The J. Geils Band cranked that blues classic 180 degrees in 1970.
John Lee Hooker doubled down and reclaimed it in October 1992.
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow.
Tag: Rock
The .Gif Friday Post No. 580 – Space Invaders, Backscratchers & Fans of Something
Wow. No. 580. That means that we’ve collected and posted approximately 1,740 .gif animations to date. My how time fries.
Saturday Matinee – Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, The Allman Brothers Band with Eric Clapton
Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers Live. From the Utoobage comments: “He had six fingers on his left hand.”
Little Walter’s Jump, 1967. From here:
“Little Walter‘s harp is accompanied by Hound Dog Taylor (guitar), Dillard Crume (bass), and Odie Payne (drums), at the 1967 “American Folk Blues Festival” in Germany just months before his death.”
Who else was at that venue? Bukka White, Skip James, Koko Taylor, Son House and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. All blues greats, without a doubt. So let’s go with this:
Yeah, Eric Clapton ripped off “Key To The Highway,” but he also paid many cool tributes, including this version with The Allman Brothers Band.
Have a great weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow for more you know what.
Saturday Matinee – Rail Bicycling, Eliese LeGrow Bo Diddley & Dick Dale
Rail bicycling looks like fun out in the open, but it would spook the hell out of me on the bridges. One rogue gust of wind blows you away, one mis-timed tunnel and you go splat. Nice vid with nice music.
Elise LeGrow took Bo Diddley’s classic and made it nasty.
Bo Diddley was a national treasure who got ripped off big time by the recording industry, partly due to his own ignorance of copyright law. The vid is from about 2008.
We lost another Great One this past week.
R.I.P. Richard Anthony Monsour aka Dick Dale (1937- 2019).
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here in 24 or more.
Saturday Matinee – New York Subway A Capella, Russian Chicago Cover & Ice Weasels
Apologies for losing the original link. These guys are great.
These Russians do Chicago better than Chicago.
Then there’s this insanity. Ain’t no fear of thin ice.
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here after the apocalypse.
Air Guitar
Saturday Matinee – Archie Bell & The Drells
I love this sound.
One hot riff makes it. I used to dance like that, too.
Do the stroll ’70s style. That’s some hilarious stuff.
Yeah, I heard the original today, and it made me smile.
1:40 “Lemme put this hamburger down.”
Have a great weekend, folks. Rock on wit yo bad sefs.
Saturday Matinee – Vulfpeck, Lettuce Funk & Curtis Mayfield
Vulfpeck has a cool funk/jazz groove, reminds me of Weather Report, except these guys make ridiculous “I’m About To Pop A Nut” faces while they jam.
Lettuce [aka Lettuce Funk] combines retro funk with retro future funk, and it works.
Jump to 5:08 for the Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie / Led Zeppelin funk mashup. (I hear some of Zappa’s “I Am The Slime” in there, too.) Lettuce even had the cojones to cover Curtis Mayfield, and they did him right.
Poor video quality, but the audio is good. Here’s Curtis Mayfield’s original “Move On Up” (with German subtitles).
Have a great weekend, folks, and Move On Up wit yo bad sef. See you back here tomorrow.
Saturday Matinee – Doodling In Math Class, Forklift Finesse, Vegetable Music, Funk Mashup & Lillian Reyes
That’s amazing. A cardioid is an anti-parabola. I never thought of it that way.
I used to do similar doodles, but nothing like hers. Draw a square, divide each line with dots, draw curvy lines top to bottom and right to left, then connect the diagonals and the result is a 2 dimensional wavy cloth. Or you can do dog-chase doodles to do spirals, but those need graphics to explain.
Amazing. Now I wanna see him do it with a Zippo [via].
Amazing. Now I wanna see him do it with meat [via].
Amazing. Now I gotta get up offa that thang.
Amazing R&B vocals featuring Lillian Reyes. I love this stuff.
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow for more really important stuff.
Bonus – Old guys singing in a men’s room with great acoustics.
Saturday Matinee – The Tractors, George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Blaze Bayley w/ Michelle Sciarrotta & The United States Navy Band
The Tractors – “Santa Claus Boogie” 1995.
George Thorogood & The Destroyers – “Rock and Roll Christmas” 1997.
Blaze Bayley & Michelle Sciarrotta – “Rock & Roll Christmas” 2013.
United States Navy Band – “Dueling Jingle Bells” 2016.
Just a few days left before I have to begin Christmas shopping so posting here may be sporadic. Have a great Pre-Christmas weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow for stuff.
Tacky Raccoons 