Posts Tagged ‘video’
Saturday Matinee – Bimpson, Rory Gallagher, Dave Alvin & The Battle Hymn Of The Republic
Saturday, 4 July 2020
Bimpson (via). “Some guy taught himself 3D animation during quarantine and the result is this hilariously bizarre blog cartoon called Bimpson.” The comments on the UToobage are pretty good, too.
I just watched this at 2x speed and it’s like a whole new world of Bimpson. Bimpson goes Hyper-Bimpson. Highly recommend.
Well I played it back at 0.25x speed and it’s like a demonic Bimpson. Bimpson goes sacrificial. Whatever you do, don’t watch it repeatedly unless you want Bimpson to put a curse on your crops. It happened to me.
I went .75 and it’s was satanic enough. Every time you lower the speed, it’s like a new circle of hell.
Rory Gallagher “Shin Kicker” live at Montreux 1979.
Nice lineup: Dave Alvin sings 4th of July, with David Hidalgo, Flaco Jimenez, Pete Sears, Max Baca and Los Cenzontles, San Francisco, CA. February 16, 2017.
Happy Independence Day to all, and may this Glorious Country remain free from tyranny forever.
Saturday Matinee – Buddy Merrill, Neil LeVang, Tommy Emmanuel with Billy Strings, & Molly Tuttle
Saturday, 6 June 2020
Buddy Merrill played for Lawrence Welk‘s Champagne Music Makers for twenty years before he decided he didn’t like playing on camera.
You might not know his name, but you’ve heard his work.
Neil LeVang was one of the greatest studio guitar players of all time, played on many TV shows and movie soundtracks. Lawrence Welk hired him when Buddy Merrill was drafted.
Tommy Emmanuel & Billy Strings do things with guitars that just aren’t supposed to be done [via].
One more. Molly Tuttle has the perfect voice and style for this John Hartford cover. If that ain’t morning roadtrip music, nothing is.
Have a great weekend, watch out for the guys in black, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow for stuff.
Saturday Matinee – Lou Reed, Tom Waits & Popa Chubby
Saturday, 30 May 2020
Lou Reed had an incredible a vocal range. In 2015, as he was about to be (posthumously) inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, his sister wrote about their early years in A Family In Peril.
Tom Waits‘ “Telephone call from Istanbul” from the movie Big Time. The missus-to-be and I saw it at the Nuart in L.A., and I remember it being damn surreal.
Popa Chubby (aka Theodore Joseph “Ted” Horowitz) cranks out Hambone Willie Newbern‘s “Roll and Tumble Blues” (1929).
Have great weekend, folks, and be sure to wear a mask and maintain proper social distance if you decide to go looting and burning businesses in your neighborhood. See you back here tomorrow.
Saturday Matinee – Chet Atkins w/ Jerry Reed, Creedence, and Les Paul w/ Dickey Betts
Saturday, 23 May 2020Last week I erroneously (and embarrassingly) confused Nena Kerner with Nina Hagen. I lost a lot of karma for that blowzit, so I’ll try to make up for it.
Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed play Bob Dylan. Not sure of date / place.
(Long intro, jump to 02:00.)
Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1970 Oakland California.
Video caption: The audio track is from the CD commemorating the concert and while I had to make some adjustments in speed to match the video, it sounds a hell of a lot better.
Les Paul with Dickey Betts on a Les Paul from 2001.
(Jump to 02:00 to bypass banter.)
Hope that absolves me somewhat. Have a great weekend, folks, and take a moment to remember what Memorial Day is all about.
Saturday Matinee – Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Trio, Nena & the Allotria Jazz Band
Saturday, 16 May 2020
Kraftwerk on The Midnight Special (1975).
I didn’t realize Tangerine Dream was German – but I should have. We’d listen to this while pulling all-nighters at Biteme U.
Trio [via]. I remember the song, never saw the vid.
Nina Hagen in 1983. I always liked that song, but didn’t realize she was born in East Berlin. Unusual circumstances the government allowed her to leave when she was 21.
[UPDATE: Dang. I blew it. Thanks daver.
daver Says:
Monday, 18 May 2020 at 7:07 PM |
Nina Hagen did not record that song, the German band Nena did, the lead singer was Nena Kerner.
Live from München, the Allotria Jazz Band plays Jelly Roll Morton.
That’s about all the German stuff I can take for now. Have a great weekend, don’t let the scolds get to you. See you back here tomorrow and stuff.
Saturday Matinee – How Countries Fight Their Wars; Les Paul with Carol Kaye & Justin Johnson
Saturday, 2 May 2020Awesome [via BlenderGuru email].
Les Paul with Carol Kaye.
Don’t know who she is? You’ve heard her many times before.
Justin Johnson covers ZZ Top‘s “La Grange” with no backup.
Ah, May is here, and in a few more months we’ll be “allowed” to have some of our freedoms back. Perhaps soon we’ll find out who’s been doctoring the statistics to justify their abhorrent destruction of prosperity.
Ah well. Have a great weekend, folks, ignore the scolds and have fun anyway. That’ll really piss ’em off. 😀
Saturday Matinee – Black Oak Arkansas, The Osborne Brothers & John Lee Hooker+
Saturday, 25 April 2020
Black Oak Arkansas‘ 1971 cover of LaVerne Baker’s 1956 hit is a good one, but that video is just embarrassing.
The Osborne Bros.‘ 1972 recording of Midnight Flyer was covered by a lot of folks (including the Eagles). I like the original better.
John Lee Hooker, with Elvin Bishop. Paul Butterfield, J.J. Cale & Carlos Santana, in 1986. That’s some badass boogie.
Yeah, that’s an eclectic mix. I couldn’t quite find what I was originally looking for, kept getting distracted and then forgot where I started.
Have a great weekend, folks. Go outside, do what you wanna do, and ignore the virus-shamers – they’re not worth the attention.
Saturday Matinee – Live at Crossroads 2010: Hubert Sumlin, Jimmie Vaughn and Robert Cray; Pino Daniele, Joe Bonamassa and Robert Randolph & The Family Band; AND ZZ Top
Saturday, 18 April 2020
Wow. Hubert Sumlin, Jimmie Vaughan and Robert Cray at the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival.
Wow again. Pino Daniele, Joe Bonamassa with Robert Randolph & The Family Band were also at the 2010 CGF.
Good God can these three put out some loud! ZZ Top at the same place, same year.
It just dawned on me that it’s been 10 years since all that awesome went down. Lotta time flies buzzing around my head these days.
Have a great weekend, folks. Do what you wanna do, go where you wanna go. Don’t worry about a thing, and always remember: it’s not the heat, it’s the humanity. See you tomorrow.
Saturday Matinee – Food Preparation Tricks, Messer Chups, The Raybeats & Dick Dale
Saturday, 11 April 2020
Wish I’d known about these great shortcuts back when I was eating cold Hormel Chili out of the can. [Vid found here.]
Messer Chups cranks some electric surf, and yeah, they’re Russian.
Oleg Gitaracula (Oleg Fomchenkov) – Guitar
Zombierella (Svetlana Nagaeva) – Bass
Rockin Eugene (Evgeny Lomakin) – Drums
“While Messer Chups’ mostly instrumental sound is hard to neatly categorize, it’s safe to say that it would be embraced by fans of rockabilly, horror punk, vintage surf records, Italian slasher films, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Pulp Fiction, lounge music, the theremin, The Cramps, and the theme song from The Munsters.”
That group reminded me of the Raybeats. Their album Guitar Beat is awesome. I have it on vinyl.
Listening to Dick Dale while driving results in a speeding ticket every time. (Don’t ask me how I know.)
Have a great Saturday and a peaceful Easter Sunday.
