I gave her everything... jewels, beautiful dresses -- with beautiful girls in them.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach  

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


erikaj - Jan 13, 2006 7:06:40 am PST #1913 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!

I wish I could've seen Marvin Gaye. And Tina Turner.(Although Tina is very much alive, she gave up touring and I've got no reason to think it was a Cher/Rolling Stones fakeout thing.) I've hardly seen anybody live, but am very glad I bought those B.B. King tickets. Bruce Springsteen, without having to rob a liquor store.


Hayden - Jan 13, 2006 7:34:21 am PST #1914 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

You ever seen Gimme Shelter, Erika? I never got Tina Turner until I saw that.


erikaj - Jan 13, 2006 7:44:39 am PST #1915 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!

No, I haven't. Not all of it.


Tom Scola - Jan 13, 2006 8:11:39 am PST #1916 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

The Real Behind the Music: [link]

While battling a cold and killing the world's last dragon, Danzig built the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, and the Golden Gate Bridge. When he placed the bridge in San Francisco, he started the band the Misfits, which invented rock-and-roll. They were the biggest band in the history of the world for many years, until Danzig broke up the group in 1983. He then formed the band Samhain, which instantly became the world's second-biggest band ever. Again, Danzig got bored with what he was doing, and in his spare time he discovered the cure for cancer and the meaning of life, but kept them to himself because he liked seeing people suffer.


DavidS - Jan 13, 2006 8:19:55 am PST #1917 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

This article in today's Tribune poses a decent Friday Music thread question. What band do you most regret not seeing before THEY were dead and what band do you most want to see live before YOU are dead?

Number one would be seeing the New York Dolls at the Oscar Wilde Room of the Mercer Arts Center before it fell down.

There was a show listed in the Punk Rock Diary book that haunted me a bit. It was very early, like 1973 or 74 and was a set by the original Modern Lovers with Suicide and Jayne County.

Would've loved to have seen Pere Ubu at the Viking in Cleveland, when Peter Laughner was in the group. Really would have liked to see one of The Electric Eels legendarily combative shows there too.

Television when Richard Hell was still in the band.

That early punk tour through the midlands of Britian with the Sex Pistols, Damned, Clash and Buzzcocks all together.

When you go to the Fillmore the old posters there sport some incredible lineups: Moby Grape and Buffalo Springfield and The Byrds; Sly and the Family Stone and Tower of Power. Stuff like that. Moby Grape was an awesome force live, and Sly even more so.

One I passed on and kind of regret? Benefit for the rape victims that Novoselic put together: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, L7 (I think - maybe Babes in Toyland) at the Cow Palace. All your grunge needs in one place.

Tom Waits tour after Raindogs with Marc Ribot in the band.

The T.A.M.I. Show. The Big TNT Show.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 13, 2006 9:39:56 am PST #1918 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Tom Waits tour after Raindogs with Marc Ribot in the band.

Ha! I saw this, and it was great.

He closed with a cover of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag". And did a long solo segment at the piano (including "Tom Traubert's Blues").


DavidS - Jan 13, 2006 9:41:40 am PST #1919 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

He closed with a cover of "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag".

Tom was a big R&B fan growing up (in fact his first band was a soul cover group). He saw James Brown and the Famous Flames in '62, which is another show worth regretting missing.


DavidS - Jan 13, 2006 9:46:05 am PST #1920 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

This blog has the Dresden Dolls covering Queens of the Stone Age, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs covering Bjork.

This is where we found all the "Last Christmas" covers isn't it?


Jon B. - Jan 13, 2006 9:47:43 am PST #1921 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

This is where we found all the "Last Christmas" covers isn't it?

Where I found them, yep.


DavidS - Jan 13, 2006 10:14:26 am PST #1922 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

This description intrigues and horrifies me:

Imagine Aphex Twin if he still played Dungeons & Dragons (the dice, dungeon master and fake swords variety), had Legolas's ears, the giant feet of a Hobbit and a serious obsession with fungus. Now meet Wisp aka New York via Middle Earth's Reid Dunn, one of the most talented artists to emerge from the electronic net-label scene and a man who's mission statement reads something like, "Conquer, destroy, dress in medieval garb."