Props to Cleveland! Thanks Mr. Moderator. Check out this video from around the same time–Ubu on “Night Music” performing “Waiting For Mary” with Debbie Harry and David Sanborn sitting in. By the way, Ubu guitarist Jim Jones died in Cleveland a couple years ago.
I like Rew’s recent albums a lot, but be aware that they’re very low-key, not at all edgy like the Soft Boys. There’s some rock on them, but they tend towards the pastoral and folky. English ‘country’ music. He’s still a really good guitar player, and he’s got a unique perspective as a songwriter.
And if you don’t have his earliest post-Soft Boys stuff, which is out of print, it’s available here:
I can’t recall if it’s been mentioned here that Bob Dylan has a Christmas album coming out on October 15.
When I first about it, I figured it had to be a hoax. When I saw the cover art and the pre-order at amazon, I still thought it was a hoax; elaborate but a hoax.
I’ll second BigSteve’s recommendation for those two albums by Kimberly Rew and The Waves. They’re solid. As you know, I never cared much for The Soft Boys, but after getting back in touch with those early Rew albums last year, when BigSteve first recommended them, I’d check out more of Rew’s solo albums.
Al, is it also true that Charlie Watts is drumming on that Dylan Christmas album?
On Kimberly Rew solo albums the one he put out in 2000, Tunnel Into Summer, is a good one, while the other subsequent ones are also good and solid.
I also have a Bongo Beat complilation of the Waves’ two albums that has a bonus DVD of the band performing live in a studio in 1983.
Finally, a baseball sociology question for Mr. Mod which is inspired by the discovery that the Phillie fan dad whose daughter threw out that foul ball is a Jersey Guy, what’s the breakdown of Phillies & Mets fans in Jersey? Is southern Jersey Phillies country while northern Jersy is Mets land? I know my friend Barrence, who’s from East Orange, is a Mets fan.
Yes, diskojoe, South Jersey is Phillies country. Once you get as far north as Trenton, however, the tide begins to take on the blue and orange of the Mets. It may be 50-50 there, and then a little further north, in Princeton, it’s probably 80% New York fans of one stripe or another. Full-blown North Jersey seems to be Mets or Yankees country, probably depending on whatever part of New York those people are originally from.
Heads up, Townspeople: We’re finalizing the paperwork for a massive undertaking that has been commissioned by the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, the Smithsonian Institute, and the National Parks Service. Our project will be launching in the next 24-48 hours. Your judgment will be called on to settle the design of probably the most important piece of rock in rock history. Stay tuned!
Stupid & Contagious Tonight! McGillicutty’s 7th and Callowhill 10PM!!! relive the angst of the 90’s with the music of Nirvana! We hate ourselves and want to die!
CHICAGO (AP) – Former child star Mackenzie Phillips said Wednesday her father, John Phillips, who was a leader of the 1960s pop group the Mamas and the Papas, raped her when she was a teenager and that her sexual relationship with him later became what she termed “consensual.”
Mackenzie Phillips writes in her new book, “High on Arrival,” that she had sex with her father on the night before she was to get married in 1979 at age 19, according to People magazine.
Phillips wrote in her book: “I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father.”
She told “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in an interview that aired Wednesday that her siblings “definitely have a problem with this.” Winfrey also read a statement from Genevieve Waite, John Phillips’ wife at the time of the alleged abuse and Mackenzie’s stepmother that said he was “incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child.”
Phillips, who starred on TV’s “One Day at a Time,” said the sexual relationship with her father lasted a decade and ended when she became pregnant and didn’t know who had fathered the child. She had an abortion, which her father paid for, and “and I never let him touch me again.”
Phillips told Winfrey that she first tried cocaine when she was 11 years old. Her father did drugs with her, taught her to roll joints and injected her with cocaine. Phillips said she’s been clean for a year after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine and entering a drug treatment program.
Phillips said the sexual relationship, although she believes it became consensual, was “an abuse of power” and “a betrayal” on her father’s part. She said she forgave John Phillips on his deathbed.
“I can’t be the only one this has happened to,” Phillips said. “Someone needs to put a face on consensual incest.”
Props to Cleveland! Thanks Mr. Moderator. Check out this video from around the same time–Ubu on “Night Music” performing “Waiting For Mary” with Debbie Harry and David Sanborn sitting in. By the way, Ubu guitarist Jim Jones died in Cleveland a couple years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiK-Lvwanq0
David Thomas was a total love god with that mustache and soul patch. And that computer is pretty high tech.
Can anyone recommend any of the Kimberly Rew solo albums?
I like Rew’s recent albums a lot, but be aware that they’re very low-key, not at all edgy like the Soft Boys. There’s some rock on them, but they tend towards the pastoral and folky. English ‘country’ music. He’s still a really good guitar player, and he’s got a unique perspective as a songwriter.
And if you don’t have his earliest post-Soft Boys stuff, which is out of print, it’s available here:
http://powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com/2007/06/kimberley-rew-waves-bible-of-bop-1982.html
I can’t recall if it’s been mentioned here that Bob Dylan has a Christmas album coming out on October 15.
When I first about it, I figured it had to be a hoax. When I saw the cover art and the pre-order at amazon, I still thought it was a hoax; elaborate but a hoax.
Well, now there are 30 second samples of all the songs on amazon uk – http://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-In-The-Heart/dp/B002P6S22K/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1253119404&sr=8-8 – and having listened to them I am more convinced than ever that it is indeed a hoax!
I’ll second BigSteve’s recommendation for those two albums by Kimberly Rew and The Waves. They’re solid. As you know, I never cared much for The Soft Boys, but after getting back in touch with those early Rew albums last year, when BigSteve first recommended them, I’d check out more of Rew’s solo albums.
Al, is it also true that Charlie Watts is drumming on that Dylan Christmas album?
On Kimberly Rew solo albums the one he put out in 2000, Tunnel Into Summer, is a good one, while the other subsequent ones are also good and solid.
I also have a Bongo Beat complilation of the Waves’ two albums that has a bonus DVD of the band performing live in a studio in 1983.
Finally, a baseball sociology question for Mr. Mod which is inspired by the discovery that the Phillie fan dad whose daughter threw out that foul ball is a Jersey Guy, what’s the breakdown of Phillies & Mets fans in Jersey? Is southern Jersey Phillies country while northern Jersy is Mets land? I know my friend Barrence, who’s from East Orange, is a Mets fan.
Yes, diskojoe, South Jersey is Phillies country. Once you get as far north as Trenton, however, the tide begins to take on the blue and orange of the Mets. It may be 50-50 there, and then a little further north, in Princeton, it’s probably 80% New York fans of one stripe or another. Full-blown North Jersey seems to be Mets or Yankees country, probably depending on whatever part of New York those people are originally from.
Heads up, Townspeople: We’re finalizing the paperwork for a massive undertaking that has been commissioned by the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, the Smithsonian Institute, and the National Parks Service. Our project will be launching in the next 24-48 hours. Your judgment will be called on to settle the design of probably the most important piece of rock in rock history. Stay tuned!
Look what I stumbled upon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vz7Z42Fl9s&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Interesting…
TB
Even more…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agl4IvNnQPo
TB
I finally get to put a face to Dave Marsh — he’s every bit as lives-in-mom’s-basement as I’d hoped!
HVB
Somewhere there must be a clip of cheap trick on “kids are people too.” That’s probably the only episode i ever watched.
This guy’s channel has some wild stuff on it, but that Patti Smith clip has got to be the highlight. Weird.
TB
Stupid & Contagious Tonight! McGillicutty’s 7th and Callowhill 10PM!!! relive the angst of the 90’s with the music of Nirvana! We hate ourselves and want to die!
I love, love, LOVE the final Mt. Rockmore design. How could anything else have worked so well? Maudlin, You’re a genius.
YEESH DEPT.
CHICAGO (AP) – Former child star Mackenzie Phillips said Wednesday her father, John Phillips, who was a leader of the 1960s pop group the Mamas and the Papas, raped her when she was a teenager and that her sexual relationship with him later became what she termed “consensual.”
Mackenzie Phillips writes in her new book, “High on Arrival,” that she had sex with her father on the night before she was to get married in 1979 at age 19, according to People magazine.
Phillips wrote in her book: “I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father.”
She told “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in an interview that aired Wednesday that her siblings “definitely have a problem with this.” Winfrey also read a statement from Genevieve Waite, John Phillips’ wife at the time of the alleged abuse and Mackenzie’s stepmother that said he was “incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child.”
Phillips, who starred on TV’s “One Day at a Time,” said the sexual relationship with her father lasted a decade and ended when she became pregnant and didn’t know who had fathered the child. She had an abortion, which her father paid for, and “and I never let him touch me again.”
Phillips told Winfrey that she first tried cocaine when she was 11 years old. Her father did drugs with her, taught her to roll joints and injected her with cocaine. Phillips said she’s been clean for a year after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine and entering a drug treatment program.
Phillips said the sexual relationship, although she believes it became consensual, was “an abuse of power” and “a betrayal” on her father’s part. She said she forgave John Phillips on his deathbed.
“I can’t be the only one this has happened to,” Phillips said. “Someone needs to put a face on consensual incest.”