Dolichocephalic Hot Links

Any Way The Wind Blows, Los Brujos (1996)
From Unmatched – Tributo A Zappa Vol. 1, a collection of covers of Frank Zappa songs, de grupos y artistas españoles. There are 9 such compilations in the series.

No.

Proof.

Froghorn.

In the way.

Sync or swim.

Bill’s Records.

…and 80% don’t.

Cats and lizards.

Phyllobates terribilis.

Someone calculated 161.

Norty Blues Episode 108.

The science is deafening.

The Anti-Social Media Project.

Doggos gonna have nightmares.

Something completely different.

A stacka ‘eaters [via Bunkerville].

Operation Wrong Exit [via Xenophilic].

First there was Radio Garden. Now there’s TV Garden
[via Memo Of The Air].

R.I.P. Kenneth Pluhar (1961-2023) [via Feral Irishman].

Walking in Havana. Many other cities to choose from, with walking, driving and flying options. Sound up. [h/t Everlasting Blört].

[Top image found here.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

All previously posted elsewhere. Crow eye photo courtesy of @CrowMonthly. Hair Blobs & tattoo courtesy Chuck C.

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

 

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Most have been previously posted elsewhere.

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Some of these are dated, and yeah, that was our experience with The Omigodmicron. The one at bottom right was an experiment – I took an arbitrary section of my recent WebEx Meeting Notes, ran it through a photo-morph and the alien from Planet of the Mufflers appeared.

Saturday Matinee – NFL 2019 Bad Lip Reading, Zappa & The Persuasions

Bad Lipreading of NFL 2019 (via).

I’m kinda in a doo-wop mood, and St. Valentine’s Day is coming up. Czech this out.

https://youtu.be/ZOf3WBrUb-U

That’s one of my favorite Zappa love songs because he did it so righteously.

The Persuasions deserved more recognition than they ever got. They were always looking for an echo and they covered Zappa.

Have a great weekend, folks. See y’all back here tomorrow for stuff.

Saturday Matinee – The Archers of Loaf, The Axis of Awesome, Zappa & Santana

Archers of Loaf. Great 3-chord rock. According to Wiki, they disbanded, reformed, broke up and now reorganized before disappearing completely.

In 2009, The Axis of Awesome discovered the secret 4-chord progression required to make a hit record.

https://youtu.be/xvKrBoywZFY

Zappa’s “Variations on the Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression” is a classic. Unfortunately the video is not an actual performance, but a compilation of images pasted over the music. So what. I still like it. We’ll let Carlos Santana have the last word.

https://youtu.be/AqZceAQSJvc

Woodstock put Carlos Santana on the map in 1969. Great jam.

Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow and we’ll mess around with stuff.

Saturday Matinee – Por Uhklelelas, Eric Clapton & JJ Cale, & Bill Tapia

https://youtu.be/X2Oz7WUF27A

Por Uhklelelas nailed it, and that’s the prettiest version of the song I ever heard. Unfortunately I can’t find a link to their website. On the other hand I can link to this:

Bill Tapia, aka,The Duke of the Uke, calls the chords. Huell Howser interviewed him.

Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow whether you like it or not.

Saturday Matinee – Postmodern Jukebox with Morgan James, Herbie Hancock with Miles Davis, & Frank Zappa

Postmodern Jukebox (featuring the amazing vocals of Morgan James) always gets my attention. Nice ’60s kinda sound happens here.

Watermelon Man.” Herbie Hancock teams up with Bill Evans, Al Foster and Miles Davis on his 1962 soul/jazz/funk classic.

One of my favorite Zappa songs, “Black Napkins,” performed on the Mike Douglas Show in 1976. Kinda reflects my mood these days, but I’ll snap out of it. Meanwhile, have a great weekend, and for those of you in the midwest, have fun with the cicadas.

Billy The Mountain

Billy The Mountain

Billy was a mountain. Ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder.

[Found here. Obscure reference from somewhere else.]