So, so tempting: [link]
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
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.
Shit. Thurston and Kim are splitting: [link]
That's so sad. 27 years.
Fooling around with 8-Track I put up the Horror of Disco Halloween mix.
Not sure I like this platform since the second time you play this mix they have to scramble the order. Dude! I spend a huge amount of time working out the sequencing!
Anyway, if you need some Halloween Disco, you can start there.
I'll see about putting up some of my other Halloween mixes.
Trailer for the 2-cd retrospective set from R.E.M. coming out on on my birthday!
There are no good biography books on The Damned, are there? I'm stuck with websites to brush up on my info?
There are no good biography books on The Damned, are there?
I don't think so.
But their early formation-of-punk history is covered in Jon Savage's book England's Dreaming.
The Damned's first tour of America was also very important in the history of American punk, as it basically paved the way for hardcore. They just played sooooo much faster than anybody else that they blew people away.
We went and saw these guys [link] perform the Beatles' White Album in its entirety last night, and it was INCREDIBLE. The amount of musicianship on display was mind-blowing.
I will say that DH and I seem to have reached the age where we have the energy to jump and dance at a concert all night and have fantastic sex, but not both in the same night. DH and I were asleep the second our heads hit the pillows.
We went and saw these guys
With Uncle Floyd's brother, Jimmy Vivino!
Vivino is SUCH an amazing guitarist. He had the crowd on its feet several times with his solos.