CoStarring our friendly neighborhood @rattanicus as el caballero apuesto cantante, please welcome Miramar with the enchanting "En Mis Suenos"...
and don't be forgettin Michael Skattum and the Space Vampires or your soul may just Melt into the night
I suppose the "local" love calls for a little taste of Vermont Cheese: Thanks to a certain Bat for bringing this to my attention.
Upload you and your people's jimmyjamz, Mitch! Free is the new for-profit. Wholly unrelated, but my brain played this for me in the shower this morning: Rule Canadia.
Yesterday was his birthday, so here's some more Scott Walker: Nite Flights - The Walker Brothers Rawhide Phrasing
Ah, I missed your follow-up post before now, John! Spirit Flies Ahead, maybe my fave song of ours... thanks for uploading! And, uh... I have no damn ideer who that is below... ahem....
I saw the Art Institute at the Knitting Factory in 1995... great show. Then, two years later, having moved to central VT, I met Lester Bowie at my local Shaw's supermarket- he was there leading a middle school jazz band, playing for the shoppers. They were set up just after you entered the place, and LB was easily recognizable in his lab coat. It was a happy and confusing moment!
50 years young... Pretty great grocertale, Mitch! Did you stumble upon the presentation or were you forewarned? Extra neat, either way. Had the pleasure of catching most of AEoC in various configurations a number of times throughout the '90s, but sadly never in full force. Sadder still, Phillip Wilson had passed before I was even hep to the combo.
I am assuming that you guys know that the two Bowies performed together on David's Black Tie White Noise album? David Bowie Looking For Lester Art Ensemble Of Chicago Odwalla Theme... Which is interesting because it is where the juice company got their name. In fact, if I am remembering correctly from the liner notes, the Odwalla Juice Company sponsored some of the recording of the album that this next tune was on. Strawberry Mango And to continue the fruit theme: The Leaders Blueberry Hill I couldn't find the version by Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy. He is another Bowie that is sorely missed.
Good stuff, fellas! D, no, I had no idea the free grocery store concert was happening, which made it quite surreal! We just happened to be on our usual Saturday grocery run. John, had no idea that's where Odwalla got their name... very interesting!
Yesh, didn't know the Odwalla thing or that the Bowies had worked together. Inneresting. Had the pleasure of seeing the Duke what shares my first name a couple of times in a live setting - once in a sold out arena -- the Sound+Vision tour, summer of '90, in an arena with over 20,000 of my closest friends -- and again the next winter, crushed up against the barricade by the stage for a club date with Tin Machine, maybe a thousand people in the room. Not entirely sure how well TM have aged... but I was pretty damn geeked to see them, not least of which because the band shared the rhythm section from Iggy's best solo albums. This YouTube comment helped me a bit with my perspective: I remember the band had this grand unveiling at some award show featuring all the horrible "glam metal" acts of the day like G N'R, Poison, Warrant, etc, and Tin Machine get up there in pinstripe suits, the least glam outfits imaginable and proceed to play the exact opposite of the shitty acoustic ballads that all the glam bands were releasing like a swarm of locusts on the radios of 1989... Feedback laden, loud as hell real drums dissonant, but never losing control or the appearance of sophistication. Even at the time I remember thinking, "Bowie is paving the way for something other than lycra, hairspray and makeup in rock..." Then Nirvana happened. True 'nuff. Back to fruit, I've shared this one before, but I can't not share it again: Crack City - Tin Machine (David Bowie) JAH WOBBLE - BLUEBERRY HILL #Pangaea's People
My brain wouldn't shut up today about wooden trees made entirely of wood... I was obsessed with this set as a pre-teen. Thank you, Dennis DeSantis' dad. I almost never check out the original version... ... but here it is. "Walk the Dog" - Laurie Anderson
