Overall Skinny:
I haven't bought any new albums in 2007 because of youtube and slacker.com.
That notwithstanding, here's the best albums of 2007 so far, from what I
have and haven't heard:
Sequoya is a music
band emerging from Durham, North Carolina, USA. With Sequoya preparing for a major
new cd release in winter
of 2008,
Paperbacknovel.com
conducted the following email interview with lead-singer
Bonnie, who provides an inside look of the mechanisms behind
composing new material, playing live, and the North Carolina
music scene. [more]
Paperbacknovel.com Video Playlist
Suzanne Vega's Keyboardist
Lives on the Second Floor
Suzanne Vega
waits and waits to play City Hall Park in NYC in support of new album
[more]
CBGB's & Patti Smith in the 70's
- Eyewitnessed
A picture in the NY
Post of CBGB's in the 70's reveals my friend
Johnny in the front row. Read his reminisces [more]
..the only reason why
the NFL and the top honchos at CBS, the company that broadcast the game,
were thrown into a tizzie about the whole affair is not that Janet Jackson
showed tit... [more]
Beekeeper
Tour:
Tori
Amos ..
in Concert
This
tour was sans percussion, and it wasn't missed at
all.
Back
and forth from piano to organ, then both at the same
time while singing hitting high notes then off to a
different organ with lights and moods and a good setlist.
[more]
Rising
Star:
Doris
Day, Eminem .. and
Nellie McKay
I
used to be a big fan of Doris Day until one day my
sister referred to her as a cow. Caught me by surprise
but it seemed a good word to sum up her mugging to the
camera and accentuation of her mammary glands. [more]
TV
Show Review:
The
Chris Isaak Show
And every week there's a guest star. Last week Gloria Estefan tried to steal his drummer. Her acting was so-so -- at times good; at times a bit wooden.
Listen
to an interview with Joan and acoustic performance at
Acoustic Cafe.
Joan
performing in NYC at World Financial Center in June, 2002.
Click on picture for more pix.
The
Doors 'Light My Fire':
Cat
Fight with Jose Feliciano's Wife
Man,
leave it to the internet to bring people together... I just had
this cat fight with Jose Feliciano's wife.. I went up to his
website to lodge a complaint, and nature took its course.. [more]
Sheryl
Crow Gets Around
..
And
part of the fun is that Sheryl often screws up the song. She had
barely taken the stage for her MTV Unplugged performance a
few years back when she massacred D'yer Maker before the
whole music world, blowing a high note right off the bat; sounding
like a wounded bluejay. Then she got some of the lyrics wrong. At the end of the song she says playfully,
"Sorry Robert." You gotta love it; it's adorable. .. [more]
An
Arab Lifts the System?
January,
2002 - How
sick is it that the hottest rock band out right now, System
of a Down, singing things like "Angels Deserve to
Die", and "everyone must die".. and the "toxicity
of our cities", is fronted by a lead singer who is.. Armenian
but looks like a damn arab terrorist.
Born
in Lebanon, but moved to LA at age 8 where he was americanized,
points out System's website...Serj Tankian looks and sings like a
fucking crazy terrorist bastard (I said that, not them). And
how about the timing of their album coming out in September
of 2001.
In
actuality, he's not an arab, nor a terrorist, and apparently
is singing out against drug abuse (toxicity) and other evils.. I
think.
As
good as top single Chop Suey is, Toxicity is one of
the most head-turning songs I've heard since.. Led Zeppelin's Kashmir. This
guy Tankian is a maniac, with an operatic tenor voice, bashing out
high C's like a cat in heat.
--
LouV
Why
Janet Jackson Sucks,
and Madonna's So Good
Let's
get this straight from the start -- I'm not a Madonna fan.
She's an ego-driven idiot, who has a mediocre voice,
mediocre looks, mediocre dancing ability, and can't play an
instrument.
Who
is the worst harmonica player of all time? This question was posed
to some harmonica playing
expert on the Dick Cavett show in like 1977. Yes, that's a long time
ago. Dick Cavett was a talk show host. Any other questions? Right,
the answer was...[more]
Instruments...
The
Stroh Violin
If
you're out in the San Francisco, California area, be sure to stop
by Lark
in the Morning music shop in Mendocino
-- I picture Mendocino as a quirky, little beachside village,
although I've never been there
.
"While you're in
Mendocino, have an espresso and
a wonderful hike on the wild Mendocino headlands, enjoy the salt
sea air, talk to the seals,
stay in a quaint bed and breakfast or inn and dine at
one of our fine local restaurants."
Be
sure to check out the Stroh Violin.
--
LouV
Famous Quotes:
Johnny Cash on Bob Dylan:
"Well
when I heard Bob Dylan, I thought he was the best hillbilly singer I ever
heard. And I wrote him a letter. I wrote him a letter on the plane – I’ll
never forget – and I mailed it to him in one of those vomit bags they have
on the plane. (Laughter) And he responded immediately and sent me a letter
in the same kind of an envelope. Just rambling, just talking about music,
you know, and the business, and what we wanted to do and the songs we had
written, songs we were singing, and just on and on and on. Just ramblin’.
And we wrote each other two or three times after that before we ever met. We
met, actually, at that Newport Folk Festival. “The Times They Are A-Changin’,”
it’s a political song, all right. And it’s a song of prophecy, as far as
I’m concerned. A prophetic song whose prophecies definitely came true, the
changing of the times and the Vietnam War, and all that, you know? It was a
very momentous, prophetic song."
