Category: Retro & Vintage

Saturday Matinee – DZappa plays FZappa

I was talking to a younger co-worker today, and out of the blue he asked what my favorite band was. Good question with an easy answer.

My response was Frank Zappa, any lineup post-Mothers, beginning with “Apostrophe.” Jazz, rock, & pop, Zappa had all genres covered, and he did them all well (especially R&B DooWop). “Peaches En Regalia” is one of my favorite songs [00:54:00].

Zappa was one of the few popular musicians/composers that I would have liked to have met face-to-face, but since I’m not in the industry, and that Frank Zappa passed away years ago, it’s not going to happen.

Dweezil & Co. plays Frank. Jump to 0:2:45 for the start of awesome (and yes, according to FZ, Dweezil was named after his mother’s little toe).

Have a great weekend, folks, and be back here tomorrow.

British WWI Body Armor

WWI Body Armor

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Red Skelton, David Byrne & SRV

Classic presentation of The Pledge Of Allegiance eloquently delivered by Red Skelton.


“This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” is classic David Byrne.

Let’s wrap it up with Stevie Ray Vaughan from 1983 with a killer version of “Texas Flood.”

Have a great Independence Day weekend, folks.

Messerschmitt KR200 1956-1964

Messerschmidt

Messerschmitt 3

vw_l1_F34Mony

Yeah I know – the bottom pic is a VW Prototype, but given the transformation of The Beetle, that might be what the Messerschmitt would look like today. Wiki entry here.

[Images found here, here and here.]

Hot Links From The Valley Of The Jolly

The Vibraniques

Back Up Truck P0rn. Watch the whole thing. Awesome happens at about 07:42.

Much retroness found here. I remember some of the stuff.

It’s pronounced “tchar-leenah.”

One of the greatest movie soundtracks ever.

Out of isometric graph paper? Here you go. [Found here.]

Play God. Create an island [via].

Hey, buddy. Got a light?

What surprised 18 3rd World immigrants once they immigrated to 1st World Nations. (Yeah, there appear to be a couple of trolls, but the others are interesting).

Top image: The Vibraniques (?).

Saturday Matinee – Bunk Struttin’ With Some Barbecue

Here’s Louis Armstrong from1953, “Struttin’ With Some Barbecue.” He recorded the song in 1927 with his first band, The Hot Five. (If that link don’t shine, try this.)

Ray McKinley with Bobby Nichols (cornet) and Lennie Hambro (clarinet) circa 1960.

Pete Fountain has his own take, too.

The Marsalis Family did their own take of the classic, circa 2009.

That should do for now. Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll be back here tomorrow whether you like it or not.

The .Gif Friday Post No.336 – 10 Graphic Digits, The Otter Song & Stockholm Stereograph

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Otters Piano

Stockholm Stereograph

[Found here, here and here. I cobbled and stitched the first one together because it deserved to be cobbled and stitched together.]

Charles W. Oldreive’s New Tricycle, circa 1882

Oldrieve's New Tricycle ca 1882

Bet that thing could move, and if you leaned over either way you’d get a clean shave, too. Now about those unforeseen potholes…

[Found here.]

Guess Who

John Wayne

[Found here.]

Vendredi le treizième

Vendredi le treizième

[Found here, NSFK.]