"The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons" is out on DVD.
In July 1970, for instance, "The Dick Cavett Show" featured a chat session with Sly and the Family Stone, Debbie Reynolds and tennis great Pancho Gonzales. Equally weird, a month earlier, was the joint appearance of Janis Joplin, Raquel Welch, news anchor Chet Huntley and the terminally suave Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The elderly Huntley was visibly sweet on Welch, and -- while taking hits from a long cigarette holder -- Joplin lectured Welch about underground cartoonist R. Crumb.
"The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons" is out on DVD.
I saw that the other day. It doesn't have the famous Hendrix appearance on it, though.
It doesn't have the famous Hendrix appearance on it, though.
Wherever I read about the DVDs it said that the John & Yoko interviews are coming out as a separate release; I assume Hendrix will, too. Does it have the Little Richard "HE GOT WHAT HE WANTED BUT HE LOST WHAT HE HAD!! SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!!" segment? That's the important question.
Jimi Hendrix has been out for a couple of years: [link]
There's a Third Eye Blind song that mentions George Seurat's work, but I can't remember the name of it.
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Elvis Costello's Watching the Detectives is a meditation on Film Noir, but it doesn't name a specific film. Great song, though.
I don't know how much more of this I can take
She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake
Oh, and there's the whole
Alice
album from Tom Waits, done in and around Alice in Wonderland.
It has one of the saddest songs EVER on it:
Fish and Bird.
"The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons" is out on DVD.
I am watching David Crosby, Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills and Grace Slick on the DC Show on VH-1 right now. (This interview was taped less than a day after Woodstock.) There was just a moment of tension when Slick kept calling Dick "Jim" so he called her "Ms. Joplin."
I didn't care for Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, but it wasn't bad enough to put me off Rushdie altogether. I definitely still want to attempt to read Midnight's Children.
I just watched the Flaming Lips documentary Fearless Freaks. I'd always kind of dismissed them as psychedelic rock freaky people, even though I really like Yoshimi, but after watching this, I feel ashamed that I ever thought that.
Fascinating stuff, and now I think I'm a little in love with Wayne Coyne. Must go find copy of The Soft Bulletin now.
The Soft Bulletin is amazing. One of the greatest records of the last fifteen years, and totally heartfelt. That Iron & Wine version of "Waiting for a Superman" that tina posted at buffistarawk is also very lovely.
I bought Prog Rock today! And the O'Jays.
