Category: Music

Outsourcing

I haven’t been feeling the blogging bug lately. Too much else going on, my mind on other things, etc. Some of the material I was going to post has been donated to better homes — favorite sites that are devoted to single subjects.

Rob Steibel runs the excellent Kirby Dynamics blog for the Jack Kirby Museum. I sent Rob scans from two magazines with articles about Stan Lee that were published ten years apart — Castle of Frankenstein (1968), and Circus (1978).

I am a devoted follower of the tipper-topper mostest bestest Beatles photo blogger, The Gilly on Tumblr. A long time ago I said I would post Ringo’s Photo Album from 1964, but after scanning the magazine I decided that The Gilly would do a superior job of presenting it, and I was right. The scans are at this link.

A Kind of a Hush

Deep Purple’s recording of Joe South’s “Hush” is one of those songs that takes me back to powerful memories from a particular point in my life. “There’s a Kind of a Hush All Over the World” by Herman’s Hermits it wasn’t! I’d just finished an extremely difficult year in the 7th grade, and “Hush” really excited and grabbed me.

EVERYTHING WAS CHANGING SO FAST! Not just for me as a kid on the cusp of turning thirteen, but for the world. LBJ wasn’t running for re-election, MLK and RFK had been assassinated, etc. And to top it off, a month after “Hush” peaked on the charts my family up and moved from Connecticut to Massachusetts.

Jon Lord of Deep Purple has died. “Hush”, with Lord’s incredible keyboard sound, is one of the last songs that is indelibly associated in my mind with 77 WABC Musicradio in New York. It’s my assumption that Herb Oscar Anderson’s departure from WABC was due to songs like this one.

Chris Isaak on tour, on fire

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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Hallelujah, K3!

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.

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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?