two takes
“Dirt” (D. Alexander, S. Asheton, I. Pop, R. Asheton)
The Stooges
Live, Detroit, 2003
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Neneh Cherry & The Thing
Recording (The Cherry Thing), 2012
Tearing it up on TV
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi (feat. Henry Johnson)
TV Gospel Time, 1960s
“Lord You’ve Been Good To Me”
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“Leaning On The Everlasting Arms”
only rock ’n’ roll
Joy Division, live (TV show), England, 1979
“Transmission”
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“She’s Lost Control”
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
On any given day—today, for instance—how many dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions of people will be making, or listening to, music?
Today, for our 1,000th post, we revisit a few favorites—more tomorrow.
Junior Wells (vocal and harmonica), Buddy Guy (guitar), “Cryin’ Shame” (AKA “Country Girl”), live, Chicago, 1970 (Chicago Blues)
(Originally posted 7/8/10.)
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Buddy Guy, “Let Me Love You Baby,” live, 1960s
(Originally posted 3/12/10.)
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Magic Sam, “All Your Love,” “Lookin’ Good”
Live, Germany, 1969
(Originally posted 11/21/09.)
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Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (Brewer Phillips, guitar; Ted Harvey, drums), “Sadie,” live, Ann Arbor Blues Festival, 1973
(Originally posted 4/29/11.)
only rock ’n’ roll
Japandroids, “For the Love of Ivy”
Live, Austin (SXSW), 3/15/12
This is what rock ’n’ roll should sound like.
—my (24-year-old) son Alex, the other day, while playing their new album (Celebration Rock)
bread and circuses
This is my idea of good government.
A Summer Solstice Backyard Parade and Procession
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
[Garfield Park, Chicago]Featuring Mucca Pazza, the Circus Punk Marching Band, Kaotic Drumline, Oper-a-matic, Food Trucks, and More!
Marching bands, both traditional and unique, will be lining up in our backyard space for a mid-summer’s night march. Chicago’s inspiring community drum corps Kaotic, as well as the fantastic punk rock marching band Mucca Pazza will be parading throughout our backyard spaces, in a non-traditional community parade. Instrument making stations will be stationed throughout the event. Come make your own parade.
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Mucca Pazza, live, Evanston (Ill.), 6/30/11
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Kaotic Drumline, 2009
only rock ’n’ roll
Granted, there are no sure things in pop music; but how can a shaggy-red-haired sister-and-brother duo miss?
White Mystery, “Switch It Off,” live, New York, 2010
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lagniappe
reading table
World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural.—Louis MacNiece (1907-1963), “Snow” (excerpt)
Ever feel like wandering, aimlessly, in a fog?
The Velvet Underground and Nico, directed by Andy Warhol (shot at his NYC studio, The Factory), 1966
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lagniappe
reading table
More than twenty years west of Mount Yen . . .
when the moon lights the summit at night I sing—Stonehouse, The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth Century Chinese Hermit (translated from Chinese by Red Pine)
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Happy Birthday, Don!
Sixty-two?
I remember when you were twenty-six.
And six.
We met, as I recall, when you were two.
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