Don’t you think that video made as many radio stars as it did kill them? A-Ha’s Take On Me as a prime example? Would Madonna have been so huge if she hadn’t so visually proved that she wasn’t anything like a virgin? And yes Michael Jackson was already huge with his release of Off The Wall but it sure feels that it was his videos that catapulted him into that rarefied air that has benefited him so well. How many effing times did they, and still do, run the making of Thriller, fercryinowtlowd?!
I was reading this article about how someone has purchased Elvis Presley’s former part-time home in Palm Springs and intends on turning it into a tourist attraction.
Aside from wondering why someone hasn’t already exploited this property, I got to thinking about Rock Meccas. Continue reading »
A quick search on YouTube for “Steeler’s Wheel” will support not only that Stuck In The Middle With You is the The Best Dylan Song That Dylan Didn’t Do, but that there are quite a few folks who think that Dylan actually did it.
YouTuber “zepsloan” posits “I think it’s hilarious that an entire generation of people who don’t know much about music think that Stuck in the Middle With You is a Dylan song because of a single mislabeled Kazaa file.” Seeing as how everyone in my high school thought this was a Dylan song and as how the closest thing we had to something called “Kazaa” was this-
I simply believe this to be The Best Dylan Song That Dylan Didn’t Do.
Kirk and Bones are outstanding in this video by the way, but Scotty looks like he’s phoning it in.
Stuck In The Middle, may be the penultimate The Best [blank] Song That [blank] Didn’t Do.
But just to show you that I’m not solely a definitive answer guy I’ll offer this as The Best ZZ Top Song That ZZ Top Didn’t Do. And this is fair warning to those of you seemingly newly-minted ZZ Top fans-
I too was listening to Breakfast With The Beatles this morning and they brought up the “you can hear the air conditioning turn on” thing about the final chord in A Day In The Life. They said you can really only hear it on the wax version. They extracted it and played it and indeed there is something there. They only played it once and I wanted to hear it again so I grabbed my wax and replicated their experiment.
Here is the piano chord as it is played on the original wax. The only change I made was to slowly increase the volume from the beginning to the end so you probably won’t need to crank it up. At about 32 seconds in (3/4ths), you can hear something that just sounds like a pop or scratch: Take 1
I isolated this bit, maximized the volume and doubled up the tracks and got this. You may need to turn it up a bit to hear it: Take 2
Interesting right? Maybe, if you’ve never heard this story before. But wait! Then I quadrupled the tracks and slowed them down to 75%. And listen to what is there!: Take 3
YOUNGSTOWN, OH—Though he admitted he hasn’t listened to the band in 10 years, tech-support specialist Jonathan Meagher, 25, somehow found himself defending Green Day while slightly intoxicated at a local bar Saturday.
“Some guy we were drinking with said the band was ‘complete shit,’ which, I mean, say what you want about Green Day, but ‘complete shit’ is a bit of an overstatement,” Meagher said. “Then the guy said something about Limp Bizkit being better, and before I knew it, I’m pounding my fist on the bar and saying that Green Day might be the best band of our generation. Seriously, I don’t even know the lead singer’s name.”
Shortly after returning home from the bar, Meagher purchased the Green Day song “American Idiot” from iTunes, played the major-label debut album Dookie, and reported being amazed that the band hadn’t really changed at all since 1994.
And there are several rock-related issues that require closure. Up first, Who IS The Fifth Beatle? This term has been bandied about more than Paris Hilton’s labia and I for one am more than ready for some closure. And to my mind there is only ONE logical answer but apparently there are others with “opinions” of their own.
