Category: Music

Saturday Matinee – Igorrr, The Wise Guyz, Firebird Trio & Billy Strings

“It feels satisfying that, after all those years on the internet, I still can be wtfed.” -YouTube comment

I don’t know what to make of that, so you’re on your own. Igorrr (aka  Gautier Serre) claims to have synesthesia and perceives music as colors.

Like Ukrainian rockabilly? The Wise Guyz do a damn fine job.

Too hot to handle and too cold to hold, Australia’s Firebird Trio takes the heart of rock and roll and nails it to your forehead.

“Looks 14, sings like a 40 year old and jams like he’s been playing for a hundred years.” -YouTube comment.

William Apostol, aka Billy Strings, was exposed to bluegrass at a young age, and it shows. I’ve got turmoil and tinfoil on my mind these days, too.

Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll figure it all out tomorrow.

Buy Me Some Peanuts & Hot Links

Take Me Out To The Ball Game, Albert von Tilzer and Jack Norworth (1908). Kevin MacCleod, Wurlitzer organism, date unknown.
Download 1908 .mp3 version here.

ICYMI.

Moondog: Pygmy Pig.

This is child abuse [NSFK].

Tea Towel 5DDDDD Cat Blue.

If birds had arms… [via].

If a bunch of other birds had arms…

Everyone should learn to drive a truck in WWII.

A confectioner and a dentist invented cotton candy.

In 2010, Walter Frederick Morrison was cremated and his ashes were molded into several Frisbees.

I had a red Pluto Platter (like this one) when I was a kid. Worth $500-$600 today.

“There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” –Dr. Anthony Fauci 08 March 2020.

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Elise Trouw, Lake Street Dive, Billy Bacon & The Forbidden Pigs

Elise Trouw is kind of amazing – she’s capable on drums, vocals, guitar, piano, bass guitar and synth stuff. Pretty hyno, kind of a Wendy Carlos meets Laurie Anderson meet John Bonham thing.

Lake Street Dive (featuring Rachael Price) on a yellow couch in 2016. Price was born in Australia and grew up in Tennessee. The band formed in Boston, but it’s not clear to me where (or if) they’re anchored.

Billy Bacon & the Forbidden Pigs were a hoot in their heyday. Saw the Pigs in So. Cal in the late ’80s, and they blew me away. Bacon would climb up ON his bass and jam, or take it to the floor for a roll around, and never miss a beat.

There’s something for (almost) everyone in that mix. Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow whether you like it or not.

 

 

Tasty Meat-Stretching Hot Links

Dancing In The Dark, Sousa’s Grand Concert Band (ca. 1897).
Columbia Recording Company, Cylinder 8353.

Smile!

Open the schools.

The Loop of Death?

The Oddfellows Band of Portsmouth Ohio.

Vandalizing vandalism can get you arrested.

Maybe it’s a good thing that he can’t get next to you.

Do not mock the wheelstop. People actually got paid for this.

The Top Trending Google Searches in Every US State Throughout the 2010s.
[Top image from here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Erecting Trajan’s Column, The Real McKenzies & Room Full Of Blues

Trajan’s Column: ancient technology animated. Trajan was a good guy, at least as far as Roman emperors go, and was popular for his public works projects. (His cousin Hadrian succeeded him and built a famous wall to keep out Celts, Scots, Picts & other badass tribes.)

Scottish-Canadian band The Real McKenzies. Nice scenery, unfortunate animations, and echoes of the Ramones.

Beyond the best bar band in the world, Roomful of Blues has been performing since 1967 (with an impressive roster).

Have a great weekend, folks. We’ll post some stuff tomorrow.

Heterochromatic Hot Links

Hot Mamma, Fess Williams and his Royal Flush Orchestra (1930)

The Arc Of The Penguin.
The Range Of The Penguin.
The Aim Of The Penguin.
[h/t Geoff]

Q: Do lizards dream?
A: Don’t know, but a lot of people are trying to find out:
Partial homologies between sleep states in lizards, mammals, and birds suggest a complex evolution of sleep states in amniotes.

[Found via here, via here.]

[Found in this Wonderful Vat Of Knowledge.]

The biggest sandwich of the world.

Here Is Your Redpill. Discuss amongst yourselves.

Google “National Heterochromia Day” and scroll down to the images. I’m 3rd from the left.

[Top image: Lt. Col. Randy “Laz” Gordon, accomplished test pilot, engineer, and F-22 Raptor squadron commander lectures at MIT.

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Asphalt Orchestra, Euphoria Brass Band & Mudcat

Asphalt Orchestra (the ambulatory arm of Bang on a Can) is pretty good, but they’re downright amazing when they pull off Zappa’s Zombie Woof.

Euphoria Brass Band cranks out Sublime’s What I Got at the Tijuana Jazz and Blues Festival 2015. Lotta not-so-subtle influences heard in that jam, and I like it.

“i found a cd of this band in a abandoned ship on the coast of uruguay – montevideo, never heard nothing about this band. really a surprise. grettings. good shit.” [2016 YouTube comment]

The Mudcat Blues Band featuring Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck hails from everywhere, but apparently is anchored in Atlanta. This vid is from 2013, Matildas, Music Under the Pines in Alpharetta, Georgia – jump to 1:34 for Whiskey.

Well that seems to sum up my attitude for today. Have a great weekend folks, don’t worry ’bout the ‘Rona, and do what you wanna do. See you tomorrow for something or other.

Thalassocratical Hot Links

Ada Jones Nix On The Glow Worm Lena,  (1910).

Pool hustle.

This took only 60 days.

Fordite, aka Detroit agate.

9-1/2 minutes at Irwindale.

Twitter flagged this as “potentially sensitive content.”

The maximum incremental domino size is approximately 2.

Scientists have detected snake-like dental glands in caecilians.

“What does Independence Day mean to you?” This is disturbing.

[Top image from here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Bimpson, Rory Gallagher, Dave Alvin & The Battle Hymn Of The Republic

Bimpson (via). “Some guy taught himself 3D animation during quarantine and the result is this hilariously bizarre blog cartoon called Bimpson.” The comments on the UToobage are pretty good, too.

I just watched this at 2x speed and it’s like a whole new world of Bimpson. Bimpson goes Hyper-Bimpson. Highly recommend.

Well I played it back at 0.25x speed and it’s like a demonic Bimpson. Bimpson goes sacrificial. Whatever you do, don’t watch it repeatedly unless you want Bimpson to put a curse on your crops. It happened to me.

I went .75 and it’s was satanic enough. Every time you lower the speed, it’s like a new circle of hell.

Rory Gallagher “Shin Kicker” live at Montreux 1979.

Nice lineup: Dave Alvin sings 4th of July, with David Hidalgo, Flaco Jimenez, Pete Sears, Max Baca and Los Cenzontles, San Francisco, CA. February 16, 2017.

Happy Independence Day to all, and may this Glorious Country remain free from tyranny forever.

Saturday Matinee – Charlie the Cow & Myles the Deer, Ruth Brown, Little Feat & Alabama Shakes

Don’t ask, just watch.

Ruth Brown kicks it with Rainin’ Teardrops on Show Time at The Apollo (1955).

Little Feat (featuring Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris & Jessie Winchester) doing their 1973 swamp rock classic Dixie Chicken.

[Fun fact: Bassman Roy Estrada, one of the founders of the group, was also a founding member of Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, later played with Captain Beefheart. He’s not performing anymore, won’t be eligible for parole until 2033 because this.]

Nice groove to wrap it up. Alabama Shakes on SNL in 2015.

Have a great weekend, folks, watch out for the black masks, and we’ll be back here tomorrow for some reason.