Saturday Matinee – 2020 Cast Interviews, Big Bug, Gatemouth Brown & Roy Clark, Ry Cooder w/ Buckwheat Zydeco & Lenny Kravitz, and The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Well done satire, that.

Big Bug vid found here.

Clarence Gatemouth Brown & Roy Clark (with Leon Rhodes) do some serious pickin’ on Hee Haw (1979). If this ain’t roadtrip music, nothing is.

Ry Cooder, Buckwheat Zydeco and Lenny Kravitz, having some fun in New Orleans 2005.

The Fabulous Thunderbirds cover T-Bone Walker‘s The Hustle Is On (1950). Not sure of the date or location.

That’ll do for now. Gonna get some R&R and see you back here tomorrow as far as you know.

What’s Your Sign?

[Shamelessly lifted from Wallingford Signs. h/t Nate L.]

104° in the Hot Links

Guarija Flute, Tito Puente (1961) GNP Crescendo Records.
Tito Puente was also called El Rey Del Timbal, and guarija is a cubano music style that traces to 18th century Spain.

The Tire.

The Crow.

The Baptism.

Cool your ferrets.

How storks keep cool.

Conical Kähler metrics.

It’s all about the Vespas.

Campaigning in Uganda.

The Greatest Entrance Ever.

Paul Harvey’s history lesson.

Jailed, freed, keyed and jailed.

Check out THIS recording label lineup.

Hurricane Laura got blown away [sound up].

Play-by-play: Steve Inman’s Top 5 (August 25 edition)

[Top .gif stolen from The Day The Earth Caught Fire trailer (1961).]


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


1918 Bathing Suit Fashion Parade, Seal Beach California

[Colorized images found here. Click to enlarge.]

Mr. Tomato is disheartened.

[Found here.]

DEVO 1977

Devo, 1977

“I don’t think Devo would have hatched in a major city. We were surrounded by an anti-intellectual culture and antagonistic people in Ohio. By the time we came up on the radar of the tastemakers, our aesthetic was fully formed.”

Jerry Casale

[Found here.]

Owl.

[Found here.]

Fishin’ With A ‘Nader

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – George Duke & Dweezil Zappa, MonoNeon & skArmy

George Duke showed up to play Zappa’s classic Uncle Remus with Dweezil Zappa‘s band in 2010. (If you like George Duke, this behind the scenes rehearsal from1978 is kinda fun. Jump to 02:50.)

Ignore the clickbait title – it’s a killer groove by MonoNeon. He’s right-handed, but plays left-handed on an upside-down right-handed bass. Dude can cover Zappa, too.

skArmy covers Save Ferris‘s cover of Dexy’s Mightnight Runners‘s Come On Eileen is a good one to wrap it up.

Have a great weekend folks, gonna do something tomorrow.

 

Saturday Matinee – Bendito Machine IV, Görkem Şen, Luna Lee & Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Soundcheck

Very cool oddness. Bendito Machine is a series, and this is No. 6. You are allowed to start from the beginning with Bendito Machine I.

“Yaybahar is an electric-free, totally acoustic instrument designed by Görkem Şen. The vibrations from the strings are transmitted via the coiled springs to the frame drums. These vibrations are turned into sound by the membranes which echo back and forth on the coiled springs. This results in an unique listening experience with an hypnotic surround sound.”

Luna Lee plays ZZ Top’s La Grange on a Gayageum and it works. Her story and more here.

“You know when a long haired dude shows up in a cowboy hat, leopard spotted duster and rattle snake boots some shit is about to go down.”

Name another bluesman whose video of a soundcheck garners 19.4 million views. Having just woken up, he yawns, flicks a booger and then busts it out. Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of a kind.

Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll see what happens tomorrow.