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2010

Friday, 12/3/10

Is any drummer more exciting?

Keith Moon, August 23, 1946-September 7, 1978

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The Who, “Young Man Blues,” live, Isle of Wight, 1970  

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The man is a drummer.

—Elvin Jones

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[N]othing had prepared me for the ferocious energy of The Who. . . . Pete Townshend’s hard, tense suspended chords seemed to scour the air around them; Roger Daltrey’s singing was a young man’s fighting swagger, an incitement to some kind of crime; John Entwistle’s incessantly mobile bass playing was like someone running away from the scene of the crime; and Keith Moon’s drumming, in its inspired vandalism, was the crime itself.

—James Wood, “The Fun Stuff,” The New Yorker, 11/29/10

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this just in

Scientists said Wednesday that the number of stars in the universe had been seriously undercounted, and they estimated that there could be three times as many stars out there as had been thought.

—New York Times, 12/1/10

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2010

Tuesday, 11/30/10

Subtlety and delicacy aren’t usually associated with hard rock. But those are the qualities that (to these ears) stand out when you unpack this recording and hear the tracks separately. Listen to the guitar, the bass. Sledgehammers? More like sushi knives.

Rolling Stones, “Gimme Shelter,” 1969

voice (Mick Jagger & Merry Clayton)

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guitar/1 (Keith Richards)

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guitar/2 and piano (Keith Richards & Nicky Hopkins)

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bass (Bill Wyman)

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drums (Charlie Watts)

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all of it

(Yo, Don: Thanks for the tip!)

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2010

Monday, 11/29/10

. . . the best and most original guitar player of his generation.

—James “The Hound” Marshall

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Someday Quine will be recognized for the pivotal figure that he is on his instrument—he is the first guitarist to take the breakthroughs of early Lou Reed and James Williamson and work through them to a new, individual vocabulary, driven into odd places by obsessive attention to On the Corner-era Miles Davis.

—Lester Bangs

Lou Reed with Robert Quine (guitar), “Coney Island Baby,” “White Light/White Heat,” live, 1984

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2010

Friday, 11/26/10

Deep, wide, strong: the groove, with this guy at the drums, is like a river.

The Levon Helm Band with guest Jim Keltner (drums), “Deep Ellum Blues,” live, Los Angeles (Greek Theater), 8/15/10

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2010

Thursday, 11/25/10

How many pop stars have given thanks so memorably?

Sly & The Family Stone

“Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),” live (TV broadcast), 1973

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“Thankful N’ Thoughtful,” 1973

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Michael Jackson and
George Clinton and
Miles Davis

Big influence on all three?

Short list.

James Brown
Sly Stone

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2010

Saturday, 11/13/10

what’s new
(an occasional series)

The Books, “I Didn’t Know That” (2010)

(Want more of The Books? Here.)

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Prince Rama, “Om Namo Shivaya” (2010)

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Glasser, “Mirrorage” (2010)

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2010

Friday, 11/12/10

three takes

“Love Hurts” (Felice & Boudleaux Bryant)

Keith Richards & Norah Jones, live, Los Angeles, 2004 (Gram Parsons Tribute Concert)

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Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris, live (radio broadcast), 1973

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The Everly Brothers, 1960

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2010

Wednesday, 11/10/10

two takes

Some lyrics sound as though they want to be read; others would look silly on the page but, unlike the page-worthy, they sing.

“If I Had A Boat” (Lyle Lovett)

Lyle Lovett, live (TV broadcast), 2004


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The Holmes Brothers, State Of Grace (Alligator),  2007

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Gregory Isaacs/p.s.

Yesterday’s link to WKCR-FM’s Memorial Broadcast didn’t work right (only a fraction of the show could be accessed), but it does now.

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reading table

To fall into despair is just a high-class way of turning into a dope. I choose to laugh, and laugh at myself no less than at others.

—Saul Bellow, Letters (2010) (as quoted in yesterday’s New York Times review)


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2010

Monday, 11/8/10

What makes this guy such a great guitarist?

He doesn’t show off.

“Lead”? “Rhythm”? To him it’s all one.

He doesn’t play over the drummer—he plays with him.

Keith Richards (with Willie Nelson, Ryan Adams, Hank Williams III), “Dead Flowers,” live (TV broadcast), 2002

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I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: ‘Do you know this feeling?’

—Keith Richards, Life (2010)

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As the fiftieth birthday approaches, you get the sense that your life is thinning out, and will continue to thin out, until it thins out into nothing . . . . Then fifty comes and goes, and fifty-one, and fifty-two. And life thickens out again. Because there is now an enormous and unsuspected presence within your being like an undiscovered continent. This is the past.

—Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow (2010)

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2010

Friday, 11/5/10

Time travel’s easy on the net. With this guy we started, the other day, with music he made just last month. Then we headed back to the ’70s. Today we go back even farther—to the ’60s.

Leon Russell, Shindig! (TV)

“Hi-Heel Sneakers,” 10/28/1964

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“Roll Over Beethoven,” 11/18/1964

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“Jambalaya,” 2/3/1965

(Yeah, the guy in front with the banjo—that’s Glen Campbell.)

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Gregory Corso, “Marriage”

Want to read this yourself? Here.

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