Comes complete with steel hooks that will rip the flesh off your body while you sleep. Good night, children…
[Image & caption found here.]
Tag: Retro & Vintage
Mr. Balloonie Dances, Wiggles, and It’s Almost Human.
Call it what you want. I call it messin’ with the kid.
[Found here.]
Beethovenfries
Gustav Klimt, Beethovenfries (detail), 1901/02
The theme of the frieze is based on Richard Wagner’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
[Found here.]
[Update– Somehow I lost a day. The .Gif Friday Post will appear next week.]
Green Giant Mexicorn
Saturday Matinee – Kmac2021, Stevie Ray Vaughan with Jeff Beck, and Don Nix with the Mar-Keys
Kmac2021 is a one-man Spinal Tap. Reminds me of the vids entitled, “What It’s Really Like To Work In A Music Store.”
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Okay, so where do we go from here? Goin’ Down.
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Jeff Beck covered Don Nix‘s “Going Down.”
I always thought it was a Freddie King song. So what else did Nix do? A lot.
From Wiki: Don Nix began his career playing saxophone for the Mar-Keys, which also featured Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn and others. The [1961] hit instrumental single “Last Night” (composed by the band as a whole) was the first of many successful hits to Nix’s credit. […] The Mar-Keys evolved into Booker T. & the M.G.’s.
What a convergence of talent at the right time and the right place. God Bless Stax Records.
Have a soulful weekend, folks, be back here tomorrow.
Retro Rocky Horror
[Found here.]
Druids.
Saturday Matinee – Allotria Jazz Band, Fats Waller, Leon Redbone & Captain Beefheart
Die Allotria Jazzband ist eine Combo, die 1969 in München gegründet wurde und dem traditionellen Jazz verpflichtet ist. [Allotria translates to Monkey Business.] “Wolverine Blues” was written and recorded by Jelly Roll Morton in 1923.
Two decades later, Fats Waller was playing the same style.
Nice lip-sync of a pretty song. According to the UToobage:
“Myra Johnson voiced-over the girl “vocalist” sitting on the piano, who, according to trumpeter Eddie Henderson, is his mother.”
In 1975, over five decades later, Leon Redbone recorded his own version (and this isn’t it. Click the link). Mr. Redbone’s music is meant for eggs and coffee and a side of toast.
That’s a version of Blind Blake‘s recording from 1929.
Captain Beefheart recorded an entirely different song called “Diddy Wah Diddy” that was later covered by The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
Whoa. I just found out that “Diddy Wah Diddy” was written by Willie Dixon and Bo Diddley, and was recorded in 1956.
Now it all makes sense.
Have a great weekend folks and be back here tomorrow for more diddy wah diddy.
The .Gif Post No. 535 – Dial 4 x Infinity, Hamburger Heaven & Riding The Crazy Train
We recently posted our 1,600th .gif but I don’t know which one gets the award because I’m estimating. If you’ve got time on your pants and you’re bored, have at it. –Bunk
Tacky Raccoons 