Cirque du Soleil is always awesome. Gotta wait for the cool stuff in this vid. [Found at a blog whose name has a lot of t’s and w’s in it.]
Fishbone is/was just nuts. I love ’em.
Steve Vai’s “Love of God” is another awesome rock classic.
Louis Armstrong is one of a handful of people that I would have liked to have met. ¡Adiós mis muchachos!
The Tick came and went, but lives on the Utoobage. Here’s Part 1 of my favorite 1/2 hour episode: “The Funeral.” The next two parts are here and here.
Speaking of nature and mathema-Ticks:
The concept of Phi, graphically illustrated. [Found here.] Ken Nordine had a great take on the Fibonacci Sequence as well:
Bootsy’s New Rubber Band’s got a nice groovejam going with a left handed shredder.
Here’s a fun compilation, “Peavey Nation,” by the Sons of Zappa, featuring a cameo by Dick Clark.
Have a great Easter weekend, folks.
Phil reminded me of this classic from “Some Girls,” one of my favorite Stones albums. We played that album so often that if you held it up to the light you could see through it. (It’s also a shame that our crack team of webminers had to go to a Russian website to find Мик Джаггер и Кит Ричардс из этого шоу субботу вечером, что было жить из Нью-Йорка.)
So why stop there? Here’s a more recent version of “Shattered” from the same album.
From the album “Tattoo You,” the song “Waiting on a Friend” goes back to 1970, and I’m not even gonna comment on what Mick is wearing.
Otis Redding couldn’t get no satisfaction, even with Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn and the Memphis Horns backing him up.
Bette Midler’s take on “Beast of Burden” was excellent.
Have a great weekend, folks.
Woof. Yeah, that’s 10cc doing it’s best Zappadoowop attempt with “Donna.” A few days ago, “Brian” reminded me that 10cc sang what I mis-remembered as “I Wanna Be A Bus.” (See this post.)
Here are The Donnas doing their best Ramones impersonation with a puzzling and cheap video.
From The Donnas, we thought we’d find a video of Ritchie Valens singing “Donna,” but no dice. Jump search to “La Bamba” and there’s just garbage and clips of Lou Diamond Phillips limp sinking. So here’s the greatly underrated Los Lobos‘ version of the Mexican traditional song.
Since we started off with a brief reference to Zappa, here’s a double header from a 1980 concert in France. The segue line is perfect.
Be back here tomorrow for some cool stuff.
For the New Year, we thought that this Saturday Matinee might consist of top hits of decades past… that is until we looked at the list of contenders:
1890 Semper Fidelis – The U.S. Marine Band [no video]
1899 Kiss Me, Honey, Do – Arthur Collins [no video]
1909 Good Evening, Caroline – Frank Stanley & Elise Stevenson [no video]
1919 O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? – Bert Williams [no video]
1929 Sweethearts On Parade – Guy Lombardo [no live video]
1939 They Say – Artie Shaw [no video]
1949 A Little Bird Told Me – Evelyn Knight [no live video]
1959 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – The Platters
1969 Crimson And Clover – Tommy James & The Shondells
1979 Too Much Heaven – BeeGees
1989 My Prerogative – Bobby Brown
1999 Have You Ever – Brandy
2009 Love Story – Taylor Swift
After careful consideration and review of the available videos on the Utoobage, we just couldn’t bring ourselves to post any of them, but the links are there just in case some of you are into self-flagellation. Meanwhile, let’s just back away from the pop trainwrecks for now.
The shortest Rolling Stones song you never heard. [Found here.]
As for rock commercials, try this.
Squirrel Nut Zippers’ “Ghost of Stephen Foster” with a cool cartoon.
[Update 12:50PM – Gabriel left this fine memory in Thursday’s comments. Gotta post it here.]
Bunky just can’t get into the Christmas Spirit until he hears the Ronettes’ version of “Sleigh Ride.”
Unfortunately, the best vids of that song have been pulled, and we just can’t bring ourselves to post a video of a vinyl record spinning on a turntable, or worse, a picture of an album cover (losers). BUT, we’re certainly willing to post THIS version. Screw the copyright Scrooges.
So here’s a compromise, a Christmas song with Darlene Love, backed by the E-Street Band (with video splices from, um, “Home Alone“).
I axed Bunkarina to pick out a video or two for this week’s video trainwreck, and she chose this. From Drew Carey’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway,” here’s “Butterstick.”
Bunkarina likes this video by Regina Spektor, and so do I.
The Tubes were the late 70’s equivalent to FZ’s Mothers of the late 60’s. MockRock at it’s best. “Stand Up and Shout” covers a lot of ground while featuring Fee Waybill as druggie frontman “Quay Lewd.”
The late Jerry Reed pickin’ with the late Chet Atkins. This one’s for Aussie Phil.
Suzy Boggus‘ & Chet Atkins’ excellent version of “After You’ve Gone.” (Ignore her stupid outfit, she’s a great singer.)
Meyer Kessler, aka Carl Ballantine/aka Lester Gruber/aka Ballantine the Great.
27 September 1919 – 3 November 2009.
Here’s the Beach Boys’ cover of the Rivingtons‘ classic,
…that was covered by the Ramones. For a one chord song, it’s almost impossible to play without a vocal, and without a vocal, it’s not worth listening to.
Even the Oakridge Boys stole the line, but we have more class than to post that one, so here’s an ear cleaner instead.
Bette Midler’s version of the Stone’s “Beast of Burden.” Odd enough.
Folks, we had some odd computer problems today, so we had to throw this together at the last minute.
Hello Vancouver!
1965, Doug Sahm & the Sir Douglas Quintet.
1966 Yardbirds. That was the same year Dad bought a set of the World Book Encyclopedia. The cellophane inserts showing frog anatomy were very cool.
1967, crappy sound, but it’s the Blues Magoos.
1967, and Stephen Stills was only 22 in this video. I was into Big Daddy Roth and Mad Magazine. Oh, man. Seems like it was just February.
[Tip o’ the Tarboosh to Nicole for the ferrettage link.]
“Oh Liver! Don’t you know I gotta LEG?!”
[Another Tip o’ the Tarboosh to Dan S. in Idaho for this gem Happy Birthday, Dan.]
Ben E. and I jest…
This one is a repost. It keeps getting yanked from the Utoobage, but it keeps growing back like a fungus. I love it.
Other good news: Tube No. 1 restored “Dance Girl,” so the link HERE has been repaired.
Tacky Raccoons 