Music Lovers... 07-25...

The soundtrack is so awful for NO WAY OUT that i went out of my way to see who composed it and it was Maurice Jarre from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, only one of the greatest soundtracks EVER!

Saw SECRET SERVICE today at the OD.  Long live Dom & Craig!

Read my latest PHILLY POST at my web site.  It's all about Eminem's latest tune and I guess I pissed off a lot of Em's fans...

Music Lovers... 07-22...

Ultimate I-Pod - Ultimate Reply

Biggie,

First of all, I think it's pretty fucking cool that you went through your I-Pod and made the list.

I'm running through my itunes right now.  In response (I'm editing myself heavily here):

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is the choice here.  Bon Scott is the voice of AC/DC.

Beach Boys - Good selection.

Beatles - I knew that tune would make your list.  A lost classic.

Ben Folds - Good call.  The tone of the lyric is classic Ben Folds.

Really surprised Big Star didn't make your list.  You need the first two albums.

Cars - I wouldn't have argued with any song off the first album.  Classic.

No Cheap Trick????????

Chicago - Gotta go with Questions 67 & 68.  Majestic!  What a vocal.  Great bass line too.

Surprised CSN & Y doesn't make it, since you're in love with Neil Young.

Could have done better with Bowie.  Suffragette City!  C'mon.

Good call with ELO.  They are underrated and under appreciated.

Elvis Costello - You dropped the ball here.  Too obvious and not even written by Costello.  Could have picked three better songs off This Year's Model alone.

Never heard the Elvis tune.

Ever listen to Emitt Rhodes?  You should.

The most glaring omission on the entire list - FACES!!!  Rod Stewart could sing like a mother fucker back in the day, and these guys rocked harder than the Stones.  You must own A Nod is as Good as a Wink .... (1971).

I'm not going to argue with you on anything Sinatra related.

I don't own 15 of her songs, but I would have made an exception for Gladys Knight - Midnight Train to Georgia.  One of my favorite tunes - ever.

Familiar with Guided by Voices?

Daryl Hall is one of the best singers to come out of anywhere.  But I Can't Go for That is the call here.

Jackie Gleason, but no Jackson 5?!?!  Terrible.

Get Jeff Buckley's Live at Sin-e double disc.  You'll love it.  He does these beautiful covers of standards you'd know.  Voice and electric guitar in a NYC coffeeshop.

NO KISS?!?!?!?  - She's worth a DEUCE!

My band loves to mess around playing Communication Breakdown in rehearsals.  Zeppelin Rules!

Again, surprised about the lack of Michael Jackson.

The Move!  Nice call!!!  Totally underrated.  I Can Hear the Grass Grow.  Blackberry Way. California Man.  And my favorite ... TURKISH TRAM CONDUCTOR BLUES.  Heavy.

I wish someone would remaster and re-release Nazz Nazz.  Under the Ice and the rest of that album would sound even better.  Hang on Paul ain't bad neither.  Listen to Todd jam!

The New Radicals only released one album (1998) but it is SO GOOD.

Ever seen NIN live?  My girl loves them.  We went to see them in Philly at Wachovia a few years ago.  One of the best concerts I've ever been too.  The visuals were amazing.  And Reznor is a much better musician than I expected.

I used to really dig Oasis.  I don't even listen to them anymore.

Would have picked a tune from Outkast.

McCartney keeps releasing material and every cd has at least 3 good tunes on it.  I would have gone with Maybe I'm Amazed.

Is Paul Simon one of the top 5 American singer songwriters?  I say yes.

No Police?

Pretenders - Chrissie Hynde - The best - No arguments.

Prince is a Sexy MF.  How about that guitar solo he kicked out for While My Guitar Gently Weeps at some induction show.  Holy Shit! Youtube it.

Queen - Rhapsody - It is a work of art.  I play it once a year for my classes.  They love it.

I'll bet Debbie was pissed the Raspberries didn't make the cut.

The Stones - Sympathy is great for all your reasons.  I'd want Honky Tonk Women just so you get Richards and Mick Taylor on the same track.

I expected a Sam Cooke tune.  Another Saturday Night is just COOL.  Did Sinatra ever cover it?

Simon & Garfunkel - bet you caught a lot of grief for that selection.

I'm going Philly soul here - Spinners - Could it be I'm Falling in Love.  Could have been an Al Green tune.

No Spins Nightly???

STEELY DAN!!!!!!  Here's a band I keep coming back to.  Friggin' great!  Everything.  The tunes.  The lyrics.  The vocals.  The musicianship.  I wish more chicks were into them.  Kid Charlemagne is great, but so is everything else.  I'd need at least a dozen slots for these guys alone.

Speaking of ... Are you going to the A.C show in August?  Fagan, McDonald, Scaggs and Booker T.  I'm going with Neuman.

Stevie is easily in my All Time Top Ten.  Genius.  Didn't make a single mistake from 1972 - 1976.  Music of My Mind is fantastic.

The Temptations - How much pussy did those guys get? Damn.

You blew it here. Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town.  One of the best songs about being an asshole guy - ever.

Very strange Rundgren selection.  Give me something off The Ballad of Todd Rundgren like Wailing Wall or Hope I'm Around.  You did that on purpose.

You need to give The White Stripes a chance.  Jack White knows his shit.

I'm glad you picked a Who song that features Townshend's lead vocals.  I love hearing Townshend talk about music more than just about anyone.

I didn't know you were such a big Yes fan. I listened to them all the time when I started playing bass.  Chris Squire!  Saw them in concert a few years ago.  It was wonderfully bizarre.  The costumes.  The audience.  The dramatics.  The new lead singer.  Gotta tell you about it.  I go with Starship Trooper.


Let's get together for a listening session and argue about this!!!!!!!!!

Chuckster
 

Music Lovers... 07-18...

Seeing MR GREENGENES snd LECOMPT tonight.  Now THAT'S a doubleheader...

What exactly does one think of the MOODY BLUES?

Music Lovers... 07-13...

Marc Ribot is one awesome guitarist.  Check out his solo on Wait's DOWN IN THE HOLE...

Music Lovers... 07-10...

If this is possible, I have rediscovered Tom Waits again, and he is simply a unique American treasure.  Check out a "song" titled WHAT'S HE BUILDING IN THERE?

LONG LIVE THE BONZO DOG BAND.  Every human in the world should own their complete box set.  They are proof they are a god...

I like the new EMINEM single...

Music Lovers... 07-07...

We now live in a world with a 70 year old Beatle.  Happy Birthday, Ringo!

Music Lovers... 07-04...

Saw MR. GREENGENES cover the Verve's BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY and was reminded what a great song that is...

NO SURPRISES by RADIOHEAD is the greatest SONG EVER!

Music Lovers... 07-03...

If this is a "defense" of Phil Collins I'd hate to hear a put-down. The point you're essentially making is that aside from working on some interesting stuff by other artists in the 70's, and "In the Air Tonight," everything he ever did was crap. How is that a defense? Also, I would advise that you try to simplify your writing style to make your points more effectively. This piece is hard to follow and comes off as pretentious. As Tony Badgers says, this makes little sense gramatically or philosophically.(Read this anyway)

http://thequietus.com/articles/04335-phil-collins-genesis-brian-eno-john-lydon-peter-gabriel

Music Lovers... 06-21...

I love John Cale's voice...

Based on how long they have been dead and how much I play their music, I'm trying to figure out what dead musician I have listened to the most.  Who do you think it is?

Music Lovers... 06-13...

Music, music, music. It's only the most important thing in the world. Friday night, my wife and I head up the big Apple for the first time since I've been sick to check out the Loser's Lounge salute to Brian Wilson. The Loser's Lounge is a collection of NY session musicians who five times a year, rehearse 20 or so songs of a particular artist, then put on a show where they have 20 different singers sing one of those artist's songs.  It's way cool.  It's a tribute show without the costumes and with no one pretending to BE anybody. I've seen them salute Queen and Stevie Wonder, to name a few. You should check them out...

Saw Procol Harum last night.  Only lead singer and songwriter Gary Brooker was with the band, but his new backing musicians were excellent and he was in fine, fine voice.  Got to intro the band and meet Brooker, photo to come, hopefully...

Now it's Sunday and LECOMPT comes to town...

Music Lovers... 05-30...

If I'm up for it, I'm gonna head for the Springfield to see my boys LeCompt after my show tonight...

I don't remember if BE MY BABY by the RONETTES came out in the summer or not, but it sure IS one perfect summer song.

From Anthony Preziosi... West Deptford, NJ

It was released in August of 1963, so sure - why not!

Among the background singers was Darlene Love and Sonny & Cher.

Brian Wilson considers his song "Don't Worry Baby" (performed by The Beach Boys) to be the 'male answer' to this song. Purportedly, at one time, Wilson is said to have listened to the song in excess of 100 times a day.  Not hard to imagine, is it?

In her autobiography, lead vocalist Ronnie Spector relates that she was on tour with Joey Dee and the Starlighters when "Be My Baby" was introduced by Dick Clark on American Bandstand as the "Record of the Century."

As part of her divorce settlement with Phil, Ronnie Spector is not allowed to preform the song on TV.

Music Lovers... 05-27...

Jersey Shore time, which means LIVE MUSIC TIME!

Music Lovers... 05-22...

Does anyone know how Becker & Fagan wrote all those classic STEELY DAN songs.  Was one guy music, the other the words?  Or was it a mix?

Gary Numan's METAL just came on the shuffle.  What an awesome tune...

Music Lovers... 05-20...

3 songs from the "Rehab" Amy Winehouse CD came on the shuffle today.  You know what?  That was a great CD.  What a shame..

Watched this COLDPLAY concert on the tube and about approximately half of VIVA LA VIDA was actually performed live.  Why is it it seems that only the Britney's of the pop world get called on this shit?

Music Lovers... 05-15...

Jimmy Fallon's excellent week long salute to EXILE ON MAIN ST.  (An overrated record by the way and I'm a Stones guy) was capped off by a mildly interesting documentary on the making of that record.  The highlight of the night actually was Fallon trying to teach Jagger how to be more like Jagger during the intro to the show.   Really funny.  BTW, are the Stones the all-time masters of PR?   They always did interesting things to kick off tours and here they got Fallon to give over a whole night's worth of programming to a "making of" flick that could not have been interesting at all to anyone under 35 or so.  Best performance of the week?  KEITH URBAN SLAUGHTERS "TUMBLING DICE."  I know zero about Urban, but I'm sure gonna check him out now.

Music Lovers... 05-08...

Anyone wanna recommend a turntable to me, and not ridiculously expensive...

Music Lovers... 05-08...

Pick up a CD called TRANSFERENCE buy a band from Austin called SPOON...

Music Lovers... 05-06...

BW Checks in:

Speaking of Yoko- (aren't we always?)  it occurred to me that Linda McCartney, say what you will about her (and people always did, right?  They shredded her unfairly, mercilessly even, while always giving a pass to Y.O., if not praising her) NEVER RELEASED SONGS OR ALBUMS!

Then I thought, "Well, that's because she never had any bullshit or otherwise "artistic" inclination, BUT SHE DID!  She was a photographer- a rock photographer- maybe she released a coffee-table book of pictures she had taken, right?  I mean decades later? 

It also wasn't any exploitation of being married to the most famous ROCK GUY of all time, though- photos of the Stones and Hendrix are always cool right?- other people, NOT married to one of The Beatles, for goodness' sake, have released similar books.

She sang, to my knowledge, ONE song- "Cook of the House," on "Wings at the Speed of Sound," (which boasted "Let 'Em In," and "Silly Love Songs"- both of which I love, by the way, and consider underrated.  Listen to the super, punchy, bass on the latter, and the cool and spare, layered, production of both!)  "Cook of the House" is a fun sort of throw-away on a great album.  By the way- her background vocals, everywhere they exist, are just fine.

I have always maintained that Linda McCartney must have been super, super cool; her husband (who, despite being one of the most considered-written about, discussed, photographed-people in the history of Western Civilization, remains underrated) could have married anybody IN THE WORLD!!!

Music Lovers... 05-03...

Hey!  Check out a local band by the name of INCOGNITO.  They got a chick lead singer, Lisa White, who totally nails the famous female bridge part of GIMME SHELTER (originally sung by Merry Clayton) and THAT'S impressive!  Rest of the band extremely talented also...

Music Lovers... 05-02...

More people should play the trombone, OUT OF PRINCIPLE.

Music Lovers... 04-30...

Don't ask me why, but I can't stand this Green Day musical.  Now I have not seen it live, but I've seen 3 songs from it performed on TV now, and it just bothers me.  All of a sudden, some weird "punk purist" that I didn't even know was inside me comes put.  And I don't even look at Green Day as "punk" to begin with, I look at them as a power pop band with great hooks.  I hated The Who's TOMMY as a movie and a play also.  Somebody wanna explain to me why?

Music Lovers... 04-26...

I've been buying the new re-mastered Beatle CD's and as I have written before, they are amazing.  However, I've only been buying from RUBBER SOUL on.  I think the originally released early mono CD's have always sounded tremendous.  Well, a close friend of mine has the entire stereo box, so I borrowed it.  IT'S A DISGRACE!  You might as well just take the 13 discs out, put them up wherever you keep your CD's and throw the cheapo box away.  When you see what so many other artists in the Beatles artistic stratosphere have done with their various boxes, it just pisses me off.  The Beatles should have the most clever and practical and heavyweight box set of them all.  With amazing never seen before photo's and tons of liner notes.  You actually SAVE money if you buy them individually.  OK, you won't get the 40 minutes DVD which has absolutely nothing on it you have not seen before, big whoop.  BUY THE ONES YOU REALLY WANT AND STAY AWAY FROM THIS BOX!

Music Lovers... 04-24...

I know my Mom just died so I'm pretty vulnerable at the moment, but a song called MOTHER PRAY by Ben Harper and the Blind Boys of Alabama ripped my frickin' heart out.  For all you men out there who have lost your Mom, you MUST check it out.  And my Mom didn't even pray (at least not in front of me), but that's not the point of the song to me.  It's about just wanting to talk and see your Mom again...

Music Lovers... 04-20...

There is a documentary out called IT MIGHT GET LOUD starring Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White that's sensational.  Thanks to my man Jason from NFL Films for sending it to me.  BUY OR RENT IT TOMORROW

Will Elvis Costello ever lose that amazing voice?

Music Lovers... 04-17...

Thanks to Art for giving me Peter Wolf's latest.  No one writes songs about needing sex better.  OK, maybe Marvin Gaye did...

I have always thought Aimee Mann was overrated and a real stick in the mud.  (She's a LA singer in case you don't know who has had some mild success and is married to Sean Penn's very talented singer/songwriter brother, Michael.)  Weird, though, I don't think Sean has ever used his brother's work in any of the films he has directed like he has used Eddie Vedder.    ANYWHO, for some bizarre reason Mann felt compelled to twitter on how little she thought of rapper Ice-T's acting.  Well, Mr. Ice responded by being quoted telling Aimee to "go eat a bowl of hot dicks."  NOT THAT'S FUNNY!

Download the Doughboys take on the moody Blues classic, TUESDAY AFTERNOON.  It rocks...

Music Lovers... 04-13...

Hey, if you are a jazz buff, and I'm not, check out an OK flick PARIS BLUES.  Paul Newman plays an up and coming American jazz trombonist in the 50's who's living and performing in Paris.  Louis Armstrong,  playing himself, is also in Paris performing at a big concert hall and he decides to drop in on Newman's club for a jam and what follows is one of the most exciting musical moments ever captured on film...

Music Lovers... 04-07...

Just finished up listening to every Doors song ever made in 5.1 surround sound and wow!  Packaging, however, is extremely stupid. The new re-mastered ABBEY ROAD blew me away also...

1. Peter Gabriel: Don't Give Up  is flat out an awesome tune and a bit of a lost treasure. Don't hear it very much. Personally would have gone with Gabriel's live version of Biko, really powerful.
2. Neil Young: After years of mocking my old roommate in college for being a Young fan I've only recently really gotten into him. Amazing writer. Still love Harvest Moon the best though. Boy was anyone able to cover all bases musically like Young ever? From Rockin In The Free World to Thrasher to Needel and the Damage Done to Hey Hey My My, wow.
3. Otis Redding: Love Man does bring it, "Six feet one weigh two hundred and ten... " . I'm still hooked on his version of "Try A Little Tenderness" ever since I saw Jon Cryer lip sync it in the John Hughes movie "Pretty in Pink". Although Jimmy Durante does a helluva version of it too.
4. Moody Blues: Go Now isn't bad but how about a little love for Forever Autumn by them? (Although technically it may be a Justin Heyward solo song) beautiful tune.

Music Lovers... 04-05...

I have  no problem with rap, but the opening to tonight's Butler game was just ridiculous...

Music Lovers... 04-03...

This Tony Bramwell Beatles book just keeps getting better and better.  Yoko Ono has just entered the book and he paints her as a total fraud and bitch who ruins everything.  Which is EXACTLY what I always thought of her...

Music Lovers... 04-01...

Subject: For Music Lovers - Beatles version

If I ever make a film, The Beatles' "Flying" will be the music over the closing credits.  And why hasn't anybody else thought of that?

I love the beginning of "Blue Jay Way" where you can hear the Leslie spinning.  And I like the old mono version better without the background vocals in between the verses and the backward background music.  Simple is usually best.

Am I the only person who remembers the piccolo trumpet ending to "Penny Lane" that shows up on the old Rarities album?  I remember hearing it on the radio as a kid and wondered where it went when I bought the 45.  Turns out it was a test pressing that was sent to radio stations and later replaced with the more popular version.

We sat for hours spinning records backward listening for the "Paul is dead" clues.  I miss not being able to do that and the mystery that came with vinyl LPs but I don't miss the noise that vinyl makes.  I do, however, miss liner notes and album art.

I also remember a TV show that was aired on one of the old UHF stations where F. Lee Bailey, in a courtroom setting, grilled people on a witness stand with questions about McCartney being dead.  I wonder if it's on YouTube?

I was part of the crowd down at the old Channel 6 studio parking lot in 1975 when John Lennon showed up to do the weather on Larry Kane's broadcast.

John was in the parking lot signing autographs.  He was collecting money for a charity, with most people giving him a dollar for his signature (it was 1975!)  He playfully mocked the "cheapness" of the donations, and when it was my turn I reached into my pocket for $2, to which Lennon screamed, "That's more like it!"

I still have the autograph, in its original mint condition, as part of a book of Beatles photographs from the "Let it Be" sessions called Get Back, as well as some old Instamatic photos of John and the crowd.

That is on YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBZHs9JZvdI

I had the "I Want to Hold Your Hand" picture-sleeve 45 when I was 7 years old, and unable to distinguish between the four of them, I wrote their names on the cover.  Funny how we thought their hair was long in 1964 and even funnier that I couldn't tell them apart.

Here's something you may not have known (because I didn't):

"Love Me Do" was recorded by The Beatles on different occasions with three different drummers:

• The Beatles first recorded it on 6 June 1962 with Pete Best on drums, as part of their audition at EMI Studios at 3 Abbey Road, London. This version (previously thought to be lost) is available on Anthology 1.
• By 4 September, Best had been replaced with Ringo Starr and on that day The Beatles with Starr recorded a version again at EMI Studios.
• One week later, on 11 September, The Beatles returned to the same studio and they made a recording with session drummer Andy White on drums while Starr played tambourine. As the tambourine was not included on the 4 September recording, this is the easiest way to distinguish between the Starr and White recordings.

SOME FAVORITE BEATLES COVERS:

• "Here Comes the Sun"  Richie Havens (strikingly simple - and I do like simple)
• "Every Little Thing"  Yes  (including a little "Day Tripper" riff during the intro by Peter Banks)
• "I Want to Tell You"   Ted Nugent
• "Across the Universe"   Fiona Apple
• "Come Together"   Michael Hedges  (sorry, Big Daddy, but Hedges was the most amazing person ever with a guitar in his hands)
• "I'm Down"   Adrian Belew

Anthony Preziosi ~ West Deptford, NJ

Music Lovers... 03-31...

Went to TUNES, my fav record store in the world and picked up yet another DOORS collection.  This one has their entire catalogue remastered in 5.1 surround.   Who knows how many hundreds of dollars I have spent on the Doors over the years?   Rebuying and rebuying.  All of it worth it.  I LOVE THE DOORS...

Saw BAD COMPANY on some live concert filmed only a year ago and Paul Rodgers voice just blew me away...

Music Lovers... 03-30...

It's a shame that WWII had to occur during the forties because I love everything else about them.  And I wasn't even born.  Big Bands rocking out on rooftops throughout Manhattan.  How cool was that?

NO ACTION is one great Elvis Costello song, then again. so is WHITE SHADOW by Peter Gabriel...

Music Lovers... 03-28...Ever hear the story about Brian Epstein and how he first heard about The Beatles?  He owned a record store in Liverpool and this kid came in asking for this song that the Beatles were on.  (They were already causing a ruckus in the clubs)  Well, Epstein did some research and it led to him eventually managing the band.  This book, MAGICAL MYSTERY TOURS by Tony Bramwell actually has the name of the kid who asked for the record that day back in late '61.   Raymond Jones was his name.  Now that's research!

Really digging on a band (not they're new) called FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE...

Reading  a Beatle book that Dom Irrera recommended to Spins, who then gave it to me called MAGICAL MYSTERY TOURS.  This must be the 78th Beatle book I have read and I still can't stop...

Music Lovers... 03-26...

I never heard THE TRAVELING WILBURY'S "SHE'S MY BABY" to this week.  What a fun, dirty song!  Hard to believe that 2 of those greats (Harrison & Orbison are gone)

Been listening to a ton of PROCOL HARUM.  What a band...

Music Lovers... 03-04...

How is YES not in the RRHOF?  And have there ever been better lyrics then the words to the OJAYS’ "LOVE TRAIN?"  Google them and read them.  Like the song says "it don't cost no ticket!"

Rich Primo chimes in:

Why I dislike the Supremes

Because Berry Gordy was bangin' Diana Ross, she got all the best songs, while a couple of superior groups were given the "leftovers" and STILL had many hits. Also, Mary Wells (the first and best of them all) dropped 5 monster hits before telling Berry to kiss her black ass and pay up or get sued (which she did, and won). Diana Ross was stylish, I'll admit, but any of these would have been mega-stars with Gordy's hand-picked charity material.

Here are a couple of partial reviews on the Velvelettes (I know, WHO?), also - below is a one-line quote about the Marvelettes (a MUCH better group than the Supremes). Shit... Martha Reeves and the Vandellas were better as well. The Motown fans below agree with me, and we're not a minority on this. BTW... The Supremes were at Motown almost 3 years without a hit, until Gordy started "doin' Diana"... you can look it up.

PBS was doing a pledge drive with all Motown and I caught the Velvelettes. I vaguely remember them but now I wish I had spent more time listening to the Velvelettes than the glitzy Supremes. I was so impressed by watching them on the PBS special now I try to catch it in rerun. (The way they were just moving on the stage and I thought "my god these ladies have class and style and talent and they are still going at it after all these years). It is too bad that now 40 years later they are being recognized for talent but late is better than never.

How sad is it that a "Best Of" album of songs recorded in the early-to-mid sixties wasn't released until 1999? Sad, I suspect, if you happened to be a Velvelette, and sad, you'll discover, if you are a Motown fan. There is some powerful stuff on this CD. I'll avoid putting it as crudely and as succinctly as I'd like, and resort to "these girls have testosterone." While the Supremes were all glitz, airiness, and smoothness, the Velvelettes are soulful, powerful, grounded, and solid.

This is a simple one: The Marvelettes have a far better single disc collection than the more famous Supremes.

I'll burn you a few CD's if you want to really "hear" the truth in what I say.

Music Lovers... 02-20...

Anyone have any LP's they just wanna get out of the house?

Mary J. Blige can really sing...

Music Lovers... 02-10...

Look, I wasn't for booking the Who at the SB.  However, enough with the bashing, OK?  That's still Townshend up on that stage, one of the greatest songwriters and guitarists EVER.  So, SHUDDUP!   I took a poll on who next years halftime act should be and BLACK EYED PEAS got the most votes and I agree with that....

As I write this, I'm listening to Van's SCANDINAVIA.  Talk about a unique instrumental, eh?

Music Lovers... 02-07...

Does anyone know why the Beatles LP REVOLVER is called REVOLVER?
 
The title "Revolver", like "Rubber Soul" before it, is a pun, referring both to a kind of handgun as well as the "revolving" motion of the record as it is played on a turntable. The Beatles had a difficult time coming up with this title.
According to Barry Miles in his book Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, the title that the four had originally wanted was Abracadabra, until they discovered that another band had already used it.  After that, opinion split: Lennon wanted to call it Four Sides of the Eternal Triangle and Starr jokingly suggested After Geography, playing on The Rolling Stones' recently released Aftermath LP.
Other suggestions included Magical Circles, Beatles on Safari, Pendulum, and finally, Revolver, whose wordplay was the one that all four agreed upon.
The title was chosen while the band were on tour in Japan in June–July 1966. Due to security measures, they spent much of their time in their Tokyo Hilton hotel room; the name Revolver was selected as all four collaborated on a large psychedelic painting.
 
Anthony Preziosi
West Deptford, NJ
 

Music Lovers... 02-02...

DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW ANYONE WHO FIXES STEREO EQUIPMENT?  SPEAKERS, OLD CONSOLES, THE KIND WITH THE RADIO AND TURNTABLE BUILT IN?  HELP!

GRAMMY  REPORT... That aerial stunt Pink did was amazing.   I'm not gonna take anything away from that cause I'm a big fan of Pink.  HOWEVER, I would rather her do that stunt in an intro to a song, or in the middle of it, not while singing.  I think it takes away from the lyric.  I feel that way strongly about many of these artists at award shows.  Gussy it up all you want as long as it doesn't take away from the song... Taylor Swift was just awful... I remember when GREEN DAY pawned itself off as a punk band, now they are a Broadway show? Love that song YOU & ME that Dave Matthews sang.   I am not a big fan, but I think I might become one.  We'll see... The Jackson tribute was a joke .  That whole family (with maybe the exception of Janet) is.... The Jeff Beck tribute to Les Paul was right on the money... The constant "bleeping" of various rappers was silly.  Grow up!  Everyone has HBO.  We know what a curse word sounds like... And they didn't forget Sam Butera (the sax player that Louis Prima shouts "Sammy!" to on WHEN YOU'RE SMILING which my listeners know very well) when they saluted the musicians who have passed on!   Now that made my night!

Music Lovers... 02-01...

For those of you who enjoyed the Grammy Awards this year, congratulations.  I haven't watched the show since 1973.  As Glen Macnow would say, "They're a sham of a fraud."
What happened in 1973?  Roberta Flack's version of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (written in 1957 and appeared on Flack's "First Take" album in 1969) won both Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the 15th annual awards show.  What song did it beat out?  A little something called "American Pie" by Don McLean.  That's right.  Since then, I haven't had time for an awards show that doesn't seem interested in awarding the best music.  I can hold a grudge like Khomeini.
I still remember McLean singing "Vincent" at the awards show with the look of a guy who just got punched in the stomach.  I'm sure he had a nice acceptance speech written.
I figured that if it was really deserving of a Best Song award, it would have won either in 1957 or 1969. Why was it winning now? Roberta Flack is a pretty good singer, but DAMN - over "American Pie"? It's the landmark song of its time. I figured that the media was pissed at Don McLean because he would never tell people what all the references meant, and they were giving him the shaft by not giving him the award.
 
Among others:
"Abbey Road" lost best album of 1970 to "Blood, Sweat and Tears."  Simon and Garfunkel's "Bookends" and "Magical Mystery Tour" lost best album to Glen Campbell's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix."  I could go on.
 
Generally, the Grammy's are the politically correct version of music awards.  Nothing I listened to in the 1960s and 70s won any awards, and most all of it wasn't even nominated.  They should just call the show what it is: The Popular Music Awards.  These are the same people who thought Jethro Tull was "Heavy Metal" and created a category called "Alternative Music", and didn't put any alternative music artists in it.  If they're popular enough to be nominated for a Grammy, they aren't alternative.
 
I came of age during the so-called "progressive rock" era of the early 1970s, and my favorite musicians were bands like Gentle Giant, Focus, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson and Manfred Mann's Earth Band. They were acquired tastes, and the music was challenging to listen to, but to me, that made it so much better.  Look up their Grammy Awards.  Never mind.
 
It is harder to find music now that challenges the listener.  Instead, we are given TV show pop.  Contest winners that, in my opinion, are pre-determined in order to better sell CDs - by the same marketing machine that produces the TV shows.  Music isn't about challenge anymore.  Now, it's about marketing and who has the best face to put on the music.  Ian Anderson's face couldn't sell 10 CDs now, and he'd probably be kicked offAmerican Idol because he plays the flute.
 
So, the music industry patted itself on the back once again on Sunday night, and the buzz was over Lady Gaga, Pink, Beyoncé and a lot of artists that look good in tights.  Meanwhile, Kings of Leon won an award and Dan DeLuca of the Inquirer called them a "surprise winner."  Why?  Because maybe four brothers from Nashville wouldn't stand a chance on a TV talent show, with Caleb Followill's strange singing style.
It's different - and Grammy doesn't always like different.
 
Anthony Preziosi
West Deptford, NJ
 

Music Lovers... 01/31...

Picked up on the remastered RUBBER SOUL and REVOLVER today.  Can't wait to hear them...

Music Lovers... 01-25...

Check out one of Philly’s hottest bands... THE RETREADS.... Every Monday night at Gallucio's in Wilmington... and coming to TOm & Jerry’s on February 11 and March 11....

Music Lovers... 01-23...

What a night!  Opened for my 13th Rock and Roll Hall of Famer last night at the  intimate, terrific Dennis Flyer Theatre in Blackwood.  Felix Cavaliere and the The Young Rascals were a major part of my growing up hanging at the Himalaya on Hunt's Pier in Wildwood.  Legendary tunes such as GOOD LOVING, HOW CAN I BE SURE (One of the great songs written by ANYBODY), IT'S A BEAUTIFUL MORNING, GROOVIN', were ALWAYS playing.  His voice was RIGHT ON.  He hit every note there was to hit and played the hell out of the Hammond B3.  We went to a "meet & greet" together and hung around for about 40 minutes before the show and what a nice guy with great stories.

I brought his first solo record for him to sign, which was produced by Todd Rundgren, and he told some Todd stories.  So I told him my tale that involved my boy Brian, who now lives out in LA.  Back in high school, a nervous Brian approached Todd at a sound check and said "Hey, Todd, can I have your autograph or what"  and with great disdain Todd replied, "Or what?" and walked away. Felix completely lost it, laughing hysterically.

Did you know that Felix was responsible in a way for Steve Van Zandt getting the role of Silvio on THE SOPRANOS?  It was Steve who inducted Felix into the Hall of Fame.  SOPRANOS creator David Chase was in the audience and listening to Steve went "hmmm."  Steve still had to audition, but before that night Chase never even thought of Van Zandt. 

One more thing.  I asked Felix what he thought of the Grateful Dead's version of GOOD LOVING (Which I loathe).  He looked at me, shrugged his shoulders and went "Eh . . . .  white guys."

Music Lovers... 01-17...

Music never lets you down.... Check out this cool blog from Anthony in West Deptford... http://my-sick.blogspot.com/2010/01/sad-state-of-affairs.html

Music Lovers... 01-11...

Thanks to Richie Primo for lending me the new GET YOUR YA-YA'S OUT box set.  I didn't think there was enough new stuff on it to justify me buying it, but if you are a Stones freak, you GOTTA have it. It comes with the original concert remastered, another CD with B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner's opening sets and another CD with five songs on it that weren't on the original (Why they just couldn't put them on the original concert CD is beyond me).  Then they give you those five songs with some documentary stuff on a DVD(Again, why hasn't the ENTIRE concert been released on DVD?). But I'll take what I can get, SATISFACTION is awesome, and there's a great moment with Keith playing a solo blues piano number in a hotel somewhere)  If that's not enough, they give you ALL of the Stones tracks on VINYL also... But the real star is the packaging.  Great HUGE photo's that I had never seen before and terrific liner notes.  IT'S A MUST FOR STONES NUTS...

Elvis P. movies really blow... Speaking of Elvis, Mary Louise Parker (who I ordinarily dig) was awful interviewing Elvis C. on his TV show...

Music Lovers... 01-09...

Continuing on with the Ultimate Playlist, Fiona Apple is next up.  I have 24 Fiona tunes on my I-Pod.  The first one to guess what one Fiona song will make it to the playlist will win a pair of tickets to see me in Sellersville.  (info below)  I will announce what Fiona song makes it at 4:50 AM on Tuesday morning.

Music Lovers... 01-08...

Going up NY on Sunday to see Eddie Bruce...

My wife is taking guitar lessons, isn't that cool?

Love XM radio...

Music Lovers... 01-04...

Picked up THE COMPLETE MERCURY YEARS OF ROD STEWART.  Boy, was he fantastic then...

Music Lovers... 01-02...

Anyone out there remember a band named SPIRIT?  Boy, does their music hold up...

I love the music string bands create.  I love a party as much as the next drunken idiot, but the numero uno reason I have always loved the Mummers Parade is the music...

Music Lovers... 12-29...

The Killers DVD is killer! Sinatra's NY box set has enough cool stuff to  buy it... The new re-mastered Beatles White Album is ABSOLUTELY worth it...

Love RATITUDE by Weezer and I thought both their performances on Letterman were terrific.  BTW, hope you saw Darlene Love on Dave.  She blows me away every year.  Deb and I saw her do her Xmas show up NY one December and I don't know why she has stopped performing it...

Music Lovers... 12-20...

Will someone please tell Elvis Costello he's a horrible electric guitar player?

Music Lovers... 12-19...

It's a three way tie.  The 3 Greatest Christmas Albums of All time are  (Alphabetical order)

Charlie Brown's Christmas
Phil Spector's Christmas
Stevie Wonder -Someday At Christmas

I'm not big on WORST lists, but someone asked me what the worst holiday records are of all time and with some help from you all, here they are...

10. AULD LANG SYNE... What the hell does it mean?
9.  FROSTY THE SMOWMAN... Beach Boys.   Yet, they have one of the greatest with LITTLE ST NICK
8.  LITTLE DRUMMER BOY... Harry Simone Choir. Hate those "rump-a bump-bumps!"
7.  CHRISTMAS CONGA... Cyndi Lauper. "Yeah, I know what hasn't been done yet, a Christmas conga!"  YEAH, FOR GOOD REASON!
6.  SLEIGH RIDE... FERRANTE & TEACHER. The epitome of elevator music that gives Christmas music a bad rap.
5.  SILENT NIGHT... KORN
4.  DOMINICK THE ITALIAN CHRISTMAS DONKEY... Lou Monte. And I love EVERYTHING Italian. Their food, women,               music, but not this atrocity.
3.  JINGLE BELLS... BARBRA STREISAND. Go ahead, youtube it.
2.  GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER... Elmo & Patsy. "nuf said.
1.  SIMPLY HAVING A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIME... Paul McCartney. And to think he's written dozens and dozens of the amazing songs EVER.  He must have been out of pot when he wrote this one.

Music Lovers... 12-14...

Don't miss The Edge and Bono on Elvis Costello's show, it's fantastic...

Music Lovers... 11/29...

Remember a song called NO MYTH by MICHAEL PENN?  Terrific song from a guy who appeared at one time was gonna be a star...

Not that it bothers me, but I never would have thunk back in '79 that Joe Jackson's ONE MORE TIME would have been used for a commercial.

Music Lovers... 11/21...

Love the new Weezer Cd and thanks to Ronald Begley for turning me on to Kenny Wayne Shepherd's version of a Dylan song called EVERYTHING IS BROKEN...

Music Lovers... 11/15...

Just went to a very cool venue to see a show... the Auction House in Audubon, NJ . Caught a very tight new band  there called  Drive Thru Blues  last Saturday night (Click on the name to hear them). April Chimes is their singer, and boy is she terrific! And their keys guy did a killer version of Ray Charles’ Unchain My Heart. You can catch them this Saturday night 11/21 at Pinsetters in Pennsauken NJ.

Music Lovers... 11/13...

Is there a band with a stranger legacy that BLIND FAITH?

Music Lovers... 11/11...

Has there ever been a more unique sound that NIN? ... Weezer was fantastic on Letterman...

Music Lovers... 11/06...

ELO is underrated...

Music Lovers... 11/01...

Have decided not to buy the new Beatles box.  Like all the Beatles multiple CD sets, the packaging is lame.  So I picked up the new version of PEPPER and I can't say I hear any difference in the sound quality.  Frankly, I think the sound of the Beatles catalogue has been terrific from the beginning.  Do like the soft cover, however.  As you know I loathe jewel cases...

Music Lovers... 10/18...

Hey Big Daddy!
 
As you know, I volunteer at a homeless shelter on L.A.’s infamous Skid Row one day a week because I am rich and I feel guilty about it.  There isn’t a huge staff at this place so I end up doing anything that needs to be done: handing out sack lunches, cleaning, a lot of maintenance and painting; I am even in charge of the library!  Often I find myself upstairs in one of the offices, helping out with tasks of a more clerical, or managerial, stripe.  [When I do work upstairs, I steal lots of office supplies: legal pads, pens (by the box!) Post-It notes, etc.  I don’t even really need them.  I ask you: Is there anything more satisfying?]
 
Because this shelter is a branch of a worldwide charitable Society, my experiences there can take on a far-reaching scope, which is how I found myself on the phone last week to our “branch” in Estonia (I had to look up Estonia on the web!) asking why- get this- they had returned a shipment of 100% cotton tee-shirts, one-thousand of them to be exact (250 Small, 250 Medium, etc.) at the cost of many, many Kroon. 
According to the enclosed letter, there was something wrong with them: “Sherts is no good; God deliver you,” went the missive, written in brown crayon (I read at Encyclopedia Estonnica.com that in Estonia, crayons are manufactured from potatoes and blood.  Weird!) 
[Also from my web research: “God deliver you” is not quite the grave pronouncement we would consider it.  In full, the phrase ends with “from Stalin.” (Never uttered aloud but understood and dreaded by all- it’s been 56 years since he died but the good Estonians have yet to exhale; they are afraid to believe it.)  It is an all-purpose salutation, akin to “S’up, Homie?!!” in Mullica Hill, NJ]
 
Anyway Big Daddy, this scenario was not without precedent; often clothes and goods are donated from manufacturers or distributors solely because they are factory rejects.  Polo shirts on which the buttons are sewn slightly crooked do not pass quality control and cannot be sold, but will still be warm for poor folks.  These slight imperfections and the fact that donating these factory rejects will be a tax write-off do not diminish the generosity of these donations, or of the benefits they will bestow upon our “Fellow passengers to the grave,” as Dickens put it.
 
Anyway, I call the contact number (Estonia is 10 hours ahead of the west coast here. Ibid.) and get this seemingly nice dude named Heino, and I ask him what was wrong with the shirts.  Here is the conversation, after the opening niceties: (Slow going, Bro; I insisted on speaking Estonian using my English to Estonian website.)
 
Heino: Täname väga sõbralikult, kuid ükski lugupidamatus ette, saate aru, miks on Ray Manzarak ees ja keskel?
 
(Thank you for your great kindness, but, no disrespect intended, you understand, why is Ray Manzarak front and center?)
 
“Wha?” thinks I, as I slice the tape, open one of these boxes, and for the first time, behold one of these shirts:
 
 
 
Big Daddy I was stupefied - have you ever seen the like?  With no slight chagrin, I sputtered out a (slow) response:
 
Me: Oh, ma ei tea-ma ei tea, ei lugupidamatus võtta-ma tean täpselt mida sa mõtlesid. Vabandust ...
 
(Oh man- I didn't know- I don't know; no disrespect taken- I know exactly what you mean.  I'm sorry...)
 
Then Heino spits this out:
 
Heino: Äkki te saaksite saata meile tuhat kuninganna plakatid featuring John Deacon, mille Freddie Mercury viis, kuidas tausta, võibolla painutamine üle siduda oma kinga?
 
I wasn’t able to translate it then but did later:
 
(Maybe you could send us a thousand Queen posters featuring John Deacon, with Freddie Mercury way, way in the background, maybe bending over to tie his shoe?)
 
Youch, right?  Anyway, he wearily switched to English before our connection went pear-shaped:
 
Heino: “How came this to be?”
 
“How came this to be?” Indeed!  Could some rock tee-shirt designer have accidentally grabbed the wrong photo, from the “discard” pile, with no one, all through the various stages of production, noticing?  (“Bumstead, you’re fired!”)  Doubtful! 
So- here’s my theory, B.D.G.: I am convinced that (Other) Brother Ray commissioned them himself!  Methinks he hath overestimated the market for them.  I submit that with no disrespect. 
In fact, I have nothing but kind words for Mr. Manzarak, who is somewhat of a business partner of mine, if you will: Shortly after I read No One Here Gets Out Alive, in 1980, I shrewdly trade-marked this sentence: “Jim was a shaman.”  I receive “an undisclosed amount” every time he says it.  In perpetuity.  Due to the great frequency with which he utters it, (every single interview he’s given since 1971) I am a gentlemen of some means.  (I’ll say this, Big Daddy, at the risk of alienating my largely working-class fan base: R.M. has paid my mortgage for decades!  “God deliver him!” I say!)
 
Oh my brother- anyway, for a week now we’ve been trying to give away 999 (I stole one) 100% cotton Ray Manzarak tee-shirts to homeless folks at our shelter on Skid Row, and there are no takers.  None!  I think it’s heartening that despite having nothing, these good people (in L.A., in Estonia, maybe all over the world?) still haven’t relinquished the sense of what’s right, and what is not quite right.
My idea: this week we will be handing out lunches not in paper bags, but rolled up in these “Doors” tee-shirts.
 
Come on out and get one Big Daddy!  When are you going to move here?
“The west is the best; Get here, and we'll do the rest!”
S’up, Homie?!!
 
Bri-Fi, Skid Row, Los Angeles
 

Music Lovers... 10/11...

Digging on a folkie kind of a band (which is unusual for me) called the Avnet Brothers...

Music Lovers... 10/03...

BB King is such an underrated singer!

Thanks to everyone who cane out to Tunes in Voorhees.  What a great music and movie store.  Vinyl is really making a comeback.  And Mike LeCompt didn't fuck around.  He played his heart out.  He's an amazing talent... Listening to I FEEL FREE by Cream as I type this.  Great tune that THE SOPRANOS used once...

Music Lovers... 09/29...

Digging on a band called MUSE . . .

Here’s an ULTIMATE PLAYLIST from Ron Begely

Al Green     Let's Stay Together
Albert Collins   Don't Lose Your Cool
Allman Brothers   In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
Aretha Franklin   Spirit In The Dark
Atlanta Rhythm Section   Another Man's Woman
Average White Band   Work To Do
B.B. King   The Thrill Is Gone
The Band   Chest Fever
The Beach Boys   Long Promised Road
The Beatles   Day Tripper
Bill Evans   Waltz For Debby
Billy Joel   The Ballad Of Billy The Kid
Blood, Sweat and Tears   I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
Bob Dylan   Everything Is Broken
Bob Seger   Still The Same
Boz Scaggs   Loan Me A Dime
Bruce Hornsby   Fortunate Son/Comfortably Numb
Bruce Springsteen   Meeting Across The River
Buddy Guy   Remembering Stevie
The Byrds   Eight Miles High
 

Music Lovers... 09/22...

Check out a band called KITTY, DAISY & LEWIS...

Music Lovers... 09/17...

Big Daddy,

The ultimate playlist is a stroke of genius! Can't wait to go through my ipod and do one myself. I get up at 5 to do a Platoon workout at the top of the Art Museum steps at 5:45 and I've taken to setting the alarm a few minutes earlier just to hear your pick each day.

The Barry White pick is dead on, like the B-52s one also (although "Dance This Mess Around" would also be in the running) . But Big Daddy come ON with this Beach Boys pick! I'm lying there in bed thinking "ok, he's a lifetime shore guy like me it's gotta be something like "Warmth of the Sun" or "All Summer Long" or "God Only Knows" " but Girls on the Beach? Besides the three I just mentioned, I submit:

1. "Disney Girls"
2. "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
3. "Don't Worry Baby"
4. "When I Grow Up (to be a man)
5. "Little Deuce Coupe"

My two cents worth brother. Keep up the good work, looking forward to the rest of the list.

Patrick McCrystal

From: graahound@*****.com

For what's it's worth, Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" & "Porgy & Bess" are very good.   Though "Porgy" is more on the extreme mellow side.   My two pennies.

And... Bri-Fi chimes in:

Hey Big Daddy:

This is a five-star week because Porcupine Tree, the best band in the world, released a new album.  It is called "The Incident," and it is predictably fantastic, as are all of their albums.  As is anything that features Steven Wilson, the songwriter/singer/guitar player; he has several side bands, is a producer, and released his own solo album earlier this year.   "The Incident" is a double record, and the first song is 55 minutes long.  PROGTASTIC!

Here is what Porcupine Tree sound like: intelligent, ethereal and spacey, with fantastic melodies, gorgeous and evocative vocals, and inventive guitar playing that rocks like the end of the world sometimes, yet delicate and accoustic elsewhere.  In a word, it, and they, are magnificent- like Pink Floyd were that one afternoon.
Frustratingly, I got the album using an iTunes gift card (Do you even know HOW to pay for music you get over the computer?) and I cannot HOLD the (presumably) "GATEFOLD" (double-album) cover in my hands! 

I maintain, as you know, that the "album cover" (I am 46 years old) is AS IMPORTANT AS THE MUSIC IT CONTAINS, especially in the genre of PROG-rock.  (This is why the White Album is, at the end of the day, a second-rate record.)

Additionally, I imagine that Roger Dean did not paint this cover painting.  (St. Augustine cautions us to never forget that this world isn't perfect.)

Anyway Big Daddy, you won't like like Porcupine Tree because ethey sound as different as you can get from a New Jersey bar band, but I implore your listeners to race out and get it!

I have to get back to my headphones- talk to you soon Bro!

Bri-Fi, from the City of Angels

Music Lovers... 09/10...

I loved the book EXODUS, but it's just an awful movie. Great score by Ernest gold, though (who also did MAD WORLD).

Hate to say it, but my man George Jones was just awful on Letterman last night...

Just heard Paul Simon's demo of BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER for the first time and no wonder he gave it to Garfunkel.  I've never even been a huge fan of Art, but boy did he nail this classic...

JOHNNY GUITAR is so stupid.  How did it ever get this "classic" status?

Starting a new bit this week where I am going to go though my Ipod with my producer Adam's I-Pod and here's how it's gonna work.  I'm gonna start at the letter A and every time I see an artist where who has a minimum of 15 songs, I am going to have to pick ONE AND JUST ONE of these awesome songs and when we are done (and I do mean WE because I will post many of your selections also) we will have created:

THE ULTIMATE PLAYLIST!

Music Lovers... 09/04...

I'm gonna be a giant sucker and buy the Beatles box. They say it's all gonna be re-mastered, but I think the CD's I have now sound great...

For some reason I'm on a Simon & Garfunkel kick and THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NY is... like the greatest song by anybody ever!  So I look up who played bass on the tune and it's the legendary Joe Osborn of the Wrecking Crew. I'm doing this while my wife is watching season one of TRUE BLOOD.  The two of us happen to mention that we're not big fans of Louisiana (though we've never been there) and it turns out that's where Osborn is from.  He's still alive, so I look up Hal Blaine who drummed on the cut and he's still kicking.  So I decide to look up all the musicians who played on the song and they are all still alive except for organist Larry Knechtel who died the day before!  Too weird for me.

Music Lovers... 09/02...

Was having a real bad day and WATERLOO SUNSET came on by the Kinks and my mood completely changed.  Music!  It's the best!

Music Lovers... 08/23...

Discovered an acoustic version of U2's STUCK IN A MOMENT THAT YOU CAN'T GET OUT OF that's excellent.  U2 seems to have a million remixes out there.  Anyone out there have them?  I would love to get them in my I-Pod...

Music Lovers... 08/20...

More from Bri-Fi:

Dear Big Daddy,

Regarding Anthony P. from West Deptford’s neat and challenging category:  I agree completely with him regarding the first 2 Pretenders albums, but I must respectfully disagree about Cheap Trick.  I consider "In Color" (their 2nd) and "Heaven Tonight" (3rd) to be their best "back-to-back" (although I realize that doesn't fit the criterion.)  I also hold both in my Top Ten Best of All Time.  (Actually, now that I think about "Live at Budokan," their 4th release, I must reconsider.)  Criminally underrated, all!

May I offer something that many of those 1-2 knockout albums have in common; tell me if I'm wrong- they are ALL great 1st albums followed by 2nd albums that are very similar, if not extremely similar.   Hypothesis: often bands are signed with a hatful of songs they have honed for a while, and only half of them make it onto their debut record; bits, riffs and whole songs from the same well remain, and are recorded for the follow-up.  Do you agree?  This is not a criticism- I offer as evidence of excellence every record on Anthony P’s list.

Additionally, all these bands eschewed the precious loved-by-critics posturing of, "Oh, when it came time to make our second record, we didn't want to make (Debut Album) Part II- that would've been too easy; we wanted to (sniff, sniff, cough) challenge ourselves and our fans..."  Tell me that the mission statement of the wonderful Van Halen II (or Zep II, Pretenders II, Pearl Jam's "Vs." etc.) wasn't, "Did you like that?  Here's MORE!" 

Sometimes the second album is more of the excellent same only slightly different but better altogether.  This is the case (Hyperbole Alert!) with the stunning Psychedelic Furs, whose debut and second album ("The Psychedelic Furs" and "Talk Talk Talk") comprise the best first 2 album combination in the History of Western Civilization.  They are both moody, hypnotic, cooler than cool, and they rock- this was when there were 6 members of the band, (one being a saxophone player) and there was sax in every song.  I know some of you might be thinking, "Oh no- sax in every song?  That cannot sound cool!  Do they sound like Sha-Na-Na or, God save me, Springsteen?"  No way, Jack!- I said they were great.  For example: "Pretty in Pink" the original version, kicks off "Talk Talk Talk," and it gets better from there.  Is that great enough for you? 

Here is some sonic shorthand I have employed before to describe Richard Butler's raspy voice (and whole aesthetic, during the late 70s/early 80s): it's kinda like a cross between Bowie and Johnny Rotten.  If you don't think that is a cool combo, I don't wanna know ya!

I implore you and your listening audience for help with this mystery I am trying to fathom:  I have always loved Blue Oyster Cult's "Burnin' For You."  I- no musician- run the various parts of that song (like thousands of songs) in my head- like I can air-bass that song, and I know all the chords, to air-play, mind you, and the drums, which I actually maybe could play, and so on.  My point is that I know that song WELL.

Now then- I heard it at some point last year on the radio, though, and thought, "Well, damned if those lead vocals aren't re-recorded!  I can hear it, you know?  I have thought this since last year, but 2 days ago I noticed another difference, I swear- the guitar chords all through the verses are doubled in this new version.

The original (and I checked- I remembered I got it from iTunes last year) has this tight chord strum on every snare hit, if you will: "Home in the (chang) Valley... (chang)... (chang)... Home in the (chang)...city.. (chang)... (chang)...(This is accurate music notation, right?)

Anyway- in the version I have been hearing on the radio since last year, I swear it goes: "Home in the (chang-chang) Valley... (chang-chang)... (chang-chang)... Home in the (chang-chang)...city.. (chang-chang)... (chang-chang)...

I noticed this because I always loved how spare the chords were.  It still sounds cool, but I swear it's different.  Has anyone else noticed this?  My MainMan and ax-master Chris (from West Norriton, like me!) suggests that it was rerecorded for royalty-switching purposes, which may be the case.  I hope one of your listeners (I doubt you can) can address this important issue.

Weird Twilight Zone plot: a guy goes nuts as well-known songs on the radio become slightly different: "Hey- there were never any backing vocals in 'Yesterday', ... Hey- there was no steel drum in 'Back in Black'..."

Later Bro!

“Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,” (in Malibu!)
Bri-Fi

Music Lovers... 08/15...

Do not have a ton of jazz on my I-Pod, but if yours does not have COMPARED TO WHAT by Les McCann & Eddie Harris, it's surely lacking...

Music Lovers... 08/05...

J Lutz chimes in:

McCartney Concert at FedEx Field Sat Aug 1

Yo, Lefty!

Di's birthday is August 10th, and for the first time ever I managed to totally surprise her,  with an early  gift of two tickets to the Paul McCartney Concert at FedEx Field last Saturday, Aug 1.

The sound was incredible.  The stage was flanked by 60-foot high, 20 foot wide live video screens.  A movie-theater-sized screen behind the band played archival footage of the Beatles and McCartney's solo career throughout the show.

This is a partial set list (I didn't start writing it down until halfway through, so the first part has some holes, and I don't know the names of a lot of his newer stuff), but here goes...

OPEN

• Drive My Car
• Ask Your Mama (newer stuff)
• She Loves You... he noted Washington, DC was the Beatles first stop in their first American tour,and this was their opening song,  but nobody heard it because of the screaming from the girls in the auduence, at which point all of the girls/women in the stadium did a two-minute recreation of those screams. He commented, "Yeah, that's the sound!"
• Michele... noted that they don't normally perform this in concert, but thought it was appropriate, since "Barrack may be singing this to his wife down the road in their big new house..."
• Blackbird
• My Love... tribute to Linda McCartney
• Junior's Farm
• Everybody's Gonna' Dance Tonight
• Ho-Hey-Ho
• Elanor Rigby
• Here Today... tribute to John Lennon; nice stuff on the movie screen
• Let Me Roll It
• Band on the Run... movie screen showed the photo-session of the creation of the "Band on the Run" album cover.

(From this point on, the set list is complete)

• Back in the USSR
• I'm Down
• Something... tribute to George Harrison, many images on the movie screen.  Paul started solo on a ukulele George had given him, upbeat tempo;  mid-song, the full band joined in, Paul switched to lead guitar. from that point a perfect replication of the Abbey Road version.
• I've Got a Feeling... rocking improv ending with Paul again on lead
• Paperback Writer
• Day in the Life/Give Peace a Chance medley
• Let It Be
• Live and Let Die... most amazing combination of pyrotechics/fireworks/lighting/video screen cuts to each band member that I've ever experienced
• Hey Jude

First Encore

• DayTripper... Paul played the guitar riff on bass;  I think the original is George on lead. isn't it?
• Lady Madonna... the keyboard player synthesized the saxophone using a mouthpiece connected to the synthesizer, while playing another keyboard synthesizing other instruments - amazing!

Second Encore

• I Saw Her Standing There... I know this is one of your favorites from comments you made on your  Web page - "Well she was just seventeen - you know what I mean?"
• Yesterday

Third Encore

• Helter Skelter
• Get Back

Final Encore

• Sgt Pepper/The End Medley... got chills during "The End"  drum solo and individual instruments joining in to the crescendo;  I just ignored the video screen, and kind of squinted at the stage, imagining all four originals were jamming

Music Lovers... 08/01...

Wayne, LeCompt's new drummer,  is really hitting his stride with the band...

Saw J. Geils live and Peter Wolf (and he's 63!) is the most underrated frontman ever... .

Music Lovers... 07/30...

Anthony P from West Deptford writes:

BDG:

The first two Pretenders albums are still holding up, and for my money, one of the best 1-2 albums ever.  Great combination of attitude, songwriting and performance.  I miss Honeyman-Scott and Farndon. "I shot my mouth off, and you showed me what that hole was for." Awesome.

I thought about what I'd consider the best first and second albums.  These are purely personal, based on my tastes and off the top of my head.  Maybe your readers can come up with some others?

Criteria:  There has to be a body of work, and the band hit the ground running with their first two LPs.  You could also say that the band made some immediate impact with the work, and listeners didn't necessarily have to go back in the catalog after they had become popular because they were onto them from the start.

• Yes - Yes and Time and a Word.  I'm a little prejudiced, because I always liked Peter Banks more than Steve Howe.  Those first two albums had soul and I always liked them.
• Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick and In Color and Black and White.  Amazing song writing and a unique sound from that 12-string bass.
• Led Zeppelin - I and II.  Absolute classics on each one.
• Chicago - I and II.  Afterward, they started making "hits" and lost their purpose.  Those first two albums were just amazing.  A perfect blend of horns, rock and jazz.
• Heart - Dreamboat Annie and Little Queen.  They set the standard for "girl bands" and seldom has any other measured up to it.
• Stone Temple Pilots - Core and Purple.  For my money, the best band of the 90s.  I'd get an argument on that, I'm sure.
• Pearl Jam - Ten and Vs.  Personally, I lost interest after those, and never found that they captured the energy of the first two albums with any of their subsequent releases.
• Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love.  Groundbreaking.  Borderline on the "body of work" criteria, but I'll make an exception.
• Van Halen - I and II.  I remember being absolutely blown away by Eddie's guitar playing.  I hadn't heard anything like it, and I wore out that first album.  I saw them open for Journey at the Tower.  I knew they were something special.
• Aerosmith - Aerosmith and Get Your Wings.  This was tough, since I loved Toys in the Attic too, but that first album was such a punch in the stomach, it gets double points!  Raw, skilled and hard.

I thought about The Doors, Dave Matthews Band, Creedence (better stuff later) and Nirvana (not enough stuff) but most of them hit their stride later, and I couldn't make the argument that The Doors' first 2 LPs were better than their last 2. Emerson, Lake and Palmer put out better stuff than their first two, as did King Crimson, Focus or even the Beatles and Stones.  Certainly Springsteen.

I'm sure I left some off - but I'll leave that up to you and the gang

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You know how I always claim that I have the greatest Ipod in the Universe?  Well, how could I prove that?  how could I arrange some sort of Ipod contest?

By the way, when I mentioned last that I wondered if Dylan's BLONDE was overrated, I was not claiming that DYLAN was overrated.  So many e-mailers got that wrong!

Music Lovers... 07/06...

Bri-Fi from LA LA chimes in:

Hey Big Daddy, this occurred to me as I was writing to you about meeting Richard Fortus, from Guns N' Roses:

A few months back I went to the Los Angeles Zoo with my wife and children. It is a hot and sunny place where there are all sorts of animals napping, statue-still, in slivers of shade, almost undetectable to the human eye. There are flying feathery animals, slithering scaly animals, and ferocious furry ones- but they are ALL boring!

One of these animals was called an orangutan- it was a big stupid dirty orange monkey, hanging, limbs splayed, from some overhead fencing, like DaVinci's "Vetruvian Man" drawing.  My wife and children were happily ogling it, right up against the Plexiglas.  Imagine their delight as this matted, filthy bore started urinating at them!  It turns out that this orangutan creep regularly sprays the Plexiglas every fifteen minutes or so, like “Old Faithful” at Yellowstone or some such.  Lovely.

At that moment I was fifteen feet away, arms crossed, wishing I were elsewhere, when a guy dashed from around a copse of bamboo trees and race-walked past me, followed by another guy with a shaved head, a couple women, and a couple of little children.  I had two seconds to recognize him as he flew by me, followed by his retinue, as my children’s' shrieks filled the leaden afternoon air.  It was SLASH!  SLASH, from Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, et al.  (Mr. Saul Hudson to you.)

Here's what's crazy- he looks exactly like Slash.  He was dressed exactly like Slash, sans, however, his top hat.  I got to pondering: is there a more recognizable figure in the world?  The President or the Pope can throw on a baseball cap and go incognito for a little while, but not our old Saul!  Maybe some of the Mount Rushmore heads are more recognizable?  (I mean the actual hewn granite heads, not the four presidents whose likenesses are carved thereon.)  The Statue of David? Whose look is more iconic?  (The shaved-head dude, by the way, was Joe Satriani, I’m pretty sure.  See what I mean?  If he had sported a polo shirt that read “I am Joe Satriani,” I would still be saying, “I’m pretty sure it was Joe Satriani.”  Slash was Slash, though.)

One reads of celebrities unable to enjoy a day out without being accosted by fans, e.g., Elvis renting out whole movie theaters, etc. Later, as I recalled the sequence of events in my mind, I marveled at Slash's level of recognition, and felt a little sorry for him, because here is how famous he is: he has to negotiate distractions in order to move!  He was huddling with his crew, behind a thatch  of Hardy Golden Fishpole Bamboo, and instructing them: “Okay- hold still- the second that orangutan begins to urinate, we go, okay?  Follow me… steady… NOW!!!”

After they were out of sight-seconds later- my wife turns around to find me, and as I join her I gush, “Slash just walked right by me!”  She says, “That’s crazy, because I swear Joe Satriani was right in front of me at the Kettle Korn stand!”

This, of course, is a patent lie- here is how the conversation really went, my hand to God:
Me:  Slash just walked right by me!
My Wife:  Who is Slash?
Me:  Slash.
My Wife:  Did you see the orangutan peeing?

Man, I know your heart is in Darby, but you got to move here!  Over and out-

Bri-Fi in Los Angeles
LA Woman Come On!
 

Music Lovers... 07/02...

Is Dylan's BLONDE ON BLONDE overrated?

Music Lovers... 06/24...

Catch my pals, Doli & The Llamas this Friday June 26th at the 45th Street Pub in Edgewater Park, NJ.

Music Lovers... 06/20...

Big Daddy-

I was pumping huge iron at my gym here in Los Angeles this morning, and this dude comes in with one of the trainers, a new client I presume, because I haven't seen him before.  He looks like Sean Penn a little, but with rock hair and sleeve tattoos, both arms, and I am dumbstruck.  He works out with his trainer (who I know to nod at, you know?) right next to me for like 10 minutes, and seems friendly and cool, so when he is resting between sets I turn to him and say, "Man- are you Richard Fortus?"  He says, "Yeah," in a friendly but sort of puzzled way, and I say, as we shake hands, "Man, I'm Brian, and I think you are one of the greatest live guitar players all time..."  He says, genuinely, "Oh man! - thanks so much..."

Let me refresh your memory- I hip to this guy in 1994; he is the guitar player in a band called "Love Spit Love," which is singer Richard Butler's new band, after the demise of the great Psychedelic Furs.  Their debut album, "Love Spit Love," is phenomenal, and doesn't leave my CD player for years.  When I see them live, however, I behold this spellbinding guitar player- super talented but arresting too- attacking his guitar in a Townsend-like way, and since then I've named him as one of the ALL-TIME BEST- I mean Hendrix, Townsend, Fortus- no joke.

Anyway, I regale him with all this, and he is appreciative and cool-he even asks where I saw them and when I say, "Philly," he says, "Oh- the T.L.A.!" and I even tell him that Bowie was at the Electric Factory a mile away when they were at the T.L.A. on their second tour, and he remembered that, too.  I also saw him in the reconstituted Psychedelic Furs at the House of Blues in Hollywood like 8 years ago, and he reminds me that that show was released as a DVD, etc.  NOW THEN- I tell him that I was pleased for him when he got his new job, that he would now receive the recognition he deserved, and I ask him how "that new job"  is going, and he laughs and says, "Man I've had that new job now for longer than all the other bands I've been in," but adds that it is very cool. 

Now let me explain what I meant by that; how we Hollywood Swells finesse this sort of thing- the new job I quietly refer to is GUNS N' ROSES!!!  I don't mention G N' R, because then everyone in the whole gym will stop what they are doing and come over to say, "WHOOO!  GUNS AND ROSES MAN!!!  WHAT IS AXL REALLY LIKE? WANNA HEAR A SONG I WROTE? etc.," and the guy will never be able to work out in peace again.

So that is why I don't say it, and Fortus appreciates my discretion, and understands; in fa ct, he reciprocates, because what he didn't say to ME was, "Brian Whalen?  THE Brian Whalen?  As in, voted "Best Up and Coming Stand-Up Comedian" in August of 1988 in Philadelphia Magazine's annual 'Best of Philly' edition?  That Brian Whalen?"  He didn't mention it at all, which was very very cool of him.

Hollywood is the Best!
Bri-Fi

P.S.  I can bench more than Richard Fortus.

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Anyone have the Neil Young DVD box set?  I  need to find out if I wanna shell out that much dough... Isn't it wild that McCartney and Brian Wilson were born hours apart?

Music Lovers... 06/16...

Carl from Carlsbad writes in:

I was just at Borders reading this month's Classic Rock magazine so I don't have to buy it, because I am the cheapest person in the world.

Anyway, there was a brief interview with Roger McGuin (I know-I don't care either, but read on) of the Byrds [sic],  who claims that he gave John Lennon the idea to wear glasses (in public); he adds that he copped the look from John Sebastion.  I have been under the impression, for something like 35 years now, that Lennon had to wear those "granny" (National Health, actually- Britain's nationalized medical insurance system) glasses in the part of Private Gripweed, in the movie, "How I Won the War,"  in 1966.  He liked them, and kept them on.  This story comes late in the game, does it not?  Who to believe?  (What I do not doubt, however, is that the unbelievably uncool rectangle lenses were McGuin's idea.)

People have become increasingly not shy, lately, about claiming their place in history regarding their influences on the Beatles- Donavan, for one, seems to be greatly responsible for the White album, to hear him tell it!

Music Lovers... 06/12...

This just in from Ryan G:

Hey Big Daddy,

Not sure if you had a chance to check out the band Grizzly Bear yet, but they're great. The link below is one of the many great songs on their new album, Veckatimest. If you like what you hear let me know and I'll send you a copy of the album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5UHZZx9xw8

Best,
Ryan
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Bri-Fi  from LALALand chimes in... yet again:

First of all, U2's album is called "Zooropa," not "Zootropa."  Based on that and your assessment, I am afraid you might have actually purchased a pirated knockoff from China- the real "Zooropa" album, by the Irish band U2, is experimental and terrific. 

The song "Zooropa" is a slow-building epic which upshifts halfway and launches into an electrifying manifesto- it is a great song and a great album-opening song.  (It is also one of two songs I can recall, "Tom Sawyer" by Rush being the other one, that has a synth "ray gun" sound that fires regularly throughout the whole song.  Can anyone name another?  I think more songs should feature it, maybe ALL SONGS!)

"Stay (Faraway, So Close)" is shimmering and fantastic; that jewel alone is worth the Yen you paid for the whole disc.  "Lemon" sounds like the best Talking Heads song never written; I'll trade it for all of their albums, easily.  Right now!  Send me your address!

The whole album is interesting and neat and cool-sounding, even on songs I don't love, such as "Numb."  [Why let the Edge sing lead?  Why?  YOUR LEAD SINGER IS BONO!  ("Bono Vox" until 1981, Latin for "Good Voice."  The biggest Latin understatement ever.)]

Needless to say but I will anyway, Bono's voice is just phenomenal all the way through, even his falsetto.  I realize this is an opinion call here, but might he have the best, most powerful voice in the history of rock music?

I take back my earlier hypothesis.  I think you probably shoplifted the cd from your record store, and you are negating its excellence to assuage your guilt.

Music Lovers... 06/06...

Just bought U2's ZOOTROPA CD at my fav music store,TUNES for $2.99 and it ain't worth the price of the jewel case.  Other than STAY (and maybe LEMON), there's not a good song on it.  There's not even a "song" on it.  It's all atmospheric bullshit with crappy, pseudo-deep lyrics.

Bri-Fi  from LALALand chimes in:

It has occurred to me that few people can name the members of Supertramp, even the two singers (By this I mean they can't even name the 2 singers, not that the 2 singers cannot name themselves.  I presume they can). Now by this I do not mean people like my mother, who also cannot, but longtime FM listeners who know at least several Supertramp songs by heart; people who can, at least, name the albums from which regular FM rotation songs by Pink Floyd and the Who come- this level of rock fan.

Prove me wrong! 

Also- can anybody name the singer, also then the drummer, of one of the most popular, fun, dancefloor-huge tunes, of the last 30 years- "That's What I Like About YOU," by the Romantics?

Past and present members of the Romantics are not eligible.  You know what?  Yes they are.

Music Lovers... 06/05...

Ian Hunter just turned 70.  Ouch!

Music Lovers... 06/04...

Anyone have one of those massive Neil Young box sets that just came out?

Anybody know anyone who fixes old record players?

Richie Primo of Primo Hoagies chimes in:

How ‘bout them Beatles breaking up, eh? We should have known it would be all downhill when they couldn’t even come up with a name OR cover art for that white double album.

Music Lovers... 06/01...

B McGee of Linwood, NJ checks in:

Yo Big Daddy,

I know you mention these guys birthdays every June, but isn't it something that, Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson two of the Greatest Composers of our time, were born two days apart. (6/18 & 6 /20 ). Both are left handed. Both played the bass. McCartney can't read or write music. Wilson deaf in his right ear. Hence Beach Boy songs were recorded in Mono. McCartney hired guys to write what he played.

Music Lovers... 05/32...

Thanks to my man Anthony P for sending me a version of Yes performing SOMETHING'S COMING from West Side Story.

Music Lovers... 05/29...

3AM IN THE MORNING by Eminem is blowing me away.  It's dark, clever, fun. disturbing, completely unique...

Music Lovers... 05/22...

Between being a drummer in bands, an actor, a standup, a radio host, TV and book signings, whatever, I have been performing for a living for over 30 years.  So when I say I had one of the biggest rushes I ever had on stage on Thursday night, that's saying a lot.  The immensely talented Kenn Kweeder and Skip Denenberg, who have been two of the top singer songwriters for decades in this town, throw an annual Bob Dylan bash every year in honor of his birthday.  I had them on the air with me last year and I sang "Subterranean Homesick Blues" with them.  However, I was reading the words off the computer screen In front of me, so it was no big deal.

This year they asked me to sing the same song live and I said yes.

Sounded like fun.  One little problem.  "Blues" Is considered by many to be the first rap song ever and it’s got a zillion words.  One thing to sing it when you're looking at the lyrics, quite another without them.  I awoke Thursday afternoon in a panic.

On that Thursday I had a doctor's appointment, an appearance on DNL, Quizzo night out at Tom & Jerry’s, before I had to cut down to the Art museum where the show was being held at a really cool bar/restaurant called Rembrandt's.  Which gave me the opportunity to play it over and over and over.

I threw the CD (BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME) that had "Blues" on it and between all the rides I must have heard it 50 times.  By the time I pulled up at Rembrandt's at 11:45 PM, I "believed" I had at least the first giant segment down cold.  Well, the club is packed and super attentive and now I'm REALLY sweating.  Remember, this is the cream of the crop area singer/songwriters we're talking here.  I'm gonna look like a giant fool.

There's about 3 acts on before me and I start studying.  They're all reading the words off sheets on a music stand.  The stage is a makeshift one which I am always uncomfortable on and the mike is too low for a chick who appears to be about 5'4".  Someone in between songs yells out "Robert Hazard!"

Skip and I run through the song for about 30 seconds to we find my key and that's it for the rehearsal.  Plus we are going to be joined by a drummer and piano player who I have never met.  No way this is gonna fly!  I immediately take the mike off the stand and stand off the stage right up and into the audience.  I reference the guy who had yelled out "Hazard!" which immediately shows I had been watching the show and it helps bring the crowd into me a little bit.  Skip and the band begin to play.  I tell the audience that I have been memorizing this song all day and "damn it, I think I have the first part of it down cold and that I am gonna sing it to you with no sheet!"  Well, the folks can see I have no stand because I am standing in front of them and this gets a big yell of approval.  I take a deep breath and begin...

“Johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement thinking about the government… “

And I nail it.  No, I REALLY NAIL IT!  And the crowd goes nuts.  So I sing the first part again it felt so good and everyone sings along. 

Skip then takes over and I jump in wherever I know the rest of the words ("You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows") so the tune really takes on a true rap feel.  We had tacked on a cool ending and we get a standing O!

So thanks to everyone who made this dynamite moment happen for me and make sure you go to this show next year because there is an amazing amount of talent in this town!

Music Lovers... 05/18...

Saw LeCompt on Friday night with their new drummer Wayne Siegman.  Now you know what a huge fan I was of former drummer Richie DiCarlo, so Wayne has a huge seat to fill.  I wasn't sure what I thought till the band ripped into BEHIND BLUE EYES and Wayne NAILED it.  Should be a great summer...

Music Lovers... 05/17...

Anthony P of West Deptford checks in with:

Johnny Greenwood's soundtrack for "There Will be Blood" was the best I've heard in a long time, and it wasn't nominated for an Oscar. I miss The Bijou Cafe on Lombard and Stars at 2nd Street.

Music Lovers... 05/14...

Did you ever hear Willie Nelson & Sinead O'Connor's version of the Peter Gabriel classic DON'T GIVE UP?  It's way better than you would think...

Starman checked in to say check out a cut called THE FLUME by a band called BON IVER and to say that MOBY GRAPE had the best debut LP ever.  Hmmm, sounds like a future list.  I think I would go with Hendrix...

John D of Holland checked in to remind everyone that the Beatles have just released a 58 minute version of BANG BANG LULU that's amazing...
 

Music Lovers... 05/12...

Gordon Jenkins' work with Sinatra blows...

The easiest drummer to drum along with OF ALL TIME is CCR's Doug Clifford...

I was with my daughters and some hip-hop tune came on one of their ipods and the two of them both started singing every word and dancing along.  I asked them what is this song?  I then downloaded it onto my ipod and without them singing and dancing to it, I didn't like it at all

Any store that you have to wait anytime in at all that doesn't have music playing is a store that I doubt I will come back to.

Need the cover to Springsteen's MAGIC...

Anyone see the Killer's last night on Letterman?  Dag, what a great band!

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