{"id":916,"date":"2007-10-10T17:41:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T21:41:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-21T17:13:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T17:13:22","slug":"mini-thrifty-music-vol-1-i-summon-the-ve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mini-thrifty-music-vol-1-i-summon-the-ve\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-Thrifty Music, Vol. 1: I Summon the Velvet Foghorn!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You’ll just have to imagine what the B-side looks like<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Okay, I know I’ve been slow to deliver on the oft-promised Thrifty Music<\/strong> material. This has happened for a numer of reasons: I’ve actually been busy<\/em>; the amount of high-quality stuff I’ve found has been somewhat overwhelming, making the compilation process difficult, and — most significantly — putting together those giant, themed omnibus editions of Thrifty Music is just plain hard work!<\/p>\n

Consequently, I have decided to make things easier on yours truly by re-sizing the Thrifty Music concept a bit. Henceforth, you can expect to see more frequent, smaller<\/em> selections of stuff to listen to and ponder. Each will still have a theme, and some associated, probing line of questioning, which ought to get us all thinking. But the days of eight- or nine-track comps are gone!<\/p>\n

To start the process off, I want to offer the B-side to a single that my vinyl guru, E. Pluribus Gergley<\/strong>, tells me is worth $300 or so (It cost me a buck!). I know nothing at all about the artist in question (one Carl Spencer<\/strong>), but what stopped me in my tracks upon listening to this great<\/strong> tune, “Progress”<\/strong>, was just how much Carl sounded like our very own andyr — better known in some circles as The Velvet Foghorn<\/strong>, or simply “Velv.” I also think the song would be *perfect* cover material for Velv’s band, the redoubtable Nixon’s Head.<\/p>\n

This got me thinking about songs we really wish would be covered — by specific artists<\/strong>, I mean. For example, I’d love to hear Supagroup<\/strong> covering “Wang Dang, Sweet Poontang” — though that’s just the first one that popped into my head. I’m sure buried in my cranium somewhere is a longing for a better specific<\/em> cover that I’m just not remembering right now. But perhaps you can do better. And Velv\/Mod\/Chickenfrank\/Sethro — is “Progress” a song you’d consider covering? I mean, does it pass your sniff test — and if not, why not?<\/p>\n

I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n

HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ll just have to imagine what the B-side looks like Okay, I know I’ve been slow to deliver on the oft-promised Thrifty Music material. This has happened for a numer of reasons: I’ve actually been busy; the amount of high-quality stuff I’ve found has been somewhat overwhelming, making the compilation process difficult, and — most […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[304,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}