Oh, man… and it’s a salad fork, too. $20 would be too cheap.
Anyone gotta download of this?
[Found here, and crossposted on AmyOops. Too good not to share.]
update below the break…
Category: Music
Saturday Matinee: Wolf vs. Pig, The Wrecking Crew, Tommy Tedesco, Lightnin’ Hopkins and John Prine
This trippy oddness was found here. Kinda long, but somebody put a lot of time into it. The result is excellent.
Here’s a trailer for an unreleased documentary. The Wrecking Crew was a band you’ve never heard of, but you’ve heard ’em.
Tommy Tedesco was a member of The Wrecking Crew, and was probably the most talented session guitarist ever. He was certainly the most recorded one.
Lightnin’ Hopkins. How many POS bands covered this great song?
It’s getting late, so here’s John Prine, live at the kitchen table. I miss nights like that.
[Bonus below the break. I’m gonna break the G-rating just this once, only because I think it’s funny. Kids, bring your dad in before you click on it, have him read this caveat, and you won’t get into trouble. I’ll take the blame, and I promise I won’t do it again as far as he knows.]
Saturday Matinee – Charlie, Ramones, Chantays, Dale, Vaughan
Charlie the Unicorn 3 has prolly been around for a bit.
[Found at Miss Cellania’s Blog ‘o Fury.]
Gotta clean the palate after that one. Hey Ho! Let’s Go!
The Chantays rocked on The Lawrence Welk Show in 1963.
Dick Dale and Stevie Ray Vaughan play “Pipeline.”
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble play Hendrix.
Saturday Matinee: Sucky Song & Favorite DooWop
Clever stop motion stuff outclasses a sucky song.
The Dell-Vikings’ “Jitterbug Mary” is an unrecobanized classic. They were my favorite doowop group. I hear this kinda stuff and it makes everything better.
My favorite doowop group was The Five Satins. Here they lipsynch for a bunch of white people.
Gene Chandler was better known for “Duke of Earl.” Here’s the Duke singing “Good Times.” Although this song is R&B, he’s my favorite doowop singer.
“Love of My Life” is one of the greatest songs ever, and Frank Zappa’s bands are my favorite doowop group. (This song is still my favorite — too bad The Ramones aren’t still around to do a Zappa tribute album.)
[ Woohoo! Post No. 700!]
28 MARCH 8:30PM – PARTY LIKE IT’S 2009
At 8:30PM tonight, make sure you turn all your lights on, power up your TVs and stereos, and celebrate the Technological Achievements of Humanity. Get in your cars and drive somewhere, just for the sake of it, and just for fun. Raise and lower your garage doors, and run your washing machines. Run the dryer without anything in it. Got a power mower? Crank it up. Heat up your cat’s food in the microwave. Take your dog out to Burger King. Make as many long distance telephone calls as you can. Run your dishwasher with half of the normal load, and run the other half separately. Open up your refrigerator door, and look without removing anything to eat. Do it again. Download updates for all your computer programs and email them to all your friends.
LET’S CELEBRATE AMAZING ACHIEVEMENTS FOR A CHANGE!
“But why should I do that?” you ask. I’ll tell you.
We’re fighting Global Cooling. Mostly we’re fighting Global Idiocy, but let’s call it Global Cooling for now. The feel-good crowd will never know the difference anyway.
Those folks who think that turning their electricity off for an hour will “save the planet” (or “send a message” to someone or something) are the same folks who stood outside their homes a couple of years ago with candle wax dripping over their fingers, believing that the space shuttle was gonna zoom by and take a photo of the earth lit up with peace candles. My message is:
Saturday Matinee: Judge ’em for yourselves
They have a website. Really.
[Links above were found via AfroJacks.]
Great parody by National Lampoon, back when they were funny existed.
Nice reference to Ten Years After’s “I’d Love To Change The World” at 2:25 above. So here ’tis:
“Tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are rich no more.”
Alvin Lee and Ten Years After (live at Woodstock 1969) covered over a dozen classic blues songs in one great jam.
Saturday Matinee – Kid Ory’s Muskrat Ramble
Kid Ory was one of the greatest trombonists and band leaders of the 20th Century. One of the early jazz pioneers, his career spanned decades and influenced uncountable others. From Wikipedia:
Kid Ory had one of the best-known bands in New Orleans in the 1910s, hiring many of the great jazz musicians of the city, including, cornetists Joe “King” Oliver, Mutt Carey, and Louis Armstrong; and clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone.
For many years I thought King Oliver formed the band. Here’s Kid Ory’s band in 1959, playing “Muskrat Ramble,” a song he wrote in the 1920’s. [Bonus: Interview with Kid Ory.]
Satchmo got his start playing 2nd trumpet in King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, later married the piano player Lil Hardin. Here’s Louis Armstrong’s version of “Muskrat Ramble.”
Country Joe MacDonald blatantly and unashamedly ripped off Kid Ory’s tune (probably without paying royalties) and warped it into a sarcastic war protest song. Here he is in his blissfully ignorant glory (apparently without the Fish) at Woodstock 1969.
Here’s a kinda related video: Small Faces’ “Tin Soldier.” There’s a reason they had few TV appearances and I don’t think Spinal Tap could’ve topped that spastic performance. [Found via Mogadonia.]
Just sealed it. I’m going to hell for connecting Kid Ory with Spinal Tap Lego animation. I am very sorry and I promise that it won’t happen again as far as you know.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Saturday Matinee – Harp Guitar, Graffiti Removal, Paint it Black, Black Betty
That’s a harp guitar, folks, being played by Andy McKee. This is the same Larson-Dyer version that I learned on; it was my great grandfather’s, and I still have it. It’s got a wide fretboard with 6 strings and 6 free bass strings above (hence the “harp” moniker). I’d never heard one played properly until I saw this video.
The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal. [Found via here. Related post here.]
Okay as long as we’re still talking about painting…
RamJam. Amazing one hit wonder, based upon Ledbelly’s classic.
Whoa. Meatloaf covers RamJam’s version of Ledbelly’s classic.
And, um, Tom Jones did it, too. Whoa, whoa, whooaa…
Here’s Ledbelly speaking for himself.
You said, “Jaco WHO?”
Bonus video of Jaco Pastorius:
Tacky Raccoons 
