Saturday Matinee – Eddie 9V, RelaxTrio, Altered Five Blues Band & Bywater Call

“A shot rang out in the name of love” is one hell of a lyric.
Brooks Mason was born in Georgia in 1996, focuses on classic southern soul, blues, rock and funk. “A lot of people wanted me to be the Brooks Mason Blues Band, but that’s been done. I wanted to start from scratch, and I ain’t never heard of no bluesman named Eddie 9V.”

The girl pounds bass. Finnish band RelaxTrio is
Linda Teränen (Vocals & double bass)
Oskari Nieminen (Vocals & guitar)
Vilho Voutilainen (Drums & backing vocals)

Award winning group from Milwaukee, Altered Five Blues Band features frontman Jeff Taylor with Jeff Schroedl / guitar, Mark Solveson / bass, Alan Arber / drums and Steve Huebler / keyboard.

Bywater Call is a Toronto-based group formed by singer Meghan Parnell and guitar player Dave Barnes. They were nominees for the Southern Rock & Soul Independent Blues Awards in 2021. In 2024 they were nominated for International Blues Artist of the year (UK Blues Awards).

Lotta weather this past week, but it didn’t freeze, didn’t flood and nothing important fell over. Thought about getting a hair cut, but I filled up the tank instead and fed the cat a few times. Life is good. See you tomorrow, some time around porch o’clock.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 930 – Catworm, Dance Hard & Stone Jester Twist

[Found here, here and here.]

Nine Turtles

Top Row (left to right): Eastern box turtle, pancake tortoise, and Bell’s hingeback tortoise.
Middle Row (left to right): Radiated tortoise, Florida box turtle, and Burmese star tortoise.
Bottom Row (left to right): Spotted turtle, Bourret’s box turtle, and European pond turtle.

[Found here via here.]

“Hey, Charlie… hey, Charlie wake up…”

[Image refers to this viral classic animation and was screencapped from the final scene of this AI reel.  h/t Charlene J.]

TRENDING OHIO

[Full story w/ update and video found here.]

workshop

The workshop of Petr Válek. He makes music and ringtones too.

Rupicoline Hot Links

Uschi Siebert, Kulenkampffs reizende Assistentin, und Gerti Daub, Miss Germany 1957, lieben auch den guten BLAUPUNKT-Ton.

Millionaire Hobo, The Fantastics (1959) Formerly known as The Pharaohs, The Holidays and The Passions, they became The Fantastics when RCA Victor discovered that the other names were taken. (This is not the same group that began as The Velours and moved to the UK.)

14 banks.

Asko Beer.

Confirmed.

Procession.

Fkkn cats 1.
Fkkn cats 2.

No Solicitors.

Resume filler.

Many a penny.

SNAP suckers.

Annie the Bug.

When balls collide.

Nice big ‘ol bucket.

Kenji Hoshi’s tanks.

Flinders Street Station.

“Normally it’s pretty simple.”

Nosmo King [via Memo Of The Air].

Clay in Italy [via Everlasting Blört].

Portsmouth Man [via The Feral Irishman].

9 minutes and 32 seconds of Steven Wright.

“AITA for ‘voodooing’ my neighbors?” [via Bored Panda].
Update 1. Update 2. Epilogue.

Hitchcock’s Rear Window opening scene.
Hitchcock’s Rear Window screencaps [via Thompson, blog].

[Top image: Colorized ad for 1957 Blaupunkt Palma 2435 radio. The seven-tube set retailed for 390 Deutschmarks, and tuned both the longwave and mediumwave broadcast bands, FM (up to 100 MHz), and shortwave. Caption on original ad translates to “Uschi Siebert, Kulenkampff’s charming assistant, and Gerti Daub, Miss Germany 1957, also love the good BLAUPUNKT tone.”

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Saturday Matinee – Alastair Greene, Eric Johanson & Katarina Pejak; Nikki Hill Band, Anthony Rosano & The Conqueroos, and Cam Cole

Ruf’s Blues Caravan 2024 featured Alastair Greene, Eric Johanson & Katarina Pejak. 

Nikki Hill Band:
“If Tina Turner and Little Richard had a daughter and raised her with the help of uncles James Brown and Chuck Berry, she’d be like Nikki Hill.”
— Minneapolis Star Tribune

Anthony Rosano & The Conqueroos mixes Delta blues, NOLA  second line funk and 60’s jams with classic rock. No self-indulgent wheedly-wheedly solos with these guys.

Cam Cole, busker, bluesman, rocker, recording artist, and the most impressive one-man band you will ever see.

Looks like the west coast is in for rain, the midwest is in for winter, and the porch has a roof with a live weather watch. See you tomorrow, rain, mud, sleet or snow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 929 – Hooper Rex, Sakura Yosozumi & Dizzy Donuts

[Found here, here and here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored