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In this strange new world, do not believe everything that you see. Seeing is believing, no more.
You do realize that this can't be shown in Florida being a drag performance. Wait, neither can these two perform in Florida. Nor Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Flip Wilson, Jackie Gleason. Wait didn't Jackie live in Florida? Too bad he isn't around today.
Recorded July 9, 1955 at Van Gelder Studio,
Hackensack, New Jersey
(which was then in Rudy Van Gelder's parents' living room in their home at 25 Prospect Avenue)
Trumpet: Miles Davis
Trombone: Britt Woodman
Vibraphone: Teddy Charles
Bass: Charles Mingus
Drums: Elvin Jones
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
A1 - Nature Boy 00:00
A2 - Alone Together 06:17
B1 There's No You 13:37
B2 - Easy Living 21:46
Trivia: Rudy Van Gelder's day job then was his optometry practice.
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
12 May 2020
song - Summertime Blues
band - Blue Cheer
album - Vincebus Eruptum
circa 1968
artists: Dickie Peterson, Michael Fleck, Tony Rainier
(03 min, 40 sec)
Blue Cheer was an American rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues rock or acid rock style, and are also credited as being some of the earliest pioneers of heavy metal, with their cover of "Summertime Blues" sometimes cited as the first in the genre.
They have also been noted as influential in the development of genres as disparate as punk rock, stoner rock, doom metal, experimental rock, and grunge.
#2 As far as I am concerned her signature song. Powerful, emotional, and fantastic voice.
#3 Wow that brought me back to 1959 when it was the only time I heard that song over Christmas Holiday in the Bronx at my mother's parents house. My four great uncles were there, all born in Ireland, two having early IRA connection, and I just turned 6. I saw myself in the room with them in 1959. Amazing how songs sometimes can open up a time portal.
Just saw that Randy Meisner passed. Founding member of both Poco and the Eagles. Made the cover of Poco's first album as a pet dog. Guess that's better than David Crosby's stand-in for The Notorious Byrd Brothers.
Known for his very high tenor and great bass-playing skills (much as his replacement for both Poco and the Eagles, Timothy B. Schmidt), Meisner was also a wonderful songwriter. Maybe, IMV, his best-
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"This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs
And now we've lost Robbie Robertson. Saw The Band in July, 1976 on, essentially, their final tour (to be concluded by the Last Waltz later that fall). Always loved their cover of the old Holland-Dozier-Holland classic, Don't Do It. This version live from the Academy Of Music on New Year's Eve 1971 (I believe) has two of Robertson's finest solos. Both brief and razor-sharp-
"This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski "The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs
“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
One more to add to the faithful departed - Ron Peno, lead singer of Australian alternative group Died Pretty from their formation in the 1980s through various ends and re-starts for decades thereafter. I saw these guys support the Smithereens somewhere around 1991 and severa ltimes since. One of the best Australian bands of their time. Their 1991 release Doughboy Hollow was one of the best albums of the 90s - give it a listen.
This track from that album was a farewell to a lost friend, and seems appropriate under the circumstances.
This one also seems appropriate. The footage is from a 1997 film called Blackrock, based on a play that was inspired by a notorious rape & murder of schoolgirl Leigh Leigh. Heath Ledger had his first supporting role in this film.
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