Category: Cool

Saturday Matinee – Tributes to Ben E. King, Johnny Cash & The B-52’s

Tribute to a great singer Ben E. King, who passed away 30 April 2015, as performed by an a cappella group featuring Grandpa Eliott Small.

Prior to his solo career, Ben E. King was a key member of The Drifters, a doo-wop group founded in 1953 and fronted by Clyde McPhatter. King replaced McPhatter as lead singer in 1958, and the New Drifters were born. Most of King’s hits were written by the team of Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, prolific songwriters of the time.

Tribute to Johnny Cash (1932-2003) on beer bottles [via].

Tribute to the B-52s by Full Blown Cherry. Yeah, it’s a crappy video, but watch what they pull off. They’re not amateurs, and by 02:50 a roadie has to hold the amp down. Any three-man band that can pull off a Rockabilly Tribute To The Ramones gets my full respect.

Have a great weekend folks, be back here in a few minutes.

The .Gif Friday Post No.388 – Jet Trails, Big Seas & GyroCube

Jet Trails

big seas

GyroCube

[Found here, here and here.]

Jurassic Puke

Physics and Dinosaurs

This is why fish survived.

[Found here.]

Dance Hard.

Dance Hard 25

Dance Hard 25a

For only $1.98 you too can dance your way to popularity.

[Found here and here. Archive for our popular “Dance Hard” category is here.]

Bath Day 1910±

Bath Day 1910 or so

[Found here. Somewhat related post here.]

Retro Campers

Mating Season

Those two are hibernating, but click on any pic below to see them in their full-sized glory.

For the WIN:

Retro Campers 11

The late Huell Howser interviewed a number of Teardrop Camper afficionados at a gathering in 2003. Very cool vid.

[Images found here, here, here, here, here, and maybe some other places like here and here. Related posts here, here and here. Oh, and here.]

Saturday Matinee – The Specials, Seasick Steve & The J. Geils Band

The Specials live at PinkPop 28 May 2012.

Pinkpop Festival or PINKPOP is a large, annual music festival held at Landgraaf, the Netherlands. It is usually held on the Pentecost weekend (Pinksteren in Dutch, hence the name). —Wiki

With the exception of The Specials and Seasick Steve, most of the bands on that line up sucked big green donkeys, and I really tried to find one, just one, that didn’t suck big green donkeys.

Seasick Steve played the same day. Pure roots rock blues with homemade steel. The guy’s a killer, and he knew that the other bands (except for The Specials) sucked big green donkeys, too. But then there was that bar band fronted by someone named Bruce.

This bar band was way more fun.

Have a great weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow for more stupid.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 387 – Foldytown, Catwalk & Silo Man

Foldytown

catwalk

silo man

[Found here, here and here.]

On This Day Awesome Happened.

Keaton Hardy Laurel

[Found here, and if you don’t know who they were, click here, here and here.]

Russian Salt Cave

Russian Salt Cave Perm

Russian Salt Cave Perm 2

Russian Salt Cave Perm 3

Nope. Not manmade.

[Story and more images found here.]