As part of Eagle Rock’s ongoing Classic Album series of documentaries, Universal Music is distributing the new doc on Tom Petty’s classic Damn the Torpedoes. Here’s the trailer:
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And here’s the pre-order link (official release date is 8/3), in case you end up being a LOOOOOO-SER.
In their infinite wisdom, Universal has provided 2 DVDs and 2 Blu-ray Discs for RTH to give away to our Townspeople! Hold on to your 10/6 hats, though, as it won’t be easy. Continue reading »
Pedal steel-guitar player and producer Ben Keith, best known for his work with Neil Young, dating back to the Harvest album, has died at 73. There aren’t a lot of details out on his death, from what I’ve read. I had no idea Keith’s career dated back to playing on Patsy Cline‘s “I Fall to Pieces.” Continue reading »
It was hot in Philadelphia today. Effin’ hot! I took a long walk after breakfast, did some chores, cut up a big batch of hot peppers and put them in vinegar, then went to the Phillies’ game, where I sat in the sun and watched my boys chase Rockies’ first-half Cy Young Award Winner Ubaldo Jimenez from the game in 3 or 4 innings. Jimenez wanted nothing to do with a 4:00 pm game-time temperature of 100 degrees and our city’s oppressive humidity. Unlike Jimenez I lasted all 9 innings, cheering as if it was a night game in the 70s. It was hot!
In honor of all the sweat shed at Citizens Bank Park today, how about a Last Man Standing on songs that tell the temperature, specifically. The song can’t simply say it’s “hot as hell” or “cold as ice”; it must cite a specific temperature, be it in degrees or celcius. Got me? It’s too hot to explain it again. Now go!
REM’s Michael Stipe recently left a Not-Safe-For-Work voice message for The Back Office regarding this post from 2007.
Thanks for calling Michael!
I’ll start off with an easy one:
Dum dum dum
Dum dum DA-dum
Dum dum dum
Dum Da dum!
“The Iceman,” Jerry Butler, and McDonald’s do it all for you, now what are you gonna do for us?
You may recall an ongoing aesthetic scuffle over the mystery of Joanna Newsom‘s appeal and whether the harp actually holds any value in rock ‘n roll. As part of the possible “flavor of the month” perspective on this issue, we wondered who was rock’s second-best sitar player. Well, wonder and ye shall find an answer on Rock Town Hall. Clearly it’s Ananda Shankar, nephew of Ravi!
Ananda Shankar, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”
I stumbled on this track while downloading tracks from eMusic from a pretty cool compilation, entitled What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves (1967-1977). A physical copy of that CD goes for a steep price on Amazon, but you can get an entire album of rock’s second-best sitar player…after the jump! Continue reading »
