Aussie/Canuck Kelly Pettit sounds like the best of many bands I liked in the late 70’s-early 80’s, including the Beat Farmers and the Rave-Ups. He’s not unknown south of the equator, and he has a big following in Japan. Here’s a sampler link.
Category: Music
Saturday Matinee: Magnetic Movie Gecko T Spinner Cheap Thrills Persuasions
I’ve seen them all my life, but no one ever believed me. Magnetic fields are visible. <snork>
This is why the earth isn’t covered with lizard carcases.
“READ THE WORD! ARRRGH!”
Cheap thrills (until yer hair gets caught).
Speaking of Cheap Thrills: These guys were so ahead of their time they had to go retro, and still didn’t get a hit. Here’s Ruben & The Jets.
These guys couldn’t get a hit either, so they covered Ruben & the Jets. Here’s The Persuasions‘ great a capella version.
Speaking of The Persuasions, this cd is a must-have in Bunk’s opinion, so here’s another cover:
[Magnetic Movie found via Neatorama, Gecko here, Mr. T here, Spinnergirl here. Others found via serendipitous cosmic debris]
Saturday Matinee: Ukeleles, Hair & Drums
Jake Shimabukuro makes his Uke Weep. Amazing.
Kaje. Nice hat. Nice Uke.
Nice animation. Nice Uke.
Nice hair, no Ukes, but wait ’til you see their cantalopes. (Found it on this guy‘s website. The B-52’s are always cool.)
Not sure where these folks are from, but I’d love to hear ’em play this:
Todd Rundgren’s ska more than makes up for last week’s lack of Saturday Matinee offerings. (Here’s Bad Manners’ take on “Bang the Drum All Day.” Unfortunately, no video, but Linerider rocks out here.)
[Image of headbangers via email from Grampa Strutts. More Ukelele here.]
Saturday Matinee: Mama Strutts
To my dear Mama Strutts.
Stuck In Your Head
Saturday Matinee – SpinCycle, Howlin’ Wolf, Howlin’ Lou,Henry Mancini & Roy Buchanon
[Found at Arbroath.]
Twilight Zone-ish.
Interesting documentary… Interviews of some of the patrons of the “Spin Cycle” laundromat somewhere in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Oh, yeah. “Ya ya ya aya…” Gotta post some music. Do not mock those who try. [Also found at Arbroath.]
Howlin’ Wolf’s classic “Smokestack Lightning.”
[UPDATE: The bass player in this clip is Willie Dixon. THE Willie Dixon. Sorry I missed giving him credit. Dixon wrote a number of songs that later became rock standards. He recorded some albums himself, and didn’t stutter when he sang. More after the break below.]
“Theme to Peter Gunn.” Here’s Henry Mancini’s live version, introduced by Steve Allen. (The horn section rocks, whether you like it or not.)
Last Post on THIS Spin Cycle: The Late Great Roy Buchanan‘s explosive take on Mancini’s “Theme to Peter Gunn.” (This one’s for all you Aussies – Thanks for the hula-hoops, mates!)
Feral Wombat Avoids Capture After Emerging From the Sub-Cutaneous Protocranial Region of Amy Winehouse’s Head
Pendlemont Turnstile East, England (Strutts News Services)
In an unprecedented feat of unnatural chamomile and a verified act of a genuine changeling, singer Amy Winehouse successfully produced a live wombat from her head, with neither provocation nor warning Thursday, in front of three of her four close friends (two of which didn’t show).
Due to years of self-inflicted mental and physical abuse, Ms. Winehouse came forward and admitted to Senior Reporter Bonnie Phumph (Strutts News Services) that she had indeed succeeded in her ongoing mind-altering experiments.
“It’s only natural that I should produce apparitions like this. I see them all the time, and it’s about time you did, too,” stated the formerly attractive Ms. W.
The unusually coloured black wombat emerged, scratched itself a bit, and wandered off into the hinterlands of the internest; Ms. Winehouse quietly followed and retired for a three-day nap prior to wandering off herself.
LOL Russian: Boris Manilovchk
“I ridysong wat mak d hol worl cry;
“Donut be steak beef or dat ud-der gy;
“Я пишу песни делают весь мир спеть;
“I ridysong, I ridysong.”
[Original unaltered image from here.]
[Other news: Bunk is blogsitting Finicky Penguin’s Playpen starting today and running through the 18th of June, standing room only. Go have a visit. Help yourself to whatever’s in the fridge, make long distance phone calls to Nigeria to check on the bank account status, download tranny dwarf porn onto his laptop, etc. In a coupla weeks, FinPeng is gonna be blogsitting here, and I expect y’all to be on your worst behavior.]
Saturday Matinee – Glass Sphere, Drag & Drop, C.N. & Boogie Woogie
Sorry, folks, Bunk’s kinda wiped out today… had to throw this together at the last minute. I’ll be in better shape tomorrow.
The guy’s amazing.
Clever animation, via the Presurfer.
Don’t EVEN mess with Chuck.
Meade Lux Lewis was prolly the greatest boogie woogie piano man ever.
Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson were no slouches either.
Otha Ellas Bates McDaniel (Bo Diddley) 1928-2008
If I’m not mistaken, his nickname came from the diddley bow, which consisted of a wire attached to the side of a barn and strung to a wood plank. To play it, you step on the plank to vary the wire tension while you bang out a rhythm on the wire with a stick, kinda like a washtub bass: “bomp-bomp-bomp–bompbomp.”
Video from the TNT Show 1966. Here’s to the Bo Diddley Beat.
Tacky Raccoons 