Tag: Rock

Mothers Day Hot Links

Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City. July 1939.

You Didn’t Try To Call Me, The Mothers of Invention (1968) Track 8 of TMOI‘s debut album Freak Out! – a double record set of songs composed by Frank Zappa that won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and ranks at No. 246 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

[CORRECTION: Taminatorpgh noted that this version of You Didn’t Try To Call Me is from the  1968 album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets. The original version from Freak Out! is here. More in the comments below.]

Tourons.

Drill fight.

The Pylon Men.

Magpie smarts.

The end of sleep.

Sticks and stones.

Recycling styrofoam.

Norty Blues Episode 63.

Nice collection of rat rods.

A chair of geometric solids.

Fun machines [via Mme. Jujujive].

Zinaida Portnova [h/t Charlene J.]

Look at this moth [via Bunkerville].

Where to go over summer vacation.

Put this girl in charge of everything.

35 Flapper Fotos [via Memo Of The Air].

The 50 most commonly prescribed drugs.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge Gap.

Re-enactment of the 17-year cicada’s lifecycle.

There’s a live video “portal” between Dublin & NYC.

Uber driver with Tourette’s picked up passenger with Tourette’s.
[h/t Kirk W.]

[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]

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Saturday Matinee – Nina Simone, The High Numbers & GA-20

1987 claymation video by Aardman Animations features the voice and piano of Eunice Kathleen Waymon, aka gospel / jazz / R&B / soul singer Nina Simone, with a song from 1958. She changed her name to elude family members and play “the devil’s music” in an Atlantic City nightclub. The management told her that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, and that launched her career as a jazz vocalist.

“What’s your band’s name?”
“The High Numbers.”
“The who?”
“Yes.”

The Detours, a British group formed in the early 1960s, changed their name to  The High Numbers and recorded a few tracks before reverting to a previous band name, The Who. That’s a young Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon covering Jesse Hill‘s Ooh Poo Pah Doo (1960) and The Miracles‘ I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying (1963).

GA-20  covers Hound Dog Taylor‘s She’s Gone (1971). Great authentic electric blues cranked out with respect.

Too far south to see this weekend’s aurorae, and I hope everyone who can survives the EMT barrage. I’ll take the event as a good omen, and yet another damn good reason to do some porch sitting tomorrow.
See you then.

Cinco De Mayo Hot Links

Crackin’ Up, GA-20 (2023) One of the best roots rock blues bands to come out of Boston (or anywhere) in recent years, GA-20 consists of Matt Stubbs / guitar, Pat Faherty / guitar, lead vocals & gofro, Tim Carman, drums. The song is a cover of a 1959  Bo Diddley recording.

Old trucks.

Bouncing China.

The longest road.

Leveling dominos.

Daddy’s little placebo.

Norty Blues Episode 62.

24 Femmes Per Second.

Best ways to use Orbeez.

Put the Orbeez in a balloon.

“If it’s true, is it still propaganda?“

Shadow and Light: Sergiu Ciochină

Bouncing lessons [via Bunkerville].

Live Music Is Good Part 2 [h/t Gord S.]

Improved Ferris Wheel Goat. Related posts here.

Morse Code Receiver Chart is clever [via Memo Of The Air].

The Penguin goes “pew pew“ [via The View From Lady Lake].

¡Feliz Cinco De Mayo!

[Top image: Face Plant courtesy Pam M. via FB.]

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Saturday Matinee – Taj Mahal w/ Clive Barnes & Eric Bibb, Cory Wong w/ Victor Wooten, and Anna Scionti

Following a performance in France in 2010, Taj Mahal and Clive Barnes joined Eric Bibb to play his song Needed Time.

Cory Wong with Victor Wooten and band lay down some funky groovidity.

Anna Scionti won the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s (MBAS) Blues Performer of the Year 2023 (Solo/Duo Category) and represented the MBAS at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee in January 2024.

Outta time, outta steam, see you tomorrow.

Saturday Matinee – The Courettes, The Holophonics & Dan Patlansky

Dubbed The World’s Greatest Two Person Rock ‘N’ Roll Ensemble, Flavia & Martin Couri, aka The Courettes, make retro new again. Hop hop.

The Holophonics are a ska punk reggae band with members from New York City, Dallas/Ft. Worth & Southern California. At least they have a Facebook page.

This trio consists of Dan Patlansky / guitar & vocals, Tom Schwan / bass and Ben Matthews / drums. Patlansky is a blues guitarist from South Africa, was voted the No. 4 Best Guitarist in the world. He’s the only artist with two worldwide No. 1 and two No. 2 Best Blues Rock album awards as voted by Blues Rock Review.

Been another week full of Time Flies and I still haven’t figured out how to slow them down. I plan to be up at the crack of noon tomorrow for porch time and we can discuss our options then. See you when you get here.

Saturday Matinee – Bill McClintock / Isleyhead, The Sugaray Rayford Band & The Scott Henderson Trio (+1)

Isleyhead – Ace of Shout mashup by Bill McClintock put a big grin on my face. Amazing how well it works, and McClintock’s got more. [h/t Gord S.]

Texas born Caron “Sugaray” Rayford grew up in starvation-level poverty. His mother struggled to raise three boys alone while battling cancer; when she died, the siblings were relieved. “She suffered and we suffered. Then, we moved in with my grandmother and our lives were a lot better. We ate every day and we were in church every day, which I loved. I grew up in gospel and soul.”

Speed jammin’ blues rock from Scott Henderson on guitar, Kirk Covington / drums, John Humphrey / bass, and Pat O’Brien  / harmonica.

Amazing how much news can fit into one week and my neck is stiff from the whip arounds. Looks like we’re do for some quality patio time tomorrow. See you there.

Saturday Matinee – Davide Pannozzo, Billy Gibbons & the BVG’s, and HAIM

Davide Pannozzo, with Etienne Stadwijk (keyboards) and Clint de Ganon (drums). Trained in classical guitar, Pannozzo opened a show for Magic Slim at the age of 14 and has been playing the blues ever since. A graduate of Rome’s Conservatory of Santa Cecilia, Pannozzo has won many awards, including Acoustic Solo Guitarist at the Emergenza European Acoustic Festival, the Groove Master Award for Best Italian Blues guitarist and Scotland’s Highland Uproar competition.

Billy Gibbons & the BFG’s grind up and pave over Jimmy Reed‘s 1959 classic Baby What You Want Me To Do . The BFG’s are Matt Sweeney, Danielle Haim and Tim Montana (at least they are in this lineup).

HAIM = sisters Este (bass and vocals), Danielle (lead vocals, guitar and drums), and Alana Haim (guitar, keyboards and vocals). Great cover of Fleetwood Mac’s 1969 hit Oh Well in front of a huge crowd.

Monday is National Confiscation Day, so don’t forget to mail your yearly pound of flesh to the bureaus that squander it – the beast gets all humpy when it hasn’t been fed. Have a great weekend and we’ll watch the rain tomorrow.

Juncaceous Hot Links

Con el Tiempo, Los Apson (1966) Spanish cover of The Outsiders‘ hit Time Won’t Let Me by Mexican band Los Apson of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. The band was criticized for being malinchistas for performing rock and roll instead of ranchera music. Their biggest hit, Fuiste a Acapulco, was a comic ranchera song) topped the Mexican charts for 6 weeks in 1966.

Iguana.

This pup.

Symphony 42.

Blue Barbados.

Kinetic mosaics.

Cool locomotives.

Not the right way.

Arguing with a bird.

Just One More Thing.

Norty Blues Episode 58.

Prosopometamorphopsia.

The 3 Body Problem (Netflix).

The 3 Body Problem (Newton).

How not to have an Easter party.

How to find water using a baboon.

How to get out of a speeding ticket.

How to prevent a total eclipse & more.

Dregs of the City: San Francisco [NSFK].

The 1909 Leslie Sharpener [via Bunkerville].

Macro views of various writing instruments.

WWII greasebombs [via The View From Lady Lake].

Scrubby Sewerniak and the Dynatones [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Actual Reality Goggles™ are not for viewing solar eclipses. The cut-out goggles came from the back of a Reese’s Puffs cereal box circa 2019. h/t Sol L.]

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Saturday Matinee – The Hoodoo Men, Spiderbait & The Pointer Sisters

The Hoodoo Men: Gerry Höller / guitar, Peter Samek / harp & vocals, and Wolfgang Leinweber / washboard. Great 1950s Chicago blues from Vienna.

In 2004, Australia’s Spiderbait did a bangup job covering Ram Jam’s cover of Leadbelly’s Black Betty.

The Pointer Sisters‘ classic soul/funk/gospel cover of Allen Toussaint‘s Yes We Can Can features the great Gaylord Birch on drums.

Passed a milestone of sorts this week, and I’m happy. See you on the porch tomorrow and I’ll tell you all about it for the 100th time.

Saturday Matinee – Alien / Super 8 Daze, Shannon McNally, Tom Jones & George Thorogood

Hamptons in Space
“This one stars grown-ups, but it was still directed/edited/animated by a ’70s Kid with a Super 8 camera in Hyannis, MA in 1979. Sound added decades later after he reluctantly grew up. Check out the award-winning documentary on the making of all his films at super8daze.com.”

Shannon McNally,  Audley Freed, Eric Deaton and Cedric Burnside make for a tight combo.

Tom Jones does mighty fine work with the blues. From the Utoobage comments: “He walked on stage, didn’t say a word, and laid this down. Absolutely killed the audience with the first song.”

George Thorogood covered a lot of blues classics in his own style, including this one by  Howlin’ Wolf.

Kinda glad this week is over and done with because I have a porch to take care of tomorrow. See you there.