Tag: Music

Saturday Matinee – There I Ruined It, Matteo Mancuso, 8 Ball Aiken & The Gary Hoey Band

In Memory of Country Music: Every fake accent 2-part harmony bro country song crammed into 1-1/2 minutes of ear torture from There, I Ruined It. The comments on the Utoobage vid are fun, and if that’s not enough for you, there’s this mashup.

Django Reinhardt and Les Paul meet Weather Report: Italian guitar prodigy Matteo Mancuso plays cool jazz fusion blues and more.

8 Ball Aiken is an Australian singer and songwriter from Brisbane, plays blues, swamp-rock, alternative country, and Americana music. At one of his early gigs in a rough pub, a fight broke out over a pool table. The 8 ball landed on stage and his bandmates gave him the nickname.

Underrated guitar thrasher Gary Hoey shreds the blues. He’s been compared to Robin Trower, early Clapton, SRV and others.

So there you go, and no, I’m not going to apologize for the first one. It’s like an aural vaccine so you never have to listen to country pop again. Have a great weekend, see you tomorrow, porch time is noonish.

Mulciberian Hot Links

Man Of My Word, Salt & Pepper (1969) Heatwave Records, Alexandria, LA. In 1969, Eddie Mobley (Pepper) and Tony Nardi (Salt) were stationed in Thailand while serving in the USAF, and recorded the song in Bangkok. There few existing copies of an original issue of this 45rpm, and each is likely worth thousands.

No shame…

Camperocity.

Small Worlds.

Hammerspace.

She Loves Z;
She Loves Z Not.

Anger scraping.

Who’s a Good Boy?

Earthship Biotecture.

Mess with 1928 Mickey.

THIS IS FINE – the game (2016).

Magical buns [via Mme. Jujujive].

This kid is the first to beat Tetris.

The ubiquitous & eternal graffito.

Tawny Frogmouth [via Bunkerville].

Loony Tunes backgrounds to play with.

Respect for the fallen. [Related post here.]

Slow day at the music store [via Memo Of The Air].

There’s more than one International Cephalopod Awareness Day.

[Top image found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Lapidescent Hot Links

New Chataqua, Pat Metheny (1979)
Recorded in Oslo Norway. I used to play this song at sunrise on solo road trips after listening to farm reports and Paul Harvey.

Zappa.

This mouse.

Hot Vernor’s.

Celery stalks.

Camping in B&W.

Look at the clasps.

Just try not to, eh?

Antique baby yeeter.

Meanwhile in Melrose…

The hobby [via Mme. Jujujive].

Police presents [via Bunkerville].

The real Ziggy Stardust [via Memo Of The Air].

Near the fairway [via The View From Lady Lake].

Red hot copper ball in Coke vs Pepsi [h/t Chuck C.]

Complete 1967 biker movie in 6 minutes [h/t Gord S.]

[Top image found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Nostopathic Hot Links

Shake ‘Em On Down, Mississippi Fred McDowell (1970) Excellent cover of Bukka White‘s  Shake ‘Em On Down (1937).
“If you pay attention, what I sing, the guitar sings, too, and what the guitar says, I say.” – Fred McDowell

This bat.

The Meep.

Old trains.

Online course.

Shrimps is bugs.

Feline force field.

Do the David Byrne!

Honoring one who left.

To those we lost in 2023.

Earthquake history animation.

Flower squeezin’s [via Bunkerville].

Dog-Faced Pony Soldier – the trailer.

When the track bunny fails [h/t Possum].

Although Christmas is behind us, you gotta hear this.

1955 Chevrolet Corvette EX67 [via Memo Of The Air].

They’re cracking down [via The View From Lady Lake].

2024 Calendar of Extremely Accurate Birds [via Mme. Jujujive].

OMG! The Musical Meme Man (found in this video compilation).

Restaurant owner Chino Yang was forced to apologize for this benign video because he called the Mayor of San Francisco a clown.

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Gogol Bordello, S.M.N. & GJS

“It’s one of the very few songs I wrote for a girl. I just moved in with my girlfriend in New York. We had a neighbour: an old woman who was always dressed in purple head to toe. She was clearly bonkers. So whenever my girlfriend and I had an argument and she would start screaming at me, I would say: you might as well start wearing purple now”. – Eugene Hütz

Gogol Bordello, fronted by Ukranian-born Eugene Hütz, is a multinational American punk band from Manhattan, known for gypsy/romani/punk theater.  More about them here.

Formed in 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan,  S.M.N. (Slackers Make Noise) consists of high school classmates Hiroaki Yokoyama / guitar, Mah-bou / drums, Kosuke Nishimura / bass.

Here’s something to cool your eardrums. Gentry-Jones is Nil Jones and Tony Gentry, here with Mr. Sam (Sam Fallie) in 2014. Old soul line dancing at its smoothest. More on GJS here.

Whoop, look what time it is. Gotta go, got an appointment with the porch tomorrow. See you there.

Happy New Year’s Eve 2023 – End of Year Playlist

Thought I might do something different this New Years Eve. Buried in the Archives are over 100 tunes that deserve a replay, at least in my opinion. Some are pure awesome, others are eye-rollers, but all are songs that pleased my earballs in 2023. Each set is in no particular order, one click and you’re off to the races. Have at it.

Set 1 – January, February, March

Set 2 – April, May, June, July

Set 3 – August, September, October, November & December

And one more thing: Happy New Year!

Auld Lang Syne Boogie, Freddie Mitchell Orchestra (1949)

[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only. Apologies for the typo in the first track – That’s Stéphane Grappelli.]

Saturday Matinee – Tuba Skinny, Lucky Chops, Timo Gross & Skatune Network

Tuba Skinny, featuring bandleader Shaye Cohn on cornet. Although we were in NOLA last May, I didn’t get a chance to see them because I was too busy chillin’ on a balcony with the dogs.

Formed in 2016, Lucky Chops  began as a group of subway buskers from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, New York City, and now they perform world-wide.

German bluesman Timo Gross  has been around for a while but he’s relatively unknown in the US; I had to run his Wikipedia entry through Google Translate.

One man ska band JER / Skatune Network rang in the New Year in 2016 and somehow I missed it. Turnitup!

Yep, it’s almost time to turn the calendar ahead again, but before we do, we have a porch that needs sitting on. See you there.

Christmas Eve Hot Links

THIS

Adiós.

Our Man?

Big Lizzie.

Milky the Cow.

The Sole Trader.

One synesthete.

Santa Boot Camp.

Veedub Christmas.

Gingerbread houses.

Christmas Missel Toe?

Lowering the Chipmunks.

R.I.P. Kenpachiro Satsuma.

Ice flotilla [via Bunkerville].

Becoming Father Christmas.

Finding Etzanoa [h/t Paul Y.].

Someone is jealous [h/t Pam M.].

Christmas cards Gilliam style [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: This nutcracker baking tin appeared on our kitchen counter last week and it works.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Dropkick Murphys, Joe Bonamassa & Chris Rea

Pee Wee Herman’s Christmas Special (1988) is kind of self explanatory. Watch the entire show if you really have to.

Dropkick Murphys and “family”.

Joe Bonamassa‘s Merry Christmas Blues album (2013) is free for download (I think).

Except for a hit in 1978, songwriter and perfomer Chris Rea is virtually unknown in the US (having never toured here). Despite long term medical problems, he’s enjoyed a successful career in the UK.

Have a Merry Christmas if I don’t see you, stay safe in your travels, and we’ll be back here tomorrow to trash talk you.

The Christmas that C.H. met A. & the C’s

From the Utoobage:
This collaboration by Los Angeles Blues-Rock band Canned Heat and Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian Sr. was released in November 1968 as the A-side of Liberty 56079 in time for the holiday shopping season. Though some pressings credit Canned Heat & The Chipmunks on both sides of the disc, the 30 i.p.s. rodents are not present on the reverse, “Christmas Blues”.

[h/t Marc “Savage” D. for enlightening me.]