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KFOG's 10@10 / Feb 14, 2013: Top 10 love songs of all time
« on: February 14, 2013, 06:55:36 AM »
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Terry Callier, songwriter, age 67
« on: October 30, 2012, 10:33:19 PM »
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/arts/music/terry-callier-singer-and-songwriter-dies-at-67.html
For me, he was famous for writing some songs that HP Lovecraft covered, "Spin, Spin, Spin" and "It's About Time." Our band had started doing a version of the latter in the last few years.
For me, he was famous for writing some songs that HP Lovecraft covered, "Spin, Spin, Spin" and "It's About Time." Our band had started doing a version of the latter in the last few years.
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KFOG's 10@10 / 1 August 2012: Local Music, The 60's
« on: August 01, 2012, 10:02:10 AM »
starting with "Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion" from the Dead's 1st album, as a Happy Birthday salute to Jerry Garcia!
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KFOG's 10@10 / 26 July 2012: It's 1969
« on: July 25, 2012, 10:27:42 PM »
I already suggested something obvious.
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Duck Dunn, Stax/Volt bassist
« on: May 12, 2012, 09:59:36 PM »
on Steve Cropper's fb page:
https://www.facebook.com/stevecropper/posts/10150953976045586
I was fortunate enough to be real close to the stage for the Blues Brothers show at the closing of Winterland. Duck was great.
https://www.facebook.com/stevecropper/posts/10150953976045586
Quote from: Steve Cropper
Today I lost my best friend, the World has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live. Duck Dunn died in his sleep Sunday morning May 13 in Tokyo Japan after finishing 2 shows at the Blue Note Night Club.
I was fortunate enough to be real close to the stage for the Blues Brothers show at the closing of Winterland. Duck was great.
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Bob Weston, Fleetwood Mac guitarist
« on: April 07, 2012, 10:07:13 PM »
this happened back in January, just discovered while searching for something else:
http://www.examiner.com/vintage-rock-n-roll-in-national/ex-fleetwood-mac-guitarist-bob-weston-dead
I saw him play with the band twice. He was very talented, if a bit stupid for getting caught messing with Mick Fleetwood's wife Jenny.
Here's a track from Penguin that features him on lead. I happen to like this track a lot for the killer bass line.
http://youtu.be/lXtdKzlRd_I
http://www.examiner.com/vintage-rock-n-roll-in-national/ex-fleetwood-mac-guitarist-bob-weston-dead
I saw him play with the band twice. He was very talented, if a bit stupid for getting caught messing with Mick Fleetwood's wife Jenny.
Here's a track from Penguin that features him on lead. I happen to like this track a lot for the killer bass line.
http://youtu.be/lXtdKzlRd_I
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Happy New Year!
« on: December 31, 2011, 06:58:48 PM »
Couldn't find a pre-opened topic, so I just wanted to wish you all the best!
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Warren Hellman, 77
« on: December 18, 2011, 08:47:13 PM »
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/18/MNPR1M9LUD.DTL
What an impact he has had on music in our city.
What an impact he has had on music in our city.
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Steve Jobs Dead at age 56
« on: October 05, 2011, 04:48:19 PM »
just saw this on MSNBC
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Guitarist Bert Jansch, at 67
« on: October 05, 2011, 04:37:36 PM »
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/guitarist-bert-jansch-dead-at-67-20111005
I guess my main memory is wearing out the grooves to the first Pentangle album in the late 60's. I know there's a lot more to him than that, but it was great for me.
I guess my main memory is wearing out the grooves to the first Pentangle album in the late 60's. I know there's a lot more to him than that, but it was great for me.
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KFOG's 10@10 / 29 August 2011: A year of Mystery (1985)
« on: August 28, 2011, 08:29:24 AM »
just heard promo on Acoustic Sunrise
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Rate-A-Record / John Hiatt
« on: June 18, 2011, 05:04:30 PM »
What the heck, we hadn't used this poll area for a couple of years, so I thought I'd research how widely Mike's opinion is shared. Sorry if you don't like the choices!
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Happy Birthday Allen Ginsberg
« on: June 03, 2011, 10:46:40 AM »Quote from: Writer's Almanac
Today is the birthday of poet Allen Ginsberg (1926) (books by this author). He was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Paterson. His father, Louis, was a poet and high school teacher; his mother, Naomi, was a communist and a paranoid schizophrenic. Naomi and Allen were very close; when she was in the grip of her delusions, he was the only one she trusted, and he often accompanied her to her therapy appointments. She spent much of his childhood institutionalized. Ginsberg spent eight months in a mental institution himself in the late 1940s, when he was arrested for harboring stolen goods; he chose to plead insanity.
He went to Columbia University, first intending to study law, but during his freshman year he met Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassaday, and William S. Burroughs. He later said, "I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs -- when I was 17 -- that I realized I was talking through an empty skull ... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts." Ginsberg left Columbia in 1948, traveled, and worked some odd jobs, and in 1954, he moved to San Francisco. He met poet Peter Orlovsky there; they fell in love and were partners until Ginsberg's death. In October 1955, Ginsberg read his poem "Howl" at the Six Gallery. The next day, bookstore owner and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti sent him a telegram quoting Emerson's letter to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career." "Howl," which was written to be read aloud, revived oral poetry. Ginsberg said that it, along with the rest of his work, was autobiographical, and that at its core was his pain at dealing with his mother's schizophrenia.
His mother died in 1956; two days later, he received a letter from her in the mail, in which she had written, "The key is in the window, the key is in the sunlight at the window -- I have the key -- Get married Allen don't take drugs -- the key is in the bars, in the sunlight in the window." He had wanted to have a kaddish -- the Jewish mourners' prayer -- recited at her funeral, but there weren't enough Jewish men present, so he wrote his poem "Kaddish" (1961) in reparation:
Toward education marriage nervous breakdown, operation, teaching school, and learning to be mad, in a dream -- what is this life?
Toward the Key in the window -- and the great Key lays its head of light on top of
Manhattan, and over the floor, and lays down on the sidewalk -- in a single vast
beam, moving, as I walk down First toward the Yiddish Theater -- and the place of
poverty
you knew, and I know, but without caring now [...]
He said, "Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Augustus Owsley Stanley III
« on: March 13, 2011, 02:31:39 PM »
car crash in Australia:
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/article/idUSTRE72C3AF20110313?irpc=932
What a pioneer on so many levels. Besides the iconic acid-king stature, he was responsible for much of what spun out of the Grateful Dead world, equipment-wise. I'm certainly in his debt, and will always treasure the kind words he gave me re: Bobby's first guitar we made. He insisted on picking up the phone in the GD office to tell me about how it sounded at Madison Square Garden, how clear it was. One couldn't get a much better compliment than that. Alembic guitars wouldn't exist without him, and much of what modern sound systems and taping of live shows have become are descended from his work. His live recording of Old and In The Way is historic for its simplicity and presence.
A strange character indeed, but one who made concrete contributions.
also: http://www.jambands.com/news/2011/03/13/owsley-bear-stanley-dies-in-car-accident
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/article/idUSTRE72C3AF20110313?irpc=932
What a pioneer on so many levels. Besides the iconic acid-king stature, he was responsible for much of what spun out of the Grateful Dead world, equipment-wise. I'm certainly in his debt, and will always treasure the kind words he gave me re: Bobby's first guitar we made. He insisted on picking up the phone in the GD office to tell me about how it sounded at Madison Square Garden, how clear it was. One couldn't get a much better compliment than that. Alembic guitars wouldn't exist without him, and much of what modern sound systems and taping of live shows have become are descended from his work. His live recording of Old and In The Way is historic for its simplicity and presence.
A strange character indeed, but one who made concrete contributions.
also: http://www.jambands.com/news/2011/03/13/owsley-bear-stanley-dies-in-car-accident