4th of July, X (1987)
[Photo by Teresa Davis Photography found here.]
Category: Music
Floccilating Hot Links
Kiss My, Sean Healan Band (2008)
Nice groove from New Mexico singer / songwriter Sean Healan.
The white line is lava [via Mme. Jujujive].
The longest green light [via Bunkerville].
Loki’s horned face that looks like a caribou.
MPGe is how far an EV can go on a “gallon of electrons”.
Photos by a NYC nightshift cabbie [via Memo Of The Air].
Will Bradley & Ray McKinley: Best of the Big Bands [free download].
[Top image: Sock puppet by Natalie Karine.]
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Saturday Matinee – Joanne Shaw Taylor, Altered Five Blues Band & Ana Popovic
When she was 16, U.K. blues rocker Joanne Shaw Taylor was invited by Dave Stewart (of the Eurythmics) to join his supergroup DUP (Da Universal Playaz). Since then Taylor has recorded several albums and has won numerous awards, including Best Female Vocalist at the British Blues Awards two years in a row.
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.
Called “one helluva a guitar-player” by Bruce Springsteen and nominated for seven Blues Music Awards, Ana Popovic was added as the only female guitarist to the 2014 -2018 all-star Experience Hendrix lineup, a nationwide tour celebrating the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix.
Tomorrow’s scheduled porch meetup may be postponed as I have important business to attend to regarding Bunkessa’s birthday. Help yourselves to whatever’s left in the cooler and I’ll see you when I get back.
Scapulomancing Hot Links
Violent Love (live), Oingo Boingo (1983) Ska cover of Willie Dixon’s 1951 classic. From the Utoobage comments:
“Fun fact: In the early 80’s when they performed this song, during the sax solo Danny Elfman would grab a random person from the audience and take them backstage. When they returned Danny would be zipping up his fly and the other person’s hair would be all messed up (and yes he did this with male audience members too).”
Applaud as if your life depends on it.
Please look at this chicken [via Bunkerville].
Poppin lollies in da hood [via Mme. Jujujive].
Norman Rockwell’s reference photos [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: One of photographer Steve Gschmeissner’s microbeasties.]
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Saturday Matinee – JP Soars & The Red Hots, The Bruce Katz Band, and Eric Slim Zahl & The South West Swingers
JP Soars & The Red Hots go on a roadtrip. There are exactly two Red Hots: drummer Chris Peet and Cleveland Frederick on standup bass.
The Bruce Katz Band: Bruce Katz on keyboards, Aaron Lieberman on guitar and drummer Ray Hangen.
Award winning rockers Eric Slim Zahl & The South West Swingers hail from Stavanger, Norway. Other than a brief discography, I could find scant info about this group, and that’s a damn shame.
We’re barely past the Summer Solstice and the days are getting shorter already, but it doesn’t matter to me because my watch is set to porch time. See you tomorrow when the big hand points at something.
Patroclinous Hot Links
Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar Pts 1&2, Will Bradley Orchestra (1940) Featuring Ray McKinley (vocal) and Freddie “Daddy” Slack (piano), this classic boogie woogie was written by Don Raye.
#12.
A discussion of visual & ocular migraines.
Absurd Trolley Problems [via Memo Of The Air].
Willie Nelson’s hole and more [via Mme. Jujujive].
Not your grampa’s pocket knife [via Bunkerville].
Emmanuel Don’t Do It – The Movie [h/t Corinne L].
De Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth [h/t Aussie Infidel].
Photographer disqualified for entering photo in contest. [h/t Paul Y].
[Top image found here, colorized.]
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Saturday Matinee – The David Gogo Band, The Atomic 44’s and Kevin Borich, John Watson & Harry Brus
Canadian singer, songwriter and bluesman David Gogo began playing guitar at the age of five; at 15 he met and was encouraged by Stevie Ray Vaughan; a year later he formed his first band. He’s won numerous awards, including three JUNOs (despite EMI spiking his solo album in the US).
Blues/roots supergroup The Atomic 44’s formed in 2020 when Eric Von Herzen (harmonica player for Walter Trout, Social Distortion, The Atomic Road Kings, Junior Watson) joined guitarist/vocalist Johnny Main (The 44’s).
Another power trio of rockers from down under: Kevin Borich / guitar, John Watson / drums & Harry Brus / bass. [h/t John McL.]
That should be enough to fill your earbuckets for now. Happy Fathers Day to all you fathers (including those of you who don’t know yet) and we’ll have some quality porch time tomorrow.
Dégringolade Hot Links
I Really Love You, The Stereos (1961) Formed by members of The Buckeyes, The Stereos were an R&B group from Steubenville, Ohio, and recorded from 1959 through 1968. Their biggest hit, I Really Love You, was later covered in 1983 by George Harrison.
More about Robot Archie.
Robbie Shilstone’s animations.
Old trains & obscure locomotives.
Laser kids busted (watch in 2x speed).
Electric vehicles of old [via Bunkerville].
Best Albums of 2024 that I haven’t heard.
25 minutes of destruction [via Mme. Jujujive].
More proof that the true minimum wage is zero.
The Flammerian Engraving [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: TV Night 1968 found at Team Jimmy Joe.]
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Saturday Matinee – Tom Waits, Joe Louis Walker & Kid Anderson (with Tommy Harkenrider, Brent Harding & Derrick D’Mar Martin)
Tom Waits‘ Telephone Call From Istanbul was released on his album Frank’s Wild Years (1987) and was featured in the movie Big Time (1988).
Joe Louis Walker at Broadway Studios, San Francisco, December 1999. Walker has recorded with Ike Turner, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, and Steve Cropper, opened for Muddy Waters and Thelonious Monk, hung out with Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and was a close friend and roommate of Mike Bloomfield, and that’s some serious cred.
Kid Anderson / lead guitar, Tommy Harkenrider / rhythm guitar, Brent Harding / bass and Derrick D’Mar Martin / drums at the Beatnik Bandito Emporium, Santa Ana, California, February 2020.
Nice set for St. Medarus Day. Celebrations will commence on the front porch whenever you get here. If I’m not out you’ll need to holler at the door because the doorbell doesn’t work.
Notonectal Hot Links
Tut Tut Tut, Gillian Hills (1965)
Tut Tut Tut was a French cover of The Lollypops‘ song Busy Signal (1965), and was featured in the excellent Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit (2020).
Music video of Gillian Hill’s version here.
Pretty little flapping things.
The Carpet Explorers [via IDHMGO].
A 1905 pet shoe [via Memo Of The Air].
“We were all wrinkly and pruny and shit.”
The Half Hour National Lampoon Radio Hour.
Loud music alarms striped eel catfish [via Bunkerville].
[Top image by Gerald DuBois.]
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Tacky Raccoons 