/baseball/willie-mays-90.html). I should have posted this on Thursday, but so it goes.
Thankfully, the two whiny shits from the band whined and shat their way out of appearing, which saved the trouble of loading up Yoko with a milligram of acid and making up a story about why she was being dropped off in the subway with a bag of hot dogs.
And without further ado, please welcome back Billy Preston (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxuC6HJuP64).
Quote from: Wheezer on January 22, 2022, 08:24:15 PM
Thankfully, the two whiny shits from the band whined and shat their way out of appearing, which saved the trouble of loading up Yoko with a milligram of acid and making up a story about why she was being dropped off in the subway with a bag of hot dogs.
And without further ado, please welcome back Billy Preston (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxuC6HJuP64).
And here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvT4BUFauqc) is where Billy isn't the fifth Beatle, he's the motherfuckin' first.