Let’s face it: I’m sure more than a few of us still need to chase down some meaningful Christmas presents. What music-themed gift would you recommend for a certain type of music lover? It can be a record, a book, an instrument, an app…
Dec 172012
Mr. Moderator
Dec 152012
Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!
On today’s early edition of Saturday Night Shut-In your host, Mr. Moderator, reflects on the latest school shooting in Connecticut and allows himself a Bob Costas Moment on gun control. Later he recounts a recent conversation he had with his partner in crime, sammymaudlin, over the old David Sanborn-hosted music show Night Music. If you feel the urge to complain about your host’s getting on his soapbox when all you want to do is rock out, man, please do so in this thread. Hell, if that’s where you’re headed there’s no reason to listen in the first place. Just post your outrage and threaten to boycott our sponsors.
RTH Saturday Night Shut-In, episode 91
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Dec 142012
Nobody told me there’d be days like these.
Is there a difference between what we’re taught and what goes down on the street? – Romano
Dec 142012
Any truth to the rumor that Sirhan Sirhan was in the audience the night of this performance?
Dec 132012
Hands across the water edition! Tell your English-speaking friends from across the pond what’s on your mind.
Dec 132012
I can’t remember the details—and maybe I’ve got the details completely wrong— but isn’t there a story about George thinking Paul’s bass part on “Something” was stepping all over his song? Can anyone remember the details, at least as reported?
This got me thinking: Is there a solo George song that features a cool bass part? Surely there’s an obvious answer I’m missing or not hearing beneath Phil Spector’s crumbling Wall of Sound. Was George a bassphobe? Was he one of those guys, a guitar chauvinist pig, who thought the bass should stay in its place? I’m not blaming the bassists he used. Klaus Voorman, for instance, whose wife wouldn’t let him do an interview with us when we tracked him down a few years ago, did some spirited, memorable, if rudimentary work on John Lennon records.
Dec 122012
