Rodrigo Y Gabriella - Orion

The Doors - The Soft Parade

ALL OUR LIVES WE SWEAT AND SAVE

BUILDING FOR A SHALLOW GRAVE

Gene Autry - Here Comes Santa Claus

Move Ya Jagoff

This here's for all of you Pittsburghers who have to deal...

Merry Christmas!!

FLASHBACK FRIDAY!!!

Rare Earth - (I Know) I'm Losing You - 1970 STEREO

The Who - A Quick One, While He's Away - Rock And Roll Circus - 1968

This is a great DVD to pick up with mind blowing performances... a time capsule that definitely welcomes you with a stellar line up and candid face time.
I was turned on to this one by my brother a long ways back. It never gets old, YANO?

CHEERS DANO!

Here's a taste courtesy of The Who...

Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Punch The Clock - 1983

Punch the Clock is an album released in 1983 by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. It was Costello's eighth album, his seventh with the Attractions since 1978. The album featured Costello's first U.S. Top 40 hit, "Everyday I Write the Book."

Yeah, that's what the Wiki says...
But to us it's one of those albums you put on and everything all of a sudden seems OK.
The perfect album to listen to with the one you love.
or
The perfect album to listen to to if you are alone and piecing it all back together. Because eventually it will be all back together and you'll be able to share it with the one you love.

Life is a funny thing... don'tcha think?

The Doors - Indian Summer

Photos are taken by Raeanne Rubenstein at Themis in 1969

FLASHBACK FRIDAY 11/11/11

Here's your groovy host...

The Animals - It's My Life - 1965

The Rolling Stones - Little Red Rooster - 1965

Ace - How Long - 1974

Atlanta Rhythm Section - So Into You - 1977

Absent Again

Hey all,

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for checking for new posts! (If you haven't given up entirely!)

Yeah, I've been busy.

I'll be back around soon.

In the meantime, if you want something great to listen to, pick up the new album by Pittsburgh's greatest band KILL THE DRAMA.

It's called The Burning Streets. They haven't been signed yet, so get out there and support them!

www.killthedrama.com

See you soon...

Joe

Nirvana - On A Plain (1991)

20 Years...

I can't really get my mind around that.

This has always been my favorite song off of Nevermind.

Here's the original...

Consoler Of The Lonely - The Raconteurs (2008)

Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart (Live)

Grand Funk Railroad - Sin's A Good Man's Brother (1970)

The first track off of their 1970 Capitol Records release Closer To Home.

YANO

Draggin' The Line - Tommy James (1971)

Black Sabbath - Sabotage (1975)

THANKS DANO!

The Animals - Don't Bring Me Down (1966)

Van Morrison!!!!

The Lillywhite Sessions - Dave Matthews Band (2000) unreleased

The Lillywhite Sessions (LWS) is a collection of songs recorded by Dave Matthews Band in 1999 and 2000 and produced by Steve Lillywhite. The songs, recorded by the band as a follow-up to their 1998 album Before These Crowded Streets, were ultimately scrapped by the band. This is frequently attributed to pressure from RCA executives to wrap up the sessions and release an overdue (per contract), upbeat album (the LWS were considered on the darker side by RCA).[by whom?] Upon abandoning the album-in-progress, Dave Matthews was assigned to work with producer Glen Ballard who, in association with Matthews, wrote the album Everyday in just ten days. This contrasted with the band's prior style of writing, which included significant collaboration between the band members in the studio. The recordings later emerged on the internet shortly after the release of Everyday, and created controversy among fans as well as the music industry, which was early in its campaign to curb illegal file downloads.

The Lillywhite Sessions were never released.

Eric Burdon & WAR - Spill The Wine

Grand Funk Railroad - Inside Looking Out - Live Hershey PA 1969

KISS - Deuce - Live at Winterland 1975

Pearl Jam - Not For You (SNL Rehearsals 1994)

Sonny Boy Williamson - I'm A Lonely Man (Europe 1963)

BIG JOE TURNER !!!

The Raconteurs - Level (2007)

From the album

Broken Boy Soldiers

Alice Cooper - Ballad Of Dwight Fry (Montreux, 2005)

North Mississippi All Stars - Po Black Maddie/Skinny Woman (11-22-2010)

Jethro Tull - Teacher (1970)

Jump up, look around

find yourself some fun

no sense in sitting there 

hating everyone.

The Budos Band - Live at Bumbershoot Music Lounge KEXP Seattle

The White Stripes - Ball and Biscuit (2003)

from 2003's Elephant

The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba (2001)

from 2001's White Blood Cells

The White Stripes - Catch Hell Blues (2007)

from 2007's Icky Thump

Turncoat - Anti-Flag (2003)

TURNCOAT!

KILLER!

LIAR!

THIEF!

Bandit - Neil Young (2003)

from the 2003

 neil young & crazy horse

release

greendale

GREENDALE

The Horizon Has Been Defeated - Jack Johnson (2003)

Mama Cass - Make Your Own Kind Of Music (1969)

4 8 15 16 23 42

PURE ROCK FURY - Clutch (2001)

CLUTCH WEBSITE

Pan-amoebic algebra, breed bizarre bacteria
What to do, oh what to do
Africanized killer bees, alabastar dieties, milk from spoons, sip milk from spoons

Within the ruins against the firth
The salamander has given birth

Only red horse rainbows can save us
Let them run wild and asunder
Call the royal guard to let the people in
Flaming arrows by hundreds

Pull the bog man from the peat, stand him up on both his feet
He jigs and reels, he jigs and reels
Infiltrating silver crabs, carry a most scented flag, to their front lines, to their front lines

Within the ruins against the firth
The salamander has given birth

Only red horse rainbows can save us
Let them run wild and asunder
Call the royal guard to let the people in
Flaming arrows by hundreds

(And now the salamander)

Run to the tower and call up the magus
If he has caused this, we'll tear out his pages
Throw 'im in shackles
And remove his hands

Metallica - Ride The Lightning (1984)

1. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE

2. RIDE THE LIGHTNING

3. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

4. FADE TO BLACK

5. TRAPPED UNDER ICE

6. ESCAPE

7. CREEPING DEATH

8. THE CALL OF KTULU

OLD METALLICA IS THE ONLY METALLICA

Danzig - She Rides (1988)

Robert Nighthawk!!!!

Hey You - Pink Floyd (1979)

TOGETHER

WE STAND...

DIVIDED

WE FALL...

WE FALL...

WE FALL...

WE FALL...

WE FALL...

JUNIOR KIMBROUGH !!!!

ALL NIGHT LONG

How Vinyl Records Are Made

Hello, Neighbor!

Did you ever wonder how records are made? 

Records are wonderful things to have. You can put them on your record player and by putting the needle to the groove you can enjoy the wonderful sounds of music!

Without records, this world would be a sad place indeed.

I asked Mr. McFeely  if he could find us a video to share on Picture Picture so we could see how records are made. He found us this two part series.

Let's take a look on... Picture Picture!

The Beatles - Hey Jude (1968)

Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight (1975)

Phil Collins - Take Me Home (1985)

I DON'T MIND!!!!

CAUSE I DON'T REMEMBER!!!

THE DARK TOWER FILMS

Yeah, I know that this is music unrelated, but I think my 7 or 8 frequent guests aren't going to mind too damn much me spending a few minutes discussing one of the best tales ever told being raised upon the talkies, both large and small.

Yes all, I am speaking of Stephen King's masterpiece The Dark Tower.

For those of you who know not what I speak of, I ask you to seek out the tale and immerse your mind into it. Do it now, please.

For those that do know, and have traveled many wheels with Roland Deschain, the Last Gunslinger of Gilead that was and the Ka-Tet of Nineteen, hear me now I beg.

The undertaking of transferring the epic tale to film is possibly impossible to begin with, despite the fact that every soul who has ever traveled it desires to see it done so. Those of us who believe that Sai King actually was the medium and pivot for its creation on this level secretly fear the slow destruction of its purity, yet desire to see its justice brought forth. Such an undertaking, in the hands of the wrong interpreters, would surely spell disaster for those who hold the tale so dear, including the author himself.

Unfortunately, most of the bard's tales transfer poorly to film due to the cerebral level he communicates on. With the few exceptions of personal interpretation (Kubrick's vision of The Shining is one), Stephen King's beautiful stories are usually lost on film. It is no fault of the author, yet I can give my opinion that it is the fault of the production.  Lame casting, poor editing and half-assed directing have plagued his devoted time and again, leaving us with empty feelings and hoping some good glorious day something might arise that could do justice to the tales we love.

The Dark Tower is not your typical King tale at all. If anything, it is his finest work. If it should fall into the wrong hands it could suffer beyond all measure.

Enter Director Ron Howard and his vision. 

Yes, he has been tapped to tackle the epic journey of The Last Gunslinger and his quest for the Dark Tower. NBC Universal announced that The Dark Tower will see the light of day as three films and two television series. The two television series will span the gap between the films and use to its advantage the extended time a serial provides.

So comes the first question on every one's minds.

 Who will be cast as Roland of Gilead?

The answer?

It is swirling around the halls of Entertainment that Oscar nominated actor Javier Bardem has been offered the role. My first thought was-  Yeah, that could definitely work.

So yes, I am now a little more hopeful that this really could work. Let us all who really care continue to hope and offer up our opinions as The Tower draws near. 

Long Days and Pleasant Nights to you and yours.

 

O - Damien Rice (2002)

What I give to you is just what I'm going through
This is nothing new, no, no just another phase of finding
what I really need is what makes me bleed...

www.damienrice.com

PRETTY HATE MACHINE - Nine Inch Nails (1989)

 

And if she says come inside I'll come inside for her.
If she says give it all I'll give everything to her.
I am justified. I am purified. I am sanctified. Inside you

bow down before the one you serve.
you're going to get what you deserve.

You give me the reason.
You give me control.

I gave you my Purity.

My Purity you stole.

Did you think i wouldn't recognize this compromise?
Am i just too stupid to realize?
Stale incense old sweat and 

lies lies lies

1. Head Like a Hole
2. Terrible Lie
3. Down in It
4. Sanctified
5. Something I Can Never Have
6. Kinda I Want To
7. Sin
8. That's What I Get
9. The Only Time
10. Ringfinger

Neil Young - Thrasher (1979)

It was then I knew I'd had enough,
Burned my credit card for fuel
Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand
With a one-way ticket to the land of truth
And my suitcase in my hand
How I lost my friends I still don't understand

 

 

 

Linda Scott - I've Told Every Little Star (1961)

SLIP - Quicksand (1993)

This is an old jawbone that has been stuck in my back pocket for years, left on an unmarked cassette that somehow keeps rearing up and flashing its red light of yesterday.

Every other year or so for the past fifteen years I kept finding this tape without a label laying about the cluster of my music. Granted, there are at least a hundred of said tapes laying about my home in various boxes, all relics of a forgotten medium that I do miss terribly (I still wish to have a cassette player in the Jeep, but with discs and iPods...right?) but this one tape always pops up. I remember listening the hell out of it in some faded induced past of my youth, but it didn't have a label. So I would always say that 'Yeah, I'll get around to investigating who exactly it is.'

You that know me, know that I eventually will get around to certain things, and this time I did.

Good ole Internet and its lyric searches.

Then it all came flooding back.

My senior year at Valley High School, mama. Quicksand was in the deck of the Nova. I think Mark Kitko turned me on to this one. Great album. Still kicks ass.

Take a listen and enjoy...

Yeah, I went out and bought the CD.

The Cars - Drive (1984)

who's gonna hold you down
when you shake?
who's gonna come around
when you break?

VIVA LA VINYL

SPIN SPIN SPIN!!!

STOP DROP AND ROLL!!! - Foxboro Hot Tubs (2008)

I love this album terribly. 

It is fun and dark in the swellest of ways and will curl the tips of your toes deep into the fuzz of the soft light. Grab your lover and grind the crotch out of each others drawers late into the night over and over as the sun comes a creeping and the sweat slowly rolls down your entwined spines. 

Happily warm and will never get old. 

Find your youth!

Radiohead - House of Cards (2007)

THE INFRASTRUCTURE WILL COLLAPSE

THE INFRASTRUCTURE WILL COLLAPSE

THE INFRASTRUCTURE WILL COLLAPSE

THE INFRASTRUCTURE WILL COLLAPSE

THE INFRASTRUCTURE WILL COLLAPSE

THE INFRASTRUCTURE WILL COLLAPSE

THE INFRASTRUCTURE WILL COLLAPSE

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (1977)

The Name of This Drummer Is Chris Frantz.

The Name of This Bassist Is Tina Weymouth.

The Name of This Guitarist Is Jerry Harrison.

The Name of This Singer Is David Byrne.

The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads.

Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness (1974)

The Danderliers!!

DUB SIDE OF THE MOON - Easy Star All-Stars (2003)

Awhile back- meaning a few months, I would say- we were hanging around Manifest Records here in Charlotte, just killing time in one of our favorite ways. Browsing through the racks of never-ending glory I caught myself zigging and zagging back and forth to this recognizable tune on the speakers. Let me just say, that I was totally immersed in the stacks of music and the tunes overhead keep you smiling as you dig on and on and on, but this was a song I knew, but I didn't. It was sooo recognizable but wasn't.

Stopping dead in my tracks, I gave my good dog ear one turn toward the sound and froze. It was reggae, sure, but it was frigging Dark Side Of The Moon! And it was sooo damn good.

So you know I had to B Line over to the center counter where they play the music from and I found out about The Easy Star All-Stars and their dripping gold send up to everyone's favorite album.
I didn't buy it then, I wanted it on vinyl and ended up ordering it for us online.

Here in our little cottage on this side of the forest we spent the weekend spinning record after record during the New Year's birth with soothing lights and love. Dub Side of the Moon received monstrous play time and it makes you so happy.

The All-Stars HAVE to be huge Dark Side fans, because this album is nothing but a labor of love.
ENJOY!