Messer Chups are calling you from their secret red phone!
And this is a complete Messers Chup show from two years ago. Zombierella, formerly called simply Zombie Girl, is on bass guitar. Where else are you going to hear the Munsters theme live in concert?
When did “post-apocalyptic” become a genre? “Six String Samurai” is by far the wackiest post-nuclear holocaust movie. No zombies, but lots of guitar playing… and sword playing!
Giles Martin has done an outstanding job with engineering the recent re-issues of the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, and Sgt. Pepper. Capitol Records had technical problems when recording of the first half of the 1964 show at the Hollywood Bowl, which was unforgivable, considering the venue is within walking distance of the Capitol tower. They did a better job a year later. Here is the original, unedited audio of the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl in ’65, so you can hear exactly what the source material was that Giles had to work with.
Watch this whenever you’re tired of the latest infuriatingly insipid, infantile, incompetent Trumpism.
In 1987 it seemed like it had taken forever until the first “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” CD was released, only four years after the Compact Disc was introduced in America, and 20 years after the original album came out. The remixed stereo CD of Pepper is now out, and it definitely sounds remixed, not just remastered as with the 2009 sets, which also included the original mono mixes. I like most of the changes in the new Pepper, but some will take a little getting used to.
Here’s a quick glimpse of what was going on exactly 30 years ago, with a bit of Johnny Carson’s opening monologue from May 21, when the Alzheimer’s Disease affecting Ronald Reagan was already starting to show.
Here’s a fun musical novelty that I somehow hadn’t noticed until now. James Darren, Paul Peterson, and Shelley Fabares were the “Teenage Triangle.” The title and cover design of the album implied a romantic competition for Shelley’s affection, which is a bit odd considering that Paul had played Shelley’s kid brother on “The Donna Reed Show.”
The first album did well enough to rate a follow-up. A lot of the songs sound as though they were intended to appeal to parents more than their teenage children.
