On the subject of Ed Pololak...
I don't think much of Ed Podolak
who was one of the best running backs in the NFL when he played for the
Kansas City Chiefs. When he was at Armstrong's back in 1973
thereabouts, he was at a meet and greet but he looked as if he'd rather
be someplace else. Plus he didn't give out autographs. Perhaps we
should have given him a Budweiser. For the last 20 plus seasons you can
hear him doing analyst for Iowa Hawkeye football but he's always had a
fondness for beer and booze. After 26 years, Steady Eddie has
announced he's retiring from broadcasting and taking his beer and Real
Estate expertise to northern California. He also got busted for
slobbering over a fan when the Hawks won the Gator Bowl and you can't
blame him I guess. Everybody looks better when you're wearing beer
goggles like he was that night. Still, I never cared much for him
simply of the fact that 36 years he had this holier than thou attitude
and soured me on meeting high profile football players or musicians.
I'm sure there's Hawk fans who think he's a nice guy all around but even
on the air he always sounded like he was sauced anyway.
RIP
Ricardo Montanban, the Fantasy Island guy, and Khan from Star Trek fame.
Also he made the Chysler Cordova one of the coolest cars to own in the
80s. He was 88.
1. Through Being Cool-DEVO 1981 In the 12 years
of blasting tunes through the late night, the album New
Traditionalists, is the only time my brother told me that it was too
loud and he couldn't sleep. Upon further review, I had to conclude that
the muddy bass mix on the CD was so muffled that it even was louder
than anything I put on Metallica or Zeppelin. It also shows that music
is so damn unpredictable too.
2. You Can Look But You Cannot
Touch-Bruce Springsteen 1980 It is hard to understand the ideological of
the Bruce Springsteen fanatic out there and most of my contradictions
remain what the critics like and what I like. Yeh, we know the
importance of Born The Run, but I always thought it being overplayed
lost the meaning of rock for me. A certain critic who was reviewing The
River, proclaim that the most simple rockers were the most dubious. As
much as Hungry Heart may have turned his world around or the 8 minute
overblown Drive All Night might be Springsteen classics, they in no way
make me want to pull this album out, it actually makes me want to sell
the damn cd. I myself enjoy and rather much hear the good three chord
fun of this song or Crush On You, with the sing along chorus. But then
again I'm not a hardcore Springsteen fan either. I'd more inclined to
play Tunnel Of Love or even The Rising over Born To Run or Darkness at
The Edge Of Town. People can judge Springsteen in their own way, just
don't force-feed me Born To Run or Hungry Heart every damn day.
3.
Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphy's Overtine-Henry "The Hipster"
Gibson 1945 From Musicraft 346 78. Long ago and far away, this was we
call now alternative music. Although Gibson is unknown to most people,
least of all Kanye West, music collectors all over the world that this
is one of the most sought after 78s. But can be found on the MOJO compilation Reefer Songs.
4. Have A Drink On Me-AC/DC 1980 Dedicated to Ed Podolak, who'll drink to anything.
5.
Everyone's Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine-Stealer's Wheel
1973 Two versions of this song is out there, the forty five version
sounds like Stuck In The Middle With You Part Two and the album version
is a bit more rocking. The amazing thing about Gerry Rafferty is that
he's had a much bigger solo career than with this band. But then I
don't anything knows anything more than Baker Street from Mr. Rafferty.
6.
Gin House Blues-Nina Simone 1963 Nina has done a few versions of this
song, but I pick the single version that is found on the Trip 45 that
came from a live performance. Nina remains one of the more unique visionaries in modern music, since she could cover the Tin Pin Alley
songs and then go into Bob Dylan or The Bee Gees or even blues jam
outs. A later version of this song can be found on Nina Simone-The
Blues that BMG put out around 1990 which is actually Nina Simone Sings
The Blues album plus selected tracks. Highly recommended.
7. The Twilight Zone-Golden Earring 1983 On the 50th anniversary of the TV
show, I actually been watching Rod Serling's 1970 followup Night
Gallery, which turned out to be a horror version of Love American Style,
to which stars of that era appear in stories and sketches. Night
Gallery only was on for three seasons and as I watch most of the Season
Two episodes I can't help but notice that Serling had issues with
Director Jack Laird on the five minute ditties, a contrast of the absurd
to go with the gothicness of the longer stories. Perhaps Rod Serling
had a point on that. Night Gallery Season Two is now available on DVD.
If it sells perhaps we'll get the final season of it, although Season
Three was knocked down to half hour instead of the full hour of the
first two seasons.
8. Leaving Here-Eddie Holland 1963 It's
Motown 50th anniversary and once again Universal is reissuing the number
one hits of Motown and basically one can do without them, or the grab
bag That's What I Call The Best Of Motown. At this point, serious
collectors bought them in the first place and although one can't deny
Baby Love or Bernadette or My Girl of the beauty of the melody, people
are simply sick of hearing them day after day on oldies radio. Back in
the mid 80s, Motown put out more obscure stuff under the Hard To Find
Classics Volume 1 through 3 and volume 3 had this hard rocking track.
Simply the hardest rocking track Motown ever put out and acknowledged by
The Who and Motorhead who did their own versions of this fine track.
9.
Slip Inside This House-Primal Scream 1991 This band is more rock now
then the Madchester dance band of the early 90s but Bobby Gillespie
managed to find some cool covers of songs to do. Such as this 13th
Floor Elevator classic.
10. Hurtin You Don't Come Easy-Neil
Diamond 1969 Lesser known B side to Holly Holy, I come to find that
Neil's first two albums for UNI/MCA showcase a good singer songwriter
but with a flair of the absurd. Where else could you get classic stuff
like Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show or Sweet Caroline over such
halfassed things like You're So Sweet Horseflies Keep Hanging Around
Your Face or Dig In. But this was the final track to the Brother Love
album before a last minute session gave us Sweet Caroline and a rename
to the number one hit of 1969. As they say, seek and ye shall find.
