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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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 Posted - January 20 2006 : 03:11:00 AM
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And If for nothing else and even if you hate Howard, get Sirius radio for the music...just last night alone I heard The Bubble Puppy Hot Smoke and Sassafras, The Move Hello Suzie, The Faces Feel to Good, Grand Funk RailRoad Paranoid, Part of the Union The Strawbs, Every Little Thing from Yes, Rice Pudding from the Jeff Beck Group, The Soft Parade / Five to One The Doors, Mama We're all Crazy Now Slade, Get in the Swing by Sparks, The Loner Neil Young, Todd Rundgren We got to get you a Woman, Country Pie by Dylan, It must have been the Roses by the Dead, If 6 was 9 by Hendrix, The Stealer by Free, Jim Dandy by Black Oak Arkansas ( OK one dog !!! )...Somebody's Crying to be Heard by Traffic, Chinese Rock by Thed RAMONES, Beware of Darkness by George Harrison, and so on...these were not all on one station but you could live to be 1000 and you won;t hear this kind of stuff on commercial crap radio....plus there was a lot of new stuff played but not always the same 1 or 2 tracks from the CD you hear 10 times day or 50 times a week ...
FranK Siriusly speaking
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - January 20 2006 : 03:12:36 AM
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Fasten your saftey belts and turn on the Sirius Radio with FranK at the controls of the Supersonic Rocket Ship...Today started out with something I never heard let alone knew existed, a cover of Louie Louie done by Robert Plant and from the sound of it it sounded like dury the Led Zep era. I have heard rumors that Plant was in a mid 60's band a released a demo single version of "You Really Got Me" and I have never heard any konfimation of that. Anyone??? This band called The Saints always get my attention today it was with " Stranded", also heard the klassic Beau Brummels doing " Laugh Laugh "...did you know The members of the Smithereens backed the Beau Brummels during a comeback tour some years ago because they are big fans...that's why I almost had them backing Dave and they backed Ray and Dave at the Boston Gardens show some 15 or 16 years ago ( get Attack of the Smithereens to hear that ) and Video does exist of that too but not to the public, Dennis Diken Smithereens drummer showed me it once...The Woggles another band to watch did their rebuttle to Dave & The Kinks I'm a Lover not a fighter with their song called " I use to be a Lover but now I'm a fighter" The Black Crowes with Remedy, Buddy Holly that'll be the Day and The Stones The Lantern from Their Santanic Majesties Request brought us back in to the klassic rock zone, The Creation did "Bif, Bam, Pow" and you thought watching Batman reruns had no redeeming qualities??? The always entertaining Cramps with their new Kind of Rock is a underground garage staple, Pink Floud with the ppunding One of these days and Boz Scaggs with their Led Zeppelin Since I've benn loving you " Loan me a dime " again brought me back to the klassic rock era this was on the Vault channel this time...now here's a lesson for all you little kids. listen to your mother when she sings to you stupid little songs from her era, because heard the Clash doing " English Civil War" and I'm saying I know that melody my mother use to sing it to me as a kid and sure enough at the end of the song they go in to the World War One era song " When Johnny Comes Marching Home"...The Minus 5 with Dr. Evil, Flaiming Groovies frontman Roy Looney and the Longshormen, " Nobody Does it for Love"...Social Distortion with their updare to the Stones Mother's Little Helper did " Mommy's Little Nightmare " hey my mother sung that to me too (:...
Johnny Thuders I'm Alive I should learn that one just in case??? The Moby Grape one of my psychodellic favorites did a favorite song " Motorcycle Irene " I have the Grape Jam album gotta check for that? Rod Stewart when he use to be a rocker not a crooner did his take on the Stones " Street Fighting Man " very nice, The Defectors with a slighty All Day and All of the night song called " It's Gonna take some time " Imagine The Standells doing All Day and All of the night ala Dirty Water style??? you get my drift???...the Band brings me to a close with the GREAT " Just another Whistle Stop " ...
I'm addicted, and I just wanna be well...I'm Outta Here,
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - January 20 2006 : 03:15:04 AM
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Like the old Troggs song goes,
I can't control Myself...
Speaking of Which I heard the Buzzcocks with Howard Devoto fronting the band before Pete Shelley do a great Ramones like cover of that Troggs song...
Also The Pretty Things Walking thru my dreams
The NY Dolls doing a song for me..Personality Crisis
Also my favorite MC5 studio track the power packed " Sister Anne " it's no wonder I didn't crash on the Cross Bronx Expressway!
The Datsuns with a new one to me called Harmonic Generator which reminded my of the rockabilly band the Polecats and their early 80's hit Make a Circuit with me...generator oscillator...but make no mistake the Datsuns are not a rockabilly band, Dave's sons band Year Long Disaster probably sounds more like the Datsuns, a mix of early Zeppelin and Sabbath. It also almost reminded me of " Telepathy " and " "Too Serious from Dave's Glamour album. Too Sirius...hey Dave they should use that song for a promo,,,and we sell it off and triple the profits...I'm a seccond hand Sirius spiv, Stop the Music well ain't I human..ooops got carried away there, Preservation is a sickness...Then I heard a John Burnette song that must have influenced The guitar off the Beatles Battle of John and Yoko, and supposedly the Beatles covered this song in their cavern days but I forgot the name of it, Also heard was the always great to hear on the radio " Absolutely Sweet Marie " by Dylan, it was " Unbelievable " as Dylan might say...A girl band called the High Dials caught my interest too but it is the girl band called The Charms to watch out for. Even the Donnas should worry about them. What did I leave out, some Fleshtones maybe...Pearl Jam doing Nothingman, and Oh yeah on the Vault I heard one of my favorite Jethro Tull songs from my favorite Tull album, their very first called " This Was " with a song called " Dharma for One " featuring the amzaing short drum nreak form Clive Bunker who to this day has one of the best names in rock music along with my buddy Overhend Watts on bass with Mott the Hoople. Noddie Holder ain't too basd either. It's no wonder I'm not dead yet from this music.
FranKtheKranK
" Note to myself don't die "...Ryan (I put out aLbums as fast as some people can woof down a krispy Kreme Donut Adams )
Correction if you want to email Handsome Dic Manitoba at the Sirius Underground Garaage and request Kinks, Dave Davies, Ray, Year Long Disaster, FTW, MC5, Stooges, RAMONES, etc... the email address I gave you yesterday was wrong it's
manitoba@undergroundgarage.com
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - January 20 2006 : 03:18:18 AM
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Sirius Radio for Sirius Rock & Rollers, Tuesday 1/17 late edition Report...
Earlier this morning while hanging out in Joe's Garage on Sirius radio, I heard some kool rock n roll from the undergrouind; First it was an old twangy Stones song called Hitch Hike, but No Child of the Moon maybe next time around? The Forty Fives sounding very much liked a punked up Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam doing " My Kinda Girl " but not the Ramones songs this time, The Purple Merkins doing Get on the Plane which was like hering the original Stooges on Downers, this guy had Ron Ashton's TV eye rif down cold, The good old American NY Dolls with Human Being not to be confused with the chop chop version of Human Being Lawnmower from the MC5's Back in the USA album, The Shirelles with the age old question of Will you still love me tomorrow, and that was anwered by none other than Frank Zapp and the Mothers of Invention with the garagey version of Motherly Love. Than as opnly the beautiful Little Richard himself could do we heard She's got it from the man who gave us Womp Bomp A Lu Bomp A Bomp Bam Boom...Adam West the band with There's a Bimboo Under My Bed, and I thought it was Leslie West and Mountain or West Bruce and Lang at least, To bring everything back in to perspective Dylan's Ises was next, followed by The Byrds See you ( I'm gonna catch that Horse if I can? ) Now for something very Interesting, I have been searching for this song for over 30 years and I finally have it, The CHOCOLATE WATCH BAND a West coast Hippie band from the 60's/70's doing a song they called " I don't need your Loving anymore " well here's how it starts and you can out the music to it, late 60's hard rave up rock here's the opening words " Well I've tried everything to get along with you, now I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna leave, ect....they basically did what The Kinks did with Last of the Steam Powered Trains stealing the Smokestack Lightning Riff but the Chocolate Watch bad stole not only the riff from Millk Cow Blues but most of the words but changed it just enough to give it a new title??? Hey the songs was great despite the fact, it really ate up the speakers and fluttered the tweeters and woofers in my head fer sure, The came Cold Hard Bitch from the the new kids on the block JET, and if you listen to this song about mid way to 3/4 of the way through it you can start singing The KinKs The Hardway from Schoolboys in Disgrace, definitely a little slice from there whether on purpose or not??? don't know, don;t care, I liked it, The Who with an obscure favorite of mine The Good Gone expressing the same sentiment as Ray does in Such a Shame or Where have all the Good times Gone, I forget where that Who song comes from? Anyone? Just when I thought it could NOT get any beter than this unless another obscure KinKs song comes on I hear the familiar opening guitar anthem like riff of " BASTARDS of YOUNG " from one of my top 10 all time bands THE REPLACEMENTS...NOT ONLY DO I LOVE THIS SONG AT ONE OF THE LAST REPLACEMENTS SHOWS THAT I SAW BEFORE THEY BROKE UP IN 1989 I BELIEVE, AT THE BEACON THEATRE IN NYC, A VERY DRUNK PAUL WESTERBERG STUMBLED OFF THE STAGE IN TO THE 2ND ROW DURING BASTARDS OF YOUNG AND FELL ON TO MY LAP WHERE I PROCEEDED TO HELP HIM FINSIH THE SONG..and to konclude this rambling kaos The Fuzztones with Bad News Travels Fast.
Sirius Satellite Radio, I bet you can't listen just once and if you do you'll never go back to commercial " Jack Jack the idiot dunce " radio...
I'm outta here,
FranKtheKranK
email the undergroundgarge.com and tell them what you want to hear
email my buddy Handsome Dic Manitoba at manitoba@underground garage.com and tell him what you want to hear. and don't request the same old crap you can hear fro free any time any day of the week on boring " Predictable " commercial radio.
Yeah that's the Mood I'm In.
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - January 20 2006 : 03:22:02 AM
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I almost drove in to a snow ditch on my way in to work tonight when on Sirius radio the Underground Garage channel, I heard this familiar guitar intro and voice that made me jam on my breaks because I thought I saw the Divine Light!!! It was from " Kinda KinKs " I wonder Where My Baby is Tonight with that distinctive DAVE DAVIES Guitar opening riff and that One and Only voice on this planet, the show was hosted by my buddy Handsome •••• Manitoba of The Dictators email him
at: manitoba@undergroundgarage.com
and tell him how much you love and appreciate hearing the KinKs on his show, also he was at the Ray Supper Club show last November in NYC and also at the KinKs Fillmore East show in Ocotber of 1969!!! So you know he is a hughe KinKs fan.
Besides that also heard on his show last night was some other great unusual and obscure rock n roll; The Waldo's the modern Day answer to the NY Dolls doing Never gonna let you go..., Oasis KiNKs/Beatle wannabe's doing a nice glammed up Fade Away, The Ultra rare super glam 70's band called The QUICK who I bought the album the day it came out an no one has ever heard of them since until last night when " Pretty Please " came tearing across the airwaves, these guys are SPARKSmixed wit the Four Seasons, Powered by The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin and I bet Justin Hayward of the Darkness has a Quick poster up in his house somewhere right next to a picture of Russell Mael of Sparks and the Late Freddy Mercury, Also heard social Distortion's Gotta Know the Rules, The Saints who are a non stop rock n roll machine, the best Traffic song from the best Traffic Album " Crying to Be Heard " which could have been on the Blind Faith album...God how I love those albums, The Soundtrack of our Lives did their phychotic " Transcendentral Suicide " followed by The Invisable Men's Miserable People, topped off with Sahara Hot Nights the all girl band from somwhere in Europe, Sweden, Denmark??? I should know since I saw them live in a small NYC club once a few years ago, but last but not least the Incredible Alice Cooper band when they were a real band doing " No More Mr Nice Guy "...
Who Said Rock n Roll is dead?...not on Sirius Radio it's not, get it, support it, Save Rock n Roll. Don't let Joey Ramones Life be in Vain.
FranKtheKranK aka the Reverend DaliLima
of The Rock n Roll Preservation Society...
Well I wonder where my baby is tonight
I wonder where my baby is tonight
I wonder where my baby's gone
Hope she'll do no wrong
Lookin' for my baby, she's not around
I wonder where my baby is tonight
I wonder what on Earth's my baby's doin'
If she's not at home there's trouble brewin'
If she really loves me she'll believe in what I say
Tryin' hard to find out where my baby is tonight
If she's not at home I'd better go
Well I only know I wanna see my baby
Went to call for her but she is gone right out of sight
Looking for my baby
She's not around
I wonder where my baby is tonight
Well I wonder where my baby is tonight
I wonder where my baby is tonight
I wonder where my baby's gone
Hope she'll do no wrong
Lookin' for my baby, she's not around
I wonder where my baby is tonight
I hope that everything's gonna be all right
Well I wonder where my baby is tonight
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - January 22 2006 : 10:09:20 AM
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Around the dial, the weekend Sirius Rock n Roll Report Sat/Sun January 22, 2006
Since I only listen to Sirius Radio in my car during my daily kommute from hell to and from work this won't that long of one, basically just Friday. It started off quite good with on of my favorites from the Ramones, their signature song Ramona. ( little know fact that The Ramones took their name from a fake name Paul McCartney made up and used when the Beatles signed in to hotels and when he made a guest appearance as drummer and vocalist on The Steve Miller Band's 3rd album " Brave New World ", McCartney played drum and sang background on the last song on the record called " My Dark Hour " on the album credits it lists Paul Ramon as drums and vocals. - Now here is a real trivia question who used the name Russell King to sign in to hotels instead of his real name? Back to Sirius Radio, Also Manfred Mann doing Sh La La La, The Byrds " I still need your loving", The Who with " La La La Lies " one more La La and I'm heading for Shangri-La!, The Grateful Dead with " To Hell in a Basket " sometimes how I feel my life is going, but I keep looking on the Sunny Side, so I don't end up following the great Roy Orbison song " Crying " which I indeed hear next, I also heard yet another version of " Louie Louie " that made the Kingsmen version sound like it was produced by Phil Spector, this ultra stripped down version was performed by The Sonics, going back to the 50's and 60's I heard the versatile Dion do " Donna Donna the Prima Donna " ( Dion is still touring and recording new stuff too , and had a band called the Little Kings featuring Mike Messaros of the Smithereens on bass ), heard one of my favorite falsetto's other than Frankie Vallie, the vintage Lou Christie doing " The Gypsy Cried " , I can remember dropping many a dimes in to the Juke Box for that as a kid, also heard a favorite of my Mom's Connie Frances's " Stupid Cupid "...ok enough pop, back to my life and blood rock n roll, like The Rubber City Rebels with " I don't Wanna be a Punk no more " Oh yes I do...that's why I kranked it all the way up when "7-11" by The Ramones came on!!! and kept it that way for The NY Dolls " Looking for a Kiss " played ( not to be confused with Johnny Thunders ( Great Big Kiss ) which is a direct derivative of that song anyway, Joan Jett didn't let me down either with " JUST LUST ", my favorite subject, then came one of my favorite Canned Heat songs called " Let's Work Together " in which they basically did the same things as the Kinks did with Last of the Steam Powered Trains, another rip off of an old standard but still great never the less,
then a song came on that NEVER FAILS to BLOW ME AWAY,
" YOU SET THE SCENE " by Love with Arthur Lee, this has to be one of the best few minutes of music ever recorded anywhere by anyone, period.
The Creatures of the proven dawn with " feel like it's the end of the world ", can't remember much about this song though?, Then came another all time favorite from the Replacements from their " Don't Tell a Soul album I heard " Achin to Be "definitely one of the top songs I would choose to represent the musical biography of my life, with the " I'll be you " song off that same album too,..Hear the kick ass opening song off the 2nd Grand Funk Rail Road album " Got this thing on the Move "..and that does it for the weekend edition of around the dial but Monday is Coming and more great Rock n Roll too! Yea! Here's some artists I haven't heard yet and want to ( or want to hear more of ) Lucinda Williams, Wreckless Eric, more Roy Wood/Move/Wizzard, World Party, Runt, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Electric Prunes, The Fugs, David Peel, Plastic Ono Band, Del Lords, This Years Disaster, 10 Years After, Hendrix, Deep Purple(not Smoke on the water or Women from Tokyo though) Uriah Heep, Taste/Rory Gallagher, Piper( with Billy Squire) Humble Pie, Traffic, Savage Grace, MC5, Stooges, Mott the Hoople, Mountain, West Bruce & Lang, Jeff Beck, Cheap Trick, Fuse, Gun, Slade, T-Rex, Roxy Music, The Jam, Clash, More Bob Dylan, Blasters, Robert Gordon, Graham Parker, Stray Cats, Rock Pile, Nick Lowe, The Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, Syd Barett Pink Floyd stuff, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Pearl Jam, NRPS, Kingfish, Pretenders ( 1st and 2nd album stuff not like Kid, Pack it up, The Adulteress ), Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, More LOCAL H and less White Stripes...and of course The Four Seasons one of the greatest hit machines in pop history.
FranK saying Big Boy's do rock! and I'm outta here!
Art for arts sake, he did it all in the name of art...The Starmaker.
No one has the right to say what is or what isn't art; ( especially not anyone who thinks of him or herself as an artist ) It doesn't matter if one or one million people appreciate it it's still art. Remember just like most abstract ideas modern and post modern pop art was first thought to be rubbish. " Modern life is Rubbish " or so it was said once?
Breaking with the modernist tradition of abstraction (which by the early 1960s had become institutionalized in the form of Abstract Expressionism), Pop Art seemed to some observers to be frivolous and reactionary. However, it actually represents a turning point in the history of twentieth-century art.
Modernism had long insisted upon a strict hierarchy of taste. Contemporary society's blurring of "high" and "low" culture began simultaneously with Pop's parallel blurring of artistic hierarchies. As one of the hallmarks of postmodernity, this erasure of qualitative distinctions suggests that Pop is among the earliest manifestations of the postmodern.
Breaking with the modernist tradition of abstraction (which by the early 1960s had become institutionalized in the form of Abstract Expressionism), Pop Art seemed to some observers to be frivolous and reactionary. However, it actually represents a turning point in the history of twentieth-century art.
Modernism had long insisted upon a strict hierarchy of taste. Contemporary society's blurring of "high" and "low" culture began simultaneously with Pop's parallel blurring of artistic hierarchies. As one of the hallmarks of postmodernity, this erasure of qualitative distinctions suggests that Pop is among the earliest manifestations of the postmodern
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
USA
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Posted - January 24 2006 : 02:08:55 AM
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Today's Sirius Radio Rock & Roll Report for Tuesday Janauary 24th...
Tripping back to the psyhcadellic 60 with Donovon doing "Trudy" sounding very much like Traffic's great You can "All Join in ", followed by a dose of Yardbirds covering a Moes Allison song " I'm Not Talking", keeping that train of thought Bling Faith's covering a Buddy Holly song fit in nice with " Well Alright ". Then Came Sonny Boy Williamson with a surpurb blues rocker " Don't Start Me Talking " that in the early 70's David JoHansen and The NY dolls covered on their 1st album and took that song to places Sonny Boy never imagined in his wildest dreams! The Bubblegum rock of Crazy Elephants Gimme Gimme Good Loving which besides featuring my freind and next door neighbors cousin in the band ( from when I grww up as a kid on Long Island ) the band also had affiliations with the other king of the Bubblegum set bands, The Ohio Express, The 1910 Fruit Gum Company and The Music Explosion who gave us the danceable " Little Bit Of Soul "...The Faces with a raunchy scratchy vocal performance from Rod Stewart covered " Wicked Messenger " followed by Patti Smith herself doing " Summer Cannibals "...the original Rave On from Buddy Holly with that trade mark stuttering intro ( pre-dates Roger Daltry's attempts at that ) Next blasted through were Les Paul ands his band doing " Ain't that good News, The Warlocks " Baby Blue " ( not to be confused with the Grateful Dead who used the name The Warlocks before they were The Dead ), The Killer Barbies " Have Some Fun ", Them with Van doing the standard garage classic that others are measured against " Gloria " ( I prefer the Shadows of Night's version? and Patti Smith and the Live Doors version too are favorites ) The Waldos and The Woggles doing " Little Baby " and " Concentration Baby " respectively were a nice glammed rocked out way to end things...BUT WAIT the emails to Sirus Radio's Underground Garage requesting obscure KinKs songs is still working because i also heard " Who'll be the next in Line " so keep on emailing Handsome Dick Manitoba @
manitoba@undergroundgarage.com
with your KinKs requests, and others too, like Love, The Move, MC5, Ramones, NY Dolls, Dictators, and all the other great obscure rock n roll bands & songs that commercial radio won't play becuase they are controlled the giant conglomerates link Clear Channel who bow down to The FCC and the government and are only concerened about $$$ not music, art or anything else but their own bottom line and greed. |
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Into the 60's
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Posted - January 24 2006 : 10:08:50 AM
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| Bean: your knowledge of music astounds me. You mention a tune by one of my heroes, Rave On, by Buddy Holly. Are you aware of the fact that a Valley Stream resident performed on that track? |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - January 24 2006 : 6:24:21 PM
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NO I am not Rich!!! Please tell me all the details about this. I am VERY Interested???? -
Frank
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - January 24 2006 : 6:26:40 PM
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Sirius Radio Report, The Weekend/Monday/Tuesday edition...
KinKs still getting a dose of airtime every night on Sirius's Underground Garage...keeep up the email requests it is working...read below for song played on air once again! And since I only listen to Sirius Radio in my car during my daily kommute from hell to and from work this won't that long of one oops it is! It started off quite good with on of my favorites from the Ramones, their signature song Ramona. ( little know fact that The Ramones took their name from a fake name Paul McCartney made up and used when the Beatles signed in to hotels and when he made a guest appearance as drummer and vocalist on The Steve Miller Band's 3rd album " Brave New World ", McCartney played drums and sang background on the last song on the record called " My Dark Hour " on the album credits it lists Paul Ramon as drums and vocals. - Now here is a real trivia question who used the name Russell King to sign in to hotels instead of his real name? Back to Sirius Radio, Also Manfred Mann doing Sh La La La, The Byrds " I still need your loving", The Who with " La La La Lies " one more La La and I'm heading for Shangri-La!, The Grateful Dead with " To Hell in a Basket " sometimes how I feel my life is going, but I keep looking on the Sunny Side, so I don't end up following the great Roy Orbison song " Crying " which I indeed hear next, I also heard yet another version of " Louie Louie " that made the Kingsmen version sound like it was produced by Phil Spector, this ultra stripped down version was performed by The Sonics, going back to the 50's and 60's I heard the versatile Dion do " Donna Donna the Prima Donna " ( Dion is still touring and recording new stuff too , and had a band called the Little Kings featuring Mike Messaros of the Smithereens on bass ), heard one of my favorite falsetto's other than Frankie Vallie, the vintage Lou Christie doing " The Gypsy Cried " , I can remember dropping many a dimes in to the Juke Box for that as a kid, also heard a favorite of my Mom's Connie Frances's " Stupid Cupid "...ok enough pop, back to my life and blood rock n roll, like The Rubber City Rebels with " I don't Wanna be a Punk no more " Oh yes I do...that's why I kranked it all the way up when "7-11" by The Ramones came on!!! and kept it that way for The NY Dolls " Looking for a Kiss " played ( not to be confused with Johnny Thunders ( Great Big Kiss ) which is a direct derivative of that song anyway, Joan Jett didn't let me down either with " JUST LUST ", my favorite subject, then came one of my favorite Canned Heat songs called " Let's Work Together " in which they basically did the same things as the Kinks did with Last of the Steam Powered Trains, another rip off of an old standard but still great never the less, then a song came on that NEVER FAILS to BLOW ME AWAY,
" YOU SET THE SCENE " by Love with Arthur Lee, this has to be one of the best few minutes of music ever recorded anywhere by anyone, period.
The Creatures of the proven dawn with " feel like it's the end of the world ", can't remember much about this song though?, Then came another all time favorite from the Replacements from their " Don't Tell a Soul album I heard " Achin to Be "definitely one of the top songs I would choose to represent the musical biography of my life, with the " I'll be you " song off that same album too,..Hear the kick ass opening song off the 2nd Grand Funk Rail Road album " Got this thing on the Move "..and that does it for the weekend edition of around the dial but Monday is Coming and more great Rock n Roll too! Yea! Here's some artists I haven't heard yet and want to ( or want to hear more of ) Lucinda Williams, Wreckless Eric, more Roy Wood/Move/Wizzard, World Party, Runt, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Electric Prunes, The Fugs, David Peel, Plastic Ono Band, Del Lords, This Years Disaster, 10 Years After, Hendrix, Deep Purple(not Smoke on the water or Women from Tokyo though) Uriah Heep, Taste/Rory Gallagher, Piper( with Billy Squire) Humble Pie, Traffic, Savage Grace, MC5, Stooges, Mott the Hoople, Mountain, West Bruce & Lang, Jeff Beck, Cheap Trick, Fuse, Gun, Slade, T-Rex, Roxy Music, The Jam, Clash, More Bob Dylan, Blasters, Robert Gordon, Graham Parker, Stray Cats, Rock Pile, Nick Lowe, The Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, Syd Barett Pink Floyd stuff, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Pearl Jam, NRPS, Kingfish, Pretenders ( 1st and 2nd album stuff not like Kid, Pack it up, The Adulteress ), Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, More LOCAL H and less White Stripes...and of course The Four Seasons one of the greatest hit machines in pop history.
And to conclude with Today's Sirius Radio Rock & Roll Report for Mon/Tues Janauary 23/24...
Tripping back to the psyhcadellic 60 with Donovon doing "Trudy" sounding very much like Traffic's great You can "All Join in ", followed by a dose of Yardbirds covering a Moes Allison song " I'm Not Talking", keeping that train of thought Bling Faith's covering a Buddy Holly song fit in nice with " Well Alright ". Then Came Sonny Boy Williamson with a surpurb blues rocker " Don't Start Me Talking " that in the early 70's David JoHansen and The NY dolls covered on their 1st album and took that song to places Sonny Boy never imagined in his wildest dreams! The Bubblegum rock of Crazy Elephants Gimme Gimme Good Loving which besides featuring my freind and next door neighbors cousin in the band ( from when I grww up as a kid on Long Island ) the band also had affiliations with the other king of the Bubblegum set bands, The Ohio Express, The 1910 Fruit Gum Company and The Music Explosion who gave us the danceable " Little Bit Of Soul "...The Faces with a raunchy scratchy vocal performance from Rod Stewart covered " Wicked Messenger " followed by Patti Smith herself doing " Summer Cannibals "...the original Rave On from Buddy Holly with that trade mark stuttering intro ( pre-dates Roger Daltry's attempts at that ) Next blasted through were Les Paul ands his band doing " Ain't that good News, The Warlocks " Baby Blue " ( not to be confused with the Grateful Dead who used the name The Warlocks before they were The Dead ), The Killer Barbies " Have Some Fun ", Them with Van doing the standard garage classic that others are measured against " Gloria " ( I prefer the Shadows of Night's version? and Patti Smith and the Live Doors version too are favorites ) The Waldos and The Woggles doing " Little Baby " and " Concentration Baby " respectively were a nice glammed rocked out way to end things...BUT WAIT the emails to Sirus Radio's Underground Garage requesting obscure KinKs songs is still working because i also heard " Who'll be the next in Line " so keep on emailing Handsome Dick Manitoba @
manitoba@undergroundgarage.com
with your KinKs requests, and others too, like Love, The Move, MC5, Ramones, NY Dolls, Dictators, and all the other great obscure rock n roll bands & songs that commercial radio won't play becuase they are controlled the giant conglomerates link Clear Channel who bow down to The FCC and the government and are only concerened about $$$ not music, art or anything else but their own bottom line and greed.
Art for arts sake, he did it all in the name of art...The Starmaker.
No one has the right to say what is or what isn't art; ( especially not anyone who thinks of him or herself as an artist ) It doesn't matter if one or one million people appreciate it it's still art. Remember just like most abstract ideas modern and post modern pop art was first thought to be rubbish. " Modern life is Rubbish " or so it was said once?
Breaking with the modernist tradition of abstraction (which by the early 1960s had become institutionalized in the form of Abstract Expressionism), Pop Art seemed to some observers to be frivolous and reactionary. However, it actually represents a turning point in the history of twentieth-century art.
Modernism had long insisted upon a strict hierarchy of taste. Contemporary society's blurring of "high" and "low" culture began simultaneously with Pop's parallel blurring of artistic hierarchies. As one of the hallmarks of postmodernity, this erasure of qualitative distinctions suggests that Pop is among the earliest manifestations of the postmodern.
Breaking with the modernist tradition of abstraction (which by the early 1960s had become institutionalized in the form of Abstract Expressionism), Pop Art seemed to some observers to be frivolous and reactionary. However, it actually represents a turning point in the history of twentieth-century art.
Modernism had long insisted upon a strict hierarchy of taste. Contemporary society's blurring of "high" and "low" culture began simultaneously with Pop's parallel blurring of artistic hierarchies. As one of the hallmarks of postmodernity, this erasure of qualitative distinctions suggests that Pop is among the earliest manifestations of the postmodern.
Before I get accused of plagiarism that quote I used at the end of my post above about abstract expressionism that started with "Breaking with the modernist tradition of abstraction" was written by Joe A. Thomas,
from the link here:
http://www.glbtq.com/arts/pop_art.html
FranK saying Big Boy's do rock! and I'm outta here!
I am pretty sure it was Vince's ( Skinny Vinnie ) cousin from Brooklyn who was a member of Crazy Elephant. I know Valley Stream's own Guy Peritore was in Elephants Memory. Doc you remember that right?
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| Bean, Doc, and any others who may be interested in the Valley Stream connection to Buddy Holly: the very terrific Don Arnone, jazz guitarist extraordinaire, lived on Brown Street between Roeckel and Arlington Avenues, directly behind my house. Don was on the Rave On session at Bell Sound in Manhattan in late 1957, if I am correct. Don used to play on many t.v. shows when broadcasts were live, and probably on thousands of recording sessions. You may want to Google Don to see some of his credits. Worked a lot with Al Caiola, but many many others as well. I heard that Don passed away last year. He was a real heavyweight in the world of jazz guitar, but most people don't know about him. Nice man, too. After he lived in Valley Stream he moved to Franklin Square. |
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Bean, Doc, and any others who may be interested in the Valley Stream connection to Buddy Holly: the very terrific Don Arnone, jazz guitarist extraordinaire, lived on Brown Street between Roeckel and Arlington Avenues, directly behind my house.
Yes, I recall Don Arnone being discussed on a "Cobb" thread awhile back. By any chance is he a relative of the Cedar St. Arnones? |
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| Doc:Other than the Valerio family on Brown Street, to which his wife was related by marriage, I don't know of any other relatives to Don Arnone in Valley Stream. Ted Valerio did take guitar lessons from Don. |
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25TH AT THE SWISS TAVERN IN MALVERNE A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE HARRISON ON HIS BIRTHDAY...
Sent: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 4:51:25 PM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: At Canno's ...The Swiss Tavern, Malverne Ave, Malverne
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25 TH IT'S AN EVENING OF GEORGE HARRISON WITH *GODFREY* *TOWNSEND* AND THE *ALAN PARSONS* LIVE PROJECT WITH SPECIAL GUESTS KENNY FORGIONE & TOMMY WILLIAMS FROM WONDEROUS STORIES THIS IS AN AWESOME BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE FOR GEORGE "A MUST FOR ANY HARRISON OR BEATLES FAN"
Doc you going?
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| and Rich thanks for the info on Don and his and the Valley Stream connection to Buddy Holly and the Rave on session! Very Cool ! |
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Life is a drag and it's too Sirius, so get Sirius Radio and put the Rock n Roll back in your life !
" I'm so much in love,
But I'm too serious,
The world is so sick,
And I'm delirious. "...Dave Davies
OK...it was good rocking tonight on Sirius Radio as the song goes; from the undergrouind garage and the Vault which are the 2 channels I listen to mostly but no exclusively here's the daily rundown and there are 2 Kinks songs so we're still on a consectutive roll...From The MC5 and not from High Times I heard the live " Motor City Is Burning " from their revolutionary debut Elektra album " KICK OUT THE JAMS", staying with the Revolution came the oh so good to hear again on the radio " Something in The Air " by Thunderclap Newman, " The Daily Planet " by the great Arthur Lee and his band Love ( who on any given day is likely to be on my list of of top 10 bands of all time ever, they're that good. When I saw them live at the Bowery Ballroom 2 years ago I wasn't expecting much but it was beyond my wildest expectations, it may be on of my favorite all time shows...get every Love album you cna get your hands on is my advice. I think I have them all including Arthur's solo stuff...back to rock n roll radio, a band called The Sights did " Finish Waht you started " with the best use of a Wah Wah I have heard in a long time although Ron Ashton of the Stooges may hold first place in that catagory forever if for nothing else the opening guitar riffs on NO FUN off of The Stooges debut album, and 1969 too. The Iguannas did Mona ( not sure if this was Iggy's band before the Stooges? ) and The Boss Martians with I am Your Radio,,,A lesser know Everly Brothers song called Claudette, and then one of my all time favorite obscure hits from The 5 Americans with de de de de de de de de de de WESTERN UNION, Joan Jett kovering the DC5's Bit's and Pieces would rock as hard as you might imagine ala Joan Jett Style, The Soft Boys still wanting to Destroy You, very 21st Century Digital Boy sounding as done by Bad Religion, The Hullabaloo's Did you ever care?...The Fine Lines sounding very Louie Louish with " The Fine Mess I'm In " as in Oliver Hardy's signature statement Here's another...The Yardbirds with what sounded like with Jimmy Page doing " I ain't got you " because the guitar break had an erie forshadowing of what was yet to come in Zeppelin's Heartbreaker, then a double point score for me when one of my all time favorite bands does a cover of one of my all time favorite songs and that would be The RAMONES covering the Chamber's Brothers classic rocker " TIME HAS COME TODAY " ! I must have spent a small fortune playing that on Juke Boxes as a kid and I had the album version which was the entire side of the album with the that extended part in the middle with the metronome clocking back and forth over a psychedelic haze, while on the Ramones subject Amy Rigby off her new album did the ultra cool " Dancing with Joey Ramone " this song alone is worth buying the CD for,...The Shadows of Knight did do other songs besides Gloria, one was " I'm gonna make you mine "..."The sunshine bores the daylights out of me" my favorite line from Rocks Off from Exile on Main St, this album gets my vote as one of the best use of horns by a rock band, Arthur and a few kinks album later in to the 70's also are in that catagory, The Real Kids " Can't Talk to that Girl, Venus and the Razorblades with " Punk-a-rama ", The Insomniacs ( sounds like me since I never sleep) with " Love me to Death " vs Alice's Love it to Death( have not hear any thing off that yet, or Killer and Billion Dollar Babies???) The Who with " Call Me Lightning " which btw has a great video to that song? Anyone see it? Moonie just mezmorizes me on that one. The Maharaja's from Sweden or Switzerland rock hard with " since you went Away " much better than Kelly Clarkson's Since You've been Gone!, Led Zep from In through the Out Door with " Caroulselambra", now isn't that better than hearing Stairway to Heaven???
YES it is, Yes it is it's true, Springsteins lesser known rival Southside Johnny and the Asbury Dukes really surprised me with " All Night Long ", I have seen them a few times way back, even opening for the Kinks a few times and never heard them sound as good as this record, I think I also saw them with Wet Willie and a band called Juicy Lucy at the Filmore East. What was the big hit Wet Willie had? I can not think of it now but it was on the radio a lot. Hendix brought back the less popular " Spanish Castle Magic " and back to the West Coast with ClearLight with Mr. Blue very west coast 60's experimental sounding, Captain Sensible I said " WOT " from the 1st stage 80's new wave, The Libertines went " Begging " The WHO Bell Boy, More RAMONES " You're Gonna Kill that Girl" " Around the Dial" with the Kinks, and Yours Truel Confused N10, and Dic Manitoba made mention of Ray's new album " Other Peoples Lives " and he said due out next week? Now that's wishful thinking. He then went on to play from 1976 his own band The Dictators who rock as hard as anyone with " Stay With Me " not the Faces song though, this was an original I believe. Suf's Up with " Don't Worry Baby " the Big Bopper Gene Vincent takes a drive in his " Pink Thunderbird " and I'll take a " Double Shot of my Baby's Love " the bubbling garage pop klassic by the Swing Medallions, finally heard Inna-Gadda-Da-Vidda and remembered every beat of the drum solo like it was yesterday, but " 50,000 Miles beneath my Brain " from 10 Years After didn't sound familiar at all, and we use to play that one and another from Cricklewood Green, The Sex Pistols " Did you Know Wrong", and Translator's " I'm Everywhere that your not " another 1st wave new wave from the 80's, and finaly The Old 97's ended my day by upping Alice one with their " Nineteen " ...if this keeps up I'm going to need a few shots of Old 97 but NO JACK RADIO for me ever. I can't take it anymore, here comes my 19th nervous breakdown,
I'm Krankie and I'm outta here...
email manitoba@undergroundgarage.com
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martin@undergroundgarage.com
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or go to these Sirius sites to listen, and make requests
undergroundgarage site;
http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/CachedPage&c=Channel&cid=1104779639688
the Vault site;
http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/CachedPage&c=Channel&cid=1104779639597 |
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and the Sirius radio report continues for Thursday night, January 26th...Jarvis Humby with " I say Yeah " sounding much like a screaming Peter Wolf and the J. Geils band,...The Vancancies woth " One Day " in their best snarley Punkish Sex Pistols tone, Lords of the New Church the early 80's punks went back and gaves us some " Russian Roulette ", Eddie Cochran Rocked me with " Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie, "...The Godfathers "This Damnation", to the Hollies proclaiming " I'm Alive ", and on Today Lucinda Williams birthday they gave me the "voice" of Roy Orbison with " It's Over "...that record should come with a razor blade, between Roy Orbison and Lucinda Williams, no one can write a sad love gone wrong song any better than either of these two artists. Lucinda's Essence album and Roy Orbison's records combined are probably responsible for more sucides by jilted lovers than all other sources put together but man Oh man do I love them both. You can add some early Bee Gee's records to that suicidal list too..like How can you mend a Broken Heart, and a couple of their other great early hits too. (Oddessa what a great double album and the Red Crushed Velvet cover, they don't make them like that any more!!! ) Back to Mystic rock n roll and a slice of heaven, The Incredible DICTATORS did "Savage Beat" Dic Manitoba is either my soul mate or my long lost twin, and I m going out this weekend and making it my business to get this DICTATORS CD and any others I don't already have, they are that freaking good, not up to Arthur Lee and Love, or the RAMONES but they are infectous and I gotta have it. Reminds me of when I discovered the first and 2nd SPARKS albums back in the early 70's...Smokey Robinson did Going to a Go Go, The all girl band that rocks The CHARMS with Dream, Sandie Shaw " The Girl Don't Come "??? I knew a few...ooops forget that direction, Wayne Fontanna & the Mindbenders with " Game of Love "...they later went on to make up the band 10CC ( Rubber Bullets, I'm Not in Love, ect..) who back in the 70's were at a bar (The Haymarket or the Tunnel) that I was in with the Kinks after a NYC show and they wanted to meet Ray so bad, well myself and Freaky Frank Reda were able to get them to meet Ray... and The Velvet Underground with the primitive " Waiting for my Man " and if this is off the album with NICO it's has to be one of the best and most influential rock and roll albums ever made...the swift fast rocking Radio Bird Man with Doing the Pop, The Count 5 with Psychotic Reaction a more serious approach to the Strawberry Alarm Clock's Insence Pepperments,...The High Numbers in their Pre Who days did " The Face " which really is the same sing as " Got Love if you want it " the song the Kinks cover on their first album, The Mooney Suzuki paid homage to NY Girls who are only outdone by Jersey Girls,..., speaking of NY and Girls the Fuzztones out of NYC did " Get Naked " Baby I Love you the Ronnettes song as only Joey and The Ramones can do it from their Phil Spector produced " End of the Century " lp...The punk band from Austrailia did " I'm Gone " and very nice I might add...OK as the killer might say you leave me breathless and as FranK does say adios amigos,..." I'm outta here"!
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Posted - January 27 2006 : 02:46:31 AM
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Everybody's A Star, I got a blast from Handsome Dic_k Manitoba last night on Sirius !
Was anyone listening to the Underground Garage on Sirius radio last night Thursday around 10:30 PM. during my buddy The Handsome Dic Manitoba show??? Anyway manitoba mentined me on the Air! He said this is the 3rd or 4th letter he got from me and he went on and on about how I liked the show and, requested The Dictators and RAMONES version of California Sun and have The Dictators Go Girl Crazy album on the shelf next to my Flaming Groovies records...and said keep them coming & keep on rocking as only manitoba can say it ! So by any chance did any one hear this or earlier mentions of me by manitoba Thursday night???? One of the earlier mentions should have been about the Kinks?
FranK..." Everybody's In Show-Biz "
email my buddy dic at
manitoba@undergroundgarage.com
and request lots of cool an unusual stuff from the KinKs, Ramones Dictators, MC5, Love,
The Move, Bonzo Dog Band, NY Dolls, Mott the Hoople, ect..ect.. and tell him FranK Lima sent you..KEEP ON ROCKING IN THE FREE WORLD!!! |
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Posted - January 27 2006 : 08:07:58 AM
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Posted - January 27 2006 : 11:18:57 AM
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| Paying for radio....a novel idea. |
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| as is bottled water! Never did we dream of it! |
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Posted - January 27 2006 : 6:33:24 PM
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| I suppose pay radio's time was about due. There's only so much new material to be played for free, and the program directors have their set lists to play. I pretty much stopped listening to radio when my commute shortened (I live two and a half miles from work, hardly enough time to hear one three minute song, not enough time to hear long versions), and I'd rather play guitar than listen to most of the new stuff I hear. I did listen to a friend's XM radio and it was very impressive, but I am not ready to subscribe. The audio quality was perfect, and the program selections vast. If I had Bean's passion for music I'd have one now. However, I do buy bottled water. The tap water here in this desert city leaves much to be desired. The tap water on Fairfax Street in Valley Stream....I would buy that if I could. |
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Posted - January 30 2006 : 11:39:13 AM
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Life is a drag and it's too serous,
I'm so much in love,
But I'm too serious,
The world is so sick,
And I'm delirious. Dave Davies
The Weekend Sirius rock and roll report;
A short one this time so " don't you fret "...
Things got off to a good start with my boys the World Famous RAMONES taking their stance against everything with " I'm Against It " spoken like a true punk rock band!!!, Jumping around to the the other side of Rock & Roll Bill Haley and the Comets with " See You Later Alligator " and Bryan Highland with a song that got my puberty off to an early start around 1960 with teenie weenie " Yellow Polka Dot Bikini "...and the pretty boy of rock n roll himslef Little Richard with " Jenny Jenny Jenny " which I think Ray got the idea of Bernadette from???,...Juming next to some late 60's great progressive rock from the great unknown band The Atomic Rooster featuring Vincent Crane ( from the Crazy World of Arthur Brown on keyboards ) doing " Death Walks Behind You " which without getting my vinal copy out I think is the title track off their debut album, please anyone correct me if I am wrong???...The Pretty Things with " I'm your Man " sounding more like the Who and Yardbirds than the Who and Yardbirds, and I have no doubt had " The Pretty Things " made their journey over to Amerika during the British invasion years, rock and roll history might have been different. The Kaiser Chiefs while OK and with their heart in the right place with " I Predict a Riot " but this just reaffirms my stance that I hate when these so called new British Mod bands get compared to the Kinks because their musical ability does not even come close to that of the Kinks, I Predict there's a riot has no musical distinction to it other than it being a slightly catchy tune that much like a piece of candy wrapper is discarded after opened. I would rather of heard " I Predict " the mid 80's minor hit by SPARKS from their " Angst in my Pants " album,...and since we're into the strange stuff, let me mention " a live version of Muffin Man " from the genius kinkg of the weird stuff FranK Zappa, who always was a treat to see live because the musicianship was so extrodianary like when I would King Crimosn, or ELP live, how could anyone get that good??? Ending off this report was Catfight with Mamie Van Doren, ( not Catpower who just rleased her newest CD recently ), and The Bob Segar System when he was actually a band and actually good...you can take your ffff****in' world, I'm a " Ramblin Gambling Man "
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I'm not here to pitch Sirius Satellite radio over XM or vice versa, I'm saying that Satellite radio in general is the way to go because commercial rock radio is all but dead. I don't need to hear Bohemian Rhapsody, or Dream on, or Another Brick in the Wall ( or even Lola, Stairway to Heaven, ect..) fro the 50th or 60th time over the course of several months. I personaly got Sirius radio over XM mainly because of Howard eh eh eh, you know who but I have to tell you it's the music that is really exciting me. I'm sure XM is everything Sirius is too and on XM you will soon be getting a one hour weekly show by Bob Dylan and that's pretty cool to me because I love Bob and see him live frequently when ever I can. Sirius has the Little Steven's Underground Garage channel with some cool knowledgable rock and roll DJ's like Handsome Dick Manitoba from the Dictators, Joan Jett, Andrew Loog Oldham ( original Stones producer/manager), and Kim Fowley, The Woggles, among others, plus they have channels covering all the other facets of rock, pop, soul, motown, blues, standards, from 50's, 60's, 70's. 80's, 90's, Pop, gold, hair bands, hard rock, folk rock, country, jam bands, classic rock, current rock, deep cuts rock, new wave, all Elvis all the time, all Stones, BBC, all kinds of talk shows, weather and traffic for different areas of the country, and more...my commute to and from work can range from Edith Piaf to Henry Rollins and Black Flag, thankfully this has not happened yet though!(:
Although I still think Edith Piaf was a big inspiration to the early works of Sparks with Ron and Russell Mael?? .....
The Tuesday's Sirius rant and rave report is as follows;
My 2nd favorite Beatle started things going with " The Sue me Sue You Blues " , followed by the late Richie Valens doing " Come on Com On, Let's Go " a song The RAMONES covered so well on their " Rock & Roll High School " Soundtrack,...next I heard a real rarity from a NY Long Island based band I think called The Illusion with a GREAT under produced primal pop glam rocker called " DID YOU SEE HER EYES " has anyone heard of this band or song??? They played the Long Island clubs back in the late 60's or early 70's???, a band by the name of Shazam ( not related to the great Move album of the same name ) did an Oasis.sish sounding glam song called " Goodbye American Man ", ...Eric Burdon and the Animals with the age old question " How High Can I fly " ???..." Sky Pilot "...one of the great all time deep cuts that only got played rarely on commercial radio before it went kaplooie,...Befpre there were Stooges there was the Iguanna's featuring Ignatius James Ottersberg on voclas and here they were doing the " Not Fade Away " standard ' Mona ", The Byrds always sounding relevant with " You Won;t Have to Cry ",,,Chuck Berry and Dion took us " Reeling and Rocking " till the break of dawn while asking the age old question of " Why I must I be a Teenager in Love " , Gene Vincent with " I'm going Home " and years later we would hear Alvin Lee and 10 Years After doing this same song at Yasger's Farm for a couple of hundred thousand people on a hot summer August day...Now come the Vines who like The Strokes are a real deal rock and roll band not one of these pseudo Harvey Danger bands like The Killers and many others like that...speaking of real deal rock bands, The Replacements with their anthem " Left of the Dial " smurked out llike a true indie grungey punk band that they were...The Boss Martins sounding a bit like Queens of the Stone Age here with " Put some hurt on you "...Widespread Panic's " Dyin Man ", ...Traffic from their 2nd and best album with Vagabond Virgin " , an album sure to be on my top all time album list...Procal Harum did " Devil Came from Kansas " but I fogot where this song came from??? staying in the progressive Rock Mode The Deep Purple Wanna Be's Uriah Heep did their dated " July Morning " that made me want to put on my head band, dark sun glasses, bell bottom jeans and say far out...oops I am doing that now anyway???? Bowie's Diamond Dogs took us forward a little bit, and back to the present with The Yeah Yeah Yeah's and Karen O doing " Myster Girl ", the Yeah Yeah Yeah's area must see live band because Karen O is just Osofine...The Bangles rocking out with " Get the Girl " ...The Pretty Things always sounding sweet " Singapore Silk Toepedo " and like a Torpedo The Mooney Susuki fired up with " Loose and Juicy " and keeping in the Ramones like pace The Lemonheads steam rolled through at blazing speed with Simon and Garfunkle's " Mrs Robinson "...The Rolling Stones, " The Biggest Mistake " , and what might be my all time favorite Beatle song or at least tied for number one anyway " Hey Bulldog" and that was not evening mentioning any KinKs kontent, so here's some of that...heard yesterday across different channels on sirius was, Top of the Pops, David Watts, Big Black Smoke, Things are gonna Change, and All Day and All of the Night. Not too shabby don't ya think. Who woulda thunk it?
" Life is a drag and it's too serous,
I'm so much in love,
But I'm too serious,
The world is so sick,
And I'm delirious."...Dave Davies
This post is so long
And I'm FranKsirius...speaking that is. Im outta here>
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| Bean: I had the occasion to be backstage with The Illusion in the late sixties, and saw them play one or two other times. In the mid to late sixties there were a few really great groups that we wanted to see: The Illusion, The Vagrants and if we were lucky, The Vanilla Fudge. I believe these bands, though not universally remembered as really important these days, had serious influence on many of the big names to follow. Most of these acts would play at the Action House in Island Park. The Vagrants, featuring the great Leslie West, took a page from The Who, and would wreck their equipment at the end of a set. The Fudge had a couple of big records, probably the biggest being 'You Keep Me Hanging On', a kind of psychedelic version of the Supremes hit. Carmine Appice was the drummer. The Illusion never had such an impact as these other groups, but they had tremendous stage presence, and a real act. Good singing and playing....they were the only band I ever saw back then that had their own hairdresser. |
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| I remember all those bands and even saw most if not all of them at the Action House later to become The Rock Pile...I got to know Carmine later on and he still runs the Long Island Drum clinic loctated in Plainview I believe. I also ran in to Leslie West at Sam Ash some years ago and talked with him while he tested and played some guitars, I kept telling him louder man like the Vagrant and Mountain days. I even saw him when he played with Jack Bruce and Corky Lang in the band known as West,Bruce & Lang. Saw them at Hofstra once and somewhere else in the city. I still have my vinal copy of the Illusion album. I always wanted to cover " Did you See Her Eyes " or Run Run Run off of that album. |
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