'Objects In Space'
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.
I have been thinking about that show like nobody's business this week.
That show is a constant in this house because it's JZ's All-Time Number One. She even participated in the campaign to save it when it was canceled. The lunchbox that came with the first DVD set looks down on us beneficently from a high shelf over the TV.
FAQWife has never seen MSCL. I need to correct that.
Yes. It might still be on Netflix.
Sly Stone is homeless. Sad.
Complete music-journalism novice/idiot question for the actually knowing masses:
For a blog tour project for our small press, I'm supposed to be making a list of the best, smartest and most-loved music blogs or journals or anything similar out there who have a particular soft spot for discussions and histories of any and all things Beatles/Who/Lennon.
I absolutely shouldn't have offered to dig up such a list, because, as much as I love all of the above, my knowledge of the whole vast field of critical/appreciative/analytical/smart fannish writing about them, or any music really, begins and ends with "Uh, there's a book series called 33 1/3, and also Hec and Hayden are terrifyingly smart and Jon B has a kickass radio show.
Which is, it turns out, not enough to generate a possible blog tour list. I'm shocked at the depths of my ignorance, and terrified at the prospect of failing a friend and semi-boss, and begging for help. If someone with more knowledge than me wanted to ping thoughtful bloggers about discussing/reviewing/highlighting a biography of a practically unknown but excellent studio musician who had played on probably half the best-known tracks of all the above folks, especially with all the musical milestone anniversaries coming up in the next few months, whom should that person be talking to?
Any guidance would be hugely, tearfully appreciated, because right now I feel like a badly flailing moron.
Insent to my wife...
I don't know the answer to that question either, JZ, but you also might ask DXM and Victor, neither of whom are here any more, but who have interests along those lines. DXM I know loved Nicky's playing. (Am I allowed to say his name?)
(Am I allowed to say his name?)
I don't see why not (don't forget to ask your local library to order a copy!).
Hec just sent me an awesomely comprehensive list; now I just need to pick through it and hunt down all the "Contact Us" info for each.
Hec just sent me an awesomely comprehensive list
Whew! I had nothin'