Caterham race academy fear of failure
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Erin Baker recalls her psychological struggle with the Daily Telegraph Caterham Academy
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The Byrds
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Gonna Fly Down In That Easy Chair
A Whiff of Smiff (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
It’s a Feel Good Friday fo sho when you sleep in til 9:00. Can’t remember when I last did that. Wow. So, my contribution to this FGF is a little bit of The Byrds along with Earl Scruggs and his boys Gary and Randy. I saw Gary a few months ago and I asked him “So, Gar’….what [...]
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Come into our (musical) parlor
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen invited about 100 new friends into their temporary living room at the Southgate House on Thursday night.
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The B List: Top 10 Fender Guitarists
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Once again it’s time for a special guest to take the reigns of the B List . This week, guitar-maker Andrew Olson of AO Guitars shares a list of his favorite Fender players. AO Guitars makes high-quality instruments for the discerning musician… Hey everybody! I can’t say how thrilled I am to be back on the B List for a second edition of AO’s Top 10. If you recall the last one , I delved into my Top...
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Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
MONTREAL.- The Musée d'art contemporain will be literally electrified this fall by the exhibition Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967. The title is taken from the eponymous Rolling Stones song. Montréal is the only stop in Canada and the Northeast for this exhibition, which will run from October 10, 2008 to January 11, 2009.
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Bruce: Let's take America back!
Point Blank - Bruce Springsteen News (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Bruce Springsteen is back again in support of change. He performed this past weekend in Philadelphia PA, Columbus OH and Ypsilante MI, doing a 45 minute acoustic set each day. All the shows have featured acoustic versions of "Thunder Road", "The Promised Land" and "No Surrender", among others, in front of large audiences. Every show has ended with Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" often
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OBITUARY: Lloyd Thaxton TV Dance Show Host, Dies at 81
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
What came to be 'The Lloyd Thaxton Show' began in 1959 and was nationally syndicated in 1964. Amid the dancing teenagers and guest appearances was his unique brand of zany humor. Lloyd Thaxton, the host of a popular Los Angeles TV dance show in the 1960s who memorably injected a visual zaniness into his daily rock 'n' roll party for teenagers, died Sunday. He was 81...
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Lloyd Thaxton, TV dance show host, dies at 81
LA Times (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
What came to be 'The Lloyd Thaxton Show' began in 1959 and was nationally syndicated in 1964. Amid the dancing teenagers and guest appearances was his unique brand of zany humor. Lloyd Thaxton, the host of a popular Los Angeles TV dance show in the 1960s who memorably injected a visual zaniness into his daily rock 'n' roll party for teenagers, died Sunday. He was 81.
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Dylan Week: Mr. Tambourine Man
Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
The only Dylan song that ever made it to #1 in the charts was the Byrds' 1965 cover of Mr. Tambourine Man. Here's some background on that. Here are the Byrds playing the song at a 1990 Roy Orbison memorial, with Bob helping out:
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Feel A Whole Lot Better
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Flamin' Groovies... Feel A Whole Lot Better (.mp3 audio 02:26). From the album Now (1978, Sire SRK 7059, produced by Dave Edmunds). Cover of The Byrds' song.
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Hillman will fly into Southgate
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Chris Hillman, a former Byrd, is still making music that matters. He'll play tunes from the catalogs of former bands, plus the Desert Rose Band and his solo albums with fellow traveler Herb Pedersen Thursday at the Southgate House.
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Genius Itunes Verdict
This Is This (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Not another post about me, no. Arf. But I have to chip in with my 79p to say a few words about Itunes’s Genius feature. What is basically does is creates a playlist around one song. It does this using the vast database at Apple which contains information about the song, then matches it to another [...]
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10 Reasons Why I Stopped Playing World of Warcraft
Extremetech (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
It's time to stop playing Blizzard's fantastic MMO and move on with life.
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To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story DELUXE 4-disc box set (w/ DVD) + rare footage
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Truly one of of the greatest African-American female vocalists of the 20th century Nina Simone (1933-2003) holds a special position of honor for the fearless role she played as an uncompromising ambassador of cultural pride at the height of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements ...
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The Donkeys - Living On The Other Side
HearYa (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Speaking of bands that were dealt an unfair hand by Pitchfork, let me introduce you to The Donkeys. I hadn’t heard of them until the Pitchfork review and luckily I was able to read between the lines. This is a loose translation of their review. “I am a self-important music critic” which was followed up [...]
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