Before Jimmy Page had Robert Plant fronting Led Zeppelin, his former Yardbirds bandmate Jeff Beck had Rod Stewart.
Category: Music
To the Victor Go the Spools
With the passing of Dame Vera Lynn at 103, World War II slips a little bit further away from living memory. Thanks to magnetic tape recording — an invention perfected in Nazi Germany — this 1950’s re-recording of Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again” sounds as though it could have been made yesterday.
I should see if Vera Lynn ever commented on this use of her signature song.
Traffic Jamming
There sure are plenty more cars on the road than there were in the middle of the lockdown, and today I was driving one of them.
Huzza? Whuzza?
Here’s something I didn’t know until about 30 seconds ago. The word “boogaloo,” that I used in a post not long ago, has been appropriated by far-right wackos!
“Boog” is short for boogaloo, a far-right anti-government movement that began on the extremist site 4chan and aims to start a second American civil war.
This is screwed-up beyond belief. Trump has got to go! He’s been validating and enabling these armed clowns to an extremely dangerous degree, and I have my fingers crossed for election day.
(Huzza=Huh? Whuzza=What?)
Crumb-y Music
A few posts ago, in a screen shot from Ghost World, Thora Birch is shown holding a copy of an album by R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders. Lo and behold, here’s the album for your listening pleasure.
In an interview at this link, Crumb talks about his record collecting habit. Robert had to edge-ya-ma-kate the interviewer a bit about shellac 78’s, and the web page design is too “interesting” for easy reading. But it has some good comments and information, including this gem that, believe it or not, I’ve wondered about for years. How often does Crumb replace the stylus on his vintage, Swiss-made Lenco L75 turntable?
“In the 1970s I had some hi-fi components put together for me by a sound engineer wizard, which I’m still using. When this set of components wears out, I’ll have to get some help in finding the right stuff to replace it. About once a year I have to order a new stylus from a small company in England, the Expert Stylus Company, which will re-tip your stylus with a new diamond tip specially made for pre-WWII 78s. It now costs about 100 euros for this service.”
Raiders of the Found Music
As seen in Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood, Paul Revere & The Raiders and The Spirit of ’67. As I recall, the spirit of ’76 was Disco!