Nothing like having a leaky bottle of pepsi to leak all over the carpet
in the basement. This is the second time this has happened in as many
years. And there's nothing more pain in the ass then trying to clean up
a half bottle of the sticky shit and hope we don't get an ant
invasion. Kept me up past my bedtime and people wonder why I get such a
bad mood. Leave home for a couple days and come back to the same shit
that always happens.
DJ AM, crack addict eh? Looks like the
drugs won out eventually. Sometimes habits are hard to break, sometimes
habits will kill you if they are the wrong habit. If you think about
it Woodstock was the last great free concert we had and just about
within a year, give or take a month both Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix
would OD due to drugs. Better to burn out than fade away? I don't think
so.
My GF will be happy to know Uncle Kracker will open up for
Train on their fall tour to support their new album in October. On a
side note, that three hour phone call cost 104 bucks! Ouch. I do wish
there was a more comfortable phone out there to use, the ones I have
gave me a raging headache at times.
The Frugal Muse bookstore
moved across the Beltline to next door to Old Navy in Target Shopping
Center on Junction Rd in Madison. I used to enjoy going to the old
location on Mineral Point but since the Exclusive Company (say it with
me) has now moved over to State Street, no point of going over that area
again, although the Preplayed store on MP Road had 2 dollar cds of
varying degree.
The 105.5 FM station Triple M remains a good way
to kill between points although what does it mean everytime I hear Born
To Run, I just want to change the station?
And I'm having MSN problems so have to use the IE browser instead. Pain in the ass if you ask me.
This weeks top ten.
1.
Fox On The Run-Tom T Hall 1976 Originally a top 50 hit for Manfred
Mann, somebody thought this would make a nifty bluegrass song to which
Tom used for his Magnificent Music Machine album, a record of songs done
bluegrass style and this actually worked since I bought the single when
it came out. Copper Creek, a bluegrass label reissued this on CD.
2.
Where I Come From-The New Riders Of The Purple Sage 2009 The hippies
have returned! David Nelson, Buddy Cage and a few hired hands become
the new New Riders and make a album of jamtime boogie that we haven't
seen in about thirty years. 12 songs making up for 74 and a quarter
minites of jamboogie. And it came out on Woodstock Records. And I'm
sure there's more where that came from.
3. Head Over
Heels/Broken (live)-Tears For Fears 1985 In the deep dark corner of the
CD archives is a copy of their Songs From The Big Chair album. For the
expanded edition they forgot to add a single mix of this top twenty hit
but they did give us five new agey snoozers that amount to wasted cd
space. TFF, never did follow up this record with anything memorable, at
least from what I heard.
4. Hear My Train A Comin-Jimi
Hendrix 1968 From the wires it is learned that Sony Music/Legacy is the
next in line to reissue all those Jimi Hendrix albums all over again,
as if the two reissued remasters that MCA/Universal wasn't enough, with
bonus deluxe editions that will sell for 30 bucks. ooooooh baby. Seems
like the four major labels don't think there's a Great Depression 2 out
there. Originally this track came from the long deleted Jimi Hendrix
Concerts to which Reprise issued in 1982 and on crappy CD ten years
later. I have this on cd but it comes from Castle Communcations, the
Charly Records of the 1990s. Critics seem to like the version on
Rainbow Bridge/Blues album but I think I like this one from Decemeber
Winterland 1968 show.
5. Are You Ready For The Country-Neil
Young 1972 After all these years I finally bought Harvest in the new
remastered version (go figure) and really don't heard all that much
difference for me to trade in the other versions of his classic albums.
When you reach my age, you tend to lose some part of your hearing.
That and playing in subpar bar bands will do that as well.
6.
Da Da Da-youdon'tlovemeidon'tloveyou-Trio 1982 These guys were minimal
for the american audience to get but I do have their 1983 Trio And Error
album before Trio stuck it big in 1997 with this song used for a VW
commercial and generated enough interest to reissue their album again.
Trio made two other albums that I know about but by the time their
What's The Password album came out in 1985 nobody cared anymore
and Mercury never did issued it in the states. I wouldn't know about it
either had I not come across the cd in Arizona last year. Kraut Rock?
Consider this Krautpop.
7. She's A Genius-Jet 2009 Every
review I have read has given this Jet album 2 stars. This song is
probably the best out of their new album. But not good enough to
warrant a Budweister commerical.
8. Just Passing Through-George
Thorogood & The Destroyers 1999 Lonesome George was always about
Hooker and the blues but at this point in his long rock career he was
also doing fun rock. What does it mean when he titled his 1999 album
after a Nick Lowe song Half A Boy, Half A Man and Double Shot Of My
Baby's Loving he covered. This song was playing when I went through
Platteville on the way to Madison and stopped at the Goodwill for
about 5 minites. And then back on the road again.
9. Me And You
And A Dog Named Boo-Lobo 1971 Sometimes I don't think Lobo ever got
his due as a singer songwriter and although this song got lambasted by
being overdramatic, it did covered by the likes of Ray Conniff and
Stonewall Jackson (his last major top 20 country riff). What
the naysayers don't know is that has a nice hook that is perfect for
driving and hanging with your special one. And sometimes I also think
that the majority of music today lacks that hook that sticks in your
brain (good or bad) for hours on end. For TAD, who's a Lobo fan, this
one is for you.
10. Seven Turns-The Allman Brothers Band 1989
And finally a song that pretty much sums up my feeling for the endless
ride home. Tried looking for this album at Madison and couldn't find it
(it's in the budget section at Amazon.com or Hastings), this is one of
the more prettier and last songs that Dickey Betts wrote in the band
that could have found a home on classic rock radio had classic rock
radio stopped playing songs after 1982. It also introduced us to Warren
Haynes, one of the keepers of the flame of rock and roll. I have
nothing against Born To Run or Ramblin Man but when our time is getting
less and less, I'd rather not spent my final seconds on this planet with
the overplayed from 35 years ago. Even so, there's still a few songs
out there that cry out to be rediscovered on their own and without help
from the Clear Channel clones of the same 200 songs played. Which is
why Crabb's Top Ten or Wreckless Eric radio comes into play, tapping
into the vast amounts of the forgotten hits and album cuts that bring a
smile to our face. Leave the autotune to Mariah Carey and Lil Wayne or
Kanye, give me the tunes that come from the heart mistakes included.
For we will remember anything from that past then anything the
Autotuners will puke out. It's called melody. Try thinking some up
sometime soon Mariah baby. Beauty fades but the music never will.
