Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
It’s tempting to wonder what would have become of Johnny Burnette if he hadn’t gone fishing that night in 1964. After all, by the time that speedboat came along, he was at a point in his career where he’d managed to pull off the transition from raw rockabilly singer to genuine teen idol, hitting the [...]
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Among the many similarities they shared was a tragically premature ending.
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
The great Memphis musician, producer, and philosopher James Luther "Jim" Dickinson gave up the ghost last August, you can read my post and watch some video on him here with an addendum here . The links on those posts however are dead. You can find his classic 1971 LP Dixie Fried at the Twilight Zone blog (as well as some of his field recordings done around Memphis, search TZ for Delta Experimental...
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 01/16/2010
The Pirates Live in '78 and Mick Green Interviewed . Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, 1964. Another great one checked out. Mick Green, the Pirates' guitarist, died on January 11th of heart failure, he was 66. The Pirates career began as Johnny Kidd's backing band, they then reformed in the mid-70's cutting three excellent LP's for Warner Bros ( Out Of Our Skulls , Skull Wars and Happy Birthday as well...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The guitarist's 1963 single, Ace of Spades, was insistent, sinister and hypnotic – and it opened a new world of sonic distortion "Electricity comes from other planets," quipped Lou Reed on the Velvet Underground's Temptation Inside Your Heart . Many a true word is spoken in ad lib. When rock'n'roll arrived in the mid-to-late 1950s, it sounded so strange that, for many, the only place...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The singer Johnny Carter was one of the few two-time inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for his membership of two influential vocal groups, the Flamingos and the Dells. Carter was the last surviving founder member of the Flamingos, the Chicago doo-wop group best known to British audiences for their appearance performing the ballad "Would I Be Crying" in Rock, Rock, Rock, the...
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Tuesday Weld shot by Dennis Hopper from the passenger seat . Set your Tivo (or as my cable company calls it DVR) for Friday night, 2:15 AM (actually, Saturday morning), Turner Classic Movies are running Noel Black's classic Pretty Poison starring Tuesday Weld in one of her best roles, also starring Anthony Perkins as an oddly Anthony Perkins like cretin. If you have never seen it, you will thank me....
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
It’s One Hit Wonder Week, when we celebrate the mysterious alchemy by which performer meets song meets historical moment and a hit record results, but never happens again. There’s a particularly interesting subset of the one-hit wonders: those who spent a single week at Number 100 in Billboard. Between 1955 and 1986, I find 13 [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Rocker STEVEN VAN ZANDT has lashed out at his fellow Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominating committee members for honouring the wrong acts.The E Street Band member has...
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Someday we'll be able to see this stuff in hi-def on our computers, but for now, I kind of like the ultra crappy quality of Youtube uploads, and it's free (that won't last for ever, bet your undershorts on that). Here's a few of my favorite clips, some rare, some fairly common, all great. Amos Milburn & his Chicken Shackers....what's a shacker? The Johnny Burnette Trio take first prize on Ted Mack's...
Travel (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
By Arthur Blackwell It wasn't that long ago that a trip to the corner video shop was the most convenient way to get a movie. As technologies have advanced, downloading dvds from movie download sites is becoming very common. Below is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites. Rock Rock Rock: Weld, in her film debut and hardly out of her teaching bra, needs to raise $30...
mosses from an old manse (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
YouTube - Johnny Burnette - The train kept a-rollin
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
The first ever distorted, fuzz-tone guitar sound shocked the music world when "Train Kept A-Rollin'" b/w "Honey Hush", by Johnny Burnette And The Rock 'n' Roll Trio, was released on Coral Records in 1956. "Train" has since become a Rock standard, reworked by the Yardbirds (with Jeff Beck) in the '60s and Aerosmith in the '70s. The Rock 'n' Roll Trio, from Memphis, Tennessee,...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Go away. Will you go now, please? Go on. Make like a tree and leave. Head 'em up, move 'em out. G'waaaahnnnn. Scat. Why are you still here? Do you want to look like a blithering idiot just standing on my mountain, or is it a natural effect? Ah. I see. My apologies to your parents. So, why aren't you gone, anyway? You came here for something from me. And that something is? As if I couldn't reason this...
CompTIA Network+ (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
It used to be that you had to go to the video store to get a movie. Instead of buying or renting the dvd, people now can choose a movie download instead. Here are some examples of movies you can acquire through a movie download site.
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