With all this talk of birthdays, check out these kids, and anything else they have on YouTube. It’s enough to make any of us feel over the hill. Even if their metal-punk isn’t quite my cup of tea, I’m impressed.
Jun 192013
Slim Jade
Jun 152013
Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!
Cover versions are funny things; a familiar face seen out of context. Sometimes they’re inspired, sometimes lame, sometimes just downright silly. I rarely think a cover version is better than the original, even if the original isn’t all that great to begin with. I might enjoy the novelty of the cover for a while, but eventually it all goes back to respect for the source.
Still…compare, contrast & have fun listening.
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Jun 012013
Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!
This mix is a big free-for-all of Japanese bands & bands with Japanese members in an all-star monster rally of epic proportions in an all-out rumble!
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May 202013
Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!
RTH Saturday Night Shut-In 101
No particular theme to this.
Here’s the playlist:
- Apollo 7 Lift-Off/Julianna Barwick-Anjos
- Can-Splash
- The Ronettes-Be My Baby
- Dick and Dee Dee-The Mountain’s High
- Gary Lucas-Aguirre/The Sheep Look Up
- Barry Adamson-The Man With the Golden Arm
- Death-Keep On Knocking
- The Free Design-Kites Are Fun
- The Books-Tokyo
- Loop-Burning Prisma
[Note: You can add Saturday Night Shut-In episodes to your iTunes by clicking here. The Rock Town Hall feed will enable you to easily download Saturday Night Shut-In episodes to your digital music player.]
May 092013
Okay, Savage Tales from my Los Angeles painting opening:
First of all, we had a serious West Coast RTH contingent present (see photo #1). Can you guess the identities of this lot?
Second (see photo #2), can you guess the identity of the blonde bloke interviewing me as part of his report on creativity? Hint: he was in a founding Goth band.
Here’s a close-up for old farts.
Correct guesses win a fabulous RTH High Five.
May 042013
Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!
[Allowing the seasonal theme to roll forward and to bolster your Moderator’s powers to survive playing a double-header baseball game on Sunday, let’s kick off the first of TWO Saturday Night Shut-Ins! “Game 2” of this day-night double-header should appear late tonight. – Mr. Moderator.]
I put this mix together with 2 things in mind:
- To group together some of the also-rans of the Sixties, the things I grew up on the radio with. These are some of the songs that shared the air with The Beatles and The Stones, The Doors, Motown, all the bigger hit makers…but they’re often one-hit wonders,, ones that got lost in the Summer of Love, and they’re the kind of songs you hear, and you go “exactly who the hell did that, anyway?”
- To keep it under the requisite 33 minutes.
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Apr 272013
Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!
This one’s a bit lengthy, but it’s one of those “if you don’t like what you hear, stick around cuz it’ll change” kind of things.
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