August 9, 201311 yr Matchbox & Hall of the Mountain King mashup - figures it's an Ohioan- a Springfielder in Basel
August 9, 201311 yr :roll: I wish they had new video up as they have a new bass player....who resembles me only in the respect that we share parents. Gee the first 1:15 is an air raid siren. That's original! :roll: Maybe they could have introduced a megaphone also. :roll:
August 9, 201311 yr Thirty five years ago tonight, about twenty blocks away from the first "rock and roll" show ever, possibly the greatest ever took place. I've been listening to my "Summertime Bruce" CD (a bootleg of said show) the last couple days.
August 9, 201311 yr :roll: I wish they had new video up as they have a new bass player....who resembles me only in the respect that we share parents. Gee the first 1:15 is an air raid siren. That's original! :roll: Maybe they could have introduced a megaphone also. :roll: Am I the only one that thinks that when they test the air raid sirens on Wednesdays at noon that the speakers should play War Pigs afterward?
August 13, 201311 yr wow We Need Wallace by The Crusaders https://app.box.com/s/v5wysw484g4pqd72hcf1 from That's All RITE Mama: "George Wallace forged an alliance with many country singers, such as Autry Inman, Hank Snow, and the Wilburn Brothers, who participated often in his campaigns for the Alabama governorship and for the presidency. Racism was certainly one factor which contributed to Wallace's popularity, but his southern rural/populist roots also made him appealing to many of the "good old boys and girls" who picked guitars and sang. Wallace identified with country music, but he also spoke the same language, ate the same food, and responded to the same cultural traditions (both good and bad) that most country musicians understood. He linked his southerness with their own, while also tapping vaguely understood, but often legitimate, feelings of alienation that many Americans everywhere felt. The George Wallace-country music alliance was a major factor which contributed to the music's rediscovery by the media - the belief that at worst the music represented reactionary and racist politics, or that at best it spoke for alienated American working people." http://thatsallritemama.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-crusader-on-dip.html
August 13, 201311 yr ^ well...if you want to do down that path, Ricky Skaggs did benefits for Pat Robertson back when he was running (against the first Bush) in '88 or '89....
August 13, 201311 yr And Flatt and Scruggs did union benefits/shows here in Dayton (IUE union, who had unionized Frigidair and Delco)...I saw a letter from them in the archives at WSU, which has the papers of some of the old union officials...
August 13, 201311 yr ....on the bike the other day was listening to Gus Gus....whatever happened to them...back when Iceland was a hot jet set spot.... Also some Gretchen Peters. Otherwise: I'm listening to a lot of Laura Nyro, especially her "New York Tendaberry" and "Christmas and the Beads of Sweat "albums(I wonder if anyone on here even knows who Laura Nyro was or what she sounded like...& I would have put myself in that category a few years ago, too).
August 15, 201311 yr ^^I love Laura Nyro's music. Sadly she died at only 49 of ovarian cancer, eerily the same thing her mother died of at the same age. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
August 16, 201311 yr ....on the bike the other day was listening to Gus Gus....whatever happened to them...back when Iceland was a hot jet set spot.... Also some Gretchen Peters. Otherwise: I'm listening to a lot of Laura Nyro, especially her "New York Tendaberry" and "Christmas and the Beads of Sweat "albums(I wonder if anyone on here even knows who Laura Nyro was or what she sounded like...& I would have put myself in that category a few years ago, too). whos laura nyro? i'll do you one better, i wonder if you know who wrote this: Laura, I saw you open in LA There's something I gotta say Laura, you know it's really been such a long, long time And you know Laura, I knew you'd make it good someday And you knew it anyway Laura, I know that maybe this is the wrong, wrong time But Laura where did that magic go It's so hard, it's so cold down here Did you have to leave me behind? I wish that I could make it But how I love to shuffle (how I love to shuffle) Baby let's swing Now I love to shuffle Ever since I heard you sing (since I heard her sing) Laura, I saw you in that magazine You looked like a gypsy queen Laura, I beat around the bush 'cause it's oh so hard But you know Laura, it's not the best it's ever been I think you know what I mean I wish you'd take a look in your own back yard To see that someone has seen it all Seen you climb, seen you fall so low If you have to leave it behind I'll carry it on for ya, 'cause it's oh so hard Baby let's swing Now I love to shuffle Ever since I heard you sing **** on a whole other note, im going to see the sword sunday. me-tal. also, the dirty beaches guy and goldfrapp early in september.
August 19, 201311 yr Is Jolene still around? I remember them from the 1990s. whos laura nyro? i'll do you one better, i wonder if you know who wrote this: ..no, I do not!
August 19, 201311 yr whos laura nyro? i'll do you one better, i wonder if you know who wrote this: ..no, I do not! jeffrey, its todd rundgren -- more about it via wiki: Particularly during the early years of his career, Rundgren's songwriting was heavily influenced by the music of singer-songwriter Laura Nyro: "I knew her fairly well. I met her right after Eli and the Thirteenth Confession. I actually had arranged a meeting, just because I was so infatuated with her and I wanted to meet the person who had produced all this music. We got along, and we were kind of friendly, and actually, after I met her the first time, she asked me if I wanted to be her band leader. But the Nazz had just signed a record contract and I couldn't skip out on the band, even though it was incredibly tempting." Rundgren's debut solo album Runt (1970) includes the strongly Nyro-influenced "Baby Let’s Swing", which was written about her and mentions her by name.
August 19, 201311 yr alright you meh-tahlheadz i saw austin's the sword last night. outstanding! bring earplugs and go see'm when you can: The Sword Setlist Aug 18 2013 Artist The Sword Castle, American Sharks Venue Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA Tour Apocryphon Setlist Info The Sundering The Veil of Isis How Heavy This Axe Cloak of Feathers Arcane Montane Barael's Blade Tres Brujas Maiden, Mother & Crone Dying Earth The Warp Riders Night City Freya Apocryphon Encore: Ebethron (including Rush "Working Man" snippet)
August 19, 201311 yr ^ wow cool, but that announcer is not gonna help columbus' whitebread reputation lol! but seriously, this is prime todd rundgren during his back to the bars tour, one of the greatest in rock history. the next night at the agora in cleveland was a local tv broadcast and also became a big part of the live album. i saw him 4 days after this columbus show at the world series of rock festival at municipal stadium.
August 21, 201311 yr The Rundgern connection is interesting. Wow! He was also freinds with or aquainted with Patti Smith, who knew him around the time, or just before the time, 'Runt' came out. She mentions him in that "Just Kids" memoir (turns out Patti Smith is older than I thought, more part of the 1960s era, when I saw her as more of a 1970s figure. I guess she became famous in the 1970s...
August 21, 201311 yr I have heard Rundgren talk about that 70s punk/new wave scene. He wasn't playing with those bands but he was definitely listening to them & making "the scene".
August 22, 201311 yr Did somebody say Columbus? Here it is, the best punk song ever written and recorded in Columbus, OH: It's like somebody tried to write something inspired by The Ramones' "I Don't Care", but dared to use more than ten different words in the song, and succeeded marvelously.
August 23, 201311 yr Taking a walk last night with a Uriah Heep greatest hits album on. Man they suck. I can see how this stuff would have appealed to my long haired wannabe stoner junior high kid self...."wow, cool man, they're singing about wizards...." but ok Sweet Lorraine was ok. Otherwise, old cd of Jasper the Collossal. Paige Beller.....who is from Cincy (west side somewhere) but working out of Dayton....was the force behind this great postpunk project...
August 23, 201311 yr Any of you Clevonistas remember Chester Hooks & the Vibrants from 1966? https://app.box.com/s/4ltkyfgcgvxqzmexm9ui
September 5, 201311 yr Cyrille Aimée will be performing next Monday and Tuesday at Nighttown in Cleveland if anyone is interested- http://www.cyrillemusic.com/calendar#!__calendar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no-_4sMNggs http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
September 7, 201311 yr Taking a walk last night with a Uriah Heep greatest hits album on. Man they suck. I can see how this stuff would have appealed to my long haired wannabe stoner junior high kid self...."wow, cool man, they're singing about wizards...." but ok Sweet Lorraine was ok. I sorta have a soft spot for "The Wizard" ha ha.
September 7, 201311 yr Really digging Mikal Cronin track - Weight. Annnnd he's playing tonite at Case Western Reserve University. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15179-mikal-cronin-weight/
September 8, 201311 yr Taking a walk last night with a Uriah Heep greatest hits album on. Man they suck. I can see how this stuff would have appealed to my long haired wannabe stoner junior high kid self...."wow, cool man, they're singing about wizards...." but ok Sweet Lorraine was ok. I sorta have a soft spot for "The Wizard" ha ha. Vans had warlocks painted on them for a reason in back then.
September 15, 201311 yr Toxic Reasons outta Dayton around 1980 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_rONmskDjg
September 28, 201311 yr in honor of summit street's jamestown thread peak-era 10000 maniacs http://youtu.be/a7WCpMThejA
September 28, 201311 yr Pet peeve! When acts change clothes a bunch of times in one video it makes my brain hurt, especially if they go back and forth between outfits a bunch of times.
September 28, 201311 yr with Oktoberfest around the corner, it's time for a visit from the Chardon Polka Band... http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
September 28, 201311 yr with Oktoberfest around the corner, it's time for a visit from the Chardon Polka Band... careful, dude, those wardrobe changes might set off GCrites80s
September 28, 201311 yr *stunned* ahh, i congradulate them. its really hard to pull off a jaw dropping music video these days. we've all been waiting for a bookend to the alternate reality video. well, we got it!
October 10, 201311 yr New French Iggy Pop documentary shot and edited in 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr-i-C6K2nk So if you can either understand French or ignore it, this is a pretty interesting documentary, since the French for whatever fixate on Iggy's ability to talk to strangers. As we all know in France people don't talk or wave to strangers, and maybe the people shooting this film think Iggy and Iggy alone possesses this ability, not recognizing that pretty much everyone talks to everyone here.
October 16, 201311 yr Am I the only person on here who bought tickets for the Pixies show in Columbus in February? I am making an effort to go see all of these bands before they die off completely, even though I am well aware that their heyday is 20+ years gone. Here is one of the lesser-known Pixies songs that I think is actually a perfect example of what they did best, which was create songs that illustrate a demented, cracked-up emotional state: The other two people I need to see to Feel Complete are Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. Iggy Pop unfortunately has played about 150 shows in the last five years, and only about 15 of them were in the United States. I think his only live date in the US this year was at SXSW. I watched his live clips from Australia and you can tell he's actually hit The Wall and needs to slow things down, which means it's almost the end of his stage act.
October 16, 201311 yr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGM4VG0uXj8 http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
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