Jun 262009
“I wrote it before I met her, but it’s Kate’s song.”
Those of you who voted for Kate in the Who’s Your Angel poll may want to grab another Townsperson’s hand and let the healing begin!
Mar 012007
Palindrome’s only please.
8 Responses to “All-Star Jam”
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Hilarious;) Ummmm… wait, is this to spur on a conversation about ELO?
Ole! and (ahem) onward, er, Bob.
🙂
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God, I HATE Adam Sandler! I can’t handle seeing ads for this 9/11-Syd Barrett movie any more! I may have to cancel our cable for the next few weeks, until this turd passes.
Sammy: Do you have a problem with my distaste for Sandler, or are you and your buddy Spade going to come over and kick my ass?
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No problem here. Sandler is the Bryan Adams of “comic” stars and Spade is just some dude in his band as far as I’m concerned.
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“Pops” Jackson is beginning to pull away in today’s poll! Black Snake MOOOOAAAAAAANNNNN!
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“Pops” Jackson is beginning to pull away in today’s poll! Black Snake MOOOOAAAAAAANNNNN!
How about Pops Staples? He was in True Stories, and according to imdb Wag the Dog, not to mention The Last Waltz.
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Yeah, Pops Staples is a good late entry, but have you seen the way Pops Jackson is wiping the competition? This cat’s gotta be something special!
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FIX!
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There’s no FIX! If I knew how to fix these polls I’d be doing so. The People know who Hollywood’s greatest bluesman is.
Us Cheryl Ladd voters are allowed to point and laugh at the healing, right? Cuz that’s hilarious! Mistaken DOES rhyme with bacon, though!
Definitely, 2K! This is like a real-life scene with Keith Carradine’s “I’m Easy” character from Nashville.
Sam Phillips, the Sun Records Sam Phillips, just showed up on Bill Wynam’s Blues Odyssey, or whatever this show is I just found while flipping around. Between his beard’s unruly length and the dye he puts in it he looks like the Wolfman in a movie by Oliver Stone (he of the worst fake facial hair in movie history).
Just had to get that off my mind.
Mod, I think you should be using the past tense in your comments regarding Mr. Phillips tonsorial habits, as he’s been deader than Elvis since July 30, 2003.
this is a special healing moment for me.
when i was a 4th grader, and charlie’s angels were all the rage, i picked ‘kate’ as my favorite angel for no other reason than to be contrary. besides, they were all hot, right? and she had a certain…i dunno…*way* about her.
upon expressing my preference, i was immediately bashed by the connoisseurs among me, who had also bypassed the obvious (farrah), and chosen the true beauty, the cream, they claimed: jaclyn.
shamed by my minority status, and lacking the passion to stick up for my own view, i did the late 1970s equivalent of what we call lurking in cyberspace: i shut my mouth when it came to discussions of the angels.
truth be told, i voted for farrah in the poll. i decided to go for the classic. the poor girl had to endure an earlier, less sophisticated version of the cult of celebrity, but being farrah was probably a pain in the ass the likes of which we could only imagine, nonetheless. and besides, she had just died.
my first reaction to seeing kate in the lead was “sigh…(shaking head in disgust), once again the nerds reach for (what i now insist must be a glossary entry) *the brass ring of the arcane*.”
after all, my grownup eyes tell me now that kate isn’t really all that *hot*. and that’s what i want out of charlie’s angels. hotness. if i want intelligent beauty, i’ll find it in real life. if i want pin up girl / celebrity beauty, farrah will do nicely, thankyouverymuch.
but as i posted a couple of days ago: “i love rth.” i learn so much from you, my fellow townspeople.
and as i continued to ponder the great kate jackson, i remembered her own original status as my number one angel, and how my peers had shamed me out of that choice.
thank you rth, for absolving me.
you’re pretty great.
Did I hear dishes? My heart’s fondest wishes!
I mean, really — is this all it took to get laid by a Charlie’s Angel?!
Please note that I post this while listening to “Stone Cold Fever” by Humble Pie. Somehow the soundtrack to my incredulity seems appropriate. Would have been even better with “Hot n’ Nasty,” but beggars can’t be choosers.
I’d like to ask the question, and perhaps suggest moving this to the main stage:
What’s the exact opposite of this, the Tender Lovin’ Bacon Song?
mmmm…bacon.
Great question, Hrrundi. Let’s think how we can phrase it for a Main Stage discussion.
Let me clarify:
Okay, so this dude sings a tender, heartfelt ballad about sizzlin’ bacon, perkin’ coffee and morning dish noises and gets Kate Jackson to crave his sensitive, manly P.O.E. Seems easy, right? Not necessarily — there are lots of ways to get this one dead wrong. Your job — find them!
My question is: what song might one sing/play with the same introduction — i.e., “I wrote (insert name of song here) for her before I met her, but it’s Kate’s song” — to get the exact opposite response? You know, a look that barely conceals the contempt that accompanies the thought: “You wrote that ABOUT ME?!”
I’m still going with Humble Pie’s “Hot n’ Nasty.”
Remember, it has to be at least somewhat topical. You know, something like “Holiday In Cambodia,” though extremely un-romantic, would just be inappropriate.
“I wrote ‘Hot n’ Nasty’ for her before I met her, but it’s Kate’s song.”
Another good example might be:
“I wrote ‘Love Gun’ for her before I met her, but it’s Kate’s song.”
i’m thinking that a large chunk of the rock and roll catalog provides the kind of fun you’re looking for:
Buck Dharma: I wrote Godzilla for her before I met her, but it’s Kate’s song.
Mick and Keith (or, alternatively, Neil Young): I wrote Stupid Girl before I met her, but….
Lou Reed: I wrote “heroin” before I met her, but…
Yes, I wrote “Inhale the Impaler” before I met Kate Jackson, but it’s Kate’s song.
Paul Stanley: I wrote “Beth” before I met Kate but it’s really Kate’s song.
The Nuge: I wrote Wang Dang Sweet Poontang when I met Kate, but it’s really Fred Bear’s song.
In the spirit of jamming I will plug my new blog: Tommy’s Blues Odyssey and Orockle. As I said in my thoughts on MJ, I am travelling my fair state and visiting all of the markers on our Blues Trail. There are already several up, but they are still unveiling markers. There’s even one in Chicago! At any rate, for those interested, here is the link to the blog:
http://msbluestrailblog.blogspot.com/
TB
Big Steve pointed out a flaw with my blog that I will try to remedy this evening: The marker information. Unfortunately, there is no direct URL at the official site, which does contain the marker info. I’m going to do the research and fix, even if it means cutting and pasting the info directly onto the blog.
TB
Hey, lately —
I drove down Hwy 61 many years ago, on a sort of combo blues/BBQ trip, and it was great. This was just a year or two after the blues museum in Clarksville (do I have that right?) was built, so I suspect tere were far fewer landmarks and such to follow, read and investigate. But don’t miss all the amazing ‘cue on that drive! Like ZZ Top said:
Bear down on the meat, ease up on the potatoe (sic) salad.
Well, actually, with the onslaught of the casinos between Memphis and Clarksdale, most of the old 61 has disappeared to make way for “the Delta strip”. You probably got a better sense of authentic Mississippi than exists today. We are just now really trying to reclaim this stuff. Too bad they waited years (and many of the original buildings and locations destroyed) to do this. My daughter asked me the question as we began our journey. It’s hard to explain, but the easy one is the fact that the Mississippi Delta is such a poor region that no one had the forsight to preserve these locations. Although the building is long gone (well, what remains of it are housed in the Blues Museum in Clarksdale, thanks to efforts made by ZZ Top and others) it is really cool to stand in the spot where Muddy Waters cabin stood on Stovall Farms outside the city.
Check the site, tomorrow. I should have the marker info included as well as more stuff. I went on an excursion yesterday and notched three more sites…
TB
I think you should also post tracks by the artists mentioned on the markers. And extended essays on the background of the site or on the history and subsequent influence of each artist would be nice as well. And tell the guy in the photos to smile.
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1)a clean cover, no seam splits, for a mono copy of John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” LP.
2) a clean cover, no seam splits, for Gene Vincent’s first Captiol LP.
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The guy in the photos has the blues. So, he’s scowling. The front side (shown in the pictures) marker information is there now. All of the marker info (including sounds and pictures) can be found over at the official site. I was hoping that I could link directly to those, but they are a Flash application and I’m not savvy enough to embed those. I’m going to try to figure it out, though. In the meantime, my repros will have to do.
I also plan on parachuting on to certain markers from a low flying plane. I will include videos of those jumps.
TB
Confession: I really don’t get Humble Pie.
Perhaps I should submit this item to the RTH Secret Shame column?
What’s there to get?
For me, Humble Pie is the perfect distillation of pleasantly stupid 1970s cock-rock. From the overblown singing to the retarded-in-a-good-way power chordy guitars to the lyrics about chicks with big tits, it’s perfect. And as sophisticated as a pint of beer with a cigarette butt floating in it.
I should be clear: Humble Pie is perfect in small, select doses. A lot of it is awful stuff. You could do much worse than the “Rock On” album, though. I quite like that one.
Someday, on RTH I’d like to hear a strong defense of cock-rock/blooze et al. from hrrundi or mwall or someone. I mean, I like AC/DC. Is there any need at all for any of the other stuff? What does a band like Humble Pie deliver that you can’t get from, say, Live at Leeds?
Oats, I’m about to leave the country for a month, so can’t deliver the long-winded strong defense, but the short answer is basically: fist-pumping Power and Glory of Rock kickass thrills with a strong side effect of cracking up during it. When did the Who ever say “You’re messing/with a son-of-a-bitch” like they really meant it? Nazareth rules.
Oats, not being a lover of cock-rock, in general, I will say that Humble Pie’s second album, Town and Country, or something like that, is a worthwhile and distinctive cock-rock album to my ears. It’s like Gentleman’s Cock-Rock, with some stately folk elements thrown in, a la pastoral Led Zeppelin. The fact that Led Zep and Humble Pie would likely jump a sheep or cow is beside the point; the acoustic side of those bands cleases the palette. Also, I’ll take Steve Marriott over Bon Scott or Brian Johnston any day. Early Humble pie is what Bad Company wishes it could have been.
As for how this stuff stacks up to The Who’s Live at Leeds, I don’t have the time to get into it now, but I have been contemplating an examination of that album. Maybe in a couple of days…
Don’t get me wrong, I think Steve Marriott is awesome. It’s just that I like him better with the Small Faces.
I like that Nazareth song, too. A little of that genuine fist pumping along with an ironic smirk that is cock rock goes a long way, is all. Sort of like that candy bar analogy.
In the days of the album side, TVox, a 20-minute slab of cock rock was about as long a way as it would go, for me. In the car I can stand closer to 40 minutes of it straight–Back in Black more or less flies by when I’m careening through traffic at high speeds.
Every 5 years or so L.A. gets a “good” radio station. Either ultra-hip (like the recent station with Steve Jones as a DJ) or a mod-AOR: Adult, classic, deeper tracks, still spins new(er) stuff… Either way they last 3-5 years, fail financially and then go Spanish.
The most recent entry is “The Sound”. Their slogan is “All About the Music” and they fall into that second category. They did a survey about a month ago and released the results today. Unsurprising results (play deeper tracks, longer sets, fewer repeats, less commercials…)
But they released the list of favorite 20 artists. No surprises for 19 of them but one stuck out and screamed WTF to me. I’m curious if anyone else has the same reaction:
* 01. U2
* 02. Beatles
* 03. Who
* 04. Rollings Stones
* 05. Pink Floyd
* 06. War
* 07. Yes
* 08. Eric Clapton
* 09. Steely Dan
* 10. David Bowie
* 11. Eagles
* 12. Radiohead
* 13. Fleetwood Mac
* 14. Led Zeppelin
* 15. R.E.M.
* 16. Doors
* 17. Elvis Costello
* 18. Beck
* 19. Genesis
* 20. Coldplay
War!?!?! That’s the LA low-rider vote representing, don’t you think? That’s beautiful.
Radiohead is surprising among that list. Should we take to the streets to protest the corrupt vote? Will Green Day lead the march?
Eh. Ever catch any of Radiohead’s TV performances? They bring it. That’s a band that has a real musical chemistry between its members. In contrast, don’t Green Day have, like, two Olivers now? Gotta recreate those sludgy quadruple-tracked Les Pauls somehow, I guess.
My point is that, while not being a huge Radiohead fan, I think they have an inherent musicality that Green Day fatally lack. I don’t hate Green Day. But they’re just U2 gone Manic Panic these days.
I wasn’t implying that Radiohead don’t deserve to be appreciated. I just meant wouldn’t you expect to see Green Day on that list instead of RH? Look at the rest of the list. It’s nothing but standard classic rock bands, and then some of the commercial giants of recent days. Sammy? Make me feel valued by telling Oats I’m smart, not like everyone says, like dumb.
Hey Chickenfrank,
I think my post came off as too combative. Sorry ’bout that. I think my point was, despite Radiohead’s brainy, proggy rep, they’re actually very popular. I’d rather see them on a poll like this than Green Day, who I think are a pleasant enough rock band who helped unleash a style of production I find truly awful.
And don’t forget, you are crazy smart. Not like those other dummies.
Thanks, Oats. No offense taken. Just kidding around. But I do want to know which name gave Sammy his WTF, and why. Radiohead seemed like the outlier to me.
ChickenFredo.
It had to be War, Chick. Take a look at that list again. I wouldn’t think War would make a Top 100 list like this in 2009, and I like War. I don’t know that War would rank #6 if you compiled this list in 1976.
C-Frank. It was War. War has what, like 4 AOR songs? And not only did they make the list but they made it at #6? WTF.
And in general, if your audience is listing these 20 bands as the ones they most want to hear, do they really need an alternative station?