Mr. Moderator

Mr. Moderator

When not blogging Mr. Moderator enjoys baseball, cooking, and falconry.

Buzzkill!

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Jan 212008
 

Fans of the Velvet Underground, how many buzzkill moments does the crowd of VU hangers-on provide in the following, brief clip?

What’s the most egregious buzzkill moment? The most subtle? At rough count, I believe there’s almost 1 buzzkill for every 2 seconds of the 67-second clip.

Or have you had your B12 shot and find this aspect of the performance by The Exploding Plastic Inevitable to be a further turn on?

No B12 for me. It goes without saying that stuff like this makes me long for… Continue reading »

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Expiration Date?

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Jan 182008
 


With no disrespect to the deceased, booted, or left of own will, Mick Taylor‘s RTH birthday celebration got me thinking about whether certain band members left their bands just about the time they were reaching their expiration date. Did Taylor, for instance, have the good sense to get while the gettin’ was good? What use would the Stones have had for him had he stuck around much longer? Were they already getting a bit stagnant with him when he split?

Certainly this is a ridiculous chicken-and-egg question, but allow yourself to think ridiculous thoughts. We are in the Halls of Rock, you know.
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Could I Dig The Mars Volta If I Only Listened to Them?

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Jan 182008
 

Sometimes the whole show is better than the parts, wouldn’t you say? A couple of weeks ago I caught The Mars Volta on Henry Rollins‘ talk show, which I come across on some music cable station now and then. I’d heard a little bit of this band before and was slightly impressed by all the noise they cooked up, but mostly I laughed at how over the top it was. Seeing them play this racket, however, was much more impressive. I was still laughing at how over the top it was, but I got into the revolutionary vibe. It was like Hendrix, Miles, Santana, the MC%, and Geddy Lee decided to jam. Hrrundi and Saturnismine, I’m especially interested in hearing what you think of this:

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When You Don’t Really Need It: Costello Fans About to Learn What Ike Turner Recently Learned the Hard Way

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Jan 172008
 

Old habits die hard, as medical examiners have concluded Ike Turner learned the hard way.

Speaking of old habits, a Townsman passed along the following press release of interest to more than a couple of us with a need for more, more, more and extra money to burn! Personally, I think the real oversight in the Costello reissue market is the lack of a remastered Taking Liberties. Back in the day, you were pretty cool – at least as cool as a Costello fan could be – if you owned that one. Read on!

From: name
Date: Jan 17, 2008 10:46 AM
Subject: Costello’s This Year’s Model Deluxe Edition Out March 4
To: Costello Fans

Today’s news…Take care, name

DELUXE EDITION OF ELVIS COSTELLO’S LANDMARK ’70S ALBUM THIS YEAR’S MODEL PUMPS IT UP WITH SECOND DISC FEATURING PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED CONCERT

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