Popdose (Free subscription) | yesterday
It’s amazing sometimes to see how music brings the world together. I was food shopping with my wife last week and “867-5309/Jenny” by Tommy Tutone was playing in the store. Even though I’m not a big fan of most of the larger hits of the ’80s, it was the only song that caught my ear the [...]
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Looking back at last week's Spanish Moon edition , Gov't Mule has walked away with a narrow victory over Robert Palmer. In what was surely a coincidence: A day after last week's Cover Wars, Mike Gordon welcomed one of last week's contenders The Bridge to the stage during his encore at The Highline Ballroom for - you guessed it, Spanish Moon. Thanks for reading Cover Wars, Cactus! This week, I have...
Idol Stalker - Watching American Idol (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Earl Stevenson sang “A Little Help From My Friends” (the Joe Cocker version that is most associated with The Wonder Years television show) and it was predictably good. I love that it was just what you would expect from an “Earl Show” and he definitely got really into it. I really liked it a lot. [...]
Strat-O-Blogster Guitar Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
I dunno what's funniest, this lyric translation or the air guitar. BTW, I've always thought Joe Cocker's "motions" were a type of air guitar. If this doesn't give your Monday a laugh, you might be deceased. Video by Jared Pike , via The J-Walk Blog .
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Some people have claimed that it's difficult to understand the lyrics when Joe Cocker sings. Jared Pike made this closed-captioned video from Woodstock to help: This had me laughing out loud (or, LOL, as they say in cyberspace). (Thanks Kenny) Comments | Posted in Humor
Bryan Appleyard (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
For years I have stared at a long shelf full of vinyl LPs, my soul flooded with conflicting feels of irritation, nostalgia, bafflement, longing. What should I do with them? Throwing them away was out of the question; but, equally, what were they actually for? The conflict was such that I never actually dared look at them. But, yesterday, I received an early birthday present - a turntable to go
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
As we metioned yesterday, the Woodstock Music And Arts Festival started on this weekend in 1969. The festival ran from the 15th through the 17th on Max Yasgur’s farm in the rural town of Bethel, NY. It’s widely regarded as one of, if not the most influential event in rock and roll history. Tickets for [...]
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
My girlfriend always told me that no man should ever sing Joe Cocker’s You Are So Beautiful to his love interest. She figures that the line âYou are so beautiful to meâ is an admission that the guy thinks his girlfriend isn’t all that pretty, but pretty enough for him, and thereby a tad [...]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
in post Joe Cocker - Woman to Woman from The Beat! .
Speed of Dark (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
photo from official website Right after Joe Cocker , The Steve Miller Band took the stage at the Nokia Theatre. Having grown up with the music of Steve Miller almost perpetually playing in the background, I was pleased to discover that while the band members' appearances had definitely changed, their voices still sounded amazing, and it was obvious that they still loved to perform. Steve himself could...
Speed of Dark (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
My husband and I went to our first concert together, EVER, to see Joe Cocker on a double bill with The Steve Miller Band . I've been to a lot of concerts, mostly with Alt-gramma, but with friends and even by myself, but strangely enough, not with my husband (hereafter to be referred to as Spouse). While our music tastes overlap somewhat, Spouse doesn't see the need to see someone perform their music...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
For the least two years, the area in front of the Staples Center has been the site of a massive construction project, the behemoth “LA Live” complex. Costing approximately $2.5 billion, the complex is home to the Nokia Theatre, a venue that is described as “mid-size” (though it seats 7,100 people) and is scheduled [...]
Michael R. Eades, M.D. (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
We’re in Napa right now, where everything is overpriced, overhyped and pretentious. We’ve come up with another medical couple for a meeting. The hotel, which advertised full internet service, has no internet service. I can’t find a critical piece of my Verizon gizmo that I use while traveling, so this post is being [...]
Random Mumblings (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
This one gets funnier each time I see it. He's still making good music, too....
Paulo Coehlo's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Yesterday I put my mood as “nostalgic”. I will stop being nostalgic on Sunday – but sometimes it is good to go back to the past (which I am doing this week), seeing these faces, knowing that we shared the same dream, that there was a time when the world was young… What a pity that [...]
