Fuckin’ A! Bo Diddley.
Mar 282007
Mar 272007
It’s one of those days when a single hit may be all we need. Have one or see if you can empty this dugout. If anything’s left when you’re through, pass it on!
Are you cool with multi-instrumentalists who play their guitar while standing behind their keyboard?
Failure to launch…Abort mission…Is any artist’s career more in need of a pulled plug than Joss Stone‘s? Can she get transferred to American Idol? Does American Idol have some sort of “amateur status” criteria for contestants? Taylor Hicks had a few albums out before appearing on that show. Anyhow, that Joss Stone kid would kill, don’t you think?
Does anyone actually like the music of B.B. King, or do people simply bow down to his greatness as a reflex?
Are you more likely to trust the testimony of a police officer than you are the testimony of a regular citizen? (This is the question the judge asked me that finally led to me getting relieved of having to serve jury duty on a criminal trial expected to last 6 days.)
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Mar 272007
Get yourself some cabbage rolls and coffee and share your thoughts.
Mar 272007
Gerry Todd’s recent All-Star Jam, which drew comparisons between an Oasis song and an old number by The Stranglers got me thinking about the 2005 album from Oasis, Don’t Believe the Truth. It’s not a bad album, but that’s not what I care to discuss.
It’s never been a secret that Oasis has lifted hooks from the great works of others, but what’s been overlooked in reviews for their last few albums is that the band is branching out in its recycling of classic rock riffage. Here’s a song that demonstrates the band’s newfound skills. Let me know what you’re hearing in this one – the lifts may be multi-faceted – and in coming days I’ll roll out some other examples of what passes for growth.
Mar 262007
Thanks to Townsman Hrrundi for sending me this video!
I’ve had just under 13 hours of sleep from hitting two shows (You Am I and last night’s bonanza of bands from afar – The Prayers (San Diego, CA), The Mint Chicks (Auckland, New Zealand), The Broken West (Los Angeles, CA), and Oppenheimer (Belfast, Ireland) this weekend, and working back-to-back mid-to-night shifts. Okay, so here is the rock story: Do musicians trying to use me for their cocaine hook-up somehow make me dirty? And no, I’m totally not into cocaine. Never touched the stuff, don’t plan to. Tim Rogers sang BOTH of my song requests on his acoustic to warm up the show! “Jaimme’s Got A Gal” and “Please Don’t Ask Me To Smile”.
Does the fact that he kissed me on the cheek after his sweaty performance and whispered my name and then, “I love you…” into my ear make me a super-fan? Was all of this just a big wet dream? I had to walk away before I became glued on the spot because Tim Rogers was walking around with an acoustic guitar and singing to a group of people remaining like a rock n’ roll version of Jens Lekman while the door-guy was trying to get everyone to leave. When I came in at 3:30 am on Friday night, I was still just shaking my head in disbelief and trying to get the ringing out of my ears.
Earlier in the day, I had packed my cassette recorder and a blue sharpie in my bag for work, as well as their album Deliverance (how do you decide which albums to get signed?), earlier in the day, with the full intention of getting autographs, an interview quote – or something!
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Mar 262007
You gotta serve somebody.
Mar 252007
It is accomplished!
Picks from the fourth round are listed here.
Picks from the third round are listed here.
Picks from the second round are listed here.
Picks from the first round are listed here.
Andyr will receive Mr. Mod’s pick in this round. Sammy, Tom, and Mr. Mod have forfeited their fourth-round picks owing to free-agent signings. A number of bands are done drafting but are free to trade their picks for future considerations. For the fifth-round draft order and analysis…
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