Thrills and Spills

Built To Spill is America’s hardest working indie band. Check ‘em out.

Built to Spill – “Car”

Urban Tinge

I love it. I just bloody well love it!! Note the name of the band City and ColoUr – they use the British spelling cuz they’re Canadian. We are such good little loyalasts huh. (yeachhhhh)

The lead is Dallas Green – a city and a color. Interesting.
City And Colour – Sleeping Sickness (Bravo! Live Concert Hall)
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666 Royal Appeal

Will whomever literally ripped off my 3-D image from my “Their Satanic Majesties Reguest” album cover please return it. It went missing ’bout 1970. I won’t ask any questions. Thanks.

Rolling Stones – Citadel (Demo) 1967 instrumental – verrrry coool indeed
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Please Redeem Me

Last night PBS had a special on Bob Marley. Wow – soooo good. Here is the fruit of dad’s loins, Ziggy with LH singing one of pop’s songs.

Lauryn Hill feat. Ziggy Marley – Redemption Song

Chaka dot Kahn

 

So there I was, cutting across Broadway in mid-town Manhattan last week when I come face à face with a camera man and two of NYC’s finest. I turn around and there is a small crowd of kids being hustled up to my side for a photo op.

Next thing I know I am being eased aside and I am standing next to Chaka Khan. She was promoting her foundation charitable organization.

Here she is with The Funk Brothers, the heart and soul of Motown Records.

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Rock and The Big Apple

Who in their right mind would go to “the rock” AND New York, New York on the same vacation. Ahem….
Talk about extremes…..BTW I’ll be off the grid for a few weeks.

Newfoundland (and Labrador – don’t you be forgettin’ Labrador now b’ye) Tourism Video
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The island of Newfoundland is a very unique place. One of its endearing qualities is its penchant of the ‘kitchen party’. Everyone gets into the music. Good times had by all.

Newfundland Music
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On the other end of the spectrum comes the music (industry) of NYC. Check out First We Take Manhattan  by Leonard Cohen.

Flip Side / L’autre coté

In North America the ‘flip side’ of English language recordings could be considered to be Spanish, French, Amerindian, or any one of numerous other local languages.

But to exclude them from your listening repetoire woud be unwise.

A huge amount of material exists in French, the bulk of it coming from Québec but also ‘Acadia’, Manitoba, Louisianna and others.

Immediately following the backward steps taken during “les années noires”, Québec entered what has been called the “Quiet Revolution”. It was a period of time during the 1960s when the people started to realize who they were – and what direction they wanted to go.
Musicians started recording songs aimed solely at the Quebec market in genres previously not explored in such detail. In this case, it wasn’t exactly quiet, in fact in the field of popular music, it became quite loud (and proud).
Les Miserables were one of those bands very popular in Québec during this short period of time in Québec’s history.
Great ‘garage sound’:
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More recently artists such as :

Daniel Bélanger – La folie en quatre – 1990s

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Alone Again

Solitary Man is a song wrtten and recorded by Neil Diamond. Some think this version by The Deep Six was the best.

The Deep Six – Solitary Man

1966

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Salut Marianne

A different version of So Long Marianne. One of my faves with the Munich audience and the pretentious and excellent violinst and superb backing vocals and wonderful sax and Leonard Cohen  directing the whole thing with his eyes.. YT keeps taking it down though. Pity.

Apparently, the woman above, sitting at LC’s typewriter, from the back cover of “Songs From a Room” , is  THE Marianne. Marianne Jensen (Ihlen).

So Long Marianne – Leonard Cohen – origially released 1968
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Saxcess

Sax sessions always catch my attention. It is a very cool instrument.
Most sax players wallow in saxual obscurity but some come out of the shadows to make a name for themselves. Bobby Keys, Jay Easton and Bleeding Gums Murphy come to mind of course.
The sax was invented by Adolphe Sax (honest) in the 1840s.

What follows are 4 sax songs – 1 very famous, 2 a little bit, 1 French sax. Superb!

D’abord : (the song starts at about 4 minutes if you wanna skip the bantor) – the sax is at the end and is well worth the wait (and don’t forget the 2nd sax encore).
France: Francis Cabrel – Encore et Encore – 1990s? (Sax by Michel Gaucher)

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Second – Canadian 80s band Martha and their Muffins  (both women were Marthas)…my job is very boring I’m an office clerk….

 

Canada: Martha and the Muffins – Echo Beach – 1980  – Andy Haas on tenor sax

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Newcastle: Dire Straits – Your Latest Trick- Nimes 1992 Chris White on sax

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I have this next song burned in my memory because I taped it off AM radio back in ‘71 and played it over and over. (That was our version of downloading).
I can even hear the into: From the City by the Shore. All hit music. All Summer long. WLS Chi ca go. 9:33 in the windy city on the J.J. Jeffery show to the opening riff of Brown Sugar. When I forget that I ‘ll talk to the Doc ’bout memory loss – but for now I guess I still got it.
BTW – A classic great sax song (Bobby Keys from Sticky Fingers). The best part about Sticky Fingers (besides the debate about who’s crotch was in the photo – not mine) is the story about the zipper. They used a real zipper on the first album releases but the metal latch caused problems denting the grooves of the vinyl so some smart shipper realized that if the fly was open, the latch would be on top of the label – not a problem. So that’s how they continued shipping them. I still have the “zipper sleeve” but someone stole the vinyl.

England: Brown Sugar – Rolling Stones - 1971

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