mmmmmm... nice BDB is one of my fave bands...have you seen him live? i hear he's a) TINY b) drunk c) virtually insane, as he constantly attacks audiences, like a superior don rickles in other words, pretty GD fascinating i just noticed TP does not have a review for his work. mmmmm.....by michael baker
(from friends): Kinky Friedman: "They Don't Make Jews Like Jesus Any More" "Onward Christian Soldiers" Steve Earle "The Revolution Starts Now" Public Enemy "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" Wrathchild America: "Surrounded By Idiots" Brady Bunch "Time to Change" Clash "Staight To Hell"by michael baker
Bull and Bush Florrie Forde Stop Breakin Down Blues R Johnson Republicans Zappa F##K America Choking Victim Suicide Is Painless Theme From MASH Rednecks Randy Newman Leaving On A Jet Plane someone geeky OHIO CSNY Volunteers Jeff Airplaneby michael baker
speaking of rockism terry knight, garagey popster and manager of stupid/retard frat party nascar idols Grand Funk RR was stabbed to death last night; my instincts tell me kervorkian because of proximity and motive ("We're An American Band" my ass!) but I think he's still up or down river, in the hole. I know IR digs slade--cf his list--and is attracted to Farner's ironby michael baker
In the inaugural issue of the revamped Perfect Sound Forever is the first of my three-part series chronicling Cleveland, its 1970’s music, and my hyper-convoluted stance towards it all. The ending 17,000-word comments section by participants and witnesses is, of course, due up last. Thanks, Michaelby michael baker
To celebrate today’s anniversaries of Parker’s Mystery Train (’53) Voidoid’s Blank Generation Nirvana’s first single, Love Buzz And to celebrate John Peel’s and Greg Shaw’s memories And to celebrate this year as 25th anniversary—making them eligible for consideration-- of first records by the Fall and the Mekons I herein propose a cleaning of the house of the rock and roll hall of fame. 10 whby michael baker
interestingly sting and joey fantone and bowie belong in both camps sting good Dune Sting Bad Bride Bowie Good Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence Bowie Bad Hunger joey bad: EVERYTHING (but) The Cooler Good movies with rockers Head Blow Up Carny Coal Miner's Daughter Sling Blade How I Won the War From Here To Eternity (Hoboken's own) Absolute Beginners Juice (my man Tupac) Bad Moviesby michael baker
that i cannot even comment on below--except to say I had first Zep on in my car today bombarding bogus Hoboken and their decent (and angered) denizens. it WAS heavy! i know slayer rules though. Revolver Magazine has put together a list of what they deem the top 50 "Heaviest Bands Ever". That same list, that appears in the December 2004 issue, is below: 01. Black Sabbath 02. Soundgarby michael baker
i saw it on someone's blog--steve woods from rock critics.com??--and since 4th hand description ain't my bag and since if one more person calls MES Gollam (sp?) from that hobbit crap i'm going to scream. to say the least, he was apparently: drunk, spastic, and inappropriate (and memorable): like the great Fall. for brief bio on JP ;by michael baker
for GS's early mojo fanzine need adobeby michael baker
neither 1. pere ubu The Modern Dance 2. Flipper Generic 3. Ramones' firstby michael baker
!!! also: john peel--an IMPORTANT guy, but good guy? i think--had everyone on, and did not take payola, right?by michael baker
when umbrella brigade cancels 'cause of "equipment failure" it conjures many lovely images in my 6AM brain, like wall streeters caught at 4 PM in a fierce wind/rain storm.. .thanks, i guess. what the hell is Norweigian Black Metal????by michael baker
both greg shaw and IR have mentioned Zig Zag Mag's Family Trees as cool influences on their nascent careers; i, too--i am unfit for that or any other company--was mesmerised: moving out my senior year in HS ('74) into house with employees at cool mall record store (oxymoronic, but true) we scoured those little trees for connections, insights, and mini-truths. The world made more senseby michael baker
a VERY partial list the classic iggy/williamson singles deviants/m farren nikki sudden flesheaters shoes 20/20 flamin' groovies brian jonestown massacre willie alexander modern lovers warlocks dead boys think 70's rock would sound a little diff, for the worse? this, obviously, does not include his achival and revival psych/garage re-prints that along with nuggets REALLY changed the lby michael baker
suffered a coma from complications to longish battle with pancreas disease (or liver); i have to think that IR was buds with himby michael baker
greg shawby michael baker
ok-- i'll bite: i think lou reed is the totemic litmus test for rock between beatles and post-punk; i find him simultaneously wanting and brilliantly compelling on so many fronts (dreaded yankees are winning and wife just reminded me that this is our 10th anniversary--As if!) but will just say that his best work is collaborative rock (cale, sterling, quine) not singer songwriter, not experiby michael baker
1. i cannot (regrettably) play the piano. 2. Yanni can (regrettably) play the piano. 3. The first valid statement doesn't, as if in some wierd derridaien (RIP) overturning, invalidate my belief (shared by almost everyone on god's green earth and many in the icy tundra of siberial permafrost) that yanni plays horribly and sentimentally and badly: anyone with an iq over 23 (sorry Terxanby michael baker
quick stuff: TAMI Show Re-constructed Monterey Pop DEvo's early videos Kids Are Alright there's some Newport Blues Festival footage from mid-1960's featuring fife and drum bands--killah Gimme Shelter Yardbirds cameo in the great movie Blow Upby michael baker
anyone with an e-mail address like yrs deserves my (non-valuable) time: i wanted to let others know also that james had two genius back-up singers, vicki anderson (more later) and the great great Marva Whitney, a voice that burns through speakers, unable, in the late 1960's, to be controlled by conventional recording equipment. Soul Brother Recordings put out her It's My Thing from 69by michael baker
yeah we mentioned it, but i also forget where: i remember it was a thread that also had a memory of magazine's guitarist who passed away a few months before he did--he was fellow akronite and i'm dedicating some writing am working on to him; 2 interesting things about him: nephew of wvo quine, noted harvard analytical philospher and one of america's greatest thinkers and Roberby michael baker
as with all teachers of literature i know NOTHING, except these following things: album was recorded in barbados bajan dialect is a "poetic" amalgamation of English and west african dialects i only listen to honky tonker gary stewart and bluegrassser jimmy martin and cowboy poseur lee hazelwood. I am going insane 'What you gonna do when you get out of jail?' "I&#by michael baker
hey don't forget talia shire(???!!!) these are the following people i want at my deathbed, if it were now: The Chicago Symphony an emissary from Moses Stephen Wright Rockettes Brian Wilson Meryl Streep, reading my 10 favorite poems my sonby michael baker
since no one is asking isn't 4AM a great song on flash light? i saw the boys last couple times around in the city (right before standing 5 feet away from lloyd and rocket from the tombs at maxwell's) and i used to think that lloyd is top 10 guitar guy and that verlaine is pouty and irascible and moody and pseudo-complicated and an angsty poseur; well, all of that is true, i think,by michael baker
partial truths: the polydor number i know about is 2683-031, i don't know the stuff but i think that polydor as solos put out the 2 earlier albums in germany, one with simulated stereo (the first) and the second with an "alternate mix," whatever that means; possibly, then, polydor just threw that stuff together on one? Isn't simulated stereo vs stereo or mono eas=y to disby michael baker
a great great album--there's a knock-out trib on new drive-by truckers called manuel/danko; i think manuel is like gene clark, chris bell, richie furay, eddie kendricks, john entwistle: second-class citizens in their bands but monster unrecognized talents. these are the 4 non IR albums that you don't own, union city, new jersey's new fave parlor game: Holly and the Italians Creby michael baker
btw i meant to say he LEFT after the second i have the move on video doing '66 live from german tv--along with some jimi kicking up a smoking stone free and 6 from the creation, violin bow and all--and you can see how great they are: trippy, soaring harmonies, and by just about then their experimenting with that sledgehammer heaviness that defined at least cheap trick and indirectly the meby michael baker
after the second and greatest, Shazam (in his own words) CW: "No one knew who The Move were in America. We were early, following the likes of The Beatles and Joe Cocker, but it was really just another English band to them - 'oh, these must be good because they've come to America.' If The Move in its original form had gone over, we would have blown America apart, purely on tby michael baker
rip the move's great singer carl wayne, a band i derive more pleasure from lately than almost anyone--we gotta get that 60's section (rockin' and) rollin' soon!by michael baker
