Here’s a bit that I put on the Nights With Alice Cooper radio show tonight that features Zappa’s “The Torture Never Stops”. Perfect Halloween fodder from the main Mother…
mp3 audio: Nights With Alice Cooper – “The Torture Never Stops” on Alice’s Vinyl Siding segment (10/31/07)
ENJOY…you creeps.
All right, I think I’ve got our next musical scapegoat. Thanks to everyone who voted, but I felt most inspired by Matt’s suggestion for ol’ Ace Greybeard Ratboy himself…Bobby Weir.
Bob is a prime example of someone who never fully got their due, or just became known for the cheesy things they did over a massive 40-year music career. Bobby always had to take a backseat to Jerry, and it would be hard to argue that Bob was more talented than Jerry because he just wasn’t. BUT, was Bobby a necessary and captivating part of the Grateful Dead? Yes! Bobby was the palette-cleanser for Jerry songs…on the records and especially at shows. And most of the time, Bobby had some great songs that could inject a little more energy into a Dead show (…think “One More Saturday Night”). And shit, in the final years of the Dead, Bobby was just about the only member that was still playing with any kind of fire.
So I present to you some primo rockin’-out Bobby from his 1972 solo album, Ace, on which all of the Grateful Dead members play, oddly enough. And then there’s a jazzy Bob bonus from Kingfish’s first album in 1976. Bob was a member of the band, Kingfish on their first two albums. Both of these tunes show the power of what Bobby could bring to the table. So do yourself a favor, and hear out this case for Bob Weir…
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mp3 audio: Bob Weir – The Greatest Story Ever Told
mp3 audio: Kingfish – Lazy Lightnin’
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And here’s some relief for the super-cool if you just almost got sick sitting through two Dead-related songs. A little Can should pacify you…
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AAC audio: Can – She Brings the Rain
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Who did Marianne Faithfull co-write “For Beauties Sake” with?
In this Rock Trivia Doubleheader, the first one to get both answers correct, gets THREE points. Otherwise, single correct answers are worth the usual one point…
Question 17: Heavy Metal
What London group was originally known as Group X in 1970?
Question 18: Roots of Rock
“I’m A ______” by the Yardbirds (1965)
Who wrote the authorized biography The Beatles?
Hola senores y senoras, I have some cool Halloween weekend music news and stuff for you before you get all dressed up like Paula Abdul and go Halloween partying. Btw, bats are fuckin’ scary…
New Pink Floyd mega-box coming out with all of their studio albums with original artwork and everything, but much smaller to fit a CD box. Have I mentioned that CDs suck?! They should be releasing this on vinyl and then just include the digital tracks on a data disc inside.
CBGB’s now an upscale designer store. Same thing, I guess.
‘Member Creem Magazine? Well, they’re steadily working their way back as an online presence and hopefully the magazine will also be back soon, for all us rockers out there. Meanwhile, you totally should enter this contest on their site to win their new massive book full of rock pictures and stories, Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine. I’ve seen it and it is awesome. Enter the contest here.
Badass download of the week…Dr. John’s Babylon at The Heat Warps.
Have you seen the limited-edition White Stripes lomography cameras? Cool?
Duh. Enter to win Zep concert tickets through an iTunes contest. It would suck to win that! (What I mean really, is that it wouldn’t suck at all…it would be good).
Check out Quinn Walker mp3‘s over here on this Voodoo-Eros press release page. Very cool new music!
I gotta go, yo…but what’s going on with yous?
All right guys. I’ve been having a hard time figuring who should be spotlighted in our next Case for Collins segment. There have been a few ideas rolling around my little mind, but nothing I was really sure would entertain you. So I’m putting the power in your qwerty hands.
That said, what if I throw out a few of the names that have been coming up and you’s all can vote on which you think would make an interesting episode? Or you can also write in your candidate. No matter which you pick, and however much muck their name has been drug through, I will guarantee to find some redeeming shining-diamond of a song to present you with, so that we can all try to eek some respect out of this artists’ recently frowned-upon repertoire.
So read on for the list of candidates that I’ve been hesitating to expose and to vote…
Which album by Emerson, Lake and Palmer contained one side by each member and the fourth side a group effort?
Stormbringer (1974)
In 1978, who recorded “Accidents Will Happen”?
Who played drums for Lynyrd Skynyrd?
‘Nuff said….
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A 1979 U.K. hit single for the Gang of Four was titled “At Home He’s A _______”.
I’m busy wasting time on my new addiction, Facebook, so let’s get straight to the business. I didn’t expect Facebook to be much more than another version of Myspace, but I’ve learned that it is quite different and now I can’t wait to see if someone attacked my vampire or received my song dedication…original “Baker Street”, not Foo Fighters!
Rock Trivia board game’s original creator seeking some help to update the game.
New Cat Power Jukebox album set for January. Cool covers and a cool cover.
Bob Weir celebrated his 60th birthday last week, but more importantly, if you haven’t seen this footage of his famous rock-star deep knee bend…watch it now! Classic Bobby.
And for some more uncomfortable music video action, here’s the very young and very sweetly-voiced Vashti Bunyan singing the Jagger/Richards-penned “Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind”. God love her.
Chime in with your list of bands you just don’t understand.
The state of Indie Rock according to a piece Sasha Frere-Jones wrote for the New Yorker. And Carl Wilson’s defense on Slate. The truth seems to me to be somewhere in between. Thoughts?
Download of the week…The Kink Kontroversy on Chris Goes Rock! Dig it.
Which guitarist member of Wings left the group in April 1981 to pursue a solo career?
at 6:59 in…
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All right, ever since the new Radiohead release a couple weeks ago, which they are now paying you to download, it once again surfaces that I’m not a big Radiohead fan. What!?!? I know, it’s puzzling. But it had me thinking again about all those things that the people with whom I come in contact the most love, that I just never really ‘got’. Sometimes I really feel guilty about it. Why?
So I’m sure you all have these kind of bands too…that your friends won’t stop talking about, and that you’re all like ‘what’s the big deal?’ I won’t even use the term overrated, because I think the word has become itself, no? So let’s air them all out here and maybe it can help us all let go of our ‘what’s wrong with you for not liking Radiohead’-type hangups. It’s musical self help, bros. Let’s also give one band/artist that YOU think everyone should love, but doesn’t. List ‘em after the jump…
Arthur Lee and ________ (group)
Since I started posting Rock Trivia questions from the original 1984 Pressman Toy Corporations’s excellent rock & roll board-game, aptly-titled Rock Trivia, I have been in contact with the games creator Ian Liberman, who is a gentleman and a rocker. Well, Ian has an interest, and so do I, of updating the classic game that my sister and I have wasted hundreds of hours playing since 1984…and correcting spelling errors, I might add (sorry Ian, you know it’s true though!). But spelling errors couldn’t take away from the unadulterated and unabashed fun of Rock Trivia. I think a big part of its appeal was in the content of the questions. You could be trying to answer a question about Bill Haley and His Comets one minute and then be asking a question about Roxy Music shortly after getting the Bill Haley question wrong.
That said, in order for Ian to update Rock Trivia for a new era that is breathing life back into rock & roll and into trivial things, he needs some serious investors to help him out. So if you dig rock like we do and have lots of money, you can contact Ian at the email address, ianlib at rogers dot com. You can also reply in comments and I can get ya’ll in touch. Sound good? Thanks for hearing our plea.
Agents of Fortune (1976)
