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I had to triple check that I hadn’t already blogged about The Avalanches, can’t believe it has taken me this long. Not enough people have heard this album, a lost gem of DJ mastery mixing hundreds and hundreds of samples. The Avalanches, based out of Melbourne, Australia, first released this album in 2000. Not much
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I visited Austin, TX twice if memory serves. The first time was in 1998. I was attending some education conference aimed at schools and teachers and was pedaling filtering software at the time. I remember attending with one or two other folks from my company, but when it came time to take in some Blues after
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Monday August 23, 2010 would have been Keith John Moon’s 64th birthday. Now it’s just another reminder that excess will eventually catch up to you sooner or later. Musicians that seem to disappear prematurely have a way of bothering music fans more than most early deaths. You have their albums and hopefully there are many before their time comes,
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I don’t know about you, but I’m psyched about today’s post. Rock God Robert Plant was born on August 20, 1948. Today is his 62nd birthday. Isaac Hayes was also born today, but he’ll have to wait until next year for his post. But I’m talkin’ ’bout Shaft! Too bad. Robert Plant is one of
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What are synonyms for prickly? Cantankerous? Crotchety? Ornery? Cranky? Testy? A Case could be made that legendary drummer Ginger Baker is all of these things. Jack Bruce is no picnic, but Ginger Baker, if you read Eric Clapton’s Biography, Clapton, it seems pretty clear that Baker was the uncompromising force that eventually split up Cream.
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OK, today is August 16th. In 1958 Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone was born in Bay City, Michigan. I wouldn’t exactly call Madonna a “Rock Star,” but nobody can deny that she is a Superstar. I have to tell you, in 1984 I hated Madonna. I thought she stood for disposable Pop Music and that she’d
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Today is Aerosmith & The J. Geils Band at Fenway Park Day. I don’t need to see this show. I’m going to be disappointed with the set list and I’ve seen Geils twice in the last 15 months or so. It’s a social event. The acoustics at Fenway Park are putrid and there are only
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Let’s get one thing straight, The Giant Panther doesn’t know how to dance, but there is one particular genre of music that I can’t ever sit still for. I don’t have an ounce of funk running through my veins, the closest I get to funky is the odor coming from my running sneakers, but I
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Every now and again I feel like a post is going to go over like a Led Zeppelin, to coin a phrase, and this is one of them. I don’t care. I was “hired” to provide content and dad gum it (I obviously listen to too many Hawk Harrelson White Sox broadcasts on the MLB
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I was listening to the Genesis epic classic “Supper’s Ready” at the gym this morning and I starting thinking about posting something from my Prog collection. I decided today was ELP day. Hope you don’t mind. My first exposure to Emerson, Lake & Palmer was probably somewhere around 1971 when I heard “Lucky Man” on