I am a heretic, because I don't like the Stones.

t stands with Jilli

Give me The Who any day.

Give me The Who any day.

EXACTLY.

Liz Phair reviews Dean Wareham's book: [link]

I think she really nails it.

Give me The Who any day.

You know, much as I like the Stones I gotta go there too.

Of course, I've been earworming about 5 different Quadrophenia songs on a rotating basis for a few weeks now (along with Entwistle's bass solo in My Generation), so I'm not exactly objective on this. But, yeah!

along with Entwistle's bass solo in My Generation

"5:15" is an even better Entwhistle solo, I think.

"5:15" is an even better Entwhistle solo, I think.

Well, I think he basically has the lead part on a bulk of the who songs. "The Real Me" trumps 5:15, in my opinion. But considering "My Generation" is about as punk a song as you're ever going to hear (for its time or for the punk era), to have a bass solo in the middle just makes it that much fucking cooler. And mainly, I was just mentioning which bits were stuck in my head (for some odd reason, 5:15 WASN'T one of the Quadrophenia songs I was earworming on, much as I love it).

ION, just watched (or at least watched most of - my DVR recording based on the schedule started late and ended before it was over - thank doG for a later rebroadcast) the VH1 doc "The Night James Brown Saved Boston" which is about a show James Brown did at the Boston Garden the night after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. The show got simulcast on PBS and basically, for a myriad of reasons, allowed Boston to escape a lot of the rioting/looting/arson that hit most of the other major cities in the US. Fascinating stuff, and I'm stunned, and a bit ashamed, that WGBH (the PBS station in question) didn't do this, since it is a HUGE piece of their history. It also makes hope and pray, since it looks like the materials are there, that a concert film of that show will someday be available on DVD.

Man, if I feel bad for anyone's later in life decline into a punchline or worse, it's James Brown. Because he seriously did it himself (that is, brought himself up from abject nothing), and at one point he was not only one of the most charasmatic human beings on the planet, but also seemed to be one of the more savvy ones.

seemed to be one of the more savvy ones.

Though even late in life, he still seemed pretty savvy, when I would have chance to hear him speak.

Hey, speaking of the Stones, NPR was doing a story on Shine A Light, and the Stones, and as the story ended, they played the London Symphony Orchestra's cover of Jumpin' Jack Flash, which was freakin' AWESOME, and I now want to have it. However, iTunes is giving me NO LOVE. If anybody could help out with that, I'd love you forever and ever.

Hat Trick:

I just bought the whole Symphonic Stones CD off of Amazon for the one song. I feel so old school.

Except I want the song NOW. I don't want to wait for shipping. Feh.

I just bought the whole Symphonic Stones CD off of iTunes for the one song. I feel so old school.

Except I want the song NOW. I don't want to wait for shipping. Feh.

iTunes sells physical CDs?

I watched the James Brown vh1 special last night as well. Man, the way he wiggled his legs was crazy! The 2000ish Vegas concert that followed on vh1 classic was a bit embarrassing though.