Jan 232013
Get it on, in whatever way moves you! The All-Star Jam is the place to show us your moves, pass along the links we don’t get by not being your Facebook friends.
Get it on, in whatever way moves you! The All-Star Jam is the place to show us your moves, pass along the links we don’t get by not being your Facebook friends.
Cool story from Tapewrecks on a “lost” Philadelphia band from the early ’80s, Red Buckets, whom my friend Jay used to tell me about: http://tapewrecks.blogspot.com/2013/01/red-buckets-cover-your-eyes.html
While Lou Reed’s “this is the way my music was always meant to sound” quote that accompanies the release of every new album by him can never be topped, I just read another PR blurb that I’ve heard many times before.
The February 2013 issue of Uncut has a feature on expected releases for this year that indicates “Rod Stewart is to release a new LP in spring that promises a return to the spirit of his early ’70s classics.”
I’ll have to do a little googling and see if that was used for his Great American Songbook albums or the recent Christmas one. It wouldn’t surprise me…
Elvis Costello & the Roots have an album coming out!
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=786693
Good one! Unless it is a re-release of Every Picture Tells a Story, it is hard to think of less likely scenario than ol’ leather face returning to the spirit his early 70s classics.
Right on — How many times have we hear that rot? Tony Visconti tells Rolling Stone that a track on the new Bowie album “wouldn’t be out of place on Young Americans” and is “down and dirty” or something like that. We’ll see — I have more modest hopes for Bowie — like that I can listen to it more than five times.
No shit!
As some of you may recall, two years ago I went to Syracuse University to attend a class on the Beatles that my daughter was taking. I actually went to two classes, one with Beatle biographer Bob Spitz as the guest lecturer and one with Michael Jackson attorney John Branca (discussing Jackson’s purchase of the Lennon-McCartney catalog). The first was terrible but the second was fantastic.
Last year, even though my daughter had graduated, the professor graciously invited me to attend any of the sessions I wanted. I went to a fantastic lecture by Peter Gordon which included a mini-concert of three or four songs. (This lecture was an abbreviated version of a show that Gordon is giving in NYC soon which will include a never-before heard Macca demo of “World Without Love”.) Even more gracious of the professor, I was invited to attend dinner that evening with a half-dozen people which included Peter Gordon.
So, two out of three of my visits were certainly worth the nine hours round trip driving and the $100 in gas & tolls.
Once again, I have been invited to attend any of this semester’s lectures. The most interesting guest lecturer is engineer Ken Scott. Rupert Perry, who held increasingly high positions at EMI from 1971-2002, and who co-authored the book “Northern Song” about the Beatles publishing rights history also looks appealing.
What say you, RTH? Crazy to invest the time & money in either of these lectures? Crazy not too? Or just crazy?
Peter Asher? Or are you telling us that since Gordon Waller’s death Asher has become a weird, Frankensteinian fusion of himself and his former singing partner?
Oops!
Of course, I meant Peter Asher!
Whew!
But, oddly enough, Chad Jeremy is also one of the guest lecturers…
Similarly all Scorsese DVD cases claim “a return to form, his best film since Goodfellas” & we are still waiting.
That “World Without Love” demo has shown up online:
http://www.examiner.com/video/world-without-love-2
Groan.
Stream The Jazz Age by The Bryan Ferry Orchestra. It’s pretty bizarre!
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/01/170844837/first-listen-the-bryan-ferry-orchestra-the-jazz-age