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Joe_Stax · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:43 am Post subject:

I forgot to include Steve Martin's Wild and Crazy Guy album. There was a piece in the New Yorker a few weeks back by Martin about his early stand up career, and how he developed his own style. Turns out this was a teaser for the new book that he'd written about his stand up years.

Anyway, it was an interesting and entertaining article, and made me dig up my copy of this classic that I've had since junior high, I think. I was around 13 at the time. Hell, I practically had it memorized, I listened to it so much.

It's still a tremendously funny record.
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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Rockin'_Art_Lewis · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 119 Location: Gallup, NM.

JimENight · Site Admin Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 183

just FYI, guys, are you aware that Danny Bonaduche did a solo album in the early 70s?
I have only heard one cut from it, which I did use on the show once for some inexplicable reason - His version of Feeling Groovy!
As for what I'm spinning lately off-air around the studio - Ellie Pop. I picked up a nice red vinyl reissue of their one and only album on the Mainstream label, circa '68. Also a bit of Stone Circus, also on the Mainstream label (CD tho) a jazz-fusion album by Steve Marcus where he covers Tomorow Never Knows, and I'm still stuck on the New Tweedy Brothers who will again be featured on an upcoming show - Her Darkness in December! Cool

Joe_Stax · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:57 am Post subject:

According to legend, when Rhino Records was just a little retail store, they got stuck with a load of the Danny Bonaduce lp. Unable to sell any of them, they ended up paying customers a nickel to take a copy... Laughing

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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Rockin'_Art_Lewis · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 119 Location: Gallup, NM.

Joe, believe it or not, the Rhino Danny Bonaduce promo was the real deal. They also gave away copies of the initial Rhino record (RN-001)
"Go To Rhino Records", by the illustrious Wild Man Fischer. I still have my copy. Twisted Evil

Record of the moment: "Organ Transplant" from Billy Preston. Produced by Sly Stone. Funky B3 action!

Peace!

-R.A.L.
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Joe_Stax · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:01 am Post subject:

All over the place this week! There's some cool neo-retro psych from a group called the Black Hollies. The album's called Casting Shadows. Check it out if you get a chance.

I've been digging a Norman Blake album from 1976, Whiskey Before Breakfast. Amazing folk-country sounds. Blake is an incredible picker!

Finally, a boot of the 1967 Velvet Underground doing a set in a place called the Gymnasium, as part of a Exploding Plastic Inevitable show. It includes a song never recorded (as far as I know) in the studio, and blistering live versions Run Run Run and I'm Waiting for the Man. The absolute killer is the live debut of Sister Ray! The sound is pretty good considering the vintage. If you can find this, grab a copy!
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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Rockin'_Art_Lewis · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 119 Location: Gallup, NM.

Lots of these guys! Laughing

Peace!

R.A.L.
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The Watusi.....The Twist.......Eldorado?

Joe_Stax · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:42 am Post subject:

Some more odds & ends this week: the first albums by R.E.M. and the Fugs, the newest release by the Weepies, and a couple of things a friend gave me: Ezra Furman & the Harpoons, Banging Down the Doors; and Strange Histories by James Raynard. Raynard sounds a bit like a modern-day Martin Carthy, and is well worth a listen! There's been some ancient blues sounds, too, from the Mississippi Sheiks and Cannon's Jug Stompers.
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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Joe_Stax · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:54 am Post subject:

Oh, and I nearly forgot: some early Porter Wagoner.
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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Joe_Stax · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:26 am Post subject:

Labor Day weekend listening:

Zal Yanovsky - Alive & Well in Argentina*
Elvis Costello - Almost Blue*
XTC - Apple Venus, Skylarking*
Wanda Jackson - Vintage Classics
The Apple Tree (Broadway show)
Kirsty MacColl - Best of
Billy Bremner - Bash!
Mike Flowers Pops - A Groovy Place

*played while doing some housework. helped me get a groove on!

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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.