Apr 032009
Get your groove on. Do your own thing.
Feb 062007
All-Star Jam. Sure as the sun will cross the sky.
How are you holding up? Everything cool? Are you gonna be all right?
One Response to “All-Star Jam”
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That video must have cost hundreds of dollars to make.
Us hippies could have ruled the world, but something went wrong…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcjQZ4rUmcc
dbuskirk, thanks for sharing this Very Important Film. It teaches us all — but mostly Jim — some key lessons. He would do well to watch and contemplate.
By golly, I *like* that Aamon Duul II song!
HVB, I’m glad you dig this song and appreciate all that’s wrong with the “dancing” in this clip. I was thinking of you when I found it. I’ve got a little piece on this band ready to go. Maybe I’ll post it now rather than waiting until tomorrow. It explores the fine line between hippie slop and hippie power that you might be able to get your head around.
db, I’m just watching your clip, which I’m going to add to this All-Star Jam. That looks like it may be the greatest movie ever made. Have you seen it in its entirety? How does Isreal factor into hippie society’s end of innocence? I’m curious to know how far the political implications of this scenario extend. And why don’t they make trailers like that anymore?
I’m watching The Rolling Stones’ Rock ‘n Roll Circus before packing up for our show tonight (Puck, Doylestown, PA, 8:30), and as the Stones kick into “Sympathy…” I still can’t get one thought out of my mind: What’s with Ian Anderson’s 1-foot flute solo stance? Does that relate to some 16th century tradition?
AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL has been on Grindhouse Releasing schedule for years now without any date of release, I first saw the trailer at the end of I DRINK YOUR BLOOD, another fabulous film about obnoxious hippies who go on a murderous rampage after contracting rabies.
The film was shot in Israel with Israeli actors and originally was given the title THE HITCH-HIKER. There is some doubt that it ever played the States but it supposedly ran midnights at a theater in Tel Aviv in the eighties and was once released on videotape in France.
I like the way The Man (aka The Mod) is portrayed by gun-wielding mimes. It is an awesome trailer.
That trailer’s way better than the one for The Room!
Anybody make it out to see the Beatles rhythm section (sans John) at work? It was in today’s NYTimes…
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/paul-mccartney-ringo-starr-reunite-at-radio-city/?hp
…After an exuberant set of songs from the Beatles, Wings and his solo albums, with video clips full of Beatles footage, Mr. McCartney said, “At this point we would like to introduce somebody to you who you know, you’ve heard his name. He’s going to come out here and play you a little song this joyful night. Ladies and gentlemen: Billy Shears!”…
It seems like the big story is that someone is exuberant about the Wings catalog.
I don’t want to offend anyone, but I’ve gotta be honest: last summer I read David Lynch’s testimonial book on the influence of TM in his life and had a few talks with my friend, who owned the book and studied with the Maharishi for a few years. I’ve been curious about investigating TM ever since (it takes me a while to get around to satisfying my curiousity). However, reading the list of performers and other entertainment celebrities who were part of this event was a real turn-off. I guess this ties into my problem with all organized religions. There comes a point when I don’t want to be distracted by trying to communicate with some inner light while I’ve got a Jerry Seinfeld on my left.
One of the most mesmerizing films I’ve ever seen is called THE GODS OF TIMES SQUARE. It consists of a man’s collected video footage between ’93 and ’94, when he walked around Times Square and engages all the religious fanatics and ranting weirdos as they strive for an audience on the sidewalk. Every once in a while he’ll tilt his camera up to show a ten-story billboard of Marky Mark or some such image.
I turned it on thinking I’d watch for a few minutes and didn’t blink for the whole 93 minutes. It’s like a trip to NYC and you find it has been entirely overrun by the inmates.
an example is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px1I3zbPq7k
Nearly everyone is annoying in some sense, if only because they’re cocksure about salvation plus they want to sell you something. Then the filmmmaker finally chases down a Chinese man dressed in a Buddhist monk’s robe. He tries to get the guys to defend Buddhism as a faith and the guys benignly shoot him down, saying Buddhism is about spreading peace by finding one’s own peace. “Sorry” he says, “It’s not about you, its about me.” Then he turns around and walks away from the camera.
It sorta hit home with me because my instinct has always felt that whatever makes one feel connected to larger things is a very personal matter and being called upon to have that experience at a chosen time, in a big crowd of people wasn’t something of which I felt capable.
I don’t know how to bring this back to music except to say I have a lot of Marion Williams records. She’s where Little Richard got his “whoooooo”.
Go to this link and then go to the first picture on the slide show from the David Lynch Foundation press conference for a picture of Donovan as Frankenberry. Talk about looks that haven’t aged well…
http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m4d3-Photos-from-the-David-Lynch-Foundation-press-conference
I looked into TM too, but it turns out that getting trained costs $2000! Come to think of it, maybe I don’t want as much access to my subconscious as David Lynch has.
I just want take the opportunity to say that this past weekend I traded a Jefferson Airplane box set that I obtained last summer in a misplaced bout of nostalgia (I listened to my brother-in-law’s albums when I was in high school) to get the new Nick Lowe compliation & the Beach Boys In Concert album from the early ’70s. I did take a bit ‘o a bath, but somehow I feel like a better man for it.
You are, diskojoe, you are!
Gentleman Jesse…Kpdexter turned me onto this guy’s album, the one with the cover that pays homage to This Year’s Model. Has anyone else heard this album, heard of this guy? It’s really good, catchy, upbeat “New Wave” pop, like The (US) Beat or some other group I would have heard on Rock World as a teenager.
Speaking of which, are there any other fans of Rock World out there? I’ve been looking for the intro clip from that show on YouTube for years with no luck. If anyone can point me in the direction of that clip, I’ll make it worth your effort!