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Sick of goodbyes, all right. Troubled Sparklehorse leader Mark Linkous says Goodbye.
Mar 072010
Mar 072010
Electric Stevieland (my much discussed SRV and Hendrix tribute group) will go head-to-head with The Oscars this Sunday (at Blind Willie’s, Atlanta, GA). I will report back as to whether this is the start of great things or a one-time-only performance.
Mar 062010
Not this Benny!
Philadelphia-area fans of a certain South Jersey hubcap hepcat from the ’80s music scene may be interested in a show coming to the M Room (15 W. Girard Ave, Philadelphia) this Sunday night, March 7. The headliner goes by the name Benny and the Bums, but a source and usually lurking Townsman tells me this “Benny” is an old friend and beloved showman who left our orbit years ago for some rock a few spots over from the sun California grass. Why this show is shrouded in mystery I do not know, but for the safety of my friend – who is expecting to have a burlap bag placed over his head on Sunday evening before being driven to the 7-11 club in a Ford Rambler unmarked car – I will say no more. At Rock Town Hall we’re all about safety and accurate reporting! I plan on growing a beard being there in case this turns out to be the musician I’m told it is going to be.
Mar 052010
Disqualified!
Until the moment I put the finishing touches on this post I had no idea that actor Jeff Bridges had recorded an album of music. He seems to be a shoo-in to win the Oscar for Best Actor this Sunday night, but as a result of having released an album of his musical performances other than whatever he performs in his recent film, Crazy Heart, he is disqualified from this Battle Royale.
Specifically I’m asking that we determine the best portrayal of a musician (including actual musical performances) by a typically non-musician actor.
The actor needs to be portraying a musician; he or she cannot simply break out into song as a teenage greaser in a musical set at Rydell High. Beside, John Travolta, like Jeff Bridges, would also be disqualified for having released his own albums.
Furthermore the actor needs to actually perform music in the film. Despite having seen the film about a half dozen times, I’m not sure if I know whether Justine Bateman or Julia Roberts actually played and/or sang in Satisfaction. Please research this issue before nominating either one of them. Same goes for Mary Stuart Masterson in Some Kind of Wonderful and countless other actors who were so convincing that it’s hard to tell if they could really play.
A few more contenders before I ask you to put on your thinking caps and hash this out…
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Mar 052010
As Rock Town Hall gears up for this Sunday’s Oscars extravaganza, I thought we’d take some time to revisit some past movie-related threads. Perhaps when this post first ran Townsman sammymaudlin‘s selection of Fast Times at Ridgemont High was so spot-on for most of us that there was not much to discuss. Perhaps there weren’t enough representative movies. Perhaps Townspeople were tired that day. Perhaps YOU weren’t logged in that day. Now you are, so see if this thread has any legs the second time around.
By the way, if you click on the tag at the bottom of this post that reads “rock movies,” you’ll be transported to a number of movie-related posts we’ve run. The actual Oscars can get boring at times, so these may be a good way to pass the time during the Sound Editing in a Foreign Animated Short Documentary award category, for instance.
This post initially appeared 8/2/08.
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For as big a fan as I was (am) of the movie, I don’t remember a single thing about this TV series. Maybe because…
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As much as I’d like to say that Dazed & Confused (essentially American Graffiti set in the 70’s) was like my high school years, and my freshman year was close, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, soundtrack and all, was, for better and worse, pretty damn close.
I graduated high school in ’82, same year the movie came out. The soundtrack was so, so, so what was on the Phoenix radio stations then: Jackson Brown, (Henley, Walsh and Felder all have solo tracks), Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Poco, Billy Squier, Sammy Hagar, Jimmy Buffet, Quaterflash, The Go-Go’s The Cars… In hindsight the tuness play like a soundtrack to the death of 70’s radio rock and the birth of the 80s.
What say you?
Mar 042010
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It’s rhetorical.
Mar 032010
The following topic was just phoned in by Townsman andyr. He apologized in advance for the sickening direction this thread is likely to take.
Broadway’s latest rock ‘n roll-themed music is called Million Dollar Quartet, which is “inspired” by – what – an hour or so of dicking around at a piano in Sun Studios by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins. The results of this impromptu jam session, which sat in the can until 1981, were unwhelming, but unwhelming music didn’t stop the producers who decided to turn the career of Billy Joel into a musical stop the producers of Million Dollar Quartet!
What andyr wants to know is, What’s the next rock ‘n roll-themed Broadway musical?
