Just got back from "Viva Las Vegas," the rockabilly weekend in LV. So much fun. Best things were the reuniting of "Go Cat Go" with a new lead singer, the 21-year-old Eddie Glendening. Blew the room away. I also heard an east LA group "Los Rhythm Rockets" who were high-energy, very tight with a kicking horn section and a fun mix of Mexican/Rock/Western//Big Band influences. I have always liked rockabilly but am not part of the scene in any way and only own a smattering of CDs, but I will say that it is IMPOSSIBLE not to have a great time at a Rockabilly show!
I'm not on the ship. I'm in the ship. I am the ship.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
Scrappy - Apr 12, 2004 6:45:31 pm PDT #2102 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Fred Pete - Apr 13, 2004 3:29:30 am PDT #2103 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
A cartoon for the Jimmy Webb/Glen Campbell fans.
erinaceous - Apr 13, 2004 6:09:19 am PDT #2104 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
Robin, do you want I should send you some Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Trio?
tommyrot - Apr 13, 2004 8:00:29 am PDT #2105 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
...wrong thread...
DavidS - Apr 13, 2004 8:09:37 am PDT #2106 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A cartoon for the Jimmy Webb/Glen Campbell fans.
Heh!
I have always liked rockabilly but am not part of the scene in any way and only own a smattering of CDs, but I will say that it is IMPOSSIBLE not to have a great time at a Rockabilly show!
Right on! I love the image of Rockabilly!Scrappy. My friend Betty usually goes to the Vegas rockabilly show (she's hot for rockabilly boys, like Allyson is). I personally own vast yonks of rockabilly, though mostly the original stuff. It's all about Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio. Though you've got to give it up for guys like Groovey Joe Poovey and Warren Smith and Charlie Feathers and Wanda Jackson. (Nick Tosches famously described Wanda Jackson as "So hot she could fry an egg on her mons.")
DavidS - Apr 13, 2004 8:13:25 am PDT #2107 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"I got a train / I met a dame / She was a' hefTY / She was a real gone dame / She was a' pretty / From New York City / And we rocked on down / that ol' fair lane / With a heave / and a Ho / Well I just couldn't let her Go! / Get along / sweet little woman get along / get on that train, get along / Well the train kept a' rollin' / All night long / The train kept a movin' / all night long / with a heave / and a ho / well I just couldn't let her go-ho-ho ho ho!"
joe boucher - Apr 13, 2004 8:20:02 am PDT #2108 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
I don't want nobody to give me no quote. Open up the search engine, and I'll get it myself. Hunhh! Gud God, y'all!
Just kidding. Don't know if this is the one you're thinking of tommyrot:
We lost out on "Sex Machine" and now it's the number one dance song in the world. Because they thought the title "Sex" went some other place. But it wasn't about that. A fella and a girl were sittin' down in a club, and everybody was dancing, and the cat said, "Get on up! I feel like being a sex machine!"
It said, "The way I like it is the way it is. I got mine and don't worry about his." What is better than that? You cain't beat that. That record is so clean. They were worried about the title. Everytime I see the words "sex machine," it reminds me of a cash register opening up. That song opened up more cash registers than most songs I know.
DavidS - Apr 13, 2004 8:23:28 am PDT #2109 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Coolest Thing James Brown Ever Did?
Titling a song, "Funky President (People It's Bad)" during Watergate.
...or possibly doing an entire album of Popcorn themed dance songs. It's a toss up.
joe boucher - Apr 13, 2004 8:47:51 am PDT #2110 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
People people, we gotta get over before we go under
"Funky President" is a great song -- and from a Nixon supporter no less! JB's career is full of ubercool & uberweird things (sometimes inseparable). His achievement -- he changed the face of modern music (at least the popular variety, and I've read more than one composer who cited him as an influence) -- & his wackiness are both hard to overstate.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 13, 2004 8:58:50 am PDT #2111 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I haven't seen a Pixies date for SF, dammit.
They're not doing a show in Boston either, which strikes me as willfully perverse.