Every Motown Hit Of Jr Walker And The All Stars
1966 The Coolest Year In Music History
Crazy about An Automobile
The fun of doing this blog is trying to key this on a keyboard that ain't worth a shit. I'm surprised I have not taken a hammer to this yet.
It was one year ago today that we had SHITSTORM 2021 come in an change everything along its wake. A lot fewer trees are in the parks, even a year later some people can't get back to their old places to get their things or rebuild. The Tri State elevator survived the Category Four winds of 115 MPHs and blinding rain. Today, the elevator has been torn down and the buildings that got ripped away have been rebuilt. The barn at the DOT next to the landfill is still there and still in tatters to remind us of a year ago, when a storm came roaring out of the Dakotas and held firm for about 500 miles before finally falling apart somewhere in Ohio. You can read about that fateful day via this link. https://rscrabb.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-perfect-shitstorm.html
At this point, we can finally call the 2021 Chicago Cubs season over and done with. Another lousy sweep, this time by the White Sox, we pull the plug when they hit 15 games back of first and with Milwaukee coming in to take another four games. Well, it was nice of Craig Kimbrel to serve up a HR gift to Andy Ronaine, and let the Cubs tie the game but once again, the lousy bullpen gave up 4 runs, wet behind the ears Manuel Rodriguez gave up a lead off HR and three unearned runs thanks to Duffy's error. Cubs managed to get two runs back but fell short. Then the offense took the rest of the series off, getting shut out on Saturday and washed up and the only pitcher remaining from the Dodgers no hitter, Zac Davies got shelled for 7 runs and pitched only 2 innings, He made Jake Arrieta looked pretty good. Kimbrel came back to his usual lights out stuff on game two and former Cubs Eloy Jimenez and Dylan Cease showed hack owner Ricketts and Jeb Hoyer why they should have held on them and not traded for the now departed Jose Quintana. Trading Kimbrel this year to the Sox before the series was a stupid ideal, tho perhaps Nick Mangriel might be worth of something next season. Certainly not year. In the mean time, you can get the bobble heads of the three former Cubs and soon to be former Davies for 19.95. I wonder if they redo them with Chapin being and Oakland A and Tepera and Kimbrel White Sox. And a big X on Davies. Thank you Tom Ricketts for trading Yu Darvish away to get this washed up pitcher, who may have pitched his final best performance in a Cubs shirt with that no hitter, to which afterwards a 12 game losing streak begin and they free falled from first to fourth place. Pittsburgh seems to want the be in the crapper since they are 11 games back of fourth. Doesn't help when the Cubs strike out 45 times in the three game series. Growing pains suck, especially when hitters swing at anything but a strike.
After the Wednesday Night disaster, Jake Arrieta was released. The homecoming was a failure, but rest once this season is over and done with, nobody will remember this disaster of a season for Jake and the gutted Cubs. The fantastic May came crashing down in June after the No hitter and the cubs bats going silent and pitchers that couldn't get past the second inning. Jake will forever be part of the 2015 and the 2016 Cubs and the no hitters that he threw in both years. 22-6 with a 1.77 ERA in 2015 and a Cy Young award, that alone puts him with the Cub pitchers elite.
The Milwaukee series has been bad bad bad, great great great if you're a Brewers fan. Another 16 strike out again, another game to which Cub starter gives the Brewers a 7 run lead in the first and you may as well go home. Hapless Happ must be doing better, he only struck out once, to which Corbin Burnes the Brewer pitcher K'ed the Cubs bat 10 straight times. I got nothing, says Jake Arrieta, who, once again had nothing and the Brewers did the cha cha around the bases. Could the Cubs lose the rest of the games this season? They're doing their best to do that. In the meantime, Chris Davis of the Orioles decided to retire. Despite hitting 53 Home Runs in 2013 for the forever crapper dwelling O's, his battling average is what Hapless Happ is aiming for. A .115 battling average for this season. Davis' ongoing hip issues is the reason for retirement. Milwaukee had no challenge, sweeping the Cubs in four with a 17-4 blowout, to which Professor Fuckup was no better than the disposed Arrieta and still there Hack Davies. Anyway, this was the worst home stand for the Cubs. 0-7 with double digit strikeouts in each and every game. They're on their way to a 100 losses and a top five pick. Just like Ricketts and Hoyer planned when Yu Darvish was traded away for has been and draft picks, who we hope will be the future and not the also run like Zac Brown Davies.
Enough of the Cubs, The White Sox came to the Field Of Dreams and Tim Anderson's HR in the 9th gave the Sox a 9 to 8 victory over the surging New York Yankees. Yankees got 4 in the top of the 9th to take the lead but Anderson's 2 run shot was the winner. A game for the ages, of course the ignorant folks had to show up. Namely Kegger Covid Reynolds No Show Ashley and Phony Joni with hack Joe Buck and the other guy. Pffft to them. Also, rumored for next season, that other Chicago team. Here's hoping we don't have to see the three clowns that pat themselves on the back every chance that they get. BTW, if you lived in Dyersville, FOX blacked the game out, so you had to rely on other channels to get. Ain't baseball wonderful? End those motherfucking black out games.
Passings: Mike Finnigan, keyboard player for Bonnie Raitt, Crosby Stills and Nash band and projects and his own blues band died on August 11, from kidney cancer. He was part of the Electric Ladyland sessions with Jimi Hendrix, fifty three seasons ago... Walter Yetnikoff, former CBS Records head honcho, who abrasive style got the better of him died Aug 8, he was 87. Walter was instrumental in the rise of Columbia Records in the late 70s and early 80s and benefited from Michael Jackson's rise with Off The Wall and Thriller, and got Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones to sign with CBS. His drug habits and rowdy ways got him fired in 1988, but he later would try to reconnect with music in 1995 with his own label Velvel. He did managed to sign The Smithereens and even reissued the Kinks RCA albums for a time. For more insight into this man, seek his 2004 autobiography. As for his claim of producing Bruce Springsteen's Born In The USA, consider that wishful thinking.
Music news: Rolling Stones will tour again, but this time, Charlie Watts has to sit out due to surgery and will have Steve Jordan holding down the beat. But as the Stones are now in the shadow of their 80s, Charlie did turn 80. In the meantime, Mick Jones brings Foreigner to Cedar Rapids on Wednesday and Friday Blue Oyster Cult comes to town. To which I'll get to see the latter.
Baseball fans in the 2021 era are more vulgar than ever before, and we will still get fucking morons, half crocked on crappy Bud light and high on bath salts running into the field in order to get ridiculed by us after they get arrested. In the case of the stupid fuck running into the field and running away from security, little did he know that this girl would knock him into the seats with a tackle and calmly walked away from it all. Your sweetheart of the week. Don't mess with the Rohan. Marissa Rohan that is. https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3377786/the-dodgers-ball-girl-who-tackled-a-fan-on-the-field-is-a-24-year-old-rocket?fbclid=IwAR0sNGGDs_mz5bg9MYoSkfX5RCc5QR-oKqbEYhv7GDVIypYnA9HsvTRwSpA
Shitstorm 2021 Jr came through around 4 30 and flooded the streets of Marion and knocked a few road signs down but it was a love tap compared to the one of last year.
CD Finds:
AC DC-High Voltage
Miles Davis-Bitches Brew
Sugarland-Enjoy The Ride
Grateful Dead-Shakedown Street
Cesar Rosas-Soul Disguise
CCR-Credence Gold
Marty Stuart-This One's Gonna Hurt You
Martina McBride-The Way That I Am
LPs
Pops Staples
Lindsay Buckingham-Go Insane
In the on again off again saga of CD finds, we found a collection of odds n ends, I rarely see Credence Gold, tho Chronicle is always out there somewhere. High Voltage, I had once and wanted to hear it again. The Sugarland fixtation is basically from learning the songs for the band that I sat in last Sunday. Jennifer Nettles tends to grate on my nerves at times but there are some decent songs on the album that Kristen Hall was jettisoned since she was old and in the way according to their Corporate Label. Shakedown Street might be the best of the 70s era Arista albums an Rosas is part of Los Lobos. Soul Disguise starts out great with Little Heaven and a good cover of You Got To Lose. It coasted on down after that but it's worthwhile effort. Martina McBride became a name to remember on the strengths of Heart Trouble, My Baby Loves Me and Independence Day, two of the three written by Gretchen Peters. The Way I Am is a winner album
It seems that I've been on a 90s country kick listening to albums from the likes of K T Ostlin, Lee Roy Parnell and Marty Stuart whose love of country and old country is noted. Tempted might be the best of the MCA albums but This One's is just as good and maybe better, Down Home is a keeper and Just Between You And Me shows Stuart's love of Jack Clement or Charley Pride, The King Of Dixie is his closest attempt to mainstream rock and roll. The Johnny Cash appearance is worthy, the Travis Tritt cameo not so much. I may regret getting Bitches Brew from Mr. Davis but for 4 dollars, it might be worthy of a listen.
The CDs that start out this blog are compilations, the 1966 overview is assembled by Hal Lifson, a KRLA DJ that did put together another comp that nobody heard Music For Lonely Housewives, which was found in the cheap bins around 2005, worthy of hearing, tho 1966 cherry picks songs (All Music Guide bitched about the lack of the big hits but major label licensing issues is the reason why Motown was left off, or Columbia). Ya can't argue with Lies (Knickerbockers), You Baby (The Turtles), These Boots Were Made For Walking (Nancy Sinatra). The lesser known would be Nino Tempo/April Stevens All Strung Out, and Bobby Darin's If I Were A Carpenter, but perhaps the reason why those songs were included was that Varese Sandabunde would eventually issue albums from Bobby Darin and White Whale (which Tempo/Stevens and The Turtles were part of WW). The TV theme are the key with Time Tunnel, Bat Man and Time Tunnel's themes were used. It's a comp that is probably not that useful but the sound to all of these songs are damn near pristine. Amazon has this out of print for 48 dollars used.
Crazy About An Automobile, a specialty comp from Ace Records in the UK, the best in reissue albums and they dig deep into compiling an album about automobiles, from the obvious (Rocket 88, You Can't Catch Me, Hey Little Cobra) to the more obscure, Jan and Arnie's Gas Money, and then Bucket T from Jan n Dean. For 25 songs, this blows by in 56 minutes and never a dull minute and concludes with Nelson Riddle's Route 66 Theme. Again, not essential but if you do come across a copy, take it home and give it a spin.
Before Chronicle, Creedence Gold was the album that people had that wanted to hear the hits (to which the rest got issued on More Creedence Gold, since Fantasy Records knew how to fleece the band and the buyers, both got condensed into the more essential Chronicle but I have never seen Gold used till recently. And for the most part, all the songs deliver, tho I heard It Through The Grapevine needed an 45 edit to make it work in 1976. CCR could jam when they wanted to (Born On The Bayou) and to an certain extent Susie Q.. Chronicles is what you need, Gold, is a luxury.
A new thrift store A to Z Thrift in Coralville had some CDs and LPs, that's where the Pops Staples album came from, The Lindsay Buckingham Go Insane was from Goodwill. Goodwill also had a mono clean copy of Ray Charles Greatest Hits but I didn't see the need for it, I might have picked it up had it been in stereo, but any Ray Charles clean copy ABC Paramount albums are worth investing.
PS, With Sugarland, it didn't help that Kristen Hall had practically the same name as Kristian Hall, the dude. To which once again, I mixed up both players name. I think it has been corrected tho time and age and my Demetria might say otherwise.
The grand total of CD's found since July is now 86. I am surprised of how many CDs have been found from donations to the cheap stores. It also means I'm in need of serious help to quit buying so many subpar CDs......
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