Put this on my old blog back in the day, but this song pretty much rules.
I don’t have any great beef with the Mormon church. Despite some strangeness and incongruity in their beliefs (Jesus visiting America), they’re mainly relegated to Utah. Mitt Romney isn’t going anywhere. I looked up Mormon and horses and [...]
John Lennon:
Ah, sure, ‘Revolution’ . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said ‘count me out’. The original version which ends up on the LP said ‘count me in’ too; I put in both because I wasn’t sure. There was a third version that [...]
“What took you so long?” – i.e. what took them so long to make an outerspace dogfight set to heavy metal. The sound effects are really loud, as if they know the song’s not that good.
The Final Frontier – Director’s Cut
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While running on the treadmill the other day, I was [...]
This very excellent run-down of science fiction rock albums (linked on Disinfo) led me on a Youtube Rush excursion, which somehow I’d never done. At 12-13, they were God.
Here’s “La Villa Strangiato” live, played note for note. Apparently, Alex Lifeson is playing it without the use of one finger.
This picture from “2112″ caused [...]
RIP to Kinks bassist Pete Quaife.
Quaife was diagnosed with renal failure in 1998. During dialysis sessions, he drew a series of cartoons based on his experiences. Following their enthusiastic reception by other patients, they have subsequently been published in book form as The Lighter Side of Dialysis (Jazz Communications, Toronto, 2004). Though he was [...]
This is sort of growing on me. At first thought they were devolving and writing for the kids, and old Devo fans are very much not kids. But it’s growing:
This is all right too:
More “New Traditionalists” than “Duty Now for the Future” but OK. Nothing’s going to be “Duty Now for the Future”:
Saddest song ever recorded. I actually wrote lyrics to this and maybe will record it, but can’t do it justice.
Searching, found this, nice:
These guys should be fileted:
I have been a John Coltrane fanatic in my life. 1963 has always been my favorite year. McCoy Tyner here:
Through it all, I’d never heard him speak.
Nice version of “Impressions” by Wes Montgomery.
This is a solid-state Tesla coil. The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear.
So just to explain a little further, yes, it is the actual high voltage sparks that are making the [...]