Besides Chris Isaak’s career in music, he’s also done some acting. Back in 1992 — 20 years ago?? — he was in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, David Lynch’s movie follow-up to his disturbing, haunting, yet often humorous, TV series.
http://youtu.be/LasYely-11k?t=2m53s
I missed Chris Isaak the last time he was on tour, but I caught him today in Webster, MA, at a place called Indian Ranch. I’m a big fan of this guy, and as always Isaak put on a masterfully entertaining show. Here’s a quick minute of Chris today, doing one of his most popular tunes, Blue Motel.
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Isaak strolled up into the audience to give the ladies a thrill, and to make us men wish we could be more like him…
… then for his encore he came out wearing his famous mirror suit, which loses some of its effect at an outdoor, daytime show, but was still fun to see.
I hope you caught Isaak on PBS recently. His latest album is Beyond the Sun, and he talks about making it in this video I swiped from Amazon.com.
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It’s been four years since a Flemish friend got me started on K3 (we Americans hear it pronounced as “kah-tree”). Much has changed since then both professionally and personally for the ladies, but they continue to be popular and ply their trade in music, TV shows, and movies. K3 fan Mia told me the new single from their upcoming movie, Where Are The Angels?, has been posted on YouTube. Lately, some of the K3 videos I’ve embedded from YouTube have been pulled, so I extracted the MP3 audio. I really like this one.
[audio:https://s3.amazonaws.com/dogratcom/Audio/2012/06/K3-WhereAreTheAngels.mp3|titles=K3 – Where Are The Angels?]Mia explains the premise for the movie.
K3 has to be nice for 24 hours or they are in big trouble when they get kidnapped by angels.. but in these 24 hours their 3 annoying nieces arrive and they are everything but nice little troublemakers can K3 stay nice? The short teaser trailer is really funny! 😀 It shows K3 thinking they are slim as always but actually they are fat as hell, which is a side effect when you lie or when they are mean.. kinda like a curse.
With all of the overweight and obese kids in America, I wonder how well this idea would work here?
I think those guys in the white suits were more interested in watching Andy Williams than the girls.
The song Music to Watch Girls By was also an instrumental hit, and when I was a kid I thought it was by Herb Alpert, but it was done by Frankie Valli’s producer Bob Crewe. The influence of the “Bond, James Bond” theme is also apparent.
The tune actually started as a Diet Pepsi commercial, written by Sidney Ramin, with words for the vocal version by Anthony Velona.
http://youtu.be/G1RXYEr4O_g
My confusion about Bob Crewe’s recording was understandable, because of this Sixties TV commercial.
The Teaberry Shuffle was Herb Alpert’s Mexican Shuffle.
Which brings me to my point, that watching the past two seasons of Mad Men didn’t give me a feeling of the Sixties as I knew them, starting in 1965. The series nailed the short-lived Kennedy Camelot era, but as a period piece it seems to have had trouble leaving it behind.
Sad news from Sir Paul’s 70th birthday. Victor Spinetti, the hilarious Welsh-born character actor who appeared in three Beatles movies — A Hard Day’s Night, HELP!, and Magical Mystery Tour — has died.
Has it already been a week since I last posted something? Yikes! Gotta get back in the groove.
The first time I saw photographer Ethan Russell’s name was in 1970, on the back of the Let It Be album. The next time I noticed Russell’s name was in 1971, on the back cover of Who’s Next. A few years later Russell took the photo for the only album I was ever tempted to buy solely for its cover.
What should I do, put out an ugly picture? People look at it and they go “Uuugh.” It’s incidental, you know what I mean. It’s nice to have pretty pictures. It’s part of the frosting on the cake for the audience.
– Linda Ronstadt, Rolling Stone, October 19, 1978, issue no. 276, page 52.
Here’s an interview with Ethan Russell, who has a new e-book. This one I’ll have to look at on the Kindle viewer for Windows, because my Kindle Keyboard’s E-ink screen isn’t very good at displaying photos.
