Happy Friday!
We're kicking off this July 4th (long) weekend with some cool new music by a criminally underrated band, The Old 97's.
Jeez... this is what we wish Wilco still sounded like!
Enjoy!
Friday, June 30, 2017
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Tony Carey - "The First Day Of Summer" (1984)
Holy shit friends!
If this is any indication, its gonna be a great summer!
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Erroll Garner Trio - "Just One of Those Things" (1964)
Hello Friends,
Here's everyone's favorite groaning pianist ripping through a version of Cole Porter's "Just One of Those Things" like nobody's business.
Not bad for a guy who never took a lesson or could read a lick of music.
Fun Fact: Garner was The Tonight Show's Johnny Carson's favorite musician!
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Concert by the Sea
Erroll Garner - "Concert by the Sea" (1956) - Columbia Records
Hello Friends,
All-time classic Jazz LP on the turntable tonight.
Erroll Garner's famous live concert performance at the Sunset Arts Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, featuring Garner on piano (and groans) with Eddie Calhoun on bass & Denzil Best on drums.
Opening with a rollicking version of "I'll Remember April", the album also contains great versions of standards like "Teach Me Tonight", "Autumn Leaves", "It's All Right With Me", "April in Paris", "They Can't Take That Away From Me", "Where or When" and lesser known pieces like Lionel Hampton's "Red Top" and Tyree Glenn's "How Can You Do A Thing Like That To Me?"
There's also two Garner originals, "Mambo Carmel" and the 50 second "Erroll's Theme" to end the record.
Its a rainy Saturday night tonight and this hopped up Vince Guaraldi music is the perfect mood setter for the tiki bar.
RATING: 5 how can you do a thing like that to me out of 5
All-time classic Jazz LP on the turntable tonight.
Erroll Garner's famous live concert performance at the Sunset Arts Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, featuring Garner on piano (and groans) with Eddie Calhoun on bass & Denzil Best on drums.
Opening with a rollicking version of "I'll Remember April", the album also contains great versions of standards like "Teach Me Tonight", "Autumn Leaves", "It's All Right With Me", "April in Paris", "They Can't Take That Away From Me", "Where or When" and lesser known pieces like Lionel Hampton's "Red Top" and Tyree Glenn's "How Can You Do A Thing Like That To Me?"
There's also two Garner originals, "Mambo Carmel" and the 50 second "Erroll's Theme" to end the record.
Its a rainy Saturday night tonight and this hopped up Vince Guaraldi music is the perfect mood setter for the tiki bar.
RATING: 5 how can you do a thing like that to me out of 5
Friday, June 16, 2017
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Roger Waters - "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" (live 2016)
Hello Friends,
On the heels of listening to Pink Floyd's 1977 masterpiece, Animals, we found this professionally-shot video of Roger Waters performing the classic "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" live in concert.
This was filmed in Mexico in October 2016, a month before the 2016 U.S. elections.
Its kind of funny how much the Mexican audience really enjoys Waters' scathing commentary on president-in-waiting, Donald Trump.
Ha ha charade, you are!
Its kind of funny how much the Mexican audience really enjoys Waters' scathing commentary on president-in-waiting, Donald Trump.
Ha ha charade, you are!
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Prog Rock Saturdays: Animals
Pink Floyd - "Animals" (1977) - Columbia Records
Hello Friends,
Warm weather is here and it seems like Summer 2017 has finally arrived!
Which means its time for some late night patio pounders and some 70's prog rock classics on the turntable.
We're jamming to Pink Floyd's legendary Animals LP tonight.
Sometimes overlooked as a fantastic Floyd record because its sandwiched between the hugely successful Dark Side of the Moon / Wish You Were Here records and the landmark double LP The Wall. Also, it generally didn't get as much FM airplay as these other Floyd records.
Who cares? We love it. We love the album's iconic cover. Its overt symbolism. Its loud-quiet-loud moments.
We love how its extremely dark & extremely cynical. Heavily influenced by George Orwell's dystopian Animal Farm and the conservative political climate in England at the time, Animals holds up remarkably well, musically and thematically.
Five songs in total. All written and (for the most part) sung by Roger Waters, the album opens (and closes) with a pretty little minute-and-a-half acoustic ditty, "Pigs On The Wing". Upon hearing this, the listener may think they're in for a folksy political record full of melodic ballads with a hint of cynicism. NOPE.
"Dogs" (previously titled "You've Got To Be Crazy") is a 17+ minute terrifying proggy opus co-written by David Gilmour which sounds like it picks up where "Welcome to the Machine" leaves off.
Side Two kicks off with the twelve minute epic "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and is followed by the funky-ish 10+ minute "Sheep" (formerly titled, "Raving & Drooling). In Waters' vision, the Pigs are the corrupt powermongers at the top of his satirical food chain; the Dogs are the soldiers, the enforcers, the businessmen who do the Pigs' bidding for them; and the Sheep are the mindless followers who fall in line and do what they're told.
By the last verses of the song "Sheep" though, it seems as if a revolution is taking place:
Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
However, the "victory" is short-lived as the flock chooses to have things go back to their normal almost immediately afterwards.
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told
Get out of the road if you want to grow old
Sure the symbolism is overt and obvious (Roger Waters having never been one for subtley) but it holds up incredibly well, especially in the current socio-political climate.
A classic record through and through!
We're jamming to Pink Floyd's legendary Animals LP tonight.
Sometimes overlooked as a fantastic Floyd record because its sandwiched between the hugely successful Dark Side of the Moon / Wish You Were Here records and the landmark double LP The Wall. Also, it generally didn't get as much FM airplay as these other Floyd records.
Who cares? We love it. We love the album's iconic cover. Its overt symbolism. Its loud-quiet-loud moments.
We love how its extremely dark & extremely cynical. Heavily influenced by George Orwell's dystopian Animal Farm and the conservative political climate in England at the time, Animals holds up remarkably well, musically and thematically.
Five songs in total. All written and (for the most part) sung by Roger Waters, the album opens (and closes) with a pretty little minute-and-a-half acoustic ditty, "Pigs On The Wing". Upon hearing this, the listener may think they're in for a folksy political record full of melodic ballads with a hint of cynicism. NOPE.
"Dogs" (previously titled "You've Got To Be Crazy") is a 17+ minute terrifying proggy opus co-written by David Gilmour which sounds like it picks up where "Welcome to the Machine" leaves off.
Side Two kicks off with the twelve minute epic "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and is followed by the funky-ish 10+ minute "Sheep" (formerly titled, "Raving & Drooling). In Waters' vision, the Pigs are the corrupt powermongers at the top of his satirical food chain; the Dogs are the soldiers, the enforcers, the businessmen who do the Pigs' bidding for them; and the Sheep are the mindless followers who fall in line and do what they're told.
By the last verses of the song "Sheep" though, it seems as if a revolution is taking place:
Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
However, the "victory" is short-lived as the flock chooses to have things go back to their normal almost immediately afterwards.
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told
Get out of the road if you want to grow old
Sure the symbolism is overt and obvious (Roger Waters having never been one for subtley) but it holds up incredibly well, especially in the current socio-political climate.
A classic record through and through!
RATING: 5 pigs on the wing out of 5
Friday, June 9, 2017
Alice Cooper - "School's Out" (1972)
Happy Friday Friends!
Summer is just around the corner and the kids are getting ready for their Summer vacations.
Hopefully there's some good adventures in store featuring cars & girls, beer cans & bottle rockets, parking lots & basement parties!
Enjoy!
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Gale Boetticher - "Major Tom" (2011)
Oh boy friends!
We've seemed to have come full circle.
We're done with Major Tom for a while!
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Peter Schilling - "Major Tom" (1983)
Hello again Friends,
No, you're not seeing double! (Although we may be pretty soon!)
Here's another post of Peter Schilling's 1983 hit, "Major Tom", this time performed in his native German tongue!
Of course, everything sounds so much scarier in German anyways so a song about an astronaut getting lost and abandoned in space sounds especially nightmare-inducing!
genießen!
Friday, June 2, 2017
Peter Schilling - "Major Tom" (1983)
Hiya Friends,
We're kicking off June in a sort of 80's mood.
Maybe its the cold war era political hysterics.
Or maybe its feeling of the other shoe starting to drop.
Or maybe its because its fun to dance to in our midnight tiki bar.
That's probably it.
Anyways, here's pretty much a one-hit wonder by Peter Schilling re-visiting David Bowie's Major Tom in 1983!
Enjoy!
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