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Author: Jason GrossJason Gross
Date: Mar 31, 2008 11:26
Greetings,
In the latest issue of Perfect Sound Forever
< http://www.perfectsoundforever.com> online music magazine, you'll
find (among other things):
KEVIN AYERS
Interview- fairground adventures
"Ayers has an amazing new album out "The Unfairground" - and I'm not
just saying that because Kevin was my room-mate and bandmate for a
week. I came up with the core questions and our good man Jason Gross
threw the questions at Kevin recently and came up with some of his own
as the interview progressed (ED NOTE: thanks for the plug)."
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Author: TheThe
Date: Mar 30, 2008 10:24
Eight Little-Known Facts About Jimi Hendrix
Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, November 2000
THE LINES, MUSICAL and otherwise, between Fact and (Science) Fiction
tend to blur quite a lot whenever one dares speak of (a) Our Heroes,
and/or (b) The Sixties, and a better example of such dayglo-gray areas
can scarcely be found than when one considers the life, art, and
especially times of the one and only Jimi Hendrix.
I haven't quite decided whether it's simple sentimentality at play (he
was the star of the very first rock concert I ever attended), or
because - despite having a guitar close at hand myself ever since that
fateful night three decades ago - I STILL can't finger out exactly how
he did what he did, but I've always reserved a very special place in
my heart (and a quite sizable portion of my record collection) for the
man I consider the greatest musical paratrooper ever to fall out of
the Pacific Northwest.
That all said then, and in commemoration of the latest batch of re-
issued Hendrix albums and even made-for-TV biopics, I, Gary Pig Gold,
respectfully submit...
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Author: dianas dreamdianas dream
Date: Mar 28, 2008 19:10
i was looking at some charts in the early seventies and noticed the song
they used to use for the coca cola commercial.. id like to teach the
world to sing ..was done and charted by two diffrent groups...does
anyone know which was used for the commercial
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Author: TheThe
Date: Mar 28, 2008 09:54
Carly Simon Boys In The Trees
Jon Young
Crawdaddy!
July 1978
CARLY SIMON used to be dangerous. Remember? She had to her credit a
lethal attack on marriage ('That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should
Be') and one of the most quotable put-down songs ever ('You're So
Vain'). Those were the days.
But she threw it all away. After having scored a direct hit on the
institution of holy matrimony, she had the gall to go and get hitched!
Shocking. For whatever reason, her music consequently lost much of
that restless and abrasive (some said obnoxious) qualify so crucial to
its personality. Indeed, so important had that edge been that, without
it, her albums' statements were made by the silly covers rather than
the contents: Carly as happy pregnant wife, Carly as provocative sexy
"chick," Carly as Bacallish wartime beauty. The transformation from
authentic artiste to pop image was so complete that her ode to James
Bond provoked scarcely a gasp or mutter.
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Author: TheThe
Date: Mar 28, 2008 09:48
Hudson Brothers: Hollywood Situation (Casablanca)
Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, November 1974
I'VE ALWAYS BEEN a sucker for groups with brothers in them. I don't
know why but all those brother groups seem to have a certain spirit
and drive that sets them apart from the rest of the field.
Everybody from the Beach Boys, Bee Gees, and Kinks on down to my other
weak spot, Beatle soundalikes like Grapefruit and the Flame. I fell
for them all.
The Hudson Brothers on the other hand are not a bona fide group, but
rather a trio of front men who all write, sing, and play guitar. They
are in formative/organizational qualities close to modern day...
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Author: TheThe
Date: Mar 28, 2008 09:43
Elvis Presley: Wagging His Tail In Las Vegas
David Dalton
21 February 1970
ELVIS WAS SUPERNATURAL, his own resurrection, at the Showroom
Internationale in Las Vegas last August.
Everyone complained that Las Vegas was a bad choice, but you only I
have to look at the old colour publicity photos of Elvis to know why
it was the only possible place for him to make his debut after nine
years of hibernation: The iconic, frontal image, completely
symmetrical, stares out of the glossy blue background. The glaring
eyes, the surly mouth, the texture of the face completely airbrushed
out, the hair jet black with blue metallic streaks - these are
superhuman attributes. It is the disembodied face of Krishna, Christ,
Mao, where the image dominates the reality. The adherence to this
formula has been so dogmatic that until recently you were in danger of
a lawsuit from the Colonel if you used a photo of Elvis that was not
the officially-sanctioned publicity handout.
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Author: UniUni
Date: Mar 27, 2008 18:11
In my series of songs that weren't hits, but became hits, this is an
alternate version of their fourth in a row #1 hits, starting in late
1969!!! Some may make fun of Michael Jackson, but, man, he could sing!!!
I'm not sure what Take # this is, but it doesn't seem to deviate much
from the final hit version, so my guess it was this or the other (studio
mix) version that would finally be released! Sing it, Jacksons!...
http://www.angelfire.com/empire/abpsp/images/illbethere.mp3
Jacksons, come on down for some bows!
Great song!
Uni
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